The third and latest (2022) edition of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative

language and metaphor has been updated to better reflect the language of groups, social media,
and social change. The work seeks to identify language used figuratively in everyday
contemporary English, along with its distinguishing collocates. The first entry is ablaze, and the
last entry is Zuckerberg (the Russian Mark Zuckerberg, etc.). Each entry is tagged by what
cognitive linguists sometimes describe as target and source; in general, each entry seeks to
highlight a physical basis. Tags include ones like shape; direction; weight; trips & journeys; past
& present; feeling & emotion, etc. The compiler is a lifelong EFL teacher of adult military
students in Saudi Arabia, and his interest in figurative language arose during his work. The result
reinforces that language used figuratively based on our lives and experiences is common and
important in all types of communication. For example, a “tug-of-war” from the experience of our
childhood can describe a struggle with radar on a plane that results in hundreds of fatalities, and
a “conversation” nowadays often suggests much more than simply a talk between two people.
The work has implications for ESL / EFL teaching, which tends to focus on the literal meanings
of words, usually the first sense in a dictionary. Clearly, more attention should be paid to other
senses of words, and this work will help to identify and classify them. This is a reference for ESL
/ EFL teachers, curriculum developers, materials writers, and teacher trainers. However, it has
also been found useful as a dataset by linguists and computer experts interested in metaphor
detection, natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), and social-media
analysis. Preliminary short discussions based on the work include (1) 60 + common metaphors
(2) Collocation (3) Epithets (4) Persons (5) The “container” metaphor (6) Grammatical
metaphor, fictive verbs, etc. (7) Past, present and future (8) Allusions (9) Euphemisms (10)
Gestures and bodily reactions (11) Shapes and parts-whole (12) Animacy (13) Persistence,
survival and endurance (14) Quotations (15) Synonyms and opposites (16) Lessons and exercises
(17) To the ESL / EFL teacher, which focuses on how the dictionary and thesaurus impacts the
knowledge and experience base of the ESL / EFL teacher and (18) An alphabetized list of the
thesaurus categories.

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A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative
Language and Metaphor 2022

by Joseph Gagen Stockdale III

May 3, 2022

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Table of contents
1. Dedication 4
2. Introduction 5-9
3. 60 + common metaphors 10-16
4. Collocation 17
5. Epithets 18-19
6. Persons 20
7. The “container” metaphor 21
8. Grammatical metaphor, fictive verbs, etc. 22
9. Past, present and future 23
10. Allusions 24
11. Euphemisms 25-27
12. Gestures and bodily reactions 28
13. Shapes and parts-whole 29
14. Animacy 30-32
15. Persistence, survival and endurance 33-35
16. Quotations 36-38
17. Synonyms and opposites 39-41
18. Lessons and exercises 42-43
19. To the EFL / ESL teacher 44-48
20. An alphabetized list of the thesaurus categories 49-55
21. The dictionary of collocations 56-1153
22. The thesaurus / categories 1154-1574

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Dedication
To my father—a teacher and a theater man. I thought of you every time I added a word or
expression to the category of theater in the thesaurus.

And to my students—Emiratis, Hondurans, Mexicans, Moldovans, Ukrainians, Kosovars—past,

present and future.

But this work is especially dedicated to the adult military students I taught in Saudi Arabia,
starting in 1983 and ending in 2017.

The lyric from Mutanabbi that you taught me will beat in my heart as long as my heart beats.

I know the desert well,

The night, the mounted men.
The battle and the sword,
The paper and the pen.

Joseph Gagen Stockdale III

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Introduction
I compiled this work with my adult Saudi Arabian military EFL students in mind. The third
entry in this dictionary—about-face—is something I've seen my students do many times on the
maidan, or parade ground, in Dhahran, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. A literal about-
face, not a figurative one. The literal tends to come first in English language teaching and
learning, and in our dictionaries, but the figurative usage can be right behind, if only taught. Of
course, the figurative meaning of about-face relates to reversal: a government can do an about-
face on something such as a policy.

In my classroom, when I would casually mention that a hurricane had an eye (resemblance), or a
bed had a foot and a head (orientation), and not only the earth but also a school had an
atmosphere (environment), my students would often react with astonishment and dismay.

"English is crazy," one of my students said, memorably. A Harbi. Or a Mutairi, maybe.

And yet, those same students had no problem exemplifying figurative uses of words. When I
taught a group of students the figurative use of magnet, and gave them a little time to think about
it, one student shot his hand into the air and pronounced, "Makkah is a magnet for Muslims."

I highly praised him—a Zahrani, I recall…

The key for such exemplifications lies with collocation. With magnet, the important collocating
preposition is for: X (be) a magnet for Y. This little formula with its collocating preposition
allows students to create their own, novel exemplifications.

I remember once teaching basic English in a dusty classroom overlooking a parade ground
ringed by date palms, in the early days of personal computers. The vocabulary item I was
teaching was window. I introduced the word in the usual, literal way, but I also mentioned that
TV shows could be a window (portal) to other countries and cultures. This was in the old days
before smartphones.

And a bearded naval officer—a Qahtani?—shot his hand into the air and said, slyly, "Windows."

It took me just a second to get it. Well, of course! Microsoft Windows!

Another time, I remember teaching a lesson on shopping that included the word mall. This
provided me the opportunity to speak for a brief moment about mall rats, girls and boys who go
to malls to flirt. Saudi Arabia has malls, girls, and boys, of course, but flirting is not supposed to

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occur, and premarital sex can be a death sentence. Not only that, but in Saudi Arabia comparing
a man to an animal of any type is potentially a deadly insult.

After the lesson, a cadet approached me and confided in a whisper, "My brother is a big mall
rat!"

I loved how he modified the phrase with big!

In fact, it was my Saudi students that got me interested in the figurative and metaphorical use of
language in the first place. They would talk to me of Islam as a path, refer to the character of a
person or nationality as being straight and crooked, insult people as snakes, devils, dogs, and
pigs, and compliment me on my "white" heart. In Riyadh, the center of the country, I taught in
view of a prominent ridge called "The Camel's Nose" in Arabic. When I taught in Jeddah, in the
western part of the country, I learned from my students that the city was known as "The Bride of
the Red Sea," and it was from Arabic poetry that I learned expressions like, "Her face gleamed
like the moon on the 14th of the month."

I have not thought of pigs, hearts, geographical place names, cities, and the moon in the same
way since.

It's interesting to reflect that there are no actual pigs in Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islam where
the Qur’an forbids the eating of pork. And yet, you hear the word all the time there, not in its
literal sense as the animal, but as an insult. And that is how it is entered and categorized in this
work. Animals are commonly related to insults, just as they are commonly related to character
and personality and many other things, including predation and epithets.

I'm sure you can think of many examples.

"If you are not a wolf, a wolf will eat you," is a proverb I learned in Saudi Arabia.

I like the figurative world because it is connected to the natural world, a world I admire, and not
just through the window of an automobile. It includes creatures from childhood like monsters
and witches, as well as words that come from "grown up" subjects like astronomy, history,
physics, and medicine. In the figurative world, words still refer to older technologies and
practices like sailing, mills, farming, and hunting, and somehow I understand them. The
figurative world maintains allusions to literature, to the Iliad and the Odyssey, Dickens, Mary
Shelley, and the Bible. In the figurative world, drumbeats still carry a message, a simple object
such as a coin or a chain can express a fundamental relationship, a pancake can express a shape
or configuration, and a “tug of war” between an aircraft and its crew can have real consequences,
resulting in hundreds of fatalities. Troop buildups on a border can be described as a “geopolitical

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game of chicken.” A bubble can symbolize a pandemic. Layers of Swiss cheese can symbolize
protection from a pandemic. Waves sloshing in a bathtub can symbolize transmission during a
pandemic.

Figurative language offers synonyms, antonyms, and makes connections. You can be up to your
neck or up to your eyeballs in something. Take your pick! If you have a problem, you can tackle
it or punt. Both those words come from American football. Or, you can kick the can down the
road, something I often did as a boy. You can stroll / coast / waltz / or sail to success. You can
say, “That ship has sailed,” or you can say, “That train has left the station,” depending on
whether you are into ships or trains. When it comes to resolution and conclusion, you can bury
the ghosts, or put something to rest. If you wish to avoid or separate yourself from something,
nautically you can steer clear of it, or give it a wide berth.

And the figurative world makes just makes sense. Is it any surprise that words and expressions
from the field of education often relate to assessment? Alcohol to restraint and lack of restraint?
The family to relationship? A crutch to help and assistance? The theater to attention? Gambling
to fate, fortune and chance? A boat or a horse to control? Religion to messages? Sleep to
consciousness and awareness? The tongue to speech? Health and medicine to condition and
status? Targets to weapons? Weight to substance? Clothing to concealment? Chess to strategy?
A table to negotiation, or inclusion? A door to access? Affliction to wounds and scars? Love and
marriage... to pursuit, capture and escape?

That last tends to surprise and delight those who haven't thought of it before.

The figurative world is a great way to organize words and phrases to produce language that
really sounds natural, the type of language that we seldom if ever teach from our textbooks, and
that our students often surprise us with by acquiring on their own, outside our classrooms. It is
the difference between “I understand” which we teach and “I see” or “I get it” which we don’t.
As English language teachers, we tend to think of the future as a grammar lesson. But the future
can also be thought of as movement, direction and even as a container. The future is forward.
And if the future is forward, then the past is… behind! The same for progress. Achievement is
up, decline is down. The same for proper conduct. Direction is very relevant to numbers. Sales
are up! Down! Soaring! Plummeting! Sky-high! Rock-bottom! Through the roof!

Not to mention that the future may relate to the horizon.

Saudis will spend the night out in the desert on full-moon nights, and spend a night out around a
bonfire in the winter. Like Russians, they enjoy searching for mushrooms in season, except in
their case they are hunting for desert truffles. In Saudi Arabia a young man might walk miles to
get from one place to another. While walking, he will notice the ashes of old campfires, and the

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footprints of those who have walked the path before him. He will pay attention to the weather,
and to the light. If he is out past sunset and has planned ahead and carried some wood, he might
light a fire for warmth or companionship, and notice other such lights on the horizon, or across a
valley, and he will notice the stars in the sky. Such a person will already know the physical bases
of words like trail, fire, footprint, beacon, weather, and star and will feel the shock of
recognition in their figurative and metaphorical usages.

The figurative and the literal can become controversial, as the following examples attest:

• A few days after 9/11, President George W. Bush’s use of the word crusade was widely
questioned when he said to the nation: “This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to
take a while...”
• In 2011 in the US, the elected politician Gabrielle Giffords and others were shot after
Giffords' district had been targeted on a map with cross-hairs by an ideological opponent.
In a coda, in 2019, Roger Stone apologized to Judge Amy Berman Jackson for posting an
Instagram photo of her next to a rifle scope’s crosshair. She said, “Roger Stone fully
understands the power of words and the power of symbols... There’s nothing ambiguous
about a crosshairs.” And in a coda to that coda, in 2022 a court heard a case involving
that original cross-hairs symbol and The New York Times.
• In 2020, after the Trump campaign called on volunteers to monitor the vote, Sheryl
Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, said, “I think what people are worried about in this ad
is that he says ‘army of supporters’... We believe the language ‘army of supporters’ is not
really calling for an army but is calling on people who are normal campaign volunteers.”
• In 2021, President Trump, after losing his bid for reelection, said, “And they’re not taking
the White House, we’re going to fight like hell...” His supporters would later storm the
U.S. Capitol, resulting in his second impeachment and trial, with much debate about
political speech. “Are we going to put every politician in jail, are we going to impeach
every politician who has used the words fight figuratively in a speech? Shame!” said
Senator Rand Paul. Said Michael Van Der Veen, from the floor of the Senate at the
impeachment trial, “The reality is, Mr. Trump was not in any way, shape or form
instructing these people to fight, or to use physical violence. What he was instructing
them to do was to challenge their opponents...”

Figurative usage is not just important in politics. Wall Street "mines" newspaper articles and
tweets for the figurative usage of words like abyss—as in "Greece is at the edge of a financial
abyss”—which can spark declines in the market. In language, the idea of substance can be
associated with weight, and cognitive linguists have conducted experiments based on the idea
that the actual thickness and weight of something, like a paper file, can influence people's
attitudes about the substance of a person.

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Metaphor is nothing new: the ancient Greeks discussed it. Wilfred Funk, Litt. D., in his book
Word Origins (published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1950), wrote, “Up and down are two
other strange words that tie into the mysteries of space and even of religion and our human ideas
of values,” in the chapter entitled “word oddities,” and he goes on to explain and give good
examples. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Light and darkness are our familiar
expression for knowledge and ignorance... Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively
our image of memory and hope.” (Nature, Chapter 4, “Language”). Cognitive linguists speak of
metaphors like these as BAD IS DOWN, GOOD IS UP, KNOWLEDGE IS VISION, PAST IS BEHIND EGO,
and FUTURE IS IN FRONT OF EGO.

For students learning English, this dictionary should help them learn the figurative uses of words.
The entry word is, in most cases, a basic one. The collocations are rarely more than two or three
words, slightly harder, and the exemplary fragments and sentences are a bit harder yet. This basic
English (to include figurative language) is the foundation for all those other Englishes: academic
English, aviation English, business English, medical English, military English, scientific English,
technical English, English for Peace and Conflict Studies, etc.

It took decades for the fruits of research on collocation to get into our curriculums, materials, and
dictionaries. The Oxford Collocations Dictionary finally appeared in 2002, and the revised and
updated version of the military curriculum I taught for so many years in Saudi Arabia—the
American Language Course (ALC) created by the Defense Language Institute (DLI)—currently
contains many excellent exercises based on collocation. Both were a long time coming. It is my
hope that the next big effort for the ALC/DLI and in language teaching in general will be to
incorporate the figurative uses of words into curriculums, textbook exercises, and learner’s
dictionaries.

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60+ common metaphors
These metaphors are based on the work and represent a lot of language. The bolded words are
categories in the thesaurus and the italicized words have entries in the dictionary. The first
metaphor relates the hand to attainment and possession. A hand, of course, can relate to many
other things: see the category hand in the thesaurus for the many things a hand can relate to. But
the hand relating to attainment and possession is a common metaphor.
1. The hand can relate to attainment and also to possession: “It was in my hands, but it slipped
through my fingers and now it is forever out of my grasp / reach.”
2. Sleep can relate to consciousness & awareness: “The government is sleeping, and our
politicians need to wake up.” So can the eye: “A minority of clear-eyed scientists saw it
coming. Still, non-scientists were blindsided, and, when the catastrophe occurred, it was a
real eye-opener.”
3. Royalty often relates to the superlative: Burger King; Mattress King; Aretha, the Queen of
Soul; “aristocratic wine at democratic prices” (an advertisement); “Banff, the Canadian
National Park, is the crown jewel of the system.”
4. A name relates to reputation: “Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.” “You
have blackened our name.” “That company has a good name.”
5. A horse can relate to control & lack of control: “We need to rein in galloping / runaway
inflation.” “Hydroelectric dams harness the power of rivers.”
6. Mining can relate to searching & discovery: “I began to dig into the old case and uncovered
some interesting facts. Not all the leads panned out. It was in the old police case file,
however, that I struck gold.”
7. The family commonly relates to relationship and to division & connection: “Intelligence
officers have always held an orphan / stepchild position in the military compared to the
favorite son status of tacticians and logistics officers.”
8. Language from the military and weapon categories is often linked to conflict and
accusation & criticism: “Facing sniping from his own party and a fusillade of criticism from
the opposition, he has fired a broadside in his defense.”
9. The theater often relates to development, and also attention, scrutiny & promotion, and
performance: “It is only the first act of the legal drama, but already the spotlight has
focused on jury selection. The trial promises to be quite a show.”
10. Chess often relates to strategy: “It’s a geopolitical chess game and the pawns in the struggle
have no idea what the endgame will be.”
11. A table can relate to position, policy & negotiation: sit down at the table; on the table; off
the table; come back to the table; turn the tables. Also inclusion & exclusion: a seat at the
table.
12. Movement and direction can relate to action, inaction & delay and progress & lack of
progress: “We’ve got to move, and we’ve got to move forward, not sideways or backwards.”
13. The center & periphery often relate to society: mainstream; center; fringe, on the margins.
14. Height can relate to importance & significance and primacy, currency, decline &
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 towering figure at the height of his career, at the very pinnacle of success, head and
shoulders above his rivals. And while his star may now be at its zenith, it must be that every
star will set.”
15. Journeys & trips can represent life. After college, you set out / embark on a course. You
encounter crossroads or forks in the road and choose your direction. You might follow in
someone else’s footsteps or blaze your own trail. You will cross that bridge when you come
to it, encounter obstacles in your path and take shortcuts and detours. Milestones along the
way might include marriage, children, and promotions. Life can be a hard slog, and some fall
by the wayside. But hopefully you will be happy and content when you reach the end of the
road, especially if you are one of those who took “the [road] less travelled by.”
16. A line often relates to behavior: “You are out of line. You have crossed the line. You are
over the line. You have crossed a red line.”
17. An animal can relate to predation, especially a lion, wolf or shark: “Famine still stalks the
inhabitants of the Sahel.” “If you are not a wolf, a wolf will eat you.” “His critics are circling,
they can smell blood in the water, and they are out for blood.”
18. Smell often relates to evidence and corruption: “I began sniffing out government corruption.
And when I got wind of the business deal, I immediately detected something fishy.
Something stank, and by the time I had finished my investigation, the stench filled my
nostrils.”
19. Affliction can relate to a creature (like a ghost) and health & medicine and to a mark (like
a scar): “He was never able to exorcise the ghosts of Afghanistan, heal his emotional
wounds, and the mental scars of his service are still livid, raw and itchy.”
20. A weight or a burden can relate to oppression: “I was weighed down by a heavy load of
debt that I knew I would never be able to get out from under, and the repossession of my car
was the last straw.”
21. Health & medicine can relate to the condition & status of something: The economy is on
life support / moribund / weak / recovering / healthy / robust, etc.
22. Ruins can relate to destruction. “Even though my company had collapsed, and my
reputation was in ruins, I began to rebuild.”
23. Water can relate to the size and force of movement: “The number of asylum seekers began
as a trickle or stream and is now a flood. A groundswell of immigration is threatening to
inundate the border, and those opposed to migration are characterizing it as a tsunami.”
24. Rain, a storm, a wind, or natural disasters like an avalanche, a landslide, an earthquake,
or tsunami, and great forces like a volcano, a river, the sea, a fire, a wave and water often
relate to amount and effect: an avalanche / blizzard / firestorm / flood / deluge / landslide /
tidal wave / tsunami / storm / surge of criticism, protest, etc.
25. Direction and height can relate to behavior and character & personality: “An upright man
always takes the high road and does not get down in the gutter or in the mud with his
enemies of low repute. To such a man, morality is straightforward, and his opposite is a
snake, taking a twisted path.”
26. Astronomy can relate to the idea of primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: “One
boxer’s star is rising, the current champion’s star is at its zenith, while the former champ’s
star is setting.”

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27. Books & reading can relate to development: “When I graduated from university, it was
time to close the book on that stage of my life, turn the page, and start a new chapter in my
life.”
28. Food & drink often relates to consumption: “I developed a taste for exploration as a young
boy. I gorged on the books of explorers, I devoured them, I drank in / lapped up / gobbled up
adventure stories and digested their lessons learned, and my appetite for them was insatiable.
Soon I began taking little voyages of my own about the neighborhood and developed a taste
for freedom. In fact, I became a glutton for it.”
29. Sports & games commonly relate to competition: the contest of measure and
countermeasure (warfare); the space race; we are ahead of them; we must not fall behind;
they are outpacing us and we will have to do better to keep up; when it comes to global
warming, there will be winners and losers; she is jockeying for position; he is the front-
runner, etc.
30. A season can relate to growth & development and decline: “I am in the autumn of my life;”
nuclear winter; the Arab Spring...
31. The day can relate to past & present and future: in the old days; back in the day; those
days; yesterday; these days; nowadays; a new day; in the coming days, “hopes and dreams for
a better tomorrow.”
32. Hygiene is related, too often in a sinister way, to violence and concealment & lack of
concealment: a military “cleanup” operation; ethnic cleansing; “wash the filthy scum off the
streets,” whitewash, sanitize, scrub, launder, etc.
33. Water (swimming and drowning) often relates to survival & endurance: “My first semester
at college, I felt like I was I out of my depth and drowning. I was just treading water, barely
able to keep my head above water and stay afloat. Letters from home were a real lifeline.
Things are much better now.”
34. Equilibrium is often related to disruption: “The company has shaken up the industry and
rattled the major players by overturning accepted assumptions and norms.” It is also related
to fairness: “The idea will tilt the balance and create an unequal playing field.”
35. Temperature can relate to feeling, emotion & effect: “Relations between the two countries,
previously frosty, have begun to thaw, but they can in no way be described as warm yet.”
36. Direction up or down can relate to feeling, emotion & effect: “You look downhearted.
Cheer up! I can see you need a lift. Let’s do something to raise your spirits.”
37. A clock and the time of day can relate to timeliness & lack of timeliness. So can a window:
“We had better hurry. The clock is ticking. It’s no longer early in the morning, it’s late in the
day. We’re in a race with the clock now, and the clock is winding down. Our window of
opportunity is closing fast.”
38. Natural obstacles can relate figuratively to obstacles & impedance: headwind; shoal;
morass; mud; quagmire; quicksand; thicket; logjam; snag, etc.
39. A desert or oasis or jungle or swamp or island or sea and other geographical features are
often used figuratively to describe an environment. “Too many urban areas are food deserts
with little access to fresh food.” “It’s a jungle out there, be careful.” “The area is an island of
affluence in a sea of squalor.” “We must drain the swamp of Congress.” The air, the

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 atmosphere and the climate can be used to talk about environment in general. “There is
tension in the air / atmosphere, and a climate of fear.”
40. A plant and farming & agriculture are often related to growth & development:
“Christianity found fertile ground in the Philippines, where the seeds the missionaries
planted took root and flourished / flowered / bore fruit.”
41. Standing, sitting & lying can relate to many things, including dominance & submission,
and resistance, opposition, & defeat, and also action, inaction & delay. These meanings
are often combined in a series: “We can’t take this lying down. Why are we just sitting on
our hands? We can’t stand by any longer. It’s time to stand up and make a stand.”
42. Health & medicine; addiction; love, courtship & marriage; and religion can all relate to
enthusiasm: “I’m crazy about dragonflies”; “Adrenaline junkies risk life and limb at the X
games for their sports”; “To meet a walrus is to fall in love with a walrus” (a walrus
researcher); “It’s a bit of a disease” (Jay Leno on his vehicle collection); “Mountains are
truly cathedrals” (the great “Big” Jim Whittaker, climber). The opening line of Norman
Maclean’s book A River Runs Through It reads, “In our family, there was no clear line
between religion and fly fishing.”
43. The Galapagos Islands have become an epithet for the biodiversity of endemic species. The
fascinating Yemeni island of Socotra has been called the “Galapagos of the Indian Ocean.”
Alaska’s Pribilof Islands are known as the Galapagos of the North. In Unesco’s World
Heritage Site citation, Lake Baikal in eastern Russia is referred to as the Galapagos of
Russia. The Hawaiian Islands Marine National Park has been referred to as the American
Galapagos, and the Haida Gwaii have been referred to as the Canadian Galapagos.
44. Allusions from the Iliad & Odyssey relate to the following: attraction (siren); affliction
(hector); subterfuge (Trojan horse); journeys & trips (odyssey); message (Cassandra);
protection & lack of protection (Achilles’ heel), superlative (epic and Homeric), and
alternative & choices and danger (between Scylla and Charybdis). This vocabulary will
live in the language long after the details are forgotten.
45. Alcohol can relate to several things: activity (ferment); behavior (binge, drunk, and
inebriate); concealment & lack of concealment (bootleg and bootlegger); consciousness
and awareness) (black out); control and lack of control (drunk); feeling, emotion & effect
(hangover, intoxicate, intoxicate, intoxicating, sober, and sobering); mixture (cocktail); and
restraint & lack of restraint (binge, drunk, and inebriate). You don’t have to be a drinker to
be “drunk on power / success.”
46. Falling can relate to fate, fortune & chance. If you are on thin ice, you might fall through
the ice and drown. Likewise, when you go out on a limb, the limb might break and then you
will fall to the ground and die. If you are hanging on to your job by a thread, that thread
might break. If you are walking a tightrope, you might fall off and die. If you are teetering on
the edge of a precipice, you might fall and die. The sky can fall. If your head is on the
chopping block, the blade could fall on your neck and your head will roll. That blade might
be the Sword of Damocles. Or perhaps you are waiting for a shoe to drop or fall.
47. Cards can relate to fate, fortune & chance: “The cards were stacked against Rubin Carter
from birth. He was dealt a hand nobody could play. But by the luck of the draw, a
sympathetic judge was selected to try his final case of habeas corpus.”

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48. A euphemism is often used for death. Expressions include pass away; the fallen; lose
(through death); resting place, etc. A set of sinister euphemisms relate to killing: liquidate;
encounter; “He was disappeared”; remove; take down, etc.
49. Money can relate to obligation: “The grateful nation owes a debt of gratitude to the
sacrifices of its military. We can never fully repay those who paid the ultimate price for our
freedom.”
50. Money is often related to cost & benefit. “I made a costly mistake, I paid a price for my
mistake, it took a toll on me, but in the end I profited from it, though it took years and years
before I understood what exactly the payoff was.”
51. Society can relate to a person like a leper, castaway, outcast, pariah, and hermit. Such
people might find themselves separated from the mainland, on an island, in the wilderness,
left out in the cold, outside of the tent, on the fringe, on the far shore, etc.
52. Noise and movement are often related to activity: The factory floor was a beehive of
activity, swarming with workers, with machines large and small humming and buzzing.
53. Gesture can relate to feeling, emotion & effect: “The latest college admissions scandal has
some people shaking their heads, others rolling their eyes, and a few wringing their hands.”
54. Cloth can relate to division & connection: “We are used to traveling around on an
interwoven, tight-knit, seemingly seamless system of highways. But some strands have
become frayed.” So can a rope: “A nation is bound / tied together by its system of roads.”
55. Containers can relate to situations: “I got into trouble, I was in a tight spot, trapped,
desperate to get out.” However, a situation is more and more considered to be a place: “I was
in a tight spot where I couldn’t figure a way out.”
56. Love, courtship & marriage can be connected to attraction & repulsion and to pursuit,
capture & escape: “She was the darling of Wall Street, she had no problem wooing and
seducing eager investors—including ex-generals, one ex-president, Henry Kissinger, and two
nationally important families—and she had the media swooning.”
57. Sound can represent conflict: “His comments caused an uproar and howls of protest, with
many clamoring for an apology, and outcries for his resignation.” Actual warfare, past and
present, is associated with sound.
58. An explosion or a weapon from the military can represent danger: On a bad day academia
can be a minefield full of booby traps, trip wires and hidden landmines.”
59. Verbs of hitting, slamming and lashing are often related to the force of a storm like a
hurricane or tornado: “The hurricane battered the island with a horrific storm surge,
pummeled inland areas with winds and rain, and knocked out the power grid before moving
on to clobber the mainland.”
60. Direction (up and down) can relate to hierarchy. “When I started out in my job, I started out
at the bottom. I was low man on the totem pole, and literally everyone in the company was
over me. With hard work and perseverance, I began to rise up. I began to climb the career
ladder. When my superiors realized I wanted to take care of those under me, and not just
please my higher-ups, I rose even higher. Today I am not at the top of the pyramid, but I am
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61. Religion often relates to message: He has used his bully pulpit to preach the gospel of
American exceptionalism, and his crusade has been wildly popular, particularly when he
preaches to members of the choir.
62. Sensation can relate to feeling, emotion & effect: “That guy is irritating, he rubs me the
wrong way.” “Yeah, he can be abrasive. But you’re too sensitive, you need to develop
thicker skin.”
63. An animal often relates to conflict: You can bristle, get your back up, and stand your
ground. You might then go head to head and butt heads, or lock horns with someone. You
might be out for blood, smell blood, and draw blood. Or you might give ground, turn tail and
run, or lie down and roll over.
64. Attention, scrutiny & promotion can relate to explosion, light & dark, and sound. Most
Americans, and every child, delight in these three things simultaneously every Fourth of July.
Not necessarily dogs, or recent combat veterans. And so our internet influencers skyrocket to
success and things blow up on the internet.
65. For the younger generation, situation, time, and development have become a place. This
recognizes the ubiquitous use of “where” but in no way explains it.
66. A very contemporary language of justice and activism has arisen in the United States and
spread around the world. I have identified the following eight tropes: (1) Raising
consciousness, personal affirmation, ways to be positive, to reclaim previously demeaning
terms: “Stepping or leaning into one’s own truth,” “lived experience,” “Get woke, stay
woke,” agency, “Now that’s what I call fierce!” etc. (2) Physical and mental malaise, pain,
and danger: Black pain, the exhaustion and danger of driving while black, “low income and
marginalized students will suffer the most,” “the trauma of life that makes one want to fight,”
etc. (3) Presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, and erasure: “White people don’t see
us,” “They have been rendered invisible,” whitewashing, etc. (4) Like (people like us /
groups) and look like (look like me, etc.): “There aren’t a lot of people that look like us that
are on the air, there aren’t a lot of people with our voice and our experiences,” etc. (5) Space:
occupy space, reclaim or retake space, safe spaces, welcoming spaces, exclusive spaces for
women, gay spaces, etc. (6) Attention: “We’re a small minority, we had to make some
noise,” “Say it loud and say it proud,” “Say their names,” knee (take a knee), etc. (7)
Empowerment and representation: more hip-hop at Coachella, taking control of the
narrative, etc. (8) Inclusion and its controversies: questioning others’ Blackness, who gets to
use the N word, controversy over the expression of joy, performative allyship,
appropriation, tokenism, representation vs. equity, whether or not the fetishization of Black
hair trivializes Black people, “the contradictions and problems inherent to the politics of
representation,” etc.

This sort of language is collected and categorized in the thesaurus at inclusion & exclusion:
society. It acknowledges language like the following:

“I was exhausted with the culture of country music not ever creating space for people
who look like me. Both artists and fans are shut out from the industry, so I felt like it was
important to create a space where we felt safe and welcome.”

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That’s Holly G on why she created The Black Opry, an online platform. From “How Black
women reclaimed country and Americana music in 2021” by Andrea Williams, Marcus
Dowling, and Jewly Hight, NPR, December 14, 2021.

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Collocation
Why compile a dictionary of collocations for words used figuratively, and not just a thesaurus?
As Susan Hunston noted in a personal communication, “The crucial point that metaphoric uses
are distinguished by collocation has...been made, most notably by Prof Alice Deignan of Leeds
University.” Of course, every word is characterized by its collocations, and collocation is key for
use. But the collocations of words used figuratively and literally can differ.
Pitfall, entered in this work in hunting, and danger, and also walking, running & jumping, is
an interesting word and worth discussing in terms of collocation. Like many words, most of us
will only encounter this word in its figurative sense. People around the world still hunt and trap
for a living, but most of them use more modern methods. I can only imagine that it takes a lot of
work and time to dig a pitfall, unlike the fictional pitfall from “The Most Dangerous Game” by
Richard Connell, a short story I taught as the ESL co-teacher of a high-school language-arts
class. What I know about these old methods of catching animals comes from films like Chang: A
Drama of the Wilderness (1927) in which animals were most definitely harmed, or a book like
Dersu the Trapper by V.K. Arseniev, when he writes about ludevas, or game fences. As he
explains it, instinct impels an animal towards water or a salt lick. A game barrier prevents the
animal from going in the direction it wants to go. So the animal walks along the fence,
eventually coming to an opening in the fence it can get through. It is there that the trapper has
dug the pitfall, and the animal falls in.
The main collocating verbs for a literal pitfall would be dig, cover, fall into and fill in: a hunter
must first dig a pitfall and then cover it and hope that an animal falls into it, and when he leaves
the area, he should fill in the pitfall so as not to deplete the stock of game in a wasteful manner.
Like the word hole, adjectives might be deep or shallow. In a series with and or a comma linking
it to similar words, an attested example is “pitfalls, deadfalls, and snares.” Trap, pitfall, and
snare are often used figuratively, but deadfall seems to have fallen by the wayside.
For a figurative pitfall, important collocating verbs are: identify, avoid, navigate and skirt. This
makes sense as a series. Skate around, an attested example, makes me question the writer’s
mental image of an actual pitfall, even if skate is being used figuratively. A figurative pitfall can
await the unwary. Common adjectives for a figurative pitfall are almost always classifying: a
medical / clinical / diagnostic / constitutional / legal pitfall. (Our curriculums tend to do a
horrible job of teaching classifying adjectives.) Or adjectives relate to significance: biggest /
greatest / main / major / important pitfall. Or possibility and frequency: a common / possible /
potential pitfall. A common preposition for “pitfall + preposition” is in: pitfalls in diagnosis /
evaluation / interpretation / management, etc.
Similar words used figuratively to express danger include: bomb, booby trap, landmine, line of
fire, minefield, powder keg, and tripwire, all from the military domain. A less used but perfectly
apt word is “third rail” which refers to trains, electricity, and electrocution: “Social security
reform / gun control is the third rail of US politics.”

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Epithets
Most of us learned epithets like “Rosy Fingered Dawn” (The Iliad) and “The Whale Road” and
the “The Swan Road” (Beowulf) in high-school literature courses. In the early 1900s, when
whaling, walrusing and sealing were still big industries, writers would refer to important and
powerful men as the “great whales of their profession.” Times have changed. Nowadays, we use
epithets like “Mick (a blue terrier) is the Michael Jordan of the dog-show world” and “We know
that Bolivia / Afghanistan can become the Saudi Arabia of lithium” and “Majid Abdullah, the
Pele of the desert...” and “The fight against Tamil rebels was Sri Lanka’s Vietnam.” In this work
epithets are recorded in the dictionary, and they are collected in the thesaurus in the category
epithet.
Epithets commonly occur in the form, “the X of Y.” Mick (a blue terrier) is the Michael Jordan
of the dog-show world. The Pribilofs are known as the Galapagos of the North.
Alternatives include “(the) Adj + X.” The adjective might be an adjective of nationality. The
Haida Gwaii Islands have been referred to as the Canadian Galapagos. The Hawaiian Islands
Marine National Park is the American Galapagos. “He studied counterinsurgency at Duntroon,
the Australian West Point.” Or the adjective might be a color. In the early 19th century, in
northwestern Illinois, lead was referred to as gray gold. In the 19th century the white gold was
guano, in the 21st century it is lithium. Oil is frequently referred to as black gold, and so are the
wonderful Khawlani coffee beans, picked red but dried until black, in Saudi Arabia’s Jazan
province. And it is possible that the blue gold of the future will be bulk water shipments to arid
countries. Cobalt has also been referred to as “blue gold.”
Yet another pattern is “(the) Possessive s + X.” The coral Triangle has been called the Ocean’s
Amazon. “Why Eritrea is called Africa’s North Korea.” Hubei Province is China’s new Ruhr
Valley. The Bali bombing was Australia’s 9/11.
Epithets are commonly introduced by called: Why Eritrea is called Africa’s North Korea (The
Economist magazine); West Virginia has been called the Saudi Arabia of coal; the Great Bear
Rain Forest is often called the Amazon of the North; Cerén is sometimes called the Pompeii of
the New World (El Salvador); Borneo and its forests are sometimes called the lungs of Southeast
Asia.
Or there is the variation with so-called: Kamuzu Academy in Malawi is the so-called “Eaton of
Africa.”
Or considered (to be): the Andrea Doria is considered the Mount Everest of wreck diving;
Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy is considered to be Thailand’s West Point.
Described as can be used: the campaign is often described as the Stalingrad of the East (Battles
of Kohima and Imphal in World War II).
Or dubbed: Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed America’s salad bowl;
Xiyuangualu lychees were dubbed “the king of fruit”; Travis Patriquin has been dubbed the T.E.
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Known is quite common: he is known as Korea’s Great Gatsby for his lavish lifestyle (Big
Bang’s Seungri); the Pribilofs are known as the Galapagos of the North; Ibrahim Rugova was
known as the Gandhi of the Balkans; Bhutan, once known as the hermit kingdom of the
Himalayas; the crash landing became known as the Miracle on the Hudson (Flight 1549).
Or refer to can be used: Unesco’s citation refers to Lake Baikal as the “Galapagos of Russia”; El
Paso is often referred to as the Ellis Island of the Southwest.
Finally, said to be: the Palestinians are sometimes said to be the Jews of the Arab world.
Note the tendency for the use of the passive, and the various adverbs of frequency.
Epithets often relate / compare (1) people to people (Ibrahim Rugova was known as the Gandhi
of the Balkans) (2) geographical places and areas to geographical places and areas (Pipeline on
the North Shore of Oahu is the Mount Everest of surfing waves) (3) institutions to institutions
(Kamuzu Academy in Malawi is the so-called “Eaton of Africa”) and (4) events to events (the
Kuta Beach bombing was Australia’s 9/11).
Epithets can be quite thought provoking and the points of similarity (and dissimilarity) are
always open for discussion and debate.
Consider Vietnam used as an epithet. That war has been compared to Egypt’s intervention in
Yemen, which occurred at the same time; Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980s;
British involvement in that same country in 2006; and the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009).
Both Colin Kaepernick and Meghan Rapinoe have been described as their generation’s
Muhammed Ali.
Such diverse peoples as Indo-Caribbean immigrants, Palestinians, Chinese, and Latinos have all
been characterized as Jews, respectively of the Caribbean, the Arab world, the Far East, and of
the 21st century. While the primary meaning relates to diaspora, nuances are certainly involved
in every case.
Epithets for geographical places are quite common. Beautiful cities are often compared to a
pearl: Manila, the Pearl of the Orient; Dubrovnik, the Pearl of the Adriatic, etc. One of my
favorite epithets is the one for Lake Baikal, “the Blue Eye of Siberia.” On the BBC news world
map, you can just see it to the east of the larger Black and Caspian Seas and the smaller Lake
Balkhash. My eye never fails to note it due to its beautiful epithet. In every respect it is an
amazing lake. It even has archipelagoes. I would love to visit the Blue Eye of Siberia one day.
Finally, epithets often relate to royalty: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul; Pat’s King of
Steaks; John George Bartholomew, the Prince of Cartography. Or to the family: Mohammad Ali
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Persons
A name for a person can figuratively relate to many things, especially a role. These names come
from a number of domains.
A person might relate to an occupation. A butcher is associated with oppression, warfare, and
slaughter, even though the friendly butchers at the supermarket where I buy my meat seem to be
perfectly normal, friendly and helpful folks. We should all be a good steward of the land, even if
we don’t work on ships, trains, or airplanes. You can be an ambassador without being a member
of the State Department, as Mike Tyson was when he visited China to promote boxing.
“Adjuncts are the field hands of education” doesn’t mean that adjuncts literally labor in the fields
and pick crops. It means that they stoop to gain employment, get their hands dirty teaching actual
classes, do all the heavy lifting, have little control over what they are paid, work seasonally, and
usually have to travel a lot.
The names for members of a family used figuratively is a large category, no surprise, as the
family is basic to every society. Some of the connotations seem as if they came from 19th
century England as written about by Dickens, or from fairy tales. An orphan is bereft: “We need
to develop orphan drugs for orphan diseases.” A stepchild is neglected: “Intelligence officers
have always held a stepchild position.” The favorite son is favored: “Obama was welcomed to
Ireland like a favorite son.” The stepmother is evil and hates the poor stepdaughter: “The EU is a
heartless stepmother trying to drive Greece out of the family.” Mother and father commonly
relate to creation: “Cokie Roberts, a founding mother of NPR” and “Ibrahim Rugova, the father
of Kosovo...” Is it any surprise that twin represents connection? “The South’s familiar twins,
temperature and humidity...”
When we talk about society, we often use the words outcast, leper or pariah for those who are
shunned and marginalized. Or castaway, like those poor unfortunates on Tromelin Island in the
Indian Ocean. Or hermit, for those who voluntarily or involuntarily withdraw, like the Japanese
hikikimori, or modern-day hermits.
Persons who are mentioned in regards to the future and making predictions include fortuneteller,
oracle, prophet, soothsayer, and seer.
From the experience many of us had in our grade school and tweens and teens come babysitter,
bully, coach, chaperon, cheerleader, den mother, golden girl / boy and grownup.
And many persons come from the domain of religion: acolyte, choirboy, convert, crusader,
devotee, disciple, evangelist, guru, heretic, iconoclast, martyr, missionary, oracle, prophet, and
soothsayer. A subset of these persons relate to message, no surprise, as every religion has its
message.
All of the italicized words in this section have their entries in the dictionary, along with their
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The “container” metaphor
An expression like, “He has love / hatred in his heart for...” serves to remind us that the heart can
be thought of as a container, just like a pitcher or a glass, based on the preposition in.
We have cognitive linguists to thank for identifying the container metaphor, and any ESL / EFL
teacher will recognize its explanatory worth for idioms related to the heart, such as “I poured my
heart into the job,” “I poured my heart out to her,” “She fills my heart with joy and laughter,”
“The government wants to instill / put fear into the people’s hearts,” “They have goodness / hate
/ joy in their hearts,” “We’re going to hold / keep Lori Piestewa in our hearts forever,” etc.
Idioms like these do not seem so arbitrary, random or odd when we think of the heart as being a
container.
A situation is often thought of as a container: I got in / into trouble and I don’t know how to get
out. I’m in the doghouse at work. I got in hot water with the boss. We’re in a tight spot.
Feelings and emotions can be thought of as being inside a container: Don’t hold it in. Don’t
bottle it up. Pent-up frustrations can lead to violence. Open up. Let it out. I felt drained / empty. I
felt a sense of emptiness (depression).
The container metaphor, while extremely interesting and useful, is not perfect. For example, the
mind is a container in an expression like, “What do you have in mind?” or “He is close-minded,”
or “Try to keep an open mind.” But the mind can be more like a platform in an expression like
“What’s on your mind?” This can be discussed with students.

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Grammatical metaphor, fictive verbs, etc.
Angela Downing, in English Grammar: A University Course (Third Edition), devotes Chapter 27
to grammatical metaphor. She explains what that is, and gives good explanations for
restatements that are not “typical.” She also gives excellent examples in that chapter, such as
“Our evening walk along the river took us to Henley” and “August 12 found the travellers in
Rome” (her examples) in which take and find are not used in their normal senses. Based on her
work, I have included the following categories:
Fictive communication verbs include: say, tell, read, and telegraph. “The sign said, “Do not
enter.” “The data told us there was a problem.” “His watch read 2 PM” “The film telegraphs to
the audience that...” Read especially collocates with gauges and dials. There are many more
verbs like these.
Fictive motion. These verbs include go, run, and follow and are used for things like paths, trails,
rivers, roads, ropes, etc. that are essentially lines. Of course, there are many more such verbs. In
her wonderful article, “Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering,” Ekaterina Egorova
identifies over 70 fictive motion verbs from the world of mountaineering.
Fictive position. These are verbs that relate to position: stand, sit and lie. “The house sat on a
hill,” “A lamp stood in the corner,” “The city lies in a valley.” They make a nice teaching set and
can be taught as alternatives when we teach the “there” construction lesson.
Fictive meeting & seeing includes verbs like meet, encounter, find, see, and witness. This takes
care of Downing’s examples, “August 12 found the travellers in Rome,” and “The last decade
has witnessed an unprecedented rise in agricultural technology.” An attested example included in
this work is, “23 May saw over 250 climbers trying to summit Mount Everest.” Clearly, the use
of find, see, and witness collocates with a date or period of time at the subject position.
Fictive possession includes verbs like capture, grab, grip, hold, possess, and seize. “Now that
we have captured your imagination, don’t make us come after the rest of you” is a clever TV
advertisement from the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian Nation promoting tourism.
Fictive transportation verbs include ones like take, carry, transport, bring, etc. This is how I
have categorized “Our evening walk along the river took us to Henley.”
The Part of speech category collects words not used in their traditional part of speech, including
nominalizations of verbs, a very important feature of grammatical metaphor, according to
Downing. Five contemporary and popular examples include “It looks bad” / “That’s not a good
look”; “When will she reveal her secret?” / “When will she make the big reveal?”; “What you
request will be difficult to fulfill” / “That’s a big ask,” ; “Chris Boswell doesn’t panic” / “Chris
Boswell doesn’t do panic” ; and “The company failed” / “It was a stunning fail (aeronautical
software).”
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Past, present and future
We tend to think of the past & present and the future as lessons on grammar. But there are
plenty of figurative and metaphorical ways to express the past, present and future, and they are
all worth thinking about and mentioning to students.
A day can represent past, present and future. When we speak of the present, we can speak of
these days and nowadays. And when we speak of the past, we can say those days, or the old
days, or back in the day. When we speak of the future, we can say, “Tomorrow...”
The past, present and future is often thought of as movement based on a point of view. The
statements, “Winter is approaching / coming / on the way” and “the big day has arrived” imply
that things in the future come towards us. And that might be along a road: “When you don’t
know what’s coming down the pike, you worry.” We commonly use this idea for scheduled
events like deadlines, holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, seasons, etc. The idea is also expressed
in statements like “We will have to stay here for a time to come” and “There might be problems
in the coming months.”
But it can also seem like it is we who are moving toward the future: “We are approaching /
coming up on the fifth anniversary of...,” etc. And “we” can be extended to inanimate things we
would ordinarily never think of moving: “The region is heading towards war.”
Sometimes our forward movement makes it seem like we have all embarked on journeys &
trips: “Nobody knows what is on the road ahead.” “Your job will get easier down the road.”
And time can relate to things, like the horizon: “War is on the horizon.” Or a crystal ball and
fortune teller, especially in relation to predictions. The past can relate to a clock: “We don’t want
to turn back the clock.” Or a time capsule. Or a fossil or dinosaur for something or someone old-
fashioned.
Like the idea of heart mentioned above, we can think of the future as a container: “Nobody
knows what is in the future.” “I wonder what the future holds.”
Way back in 1836 Emerson wrote, “Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our
image of memory and hope.” (Nature, Chapter 4, “Language.”) No doubt he was thinking of
expressions like “Looking back on my life...” or “I’m looking forward to the wedding...” This
sounds very much like the PAST IS BEHIND EGO and FUTURE IS IN FRONT OF EGO metaphors of
today’s cognitive linguists.
I developed a special interest in Saudi Arabia in teaching language relating to the past, present
and future. That is because, like many places in the world, Saudi Arabia is modernizing swiftly
but unevenly. The past, present and future can all seem to exist in the same place at the same
time. Generations, tribes, areas of the country, and even young men of the same age who grew
up in the same place and tribe may be more modern, or less modern. As a teacher I donned the
role of an elder, and would often make my students laugh by referring to myself as a fossil, or a
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Allusions
In this work a list of allusions in contemporary use can be found at allusion, allusions to history
can be found at history, and allusions can also be noticed in the epithet category.
Adjectives that we often use for size are allusions: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, colossal,
gargantuan, Goliath, leviathan, Lilliputian, Olympian, Pharaonic, jumbo, etc. On National
Public Radio, I recently heard a commentator refer to Joe Biden as a political behemoth, which
created an image in my mind that made me laugh. The word jumbo comes from the name of an
Ethiopian elephant exhibited in the US and Canada by P.T. Barnum.
Other allusions come from old stories and children’s stories. The Goldilocks fairytale has given
us the modifier Goldilocks with the meaning of “just right” or “the sweet spot”: the Goldilocks
economy / place / principle / zone, etc. Cinderella relates to success in a phrase like “The school
has become a viral Cinderella story.”
Several allusions to Homer and the Iliad and the Odyssey can be found in this work in the
category Iliad & Odyssey. Five of them are very common: odyssey (the Mars Odyssey); Trojan
horse (viruses, worms and Trojan Horses in computing); Achilles’ heel (the knees are the skiers’
Achilles’ heel); epic (an epic day of surfing at Waimea Bay); and siren (seduced by the siren call
of technology). These allusions will be remembered long after the details are forgotten of where
each ship came from and who slew whom in what order.
In these strange times of fake news and the internet, it is interesting to consider contemporary
allusions to fantasy & reality: curiouser and curiouser; El Dorado; heffalump (creature);
Kafkaesque (adj), never-never land; quixotic (adj); rabbit hole; Twilight Zone; and Walter Mitty.
Three of these allude to Alice in Wonderland.
And contemporary allusions to oppression include: draconian; Gestapo; inquisition; Lord of the
Flies; McCarthy; McCarthyism, McCarthyite; Orwellian; pitchfork (oppression); procrustean;
reign of terror / fear; and witch-hunt.
Allusions reflect our more-or-less shared knowledge, memory, history, culture, and education.
Explaining allusions gives us a chance to teach and talk about many things besides just grammar
and vocabulary, including the biography and history of Jumbo the elephant.
In a North Carolina teacher-training class, an old biddy exhorted us to “go out and be the Johnny
Appleseed of books!” I took her exhortation to heart and am grateful to her for her advice.
In Saudi Arabia I was constantly amazed at what my Saudi military students knew and didn’t
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Euphemisms
In this work a list of current euphemisms can be found in the category euphemism. We
commonly use euphemisms for death, sex, the body and bodily functions, and mental illness.
Euphemism is part and parcel of the technology we now cannot live without: “cookies,” “The
marketing industry calls them beacons or tags, critics describe them as being spy pixels,” etc.
And in US politics: “The Affordable Care Act,” even if many can’t afford it, and the cheery
sounding “Build Back Better Act”—would anyone build back worse? Of course in the military
and policing. The old political correctness movement is responsible for a whole host of
euphemisms: “crippled,” perfectly acceptable back in the day, has morphed to handicapped,
challenged, inconvenienced, and differently abled, along with the attendant discussion and
controversy along the way. People rail against the use of “retarded,” except, perhaps, at the
Supreme Court, where a legal determination of retardation will save a murderer from execution.
The photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper has noted, “The cardinal points are always,
historically, metaphors...” In the early part of the 20th century, “to go West” meant the
destruction of a thing or the death of a person. A member of a tank crew in World War I wrote,
“It’s a mile to your objective now, but it’s a mile of thrills... A one-pounder in a hedge scares
you with several well-placed shots before it ‘goes west’ [is destroyed].” Paul De Kruif, in his
book about public health titled Men Against Death, published in 1932, wrote about two doctors
who had died: “In 1912 it [Rocky Mountain spotted fever] had sneaked into [Dr. Thomas B.]
McClintic ... The Montana doctor, McCray...woke up with bloodshot eyes and an ache in his
bones. In ten days McCray had gone West to join McClintic.”
Why west? What was the origin of this euphemism? I am speculating, but I think it might have to
do with the idea of migration in its most broadest sense, of moving on. In the 19th century,
America was on the move, settling the continent to the Pacific. There were many dangers,
including disease, weather, violence, and accidents, especially drownings at river crossings. In
Ordeal of the Union, Allan Nevins tells of the son of John James Audubon comforting a dying
cholera victim on a wagon train in the Rio Grande Valley. “What hurts you, Ham?” Audubon
asked. “My wife and children hurt me, Mr. John,” the man replied. Even if the pioneers survived,
they might never be seen or heard from again back East. It would have been like they went West
and died.
Nowadays, nobody uses the euphemism “to go West” to mean that somebody has died or
something as been destroyed. “South” and “north,” however, continue to be used figuratively:
each one with numbers, and the former in respect to failure, accident & impairment and
decline. In this work, interesting quotations relating to the cardinal directions as metaphors can
be found at direction (symbol).
Contemporary euphemisms for death include: “He has passed (on).” We mourn his passing.”
“He is no longer with us.” “He has gone away (too soon).” “He is gone.” “We salute the fallen.”
“He gave his life.” “He lost his life.” “The suspect is deceased.” “He succumbed to the injuries
on the way to the hospital,” “He was pronounced,” etc. That last is astonishing, as it simply
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Very sinister euphemisms relate to hygiene. I taught English in Kosovo, and the phrase, “Ethnic
cleansing” always makes me shiver. If you make the trek to Ibrahim Rugova’s grave—a
beautiful, peaceful spot high up on a hill overlooking Pristina on one side and the countryside on
the other, where there is a park where mothers bring their babies and children to play and where
the elderly sit—on the walk up your will noticed a plaque commemorating the victims of a
massacre. Such plaques are ubiquitous across Kosovo. And on a street alongside that park, there
is a villa with a plaque identifying the villa as a place for the rehabilitation of torture victims...
While looking up at a window, I thought I saw a curtain move, and my hair turned greyer. Once,
on the walk down, I noticed a parked UN van and stopped to examine the sign on its side. The
van belonged to a forensic team that located the graves of executed Kosovars and tried to
identify the victims. The U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the university once said to me, “Why is there
a statue of a KLA guy with a Kalashnikov downtown? Why can’t they just get over it and move
on?” All I could think was, “Back home we’re still fighting the Civil War.”
The military is well known for euphemisms. When a military airplane crashed through the roof
of a civilian warehouse here in the U.S, a military spokesman said, “We have secured the
armaments package, which will be properly disposed of. Safety is our utmost priority.” An
aggressive reporter got him to belligerently admit that the “armaments package” consisted of live
rounds and missiles, which thankfully had not gone off in the fire. It is worth noting that
Americans troops have not been bombed from the air by enemy airplanes since the Korean War.
We have been very very lucky.
In the extraordinary documentary film A Sniper’s War the following exchange occurs: “What
does it mean ‘to do your job’?” / “To get rid of their snipers and gunners, so that our infantry can
move ahead.” / “What does it mean ‘get rid ‘ of them?” / “To eliminate. To kill.” In a report
about an ISIS cell, a reporter said, “The other two suspected members of this ISIS cell, by the
way, they are already off the board. Uh, the ringleader... was killed in a drone strike in 2015, and
the other was captured in Turkey, where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison...”
In the U.S., the police are a paramilitary organization, with corresponding language, as
exemplified by an extract from a press release: “The officer involved in this particular OIS was
wearing his BWC, which captured the OIS as it occurred... In the coming days, the... Department
will be releasing our second Critical Incident Community Briefing, explaining what occurred
during the OIS on July 5, 2019.” From such language you would never guess that the press
release concerned the case of a 17-year-old girl who was shot to death after being pulled over for
speeding. (An OIS is an officer-involved shooting and a BWC is a body-worn camera.)
Similarly, a police spokesman recently told reporters, “Our special assignments unit, also known
as the SWAT Team, responded and attempted to work towards a tactical resolution of the
incident...” During this “incident,” nine cops were shot or hit by shrapnel in an ambush, two
people died, and a baby was rescued from a doorstep.
Even public officials grow sick and tired of their euphemisms. Police Chief James Cervera of the
Virginia Beach Police Department said the following at a press conference, after a mass shooting
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“Right now we have a lot of questions. The whys, they will come later. Right now, we have more
questions really than we have answers. We are a little more than two hours into this event. And
we use the word event, that’s a cop term, this devastating incident that happened, that none of us
want to be here talking about, this devastating incident which is going to change the lives of a
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Gestures and bodily reactions
In 1836 Emerson wrote, “supercilious [means] the raising of the eyebrow (Nature, Chapter 4,
“Language”). Using his pattern, we could say that attention means the turning of the head,
confusion the scratching of the head, surprise the popping of the eyes, etc.
Every culture has its gestures, and gestures are an important nonverbal way to communicate.
Gestures can relate to such basic meanings as signaling yes and no, or signaling a moving car to
stop for you. I once noticed a book at a yard sale with the interesting title How To Speak Italian.
Curious because it was so thin and one of my brothers lives in Italy, I picked it up and opened it
up. It simply consisted of photographs of Italians making gestures, with text explaining what
those gestures meant. I laughed, because it does seem to me that the Italians have a lot of unique
gestures.
But gestures, and the meaning of those gestures that are lexicalized in language, are not shared in
every country. A person who reads, “He received the thumbs up on his proposal” must know that
“thumbs up” refers to a positive judgment to understand the message. A person who reads, “His
statement left a lot of people scratching their heads” must know that the gesture relates to
incomprehension, even though no one actually does it. A person who hears, “I’ll keep my fingers
crossed,” must know that that gesture relates to hope and fate. Or that “to roll up one’s sleeves”
means to get to work (not every culture wears clothing similar to ours.) Language associated
with gestures or a bodily reaction can confuse even those within the same country. For example,
a Northerner in the US might take a second to process the meaning of a statement like, “When I
heard what happened, I got chill bumps,” as said by a person from the southern Appalachians.
And gestures and particularly bodily reactions are often used to express emotional effect. If the
performance of a person in a play was wonderful, I might say it was breathtaking or it took my
breath away. If it was boring, I might say it was a big yawn. If it was horrible for some reason, I
might say it made me retch.
The importance of gesture in communication is an important part of the online experience. In
text language, smh stands for “shaking my head,” and in 2015 a face-with-rolling-eyes Emoji
became available. LMAO is an example of hyperbole.
Everyone nowadays should be knowledgeable about gestures. The thumbs-up symbol does not
mean the same thing in every culture. In recent years the okay sign—the sign formed by making
a circle with the thumb and index finger, has become an Alt-right meme. Using it in certain
contexts nowadays can have repercussions. In academia, eye-rolling can be considered a sign of
patriarchy and a micro-aggression, which causes some to roll their eyes. In different cultures,
winking can have a meaning you might not suspect. Pointing at a person or snapping your
fingers may or may not be appropriate.
For a listing of gestures and bodily reactions that have been lexicalized in American English, see
gesture and bodily reaction in the thesaurus. It is quite a large category and a rather important
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Shapes and parts-whole
How is a graph like the landscape? Well, both have peaks and valleys and plateaus. In addition, a
graph can have a spike, and the line might be in in the shape of a bell curve, or characterized as
carrying a long tail. Peaks, valleys, plateaus, spikes, bells and tails are not just things, but shapes.
In the dictionary I use, the horn of an animal is the first sense. “Shaped like or suggesting” is the
seventh sense. The tenth sense is geological: a horn is a geological feature. The Matterhorn,
geologically speaking, is a horn. In case you are wondering, the musical instrument is the eighth
sense. And that is the sense that we always teach.
Many simple words we teach have the meaning of “resembling or having the shape of” or
“suggesting” or “regarded as like.” Examples are everywhere.
The alphabet: A-frame; T-bone; T-bar; V-neck; Z-drag.
Traffic and roads: bottleneck; dogleg; hairpin, T-intersection, U-turn, washboard (road).
Body shapes: heart (heart-shaped face); hourglass figure / waist; pear (pear-shaped body).
Parts of the body: A plane has a nose, tail, and belly. A bed has a foot and a head. A chair can
have legs, a back and arms. Needles, potatoes, coconuts, and hurricanes all have eyes. A
mountain range has foothills.
Words relating to shapes often appear in geographical place names: the banana belt; the Parrot’s
Beak (Cambodia and Guinea); the boot of Italy; the Wakhan Corridor; the Eye of the Sun (in
Monument Valley, Arizona); the Horn of Africa; the Florida panhandle; Ribbon Reef; Table
Mountain (Cape Town); the Coral / Afar Triangle; Wave Rock (western Australia), etc.
Younger teachers might not know what the washboard in a washboard road refers to. But I can
remember my mother using one, as well as an electric wringer, and a clothes line.
While I was teaching a high-school ESL lesson based on the map, a Honduran girl told me,
“Chile is shaped like a chili.” It was something I had never heard before and have never
forgotten. Truly, the students teach the teacher.
In the dictionary I use, the very first main entry is A, and the first sense defines it as a letter. The
second main entry is also A, and the first sense defines it as a shape. It is like that for every letter
thereafter. The letters are not just letters, they are shapes.
Here’s a wonderful riddle: What has bridges, canals, cavities, clefts, fissures, floors, isthmuses,
lakes, mounds, orbits, pipes, pits, roofs, tubes, and walls, but is not anything related to the earth
or a building? A hint: the answer is closer than you think. Answer: the human body! This riddle
makes us realize that the body has many parts resembling terrain features and infrastructure.
“Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the
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Animacy
Anthropomorphism has been a feature of literature for ages. Anthropomorphic animal stories are
as ancient as Aesop and include favorites like White Fang by Jack London and “Rikki-Tikki-
Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. Only once in Saudi Arabia, many years ago, did a very literal-minded
student rebuke me for telling an animal story. “An animal can talk?” he said frowning, raising an
eyebrow. I am pretty sure his classmates told him to shut up, and I finished telling the story.
Traditionally in English things like a ship could be referred to as she. “Shelf life” is a relatively
old term, and products have been referred to as a family and “first generation / second
generation” for quite a long time. But the idea that technology is not only alive but sentient used
to be relegated to science fiction. One thinks of HAL from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Well, 2001 has come and gone, and almost anything can be animate and sentient nowadays. The
first obituary for a non-human being that I ever read was written by Henry Fountain way back in
2010 and appeared in The New York Times newspaper under the title, “ABE, Pioneering Robotic
Undersea Explorer, Is Dead at 16.” I can still remember how surprised and delighted I was by the
conceit. Extension? Now inanimate objects, like wheat, can have “biographies.” And nothing
prevents a creative writer from writing an autobiography of... a flea (1887). The Island of
Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, I read in a review, includes a sentient fig tree that partly narrates
the story of two lovers.
Now technology is dumb, smart, or brilliant and can even teach itself (AI). One goal of the
Internet companies has been to habituate everyone, especially children, to address machines as
though they were people. They have given their virtual assistants names like Siri, Alexa and
Cortana and encouraged us to ask them questions, as if that were normal. They have succeeded
completely.
“Roaring Meg (an English Civil Wars-era mortar) resides at Goodrich Castle...” “Recent
investigation has found that the annual Great Whirl in the southwest Arabian sea has an average
life span of 198 days.” “So where did you find this comet, where is it living?” “We climb where
the avalanche lives.” “A cave breathes...”
Devotees, enthusiasts and experts, naturally enough, seem more prone to this kind of
personification than the rest of us.
• Laird Hamilton has said, “Jaws doesn’t like a north swell,” and he ought to know.
• Colin Tudge wrote, “I met one in full bloom early one sunny July morning in the
Cambridge University Botanic Garden.” Tudge was referring to a handkerchief tree.
• In the same way, Linda Mapes wrote, “The tree first came into my life along with John
O’Keefe, a biologist...”
• Dr. Jeffrey B. Johnson, a Boise State volcanologist and National Geographic Explorer
studying the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua, explained, “Volcanoes like to speak in low-
frequency sounds that humans can’t perceive called infrasound. So we developed sensors
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 • An official at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC,
once said, “So the decision was made a number of years ago to take him off display and
put him in storage... To have that step forward, just slightly, gives him more of a
presence.” He was talking about Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit!
• Dr. Catherine Walker from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said the following
about an iceberg: “I always watch A23 because we’re the same age. It calved in 1986 and
it’s started to wiggle recently.” (“How a colossal block of ice became an obsession” by
Jonathan Amos, BBC, 15 Jan 2022.)
• In 1989, after a deranged person tried to kill the Treaty Oak in Austin with poison, Texas,
thousands of kids addressed letters to the tree with messages like, “We’re sorry this
happened, get well soon.”
• In 2021, an adult homeowner in Kensington, New Hampshire, had to have the largest
sugar maple in the state cut down because it had begun to rot and threatened her roof. She
said, “She’s just at the end of her life. She is finally being euthanized. It’s unsafe and it’s
not fair to her to let her stand out there and not be as beautiful as she always has been.
I’m sad to see her go. It’s very emotional.”
• Finally, “Typically a sled dog will tell you, when they’re ready to retire. People always
say, well dogs can’t talk, and that never makes sense to me, because I feel like they
actually talk very clearly about what they want and what they need if you’re listening.”
(Blair Braverman, dogsledder, about her dogs.)
I suspect that I am not the only person in the world to have said, “Thank you” at the automatic
bank teller machine after withdrawing a little cash, or to have secretly feel relieved and grateful
when “approved” appears on the machine that reads my debit card, or to mutter, “Okay, okay,”
when the bossy self-scanner at the store tells me to make sure I have picked up my change, as if I
would ever forget! That same scanner, which ends up saying, “Thank you for shopping at X,”
might just be responsible for the sad death of “You’re welcome.” Just the other day the
supermarket employ scanning my groceries at the checkout counter muttered “Come on, come
on” when the scanner was momentarily unable to read a bar code of a particular item. Her tone
was both irritated and imploring. I was waiting. There were people behind me.
It is common to give inanimate and non-human objects agency. A common pattern is as follows:
“I hadn’t planned to write a book on this topic, but the topic chose me.”
• The extraordinary Bernard Tomic said, “Tennis chose me. It’s something I never fell in
love with.”
• The last line of Jim Bouton’s “gripping” baseball book, Ball Four, is: “You see, you
spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was
the other way around.”
• Seize has a similar idea, in an expression like, “This idea that math was beautiful seized
Paul Dirac.”
• In the film Xiu Xiu, the Sent Down Girl, Xiu Xiu asks Lao Jin, “Are you really going to
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 • “Some say that humans domesticated wheat; others that wheat domesticated humans.”
(“Flour Fixated” by Bee Wilson, London Review of Books, 24 September 2020.)
• David Benioff and DB Weiss, the writers of Game of Thrones, said, “When George
Lucas built [Star Wars], he built us too.”
• In a similar vein, and nicely qualified: “If it’s possible for a place to save a life Sils-Maria
saved Nietzsche’s.”
• The great actor Peter O’Toole said, “The part chooses me, I don’t choose it.”
• A Japanese saying has it, “With the first glass a man drinks wine, with the second glass
the wine drinks the wine, with the third glass the wine drinks the man.” Many of us have
been there before!
• Another proverb like that, common in Saudi Arabia, says,” A miser does not own money;
money owns the miser.”
• I like what Winston Churchill said when he urged that the House of Commons, bombed
in the war, should be re-created as an exact replica: “We shape our buildings and
afterwards our buildings shape us.”
• In New Zealand and Bangladesh, rivers have been recognized as living entities and
granted the same legal rights as persons.
There must be a bit of the animist in all of us. Colin Tudge’s quote above about “meeting” a
handkerchief tree makes me think of what Fran James, a Lummi Indian, said about gathering
bark from a cedar tree for a basket. “We talk to the trees. We say, ‘OK, we need some of your
bark to help us; we’ll make something beautiful.’ You have to talk to it and thank it for giving
you the bark. You have to go with a good heart. You can’t be cranky and fussy.” V. K. Arseniev
once recorded Dersu on an early phonograph and played it back to him. Dersu listened,
unsurprised to hear his own voice, and said, “Him talk true, not leave one word.”
See the dictionary entries for born and live and die (non-human).
On NPR, a person was talking recently about his favorite song. He said, “I’ll say I probably
listen to this song a few times each week, whether it’s in the car or just telling Alexa to play it.
There’s a story...” Suddenly, the voice of Alexa broke in: “Sorry. I don’t know that one.” And
the interviewee went on, “I’m sorry, that was Alexa that said that, um...” before continuing to
talk about his favorite song. This was not a toddler or a pet humorously upstaging an
interviewee. This was Alexa. Interestingly, Alexa’s intrusion seemed to have made the
interviewee lose his chain of thought and forget about the story he was about to tell. (“An NPR
Listener Shares His Signature Song,” NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, July 20, 2019.)
The first obituary I read for a machine was in 2010. The first time I heard a personal assistant
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Persistence, survival and endurance
Isn’t it interesting that people who have never hunted or trapped and who have never seen an
actual pitfall much less dug one or filled one in still use the word? That medical textbooks list
“pitfalls” in treatment? The use of a word like pitfall is a perfect example of how older
technologies and activities and periods of life have disappeared yet persist in the language.
In 1870, railroading was the second largest occupation in the US, behind farming, and grist mills
used to dot our streams and rivers. Things have certainly changed! Even so, the category of
figurative language from the category train and farming & agriculture is huge, the term “grist
for the mill,” is still popular, and “term-paper mills” proliferate on the internet. Few send letters
or postcards nowadays, but NPR still has “audio postcards,” and a book like Deacon King Kong
by the great writer James McBride can be described as a “love letter to New York City.”
Honestly, who sends love letters nowadays?
At one time in our history the horse was king of the road and bicycles, electric trains and cars
shared the road with them, not vice versa. On May 3, 1908, a headline in The New York Times
screamed: “J. B. SCHUCHMAN HURT IN A RUNAWAY / Horse He had Just Bought for
Speedway Parade Dashes into a Trolley Car. / JUDGE THROUGH A WINDOW / Lands in the
Lap of Little Girl Passenger and Both Are Cut by Glass—Horse Breaks His Leg.” Nowadays in
New York City about the only reminders from that era are fading ghost signs on brick walls with
messages like: TO LET / CARRIAGES COUPES HANSOMS VICTORIAS LIGHT WAGONS
/ HORSES BOARD BY THE MONTH.”
Things have changed. Yet everyone still uses and understands language associated with horses. I
was lucky as a boy: my grandfather had a horse, and I have fond memories of riding him along
country roads and swimming him through the leech-infested pond below my grandpa’s shack.
You have to cling on tightly to the mane of a horse when riding bareback, especially when the
horse arises out of the water up a steep bank. Words like runaway and reins and bridle and
saddle and gallop are used figuratively nowadays in a sentence like, “We have got to find a way
to rein in galloping inflation,” but for me those words will always have a psychological reality. It
is not easy to be a small boy in control a very large wayward horse. I know that.
After 1958 more people crossed the Atlantic by plane than boat, yet figurative language related
to boats will always persist: the spaceship and spaceport pay homage to sailing ships, and our old
space shuttles were named for famous ships associated with great explorers: the Challenger,
Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.
Today, when we think of wireless communication we think of the internet, not Marconi and
wireless telegraphy. But “Internet communication has its roots in the wireless rooms aboard the
great ocean liners,” as Kat Long has noted. I used to have a fading yellow and black Western
Union telegram I sent my parents from the Queen Elizabeth in a folder I labeled “My favorite
things.” It may still be there. In January, in 1971, at Fort Knox, Kentucky, I took lessons in
Morse Code with many others; the military phased out most training in it long ago, but a boxer
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the SOS—three longs and three shorts, whether pounding a rock on a wall, or blinking your
eyes—is still relevant to this very day, for those who still know.
Religiosity has had its ups and downs in the US and elsewhere, but figurative language relating
to religion will never disappear, no matter how secular the world becomes. And this especially
relates to topography: in every country there is a Devils Backbone (Espinazo del Diablo),
Courthouse (Majlis al Jinn), Falls, Highway, Pulpit, Throne, etc. And every religion has
contributed words to English: fetish (West Africa), taboo (South Seas); Delphic, muse, oracle,
Pandora’s box, soothsayer (pagan); karma, juggernaut, sacred cow, guru, mantra, avatar
(Hindu); mecca and hegira (Islam); kowtow (Confucianism); mantra (Buddhism), etc.
We Americans pride ourselves on our anti-monarchical revolution but we still and forever will
link the idea of royalty with the superlative in epithets like “Aretha Franklin, the Queen of
Soul,” “Burger King,” “Mattress King,” and the prom / 4H king and queen. I once attended a
country-themed restaurant in Atlanta with family members. My brother-in-law held his young
son up to a portrait of Elvis Presley and told him, “Say hello to the King.” We all laughed. Many
persons associated with royalty are used figuratively, less obvious ones including whipping boy
and handmaiden. Just because we had a revolution doesn’t mean we reject royalty.
At one time spitjack was a job category and there was a dog, Canis vertigus, that was actually
bred to turn a spit. Nowadays inserting a spit, once a common task, is a lost art. But the verb
skewer will always exist, in the sense,” We skewered him at the comedy roast.” Of course, there
are many words used figuratively that come from the category of food & drink. Likewise, there
were once hundreds of job categories related to the manufacture of cloth that are anachronistic
now in my adopted state of North Carolina. And yet, figurative language associated with cloth
persists.
Above, I mentioned my mother using a washboard. A washboard, a tub, and a then-modern
electric wringer sat on the porch of a house I once lived in as a boy. Once I got my arm stuck in
that wringer and had to be taken to the hospital. The pale scar on the inside of my arm just below
my left elbow is a reminder that a part of me went through the wringer...literally! After my
mother had scrubbed the laundry on the washboard, and wrung it in the electric wringer, she
would hang it on a clothesline to dry. As a boy, I was literally clotheslined once while riding my
bicycle, and when I got bigger and older the same thing happened on the football field, and
“clothesline injuries” are an important part of emergency medicine. Finally I would watch her
iron out the wrinkles with an electric iron. In the very old days before electricity, a clothes iron
was filled with coals from a fire, and the woman would moisten a sheet by spitting water on it.
Most of us don’t go through this process anymore to clean our clothes. But these words
associated with laundry and many others persist. And so we try to iron out the wrinkles in a plan
and politicians come up with a “laundry list” of reforms to deal with the problems of the day.
In ancient times, when I was a boy, I can remember drinking from a public water cooler when
that was a boon, to be able to slake my thirst with free, thirst-quenching, life-giving water. Who
drinks from a public watercooler anymore? Nowadays, office people buy their own brands and
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camelbacks. After the scandal of Flint, Michigan, who would trust water from a watercooler?
Not to mention that, in this time of COVID, everyone is working from home, and this will no
doubt continue post-pandemic. Who needs a watercooler to as a gathering place to communicate
with anyone when we can simply text one another? And yet, cultural critics still talk about
“watercooler shows” and “watercooler gossip.” As a practice, meeting for a cold, free cup of
water at a watercooler and exchanging gossip is as dead as the dodo. But, like the dodo, it lives
on in our language. It lives on. It lives. For all of our acceptance of the new, trendy contempo-
speak language, maybe we should acknowledge and pay a bit of homage to the old language that
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Quotations
There are many wonderful quotes relating to or utilizing metaphor and figurative language.
Following are six that are meaningful to me.
1. “Words are signs of natural facts... Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit
primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of
the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought... / An
enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a
torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite; flowers express to us the delicate
affections. Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance;
and heat for love. Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of
memory and hope. / Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of
the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate
themselves are the beautiful type of all influence...” (Nature, Chapter 4 (Language), by
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836.)

I like the above because in a short space Emerson lists beautifully and concisely so many
metaphors. The “circles that propagate themselves” is entered in this dictionary at ripple.
A related word is splash. Both words are metaphors for effect that relate to water.

2. “It was doubtless an ingenious idea to call the camel the ship of the desert, but it would
hardly lead one far in training that useful beast.” (George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.)
The above quote reminds me that, while a metaphor identifies something that two things
have in common, plenty of things are still different. A ship does not have long eyelashes,
has not been branded, does not roar, gurgle, bellow, foam from the mouth to the point of
producing airborne balloons of saliva, attract huge spiders, produce delicious and healthy
milk and meat, etc. “The camel is a ship?” a Saudi military student remarked to me once,
disapprovingly.

And people will see things differently, as in the parable of the “Blind men and an
elephant.” Data has been compared to a gas (the cloud); water (data stream); and a solid
(data mining). Bitcoin servers have been described as both farms and mines. The spread
of COVID-19 is often thought of as a wave, and Dr. Roger Shapiro nicely extended that
to a wave in a pool that sloshes around, back and forth, leaving and returning. The myth
of Sisyphus can mean different things—difficulty, futility, or something that never
ends—and the adjectives promethean and quixotic can have quite different connotations:
as I get older, my sympathy for Quixote increases, and I think of him as less crazy and
more of an inspiration. The title of Dickens’ great book is commonly misappropriated:
See “Please, Liberals: Stop Abusing ‘A Tale of Two Cities’” by Reid Cherlin, The New
Republic, Jan 2, 2014. It is not always clear which meaning or connotation is meant.
Many say we should view the problem of drug addiction as a public health issue, not as a
war on drugs, and yet the phrase “public health campaign” has always had a warlike ring,
and the metaphor of disease as an enemy has come to the fore in the era of COVID-19.

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 Should we really single out the donkey for ridicule and use it as an insult? I don’t think
so. “Without a donkey, my wife and I are forced to be donkeys” is something farmers say
in Ethiopia. Does the octopus really deserve its iconic depiction in political cartoons as a
global strangler? No. I once floated about one for half an hour on a shallow reef in the
Red Sea, and its fascinating shape-shifting and color-changing is something I will never
forget. Is a frilled shark, or a sturgeon, really horrific looking? Some think they are
beautiful.

But even if the similarities between two different things are not always obvious, or are
tenuous, or even upset me, I almost always find them worth thinking about. In my
opinion, allusions to Joe McCarthy, Machiavelli, and Hector do little justice to those
men. The idiom “to hang somebody out to dry” has come to mean abandon, but nobody
hangs up their laundry and abandons it. Gibbeting fits the idea much better. “Yemen was
Egypt’s Vietnam” makes me think of a host of dissimilarities, but I must admit, upon
reflection, that there are plenty of similarities, such as the time period, and the proximity
of safe havens across a border.

The title of Leon Talley’s memoir, The Chiffon Trenches, shows just how “ingenious” a
metaphor can be, how much ground, time and human condition it can cover, from the
bloodiest battlefields of Passchendaele and Verdun to...well, to Vogue Magazine. In one
popular video cute ten-year-old Nandi Bushell is a “beast” on the drums, while in another
a Marine Corps rammer identified only as “Wolf” is a “beast” on a howitzer mission.
Both are “beasts.” Roland Huntford described the Ross Ice Shelf as “that rolling Sahara
of snow,” which sounds odd at first, but there are many comparisons that can be made
between the Sahara and the Antarctic. For example, hydrating in both environments can
be a huge problem: Antarctica is a polar desert. Huntford was writing specifically about
the lack of terrain landmarks. The question is always, as Nathaniel Mackey stated, “How
different can two things be and still have something in common?”

Steve Inskeep of NPR severely strains the notion with his “Patrons still receive service at
flooded riverside restaurant in Thailand,” NPR, Morning Edition, October 8, 2021,
although I’m sure he had his reasons. Not too many of us are like the divorce-court judge
who is interested in “whether a dog is more like a lamp or a human being.”

3. “I looked at The Sixteenth Round as puttin’ a letter in a bottle and throwin’ it out over
those 36-foot-high walls into the ocean of life, like a bobbin’ bottle, and hoping upon
hope that somebody, somehow, someday, will see this bobbin’ bottle in the water, take
this bottle up, read my message, and come to help me. And that’s what happened. That’s
what happened.” (Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. From “The Hurricane Tapes,” Ep6.
Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan, BBC Sounds.)

This strikes me as a particularly beautiful, eloquent and heartfelt use of figurative

language, using one extended metaphor.

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4. “Yeah, I generally think this is a fairly minor deal. At the same time, it could actually
backfire on Bill Barr. Because, if he thinks it’s necessary to pre-spin this, that means that
there’s something in there that needs to be pre-spun. And if he’s too heavy handed about
that, it can actually just throw gasoline on the daily media feeding frenzies that we have
[inaudible].” (The commentator Jonah Goldberg on “Before Mueller Report Is Released,
Republicans And Democrats Take Sides,” NPR’s Morning Edition, April 18, 2019.)

I love this quote for its contrast to the one above it. To paraphrase a line from Kipling’s
short story, “The Phantom ‘Rickshaw”: “Men occasionally break down and become as
mixed as their metaphors.”

5. Elisabeth Moss: I just did it, and just kind of went as big as I could and threw it all at the
wall knowing the only mistake we could make was not going far enough. And so we just
went for it... / Rachael Martin: Did he ever have to pull you back. I mean did it ever feel
too far, or were you like, “Nope...” / Elisabeth Moss: I had turned it up to eleven and then
realized I had to go even higher... (“In ‘Her Smell,’ Elisabeth Moss ‘Turned It Up To 11,’
Then Turned It Up Some More,” Morning Edition, NPR, April 19, 2019.)

In the above, Elisabeth Moss is speaking about her performance in the film Her Smell. I
like it because it is a good litany of clichés relating to commitment & determination.
One has to respect commitment in an actor. But when it comes to such declarations, I like
what Alex Lowe said: “There are two kinds of climbers. Those who climb because their
heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.”

6. “It can’t surprise us that our language began with metaphors. Words are being made
today under our own eyes in precisely the same fashion. Witness the terse and vivid terms
that the gangsters coin: gun moll, for the racketeer’s girl-friend; hot seat, for the electric
chair; stool pigeon, for the traitor who acts as a spy for the police.” (Word Origins and
Their Romantic Stories by Wilfred Funk, Litt. D., 1950.)

This is a good reminder that language is constantly evolving, and what sounds novel and
contemporary today will sound as dated as Funk’s examples in twenty years.

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Synonyms and opposites
As teachers, we are accustomed to mentioning synonyms, opposites, and patterns like succeed /
fail / give up / try again. We can do the same with figurative language, and this dictionary and
thesaurus will help.
1. You can launch, roll out, unveil, take the wraps off a product, or drop it (inauguration).
2. You can leave somebody in your wake. Or in your dust. Or in your slipstream. These are
entered at competition: movement. The first relates to boats and water. The second to
land and horses. The last to planes and air.
3. The opposite of tone deaf is... pitch perfect. A person can also strike all the right notes, or
have a tin ear (music).
4. If you achieve something, people might sing your praises, but more than likely your
achievement will be unsung (achievement, recognition & praise).
5. Something can be a stone in one’s shoe or a burr in one’s saddle (affliction).
6. You can hew to a line or... go against the grain. Both phrases relate to wood
(sanctioning, authority & non-conformity / tree).
7. You can be on the cusp of something, or light years away from it (proximity:
astronomy).
8. You can face a problem or turn a blind eye to it or look away. You can kick the can down
the road or push something (like a decision) down the road. You can tackle a problem or
punt or try to run out the clock. Or, you can throw your hands up in the air or engage in
handwringing (confronting, dealing with & ignoring things).
9. You can give a hand, lend a hand, or pitch in (help & assistance).
10. You can try to save your neck or your skin or your scalp (survival, persistence &
endurance).
11. Socially, you might find a place at the table or under the tent. Or, you might find
yourself outside in the cold, frozen out, in the shadows, on the fringes of society, out of
the mainstream, in exile, in the wilderness, on the far shore. You might find yourself to
be a castaway, hermit, leper, outcast, outsider, pariah, untouchable, a ghost. Good luck
with that (social interaction, society, and inclusion & exclusion)!
12. A new job might be a plum position or a poisoned chalice.
13. In bad times your life might be on hold, and you might find yourself in purgatory or in
limbo. In a drought or a dry spell. You might feel adrift, in the doldrums, unable to make
headway, going in circles, rudderless. Chasing your tail. Standing still. In a blind alley.
Or mired, sidetracked, stuck, stalled, in a rut and spinning your wheels. Going nowhere,
or backwards and lagging behind. Losing ground. Stumbling or taking a step backward
(progress & lack of progress).
14. Or, you can be on a roll with lots of momentum and traction, advancing, getting ahead,
going forward, making headway, gaining ground, leaping or vaulting ahead.
15. Somebody can add fuel to a controversy, pour gasoline on it, fan it, or provide oxygen for
it. Something can become an accelerant.

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16. You can be up to your elbows /neck / eyeballs, in over your head, drowning, buried alive,
immersed, enmeshed, entangled, or ensnared in something like debt or some other
situation. I hope things get better for you (involvement)!
17. You can hold your employees’ feet to the fire or light a fire under them. You can nudge,
push, prod, goad, cudgel, hector, or bully them, lean on them, twist their arms, strongarm
them, hold a gun to their heads, crack the whip, ride herd over them, etc. Just don’t
expect them to attend your birthday party (coercion & motivation)!
18. You can stroll, coast, waltz or sail to success (attainment). Something you do might be a
cakewalk, a stroll in the park, a picnic. Or a Gallipoli, a long hard slog, a trail of tears
(difficulty, easiness & effort).
19. If you are searching for something, you might hit pay dirt or fool’s gold (success &
failure / mining).
20. A division might be the favorite son or stepchild / stepdaughter / orphan of its parent
organization (family).
21. You can say, “That ship has sailed” or “That train has left the station.” Both relate to
timeliness & lack of timeliness. The two cliches always make me think of that scene
from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery: “Your dad loved her very much. If
there was one other cat in this world that could have loved her and treated her as well as
your dad, then it was me. But, unfortunately, for yours truly, that train has sailed.”
22. You can try and throw somebody off the scent, throw somebody off the trail, or cover
your tracks. This language all relates to pursuit, capture & escape, and hunting.
23. The president might try to bypass, go around, sidestep, or make an end run around
congress.
24. In terms of interest and responsibility, something can be in your wheelhouse, in your
lane, or up your alley. Or not.
25. You can bury or exorcise the ghosts or put something to rest / bed / sleep. Bury the
hatchet or close the book on something. Put it behind you, let it go. Move on. Emotional
and psychological wounds can heal or scab over. These phrases relate to reconciliation,
resolution & conclusion. Just don’t forget, a buried hatchet can always be dug up.
26. In terms of sports & games, you can drop the ball, fumble, miscue, drop the baton, strike
out, or score an own goal. Or the opposite: hit a home run, hit a grand slam, hit it out of
the park, get your project through the uprights or across the goal line. In which case, you
might just want to take a victory lap. Or spike the football.
27. If you pull the plug on something like a project, it can go down the drain, pipes, or tubes.
28. You can be the father, godfather, midwife, architect or author of something like a plan or
policy or program.
29. Urban warfare (MOUT) versus desert warfare can be described as a different animal / a
different beast / or a different kettle of fish.
30. The Arctic might be a factory or a kitchen for weather. Both relate to creation &
transformation. Many of the new terms people use nowadays to talk about race have
been cooked up in the kitchen of sociology.
31. You can “cut corners” or “take a shortcut.” Or, the opposite, you can “go the extra mile”
or “go out of your way.” All relate to journeys & trips. Enjoy your hike!

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 32. “If you wanna win it, ya gotta bring it.” “I left it all out there on the floor along with my
guys.” (This connection is made at commitment & determination: coming, arriving,
staying, leaving & returning.)
33. You can grow up in your father’s shadow. Or in his reflected glory. Hopefully the latter,
but both are based on light & darkness.
34. You might feel like you are on a slow boat to China, or you are going full speed ahead.
Both relate to the speed of a boat.

People often pair conventional language with a cliché, almost like a translation, and will even
triple up on cliches, like a boxer peppering his opponent with jabs: “We must oppose him, we
must stand up to him.” “This looks like an inflection point, a turning point.” “What’s the next
shoe to drop, what happens next?” “What would justice have looked like in your view, what did
you want to happen here?” “They want to fill in the blanks, connect the dots, and figure out
what’s going on.” “There is a possibility we could see another pandemic in our lifetime. No one
can run the odds about what kinds of numbers that looks like, you know, how likely that is...”
“The groups close ranks, they circle the wagons...” “Out-of-step, against-the-grain, different-
drummer types...” “It’s a race against time, it’s a race against the clock to get these animals
(stranded pilot whales) refloated.”

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Lessons and exercises
1. A lesson and exercise might focus on words related to health & medicine used
figuratively with the meaning of condition and status. Write the following on the board:
the peace process is dead and buried; the economic recovery has been robust; businesses
are ailing; the soccer team is on life support; small businesses are hurting; earnings have
been anemic; the economy remains badly wounded; the pace of economic growth is
moribund; reform is dead; the economy is healthy. Ask students to identify (or underline)
the words relating to health & medicine and also identify or underline the non-human
subjects. Discuss. Ask the students to organize the vocabulary on a cline from robust to
dead and buried.

2. Create a simple matching exercise to illustrate a simple pattern of figurative usage that
links problems (flaws & lack of flaws, etc.) to amelioration & renewal: If there is a
wrinkle in the plan, then we must iron it out. If an idea is stale, we need a fresh one. If
there is a security hole, we must patch it or fill it in. If our project encounters some bumps
in the road, we must try to smooth them out. If an argument is shaky, we had better
support or buttress it (or it might completely collapse and lie in ruins). If our skills have
grown dull, we need to sharpen or hone them. If a situation is explosive, we must defuse
it. If our wheels are spinning, we must find a way to gain traction and get unstuck. If the
wheels are turning very slowly, we will want to find a way to grease them. If we are
feeling a great burden, then we must find a way to get out from under it. If our society
suffers from a particular sickness, we must find a cure or remedy for it, etc.

3. Words and phrases for increase & decrease / number include: rise; explode; shoot up;
soar; grow; skyrocket; jump; go / shoot through the roof; peak, and sky-high. Words for
decrease include: plummet; dip; slide; drop; plunge; fall; tumble; and sink. We
commonly use these words and phrases when we talk about numbers, prices, and rates.
These words make a good simple category exercise. Write the words and phrases in
alphabetical order on the board and ask students to categorize them as “increase” or
“decrease.” If your classroom has a smartboard with “Vortex” software, create two
vortices labeled “increase” and “decrease” and call on a student to slide each word into
the correct vortex. My students in Saudi Arabia liked Vortex exercises, because if the
student standing in front of the classroom at the board slid a word to the wrong vortex, it
was spit out to his consternation and the delight of the other students. Ask students about
important rates and prices: the crime rate; the price of bread and medicine; the age of first
marriage, etc. Are they low, high or sky high / through the roof? How have they changed
over time? How do they compare with other countries or geographical areas?

4. We tend to think of comparison of adjectives and adverbs as grammar lessons. But much
vocabulary has within it the idea of comparison. So, visit the thesaurus and peruse the
entry for increase & decrease. Select words that your students already know and thus
can be recycled. In addition, you can select vocabulary you think your students might
already know, or might be interested in knowing. Using the vocabulary you have chosen,
practice comparing adjectives in the following way: (Teacher) “I stepped on the gas pedal
and the car accelerated. What does accelerate mean?” (Student) “To go faster.” (Teacher)
“The moon is waxing.” (Student) “It’s getting bigger.” (Teacher) “The moon is waning.”

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 (Student) “It’s getting smaller.” (Teacher) “The price of bread is dropping.” (Student)
“It’s cheaper.” (Student) “It’s not as expensive.” (Student) “It’s less expensive (than it
was). Teacher: “What happens when you add fuel to a fire?” (Student) “It gets bigger.
(Student) “It gets hotter.” (Teacher) “Don’t eat too much or your stomach will balloon!”
(Student) “Get bigger!” (Teacher) “We need more tanks in the battle, because tanks are a
force multiplier. What does a force multiplier do?” (Student) “It makes us stronger.”
(Student) “It makes us more powerful.”

5. We tend to think of the superlative as a series of grammar lessons and test questions
based on form, but there is plenty of language (including proverbs) that embodies the
notion of (comparative) worth and the superlative, and it can be gleaned in the thesaurus
in the category worth & lack of worth and superlative. Every monkey is a _____ to its
mother. One man’s trash is another man’s _____. Speech is silver but silence is _____.
The jackal is a _____ in his own country. Who was or is the Pele of Saudi Arabia? Name
a superlative fruit. Which bird sings the most beautifully? What does it mean when I say
(pick any sports figure) was or is the GOAT? [Saudi students who know the literal
meaning of a goat but who don’t know what the acronym means are always delighted by
this, and will use it to make double and even triple entendres to chaff their friends!]
Which car is the thoroughbred of cars? Do you think that the lion is the king of beasts?
Questions like these enliven routine grammar exercises.

6. To focus on all the ways to talk about the future, including the idea that the future is a
container, ask students to select a piece of paper from a container. The container would
be analogous to a fortune cookie, and the piece of paper would have a fortune written on
it. Each student would get a little message about what lies in his future, what is ahead for
him, what is on his horizon, what is down the road, the fate that is approaching him, etc.
This exercise can lend itself to humor. Of course, such an exercise might not be
appropriate in some contexts and cultures. I personally wouldn’t do this exercise in Saudi
Arabia, no matter how comfortable I felt with my students.

7. The following is a simple fill-in-the-blank exercise that focuses on some of the figurative
language associated with fire: extinguish (verb); conflagration (noun); die out (verb);
spark (noun); die down (verb); ashes (noun). “The region is a tinderbox, and it will only
take a _____ to set the whole area on fire. The result will be a _____ that will burn out of
control and that no force, not even United Nations Peacekeepers, will be able to _____.
The fire will eventually _____, but I doubt it will ever completely _____. We can only
hope something positive will eventually arise from the _____.”

8. The following matching exercise focuses on the expressions that can be found in the
thesaurus at gesture: “Was the movie boring?” “Yes, it was a big yawn.” / “Did the
announcement surprise people?” “Yeah, it raised eyebrows.“ / “Did he speak freely about
what happened?” “No, he was tightlipped.” / “Is he willing to do it? “No, he needs a
nudge.” / “Did you captain approve your request?” “No, he gave it the thumbs-down.” /
“Well, it’s time to get to work.” “Yes, it’s time to roll up our sleeves.”

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To the ESL / EFL teacher
1. Because figurative language is such an integral part of common, everyday language, we EFL
/ ESL teachers should teach the terms literal and figurative at the beginning level and say
them at least as often as we say noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and collocation in our
classrooms. I don’t use the terms metaphor or idiom, because the former is so closely
attached to literary studies and cognitive linguistics, and the latter is associated with
dictionaries of idioms that include relatively useless and rarely used expressions like “It’s
raining cats and dogs.” A basic question that all teachers can ask about any vocabulary item
they teach is, “Can this be used figuratively?” It many cases, it can and (often) is, and this
dictionary and thesaurus will help those teachers with that question. Just look up the word.

2. To explain figurative usage to our students, we can use the same language that we teach them
in our lessons and that is used to define second and third senses, etc., for words in a
conventional dictionary if we only consult it: “like,” “as,” “similar to,” “equal to,”
“equivalent to,” “comparison,” “resemble,” “suggest,” “has the shape of,” “has the role of,”
“acts as,” etc.

3. “Extra” senses can provide real communicative utility. For example, a simple word like path
can allow us and our students to talk about conduct, easiness and difficulty, and the future,
not simply a walk from point A to point B. Figurative language can be oblique and subtle,
and in my own experience it has allowed me to mention or discuss things with students that
might otherwise have caused controversy and problems.

4. Students (an all of us) will encounter the figurative sense of a word far more often than the
literal sense. Consider the word dinosaur. Literal dinosaurs disappeared from the earth long
before humans: paleontologists study them. And yet, people nowadays will often encounter
the figurative usage of dinosaur that relates to primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence
and to past & present. Magnet is another example, and pitfall. I’m sure you can come up
with your own examples.

5. Just about every part of speech can be used figuratively: nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,
and prepositions, even interjections. Seals are a magnet for sharks. He killed the proposal.
She greeted me warmly. It was a sharp / stinging rebuke. I am with you. Her performance
wowed me.

6. As English teachers, we all know the importance of collocation in vocabulary teaching, even
if we are teaching old-fashioned materials that ignore it. Often there is a collocating
preposition: Makkah is a magnet for Muslims. Or the phrase is pre-modified by a classifying
adjective: a political firestorm; financial doping in soccer; an astronomical rate, a stellar
record, etc. Most curriculums, including the ALC/DLI, do a poor job of teaching classifying
modifiers. Collocation can reveal sets of subjects and objects, and it is an especially good
way to recycle previously learned vocabulary.

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7. Prepositions. In our dictionaries, a preposition’s first sense is always spatial, and that is how
we always teach it. When we teach in front of, we always teach it spatially: “The car is in
front of the bus.” But that same preposition can refer to the future: “She has her whole life in
front of her.” And it can also relate to proximity: “The answer is in front of you.” Three
prepositions relate to allegiance, support & betrayal: “I am for the measure. We stand
behind the new law. I am with you in your attempts to change things.” When it comes to
hierarchy, a person can be above or below another person. To see a list of prepositions and
their non-spatial meanings, look in the thesaurus under prep, adv, adj, particle.

8. We tend to think of the past, present and future as grammar. But the future can also relate to
words like fossil, dinosaur, horizon, crystal ball, time capsule, etc. Or to persons like a
fortuneteller, oracle or prophet. Time is very interesting. For example, time can seem like a
place: “We have been here before” (in the past) and “Where do we go from here?” (in the
future). Time can entail distance: “Spring is just around the corner,” and “The Paris
Olympics are still a long way off.” In one conception of time, “the future is forward and the
past is behind.” See future and past & present and time in the thesaurus for possibilities.

9. Don’t be afraid to think about and teach grammatical metaphor and fictive verbs.
Grammatical metaphor simply provides alternatives to the structures we already teach. You
can say, “There is a lamp in the corner.” But you can also say, “A lamp stands in the corner.”
You can say, “We walked to town along the road” but you can also say, “The road took us to
town.” You can say, “I got home in early May,” but you can also say, “Early May saw me
back home.” You can say, “I had a lot of problems,” but you can also say, “I encountered /
met with a lot of problems.” “There has been...” can be restated as, “We have seen...” Offer
both choices. We tend to teach the former and ignore the latter.

10. When you teach a “bland” verb, try to think of a synonym that is figurative: Can you help
me, can you lend a hand? What did you find, what did you dig up? He betrayed me, he
stabbed me in the back. Be patient, hold your horses. I support you, I am with you, I stand
with you, I stand behind you, I will back you up, I’ve got your back! I understand, I see, I get
it. Don’t be afraid, you must resist him, stand up to him, take him on. Students will
commonly acquire and productively use the figurative equivalent.

11. Never miss a chance to add value to a word. Is it also a shape? What are its parts? Is it a part
of a proper noun? A geographical feature? The name of a company or product? Is there a
euphemism for it? Does the word have an interesting origin and history? Can you use the
word as a springboard for a bit of content?

12. As English teachers, we know all about teaching parts-wholes. Those parts are often
figurative. A chair has legs and a back, a mouth has a roof, a book has a spine. A bed has a
head and a foot. A mountain has foothills. Whole-parts like these are the basis of simple
riddles we learn as children: What has legs but can’t run, a back that can’t bend? And you

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 can use the first person pronoun to make such a riddle sound even more opaque and strange:
“I have legs but can’t run, I have a back but it can’t bend... What am I?” Of course, your
students will “turn the tables on you” and insist on stumping you with the riddles from their
culture.

13. Try to think of and include a variety of subjects and objects for the grammar patterns you
teach. Ali / the bookcase is standing in the corner. Sugar / Sara is sweet. Open the door / your
book / your mind. A car / Winter is approaching. I’m allergic to penicillin / people who think
they know it all. A millimeter / life is short. You can arrive at a place. You can arrive at an
answer or solution.

14. Clines are always useful for organizing vocabulary in sets. In “Lessons and exercises” above,
the first lesson involves organizing words relating to health & medicine on a cline. A similar
lesson could be given based on words relating to temperature that relate to emotion. Our
curriculums are good at teaching hot, warm, and cold. Less good at teaching tepid, or
lukewarm, or combinations like boiling-hot and freezing-cold.

15. Sets and series are always useful for organizing vocabulary. Spring is a season, and we
always teach “spring, summer, fall and winter” as a set, but we can also relate that same set
to death & life, or to growth & development. In Saudi Arabia, when I introduced this word
to my students, following the ALC/DLI curriculum, I used to give my adult military students
the following riddle: “A happy dancing young girl in a green dress. A strong young man with
yellow hair. A crying lady in a brown dress. A shouting angry old man with white hair...
What are they?” Answer: the four seasons! Arab students appreciate such personification and
especially appreciate symmetry. The fact that their climate has essentially two seasons does
not make them any less interested in the seasons in my country; the goal of many of them is
to graduate from the program and then be sent to the U.S. for follow-on training (FOT).
Language related to a plant and the life cycle of a fire relate to the same concepts. Sweet,
salty, bitter and sour can relate not only to taste but also to character & personality. Again,
my military students enjoyed and appreciated the metaphoric extension.

16. An easy lesson is to simply think of something you or your students might be interested in.
For example, students studying academic English should be very interested in words and
expressions related to analysis, interpretation & explanation. An engineer might be
interested in the language associated with infrastructure. Some teachers are interested in the
expression of feeling, emotion & effect, and they will find a comprehensive listing of such
language in the thesaurus. My adult military students in Saudi Arabia—the home of the
Arabian horse—always enjoyed idioms associated with the horse, and I was also pleased to
discover many of them shared my enthusiasm for boxing. Of course, they had their favorites!
Nothing is so basic to all people as the hand, so try doing a lesson just devoted to that.
Idioms range from help & assistance to oppression. And it is easy to pantomime
expressions like hand out and give / lend a hand and have the upper / whip hand. Such a
lesson would make a nice lesson in a place like Kosovo, where your classroom might be a

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 café, your textbook is you, and where your students—poor as they are—will insist on paying
for your coffee. You want to give a good lesson to students like that!

17. Expressions related to gesture and bodily reaction are easy to pantomime. I went to the
director to get his approval and he gave me the thumbs up. / I didn’t realize that, thank you
for opening my eyes. / That film bored me, it was a big yawn. Pairs like these make easy
matching exercises.

18. As mentioned above, a name for a person (pioneer, acolyte, steward, leper, butcher, warrior
clown, etc.) is often used figuratively. You can find a list at person in this work. All teachers
are aware of the sequence of grammar, and in Saudi Arabia, in military environments, a
semi-insult like bully is a good way to exemplify it. “You are a bully!” Or, “You are a big
bully!” Or, “You are such a bully! Use the negative imperative + noun pattern and you get,
“Don’t be a bully!” Use stop + being + noun and you have “Stop being a bully!” Or
substitute donkey. Donkey is not a vocabulary item in the ALC/DLI, but everyone I taught in
Saudi Arabia know it in English, and its connotation.

19. Use analogies; like metaphors, they compare and make connections. I usually introduce them
in the following form: Stand up is to resist as _____ is to surrender. The center is to a circle
as _____ is to a hurricane. Spring is to a young man as _____is to an old man. A period of
time is to the life of a man as _____is to a book. Articles can be especially problematical and
this is a chance to use them. When students give answers to analogies like these, even when
they gave me the anticipated answer, I always ask them to explain their answers using
complete sentences. Analogies like these can be used at the most basic level and students find
them novel and interesting. A ship is to the sea as _____ is to the desert is one I often gave in
Saudi Arabia. Don’t forget to ask why.

20. Teachers can incorporate figurative language into routine classroom language. If your
students get too noisy, you can say, “Hey, turn down the volume!” or “Lower the
temperature!” or “Cool down” or “Keep cool!” or “Let’s dial it back!” or “Don’t be such a
hothead!” If a student becomes too impatient, you can say, “Hold your horses!” Instead of
asking if a student understands or not, you might ask, “Are you in the dark?” You can used
lexicalized gestures to praise: “I salute you,” “I applaud you,” “I take my cap off to you.”
When a student’s feelings get hurt, you can say, “A military man needs thick skin!” Students
tend to hear, note, and acquire such figurative language, especially if it is repeated day in and
day out. More importantly, though, it gives the figurative nature of language its due.

21. Feel free to say a little bit about the literal meaning for those words we use figuratively. If
you ever teach or explain the figurative use of castaway, for example, you might spend a few
minutes telling your students about those actual poor wretches on Tromelin Island in the
Indian Ocean. At the entry for scuttle I mention two instances where entire fleets of ships
were scuttled. Below the entry for amok is a quote from The Malay Archipelago by Alfred
Russel Wallace about that practice. Below the entry for earthquake (effect) is a rather long

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 entry from the same author, which will make those of us who have never experienced an
earthquake think about how incredibly destabilizing it can be. In the entry for whirlwind is an
eyewitness account of a black buran experienced in Lop Nur, Xinjiang, by Sven Hedin. At
blizzard, I have included a short quote from V.K. Arseniev and Dersu about an actual
blizzard, or purga. Below the entry for pioneer (person) in the dictionary, I note Rudyard
Kipling’s stirring poem “The Explorer.” There are always a few students who will find that
poem on the internet and read it, based on your recommendation.

22. Take a page from the quote from Emerson above and use the frames he uses to get your
students thinking about metaphor. “Right means...; wrong means...; the crossing of a line
means...; we say heart to express... ; a cunning man is...; attention is...; an effect is... Words
and phrases for that last are entered in the category effect. They remind us than an effect is
often thought of as a wave in a medium: ripples as in water, with the related word splash;
waves in the air like a shock wave; and sound waves like reverberation and repercussion.
That is the reason for expressions like: “His surprise resignation caused ripples / shock waves
/ reverberations around the world.”

23. Get students to notice language use in longer passages of speech or text. Vocabulary choices
are often predictable. For example, a crime story or crime podcast is bound to have words
used figuratively based on hunting and searching & discovery. Articles about famous
people will usually have figurative language relating to importance & significance. It’s fun
to read an article and identify sets like these.

24. Here’s a good idea to make the figurative and the literal real to your students within the four
walls of your classroom. First, consult the category of books & reading in the thesaurus of
this work. Write “literal” on one side of the board, “figurative” on the other, hold up a book,
and go to work. You might start with spine. You can something like, “Look, do you see this
part of the book here? Well, it’s called the spine. And I have a spine! This is my spine! And I
can break this book’s spine, and I can break my own spine if I’m in a bad auto accident!”
There will be many literal and figurative pairs for you to talk about with your students. The
dictionary of collocations will give you attested examples of use and help you with the
collocations. If you have a flair for the dramatic and a perfect sense of timing, as you no
doubt do, because you are a teacher and you have read this far in the work, you will save
“close the book” with its meaning of reconciliation, resolution & conclusion for the bell,
the smiles, and the break.

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An alphabetized list of the categories in the thesaurus
Consider the category color (2). What can colors relate / refer to? What can colors
represent? When you visit that category in the thesaurus, you will see several subcategories that
might give you some ideas for when you teach your lesson on colors. One subcategory is “proper
name.” On the world map in my classroom in Saudi Arabia, I always enjoyed pointing out the
“color” seas to my military students: the Red Sea; the Black Sea; the White Sea; the Yellow Sea.
In the subcategory “character & personality” you will see the phrase, black sheep. I never failed
to mention my “black-sheep” brother John to my students. In the subcategory “experience” is the
word greenhorn. I always mentioned this, because I knew some students would pick the term up
and chaff / guy one another with it. In the subcategory “feeling, emotion & effect” is blue,
meaning sad. The question, “Are you blue?” never failed to make my students smile. Not
because Arabs are literal minded—they talk about teachers having black and white hearts—but
because the ALC/DLI is so relentlessly literal. And I can do all this in an introductory class,
using the simplest grammar.
Now consider the category feeling, emotion & effect (1). How do we think of feelings,
emotions and effects? How do we talk about those things? There are many subcategories in this
category, and three of those subcategories are larger than the others: “direction,” “sensation,” and
“temperature.” This corresponds exactly to the metaphors cognitive linguists have identified:
HAPPY IS UP. SAD IS DOWN. AFFECTION IS WARMTH. EMOTIONAL EFFECT IS PHYSICAL CONTACT. If
you combine bodily reaction and gesture, you get a fourth large sub-category. The ALC/DLI
includes “to hurt one’s feelings,” which is figurative, based on sensation. I have used many
expressions from this category in my classes, including ones like, “Are you down?” “Cheer up!”
“I will lift your spirits,” “Cool off,” “Don’t be such a hothead,” “Don’t be so thin-skinned,” “A
military man must have thick skin,” “You cut me!” etc.
name # name #
addiction 2 basketball 2
affix 2 bell 2
air 2 Bible 2
alcohol 2 biology 2
allusion 2 bird 2
amount 2 birth 2
animal 2 blade 2
antiques 2 blanket 2
apple 2 blood 2
arm 2 boat 2
astronomy 2 bodily reaction 2
atmosphere 2 body 2
ax 2 books & reading 2
baby 2 bottle 2
back 2 boundary 2
ball 2 boxing 2
balloon 2 breadth 2
baseball 2 breathing 2

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name # name #
bridge 2 equilibrium & stability 2
bubble 2 erosion 2
bullet 2 exclamation 2
burden 2 explosion 2
burial 2 eye 2
canal 2 face 2
cards 2 family 2
carpets & rugs 2 fan 2
cat 2 farming & agriculture 2
center & periphery 2 fatness & thinness 2
chain 2 fence 2
chemistry 2 film 2
chess 2 finger 2
circus 2 fire 2
clock 2 fish 2
cloth 2 fist 2
clothing & accessories 2 flags & banners 2
cloud 2 flood 2
color 2 flying & falling 2
consumption 2 fog 2
container 2 food & drink 2
control & lack of control 2 foot 2
cooking 2 football 2
corner 2 force 2
cows & cattle 2 forest 2
crashes & collisions 2 fortification 2
creature 2 fountain 2
crime 2 fox 2
dam 2 frog 2
day 2 fruits & vegetables 2
death & life 2 functioning 2
depth 2 gambling 2
desert 2 gate 2
destruction 2 geometry 2
direction 2 gesture 2
distance 2 gift 2
document 2 giving, receiving, bringing & returning 2
dog 2 glacier 2
doors & thresholds 2 government 2
ear 2 ground, terrain & land 2
earth & world 2 hair 2
earthquake 2 hammer 2
electricity 2 hand 2
engine 2 hardness & softness 2
epithet 2 hat 2

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name # name #
head 2 mining 2
health & medicine 2 mirror 2
heart 2 mixture 2
heating water 2 money 2
heel 2 moon 2
height 2 mountains & hills 2
history 2 mouth 2
hole 2 movement 2
horizon 2 music 2
horn 2 nail 2
horse 2 neck 2
hour 2 nose 2
house 2 nuclear energy 2
hunting 2 number 2
hygiene 2 object 2
Iliad & Odyssey 2 orientation 2
infrastructure 2 part of speech 2
insect 2 party 2
island 2 path 2
journeys & trips 2 pendulum 2
jungle 2 physics 2
justice 2 picture 2
key 2 pile 2
knee 2 place 2
knife 2 plane 2
ladder 2 plant 2
lap 2 platform 2
leg 2 position 2
letters & characters 2 potato 2
light & dark 2 predation 2
lightning 2 prep, adv, adj, particle 2
line 2 pressure 2
lion 2 proximity 2
love, courtship & marriage 2 pump 2
magic 2 puppet 2
manufacturing 2 purses & wallets 2
map 2 puzzle 2
mark 2 radio 2
materials & substances 2 rain 2
meat 2 rat 2
mechanism 2 religion 2
memorization 2 riding 2
mental health 2 river 2
middle ages 2 rocket 2
military 2 roof 2

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name # name #
rope 2 temperature 2
route 2 tent 2
royalty 2 theater 2
rubbing & washing 2 throat 2
ruins 2 throwing, putting & planting 2
scale 2 thumb 2
school & education 2 ticket 2
sea 2 tide 2
season 2 tiger 2
sensation 2 toe 2
sex 2 tongue 2
shadow 2 tools & technology 2
shape 2 train 2
shark 2 tree 2
sheep 2 tsunami 2
shoulder 2 umbrella 2
sign, signal, symbol 2 verb 2
size 2 violence 2
skeleton 2 volcano 2
skin, muscle, nerves & bone 2 walking, running & jumping 2
sky 2 wall 2
sleep 2 warehouse 2
smell 2 waste 2
snake 2 water 2
snow & ice 2 wave 2
society 2 weapon 2
sound 2 weather & climate 2
space 2 wedge 2
speech 2 weight 2
speed 2 wheat 2
spider 2 whip 2
sports & games 2 wind 2
stair 2 window 2
standing, sitting & lying 2 wolf 2
statue 2 wounds & scars 2
stomach 2 wrestling 2
storm 2 writing & spelling 2
sun 2 zoo 2
surveying 2 ability & lack of ability 1
swamp 2 absorption & immersion 1
sword 2 acceptance & rejection 1
table 2 access & lack of access 1
target 2 accusation & criticism 1
taste 2 achievement, recognition & praise 1
teeth 2 action, inaction & delay 1

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name # name #
activity 1 confronting, dealing with & ignoring 1
admiration & contempt 1 things
affliction 1 consciousness & awareness 1
allegiance, support & betrayal 1 constraint & lack of constraint 1
allusion 1 consumption 1
alternatives & choices 1 content 1
amelioration & renewal 1 context 1
amount 1 control & lack of control 1
amount & effect 1 corruption 1
analysis, interpretation & explanation 1 cost & benefit 1
appeal 1 courage & lack of courage 1
appearance 1 course 1
appearance & disappearance 1 cover 1
appearance & reality 1 creating & transformation 1
area 1 curtailment 1
assembling 1 danger 1
attachment 1 death & life 1
attainment 1 decline 1
attempt 1 dependency 1
attention, scrutiny & promotion 1 destruction 1
attenuation 1 development 1
attraction & repulsion 1 development, easiness & effort 1
avoidance & separation 1 directing 1
bases 1 direction 1
behavior 1 dismissal, removal & resignation 1
biodiversity 1 disruption 1
branching system 1 division 1
campaign 1 division & connection 1
center & periphery 1 dominance & submission 1
certainty & uncertainty 1 driving force 1
character & personality 1 eagerness & reluctance 1
characterization 1 effect 1
coercion & motivation 1 empathy & lack of empathy 1
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & 1 enthusiasm 1
returning environment 1
commitment & determination 1 epithet 1
comparison & contrast 1 equilibrium & stability 1
competition 1 euphemism 1
complexity 1 evidence 1
comprehension & incomprehension 1 experience 1
computer 1 experimentation 1
concealment & lack of concealment 1 extent & scope 1
condition & status 1 failure, accident & impairment 1
configuration 1 fantasy & reality 1
conflict 1 farming & agriculture 1

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name # name #
fate, fortune & chance 1 mind 1
feeling, emotion & effect 1 mixture 1
fictive communication 1 money 1
fictive meeting & seeing 1 movement 1
fictive motion 1 obligation 1
fictive position 1 obstacles & impedance 1
fictive possession 1 occurrence 1
fictive transportation 1 operation 1
flaws & lack of flaws 1 opportunities & possibilities 1
force 1 oppression 1
functioning 1 orientation 1
future 1 origin 1
geography 1 past & present 1
giving, receiving, bringing & returning 1 perception, perspective & point of view 1
gossip 1 performance 1
group, set & collection 1 person 1
growth & development 1 place 1
guilt 1 portal 1
haste 1 position, policy & negotiation 1
heart 1 possession 1
help & assistance 1 power 1
hierarchy 1 predation 1
history 1 presence & absence 1
hyperbole 1 pressure 1
idea 1 primacy, currency, decline & 1
identity & nature 1 obsolescence
importance & significance 1 priority 1
impression 1 product 1
inauguration 1 progress & lack of progress 1
inclusion & exclusion 1 proper name 1
increase & decrease 1 protection & lack of protection 1
initiation 1 proximity 1
insult 1 punishment & recrimination 1
interest 1 pursuit, capture & escape 1
involvement 1 readiness & preparedness 1
isolation & remoteness 1 reconciliation, resolution & conclusion 1
judgment 1 reference 1
knowledge & intelligence 1 relationship 1
language 1 repetition 1
leaking 1 representation 1
location 1 reputation 1
measurement 1 resemblance 1
message 1 resiliency 1
migration 1 resistance, opposition & defeat 1
military 1 responsibility 1

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name # name #
restraint & lack of restraint 1 subterfuge 1
revenge 1 success & failure 1
reverence 1 sufficiency, insufficiency & excess 1
reversal 1 superiority & inferiority 1
role 1 superlative 1
route 1 supplying 1
sacrifice 1 surveillance 1
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity 1 survival, persistence & endurance 1
script 1 suspicion 1
searching & discovery 1 taking & removing 1
sequence 1 target 1
sex 1 taxonomy & classification 1
shape 1 throwing, putting & planting 1
sight 1 time 1
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty 1 timeliness & lack of timeliness 1
situation 1 transmission 1
size 1 transportation 1
social interaction 1 unanimity & consensus 1
society 1 violence 1
sound 1 vocative 1
source 1 wants, needs, hopes and goals 1
speech 1 warning 1
speed 1 welcome 1
starting, going, continuing & ending 1 welcome 1
strategy 1 wheat 1
strength & weakness 1 work & duty 1
substance & lack of substance 1 worth & lack of worth 1

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 ecological about-face
earth has done an ~ (NASA statement)
ideological about-face
The dictionary of the literature of ~ includes…

collocations about-face came

his ~ after…
did an about-face
A the military ~
done an about face
ablaze (adjective) he has ~ with regard to Israel (a leader)
♦ “Fall in!” "Attention!" "Left face!" “Right face!” "About face!" "Forward,
ablaze with passion march!" “Road guard... post! "Column... halt!" “At ease!” “Fall out!”
his speech began in a quiet smolder and ended ~ (Military commands.)

ablaze with speculation reversal: direction / military

the Internet was ~ about why... about-turn (noun)
set social media ablaze
his murder has ~ (of a young rapper)
about-turn on the subject
the government's seeming ~ of Islamic law
set Twitter ablaze
his late-night tweet ~
diplomatic about-turn
this latest ~ on Syria
♦ “A Texas woman ended up burning down her home in a heated battle
with a snake. When the Texarkana resident spotted the serpent in her sudden about-turn
garden, she doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze. The flaming snake
slithered into a nearby brush pile, igniting it and the house in a athletes are shocked and outraged at Wada’s ~
conflagration...”
reversal: direction
activity / initiation / feeling, emotion & effect: fire
above (above the fray, etc.)
about-face (in an about-face)
above the fray
in an about face he is trying to stay ~ (a politician)
~, the President abandoned his plan to…
behavior: direction / height / prep, adv, adj, particle
in an about face from a year ago
~, Congress voted to expand…
above (above the law, etc.)
in an embarrassing about face above the law
~, officials acknowledged that… not even the president is ~
nobody is ~ (judge arrested)
reversal: direction / military
superiority & inferiority: direction / position / prep, adv, adj,
about-face (other) particle
about face for Pakistan above (hierarchy)
his policies, if successful, will mean a real ~
above him in the pecking order
about-face for the government the fit-again Erik Lamela is ~ (Tottenham Hotspur)
the request is an ~ (Afghanistan)
hierarchy: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
about-face from a year ago
the space agency's new policy is an ~ aboveboard (adjective)
about-face on the bill aboveboard
he deserves credit for his ~ everything I did was ~
♦ This might come from the world of cards, and its opposite might be
about face with regard to Israel underhanded.
he has done an ~
subterfuge: cards / direction
abrupt about-face
the admission was an ~
abrasive (adjective)
belated about-face abrasive and annoying
the ~ won't fool the people (by a government) he is ~

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brilliant and abrasive abuzz with warnings
a ~ engineer named… a nervous Muslim world is ~ of a threat from the West
character & personality: sensation had people abuzz
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation the news ~ this morning (politics)
absorb (a country, etc.) kept this peninsula abuzz
gold mining and logging once ~ with activity
absorbed Kyrgyzstan
Imperial Russia ~ and its nomadic tribes activity: animal / insect / sound

ability to absorb abyss (noun)

their language's ~ new words (German)
financial abyss
absorption & immersion: verb / water there seems to be no way out of this ~
absorb (books, culture, etc.) on the brink of a (sectarian) abyss
the country is walking ~ (protests)
absorbed books
he ~ by the dozen (self-learning at library) on the edge of electoral abyss
his campaign teetered ~, but he is scrambling his way back
absorb the culture
a lot of the girls didn't really ~ (US models in Japan) fall into an abyss
women ~, and they can't get out (eating disorders)
absorbed a gothic sensibility
he ~ which would imprint itself on his work plunged into a (political) abyss
the country ~ after…
absorbed (Islamic) principles and traditions
the young prince ~ plunges (further) into the abyss
as Greece's blighted economy ~
absorption & immersion: verb / water
pulled the (financial) system back from the abyss
absorb (punishment, etc.) the government ~
absorbed the (full ) force sliding into the abyss
he ~ of the explosion with his body (hero soldier) the country is ~ (economy)
absorbed (a lot of) punishment teetering towards the abyss
he ~ in the last round (a boxer) the city is ~ of bankruptcy
absorption & immersion: verb / water
worked his way out of the abyss
absorbed he ~ of crime and hopelessness
♦ In an article in The New York Times, "Computers That Trade on the
absorbed into Saudi Arabia News," Graham Bowley reports that the word abyss in an article about
Qatar might well have been ~ (history) the Greek financial crisis caused computers to initiate sell orders. Wall
Street mines such words from news articles and Twitter feeds to analyze
the market.
absorbed by the society
they were ~ they invaded (Mongols) destruction: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills
forcibly absorbed accelerant (noun)
the three Baltic republics were ~ into the Soviet Union
accelerant
absorption & immersion: water Twitter is the ~ for so many to spew outrage
abundance (amount) accelerant of (global) conflict
climate upheaval is acting as an ~
abundance of caution
out of an ~, we are altering the production plan (virus) accelerants of human misery
♦ This word comes from the Latin unda, or wave. The root is more jails are ~
obvious in a word like inundate. Still, it’s a nice way to think of the
meaning. described the internet as an accelerant
amount / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: sea / water / officials ~ that speeds up radicalization
wave increase & decrease: fire
abuzz (activity) accelerate (verb)
abuzz with activity accelerating their efforts
the base is ~ (as US leaves Afghanistan) states are ~ to ban texting while driving

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accelerate learning the knees are the ~
pupils use pedal power to ~
proved to be his Achilles’ heel
inflation is accelerating while he excelled in wooing donors, finances ~
~, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says
strength & weakness: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
outbreak is accelerating protection & lack of protection: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
the measles ~ acid (acid debate, etc.)
increase & decrease / speed / starting, going, continuing &
ending: movement / verb
acid asides
she is famous for her ~ (a comic)
accession (noun) acid blogger
accession number people are disgusted with radio ranters and ~s (civility)
the ~ is a unique identifier (cultural property) acid debate
accession process the controversy has sparked ~ (religion)
the ~ is dead (Turkey and the EU) feeling, emotion & effect / speech: chemistry / materials &
♦ “The EU pretends to negotiate, Turkey pretends to reform.” (Turkish substances
accession to the EU.)

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /

acid-tongued
royalty acid-tongued
ace (noun) the ~ comedian (Groucho Marx)
feeling, emotion & effect / speech: chemistry / materials &
ace substances / tongue
it was time for me to bring out my ~
acolyte (noun)
ace in the hole
my ~ is that I can… acolyte of big business
the fear card is his ~ (national security) he is an ~ and corporate greed
our nuclear arsenal is our ~
acolytes of (US) capitalism
strategy / strength & weakness: cards / gambling he is like most ~
accompany (attachment) Obama acolyte
he is an ~ who… (politics)
accompany the tourist invasion
the economic benefits that will ~ tones of an acolyte
attachment / relationship: journeys & trips / movement / he described her in ~
verb swarmed by (young) acolytes
he was ~ (a film director)
Achilles' heel (noun)
enthusiasm: person / religion
Achilles' heel person: religion
security was our ~ (US AID project in Afghanistan)
acrobat (person)
Achilles' heel of 3-D TV
clunky glasses were the ~ (remedied) linguistic acrobats
slang is fine for ~ (who can code-switch)
Achilles' heel of the system
the ~ lies… person: circus / sports & games
ability & lack of ability / difficulty, easiness & effort: circus /
Achilles' heel of the West person
the Arabian Gulf is the ~ (oil and Iran)
acrobatic (adjective)
Achilles heel for Chelsea
this is the ~—marking in the box (soccer) verbally acrobatic
Clinton was more intelligent, calculating, and ~ (vs. Bush)
angioplasty's Achilles' heel
the problem is ~ (regrowth of tissue) comparison & contrast: affix
ability & lack of ability / difficulty, easiness & effort: circus /
company's Achilles' heel movement / sports & games
the ~ is that…
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acrobatics (noun) the CIA director said the company had ~ (security)
the city has clamped down on violence and ~
acronymic acrobatics in the 1990s, Manhattan ~
the artificiality and awkwardness of the ~ (LGBTTIQQ2SA)
cleaned up her act
verbal acrobatics she checked herself into rehab, then ~
there are no ~ to charm (a book review) we thought she had ~, but… (athlete)

vocal acrobatics clean up your act

a sturdy rhythm section and Olivia W-B’s ~ (music) you need to ~
ability & lack of ability / difficulty, easiness & effort: circus / amelioration & renewal / behavior: hygiene / verb
movement / sports & games act (development)
act (insincere show) final act
hard-ass act the hostage drama saw its ~ played out (plane)
beneath their ~ they were just teens (young Marines) the family is trying to interpret his ~ (suicide)

maturity act first act

kids put on this ~ (high school) on the world soccer stage, it was a stunning ~ (loss)
the ~ has closed with a tremendous finale (Civil War)
own act the ~ of the tragedy has been enacted (war)
they came to believe too much in their ~ (Hitler, etc.) you've just seen the ~, the finale is yet to come (trial)
hard-to-get act last act
ditch the ~ (relationships) and then began the long ~ of his life (a writer)
ditch the (hard-to-get) act main act
you should ~ there was no preparation for the ~ (combat)
this is only the prologue to the ~ (banks fail)
keep up the act the sideshow became part of the ~ (war)
how long can he ~ he quickly became the ~ at the meeting (politician)
put on an act second acts
con artists know how to ~ I think there are ~ in life, people can move on but...
putting on an act development: theater
a lot of guys seem nice, but they are just ~
he's lying, he's just ~ addict (chess addict, etc.)
everyone in high school is to some extent ~
chess addicts
performance / role: theater the Internet is great for ~
act (performance) movie addict
an adolescent ~
circus act
he's a ~ and he's killing boxing crossword puzzle addict
he is a ~
vagabond act
they morphed their ~ into today's World Tour (surfers) bone fishing addict
hard-core yachtsmen and ~s
balancing act
setting limits, encouraging independence is a real ~ total (TV) addict
I love TV, I'm a ~
juggling act
trying to build a team is a hard ~ (basketball) generation of (tanning) addicts
tanning beds spawned a ~
difficult act
the King's got a lot more ~ than in the last decade person: addiction
enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine / person
tough act
their father is a ~ to follow addicted (enthusiasm)
performance / role: theater addicted to his sport
he was so ~ that he rarely spent a weekend indoors
act (clean up one's act)
addicted to fly fishing
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addicted to a dating game address (verb)
she’s a gamer, ~ called One True Prince
address the problems
passionately addicted we must ~ that underlie the insurgency
he was ~ to Beethoven’s music (Berlioz)
addressed more specific rumors
enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine
she ~ as well (cold case)
addicted (dependency) address stereotypes
addicted to (this kind of) high-paced content be prepared to ~ when you hear them
people have become ~ (TikTok) addressed (such taboo) subjects
addicted to economic growth he ~ as race and sexuality (Pryor)
we are ~ addresses this
addicted to oil is there currently any legislation on tape that ~
we are ~ from the Middle East addresses the (invisible and visible) wounds
grow (increasingly more) addicted the center ~ of war
as we ~ to modern technology fictive communication: speech / verb
dependency: addiction / health & medicine confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: speech / verb

addiction (enthusiasm) add up (verb)

Ives addiction added up
my ~ started one summer at music camp... she knew in an instant that it all ~ (signs of glue sniffing)

enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine didn’t add up

her story ~
addiction (dependency) when you just use your common sense, it ~ (a juror)
it just didn’t make sense, just ~
adrenalin addiction
~ drives reporters from one hotspot to another doesn’t add up
it ~, it’s very suspicious (a suicide)
entertainment addiction wait a second, this ~, there’s a problem here
corporate greed, ~ and political impotence (the US)
just didn’t add up
sex addiction why would he do that, it ~ (a disappearance)
~ is not yet recognized as a psychiatric disorder
analysis, interpretation & explanation: number
get off our (oil) addiction
we need to ~ (dependence on foreign oil) adhere (adhere to something)
dependency: addiction / health & medicine adhere to
addictive (adjective) they have a code that they ~, blue silence (cops)
adhere to the norms
addictive countries should strictly ~ of international law
Thai food is ~
combat can be ~ attachment: materials & substances / verb
comment boards are ~, same with Twitter, FB...
adjacent (rich-adjacent, etc.)
addictive (computer) games
~ are a moral hazard to youth (China) adjacent to the ballroom scene
Billy Porters was ~
addictive thing
this is an ~ that hurts the students (laptops in class) Tess Monaghan adjacent
♦ A FUNNY CARTOON. In The New Yorker magazine (December 13,
Dream Girl is ~, Tess actually appears (Laura Lippman)
2021), there is a funny cartoon. In the foreground, there is a rabbi,
standing behind a podium, obviously addressing an audience. Behind basketball-adjacent
him, in a chair, is a boy sitting in a chair with his hands politely folded. Harlow’s opening medley of ~ bangers (on SNL)
The rabbi is intoning, “We are here to witness Jacob, who screamed at
his Xbox for four hours just this morning, become a man.” Disney-adjacent
♦ “He had been on the Internet every day since his early teens.” a theater kid and ~ actor (Olivia Rodrigo)
behavior / enthusiasm / feeling, emotion & effect: gross-adjacent
addiction / health & medicine is this behavior supposed to be gross (or at least ~), or...

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jazz-adjacent adopted (adopted state, etc.)
the song sounds ~, at a minimum, jazzy-ish (Adele)
adopted home
lockdown-adjacent Asheville was her ~
2020, for all its ~ loneliness, still had anthems like “WAP”
adopted state
MAGA-adjacent my ~ of North Carolina
no wanting people to shit on my steps doesn’t make me ~
acceptance & rejection: family
music-adjacent
showcasing various ~ pockets of the city (Philly) adopted
porn-adjacent adopted
a series of soft-core, ~ films, I guess you could say... they want their pet ideas ~ (conservatives)
punk-adjacent adopted as a corporate tool
the critically acclaimed, ~ two-tone bands of... (Ska) PowerPoint was ~
restaurant-adjacent acceptance & rejection: family
one ~ business is doing well (equipment liquidator)
adrift (adjective)
“rich-adjacent”
Connell gets into an elite university, where he becomes ~ adrift in the (new multiparty) sea
politicians, ~, now needed campaign funds
rock-adjacent
a ~ album with producer... seemed adrift
he ~ without the army for structure (a troubled soldier)
soul-adjacent
soul and ~ music spent years adrift
they had ~ in their diaspora (Somalis in Lewistown)
sports-adjacent
I wrote a ~ love story (fiction) direction / division & connection: boat
course: direction / journeys & trips
inclusion & exclusion: affix control & lack of control / progress & lack of progress: boat
/ direction
adolescence (noun)
adult (development)
during its (starry-eyed) adolescence
A.I. ~, in the sixties... (technology) adults in the room
the cypherpunk kids versus the ~
podcasting’s adolescence
in 2014, ~ adult table
Japan wanted to demonstrate it was an adult sitting at the ~
growth & development: death & life
person: baby
Adonis (handsome) experience: person
Adonis growth & development: death & life
the chubby man beat the ~ (Joshua vs. Ruiz / boxing) advance (in advance, etc.)
appearance: allusion days in advance
adopt (verb) the killing was planned ~

adopted the nickname several days in advance

he ~, “pied piper of R&B” (R. Kelly) models predicted the high pressure ~

adopted his (slash-and-burn, scorched-earth) politics what is coming in advance

Republicans have ~ we increased our radar so we know ~ (public health)
♦ “We’ve done a couple of different initiatives that we’re super proud of. time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: direction / distance /
One is called “Light Up Chinatown” and we ended up having people position / prep, adv, adj, particle
adopt a lantern, and you can go visit your lantern in Chinatown. It
basically brightens up the street for our elders, you know, walking the
streets at night, so that they feel a little bit safer.” (Joanne Kwong,
advance (a day can advance, etc.)
President, Pearl River Mart, a notable Chinese department store.)
day advanced
acceptance & rejection: family / verb as the ~, it got hotter and hotter
morning advanced
as the ~, the soldiers prepared for battle

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time: direction / movement / verb ♦ An aegis (pronounced EE-jus) was a breastplate or shield. It means
protection or sponsorship.
advance (verb) protection & lack of protection: military / weapon
advanced in jumps aegis (Aegis Insurance, etc.)
his career ~
Aegis Combat System
advanced with giant steps the ~ protects ships
nuclear science has ~
Aegis Security Insurance Company
advanced from guarded to good condition the ~ focuses on Property and Casualty insurance
the twins ~ (operation)
proper name: weapon
advance their cause through leadership protection & lack of protection: proper name
people who ~ or example
afford (verb)
advance the cause
~ of freedom in Africa (US) afford
doubt is a luxury they can't ~ (soldiers on way to Iraq)
advance medicine
the goal of the partnership is to ~, lower costs afford to fall
we can't ~ further behind
advance our (own negotiating) position
as we ~ afford to lose
the President cannot ~ Iraq
advanced rapidly
mine technology ~ after World War II afford to remain
we cannot ~ passive spectators to such acts…
career advanced
his ~ in jumps afford another Somalia
the UN cannot ~
science has advanced
nuclear ~ with giant steps afford the disruption
we can't ~ that would bring (company policies)
efforts to advance
~ pain research cost & benefit: money / verb
progress & lack of progress: direction / movement / verb aflame (resemblance)
advance (noun) aflame with fall color
the maple trees are ~
advances in medicine
the 20th century saw great ~ resemblance: fire
breathtaking advance aflame (adjective)
this is a ~ (legislative act)
aflame
great advance the region is ~ (Middle East)
anesthesia was a ~ in surgery the Arab world was ~ in March 2011
major advance aflame with (righteous) anger
US physicians made another ~ in endocrinology at some moments we are ~
medical advance aflame with outrage
animal testing has led to many ~s Republicans were ~ (politics)
progress & lack of progress: direction / movement aflame with violence
advance guard in the dying days of apartheid South Africa was ~
aflame with uprisings
advance guard of the feminists YA novels imagine a world ~
she belonged to the ~ (the sculptor Kathleen Scott)
driving force: military
still aflame
his curiosity is ~ (a filmmaker)
aegis (noun) set hearts aflame
under his aegis his verses still ~ (the Persian poet Hafez)
he insists the newspaper is not ~ set the social medial world aflame
~, sales soared (Tim Cook / Apple)

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 he ~ after writing... (religion) feeling, emotion & effect: atmosphere / sky
set aflame by (recent) comments afterglow (other)
the classical music community has been ~ from...
afterglow of those visits
activity / initiation / feeling, emotion & effect: fire the ~ has never worn off (celebrity visits restaurant)
starting, going, continuing & ending: fire
afterglow of victory
afloat the ~ was brief (political reformers)
keep the studio afloat post-World Cup afterglow
sentiment alone cannot ~ (MGM / debt woes) how will the ~ be reflected in attendance (US soccer)
keeping the regime afloat happiness and afterglow
oil is ~ the party is flushed with ~ (elections)
stay afloat feeling, emotion & effect: atmosphere / sky
Iran can ~ without Western investment
he struggled to ~ (low-paying job) afternoon (at a later time)
he got us disaster relief to ~ (politician)
the economy is struggling to ~ in the afternoon
~, we built igloos
survival, persistence & endurance: water ♦ The forenoon is before noon, in the morning.

after (at a later time) sequence / time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj,
particle
after King Hammurabi
King Solomon ruled about 700 years ~ aftershock (noun)
after horses aftershocks from 9/11
trains came ~ (technology) the ~ forced the company to cuts jobs nationwide (airline)
♦ Earlier times are before later times, and later times are after earlier
times, based on the time queue. The person who reaches the end of a aftershocks from the (shareholder) revolt
trail reaches it earlier than the people following him or her. the ~ will be felt across the business world
sequence / time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, political aftershocks
particle the ~ of the 2004 tsunami… (Sri Lanka)
afterglow (in the afterglow) feel the aftershocks
we will ~ of the financial crisis for a long time
in the afterglow
~ that follows the performance, the audience lingers... amount & effect / effect / feeling, emotion & effect:
earthquake
in the afterglow of another championship
a decade later, ~, he said… (an athlete) against (opposition)
in the afterglow of (Obama's) election against everything
she found it easier to run ~ (a politician) I am ~ he stands for (politics)
in the afterglow of his (first big) role against it
he moved into the Chateau Marmont ~ (L.A. actor) the Prime Minister is ~ (a proposal)
in the afterglow of our (rafting) trip allegiance, support & betrayal / resistance, opposition &
we relaxed and drank wine ~ defeat: prep, adv, adj, particle
in the (mellowing) afterglow of victory against (up against)
~, they don't seem so fierce (elected women)
up against
in the afterglow of their Tony wins this is what cities are ~ (hacked for ransom)
the films received increased business ~
up against a history
basking in the afterglow we were ~ of social injustice (prosecuting O.J. Simpson)
we're still ~ of the president's marvelous speech
he was ~ of a caretaker’s honeymoon period (team) obstacles & impedance: prep, adv, adj, particle
♦ A full-page print ad for the Subaru Legacy asks the question, "Can a
drive have an afterglow?" In the foreground is the sedan, parked on a
age (come of age)
scenic overlook. In the background is a dramatic vista of the sea and
clouds just after sunset. Of course, the beautiful lingering light is the come of age
actual afterglow. will this be the year they ~ (team in Champions League)

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growth & development: death & life power and agency
the tech industry is where US workers have the most ~
age (age of Trump, etc.) build ~ in their work lives (through legal resources, etc.)
age of Trump claiming agency
he covered Democratic politics in the ~ women are ~ (Judy Chicago / the “Dinner Party”)
age of fiscal belt-tightening denied women agency
in an ~ a patriarchal world view that ~
age of edit have that agency
we are in an ~ (news, films, music, science, memes, etc.) we really didn’t ~ to speak up for ourselves until now
age of romantic giants inclines towards agency
in an ~ he was a titan (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) the language around leadership ~ (gender research)
age of social media seeking agency
in this ~ we’re seeking more than just representation, we’re ~
age of Viagra support (individual) agency
this is the ~, and Mr. Trink was its siren (Thailand) as a humanist, a womanist I ~ (Gazelle Amber Valentine)
age of technological wizardry take agency
in an ~... reclaim desire and ~ over your sexual experiences (women)
Gilded Age ♦ “You get to decide what your life looks like.” (“A Letter to College
Sports” by Cailin Bracken.)
the sixties were the ~ of rock journalism (excess)
♦ “For Asians, we’re seeking more than representation, we’re seeking
golden age agency. We want to be able to tell our stories and show our characters in
all of our splendor and complexity, because that’s what it takes for
the ~ of quiz shows of the 1950s people to actually see us as people... I think Asian Americans are kinda
the ~ of the detective story (between world wars) taking charge of our own destiny.” (Jeff Yang, author of Rise: A Pop
the Sopranos was the tripwire event that set off the ~ of TV History of Asia America From the Nineties To Now. From ABC, GMA,
“How movies and TV show dehumanize and hypersexualize Asian
modern age Americans.”)
the ~ of blockbusters (films) ♦ “I asked Frances Borzello, art historian, if there are any examples of
pre-20th Century nudes expressing women’s agency—for example,
for the ages portraits commissioned by a wife or mistress of themselves in order to
please or tantalise a partner or lover?” (“Is the nude selfie a new art
it was a game ~ (an exciting basketball game) form?” by Holly Williams, 18 March 2021.)
age (of the steamer) lasted ♦ “If a player does not want to get vaccinated, we will stand behind him
the ~ 150 years (steamboats on the Yangtze River) one hundred percent. Look, players need to have agency when it comes
to what they decide to put in their bodies.” (Benjamin Watson, Vice
♦ “We live in a subscription age and a numbers age... This is a big, big President, NFL Players Association.)
fight.” (The boxing promoter Eddie Hearn at a press conference for Katie
♦ “To be agentic is to be confident and decisive.” (Gender research.)
Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano, referring to DAZN, ticket sales, and social
media buzz, including Twitter.) ♦ Agency in this sense is almost always in opposition to victimhood.

time: history inclusion & exclusion: society

agency (groups) agenda (noun)
agency wrecking-ball agenda
we want more than representation, we want ~ (an Asian) they have a ~ that is rooted in nationalism (politics)
language is ~, language is power (Korean girl in US)
hidden agendas
agency to speak up for ourselves the unwritten rules, ~, and minefields
we really didn’t have that ~ (a female soccer player)
creepy agenda
agency, ferocity and encouragement it just makes you look like you have some kind of ~
inspirational declarations of ~ (the TV series Pose)
personal agendas
her own agency this is stale news being recycled by those with ~
Baker managed to have ~ (Josephine Baker in France)
agenda and narrative
female agency they want the city to burn, it helps their ~
the “Dinner Party” is about ~ (Judy Chicago)
whatever a woman claims she wants is an expression of ~ fit your agenda
just stating the truth, sorry it doesn’t ~
sexual agency
a patriarchal world view that denied women ~ pursue their (own hidden) agendas

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 factions ~ outside of the law the ~ indie scene (Lizzo, etc.)
pushing or suppressing agendas “militantly agnostic”
people wonder if the BBC is ~ she takes a ~ approach to UFOs (Leslie Kean)
♦ The technical meaning of this word, like so many other trendy words,
wants, needs, hopes & goals: speech has devolved to mean something like, “Not sure, who knows, unwilling to
agile (adjective) commit, non-committal, no stance, undogmatic, don’t care...”
♦ Merriam-Webster’s online entry for this word is excellent.
agile development certainty & uncertainty / commitment & determination:
~ means constantly making small improvements
religion
agile and adaptive
security must be ~ (terrorism)
ago (two days ago / gone by)
agile and responsive two days ago
government must become more ~ to business they left ~

ideologically agile long ago

he was brilliant, funny, and ~ (a politician) in the ~, when I was a girl
♦ This means “gone by.”
lean and agile
the company is ~ past & present / time: movement / prep, adv, adj, particle

lean, agile and focused aground (run aground)

the company is ~ on building better cars
run aground
pragmatic and agile he was sure the investigation would ~ and find no evidence
we must be ~ in pursuit of human rights (diplomacy)
run aground on the shoals
smaller, (more) agile and innovative the promises have ~ of changing sex ratios
~ will survive
relationship can run aground
remains (as) agile (as ever) the author-biographer ~
her mind ~ failure, accident & impairment: boat / verb
ability & lack of ability: movement Aha! (Aha! moment)
agility (noun)
"Aha!" moment
agility she says that she had an ~ in 2005 (administrator)
~ requires quick-minded, flexible leaders (military)
Aha! instant
mental agility the ~ in cognitive science, the Eureka moment...
~ skills include physical toughness and ~ (military) comprehension & incomprehension / consciousness &
tactical agility awareness: exclamation / speech
~ is first of all a mental state (military)
ahead (ahead of his time, etc.)
ability & lack of ability: movement
see time (ahead of his time, etc.)
agnostic (adjective)
ahead (the future is ahead, etc.)
agnostic to the prevailing political system
China is ~ of the countries it invests in ahead of her
when you think about what was ~, it’s so sad (tragedy)
agnostic about the ideology
we’re ~ (of groups we investigate for violence / FBI) ahead of him
he has a great future ~ (athlete)
agnostic about the use
the guidelines are ~ of experimental medications (no stance) ahead of us
the single most important task we have ~
agnostic approach we've got a good deal of work ~
an ~, one biased in favor neither of X or Y our darkest days are ~, not behind us (pandemic)

brand agnostic ahead for you and your baby

what we’re enforcing now is ~ (any vaccine will do) you probably have questions about what is ~

genre-agnostic challenges ahead

this ~ young brother was raised on opera, gospel and funk prepare students for the ~ (military school)

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 Internet “father” Vint Cerf on ~ get ahead of the conversation
I’m not going to ~ that will take place (speculation)
choices ahead
he understands the hard ~ (a politician) timeliness & lack of timeliness: direction / position / prep,
adv, adj, particle
days ahead
there are better ~ ahead (competition)
road ahead ahead of those
no one knows what lies on the ~ (course of war) Swedish living standards are way ~ in the US
STORMS AHEAD miles ahead
~ (newspaper) it was ~ of every similar application
task ahead million miles ahead
the ~ for engineers and scientists is to… Liverpool are a ~ (of Manchester United / soccer)
book ahead two steps ahead
it’s good to ~ (camping reservations) the virus was ~ (of preventative measures)
lie ahead way ahead
your best days ~ Swedish living standards are ~ of those in the US
our best days ~
light years ahead
lies ahead she was ~ of her peers
no one knows what ~ today’s tech is ~ of the old techniques (forensics)
I don't know what ~
we are ready for the struggle that ~ (war) come out ahead
I'm going to beat him, I'll ~ (mixed-martial arts)
look ahead
let's ~ to the future puts them ahead
let’s ~, the way you have to in a chess game (Brexit) their strategy ~ of other banks
as we ~ to the elections coming up in November
competition: direction / movement / position / prep, adv,
looking ahead adj, particle / sports & games / walking, running & jumping
~, clouds appear on the horizon (economy)
ahead (progress)
plan ahead
it's good to ~ far ahead
rich countries are ~ of poor ones in adapting to warming
♦ “We’re so focused on what’s ahead, we’re not worried about what’s
behind us.” (The boxer Anthony Joshua, speaking about his rematch with
Andy Ruiz Jr. AJ had lost the first match, in a tremendous upset.)
forging ahead
other countries are ~ (aquaculture)
future / time: direction / journeys & trips / position / prep,
adv, adj, particle get ahead
never pass up an opportunity to ~
ahead (before a future event)
marching ahead
ahead of elections the science is ~ (genetic tests)
the increasingly bitter political climate ~ next summer
move ahead
ahead of the Challenger’s launch mentally ill people struggle to ~ in their lives
~, analysts could have made hundreds of charts... we must ~ into the future

ahead of his upcoming trial moved ahead

he was back in court ~ (Markeith Loyd / Florida) he cautiously ~ with privatization

ahead of Medvedev’s visit moving ahead

the admission came ~ to Warsaw his friends were ~ while he was standing still

well ahead plowing ahead

weather forecasters saw it coming ~ of time we are ~ (difficult medical research)
future / time: position / prep, adv, adj, particle pressing ahead
the Russians are ~ with fake social media accounts
ahead (ahead of schedule, etc.) we are ~ in our efforts (government official)
ahead of schedule push ahead
we are ~ we are trying to ~

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surging ahead the broad ~ was to report on and discuss the…
Southeast Asia is ~ (aquaculture)
aim of a show of force
went ahead the ~ is deterrence (military)
the program ~ and was deemed a success
aim of storing
♦ Don't get mad, don't get even, get ahead.
Glen Canyon Dam was finished with the ~ water for…
progress & lack of progress / starting, going, continuing &
aim of overthrowing
ending: direction / movement / prep, adv, adj, particle / it has the stated ~ the government (an opposition group)
verb
aim in (my) life
ahead (go ahead) before Qeis, I had no ~ (a student)
went ahead with the event aim in (this) life
they ~ (in spite of pandemic) everyone has his own ~, and mine is to be a martyr
starting, going, continuing & ending: direction / journeys & nomads' (traditional) aim
trips / movement / verb the Tibetan ~ of maximizing herd size (vs. slaughter)
ailing (adjective) terrorists’ aim
if the ~ was to…
ailing
businesses are ~ because of government regulation intended aim
regulating the forces and means toward an ~ (military)
ailing economy
companies are feeling the effects of the ~ stated aim
the government is pumping money into the ~ it has the ~ of overthrowing the government
ailing Macs dual aim
she tends to ~ (tech worker) the immunizations have a ~ (protect and prevent)
ailing (housing) market first aim
ending the deduction could cripple an already ~ our ~ was to be competitive at the World Cup…
condition & status: health & medicine initial aim
having sex might have been his ~, but… (murderer)
aim (verb)
primary aim
aim to please a ~ of ED intervention is to.. (domestic abuse)
we ~ (a store motto)
strategic aim
aiming for application of military capability in support of ~s
and that's what we're ~ (making it easy for shoppers)
traditional aim
aimed for a Friday night liftoff the Tibetan nomads' ~ of maximizing herd size
the space agency ~
ultimate aim
aim for a fun, less sanitized view his ~ is to…
reenactors ~ of the Old West
unselfish aim
target / wants, needs, hopes & goals: verb / weapon
most seem motivated by ~s
aim (noun) one aim
aim the staff has only ~, turning fantasy into reality
if the ~ is to destroy vehicles, use mines (military) several aims
their ~ is to trigger fear and chaos (political assassins) President Clinton and his advisers had ~
their ~ is to survive (peasants)
achieve this aim
aims of the campaign to ~, we will have to…
ridding Iraq of WMD is one of the main ~
target / wants, needs, hopes & goals: weapon
aim of the ceremony
the ~ is to… (Swazi reed dance) aim (take aim at something)
aim of that operation take aim at (pretty much every) race
the ~ was to… (Russian military in Chechnya) his monologues ~ he can
aim of the symposium took aim at America

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 other veterans of the Russian-Afghan war ~ exudes an air
she ~ of sophistication
taking dead aim
his company is ~ at… (a competitor) appearance: air / atmosphere
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere
target: verb / weapon
air (environment)
aimed
air he breathes
aimed at Muslims that’s the ~ that he has internalized (Nazi website)
a string of attacks by extremist Christians ~
environment: air / atmosphere
aimed (specifically) at children identity & nature: air / atmosphere
products ~
air (anger in the air, etc.)
aimed at the (US) military
protest ~ have waxed and waned (S. Korea) in the air
change was ~ (the law)
aimed at the superstitious spring is ~
attention-grabbing advertisements ~ (muti) war is ~
aimed at abortion clinics and their workers the threat of litigation was always ~ (corporation)
attacks ~ (US) anger in the air
aimed at Pakistan's foreign community there is much ~
an assault ~ (on a church) electricity in the air
aimed at modernizing there is a new ~ (after combat and death)
he announced a series of reforms ~ the bureau fear in the air
aimed at preventing with the general ~, people are paying off debt, not buying
mosquito-control programs ~ further cases (West Nile) feeling in the air
aimed at punishing the ~ was he couldn’t have done it (charged at courthouse)
laws ~ habitual criminals environment / feeling, emotion & effect / presence &
aimed at reducing absence: air / atmosphere
regulations ~ noise pollution air (up in the air)
target: weapon
up in the air
air (air of authority, etc.) the school year ended with her plans ~
where things go from here is quite honestly ~
air of authority I think it’s still ~ a little bit (where athlete will commit to)
you'll carry an ~
up in the air whether
air of indifference it’s still ~... (making a decision)
she has a calculated ~ (teen girl)
still up in the air
air of invincibility her quest to land an internship is ~
America's ~ is gone (international basketball) when they can return to their homes is ~ (wildfires)
air of make-believe remains up in the air
diplomacy can have an ~ (protocol, etc.) the reason for the Moon Illusion ~
♦ “Up in the air” can link in certain cases to a phrase like, “Nobody knows
air of respectability how this plane lands” with the idea of resolution & conclusion.
toy drives give bikers an ~
certainty & uncertainty: air / atmosphere / prep, adv, adj,
air of sophistication particle
she exudes an ~
air (breath of fresh air)
air of superiority
he detected an ~ breath of fresh air
she's a ~ (politician)
arrogant air the blog is a ~ (field notes from scientists)
he had a preppie, ~ about him his lay status is a ~ (new college president)
carry an air I thought he was a ~, but it turns out he is an elitist
you'll ~ of authority breath of fresh air for the city

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 the mayor has been a ~ amelioration & renewal: air / atmosphere / verb
breath of fresh air after the scandal air (expose)
he seemed to be a ~ of Watergate (politics)
air it out
unexpected breath of fresh air you don’t have to ~ to the public where everyone can hear
their designs were an ~ (fashion show)
concealment & lack of concealment: air / atmosphere /
brings a breath of fresh air to the magazine verb
she ~ (new editor)
airbrushed
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere
amelioration & renewal: air / atmosphere / wind too slick, airbrushed, propaganda
many thought the video was ~, to gain support and funding
air (hot air)
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
hot air / subterfuge: infrastructure / materials & substances
a plan without action is ~
global warming is ~ (an opinion) aircraft carrier (turn an aircraft carrier)
just (a lot of) hot air aircraft carrier
people talk about mine safety, but it's ~ how long will it take, is it a matter of turning an ~ (change)
♦ “When I became president, one of the things I discovered coming into
a lot of hot air office is you’re in charge of a big apparatus... It’s an ocean liner and not
~ blows out of Washington (politics) a speedboat... Trying to change policy is really difficult.” (“Barak Obama
on 2020.”)
full of hot air ♦ “It will take time to turn around this metaphorical tanker in midstream.”
he's ~ (a politician) (Saudi-Israeli relations)

speech / substance & lack of substance: air / atmosphere reversal: boat / military / movement / size
air (into thin air) aired (and aired out)
disappeared into thin air being aired
she ~ (wanted for a crime) the divorce is over with no dirty laundry ~
vanished into thin air being aired out
it was like she just ~ (woman vanishes) these are general grievances that are ~ (the Oscars)
appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
air (out of thin air) / hygiene
airtight (adjective)
appeared out of thin air
investors have ~ airtight alibi
come out of thin air his lawyers say he has an ~
ideas just don't ~ airtight case
emerge out of thin air prosecutors believe they have an ~
the fear of the undead didn't ~ seemed airtight
create credit out of thin air his alibi ~
the Federal Reserve can ~ flaws & lack of flaws: air / atmosphere
create profit out of thin air akin (adjective)
Wall Street can ~
akin to body armor
appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky we see vaccines as ~ (Defense Department)
origin: air / atmosphere / sky
akin to the Super Bowl
air (clear the air) in the mountainous nations, the Hahnenkamm is ~ (skiing)
clear the air akin to drunk driving
they had a meeting to ~ (athlete and coach) not masking is ~ (COVID)
an interview so she could ~ about what happened
if you had any lingering doubts, this should ~ relationship: family

clear the air entirely

wouldn't that just ~ (making documents public)

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alarm (feeling) comparison & contrast: epithet

alarm
alchemist (noun)
~ as dump sites fill up and overflow... alchemist of words
alarm over the (rotten-egg) odor an ~, Melville transformed his often mundane sources
there was ~ person: chemistry
alarm over (gun) violence creation & transformation: chemistry / person
most Americans feel ~ Alexander (Muslim Alexander, etc.)
alarm about (the military's) conduct Muslim Alexander
the case raises ~ in Iraq (atrocity) he conceived for himself an identity as the ~ (Mehmet II)
rising alarm importance & significance / military: epithet
~ over gun violence
alight (activity)
reason for alarm
stay calm, there is no ~ alight with posts
so there was plenty of ~ social networking sites are ~ from…
raises alarm alight with (conspiracy) theories
the case ~ about the military's conduct in Iraq the blogosphere is ~
♦ “We had now fairly entered the Molucca Sea. After dark it was a
feeling, emotion & effect: sound beautiful sight to look down on our rudders, from which rushed eddying
alarm (warning) streams of phosphoric light gemmed with whirling sparks of fire. It
resembled (more nearly than anything else to which I can compare it)
one of the large irregular nebulous star-clusters seen through a good
five-alarm telescope, with the additional attraction of ever-changing form and
this should have been a ~ fire in the White House, but... dancing motion.” (The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace,)
♦ "That night the fire-flies were in countless thousands, in millions, it
sounded alarms seemed... Suddenly, there was a blinding flash which for an instant lit up
Doctors Without Borders ~ (famine in Niger) the whole countryside, as a large meteor trailed its blazing tail across the
sky... As at the wave of a magic wand the illumination of the insects went
sounding the alarm out... Then suddenly in the herbage there appeared a spark again, and in
half a minute the air was again filled with the thousands of elfin lanterns
groups have been ~ about the Arab drug problem weaving their ethereal dances." (Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev, in
Ussuria.)
warning: sound
activity: light & dark
albatross (noun)
alight (fire)
albatross of debt
the ~ he had been dealing with... (a politician) set the region alight
conflicts could ~ (Caucasus)
albatross for Oakland
the quote has become something of an ~ (“no there there”) activity / feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: fire

albatross for the industry alive (status)

the Production Code was an ~ (films)
alive
Afghanistan albatross my business is ~, but not thriving
Trump inherited the ~
still alive
lifelong albatross the talks are ~ (negotiations)
a parking ticket can become a ~ (racial inequality) the two teams are ~ in the playoffs (sports)
♦ “John James Audubon’s racism is the albatross rotting around the
necks of those who would hold him in reverence. It is past smelling foul
very much alive
and beginning to reek.” (“What Do We Do About John James Audubon?” jazz is ~, in Paris…
by J. Drew Lanham.)
stay alive
affliction: allusion / animal / bird it's tough to ~ in today's economy (a business)
Alcatraz (Alcatraz of the South, etc.) condition & status: death & life
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life
Alcatraz of the Rockies
ADX Florence in Colorado, sometimes called the ~ alive (alive and well)
Alcatraz of the South alive and well
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alive and well in the UK keep romance alive
regional stereotypes are ~ it's important to ~ (in a marriage)
remains alive and well keep the spark alive
the movement ~ the dreams of what were ahead helped ~ for me (love)
condition & status: death & life keep the tradition alive
he does his part to ~ (sumo in Brazil)
alive (activity)
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
alive with activity
the night sky, ~ (satellites, an eclipse, etc.) all (give something one’s all, etc.)
alive with rats gave it everything
the alley was ~ that evening... we ~
alive with rumor commitment & determination: verb
residential areas and offices were ~ (following attack)
allergic (adjective)
ever alive
he was a young man ~ to new ideas allergic to (small) boats
for those ~ in stormy seas…
activity: death & life
allergic to the concept
alive (come alive) economists are ~ of fairness (reform)
come alive allergic to him
they ~ (characters in a book / book review) I'm ~ (the two don't get along)
came alive avoidance & separation: health & medicine
the Peruvians ~ in the second half (World Cup soccer)
allergy (noun)
come alive at night
rats ~ allergy to stardom
he has an ~ (a successful actor, to Hollywood)
came alive in the second quarter
the team ~ avoidance & separation: health & medicine

come alive with activity alley (Ambush Alley, etc.)

the streets literally ~ (Toronto)
"Ambush Alley"
comes alive with young musicians fighting in Nasiriya, nicknamed ~ by the Marines (Iraq)
the campus ~ (summer music program)
sniper alley
came alive with a great tube ride this part of town was called ~ (Sarajevo)
he suddenly ~ (surfing competition)
Machine Gun Alley
comes alive when they called the area ~ (7th Cavalry / Iraq)
he ~ he talks about his passion
RPG Alley
activity: death & life an ambush on a stretch of road known as ~ (Baqouba)
amelioration & renewal: death & life
death & life / military: epithet
alive (keep something alive)
alley (Bat Alley, etc.)
keep awareness alive
the need to ~ (of the Holocaust) Bat Alley
bats have been seen flying down ~ (passage in a cave)
keep history alive
part of our mission is to ~ (Trail of Tears) Shark Alley
a wave rolled along an area known as ~ (Farallones)
keep hope alive
geography: epithet
doctors have a duty to ~
route: animal
kept the initiative alive alley (Cyclone Alley, etc.)
the administration has ~
keep memory alive Cyclone Alley
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cyclone alley all-star (legal) team
Madagascar sits on a type of ~ in the Indian Ocean he had an ~ (rich pedophile)
Hail Alley group, set & collection: sports & games
where Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming meet is “~” superlative: sports & games
iceberg alley alluring (adjective)
the Bonavista peninsula is the province’s so-called “~”
it’s been a busy season in ~ (Newfoundland and Labrador) alluring
A68a has been riding this “~” (Antarctica to South Georgia) the pitch is ~ (an educational fad)
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / sex
"Lightning Alley"
the corridor is known as ~ (Tampa Bay to Titusville) ally (groups)
tornado alley ally
spring in ~ (U.S.) how to be an ~ and nurture a more inclusive world
Tornado Alley with an ally
~ runs from Texas through Oklahoma and Kansas being transgender can be hard, but made easier ~ (work)
area / route: storm / weather & climate ♦ “If you’re a white person, you’re getting to the perimeter, you’re putting
your body on the f****** line right now!” (“Black Protest Leaders To White
alley (Death Alley / U.S. 61, etc.) Allies: ‘It’s Our Turn To Lead Our Own Fight,’” NPR, All Things
Considered, September 22, 2020.)
Blood Alley inclusion & exclusion: society
Death Alley, ~, that's what they call it (a highway)
ally (other)
Death Alley
U.S. 61 is known as ~ (fatal crashes in Missouri) ally in curbing the spread
countries hope that technology will be an ~ of the virus
"hell highway"
killed returning to the reservation on the ~ (Arizona) allies in that fight
expressway to death she didn’t have a lot of ~ (trouble between 2 actors)
National highway 8 is known as the ~ (India) not as an enemy, but as an ally
route: infrastructure Democrats welcome change, ~ (politics)

alley (Silicon Alley) conflict / help & assistance: military

along (further along)
see Silicon Valley
alley (Cancer Alley, etc.) further along
in Europe, the outbreak is a little ~ (Omicron variant)
“Asthma Alley”
development: distance / movement
the South Bronx is often described as ~ (pollution)
Cancer Alley
altar (at / on / upon the altar)
they live in a region known as ~ (southwestern Louisiana) on such a remote altar
“covid corridor” no clergyman would sacrifice his career ~ (Norfolk Island)
the commuter corridors have become the ~ (East Coast / US) at the altar of disruption
area: health & medicine today’s tech world worships ~

alley (up one's alley) at the altar of Donald Trump

evangelicals ~
up my alley
now this part is ~ (how to fix a module vs. its function) on the altar of (environmental) correctness
he would sacrifice energy independence ~
right up your alley
you have to read this, it's ~ on the altar of greatness
check this out, it’s ~ we are witnessing human flesh ~ (a boxer)

experience: infrastructure upon the altar of freedom

you have laid so costly a sacrifice ~ (Lincoln)
all-star (adjective)
on the altar of (this nation’s continued) freedom
all-star team the country will never forget your sacrifice ~ (Britain)
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on this altar of the gun god she had been the ~ (endorsement / athlete)
they are really human sacrifices ~ (mass shootings)
ambassador for marine life
on the altar of that peace whale sharks are a fantastic ~
~ Venice was to be sacrificed (France and Austria)
ambassador for the sport
on the altar of Radicalism he is a great ~ (Vitali Klitschko / boxing)
he sacrificed the South ~ (southern view of Grant)
ambassador for UNESCO
sacrifice your children on the altar she is a goodwill ~ (a famous film actor)
don’t ~ of bad science (anti-vaxxer propaganda)
ambassador to the world
sacrifice (energy) independence on the altar Ali is the goodwill ~ (the boxer)
he would ~ of environmental correctness
America’s best ambassador
sacrifice rights on the altar of terrorism he was ~ (Charles Barkley at the Barcelona Olympics)
we can’t ~ (facial recognition)
brand ambassador
laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar the reality star is a ~ for the popular clothing brand
you have ~ of freedom (President Lincoln)
goodwill ambassador
sacrifice: religion she is a ~ for UNESCO (a famous film actor)
amalgam (noun) G-string ambassador
she has acted as the Y2K ~ in the past (Dua Lipa)
amalgam of (different) influences
Turkish cooking is an intriguing ~ de facto ambassador
he serves as the ~ of skateboarding (Tony Hawk)
amalgam of (changing death-penalty) politics
there is an ~ and concerns about the system tireless ambassador
he was a ~ for Beaujolais Nouveau (Georges Duboeuf)
amalgam of speed, timing, work-rate and pressure
he beat Baranchyk with an ~ (Scot boxer Josh Taylor) sees himself as an ambassador
he ~ for his sport (Tito Ortiz and mixed martial arts)
mixture: materials & substances
self-described (‘edible insect) ambassador’
Amazon (epithet / biodiversity) the ~ promotes the use of insect protein
Amazon of the North ♦ "I don't even know what an ambassador really was. When I think of
ambassadors I think of living off government money and jet-setting with
the Great Bear Rain Forest is often called the ~ (BC) girlfriends." (The great boxer Mike Tyson, on a trip to China to promote
boxing.)
Ocean's Amazon
♦ “She is now training to become their new ambassador.” (Flerken, a half
the Coral Triangle has been called the ~ African serval cat and half domestic cat, for the Ark Wildlife Park.)
biodiversity / comparison & contrast / geography: epithet ♦ “You are attaching your logo to the athlete and should this enter a legal
realm, every time he goes into a courtroom, that’s your logo walking in
Amazon (the company) on two legs.” (A sports analyst about an athlete charged with several
counts of sexual abuse. In other words, players are ambassadors for
their teams, whether they want to be or don’t.)
Amazon
~ has made Jeff Bezos rich attention, scrutiny & promotion / representation:
proper name: place government / person
person / role: government
Amazon (epithet / the company)
amber (traffic light)
Amazon of South Korea
Coupang is often referred to as the ~ (online retailer) “amber list”
it will not be illegal for Britons to travel to ~ Greece
worth & lack of worth: epithet
comparison & contrast / size: epithet classified as amber
travel to France, Spain and Greece are now ~ (pandemic)
ambassador (role)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal,
ambassador of skateboarding symbol
he serves as the ~ (Tony Hawk)
ambush (verb)
ambassador for the Cherokee
she will be an ~ (Miss Cherokee Fair / Eastern Band) ambush us
desire can ~, take us by surprise (sex)
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ambush him with the news cannot pay—he is taken for a slave or has gambled away his wife or
child into slavery—he sees no way of recovering what he has lost... He
so tonight I ~ grasps his kris-handle, and the next moment draws out the weapon and
stabs a man to the heart. He runs on, with bloody kris in his hand,
readiness & preparedness: military stabbing at everyone he meets. ‘Amok! Amok!’ then resounds through
the streets...” (The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace.)
ambushed
behavior: mental health
felt ambushed control & lack of control: mental health
one man ~ by her appearance
amped (strength)
readiness & preparedness: military
amped up with (plenty of) chilies
ammunition (and ammo) the dish is ~
ammunition for critics amped up audio system
this will provide ~ the car has an ~
ammo for critics strength & weakness: electricity
all this was ~, who believed...
amped (feeling)
ammunition for lawsuits
it could be used as ~ amped up
the importance of the game has both teams ~
political ammunition he was so ~ that he didn't notice…
the "missile gap" provided ~ to air-power advocates
amped up on sugar and carbs
gather (political) ammunition kids who are ~ can't learn as well
he asked a foreign leader to help him ~ against an opponent
amped up men
give ammunition she had no business walking through a mob of ~
the video is sure to ~ to critics
remain amped up
accusation & criticism: military / weapon after a performance he would ~ (musician)
amnesia (noun) feeling, emotion & effect: electricity

collective amnesia amplification (noun)

a ~ surrounds the Civil War (attitudes to slavery, etc.)
his participation in the ~ that surrounds those wars… amplification in the media
~ can lead to contagion (names of mass shooters)
historical amnesia
this will deepen our ~ about the Civil War algorithmic amplification
the design displays a sense of ~ (a monument) ~ leads to violence (YouTube)

consciousness & awareness: health & medicine snap responses, speed, amplification
the social web is architected for ~
amputate (remove)
increase & decrease: sound
amputate
~ before the infection spreads (poor players at Man U)
amplified
♦ “She was in tears over the abrupt amputation of her social life and amplified in a feedback loop
turmoil at home.” (A high-school senior talking to her school counselor
via Zoom. The student’s school had been closed due to the Coronavirus
the narrative was ~ by the media (Steele Dossier)
pandemic.)
amplified by the media echo chamber
dismissal, removal & resignation / division & connection: their views are ~ (stock analysts, commentators, etc.)
health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
amplified by the media megaphone
amok (run amok) an analyst, his voice ~, can send a stock soaring or sinking

ran amok get amplified

the regulators sat by while the financial industry ~ conspiracy theories ~ by conservative cable news stars
the military ~ in Manchuria (Japan) increase & decrease: sound
run amok amplify (verb)
this is the result of a system ~ (justice)
♦ “Macassar is the most celebrated place in the East for ‘running a amplified flaws
muck.’ There are said to be one or two a month on the average, and five, the media, desperate to get it out, ~ in the reporting
then, or twenty persons are sometimes killed or wounded at one of
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amplify those ideas bases: boat
a conservative media ecosystem helps ~ (alt-right)
anchored
amplify their message
they use social media to ~ (extremists) anchored in old ways
leadership is still ~ (politics)
amplify his message
he counted on his critics to ~ anchored to the document text
the selected object is ~ here (text box Microsoft Word)
amplify (pro-government) narratives
attachment / movement / division & connection / progress
these networks ~ (the internet)
& lack of progress: boat
speaks up and amplifies
the Koori Mail ~ Black voices (Australian newspaper) ancien regime
increase & decrease: sound / verb ancien regime of Hosni Mubarak
message: sound / tools & technology / verb Morsi replaced the ~
amp up (verb) creature of the ancien regime
to his detractors he was a ~ (politics)
amped up the discussion
the film really ~ about global warming factions of the ancien regime
negotiations among ~ and Gulf monarchies (Yemen / 2015)
amping up their rhetoric
Republicans are ~ (politics) candidates from the ancien regime
~ (Field Marshal Ahmed Shafiq, Amr Moussa, etc.)
amped up the violence
high tackles led with the helmet have ~ in football past & present / time: allusion / history
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: allusion /
increase & decrease: electricity history
anathema anemic (adjective)
anathema to the Koch network anemic
tariffs and trade wars are ~ earnings have been ~
sales have been ~
anathema to (many) media outlets and academics economic growth has been ~
these proposals were ~ (New Consensus think tank) turnout was ~ (election)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
anemic 1.5 percent
ancestor (go before) the rate of economic growth slowed to an ~

ancestors of (today’s) potatoes anemic attempt

they are the ~ (Peruvian wild potatoes) their ~s to address the issue
♦ An ancestor is one who has “gone before,” from ante- (‘before”) and anemic economy
cedo (“go”).
our ~ is a result of higher taxes (politics)
origin / relationship: family
anemic (job) growth
past & present: direction / movement / position
he produced very ~ (a leader)
time: direction / movement / position
sequence: direction / movement / position anemic recovery
anchor (noun) poverty is on the rise in the recession and the ~ continues

anchor of the (Egyptian) government anemic response

people are upset by the military's ~ to the provocation
the military is the ~ right now (2011)
strength & weakness: health & medicine
anchor for the development
condition & status: health & medicine
the golf course is the ~ (apartments, condos)
angel (Angel of the Battlefield, etc.)
anchor babies
opponents of immigration talk about "~" Angel of Arnhem
her British patients nicknamed her the ~ (Kate ter Horst)
anchor tenants
malls need ~ Angel of the Battlefield
Clara Barton was known as the ~ (Civil War)
western anchor
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 she has been remembered as the ~ (Sally Louisa Tompkins) angel (superlative)
“Angel of Dien Bien Phu” voice of an angel
the US press gave her the name ~ (Genevieve de Galard)
she has the ~ (a singer from Isan)
military: epithet
lost an angel
epithet: creature
Macedonia and the Balkans ~ (Tose Proeski)
angel (Angel of Death, etc.) ♦ When the Macedonian pop star Tose Proeski died in 2007 at age 26 in
a car crash in Croatia, Archbishop Stefan, the head of the Macedonian
Angel of Death Orthodox Church, said, "Macedonia and the Balkans lost an angel." It
was a sentiment felt across the Balkans.
Josef Mengele, the ~ (Nazi doctor at Auschwitz)
superlative: creature / religion
“Angel of the Gap”
Australia mourns ~ (Don Ritchie, who prevented suicides) angel (angel-faced)
death & life: epithet angel-faced child
epithet: creature the ~ who tells lies
angel (the Los Angeles Angels, etc.) appearance: creature / religion
Guardian Angels angel (guardian angel)
Gardiens de Nuit is a French version of New York's ~
guardian angel
Hell’s Angels tell my son I will always be his ~ (suicide note)
~ member sentenced to 14 years in prison for... the ~ of Nazare (Sergio Cosme / jet ski driver / surfing)
Los Angeles Angles Chen Si is the bridge’s self-appointed ~ (stops suicides)
the ~ are in the American League West (MLB) ♦ People query Google Search with questions like: How do I know I have
a guardian angel? and How do I talk to my guardian angel?
proper name: creature / religion
help & assistance / protection & lack of protection:
angel (appearance) creature / religion

princess or angel angel (trail angel, etc.)

I want to be Britney Spears, no more ~ (Halloween girl)
lay-away angels
appearance: creature / religion generous acts of kindness doled out by so-called ~
angel (snow angel) search angel
she is a self-described ~ (helps adoptees find birth parents)
snow angels
kids create ~ in the snow trail angel
it's a great place to make ~ (Dubai mall) ~s provide water, food, even lodging for hikers
~s figure out where hikers are likely to run into trouble
made a snow angel ~s are a tradition on long-distance footpaths (AT, PCT)
she ~ and posted it on YouTube (Johannesburg) ~s left 30 1-gallon jugs of water and a note
make a snow angel a ~ left a cooler stocked with soda, water and beer
they go outside and ~ after a sauna (Finland) ♦ Lay-away angels are anonymous people who pay for Christmas items
put on lay-away at stores. Trail angels leave water, food, and other
♦ A New England Patriots football player was once fined $10,000 for supplies along trails like the Appalachian Trail for the through hikers, who
making a snow angel after scoring a touchdown. are not able to carry much.
♦ In The Miracle Season, two small girls—“fearless, generous souls”—
are shown making mud angels. Their mothers could not have been help & assistance: creature / religion
happy when they got home!
angel (help and assistance)
shape: creature / religion
angel
angel (behavior) she was an ~ to so many of us (exoneration lawyer)
angels Antonio Brown’s angel
in fairness, the North Koreans have been no ~ Tom Brady has been ~ (two NFL athletes)
angel of vengeance angel, benefactor, Godsend
he sees himself as kind of an ~ (The Power of the Dog) Tom Brady was his ~ (to Antonio Brown / NFL)
perfect angel ♦ Mini-Me: [writes] Are you a clone of an angel? / Foxxy Cleopatra: Ohhh
how sweet. No, my mini-man, I’m not. / Mini-Me: [writes] Are you sure
he's a ~ with everyone but us (a 15-month-old) you don’t have a little clone in you? / Foxxy Cleopatra: Yes, I’m sure. /
Mini-Me: Would you like to? (The film Austin Powers in Goldmember.)
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help & assistance: creature / religion he had a reputation as a ~ (a soccer player)
angle (from an angle) behavior / character & personality / restraint & lack of
restraint: animal
from every angle
I have considered the issue ~ animal (insult)
from a new angle animal
these conclusions help us look at the tragedy ~ an ~ decided to take her life (murder of coed)
from ten different angles animals come out
I wanted to think through these issues ~ (a writer) all the ~ at night (the film Taxi Driver)
considered the problem from every angle rabid animals
I have ~ they are ~ that should all be put down (looters, arsonists)
look at the tragedy from a new angle wild animals
these conclusions help us ~ they threw my boy in a cage with those ~ (prison)
perception, perspective & point of view: geometry animals tormented him
analysis, interpretation & explanation: geometry those wild ~ until he became mean as they were (prison)
animal (different animal, etc.) ♦ “The thought that he was waiting for some woman to attack her and do
what he wanted to do... I was just thinking, what a horrible animal, vile
animal, he is...” (The sister of a murder victim.)
different animal
♦ “The animal that did this is no longer on this earth.” (Police solve a cold
urban warfare is a ~ than fighting in the open case. The murderer had died in 2013.)
the new style of aggressive ad is a ~ (Internet)
affliction / insult: animal
two (very) different animals
the map of the Pacific before and after Cook are ~ anodyne (adjective)
unique animal anodyne drone
considering public education, Maine is something of a ~ the ~ typing away in her silent cubicle

unusual animal anodyne title

NCTC is kind of an ... (counter-terrorism center) an article with the ~ “The Value of Science in Prediction”

completely different animal anodyne and fuzzy

a virtual lab is totally different from a classroom, it's a ~ the language of these bills is ~ (culture wars)

much different animal so anodyne

the US military is a ~ than the Taliban forces that letter was ~ and insignificant (yet caused controversy)

very different animal tend to be anodyne

the Bundesliga is a ~ from the Premiership (soccer) its public comments on due process ~
♦ Bill Whitaker, ABC Correspondent: “This is your first Broadway ♦ An anodyne is a drug that soothes pain.
production. This is a different animal.” / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker,
Belgian choreographer: “What you call it, an animal?” (From a delightful feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
60 Minutes interview about West Side Story, February 16, 2020.) amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
♦ “Neither fish nor fowl...”
anoint (verb)
♦ see also beast (different beast, etc.)

taxonomy & classification: animal anointed his (long-time) ally as his successor
he ~ (Nursultan Nazarbayev)
animal (political animal, etc.)
anointed him as the candidate
narrative animals the Democratic establishment has ~ (Joe Biden)
we are ~, we love a good story (Guillermo del Toro)
anoint him as the Democratic nominee
political animal Biden appealed to Sanders backers to ~
he's a ~ and will probably go along with Israel (politics)
Karl is not a ~ (a law enforcement leader) anoint a political heir
I see myself as not a ~ in this job (DNI) he wants to ~

identity & nature: animal anointed him one of the beautiful people
People magazine ~
animal (party animal, etc.)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / verb
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anointed antediluvian policy
its ~ of opposing women priests (job advert for vicar)
anointed the (art world's newest) star ♦ Lord Judge, former lord chief justice: In my opinion, the time has
he has been ~ arrived when the requirement for the physical presence of a child—
witness or victim—within the court building should be regarded as an
anointed as the Party’s standard-bearer antediluvian hangover from laughable far-off days of the quill pen and the
ink well.” (BBC, World at One, “An antediluvian hangover.” A child could
he was ~ (Hubert Humphrey) be asked questions via video conferencing.)
get anointed past & present / time: Bible / religion
how exactly did he ~ as the voice of Black America primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: Bible / religion
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion antenna (noun)
answer (noun) antennae
answer I walk around with my ~ up, ready for trouble (gang)
the ~ is in front of us antenna for (racial) slights
the answer is he has no ~ (Nigerian immigrant in US)
~ reform and an awake electorate consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
answer to social issues anthem (noun)
criminalization is frequently America’s ~
anthem
fictive communication: speech it's been an ~ ever since (Aretha sings "Respect")
answer (Britain’s answer to Bill Gates, anthem of African Americans
etc.) it became the ~ (“Say it clear, say it loud...)

North America’s answer to Machu Picchu anthem of a (celebrity) campaign

Chaco Canyon is ~, only older (drought, etc.) Dylan’s “Hurricane” was the ~ to release Rubin Carter

Britain’s answer to Bill Gates anthem of (female and black) empowerment

he was once seen as ~ (Mike Lynch / Autonomy) the video is an ~ (Beyonce’s “Formation”)

Britain’s answer to Ry Cooder anthems of the (Civil Rights) movement

guitarist Justin Adams has been called “~” some of her songs became ~ (Nina Simone)

Britain’s answer to the Tea Party anthems for women

UKIP has been described as ~ (US) ~ to accept themselves (Lizzo)

China’s answer to Lord of the Rings anthem among Pentecostals in the Appalachians
while it might be easy to describe Condo Heroes as ~... the song became an ~ ("There ain't no grave…”)

China’s answer to Twitter angry young man's anthem

Weibo, ~ "Custer Died for Your Sins" was an ~

Russia’s answer to California rousing anthem

#Sochifornia, ~ (Sochi) it’s a ~ of encouragement and hope (“Keep On Pushing”)
♦ “It’s America’s answer to Shakespeare.” (“OK: How Two Letters Made rock anthem
‘America’s Greatest Word’ NPR, All Things Considered, November 20,
2010. Guy Raz interviews Allan Metcalf, author of OK: The Improbable "Born to Run" is one of the best ~s ever
Story of America’s Greatest Word. The interview and the excerpt from
the book are fascinating!) swamp anthem
♦ Both are in the same state of decay; both were the sites of thriving a raucous version of the ~ “Sabine Turnaround” (Cajun)
civilizations; both experienced drought and were essentially
abandoned... (Comparisons between Machu Picchu and Chaco Canyon, booty-call anthem
“North America’s answer” (equivalent). From “Ancient Culture Prompts Adele’s first ~ (“Can I Get It?)
Worry for Arid Southwest,” NPR, All Things Considered, July 9, 2007.)
date-rape anthem
comparison & contrast: epithet
it’s been referred to as a ~ (an old Christmas song)
antediluvian (old) strip-club anthem
antediluvian hangover the song was a ~ called “Money Maker”
it’s an ~ from far-off days (a judicial matter) feminist anthem
antediluvian opinions her single has been hailed by some as a ~ (“The Man”)
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 the ~ of an entire generation (“You forgot the color film”) antique (adjective)
♦ “It became the national anthem of African Americans.” (“Say it clear,
say it loud, I am black, and I am proud.” Sung by Nina Simone.) antique
♦ “This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that it seems so ~ now… (a sentiment)
rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem.”
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: antiques
identity & nature / representation: music past & present / time: antiques
anthemic (adjective) antique (noun)
anthemic single antique
the album’s ~ “FREEDOM” (Jon Batiste) the revenue system is an ~ (economy)
identity & nature / representation: music turned the telegraph into an antique
comparison & contrast: affix the telephone ~
antibody (noun) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: antiques
“antibody response” within the government past & present / time: antiques
there was an ~ (rejection of lab-leak theory) anvil (shape)
attraction & repulsion / protection & lack of protection: anvil top
health & medicine a cumulonimbus mass with a dramatic ~
anticlimax (noun) anvil storm clouds
those majestic ~ that form on a hot summer’s day
sad anticlimax
his last campaign proved a ~ (an admiral) shape: tools & technology
development: theater anxiety (noun)
antidote (noun) class anxiety
antidote to adversity the raw nerve of English society, ~
a cheerful disposition and a sunny smile are the ~ social anxiety
antidote to the boredom ways to conquer ~
provide an ~ of teaching numbers, months, etc. financial anxiety
antidote to criminality the film is strikingly fraught with ~ (Sex and the City)
empathy is the ~ (versus idea of "bad seed") crucible of anxiety
antidote to cynicism how to handle the ~ (college admissions)
this book is an ~ irritation and anxiety
antidote to the (poisonous) doctrine students express ~ (rising tuition, fewer classes)
he was an ~ of extremism devoured by anxiety
antidote to violence she is ~ when she’s not working (magazine editor)
violence is not an ~ (capital punishment) ♦ “Years later, I have ptsd, I have panic attacks I go to therapy. Finally
I’m ready to talk about it and finally heal.” (Gabby, about a sexual
antidotes to hatred and intolerance assault.)

caring and sympathy are the best ~ ♦ “Every culture possesses what Edward Shorter, a medical historian at
the University of Toronto, calls a ‘symptom repertoire’—a range of
antidote against self-pity physical symptoms available to the unconscious mind for the physical
expression of psychological conflict.’ In parts of India, patients are said to
our callousness was an ~ (hospital ward) suffer from dhat syndrome: they complain of impotence and have the
delusion that they are losing their semen. In Nigeria, students who can’t
antidote for stress retain information and report feeling a burning sensation in their heads
a break from work is a necessary ~ (vacations) are sometimes given a diagnosis of ‘brain fag.’ The illnesses are
reinforced by a local belief that the symptoms are a sign of authentic
view (Tibetan) Buddhism as an antidote suffering, worthy of expert attention and care.” (“The Apathetic: Why are
refugee children falling unconscious?” by Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker,
some Han Chinese ~ to the materialism and greed… April 3, 2017.)
♦ In "Seldom Disappointed," the great Tony Hillerman writes about the
seemingly callous banter and traditions of badly wounded soldiers on a feeling, emotion & effect: mental health
hospital ward in Europe during WWII. For example, a soldier has his right
arm amputated and when he returns to the ward he is greeted by his apart (division)
comrades as "Lefty!" Hillerman makes the point that, while such behavior
seems "barbarous," it is, in fact, an antidote to self-pity. apart
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine they reunited after years of being ~

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wide apart ♦ “The Subscription-Pocalypse Is About To Hit” by Brian Moritz, Nieman
Lab, Predictions For Journalism 2019. His thought is, there are just too
the two sides remained ~ many things to subscribe to, so people will begin to cut back.)

grew apart ♦ “This could be ‘the year of the gas-pocalypse’ analysts tell the Los
Angeles Times...” (“Pained By Prices At The Pump? They’re Likely To
we ~ (divorce) Go Even Higher” by Mark Memmott, NPR, The Two-Way, January 6,
2012.)
division & connection: prep, adv, adj, particle
♦ A national shortage of Kraft Velveeta cheese at the start of 2014 was
avoidance & separation: prep, adv, adj, particle referred to as a cheesepocalypse.
apartheid (separation) ♦ Poppy Apocalypse; Poppypalooza... (In 2019, a super bloom of desert
poppies saw the town of Lake Elsinore, California, descended on by an
political apartheid army of blissed-out tourists equipped with cell phones and selfie sticks
and earbuds. They parked alongside an interstate, blocked local roads,
we’ve got ~ in this country (US politics) trampled everything, climbed trees to get the best photos, and fell down
hills. A dog was bitten by a rattlesnake.
division & connection: allusion / history
destruction: allusion / Bible
ape (verb)
apogee (at an apogee)
aped the materialism
regimes which ~ of irreligious others (Sayyid Qutb) at its apogee
the British Empire was ~
behavior / repetition: animal / verb
at his creative apogee
apex (highest point) when he was ~…
at the apex of the boom growth & development / primacy, currency, decline &
he invested ~ obsolescence: astronomy / direction
apex (of the fad's popularity) came apogee (noun)
the ~ when…
apogee of chic
reached its apex Paris is the ~
their rivalry ~ last year (two athletes)
growth & development: direction
apogee of his career
the film was the ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
apex (achievement) apogee of excellence
the Grande Armee reached its ~ (1805-1807)
apex of their profession apogee of fame
women can still have kids and reach the ~
Grant reached a new ~ (after victory at Chattanooga)
at the apex of her career apogee of a trend
she is ~
we have simply reached an ~ (minimalism in fashion)
achievement, recognition & praise: direction
movement's apogee
apex (apex animal, etc.) it was the ~

apex animal ascent, apogee and decline

the tuna is an ~ sport compresses life's natural trajectory of ~

apex predator reached its apogee

mankind is the ~ on earth the island ~ in the early Christian era
orcas are ~s growth & development / primacy, currency, decline &
so-called ~s, like sharks, groupers and jacks
obsolescence: astronomy / direction
~s have no natural predators of their own
hierarchy: direction / position
apoplectic (adjective)
apocalypse (noun) apoplectic
I am ~, at a loss for words (abuse of children)
retail apocalypse
the ~ speeds up (brick and mortar vs. online stores)
apoplectic about her definition
the man was ~ of marriage (gender inclusive)
After The Apocalypse:
America’s Role in a World Transformed (Andrew Bacevich) apoplectic (with rage) at what
he is ~ he hears on television (street protests)
♦ An online BBC article about a shortage of semiconductors entitle “How
will ‘chipageddon’ affect you” prompted Timbob to snark, ‘Surely apoplectic over the impact
“Chipocolypse” would have been better than ‘Chipageddon.’”

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 exhibitors are ~ of Netflix (independent theaters) operation: government / mechanism
apoplectic with what appetite (whet the appetite)
he would be ~ is going on today (dead father)
whet audiences' appetites for films
had diplomats apoplectic movie trailers ~
his phone call with the President of Taiwan ~
whet people's appetite for spending
went apoplectic museums try to ~
the Internet ~ (over a provocation about race)
whet the appetites of fans
makes him apoplectic the ad campaign is designed to ~ (TV)
it’s one of those little things that ~
whet the appetites of investors
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine the company's performance will not ~
apostasy (noun) whet appetites for a rematch
their fight ~ (boxing)
referred to criticism as apostasy
he ~ (Papandreou) increase & decrease: blade / knife
♦ “Papandreou referred to criticism of some of his individual policies by
PASOK members as ‘apostasy’—a word that in its original Greek form,
appetite (appetite for fur, etc.)
apostassia, carries a strong theological undertone from the days of
Byzantium, when emperors, ruling by Divine Right, were judged appetite to return
‘infallible,’ thus making their critics ‘heretics’ or ‘apostates.’” (Balkan will audiences have an ~ to the teachers (post-COVID)
Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan.)

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion

appetite for adventure
baby boomers who have an ~
apostle (Apostle of the Sioux, etc.)
appetite for electricity
Apostle of the Sioux the nation’s ~
he was known as “The ~” (the Swiss Martin Marty) appetite for fur
message / transmission: epithet Russia's growing ~ (new wealth)

apostle (person) appetite for gold

India's seemingly insatiable ~ (jewelry, dowries, temples)
apostle of LSD
he essentially became the ~ (Timothy Leary) appetite for (royal) gossip
the tabloids' ~
apostle of niceness
he is the ~ (a poetry critic) appetite for a (ground) invasion
commanders have little ~
apostle of positive thinking
he is an ~ appetite for (our) money
a government that has an endless ~ (taxes)
message / person: religion
message: person appetite for oil
we must reduce our ~
apostle (Twelve Apostles, etc.)
appetite (of the European rich) for porcelain
Twelve Apostles the ~ was insatiable
the ~ are a popular attraction (Victoria, Australia)
appetite for pornography
proper name: religion the ~ seems to be insatiable
apparatus (government) appetite for profit
their ~ sharpened by years of drought (farmers)
security apparatus
he disappeared within the state ~ appetite for scores
our voracious ~ that we can use to rank our kids (ed)
big apparatus
you’re in charge of this ~ (the president of US) appetite for sensationalism
♦ “When I became president, one of the things I discovered coming into the ~ (on part of broadcast media)
office is you’re in charge of a big apparatus... It’s an ocean liner and not
a speedboat... Trying to change policy is really difficult.” (“Barak Obama appetite for (crime) stories
on 2020.”) the American public has an insatiable ~ about blacks
♦ “How long will it take, is it a matter of turning an aircraft carrier?” (To
change or reverse diplomacy and foreign policy.) appetite for success

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 he had an ~ (a poet) the Y has increased the number of debates to ~
appetite for timber reduce our appetite
China's voracious ~ is deforestating Siberia (Russia) we must ~ for oil
appetite for cars, cell phones, appliances and services satisfies the appetite
the ~ increases daily (China) nothing ~ for allegory quite like a zombie film
appetite for gambling suppress the appetite
North Carolinians appear to have a strong ~ perils and jitters ~ for private and corporate risks
♦ “People often suppose that penal systems recruit sadists. But cruelty is
appetite for skateboarding an appetite that grows with feeding...” (The Fatal Shore by Robert
the local ~ Hughes, from the chapter “Norfolk Island.”)

India's (seemingly insatiable) appetite consumption: food & drink

~ for gold (jewelry, dowries, etc.)
appetizer (noun)
nation's appetite
the ~ for electricity appetizer
this is just the ~, the main course will come later (battle)
considerable (public) appetite
there is ~ for stories of feuds in the entertainment industry development: food & drink

endless appetite applaud (verb)

a government that has an ~ for our money (taxes) applaud the administration
insatiable appetite I ~ for doing that (politics)
India's seemingly ~ for gold (jewelry, dowries, temples) applaud his decision
little appetite many people ~
commanders have ~ for a ground invasion... applaud her
very little appetite her fans ~
in the US there is ~ for government restriction applaud women
local appetite I ~ like Hou who beat on against the current (chess)
the ~ for skateboarding achievement, recognition & praise / sanctioning, authority
low (sexual) appetite & non-conformity: gesture / sound / verb
my boyfriend has a very ~ applauded
political appetite
applauded and denounced
there is no ~ for banning assault weapons (in the US)
they launched a movement that has been both ~
public appetite achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / sound
the Y has increased the number of debates to feed the ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: gesture / sound
there is considerable ~ for stories of feuds
apple (proverb)
sexual appetite
my boyfriend has a very low ~ apple
a stone from the hand of a friend is an ~ (Morocco)
strong appetite
North Carolinians appear to have a ~ for gambling red apple
a ~ attracts stones (Turkish)
voracious appetite
our ~ for scores that we can use to rank our kids (education) perception, perspective & point of view: apple
for the last few years, China has had a ~ for bauxite
China's ~ for timber is deforestating Siberia apple (Golden Apple / education)
control over his appetites Golden Apple
he has no ~ (sex) she received a ~ (a teacher in North Carolina)

appetite (for consumer goods) increases achievement, recognition & praise: apple / sign, signal,
their ~ daily (China) symbol

have (no) appetite apple (bad / rotten apple)

I ~ for confrontation
bad apple
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 ~s tend to find one another Carroll's rah-rah style and Stoop's more ~ vary sharply
don’t let a few ~s spoil it for the rest of us we take a ~ to business (honesty, integrity)
“bad apple” argument old and new approaches
I don’t buy the ~ (war, combat and atrocities) NASA will pursue both ~ simultaneously
rotten apples pillar of the (US) approach
there are ~ in every barrel (bad cops) another ~ is to minimize civilian casualties
work of (a few) bad apples direction: movement
the Pentagon said the abuse was the ~ (military prison)
approach (the approach of summer, etc.)
character & personality: apple / fruits & vegetables
corruption: apple / food & drink with the approach of summer
its staff swells to 400 ~
apple (the apple doesn’t fall far from the
future / time: direction / movement
tree, etc.)
approaching (adjective)
apple
those ~s long ago fell from the Marxist tree (ideas) approaching elections
♦ The apple doesn't fall far from the tree! (Often said of fathers and the US has called the ~ unfair
sons.)
approaching spring
product: apple / fruits & vegetables melting snow and ~ brings thoughts of…
relationship: apple / fruits & vegetables
future / time: direction / movement
approach (winter is approaching, appropriation (groups)
etc.)
appropriation of (urban) youth culture
date is approaching this is an ~ (the word “bae” and corporate social media)
the application ~
cultural appropriation
end is (fast) approaching ~ and preferential treatment (#BlackTikTokStrike)
the ~ Mexican restaurateurs in France see it as ~ (French tacos)
war is approaching (cultural) appreciation, not (cultural) appropriation
~ in the Arabian Gulf Miss EmpowHer waist beads are ~
♦ “Appropriation, the most misappropriated word in the English language
deadlines are approaching at this time. Stuff and nonsense.” (greatpix about the
holiday shipping ~ #BlackTikTokStrike.)
♦ "When you don't know what's coming down the pike, you worry." (A ♦ “Moccasin maker Minnetonka is publicly apologizing for making money
businesswoman, speaking about government regulation.) off of Native culture.” (Moccasin, Minnetonka and indeed Minneapolis
and Minnesota all come from native American languages.)
future / time: direction / movement / verb
inclusion & exclusion: society
approach (a number, etc.)
aquifer (noun)
approach 100,000 deaths
as we ~ from the virus here in the U.S. huge aquifer
I had this ~ underneath of stories (Stephen King)
attainment: number ♦ “I had this huge aquifer underneath of stories that I wanted to tell and I
stuck a pipe down in there and everything just gushed out. There’s still a
approach (a better approach, etc.) lot of it, but there’s not as much now.” (Stephen King: The Rolling Stone
Interview.)
potshot approach
I don’t like that kind of a ~ (politics and criticism) source: water / ground, terrain & land
amount: water
take-no-prisoners approach
the ~ to justice
archipelago (noun)
confrontational approach archipelago of (fortified) camps
his ~ was rejected as a relic of the past (coach) they moved them into an ~ for political reeducation

creative approaches archipelago of enclaves

the competition rewards ~ to... (research) in Kosovo, most Serbs live in an ~ (Strpce, etc.)

straightforward approach archipelago of Jewish museums

her ~ startles many (on pediatric safety) Europe is a vast ~ (Jeffrey Goldberg)

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archipelago of black sites area (territory)
he had been tortured in the CIA’s ~
my area
saw themselves as a small archipelago biology isn’t ~
they ~ of decency in a rising sea of moral pollution
♦ Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines are archipelago nations. area: ground, terrain & land
♦ The crews of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, searching for a Northwest arena (in / inside the arena)
Passage, perished in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
♦ Alfred Russel Wallace pickled orangutans in barrels and collected in the mental health arena
butterflies in the Malay Archipelago. this has become an issue ~
♦ The Solomon Islands archipelago saw fierce fighting during World War
II. in the homeland security arena
♦ Lakes and even rivers can have archipelagos: Lake Baikal contains an anyone in the ~ will tell you that...
archipelago. What a wonderful place that would be to visit!
in the legal one
configuration: sea / island this will be debated in the political arena, not ~
architect (as verb) in the legislative arena
they would lose this battle ~
architect a life
~ that feels full, genuine, rich and beautiful (influencer) inside the legislative arena
Republicans have the upper hand ~
architect them
he is able to take all my ideas and ~ (fashion industry) in the political arena
creation & transformation: infrastructure / part of speech / these questions will be debated ~, not the legal one
verb in academic and professional arenas
develop their languages for use ~
architect (creator)
lose (this battle) in the legislative arena
architect of apartheid they would ~
a statue of Hendrik Verwoerd, the ~ (South Africa)
♦ “’Bae’ may be in the extreme get-the-fk-out-of-here phrase arena.”
architect of change (“Where did ‘Bae’ Come From?” by Natasha Zarinsky, Esquire, July 25,
2014.)
she was a legendary ~ (a feminist)
conflict: history / infrastructure / sports & games
architects of the doctrine
the ~ remain its strongest defenders (military) arise (verb)
architect of (Iraq's) program arise
"Dr. Germ," the chief ~ for biological weapons (BW) these are just some of the issues that can ~ (workplace)
we will deal with those cases as they ~ (sex assault)
architects of the Final Solution
Eichmann was one of the ~ arises from the ashes
adoption is a miracle that ~ of despair
architect of the war on terrorism
he is the ~ crisis (of enormous gravity) has arisen
a~
deal's (chief) architect
after the ~ was eased out… (hospital merger) appearance & disappearance / growth & development /
occurrence: direction / verb
chief architect
after the deal's ~ was eased out… (hospital merger) aristocracy (noun)
creation & transformation: infrastructure / person Cambridge intellectual aristocracy
person: infrastructure the club was his entrée into the world of ~ (Apostles)
architected rock aristocracy
all of ~ was coming (to see Cat Sevens and Carly Simon)
architected
how society is ~ (social justice) L.A.’s lustrous hip-istocracy
Adler was a star within ~ (Girls Like Us / Sheila Weller)
architected by FDR
he has ended the American era that was ~ (politics) superlative: royalty
architected for snap responses, speed, amplification aristocratic (aristocratic wine, etc.)
the social web is ~
aristocratic wines
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 ~ at democratic prices (commercial) ♦ “We’ve got to get our arms around this crisis [COVID] so we can get
our arms around our economy and make sure that people are safe. So...”
superlative: royalty (Governor Gretchen Whitmer on ABC.)
♦ Michele Martin of NPR has given us “get one’s hands around
arithmetic something,” seemingly on the analogy of a part of the body, or perhaps
to “freshen up” the cliche! What’s next?
parliamentary arithmetic ♦ It is hard to know what the physical basis is for this cliché, but it is now
Johnson faces exactly the same ~ (as Theresa May) deeply embedded in contempo-speak.

analysis, interpretation & explanation: number comprehension & incomprehension: arm / verb
strategy: number control & lack of control: arm / verb
arm (twist arms, etc.) arm (arm of an organization)
twisted arms to limit arm of the Kremlin
behind the scenes, the US government ~… as an ~, Gazprom usually gets its way

twist some arms distribution arm

the President needs to ~ Disney's ~, Buena Vista (movies)

twisted his arm commercial arm

threats might have ~ (to reinstate Benzema) the Indian Space Research Organization has a ~
♦ “Techniques to encourage loyalty down the years haven’t always been
entirely compliant with the outlook of a modern human-resources
political arm
department. The former labour cabinet minister Jack Straw recalled in the group's ~
his memoirs being grabbed by the ‘the goolies’ by his whip, a method
that led to teary-eyed agreement within moments. More enlightened evolved into an arm
recent times mean such tales of robust or physical twisting of arms, or Teach for America has ~ of the charter-school movement
indeed anything else, are less frequent...” (Political correspondent Chris
Mason, BBC Sounds, Six O’Clock News, “Senior Conservative alleges division: arm
MPs ‘intimidated’ by Government whips,” 20/01/2022.)
♦ “Cuomo strong-armed rather than cajoled; he used intimidation rather arm (configuration)
than seduction to get his way.” (“New York After Cuomo” by Michael
Greenberg, The New York Review, October 7, 2021.) arm of the Mediterranean Sea
♦ “Get them by their balls and their hearts and minds will follow.” (A the Ligurian Sea is an ~
saying popular among combat soldiers during the Vietnam War who
were cynical about US government campaigns to “win the hearts and twin arms
minds” of the Vietnamese people.)
in between those ~ of the Solomon Islands archipelago
coercion & motivation: arm / verb
configuration / resemblance: arm
arm (get one’s arms around something) arm (right arm)
get his arms around how Arafat's right arm
he couldn’t ~ to control COVID (ineffectual leader)
Abu Jihad was ~ (Kalil al-Wazir)
get their arms around the notion General Lee's right arm
nobody can ~ he would not only kill but decapitate her
"Stonewall" Jackson was ~
get our arms around the pandemic strong right arm
we need to ~ and save lives (Gretchen Whitmer)
the Home Fleet was the ~ of Britain's naval power
get our arms around this importance & significance: arm
we’re going to pull out all the stops to ~ (vaccine roll-out)
arm (at arm’s length)
wrap your arms around all this
it’s hard to ~ kept his daughter at arm's length
he ~ (because she was a manipulative drug addict)
get our arms around it
it’s important to try and ~ and figure out... (a report) held at arm's length
he was ~ by the US for years (an authoritarian leader)
try and get its arms around
this is a crisis the department will continue to ~ avoidance & separation: arm / distance
division & connection: arm / distance
try to get their hands around this
they try to ~ by taking a fresh look at the data (NPR) arm (open arms)
need to get our hands around open arms, hostility, and indifference
there has been a demonization that we ~ (anti-racism) US troops were greeted with ~
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 they ~ armchair (armchair traveller, etc.)
welcomed Disney with open arms armchair analysis
Orlando and Florida ~ (Magic Kingdom)
psychiatrists may not engage in ~ (ethics and politics)
welcomed the Confucius Institute with open arms Armchair Britain
many universities have ~
Today’s destination is Cornwall (~)
welcome them (back) with open arms armchair critic
we will ~ (rebellious soldiers)
the ~s, who have never achieved anything... (sports)
♦ "This country has a history of opening its arms. Today, its arms were
closed…" (Senator Barbara Boxer, on the failure of the Dream Act that armchair detective
would have given a path to citizenship to young migrants.)
Kar is the typical ~ (a murder investigation)
acceptance & rejection / welcome: arm
armchair enthusiast
avoidance & separation: arm / distance I’m no F1 guru, but am an avid ~ and could see... (crash)
division & connection: arm / distance
arm (long arm) armchair epidemiologists
beware ~ who have a solution to everything (pandemic)
long arm of Iran Armchair Expert
Hezbollah is the ~
during an appearance on the ~ podcast... (Dax and Monica)
long arm of the law armchair fans
no matter how long it takes, the ~ will catch up with you
they are out of town glory supporting ~(soccer snark)
long-arm statute ~ had criticized Southgate’s team selection (3 Lions win)
they are subject to jurisdiction pursuant to Virginia’s ~
armchair explorers
♦ When workers stayed in boarding houses and ate communally in a a tightknit community of ~ (Forest Fenn website)
dining room, they had to develop a “boardinghouse reach” or risk going
hungry!
armchair investigator
coercion & motivation / extent & scope: arm he had begun working with another ~ (lab-leak hypothesis)

arm (up in arms) Armchair Mountaineer

the ~ by David Reuther (Editor)
up in arms
the locals are ~ (recipients of trash from Rome) armchair quarterback
it’s easy to be an ~, what do you do when... (troubled kid)
up in arms over rising crime all the ~s who couldn’t make it as a police officer...
the community is ~
armchair traveller
got critics up in arms an ~ shouldn’t be giving advice about safety (trekking)
her response only ~
Armchair Voyage
conflict: weapon see all episodes from ~ (BBC)
armada (noun) armchair warriors
I have zero tolerance for ~ (a veteran)
armada of vehicles some shameful ~ on here (BBC HYS boxing)
an ~ arrived and stormed the block (mass shooter’s house)
armchair travel and adventure
amount / group, set & collection: boat / military / sea
books for ~
Armageddon real and armchair
political “Armageddon” he was popular with ~ sailors alike (Tristan Jones)
she would face ~ if his case makes it to a tribunal safety of his armchair
turned a Sunday afternoon into Armageddon said from the ~ (a response to criticism of police)
the crane collapse ~ ♦ “Nearly all advice sent to the King by armchair politicians is
impracticable nonsense.” (Don Quixote by Cervantes. Translated by
♦ “I call it poolmageddon. It’s a chlorine crisis” (Rudy Stankowitz, John Rutherford.)
columnist for PoolPro Magazine, about a shortage of chlorine. From “A
Chlorine Shortage Could Spoil Pool Season This Summer,” NPR ♦ “Some brave keyboard warriors on here tonight.” (Sarcastic comment
Weekend Edition Sunday, May 9, 2021.) on BBC HYS boxing.) / “So easy for you to say from behind a keyboard.”
(“Join the Discussion” snark.)
♦ An online BBC article about a shortage of semiconductors entitle “How
will ‘chipageddon’ affect you” prompted Timbob to snark, ‘Surely ♦ “Does bring out the armchair critics, who have never achieved
“Chipocolypse” would have been better than ‘Chipageddon.’” anything, and think they know football.” (Jake 1234 in response to
Grover’s criticism about coach Gareth Southgate. On a BBC HYS,
destruction: allusion / Bible football.)

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♦ “Another keyboard coroner with his expert autopsy analysis from the ~ story (fans of Arnold Palmer)
thousands of miles away.” (Sarcastic comment on message board about
a police shooting.) Barmy Army
♦ “She called out some of the keyboard cowards with reasoned replies.” the ~ must have been disappointed (English cricket)
(Social media trolls / cyberbullies.)
Britney Army
experience: house
the ~ (#FreeBritney)
armed orange army
armed with the information Verstappen’s ~ guaranteed a unique atmosphere (F1)
~, officials tracked down the criminals Tartan Army
armed with a microscope members of the ~ (Scotland’s national football team)
~, he measured… (a scientist) the ~ belts out “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie” in London
♦.“’Boogie my... ‘ growled a disappointed Sean Connery, at McLeods
armed with her new mobility Publick House on W Main Street, after Scotland lost to Croatia. ‘What
the child begins exploring the world ~ have the descendants of Culloden, of Seringapatam, St. Valery and
Tumbledown Mountain come to? It almost makes me wish I could return
armed with vast computing power to Kafiristan!’” (“Elderly Scottish Visitor Disappears After Soccer Result,”
The Dothan Eagle, Dothan, Alabama.)
~, scientists will try to model a nuclear blast
♦ Fans of the “Who Weekly” podcast call themselves Wholigans, they
armed (only) with her five senses have their own language and inside jokes, and they support the hosts by
subscribing on Patreon.
she makes diagnoses ~ (doctor)
♦ “Hi, are you a Saweetie?” (The rapper greeting people to a private club
armed with (fresh) search warrants in West Hollywood.)
police arrived ~ ♦ “It’s part of a boyishness that Musk-eteers really love about him.” (Jill
Lepore using a term for followers of Elon Musk.)
armed with cash, good will, and local knowledge
enthusiasm / group, set & collection: military
they practice "public diplomacy" ~
help & assistance: military / weapon
army (a large group)
armor (protection) army of emojis
the smiley morphed into a whole ~
armour of obstinacy and willful ignorance
the Germans are deaf and blind, enclosed in an ~ army of fans
an ~ broke out in celebration (#FreeBritney)
opponent's armor
she uncovered a critical chink in her ~ army of followers
he'll have an ~ (Apolo Ohno at Olympics)
chink in his armor
see chink (chink in one’s armor) army of (private) investors
an ~ spotted a chance (GameStop)
♦ “Life would be easier if vaccines offered invincible armor.” (Covid
pandemic.) army of pastors
protection & lack of protection: Middle Ages / military / evangelicals are spreading rapidly through an ~
weapon army of people
armory (noun) it takes an ~ to get you ready (Sandra Oh / Oscars)

armoury of obstinacy and (willful) ignorance army of statistics

he bolsters his analysis with an ~
the Germans are deaf and blind, enclosed in an ~
in her armory army of volunteers
he recruited an ~ (Chef Jose “We Fed an Island” Andres)
slyness and guile are simply not ~
help & assistance: military / weapon army of (volunteer) workers
an ~ pounded nails (community playground)
group, set & collection: military / weapon
arm-twisting army of zombies
they band these computers together into an ~ (botnets)
a lot of arm-twisting
his job requires a ~
army of Ph.D.s
the vast ~ now roaming the universities
coercion & motivation: arm / violence
army of (poorly paid) migrant workers
army (Arnie’s Army, etc.) an ~ works in Saudi Arabia

Arnie’s Army grassroots army

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 his war chest and ~ make him an unstoppable juggernaut growing arsenal
♦ “I think what people are worried about in this ad is that he says ‘army of there is a ~ of fire-fighting tools on the market
supporters’... We believe the language ‘army of supporters’ is not really
calling for an army but is calling on people who are normal campaign brought history into the arsenal
volunteers.” (Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Erasmus and his followers ~ of the Reformation
about a 2020 political ad.)
♦ On Sunday, January 27, 2002, an arms depot blew up on a military
amount: military base in the densely packed Ikeja area of Lagos. A series of blasts shook
the city, and chaos reigned as thousands fled, not knowing what was
arouse (verb) happening. At a canal several miles away, in the darkness, more than a
thousand people drowned in a great crowd stampede. As is common in
such stampedes, many of the victims were women and children.
aroused suspicions
what they said ~ amount / group, set & collection: weapon / military
consciousness & awareness: sleep / verb help & assistance: weapon / military

arrive (a time can arrive) art (work of art)

edible works of art
1972 arrived
her awe-inspiring pie decorations are ~
~, and the world didn’t end (a doomsday cult)
future / time: direction / movement / verb work of art, a masterpiece
the winning of the South Pole had been a ~ (Amundsen)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction /
movement / verb genius, an absolute work of art
arrive (the equator is arriving, etc.) it was ~ (a goal scored by Arsenal captain Aubameyang)

arriving again turn the ocean into works of art

phytoplankton blooms ~ (BBC’s Colourful Planet)
the equator is ~ (a moving ship)
♦ “This is the 70th birthday of one of the most important works of art in
♦ When you are traveling, on a ship, say, things can arrive and pass you. American history. (Sound of opening music to the TV show I love Lucy.)
Yeah, think of it as a work of art...” (Steve Inskeep, NPR, Morning
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction / Edition, Feb 5 2021.)
movement / verb
achievement, recognition & praise: picture
arrive (attainment) creation & transformation / superlative: picture
arrived artery (route)
she is, after just one engagement, a new artist who has ~
artery
♦ See comer (up-and-comer, etc.)
the ~ poured across the US fueled development (a highway)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
movement
artery on the (old) Silk road
the street was an ~ (Jibek Joly in southern Kazakhstan)
arrive at (an answer, etc.)
artery of commerce
arrive at your answer the Mississippi River is an ~
how did you ~ arteries of (global) trade
♦ “I hope you support where I come out (on my decision).” it is in all our interests that the ~ are kept free (shipping)
attainment: journeys & trips / movement / verb artery of water
analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips / the canal is a life-giving ~ (agriculture)
movement / verb
arsenal (amount) clogged artery
Boston's ~ (the Central Artery)
arsenal of medicines underwater arteries
the ~ against biological weapons is limited
these ~ could be vulnerable to attack (undersea cables)
arsenal of (top-of-the-line) technology bustling artery
the team set out last month with an ~ (search team)
the seventh floor overlooks a ~ (an avenue)
arsenal of tools north-south artery
their ~ for evaluating applicants (colleges)
Route One, a ~ (Jerusalem)
arsenal of (fire-fighting) tools Central Artery
a growing ~
the ~ is clogged with traffic day and night (Boston)
beauty arsenal vital artery
the ~ you can count on (cosmetics)
the Grand Canal was a ~ (China)

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commercial and military artery ascent (other)
the Gulek Pass has been a major ~ for millennia (Turkey)
ascent to celebrity
route: blood
Julia examines the famous chef’s ~ (HBO Max)
branching system: blood
ascent (of his party) to power
Arthurian (adjective) the ~ in 1968 led to…
Arthurian figure rapid ascent
he became an ~ in Greek popular culture (Constantine XI) the company has seen a ~
fantasy & reality: allusion / history / person slow the ascent
allusion: books & reading action to ~ of their currencies
comparison & contrast: affix
ascent, apogee and decline
artisanal (adjective) sport compresses life’s natural trajectory of ~
artisanal items growth & development: direction
using salvaged foods as ingredients in ~ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
artisanal mezcal ashes (from the ashes)
importing ~ for distribution in the U.S. market
from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire
artisanal food shop Turkey rose ~
~ helps Kosovo war-rape survivors earn income and heal
from the ashes of the Korean War
artisanal mining but ~ we rose (South Korean President)
~ supports poor families in the region (the Congo)
♦ “Come 2012, there’s a new food vocabulary: authentic, craft, small from the ashes of apartheid
batch, artisan, rustic and, of course, local. It’s the opposite of processed, ~, Soweto is emerging as a vibrant place…
mass produced and factory farmed...” (“Artisanal And Authentic, The
Flavors Of The New Year” by Bonny Wolf, NPR, Weekend Edition from the ashes of despair
Sunday, January 1, 2012.) adoption is a miracle that arises ~
creation & transformation: hand / manufacturing
emerged from the ashes
artwash (verb) the League ~ of World War I

artwash the regime rose from the ashes

the government brings western influencers to ~ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ~ of WW II

concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb amelioration & renewal / destruction / origin: fire
appearance & reality: hygiene / verb creation & transformation: fire

ascent (on the ascent) ask (big ask, etc.)

on the ascent ask is that
India is ~ (militarily and economically) really, our ~ we test the alternatives...
China is ~, and the US seems on the descent ask was
his career is ~ (an athlete) our biggest ~we wanted the conference to...
seems to be on the ascent ask for a positive tweet
plagiarism ~ I’m not aware of any ~ (Jen Psaki, WH press secretary)
growth & development: direction
big ask of Trump
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction the Polish President went to Washington with a ~
ascent (with the ascent) brutal ask for the (young) boxer
with the ascent of the Nazis this is a ~ (a match in Russia)
her worst political fears came true ~ hard ask for (an antiwar) Belgium
with the ascent of Chomsky it was a ~ (troop surge in Afghanistan)
linguistics changed drastically ~ big ask
growth & development: direction what you want is a ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction asking for a change is a ~
he is demanding government documents, a ~
most important ask

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 the ~ I have for Afghanistan is that... (Ashraf Ghani) ♦ “The Internet has brought a whole community of brain tinglers together,
who can upload and share videos and talk about their experiences, to
tall ask their heart’s content.” (BBC Radio 4, Seriously, “Brain Tingles.”)
it may be a ~ to replicated his stats from... (NFL) ♦ According to a BBC writer, John Butler, the “former farmer” and
“YouTube sensation,” provided tingly or shivery solace to millions during
formal or explicit ask the COVID pandemic. (BBC, “Asmr: Former farmer, 84, is accidental
YouTube star,” 14 June 2021.)
no ~ was ever made (for celebrity to leave Oscars)
♦ Merriam-Webster added ASMR in January 2021.
quite the ask ♦ “People who don’t have ASMR don’t really get it... You got to have a lot
the idea of doing all that is ~ (privacy etiquette / guests) of subscribers.” (An ASMR video-maker.)

comes with an ask feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction

it ~, we need help... aspirational (adjective)
♦ “Just lay out what your specific ask is.” “Our biggest ask was we
wanted...” (Heard on NPR.) aspirational
wants, needs, hopes & goals: part of speech does it apply to the here and now, or is it ~ (diplomacy)

asleep (adjective) wants, needs, hopes & goals: breathing

asleep
assassination (character assassination)
all the governments are ~ (Middle East) character assassination
♦ “I hope this film shakes people from their slumber.” (The great to call him an anti-Semite is ~
filmmaker and New York Knicks fan Spike Lee.) calling him a racist is ~
consciousness & awareness: sleep
character assassination through silence
asleep (at the switch, etc.) inaction can be ~

asleep at the switch right-wing character assassination

the regulators were ~ (oil spill) the film is ~ masquerading as "history"

asleep at the wheel cleverly orchestrated character assassination

several Republican incumbents have been ~ (election) the FBI conducted ~ (US)
many states have been ~ (girls marrying too young in US) anonymous character assassination
the World Health Organization was ~ (response to epidemic) early uses of the printing press included ~
consciousness & awareness: sleep
political character assassination
control & lack of control: sleep it was ~ (a script about John F. Kennedy)
failure, accident & impairment: sleep
ASMR posthumous character assassination
the Jackson estate calls the HBO documentary a ~
ASMR angel cesspool of character assassination
Charlotte, who is called the ~ (gift wrapping) the Web site is a ~ (gossip site in rural towns)
Asmr community victim of character assassination
John Butler, a beloved member of the ~ (former farmer) he was the ~
ASMR Dental Examination and Teeth Cleaning accused her of character assassination
~ (Lizi ASMR / roleplay / 606,106 views) he ~
Asmr moaning conduct character assassination
Asmr joi, Asmr roleplay, ~ (porn categories) I'm not trying to ~
food ASMR smells of character assassination
~ videos have garnered over 2.4 billion views (TikTok) the criminal case against him ~
Lesbian ASMR used character assassination
~ kissing, licking and mouth fetish they ~ against him
lewd ASMR accusation & criticism: speech / violence
~ (a porn category) speech: violence
♦ Relaxing; soothing; feeling of personal intimacy; surrendering yourself
to somebody else; softly spoken; lush whispers; hushed tones; Russian assembly line (noun)
and Eastern European accents; sounds; visceral; tingling sensation;
scalp; back of neck... (Features of ASMR.) well-oiled assembly line
Hollywood was a slick, ~ (in the 1930s)

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creation & transformation: manufacturing we don’t know whether this is real ~ (protests)
asterisk (attention) ♦ “Sometimes it’s very hard to verify. Sometimes it’s very hard to know
the motivations of the person... Astro turf, things that appear real but are
fake, right, we’re in this moment where there’s so much fakery...”
asterisk next to his name (Damien Cave, The New York Times.)
there should always be an ~ (drugs / a boxer)
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
asterisk beside this victory / subterfuge: infrastructure
there will forever be a metaphorical ~ (split decision)
astroturfer (noun)
with an asterisk
this is justice ~ (exoneration came much too late) astroturfers
~ present themselves as grassroots organizations
giant asterisk
all 3 shootings, there’s a ~ next to them (a policeman) astroturfers aim
~ to make you think you’re an outlier when you’re not
attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters
astroturfers claim
astir (adjective) ~ to debunk myths that aren’t myths at all
astir in the world appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
great things were ~ (the Renaissance) / subterfuge: infrastructure
set the baseball world astir astroturfing
the news ~
astroturfing
activity: movement / sleep ~ masks the sponsor, who is not grassroots
astray (direction) “~” creates the appearance of a grass-roots campaign
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
gone astray
science has ~, gone off the rails, many times / subterfuge: infrastructure
♦ “Follow the prophet, don’t go astray / Follow the prophet, he knows the asylum (insane asylum, etc.)
way.” (A Mormon children’s song.)

behavior / failure, accident & impairment: animal / insane asylum

NYC trains are ~s, so is this thread... (crime)
direction
environment: mental health
astride (position)
Athens (Athens of Asia, etc.)
astride the Red Sea and the Sahel
Sudan, ~... (geopolitics) Athens of Asia
♦ This preposition means to have one leg on either side. Samarkand briefly was the ~ (Tamerlane)
configuration: horse / leg / standing, sitting & lying “Athens of Cuba”
fictive position: horse / leg / standing, sitting & lying locals christened it the ~ for its cultural life (Matanzas)
astronomical (adjective) knowledge & intelligence: epithet

astronomical atmosphere (in / within an

the odds are ~ atmosphere)
astronomical prices
the ~ of the so-called glamour health spas
in an atmosphere of suspicion
they live ~
astronomical (suicide) rate
a nation plagued by an ~ (Japan)
in an atmosphere of tension and gloom
people resumed their lives ~ (after rioting)
astronomical sum
this is an ~ (salary)
in a post-Sept.11 atmosphere
security concerns ~
size: astronomy
comparison & contrast: astronomical
in a carnival atmosphere
discussion should not have to be conducted ~
astroturf (noun)
in a welcoming atmosphere
perpetuate astroturf have people come together ~ (party)
corporations and special interest exploit media to ~
within the cloistered atmosphere
grassroots or astroturfs [sic] she felt secure ~ (psychiatric ward)

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in this highly charged atmosphere it's a ~ (Wild West Weekend at historic village)
~ the bombings started (Saudi Arabia)
party atmosphere
in a calm atmosphere a ~ had taken over
~ we tend to win the debate the ~, the trinket booths (Gay Pride parades)

in an (intensely) partisan atmosphere team atmosphere

~, reform is very difficult (US Congress) create a ~ (sports)

in a safe, discreet atmosphere work atmosphere

exploring her girl/girl fantasies ~ (brothel) a ~ notorious for backbiting
environment: air / atmosphere / weather & climate classroom atmosphere
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / weather & he created a ~ in which we could say anything
climate
hometown atmosphere
atmosphere (atmosphere of trust, etc.) creating a ~ for Atlanta’s transplants (sports bars)

atmosphere pressure-cooker atmosphere

the ~ inside the MGM Grand arena was festive the accusations underscore the ~ in the region
at the opening of the trial, the ~ was electric
anti-immigration atmosphere
atmosphere of acceptance Sept. 11 has not yet led to a massive ~
promote an ~ for new staff members
accepting atmosphere
atmosphere of (open) access Amigos in the Dominican Republic has an ~ (gays)
an ~ at administrative buildings (pre-9/11)
inviting atmosphere
atmosphere of (such sacred) ceremonies US's ~ makes terrorist activities inevitable
the spiritual ~ (Wicca)
freewheeling atmosphere
atmosphere of distrust Krasnoyarsk's ~
adding to the ~ was… (Middle East)
electric atmosphere
atmosphere of (funereal) gloom the ~ in the city when a pride event is in town
an ~
friendly atmosphere
atmosphere of stereotypes the ~ that originally drew foreigners to Wisconsin
an ~ among the restaurant workers (about who tips)
liberal atmosphere
atmosphere of tolerance Khujand had a surprising ~ (Tajikistan)
the ~ he had seen on US television (towards gays)
peaceful atmosphere
atmosphere of trust preserving the ~ (synagogue after 9/11)
they established an ~ (US company in China)
poisonous atmosphere
atmosphere of denial and repression a "~" has descended on the Times (firings)
an ~ (pedophilia and the priesthood)
supportive atmosphere
atmosphere of hopelessness and poverty this ~ (at a psychiatric hospital)
Gaza's ~ a ~ for scholarly development (university)

atmosphere of hostility and distrust toxic atmosphere

the ~ (Middle East) political leaders have contributed to a ~ (politics)

atmosphere of a (medieval) market-pilgrim town volatile atmosphere

the old quarter had the ~ (Lhasa) it's a ~ (national outrage over child abuse by clergy)

atmosphere at Central Command carnival-like atmosphere

the ~ was one of confidence a ~ outside the soccer stadium

atmosphere on the plane cauldron-like atmosphere

the ~ remained calm (hijacking) the energy of the crowd in the ~ (World Cup)

carnival atmosphere quiet, safe and orderly atmosphere

there was a ~ (peaceful anti-war protest) promote a ~ (public library)

family atmosphere cost, taste and atmosphere

companies used to have a ~ ~ are important in a restaurant

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environment or atmosphere atrophy (verb)
does this create a new ~ (Supreme Court rules on NCAA)
atrophied
food, atmosphere, music its military capacity has ~ (NATO)
~ (New Orleans)
attenuation / condition & status / functioning: health &
size, location and atmosphere medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
think about company ~ (looking for a job)
attached (attributed)
atmosphere prevails
an accepting ~ throughout the Dutch Caribbean (gays) attached to depression
there is a severe social stigma ~
enjoy that atmosphere
some people don’t ~ (Virgin Galactic vs. SpaceX) attached to it
cross burning has a history of racial intimidation ~
poison the atmosphere
fear and distrust can quickly ~ (epidemic) attached to that
♦ “For me to be here and to sample the atmosphere, I don’t think I’ll see no undue significance should be ~
or hear an atmosphere like this again. The atmosphere was just
something that took my breath away... I have never seen anything like attachment: materials & substances
this before. I’ve played at Anfield when there is a superb atmosphere but
this is something else, something special.” (Alan Shearer on Liverpool’s attachment (noun)
amazing victory against Barcelona in a Champion’s League second leg
semifinal.) attachment to him
♦ “The atmosphere was amazing, off the scale, absolutely lunatic.” younger black folk have less of an ~ (an older celebrity)
(Steve Bunce about Fury-Whyte in front of 94,000 fight fans at Wembley
Stadium.) attachment: materials & substances
environment: air / atmosphere / weather & climate attack (verb)
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / weather &
climate attacked the government’s plans
conservative rebels have ~ (UK / COVID lockdown)
atomic bomb
conflict: military
atomic bomb for poor people
terrorism was the ~ (Pablo Escobar) attack (under attack, etc.)
cruise missiles and atomic bombs under attack
you bodies are our new ~ (suicide bombers) the feeling in Egypt was that all Arabs were ~
♦ “In 1945, news reached the camps that the US now possessed the
South Korean culture is ~ (insults about food)
atomic bomb. According to Solzhenitsyn, this unexpected development
gave hope to many prisoners, who began to pray for atomic war.” (“On under attack worldwide
The Prison Highway, The gulag’s silent remains,” by Ian Frazier, The he read of how Muslims were ~
New Yorker, August 30, 2010.)
♦ The original target for the second atomic bomb was Kokura. But
come under attack
because Kokura was clouded in, the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. such practices have ~ as cruel to animals (cages)
♦ “I felt no remorse or guilt that I had bombed the city.” (Charles W. his methodology has ~
Sweeney, pilot of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki in ♦ James Mossman: “You say that you don’t care what the critics write
World War II.) about you, your work, yet you got very angry with Edmund Wilson once
♦ “I don’t feel any guilt or blame about it. I think my view really is if we for commenting on you work, and you let off some very heavy field guns
hadn’t done it someone else would have. And it would be with us in any at him, not to say multiple rockets, so you must have cared...” / Vladimir
case.” (Lilli S. Hornig, who worked on the Manhattan Project. From “The Nabokov: “I never retaliate when my works of art are concerned. Here
Bomb,” PBS, 2015.) the arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch let alone pierce the shield
of what disappointed archers call my self-assurance. But I do reach for
♦ According to General Eisenhower, the four “tools of victory” that won my heaviest dictionary when my scholarship is questioned...” (Vladimir
World War II were the bazooka, the jeep, the C-47 Skytrain, and the Nabokov, BBC Author Archive Collection, “James Mossman talks to
atomic bomb. Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov in this 1970 interview.”)
destruction: explosion / nuclear energy accusation & criticism: military / weapon
atomization (noun) conflict: military / weapon

atomization of literary journalism

attack (noun)
the ~ and getting paid for it (online reviewers) attacks on athletes
atomization of the rap market personal ~ at games (fan abuse)
the ~ attacks on their self-esteem and dignity
division & connection: physics dealing with ~ (stereotypes, etc.)
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 he condemned Western media ~ (Abdullah) aura of unreality
an ~ descended over the mountain (disaster)
attack ads
we are seeing ~ of every kind (election) aura of doom and gloom
an ~
attack mode
she is in a real ~ archive's aura
the exhibit has an ~ of dense, ordered information
media attack
he condemned Western ~s against Saudi Arabia romantic aura
the pond possesses the ~ of s landscape portrait
mob attacks
protecting individuals from social-media ~ projects an aura
she ~ of assertiveness and self-confidence
direct attack
under ~ you could use the quivering-lip approach punctured Slater's aura
he ~ of invincibility (surfing)
latest attack
this ~ stung local parole officials (calls to end system) appearance: air / atmosphere
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere
personal attacks
~ on athletes at games (fan abuse); auspicious (adjective)
ladling criticism or indulging in ~
auspicious
fend off some (major) attacks the timing of the move is ~ as the country is...
he has had to ~ (a politician)
auspicious debut
accusation & criticism: weapon the album is an ~ for the group (good reviews)
attacked auspicious start
it was an ~ to an audacious career (in music)
attacked from above and below
the ice is being ~ (floating ice shelf / global warming) auspicious time
the news came at an ~ in the U.K.
destruction: military / weapon
attend (verb) auspicious politically
everything is ~, Grant will surely be elected...
attended these protests less than auspicious
violence has ~ her arrival in England was ~ (a refugee)
attachment: journeys & trips / movement / verb he was appointed under ~ circumstances
relationship: journeys & trips / movement / verb not an auspicious beginning
audience (play to the audience, etc.) this was ~ (a bad date, but they ended up married anyway)

see play (play to the audience, etc.) not an auspicious debut

alas, it was ~ (bad reviews)
auger (verb) ♦ This comes from the Latin for bird and see and means, “The omens are
good.” At certain times and in certain places, the direction of flight of a
augers well bird might determine whether or not a camel caravan set out that day.
this ~ for future attempts to find the wreck (conditions) Romans would cut open a bird and study the entrails. The early Puritans
in the US avidly studied nature for signs.
fate, fortune & chance: bird / religion / verb ♦ “Punxsutawney Phil is predicting six more weeks of winter, but Staten
evidence: bird / religion / verb Island Chuck...”

aura (noun) ♦ “Every sign points to her having a huge year in 2022...”
♦ “That’s a bad sign!”
aura of assertiveness ♦ “Omens of ill-luck will follow those who pay attention to them.” (A
she projects an ~ and self-confidence saying.)
♦ “The Spouter Inn. Peter Coffin. Coffin? Spouter? Rather ominous in
aura of prosperity that particular connection, though I...” (Moby-Dick.)
Turkish businessmen sported an irresistible ~
fate, fortune & chance: bird / religion
aura of an (18th-century English) landscape evidence: bird / religion
the pond possesses the ~
author (person)
aura of a shrine
the images in the hall add the ~ (SuAnne Big Crow) author of his own misfortune
he fully accepts he was the ~ (arrested)

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author of her misfortune avalanche of (prejudicial) comment
the court argued she had been the ~ the murder trial was nearly derailed by an ~ on social media
authors of our own life stories avalanche of data
we are not the ~ (addiction versus free will) an ~ given the Russians
creation & transformation: books & reading / person avalanche of e-mail
person: books & reading his most recent column drew an ~ to Salon editors
auto da fe avalanche of publicity
the disappearance triggered an ~ (Chandra Levy)
auto-da-fe of Vietnam
the New Left died in the ~ (Louis Menand) avalanche of (unfavorable) publicity
the ~ that resulted from... (politician)
judgment / oppression / violence: history
avalanche of confusing forms and rules
automata (noun) he spoke about the ~ (Brexit)
became automata avalanche picked up speed
even captains ~, acquiring life only through orders as the ~... (calls for politician’s resignation)
consciousness & awareness / feeling, emotion & effect: amount & effect: snow & ice
mechanism
avatar (noun)
autopilot (on autopilot)
default avatar
on autopilot Twitter did away with the egg as its ~
he's ~, his fingers go to the same place (gamer)
he was ~, frantically trying to save him (combat medic) avatars and superheroes
athletes are seen as ~
made on autopilot
a lot of our economic decisions are actually ~ create your own avatar
♦ “Diving became this darkness which permeated the rest of my life. I some online video games allow you to ~
really hated it, but I knew it was my one chance to be special, so I kept
going, effectively on autopilot.” (Olympic gold-medal-winning diver flatten characters into avatars
Matthew Mitcham.) revenge thrillers tend to ~ and little else (films)
behavior / consciousness & awareness / feeling, emotion representation: religion
& effect: plane
avenue (portal)
autopsy (analysis)
avenue of advancement
autopsy of the Cuban vote India's dalits need a new ~
so what’s your ~ in Florida (radio show)
new avenue
♦ “So what’s your autopsy of the Cuban vote in Florida?” (Asked by Lulu
Garcia Navarro to her guest on NPR, Weekend Edition Sunday, “The
India's dalits need a ~ of advancement
Cuban Vote in Florida,” November 11, 2018.)
dark sonic avenues
analysis, interpretation & explanation: death & life / health her songs lure listeners down ~ (Billie Eilish)
& medicine
portal: infrastructure
autumn (in the autumn) avenue (route)
in the autumn of his life
avenue of attack
he was ~
his wrongdoing gave lawyers an ~
in the autumn of the year
fruitful avenue
but now the days are short, I’m ~ (Sinatra)
this might be a ~ for further research
growth & development / decline: season
legal avenue
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: season
pursue all reasonable ~s
avalanche (noun)
reasonable (legal) avenue
avalanche of (racial) abuse pursue all ~s
they faced an ~ (soccer players after Euro 2020)
all avenues
avalanche of applications Canada will pursue ~ to assist the jailed men
it failed to prepare for an ~ (passports)
pursue (all legal) avenues

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 we will ~ spiritual awakening
she had a ~
route: infrastructure
consciousness & awareness: sleep
awake (adjective)
awash
awake to what happened
everyone seems to be wide ~ (elections) awash with small arms
Yemen is ~ that have been smuggled in
awake American
he signs his posts, "an ~" awash with (at least 10,000) floral bouquets
the church is ~ (for murdered girls)
awake electorate
the answer is reform and an ~ awash with (overt) irony
♦ “We are now awake and paying attention.” (An Asian parent who social media is ~ often tipping into sarcasm
helped lead a campaign that led to the recall of three San Francisco
school-board members.) awash with weapons
♦ Sam Sanders (“Opinion: It’s Time to Put ‘Woke’ To Sleep,” NPR, the Horn of Africa is ~
Weekend Edition Sunday, December 30, 2018) argues that the term Libya is ~
woke has had its day and should be retired.
♦ see also woke (groups) awash with corruption, venality and graft
the government is ~
consciousness & awareness: sleep
awash in allegations
awaken (awareness) India is ~ of corruption
awakened to the horrors awash in cash
on that day, the world ~ of apartheid (South Africa) the company is ~ and looking to buy
awakening in Algeria, Sudan, Morocco, and Jordan awash in flowers, firecrackers and fine foods
Arab peoples are also ~ (after Tunisia, Egypt and Libya) Chinatown is ~ (Chinese New Year)
awaken people amount & effect: water
we're trying to do what we can to ~
away (a week away, etc.)
people are awakening
slowly the ~ just a mouse click away
it was ~ (evidence of public shaming)
consciousness & awareness: sleep / verb
“One Heartbeat Away
awaken (nature, etc.) ~: Presidential Disability and Succession” (Birch Bayh)
awakening from (its winter) sleep about five minutes away
nature is ~ a dystopian future is ~
taiga awoke just a plane away
the ~ (at dawn) we are ~ from having cases here (COVID-19)
♦ “The sky turned from black to deep blue, and then grey and cloudy.
The shades of night began to shrink into the bushes and ravines. In a just a shot away
few minutes our bivouac was astir again; men started talking; the horses war, children, it’s ~ (“Gimme Shelter” / Rolling Stones)
stirred at their ropes; a pica piped on one side, and lower down the gorge
another answered it; the yaffle of the woodpecker rang through the forest just two weeks away
and the melodious whistle of the oriole. The taiga awoke...” (Dersu Uzala
by V.K. Arseniev.) we are ~ from the first vote

activity / resemblance: sleep just a week away

and now, with the decision ~, the clock is ticking
awakened (adjective) ♦ “Cyberpunk is a dystopian future that’s about five minutes from our
current existence.” (Mike Pondsmith.)
awakened and empowered
Nato seems ~ in this moment (NPR political pundit) future / proximity / time: distance / prep, adv, adj, particle
consciousness & awareness: sleep AWOL
awakening went AWOL
the Federal government ~ (in defending a health act)
9/11 awakening
part of it was a ~ (desire to "do more" for others) allegiance, support & betrayal: military
condition & status: military
religious awakening
the ~ is partly an outgrowth of the war (Bosnia )

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ax (ax to fall, etc.) axed (curtailed)
waiting for the axe to fall axed
sitting around ~ (deadlines) the event was ~ (because of pandemic)
fate, fortune & chance: ax / blade curtailment: ax / blade
ax (noun)
budget ax B
many state programs will succumb to the ~ (shortfall)
the camp may fall to the ~ (for teens) baby (relationship)
faces the ax Elam’s baby
the show still ~ (TV) the idea may be ~, but he has looked at it critically
fall to the (budget) ax his baby
the camp may ~ (for teens) the Gulf of Mexico is ~
Cooper refers to his camera, made in 1898, as ~
succumb to the ax
many state programs will ~ (budget shortfall) my baby
this is ~ and I want to keep growing it (a business)
taking an ax it's ~ (Ferrari 458 Italia)
he is ~ to spending
♦ Climax, Demon, Endurance, Cock of the Woods, Red Warrior, our baby
Hiawatha, Hottentot, Black Prince, Black Chief, Battle Axe, Invincible, this is ~ (fire spotter speaking of his tower)
XXX Chopper, Woodslasher, Razor Blade, Stiletto, Forest King, Young
American, Gorilla... (Late-19th-century model names of axes used to cut ♦ “I don’t have kids but I feel that it’s like letting your baby go and grow
down the North American forests.) up. So she’s on her next step before she goes up to the moon. And you
have to do it.” (Dafna Jackson, an advisor at SpaceIL, after the
dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / tools & Beresheet spacecraft was shipped to Cape Canaveral, to be launched
into space by a Space X Falcon 9 rocket. Sadly, there was a glitch at the
technology last moment, and the spacecraft crash-landed on the moon.)

ax (ax to grind) ♦ “I am a childless man, after all, ladies and gentlemen, and my books
are my children, I have invested the blood of my soul in them, and after
my death it is they and they alone that will carry my spirit and my dreams
ax to grind to future generations.” (Uncle Joseph Klausner from A Tale of Love and
he just has an ~ (criticism) Darkness by Amos Oz.)
sometimes a source has an ~ (journalism) ♦ “This is my baby, this is what does the work.” (Albert Milton, the deputy
this is another letter from somebody with an ~ boss of a diamond mine in Botswana, speaking about a 720-ton electric
excavator crane that can grab 60 tons of broken rock in a single bite.)
axe to grind ♦ “So I get used to the book’s final stage, to its having been weaned from
he is motivated not by truth but an ~ my brain. I now regard it with a kind of bemused tenderness, as a man
regards, not his son, but, uh, rather the young wife of this son.” (Vladimir
ax to grind with the CIA Nabokov, BBC Author Archive Collection, “James Mossman talks to
Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov in this 1970 interview.” Nabokov had
he has an ~
been talking previously about the drudgery, work and failures of bringing
a book to birth.)
ax to grind with midwives
many in traditional medicine have an ~ ♦ “Every monkey is a gazelle to its mother.” (Arabic.)

enthusiasm / relationship: baby

ax to grind about something
there are always going to be people with an ~ feeling, emotion & effect: baby

ideological ax to grind
baby (development)
he has no ~ (a writer writing about capitalism) baby of the publishing world
personal ax to grind compared to physical book sales, audio is the ~
he has a ~ (a critic) baby science
political axes to grind he rescued the of microbe hunting from a fantastic myth
unions and companies often have ~ growth & development: baby / death & life
grinds a (political) ax baby (novice)
it ~ (Southern Poverty Law Center)
baby boxers
punishment & recrimination: ax / blade two novices, two ~ fighting one another (Steve Bunce)
revenge: ax / blade
♦ “A baby, just a baby.” (Ernest Borgnine in the film All Quiet On the
Western Front, about an injured new recruit. Borgnine gets ready to
shoot him, to put him out of his misery, before two stretcher-bearers
appear, put the casualty on a stretcher, and bear him to the rear.)

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experience: baby and now the ~ (after a hiatus / a TV series)
baby (size) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: prep, adv, adj,
particle
baby AK-47
the Draco is a ~ frequently namechecked in rap back (in time)
size: baby go back
see go back (verb / time)
baby (younger)
look back
baby of the family see look back (verb)
I lost my brother, the ~ (his age was sixty-five)
takes me back
growth & development: baby
see take (take us back / time)
baby (baby face, etc.) transported audiences back
baby face see transport (in time)
he grew a full beard to hide his ~ past & present / fictive transportation / time: direction /
appearance: baby / face movement / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb

baby (vocative) back (back then)

baby back then
so tell me, ~, do you want me to… ~ in Russia, it was a cutthroat business (oil)
I’ll admit it, I was fond of the gin myself ~ (Falesa)
honey, baby, sweetie
he addresses me as ~ and other inappropriate names past & present / time: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle

vocative: speech back (behind somebody's back)

babysit (verb) behind her friend's back
she went after him ~ (dated friend's boyfriend)
babysit them
at a certain point you can’t ~ (troubled people) went behind my back
he ~
dependency: baby / family / verb
whispered behind her back
babysitter (role) people ~
babysitter for the world whispered "queer" behind his back
I'm tired of America being a ~ (illegal immigration) people ~ (student)
electronic babysitter badmouth your spouse behind his or her back
they were the perfect “~” (Disney animated films) don't ~
$40,000-a-year baby-sitter ridicule (negative) leaders behind their backs
I'm a ~ (an unhappy corrections officer) people typically ~
become a babysitter talk about bosses behind their backs
he does not want to ~ (take a manager’s job / soccer) if you want a promotion, don't ~ (gossip)
♦ “A manager is just babysitting somebody’s toy.” (An ex-player not ♦ "Out here, people had a smile on their face and a dagger behind their
interested in managing a Premier League soccer team.) back." (Bigotry and discrimination.)

dependency: baby / family / person allegiance, support & betrayal / subterfuge: back
person: baby
back (no way back, etc.)
back (support / verb)
no way back
back Obama there is ~, the people won’t forgive this (protests)
will Hispanics ~ there is ~ (North Macedonia finally negotiates its name)
allegiance, support & betrayal: back / direction / position / no way back from this
verb I think that there’s ~ (Cuba cracks down on protestors)
back (return) no way back for Egypt and the region
there is ~ (2011)
season is back

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reversal: direction acceptance & rejection: back / verb
fate, fortune & chance: journeys & trips
back (break the back)
back (scratch somebody's back)
break your back
scratch my back she'll ~ if you're not paying attention to her (basketball)
you ~, I'll scratch your back (mutual aid and assistance)
broke the back of the campaign
social interaction: back / verb those defeats ~ (primary elections)
back (back and forth) break the back of the Covid epidemic
the vaccine could ~ (live virus BCG)
back and forth on that
there has been a lot of ~ (political issue) break the backs of defenders
the plan is designed to ~ (Baghdad)
position, policy & negotiation: movement
social interaction: movement break the back of the (German) war machine
he was destined to ~ (Stalingrad)
back (pat on the back / verb)
destruction: back / verb
pat yourselves on the back
you did well, ~ (praise) back (back to the wall)
achievement, recognition & praise: back / gesture backs are to the wall
our ~
back (pat on the back / noun)
backs are (really) against the wall
pat on the back our ~ (sports tournament)
give yourselves a ~ (praise from teacher)
have our backs against the wall
achievement, recognition & praise: back / gesture
when we ~, we come out fighting (Welsh rugby)
back (get off my back, etc.) survival, persistence & endurance: back
on the back of these workers resistance, opposition & defeat: back
they make a lot of money ~ (Uber in Great Britain) back (watch your back, etc.)
getting rich on the backs guard your back
publishers are ~ of libraries and academics you've got to ~
get off my back watch your back
~ and leave me alone ~ (a warning)
get them off my back sorry I wasn’t there to ~ (his brother drowned)
try and ~ (superiors) watch his back
affliction / conflict / oppression: animal / back he failed to ~ (leader deposed in coup)

back (carry something on one’s back) watching my back

it's good to know that you are ~ (protecting, supporting)
carrying England on his back ♦ “Sorry I wasn’t there to watch your back like a big brother’s supposed
Joe Root is used to ~ (Ashes Test / cricket) to.” (Chris Eubank Jnr’s tweet on the tragic death of Sebastian, the third-
eldest child of the great boxer Chris Eubank.)
carried the team on his back
he ~ (football player) danger / protection & lack of protection: back / direction /
position / verb
♦ See the Wikipedia entry, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.”

difficulty, easiness & effort: back / burden / weight back (have somebody’s back)
help & assistance: back / burden / weight got your back
back (turn one's back) I've ~

turned her back on Hollywood got your literary back

Jamie Lee Curtis ~ (chose to live elsewhere) we’ve ~ (NPR promotes “The Books we Love”)

turned its back on the victims had my back

the West ~ (Rwanda genocide) you’ve always ~, and I’ll have yours (Biden and Blacks)

turned his back to anyone danger / protection & lack of protection: back / direction /
he never ~ who needed help (a priest) position / verb

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back (stab in the back) the Dinka tribe, which formed the ~ (southern Sudan)

stab in the back backbone of the company

these people are the ~
what they see as a ~ by their Gulf neighbors (Qatar)
it’s really a ~, trust betrayed (French about Australia) backbone of the (Louisiana) economy
danger / protection & lack of protection: back / direction / shrimping is the ~ (oil spill)
knife / position backbone of the (Chilean) economy
back (get one’s back up, etc.) Atacama’s copper mining industry forms the ~
backbone of (the Navy’s) leadership
got his back up surface warfare officers are the ~
a good bowler ~ and we couldn’t stop him (Ashes cricket)
backbone of his (political) party
got my back up they are the ~
his tone just ~
backbone of rigor
got my back up about the request in science, sharp criticism is the ~
he ~
Backbone of the World
resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / back / dog / verb
Indians called these jagged peaks the “~” (Glacier NP)
conflict: animal / back / dog / verb
back (courage) backbone and nervous system
the Nile provides Egypt with a natural ~
stiffens his back financial backbone
economic pressure just ~ (Daniel Ortega) the oil pipeline serves as the ~ of the country
stiffened his spine infrastructure backbone
he showed signs of going wobbly, but Pelosi ~ (politics) Amazon provides the ~ for major firms (servers)
courage & lack of courage: back
technology backbone
strength & weakness: back Shopify provides the ~ for businesses to set up a store online
back away (verb)
transportation backbone
back away from the issue Greyhound is the ~ for people who can't afford…
Democrats are starting to ~ (impeachment) bases: back / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
avoidance & separation: verb / walking, running & jumping backbone (branching system)
backbiter (person)
backbone of England
annoying backbiters the Pennines are commonly described as the “~”
the ~ who had plagued him as an army officer backbone of all Hind
person: animal / back the Great Road is the ~ (Kim)
affliction: animal / back / person / predation backbone of the Kamchatka Peninsula
backbiting the Sredinny Range, the ~

backbiting, exclusion, rumors Guinean backbone

girls use ~ (girls bullying girls) Mount Nimba is part of the so-called ~ (Guinea)
“There were tracks, clearly enough. It was evident that the little hunter (a branching system: back
sable) had quietly lay hidden behind a branch, and then suddenly flung
itself upon the deer... Specks of blood showed that the sable had bitten
it, but further tracks showed that the little deer had succeeded in
backbone (courage)
throwing its assailant off. It had galloped on, and the sable, after starting
to pursue it, had stopped and climbed up a tree.” (Dersu examining takes backbone
tracks in the snow. From Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.) for Republicans, it ~ to stand up to Trump
behavior: animal / back / predation courage & lack of courage: back
conflict: animal / back / predation strength & weakness: back
backbone (basis) backbreaking (adjective)
backbone of Al Qaeda backbreaking labor
Uzbeks and other Central Asians are the ~ in the area a coal miner's capacity for ~
backbone of the (rebel) army backbreaking shift

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 after a ~ (at a nursing home) back down or give her space
officials didn’t ~, they threatened her (Naomi Osaka)
backbreaking work
~ for 50 cents a day refused to back down
the protestors have ~
backbreaking and dangerous
it was ~ labor (diamond mining) forced him to back down
a political firestorm ~ (King)
difficulty, easiness & effort: back
back burner (on the back burner) backing down
she is holding her ground and not ~
on the back burner conflict / dominance & submission / resistance, opposition
that all seems to be ~ now
& defeat: animal / back / standing, sitting & lying / verb
on the budget back burner backdrop (against a backdrop)
the environment is ~
put the issue on the back burner against that backdrop
~, it's not a huge surprise (attack on consulate)
he ~ (a politician)
put on the back burner against the backdrop of the Cold War
it was ~ that… (Eisenhower speech)
a lot of the department's works has been ~ (priorities)
remained on the back burner against a backdrop of (ongoing) violence
negotiations go on ~ (Middle East)
the tax issue ~ (politics)
context: picture / theater
sits on the back burner
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture
the climate-change issue ~ in Washington
♦ “I think there has been a vacuum of course recently, I think Iraq has backed
dropped off the radar screen, it’s very much at the back burner...” (Laith
Kubba about US engagement in Iraq.) backed by Iran
♦ “We shouldn’t allow the issue of global warming to be put on the back the rebels are ~
burner... Or indeed any sort of burner come to that.” (“Loose Ends” with
Clive Anderson, BBC.) backed by the US
importance & significance / priority / superiority & he has been ~ and other countries (Guaido vs. Maduro)
inferiority: center & periphery / direction / position allegiance, support & betrayal: back / position
back burner (to the back burner) backfire (verb)
relegated to the back burner backfire
major problems have been ~ (Saudi Arabia) the campaign may succeed but it could also ~ (military)
pushed (climate) issues to the back burner "circle-the-wagons mentality" backfired
the economic crisis has ~ the ~
put to the back burner reversal: verb / weapon
our issue are always ~ (Black Voters Matter)
background (fade into the background)
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
inferiority: center & periphery / direction / position fade into the background
many prefer to ~ (teen-model sites on Internet)
back down (verb)
faded into the background
back down the doctor-patient relationship has ~ (vs. money)
the compromise allows both politicians to ~ appearance & disappearance / attention, scrutiny &
she’s an artist who won’t ~ or bow to convention
promotion / importance & significance / perception,
backed down perspective & point of view: center & periphery / picture /
faced with a coup, the government ~ position / verb
the government ~ and commuted the death sentences center & periphery: direction / position / picture
backing down backhand (verb)
she is holding her ground and not ~
verbally backhanded
back down from a confrontation he ~ the journalist (Dan Crenshaw / politics)
analysts believe he will ~
accusation & criticism / speech: force / verb / violence

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backing (support) reversal: direction / mechanism / movement / verb

backing from the university

back seat (take a back seat)
she received some ~ take a backseat to my job
allegiance, support & betrayal: back / position my job and family began to ~

backlash (noun) take a backseat to reality

protocol had to ~ (CID investigation)
backlash against (bilingual) education
today in the climate of ~... take a back seat to unseating
issue must ~ the current president
anti-American backlash
the government has struggled to prevent an ~ (Yemen) taking a second seat to schedule and cost
safety and quality were ~
climate of backlash
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
today in the ~ against bilingual education
inferiority: direction / position
backlash has started
the ~ backstabber (person)
sparked a backlash backstabber
his crusade has ~ (to make school lunches more healthful) he's a ~, watch out
he's the worst kind of ~, he poses as a friend
♦ A backlash against Facebook and technology has been referred to as a
techlash.
backstabber or turncoat
resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / violence / whip being a ~ is offensive to most people
reversal: direction / violence / whip
two-faced backstabber
backlog (amount) he's a ~

backlog traitor, a backstabber and a fraud

prolonging the process and swelling the ~ (visa requests) former fans have been waiting to call him a ~ (basketball)

backlog of cases person: back / knife

the FBI has a huge ~ (security clearances) allegiance, support & betrayal / behavior / character &
personality: back / knife / person
backlog of planes
because the weather will create a ~ waiting to land… backstabbing (noun)
backlog of work backstabbing
the NTSB needs to move on to the ~ that… ~ is an art (politics)

paperwork backlog back-stabbing and bad-mouthing

reducing the overall INS ~ ~ on the "Survivor" TV show

processing backlog backstabbing and betrayal

foster kids remain orphans due to a ~ (adoptions) ~ remain a function of all our lives
♦ The backlog is the large log at the back of a hearth allegiance, support & betrayal: back / knife
amount: pile behavior: back / knife

backpedal (verb) backstage (adjective)

backpedaling on key demands backstage advisor
China has been ~ (trade dispute) he remains a ~ to Putin

backpedal on the whole idea backstage contacts

they began to ~ of national standards (education) there have been ~ between them (diplomacy)

backpedals on (tax) pledge backstage diplomacy

top Republican ~ ~ has turned to more open confrontation

back-pedal from his comments backstage look

he continued to ~ (a politician / BBC) the documents and testimony provide a ~ at why…

backpedaled after fierce criticism backstage negotiations

the coach ~ from Chinese fans, sponsors, and partners approval of the nominations came after ~

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backstage politics I am embarrassed by the ~ of this administration
the organization is rife with ~ (sports)
backward traditions
backstage role the Prophet (PBUH) did his utmost to eradicate ~
the administration playing a ~ in trying to resolve…
he played a pivotal ~ in persuading…
culturally backward
stoning takes place in remote and ~ areas
backstage self progress & lack of progress: direction
we have a private, ~, versus our public self
backwards (progress)
backstage political struggle
he settled the ~ by choosing… (UN) step backwards
backstage lobbying to me this seems like a huge ~
there has been ~ by Washington (diplomacy) go backwards
backstage maneuvering we should not ~ down the road toward nuclear power
there has been a lot of ~ (diplomacy) sliding backwards
backstage wrangling we are ~ to a less enlightened time
after weeks of ~, the Party has decided… move us backwards
backstage policy making the election will ~ economically
he was a master of ~ (Labor Party) progress & lack of progress: direction / movement
operates backstage backwards (past)
he ~ (an athletic booster)
go backwards
concealment & lack of concealment: theater they want to ~ to a romanticized past that never existed
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater
look backward
backstop (noun) New Year's day is a time to ~ and forward
backstop against the president’s worst instincts some ~ to a (reputedly) glorious past for answers
he was a ~ (government) marching backwards
♦ “A backstop; a guardrail; trying to keep the President from going it feels like this country is ~ to the Middle Ages (religion)
outside the bounds; minimize the damage...” (“John Bolton’s Place in
Ukraine Policy” by Mara Liasson, NPR, Morning Edition, October 25, past & present / time: direction / movement / prep, adv,
2019.)
adj, particle
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: boundary
backwater (noun)
backtrack (go back in time)
backwater
backtrack in 1831, Southampton County was a ~
I think we have to ~ a bit (a history discussion)
backwater of the Office of International Affairs
past & present / time: journeys & trips / movement / verb he was transferred into the relative ~
backtrack (reversal) backwater in a (vast Islamic) empire
the region around Kabul was merely a ~
backtrack
the union has had to ~ on its demands long-ignored (rural) backwater
in ~s
reversal: direction / journeys & trips / movement / verb
provincial backwater
back up (verb) the town remained a ~
back up remote backwater
let’s ~ and get big picture for a second (NPR radio show) Darien remained a ~
perception, perspective & point of view: picture / position / rural backwater
verb Beijing has brought wealth and modernity to a ~
backward (adjective) he wants to bring development to the ~ (a politician)
this is not some ~ (site of a noxious landfill)
backward Turkey sleepy backwater
Ataturk took a ~ and made it modern oil transformed Khartoum from a ~ to a modern city
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in a (rural) backwater ♦ Bad, badass, blow up, catch fire, chill, coup, crazy, crush, dope,
dynamite, kill, killa, mean, nasty, sick, wicked... (Words that sound bad
she found herself banished to a small hospital ~ (a doctor) but can have positive connotations. English is crazy!)

stereotype of Turkey as an (agricultural) backwater ♦ “This team taught all of America’s children that ‘playing like a girl’
means you’re a badass.” (President Obama welcoming the 2015 World
the ~ persists Cup-winning women’s team to the White House.)

became a backwater ♦ See “‘Badass’: The One Word That Has Become A lightning Rod For
Many Female Chefs” by Nina Martyris, NPR, The Salt, November 11,
there were a lot of other reasons that Spain ~ for so long 2019. A link leads to another great article, “We’ve Hit Peak Badass. It’s
Gotta Stop” by Jesse Sheidlower, Daily Beast, Apr. 14, 2017.)
changed from a provincial backwater to a place
Tikrit ~ of large mosques and wide modern roads (Iraq) person: force
character & personality: person
remained a (provincial) backwater
the town ~ badge (badge of honor)
center & periphery / isolation & remoteness / progress & badge of honor
lack of progress: river playing from memory is a ~ (pianists)
criticism from him is a ~ (politics)
backyard (in somebody's backyard) receiving death threats is a ~ (Black Lives Matter)
in China's (own) backyard became a badge of honor
~, Southeast Asia… the "one-percenter" label ~ (bikers)
in Russia's backyard wore its (cutting-edge) approach as a badge of honor
Kyrgyzstan is ~ (politics, etc.) the bank ~ (ended up being hacked)
proximity: house wore her conviction as a badge of honor
backyard (other) she ~ (the suffragette Susan B. Anthony)

backyard wore his scorn as a badge of honor

she ~
the Sunset Beach wave was my ~ (Hakman)
historical and rightful backyard wore the scorn (of liberals) as a badge of honor
he always ~ (Rush Limbaugh)
China sees northeast Asia as its ~
not-in-my-backyard wear that as a badge of honor
they ~, as a sign they are right (de-platformed)
this is one of those ~ issues (Nimby)
♦ “The idea you could hold your liquor and type a new lead on a breaking
proximity: house story was a badge of honor.” (The great journalist Pete Hamill, about
journalism back in the day.)
bad (my bad, etc.) ♦ “I’d like to personally welcome him to the club, because we receive
death threats every day. So, he’s officially part of this movement. It’s a
bad badge of honor.” (Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter New
York, about Norwegian Parliament member Petter Eide. From
I just wanted the ~ to go away (trauma) “Norwegian politician receives threats over Black Lives Matter Nobel
Prize nomination” by Bill Hutchinson, 31 January 2021.)
bad wrong
♦ Duty, Honor, Country. (The motto of West Point.)
something’s ~ here (racism / Frye Galliard on NPR)
achievement, recognition & praise: sign, signal, symbol /
my bad military
sorry, ~
♦ I feel badly for...” (A sports commentator.) badge (representation)
flaws & lack of flaws: part of speech capitalist rebel badge
he wears the ~ on his sleeve (Domm Holland, technology)
badass (power)
wore that badge
means you’re a badass I was damaged goods, I ~ very early on in my life
‘playing like a girl’ ~ (women’s soccer)
representation: sign, signal, symbol
total mountain badass
he’s the nicest guy in the world and a ~ (Tommy Caldwell) badger (The Badger, etc.)
leached badass of its badassery known as “The Badger”
overuse has ~ the man ~ for his aggressive approach (Bernard Hinault)
♦ Many agree that this word comes from the Black community. In that epithet: animal
regard, it has been classed with words like lame-ass, dumbass, etc.,
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badger (verb) pseudoscientific baggage
gay had a long linguistic history and no ~ (vs. homosexual)
badgered him
the lawyer ~ (trial) psychological baggage
students can arrive with ~ (suicides at MIT)
♦ “He claims he locked himself in the plane bathroom and fell asleep to
avoid her badgering.” (A Hollywood celebrity at trial.) racial baggage
affliction / behavior / commitment & determination / the ~ of the South (US)
speech: animal / verb a lot of baggage
badlands (environment) Biden has been around a long time and has a ~ (politics)

badlands of real life cultural and historical baggage

students leave the sanctuary of academe for the boorish ~ the ~ that rugby lugs (in South Africa)

behavior / control & lack of control / environment: ground, historical, cultural and religious baggage
the ~ (of marriage)
terrain & land / history
bag (in the bag) social and economic baggage
students with ~ (alternative school)
in the bag carrying (lots of generational) baggage
it’s not ~ yet (Liverpool wins EPL)
Boomers, Xers go to work ~
certainty & uncertainty: container
freighted with (historical and cultural) baggage
bag (collection) the N-word is ~ (racial epithets)

bag of narratives let go of the baggage

it is out of such a ~ that his book has been fashioned we must ~ in our minds (the Avalanches)

bag of tricks rid himself of this baggage

he knew any treatment in the whole psychiatric ~ was futile Ray ~ (classification and mythical creatures)
♦ “I got him with all his baggage, and he got me with all of mine.” (A
amount / group, set & collection: container marriage.)

bag (pack one’s bags) history: burden / journeys & trips / weight
oppression: burden / history / journeys & trips / weight
pack the bags and get out
it’s just time to ~ (NATO in Afghanistan) bailout (noun)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: journeys & bailout
trips / verb ~s are unpopular (of banks, national economies)
baggage (noun) survival, persistence & endurance: boat
amelioration & renewal: boat
baggage of marriage
the ~ (gender, religion, culture, etc.) bail out (save)
baggage of the South bail out Mexico
the racial ~ (US) the IMF helped ~ in the 1990s

baggage from his (ancestral) past bailing out (big) banks

each comes into the world with ~ (race, religion, class) the taxpayers are ~

baggage and attitude bailed out the company

he dealt with all the ~ we had (poor kids) the government ~ (with loans)

complicated baggage survival, persistence & endurance: boat / verb

soldiers take home some more ~ (from overseas) amelioration & renewal: boat / verb

generational baggage bail out (leave)

Boomers, Xers go to work carrying lots of ~
bailed out
historical baggage high-profile guests have ~ (attending a party)
the word crusade has largely shed its ~ in the West
bailed out of school
political baggage he ~ in 2008 (an athlete)
the ~ of its anti-establishment origins (black studies)
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 the US may ~ (open-skies treaty) some evangelicals don’t like the assumptions that are ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane / verb baked into our social systems and psychology
dismissal, removal & resignation: plane / verb racism is ~ (Critical race Theory)
bailed out baked into the hardware and software
insecurity is ~ of the internet (computer hacking)
bailed out by the EU and the I.M. F.
Ireland was ~ in 2010 attachment / relationship: cooking
configuration / identity & nature: cooking
survival, persistence & endurance: boat
amelioration & renewal: boat bake in (and bake into)
bait (verb) baked delays into their schedules
airlines have ~ instead of improving operations
baited children
the company ~, using nursery rhymes (advertising) attachment / relationship: cooking
configuration / identity & nature: cooking
attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting / verb balance (verb)
bait (noun) balance the demands
trying to ~ of work and family
bait
the Iraqis didn't take the ~ (fire and expose themselves) balance a home and a career
for women trying to ~
clickbait
see clickbait (noun) balance militancy versus moderation
his speech had to ~ (MLK)
jailbait
she alleged he often referred to her as “~” (a 17-year-old) balance (energy) needs and the land
an example for how to ~
trade bait
he’s an intriguing prospect and might be ~ (an athlete) balance the risk and the benefit
you have to ~ (vaccinations)
take the bait
you can ~ or learn to pick your battles (relationships) balance security and synchronization
when it comes to trolls, don’t ~ (internet) ~ (special operations / military)
rise to the bait balance civil liberties and national security
he refused to ~ (speech) how to ~ in a war on terror
rises to the bait balance tradition with changes
trolls ask stupid questions to see who ~ (Internet) Inuit leaders try to ~
took the bait balance the need (for openness) with national security
I made a nice feint and he ~ (chess) policies to ~
the news media ~ (picked up story that was not true)
balance the benefits against the difficulties
attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting you need to ~
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting
balance the human cost against the cost to the animal
baked in (and baked into) we must ~
baked in the cake balance the need against the risks
it was ~ (a man’s vice) we must ~ (combat rescues)
baked into the very architecture balance their assignments against their safety
racism is ~ of the internet photojournalists have to ~
baked into it how to balance
the code has instructions ~ that... (ransomware) an example for ~ energy needs and the land
baked into the system struggling to balance
there’s a lot of waste ~ (pandemic and public health) young women ~ work and family priorities
baked into the (medical) system trying to balance
racism is ~ (Tuskegee Syphilis Study) ~ the demands of work and family
baked into that term equilibrium & stability: scale / verb

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balance (in the balance) aim to strike a ~

in the balance work / life balance

the generations disagree on authority, teamwork, ~
lives are ~, this is serious (COVID-19 pandemic)
workers who value a ~
hanging in the balance know your limits to maintain a happy ~ and avoid burnout
lives are ~ (tornado forecasting)
wholeness, balance, wellbeing, health
his life is ~ after a drug overdose (a rapper)
pay attention to your ~ (Hozho)
hangs in the balance
keeps his balance
Britain's future ~ (elections)
he ~ by leaving his work behind when he returns home
hung in the balance
maintains her balance
his life ~ (penalty phase of trial)
she ~ by staying firmly rooted at home in Utah (an actor)
fate, fortune & chance: equilibrium & stability / scale / verb
strike a balance
balance (off balance) aim to ~ between self-denial and overindulgence

kept the actors off-balance equilibrium & stability: scale

he ~ by interrupting their line readings (film) balance (noun)
keep the enemy off balance
balance of chemicals
try to ~
restoring the normal ~ in the brain (antidepressants)
throw the Soviets off balance
balance of the region
an assault to ~ and regain the initiative
the dams would disrupt the ecological ~
throws the show off balance
balance of freshwater and saltwater
his realistic portrayal ~ (a play)
a dike collapse could destroy the delicate ~ (estuary)
throw the system off balance
balance of stability and flexibility
it will ~ (the body)
the ankle joint is designed for a ~
disruption / flaws & lack of flaws / readiness &
balance between existence and annihilation
preparedness: equilibrium & stability / scale
the ~ was precarious (Homer)
equilibrium & stability: scale
balance (out of balance) balance between stability and mobility
the elbow joint displays an elegant ~
out of balance balance between racing and safety
in a person with depression, these chemicals are ~ you have to find a ~ (5 Oceans race)
my priorities and life are ~
balance between usability and security
wildly out of balance the ~ is a tricky one (computers)
the sauce was ~, overloaded with… (food)
fluid balance
woefully out of balance her ~ needs to be restored (medicine)
the system is ~ (politics)
trade balance
priorities are out of balance control the ~
our societal ~
basic balance
values (as a nation) are (sadly) out of balance the ~ of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter (Cambodian cuisine)
our ~
delicate balance
swung (way) out of balance a dike collapse could destroy the ~ of fresh / saltwater
the financial sector has ~
equilibrium & stability: scale
ecological balance
the dams would disrupt the ~ of the region
flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability / scale
disruption: equilibrium & stability / scale fragile balance
balance (work and job, etc.) the ~ between production and conservation (natural gas)
sense of balance
balance in my life we must restore a ~ to the debate (energy / conservation)
the ocean represents ~ (Ken Bradshaw / surfer)
checks and balances
balance between modesty and sexiness

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 she didn't go through the regular process of ~ (corruption) balk (verb)
balance (of the Supreme Court) has shifted
now that the ~ balked at publishing
the network ~ his report
attain a balance
~ between mission accomplishment and environmental balking at (high sticker) prices
protection (war) consumers are ~ (auto buying)
eagerness & reluctance / resistance, opposition & defeat /
destroy the (delicate) balance
a dike collapse could ~ of fresh and saltwater (estuary) starting, going, continuing & ending: horse / verb

find a balance balkanization (noun)

you have to ~ between racing and safety (Velux 5) balkanization of the (professional) structure
restore balance the ~ continued... (history of engineering)
a decrease in OPEC's output would be needed to ~ instance of balkanization
strike a balance the term LGBTQIAA+ is a clear ~ (Jonathan Rauch)
~ between what is possible and what is probable (combat) division & connection: ground, terrain & land / history
equilibrium & stability: scale Balkanized
balanced Balkanized between universities, drug companies
balanced approach medical research in the US is ~, and funders
a ~ for the listing of adult items on eBay division & connection: ground, terrain & land / history
a ~ might involve asking… (race, genes and disease)
ball (play ball)
balanced budget
the ~ amendment play ball
it is often good politics to ~
balanced diet he is being punished for refusing to ~
a ~ might not be on the menu he has directed officials not to ~ (impeachment enquiry)
balanced perspective if they didn’t ~, it was game over for them (starlets)
it is important to have a ~ (safety and study abroad) played ball
balanced and responsible he would never have ~, he was a man of integrity
a ~ approach to development (Arctic) playing ball
racially balanced helping to oust some third-world leader who isn’t ~ (NSA)
the show has a ~ cast (theater) play ball with the Kremlin
fair and balanced you either ~, or… (business)
~ news play ball with (party) leaders
equilibrium & stability: scale many candidates refuse to ~ in Washington
flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability / scale play ball with me
balance of power if you ~, I'll play ball with you

balance of power play ball with newspapers

naked aggression to change the ~ (political) WikiLeaks may be willing to ~ for now, but…

balance of power between professor and student willing to play ball

the ~ is so slanted (dating) she may be ~

balance of power in Kashmir need to play ball

it would have no impact on the ~ the unions ~ (local hiring)

shift in the balance of power refused to play ball

there's a ~ (relationships) he has ~ with the EPA (politics)

impact on the balance of power get Republicans to play ball

it would have no ~ in Kashmir Democrats are struggling to ~

equilibrium & stability: scale social interaction: sports & games / verb
unanimity & consensus: sports & games / verb

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ball (the ball is in somebody's court) ballooning
the debt is ~
ball will be firmly in the court of the governors long-term unemployment is ~
the ~ to decide how to move forward (pandemic)
ballooned into Wall Street's biggest crisis
ball is in Russia’s court the credit squeeze ~ since…
Blinken says the ~ (U.S. “diplomacy”)
ballooned to $14.4 billion
ball is in your court the price tag has ~ (military project)
the ~
ballooned to over 300 pounds
action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with & his weight reportedly ~ (a basketball player)
ignoring things / position, policy & negotiation /
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon / size /
responsibility / social interaction: ball / sports & games
verb
ball (take one's eye off the ball) balloon (puncture a balloon, etc.)
took his eye off the ball
punctured the (helium) balloon
some people think Obama ~ (rising unemployment)
he ~ of the stock’s soaring price
attention, scrutiny & promotion / consciousness &
destruction: air / atmosphere / balloon / hole
awareness / failure, accident & impairment: ball / sports &
failure, accident & impairment: air / atmosphere / balloon
games / verb / hole
ball (drop the ball) ballooning (adjective)
dropped the ball on this case ballooning (pension) costs
a lot of agencies ~ (serial killer) he blames the problem on ~
dropped the ball in the case ballooning (national) debt
investigators ~ voters are alarmed by the ~
♦ “The university dropped the ball and she paid the price with her life.”
(Lauren McCluskey, the University of Utah.) ballooning deficit
the state is faced with a ~
failure, accident & impairment: ball / hand / sports &
games / verb ballooning demand
~ for oil is bound to be disruptive
ball (get the ball rolling, etc.)
ballooning (Medicaid) expenses
get the ball rolling government officials look to curb ~
we need to ~
this is a good investment to ~ ballooning problem
sometimes it takes a gentle nudge to ~ this spotlights the ~
he made attempts to ~ on this very thing
ballooning trade surplus
got the ball moving China has a ~ with the US
she ~ on the impeachment enquiry (politics)
ballooning (cost) overruns
keep the ball rolling the State Department agency tried to hide ~
to ~, we must… increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon
started the ball rolling ballgame (different ballgame)
he ~, and other businesses followed suit
CO2 may have ~, but… (global warming) different ballgame
starting, going, continuing & ending: ball / movement / piracy is a ~
it's a ~ when you don't…
verb
therefore, you have a ~, as they say in America...
balloon (verb) whole different ballgame
balloon this year has been a ~ (Delta variant / COVID)
as our entitlement commitments ~ taxonomy & classification: sports & games
ballooned ballgame (new ballgame)
the number of women (in prisons and jails) has ~
usage of Zoom has ~ overnight (video-conferencing app) whole new ballgame
we're in a ~

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 online journalism is a ~ amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
substance & lack of substance: health & medicine
situation: sports & games
bandwagon (noun)
ballistic (go ballistic)
moaner bandwagon
go ballistic post an opinion, don’t just jump on the ~ (sports)
people will ~ when they read that…
Nuwaubian bandwagon
went ballistic locals who had climbed aboard the ~ began to jump off
she ~ (upset and angry)
she confronted her husband with the pictures and ~ on the (Doncic) bandwagon
I’ve been ~ for a long time (great Slovenian basketball star)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / flying & falling / rocket
balm (noun) climbed aboard the (Nuwaubian) bandwagon
locals who had ~ began to jump off (Putnam County, GA)
balm for the afflictions jumped on the bandwagon
his wisdom is a ~ of our age (a poet) I ~, repeating the things being said around me (regret)
balm for the trauma leaped onto the bandwagon
her films are a ~ that adolescents feel the TV industry also ~ (3-D)
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine ♦ “The BBC is always one of the first on any given bandwagon.” (Bob, a
sour golfing fan, on a BBC HYS about a story featuring Bryson
banana (noun) DeChambeau.)

banana peel unanimity & consensus: music

Iran put a ~ in front of the US and Trump put his foot on it attention, scrutiny & promotion: music

banana skin bandwidth (noun)

he’s a potential ~ (boxer speaking of tough next opponent) have the bandwidth
Joshua has got past a potential ~ (boxer wins) we do not ~ to address all the calls (Portland police)
♦ “I slip on a banana peel, that’s tragedy. You slip on a banana peel,
that’s comedy.” (Attributed to Charlie Chaplin.) taking up (a lot of) bandwidth
♦ “Iran put a banana peel in front of the United States and President the pandemic is ~ (other problems set aside)
Trump put his foot right on it.” (Cali Nasir’s analysis after an Iranian proxy
militia in Iraq killed an American. The resultant US airstrike against the ability & lack of ability / strength & weakness: tools &
militia resulted in an outburst of Iraqi anti-Americanism, including an
technology
attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad.)
♦ “It’s a potential banana skin because he’s relatively unknown...that’s bane (noun)
quite dangerous...So I’m taking him very seriously...” (Josh “the Tartan
Tornado” Taylor about his upcoming boxing match with Apinun bane of my life
Khongsong. Taylor ended up defeating his opponent with a paralyzing
body shot in the first round.) the spinal brace quickly became the ~ (injured back)

failure, accident & impairment: fruits & vegetables greatest bane

corruption is the single ~ of our society
banana republic ♦ Black henbane is a poisonous plant. Poison plants have had a long
relationship with public health, animal husbandry, traditional medicine,
banana republic witchcraft, and murder.
France is a ~ ruled by uneducated people (Koons’ Tulips)
affliction: plant
♦ This phrase appeared in 1955. At the time, United Fruit controlled 42%
of the agricultural land in Guatemala and was very concerned by the new
socialist government which had promised land reform. That government bang (with a bang)
was overthrown by a CIA-supported coup.
ended with a bang
dependency: allusion / history the tournament ~, not a whimper
Band-Aid (noun) finish (out his career) with a bang
Tapia has a chance to ~ by... (boxer)
Band-Aid
if it’s real and it isn’t just a ~... (a proposed program) go out with a bang
the emergency operation is a ~, a short-term fix (famine) the players wanted their coach to ~ (by winning)
apparently he wanted to ~ (mass shooter)
band-aid solution
this a just a ~ for a much deeper problem hit home with a bang
reality ~
put a Band-Aid on a bullet wound
we’ll always ~ (social justice) kicking the year off with a bang

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 deal makers are ~ (mergers) it is time to end his ~ (a disgraced athlete)
opens with a bang result in banishment
the play ~, as… plagiarism can ~ from the halls of academe
opened with a bang dismissal, removal & resignation: society
the film ~ (good revenues) acceptance & rejection: society
returned with a bang bank (tissue bank, etc.)
he ~ (athlete has great day)
food bank
start (out) with a bang drop off extra food at a ~
I wanted to ~, so I…
germ bank
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound ~s around the world keep anthrax
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
job bank
bang (bang for the buck, etc.) an online ~
bang for the buck from Special Operations memory bank
the coalition gets plenty of ~ (war) the bomb can erase the ~s of electronic equipment
little bang for the buck milk bank
the report concluded subsides offered ~ ~s collect, pasteurize and store donated breast milk
I’d like to thank every woman who’s ever donated to a ~
more bang for the buck
employers will get ~ from this program Organ Bank
the New England ~, one of several dozen regional centers
most bang for the buck
the president will focus on getting the ~ from… plant bank
a global network of ~s to store seeds and sprouts
nutritional bang for the buck a system of ~s is crucial in responding to climate crises
greens offer ~
Seed Bank
get more bang for the buck the Millennium ~ Partnership (Kew Gardens)
at Wall-Mart, you ~
♦ “You get much more of a bang out of the shot, as it were.” (Anthony seed bank
Fauci, about booster shots.) ~s in Afghanistan and Iraq were destroyed during conflicts
cost & benefit: sound Skin Bank
feeling, emotion & effect: sound the New York Firefighters ~ (Hearst Burn Center)
banish (verb) sperm bank
he got the 50 bucks, but the ~ couldn’t protect his identity
banishes fear
Captagon fuels conflict, for fighters it ~ group, set & collection: money
dismissal, removal & resignation: society / verb bankrupt (adjective)
acceptance & rejection: society / verb
bankrupt defense
banished it's a ~ (blaming victim for hate crime)
banished to the bullpen intellectually bankrupt
he has been ~ (a pitcher) our way of managing parole supervision is ~
banished from the dictionary morally bankrupt
American English should be ~ (the Brits) placating terrorists is ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: society worth & lack of worth: money
acceptance & rejection: society
banner (carry a banner, etc.)
banishment (noun)
carry the banner of the National Front
banishment of Brandon from the team she intends to ~ into the 21st century
the ~ is complete hypocrisy (a religious honor code)
carrying a banner for female athletes
banishment from the hall she is ~ (Annika Sorenstam)
plagiarism can result in the ~ of academe
carrying a banner for black directors
banishment from the league he said he was not ~ (playwright)

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wave the banner of free speech baptized
when criticized they ~ (Web hosts)
baptized in fire and blood
representation: flags & banners / verb
you have been ~ and come out steel (combat)
banner (under the banner) get baptized
under the banner of the ruling party you ~ pretty quickly in this business (death-penalty law)
both men will contest the election ~ experience: religion / water
under the banner of the IMU bar (bar is set high, etc.)
armed men ~ invaded Tajikistan
bar
allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners
the ~ is set so high for him (performance)
banner (behind the banner) the ~ is down to “don’t do dumb stuff”

behind the banner of reparations difficulty, easiness & effort: sports & games
they hoped to unite the community ~ (protest) barb (trade barbs, etc.)
allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners
trading barbs
banner (banner of Islam, etc.) US and Chinese officials have been ~ (conflict)

banner of Islam conflict: verb / weapon

the youth must hold aloft the ~ (King Abdullah) barbed (speech)
banner for artists barbed letters
over time Dirty South, not Third Coast, became a ~ the president and the speaker had traded ~ (politics)
hold aloft the banner barbed question
the youth must ~ of Islam (King Abdullah) a reporter interrupted with a ~
hide behind the banner barbed satire
scoundrels ~ of patriotism it’s a ~ about race, class and culture (a film)
wave the banner speech: blade / knife
they ~ of religion
♦ NO WAR; TAKE YOUR WAR AND GO TO HELL; BUSH, BLAIR and
barbaric (behavior)
BERLUSCONI—ASSASSINS; NOT IN MY NAME… (Banners at a march
in Florence, during which 300,000 marched to protest the Iraq War.) barbaric power
the people are under the boot of ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners
reckless and barbaric
banner (size) the ~ attack (use of Novichok in England)
banner ad behavior: history
for 10,000 visitors, I made $330 per ~ (Internet)
Barbie (and Barbie Doll)
banner headline
the newspaper ran a ~ declaring… Barbie Girl type
~s trumpeted the news well I ain’t never been the ~ (Gretchen Wilson)
banner weekend appearance: object
it was a ~ for HBO this weekend (many viewers) character & personality: sign, signal, symbol
banner year bare (lay bare)
2000 was a ~ for genomics
lays bare the (latent) anti-Semitism
size: flags & banners the vandalism ~ that still exists in society
baptism laid bare the challenge
the incident has ~ of the alliance (US / Pakistan)
baptism by fire
it was my ~ (new teacher) laid bare the whirlpool
his murder ~ of religious violence and extremism
baptism of fire
Salk referred to his time with Francis as a "~" concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
accessories / verb
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bare (laid bare) barked at them to stop
the policeman ~
laid bare
the open secret about Ozy Media has been ~ (fraud) barked at Rodriguez for running
he ~ over his mound (baseball)
laid bare in the (feisty TV) debate
the candidates’ divisions were ~ (politics) bark commands at the TV
people ~ (voice commands)
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
sound / speech: animal / dog / verb
accessories
bare (verb) barnacle (resemblance)
barnacles of dried gum
bared the excesses
~ encrust the undersides of tables and chairs (schools)
the rally ~ of his movement
urban barnacle
bare the secrets
the padlocks cover old bridges in a kind of ~ (Paris, etc.)
the press can ~ of government and inform people
♦ [H]e describes today’s tax code as ‘full of barnacles and crevices and
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing & windows and holes. It needs a major reform and restructuring.’” (“Beyond
The Tax Deal: Targeting The Code Itself,” NPR, All Things Considered,
accessories / verb December 18, 2010. The description is enough to cause trypophobia!)
bare-bones (adjective) ♦ see also encrustation

bare-bones budget resemblance: animal / boat / burden / sea

we want to have a ~ (saving money) barnacle (affliction)
bare-bones care skin barnacles
under the plan, seniors will get ~ (health) how to get rid of ~
bare-bones and limited ♦ see also encrustation
right now it’s ~ (opening park during pandemic) affliction: animal / boat / burden / sea
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: skeleton / skin, muscle,
barnacle (scrape the barnacles, etc.)
nerves & bone
bare-knuckled (adjective) chip away at the barnacles
Pena Nieto will try to ~ slowing the economy (Mexico)
bare-knuckled approach scrapes the barnacles off Homer’s hull
he took a ~ to the rarified world of art criticism Emily Wilson’s ‘Odyssey’ ~
bare-knuckled politics scrub the barnacles
even by the lowly standards of Washington, this was ~ the third-party companies are out of control, so we will ~
bare-knuckled work ♦ “The number of sort of third-party contracting companies that we’re
she counted votes and did the ~ that was needed (politics) using has really gotten out of control, so we’re going to scrub the
barnacles on that front. It’s pretty crazy. We’ve got barnacles on
conflict: boxing / fist barnacles. So there’s going to be a lot of barnacle removal.” (“Elon Musk
To Analysts: Stop With The ‘boring, Bonehead Questions’ on Tesla” by
bark (more bark than bite, etc.) Avie Schneider, NPR, The Two-Way, May 3, 2018.)
♦ “Wilson’s project is basically a progressive one: to scrape away all the
more bark than bite centuries of verbal and ideological buildup—the Christianizing (Homer
predates Christianity), the nostalgia, the added sexism (the epics are
the US is ~ sexist enough as they are), and the Victorian euphemisms—to reveal
something fresh and clean. Why call them ‘handmaidens’ when they
substance & lack of substance: animal / dog / sound / were slaves? Why insist, as so many translators do, on 19th-century
teeth diction when that time had no more in common with Homer’s than ours?”
(“Emily Wilson’s ‘Odyssey’ Scrapes The Barnacles Off Homer’s Hull” by
bark (bark up the wrong tree, etc.) Annalisa Quinn, NPR, Book Reviews, December 2, 2017.)

amelioration & renewal: animal / boat / burden / sea /

barking up the wrong tree
if you’re looking for accuracy, you’re ~ weight
they can’t go for collusion because they’re ~ (a report) barnacled
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / dog / hunting / sound
barnacled with myths
bark (verb) the stories of their rise are ~ (US presidents)

barked child-barnacled
"Look up," he ~ his ~ present (four sons and a daughter from two women)

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attachment: animal / boat / burden / sea barrage of lawsuits
the campaign has filed a ~ in various states (election)
barnstorm (verb)
barrage of (graphic) pictures
barnstorming the state Saudis get a ~ of Palestinians suffering…
they have been ~ (politicians)
barrage of questions
barnstorming for months I was subjected to a ~
after ~… (a politician) his ~ barely left time for answers
attention, scrutiny & promotion / message: plane / verb withering barrage
Barnum their report came under a ~ of criticism (education)
♦ The rolling barrage was developed in World War I to provide what is
P.T. Barnum of American race relations described nowadays as "shock and awe" for attacking infantry soldiers.
she is the ~ (Robin DiAngelo)
amount & effect: military / weapon
modern-day P. T. Barnum barrel (at the bottom of the barrel)
he is sort of a ~ (an arena builder and promoter)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: allusion / circus / epithet at the bottom of the barrel
I did my time ~ (worst job assignment)
barometer (noun)
finish at the bottom of the barrel
barometer of their abundance we ~ every year (a sports team)
but the catch rate provides a ~ (sharks)
stuck at the bottom of the barrel
barometers of change I'm ~ (pay scale)
public tours serve as ~ (limited after 9/11)
hierarchy: position
barometer of (poor) nutrition barrel (verb)
childhood anemia, a ~, is higher in India than China
barometer for his team barreled up the Eastern Seaboard
he has been a ~ (when he is good, team is good) the hurricane ~
movement: force / verb
career barometer
actors used the show as a ~ (Law and Order) force: movement / verb
barricade (storm the barricades)
closely watched barometer
the index is a ~ of home prices stormed the barricades
measurement: tools & technology he ~, time and again (to hold the church accountable)

baron (power) storm the barricades of racism

many left their studies to ~ (Martin Luther King)
drug baron
the notorious ~ Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
storm the barricades of (male) resistance
women have to ~
meat baron
he is nicknamed “the ~” (Clemens Tonnies)
storm the barricades for him
many are ready to ~ (support for an embattled politician)
person: government
power: history / Middle Ages / person
certain to storm the barricades
shareholders will be ~ (losing money)
baroque (adjective)
ready to storm the barricades
got baroque she casts herself as an outsider, ~ (a politician)
the war plan ~, insane, to the point where... (nukes)
resistance, opposition & defeat: history / infrastructure /
complexity: history verb
barrage (noun) barrier (noun)
barrage barriers to access
no software can eliminate the ~ (popup ads / computers) ~ in that market are extremely costly (trade)
barrage of combinations barriers to (foreign) ownership
he reshaped his opponent’s nose with a ~ (boxing) lower ~ of local industries

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barriers to participation as many European countries ~ (against immigrants)
a meet with the theme of overcoming ~ (climbing)
bring down some (racial) barriers
barriers to (import) penetration it helped to ~ (basketball)
~ in Japan
break down (racial) barriers
barrier between animals and humans how to ~ in France
influenza could hop the ~
get past the sex barrier
barriers and stereotypes how do I ~ with guys (she waits, he loses interest)
coming out and tearing down ~ in "macho" professions
communicate across (cultural) barriers
age barrier people struggle to ~
no ~, no height bar, no gender gap
obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land / wall
class barrier division & connection: ground, terrain & land / wall
~s are deepening cultural and racial ones Baryshnikov (Baryshnikov of football,
color barrier etc.)
broke rugby's ~ in 1976
Baryshnikov of football
gender barrier he was canonized as “the ~” for his acrobatic receptions
she broke a ~ (first Division I female football player) (Lynn Swann after Super Bowl X)
pain barrier Big Baryshnikov
practicing through the ~ (musicians) the ~ (Shaquille O’Neal, NBA)
we’d gone through the ~, the sun gave us power (K2)
♦ Shaquille O’Neal, one of the greatest NBA players of all time, has been
referred to as the Big Baryshnikov.
research barrier
by easily being able to grow the cells, he overcame a ~ achievement, recognition & praise / superlative: epithet
trade barriers baseline (noun)
the lowering of ~ (globalization)
baseline levels
cultural barrier it drops to ~ (a hormone)
despite language and ~s, people came together (protest)
people struggle to communicate across ~s baseline measurement
exposures may be difficult to interpret without ~
legal barrier
~s to correcting injustices (death-penalty cases) baseline poverty
will Haiti return to ~ (after earthquake)
racial barrier
it helped to bring down some ~s (basketball) baseline study
tedious ~s
socioeconomic barrier
debate over the ~ facing black boys (education) baseline of how
we do need a ~ things have been in the past (polar ice)
linguistic, cultural and psychological barriers ♦ A baseline relates to land surveying.
immigrants face many ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation / measurement:
lowering of (trade) barriers surveying
the ~ (globalization)
basement (basement price, etc.)
glass ceilings and other barriers
~ barring women basement price
he thinks he can buy the company at a ~
stereotypes and other barriers
trying to break down ~ (foreigners) in the basement
the ratings have been ~ (baseball)
broke (a lot of) barriers
she ~ (a famous woman) decline: direction
lower these barriers basement (hierarchy)
20 states have passed laws to ~ (expunging criminal records)
in the basement for (high-school) graduates
overcame a (research) barrier we're now ~ (US education and the OECD)
by easily being able to grow the cells, he ~
hierarchy: direction
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basement (concealment) basking in his victory
on a hot day, Boris Johnson is ~ (new Prime Minister)
internet’s dirty basement
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / atmosphere /
if you peer into the ~ (conspiracy theories, fake news)
temperature / verb
concealment & lack of concealment: direction / house behavior: animal / atmosphere / temperature / verb
bash (verb) basket (category)
bashing the democrats put him in the same basket
the president has been ~ on immigration do you ~ as Snowden (Julian Assange)
bash opponents taxonomy & classification: container
“white privilege” is used as a political weapon to ~
basket case
accusation & criticism / speech: fist / verb / violence
basket case
bashing (noun) Haiti has not always been a ~
from the standpoint of manufacturing, America is a ~
Arab bashing the economy is not a ~
the rising tide of ~ in America (post 9/11) he considered the company a ~ (an executive)
Guat-bashing basket-cases of Central Asia
the crimes have a chilling street name, "~" (Guatemalans) the two ~, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Islam bashing Europe's basket case
the rising tide of ~ in America Ireland used to be ~
detractors describe her comments as "~" (Ayaan Ali)
economic basket case
business-bashing Spain is an ~
this will dispel the ~ image of Obama (politics) North Korea is now an ~, propped up by China
class-bashing emotional basket case
he defended her against ~ critics from The Village Voice the whole experience left me an ~
gay-bashing international basket case
issues include AIDS and ~ Kissinger described Bangladesh as an ~
he thought he'd be safe from ~ (high-school student)
♦ A basket case is a person who has had all limbs amputated. Its date of
gay-bashing inclusion in dictionaries—1919—means it probably references soldiers
severely wounded in World War I.
the ~ televangelist was arrested in a public toilet
condition & status / functioning: health & medicine
man bashing
some women are uneasy with ~ bastion (noun)
accusation & criticism / speech: fist / verb / violence bastion of elitism
bask (verb) he views golf courses as a ~ (Chavez)
bastion of (racial) exclusivity
basking in the afterglow the sorority is a ~
while he was ~ of a caretaker’s honeymoon period
bastion of progressive government
basks in (New York) fame many see New Zealand as a ~
resilient Emma Raducanu ~ (US Open winner)
bastion of (southern male) privilege
basked in the glow the private club was once a ~
she ~ of being a global business celebrity
bastion of religion
bask in the prestige Poland is a ~
major cities ~ of the Olympics
bastions of free speech
bask in that smile universities are no longer ~
she knows what it feels like to ~ (of a handsome man)
bastion of tradition and authority
basking in (an Olympic) triumph the university is a ~
the U.K. is ~
bastion for the militia
bask in my victory the neighborhood is a ~
I am going to ~ (Tyson “the Gypsy King” Fury)

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Democratic bastion starting, going, continuing & ending: sports & games
Chicago is a ~ transmission: sports & games
last bastion baton (drop the baton)
Las Vegas casinos are the ~ for smokers
public-employee unions are the ~ of labor strength dropped the baton
the company ~ on this
main bastion
failure, accident & impairment: sports & games
the ~ of protection against downstream floods...
♦ A bastion can be reduced, or surrounded and starved into submission, battalion (a large group)
or betrayed from within, or simply bypassed...
battalions of consultants
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
Freedman hired ~ who specialized in health care
bat (go to bat for somebody, etc.) amount: military
coming to bat for NBC batten (batten down)
he is ~ against allegations...
battened down
go to bat for him people have ~ (for a hurricane)
nobody will ~ (a dictator under siege)
battens down for monster storm
allegiance, support & betrayal: baseball / sports & games /
Texas ~ (Hurricane Harvey)
verb
batten down the hatches
bat (batting zero) ~ and prepare for another pounding (Hurricane Maria)
batting zero battens down the hatches
the fact that he’s ~ doesn’t seem to bother him Europe ~ as Italy deaths rise (coronavirus closures, etc.)
failure, accident & impairment / success & failure: baseball ♦ “When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin’ / Fellas, it’s
too rough to feed ya / At seven p.m., a main hatchway caved in, he said /
/ sports & games / verb Fellas, it’s been good to know ya.” (“The Wreck of the Edmund
Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot.)
bathing (forest bathing, etc.)
protection & lack of protection / readiness & preparedness
dust bathing / survival, persistence & endurance: boat / sea / storm /
a herd of elephants washing and ~ at a water hole verb
forest bathing batter (the hurricane battered the city)
~ is a national pastime in Japan (shinrin-yoku)
sunbathing battered the city
the hurricane ~ (New Orleans)
naked ~ and teenage brains (Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2)
topless ~ in a public place force: storm
♦“ Where the sun is the doctor ain’t.” (An Italian mountaineer proverb that
relates to heliotherapy and a traditional treatment for tuberculosis.) battering ram
♦ “If water is scarce, take an ‘air’ bath. Remove as much of your clothing
as practical and expose your body to the sun and air for at least 1 hour.
became the Reagan Republicans’ battering ram
Be careful not to sunburn.” / “In some situations, you may be able to take Carter’s support for gay rights and the ERA ~ (1980)
a snow bath. Take a handful of snow and wash your body where sweat
and moisture accumulate, such as under the arms and between the legs, conflict: fortification / military
and then wipe yourself dry.” (FM 3-05.70, “Survival,” US Army, May
2002.) battery (recharge one's batteries)
♦ “Some people have mistaken ‘forest bathing’ as a nudist activity.” (In
North Carolina.) charge my battery
I came here to ~ (leadership school / China)
absorption & immersion: water
recharge my batteries
baton (pass on the baton) I make sure I take time to ~
hand over the baton to my son I asked for a leave of absence to ~
today’s the day I ~ (boxer retires with injury) recharge his batteries
pass on the baton to someone else he resigned unexpectedly, saying he wanted to ~
it is time to ~ (an elected official) he travels to South America to ~

passed on the baton to them recharge his batteries in the US

Tony Pike ~ (running a hotel on Ibiza) he will ~ (soccer star)
amelioration & renewal: electricity / verb

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battery (amount) government's ~ the influence of graft (Serbia)

battery of tests battle in the (culture) war

these bills are the latest ~ waged over the rights of...
he took a ~
amount: military / weapon battles of identity
in ~, language often becomes the front line (Berbers)
battle (verb) battle of wills
battled (in vain) to contain expect another ~ all the way to the final wall (swimming)
as fire-fighters ~ it (museum fire) battle of (former) champions
battling the swarms with insecticide it was a ~ (boxing)
authorities are ~ sprayed from airplanes (locusts) battle of the sexes
battled for her life the theme of “I Love Lucy” was the basic ~
she ~ on Sunday after a man shot her battles of the next generation
battle for supremacy the civil rights ~ (animal rights)
cartels ~ in South Africa's taxi wars battle against AIDS
battle against a (false) sense of complacency celebrate the small victories in the ~
we must ~ battle against assimilation
battled addiction the age-old ~
she has ~ all her life (an actor) battle against (entertainment) violence
battled alcoholism a turning point in the ~
he ~ as a teen battles with (drug and alcohol) abuse
battles (severe) asthma Ramone discussed his ~
he ~, which gets worse in stressful situations battle with alcoholism
battling the coronavirus he had fought a long ~ (a suicide)
he is still ~ (sick with the virus) battle with AIDS
battled the fire she told in a quiet voice of her ~
for three hours we ~ (grass fire) battle with cancer
battled (ice-glazed) roads a near-fatal ~
commuters ~ (freezing rain) the general died after a brave ~

battled the spread battle with Congress

critics have ~ of agricultural biotechnology a new front in the President’s ~ is opening

battling the (locust) swarms battles with unions and regulators

authorities are ~ with insecticide sprayed from airplanes waging fierce ~

battled windchills battle over the land

they ~ of 20 below (North Dakota) a lengthy court ~

battle trafficking battle over (reproductive) rights

Irmi Basu and her center ~ (sex / Calcutta) the ~ (abortion)

battled in vain battle over the terms

as fire-fighters ~ to contain it… (museum fire) a legal ~ of the agreement

cartels battle battle over the best method

~ for supremacy in South Africa's taxi wars the so-called reading wars—the ~ of teaching reading

conflict: military / verb battle between his (warring) parents

trapped in the ~
battle (noun)
battle between defenders and detractors
battle the ~ of the traditional canon (literature)
for Japan, the ~ is one of national pride (whaling)
learn to pick your ~s (disciplining a toddler) battle between the school system, county
the ongoing budget ~
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battle (going on) between commerce and creativity VHS-Beta battle
there’s a constant ~ (country music) the ~ at the beginning of the video era
battle for answers coming battle
the one last battle, the ~ (Agent Orange) he doesn't have any illusions about the ~ (legislative act)
battle for the championship ongoing (budget) battle
their ~ (basketball) an ~ between the school system, county
battles for (championship) crowns long-running battle
their epic ~ the ~ over the rights of …
battle for minds pitched battle
this is a ~ (post 9/11) his entering the race could lead to a ~ for the progressive
vote
battle for public opinion
losing the ~ hard-fought battle
he died after a ~ with a lung issue
battle for the thermostat
the ~ is waged in offices and homes across the nation annual (funding) battles
~ on Capitol Hill
battle scars
showing off ~ (football players) bitter battle
she resigned last June after four years of ~s (university)
government's battle a ~ involving teachers, school officials and the mayor
the ~ to curb the influence of graft (Serbia)
brave battle
budget battle the general died after a ~ with cancer
an ongoing ~ between the school system, county
daily battles
court battle there are ways to diffuse ~ and teach your toddler
a long-running ~
he was granted joint custody of his kids after a lengthy ~ endless battle
toilet training doesn't have to be an ~
custody battle
he was the object of a fierce ~ ferocious battle
a ~ is being waged in California (same-sex marriage)
development battle
on the losing side of ~s fierce battle
waging ~s with unions and regulators
divorce battle
a bizarre last chapter in a ~ (townhouse explodes) judicial battle
this is the latest development in an ongoing ~
edit battles
~ have contested Wikipedia articles about political events legal battle
a ~ over the terms of the agreement;
election battle animal-rights groups have had ~s with the federal
he is facing a difficult ~ (Germany) government
epic battle lengthy (court) battle
their ~s for championship crowns (sports) a ~ over the land
he had an ~ with a mako (fishing)
their ~ Saturday night (Ward vs. Gatti / boxing) nightly battle
how can I get my toddler to brush her teeth without a ~
kite battle
it's time for the rokkaku ~ (kite festival) significant battle
it has lost a ~ in the PR war (Facebook versus Australia)
turf battles
~ likely to ensue (federal agencies) long, hard battle
it's been a really ~ for me (cancer survivor)
visitation battle
~s involving grandparents age-old battle
the ~ against assimilation
textbook battles
~ are legendary in Texas near-fatal battle
a ~ with cancer
public relations battle
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 a ~ with beavers battle (uphill battle, etc.)
David-and-Goliath battle long battle
waging a ~ against Time Warner
he had fought a ~ with alcoholism (a suicide)
heat of the battle uphill battle
look, in the ~... (Nick Kyrgios about a tennis match)
it will be an ~ (political reform)
heat-of-the-battle (m) small businesses have faced an ~ (online vending)
in the ~ racing (NASCAR)
facing an uphill battle
object of a (fierce custody) battle they are ~ (politics)
he was the ~
fought a (long) battle
them-vs.-us battle he had ~ with alcoholism (a suicide)
it's a ~ difficulty, easiness & effort: military
aspect of the battle battle cry
redirected their attention to another ~ (anti-whaling)
battle cry
epicenter of that battle
the vendors chant their ~, “Quando luchamas, ganamos”
Birmingham became the ~ (for civil rights)
repeal has been the ~ for years (Obamacare)
object of a (fierce custody) battle battle cries of our modern crowds
he was the ~
slogans are the ~
years of (bitter) battles battle cry of public health officials
she resigned last year after four ~ (university)
it has become the ~ (wear a mask to slow the spread)
in the (President’s) battle battle cry against machismo
a new front ~ with Congress is opening
their new single is a ~ (Y La Bamba’s “Mujeres”)
turning point in the battle less of a battle cry
a ~ against entertainment violence
“lock ‘em up” has become ~ for politicians
tantrums and battles became a battle cry
~ (toddlers)
that word Perseverance ~ for us (Nasa Mars mission)
war or battle inspired Obama’s own campaign battle cry
we’re not in a ~ with Facebook (government official)
the United Farm Workers of America ~ (Si se Puede)
facing a (difficult election) battle conflict: military
he is ~ (Germany)
battleground (Battle Ground, Indiana,
lose this battle
they would ~ in the legislative arena etc.)
pick your battles Battle Ground
learn to ~ (disciplining a toddler) the town of ~ is near the site of the Battle of Tippecanoe
♦ “We all got our daily battles, right?” geography / military: proper name
♦ “We fight hard, we play for keeps, we take no prisoners. We’ll get in the
trenches and fight dirty.” (Greg Pruett, president of the Idaho Second battleground (conflict)
Amendment Alliance, a gun-rights group.)
♦ “Marines don’t fight wars, they fight battles.” (A Marine captain, Marjah, battlegrounds of discontent
Afghanistan, 2010.) hospitals have become ~ (poor service)
♦ “With human corpses, human excrement, and rotting rations scattered
across Peleliu’s ridges, the blow flies or bluebottle flies underwent a battlegrounds in the (drug) business
population explosion. Those nasty insects were so large, so glutted, and hepatitis C is one of the fiercest ~ (drug development)
so lazy that some could scarcely fly... It was revolting, to say the least, to
watch big fat blowflies leave a corpse and swarm into our C rations... battleground for the future
Each morning, just before sunrise, when things were fairly quiet, I could
hear a steady humming sound like bees in a hive as the flies became
the Gulf of Mexico is the ~ of offshore oil drilling
active with the onset of daylight. They rose off the corpses, refuse,
rocks, brush, and wherever else they had settled for the night like a battlegrounds for (freedom of speech) issues
swarm of bees. There numbers were incredible.” (With the Old Breed by college campuses are ~
E.B. Sledge.)
battleground for (culture-war) issues
conflict: military the schools have become a ~
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 Ohio is a crucial ~ (elections) flag-waving patriots are ~ (India)
in the ~ of Pennsylvania, which Trump won in 2016
baying my name
latest battleground the nine-year-olds were jeering at me and ~ (a small boy)
green spaces are the ~ in the disputer (development)
baying for vengeance
public battlefield he compared the attacks on him to a mob ~
he enjoys the ~ (Jill Lepore about Elon Musk)
eagerness & reluctance: animal / dog / hunting / sound /
become a battleground verb
the state has ~ over the issue (abortion)
♦ “Byron visited; so did the Wordsworths—twice—and the architect and
beachhead (noun)
collector John Soane and thousands of others. They carried away
skulls—Sir Walter Scott had one—and fingers and teeth and bullets and beachheads for any foreign government
cannon balls... A century later such battlefield tourism would flourish US universities should not be ~
even if its more gruesome collecting tastes were suppressed.” (The site
of the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium. From The Work of the Dead: A get a beachhead
Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur.) you ~, like Social Security passes (progressivism)
♦ Years ago they had marched thousands of miles to legendary
battlefields... they had once gone to the ends of the earth and seen presence & absence: military
beyond the farthest horizon... We looked at these men in blue, existing in survival, persistence & endurance: military
pensioned security, honored and respected by all... and we were in awe
of them. Those terrible names out of the history books—Gettysburg, starting, going, continuing & ending: military
Shiloh, Stone’s River, Cold Harbor—came alive through these men.
They had been there... and to watch them was to be deeply moved.”
beacon (noun)
(Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood by Bruce Catton.)
beacon of hope
conflict / place: military the center will be a ~ (Muhammad Ali Center)
bay (at bay) the school is a ~ (in deprived Detroit neighborhood)
beacon of justice
hold the Taliban at bay the center’s reputation as a ~ had taken some hits (Southern
the Afghan government will struggle to ~ Poverty Law Center)
kept my depression at bay beacons of faith and optimism
the device has ~ (an electrical implant) the old prairie churches were ~ (US)
keep oil drilling at bay beacon of liberty
we need to ~ the US is a ~, freedom and opportunity
keep his furies at bay beacon for (high-achieving) students
he works hard to ~ (troubled ex-boxer) the school is a ~ (high school)
keep hate at bay beacon for human rights
our job is to ~, out of the mainstream (SPLC) she was once seen as a ~ (a political figure)
keep monotony at bay ♦ In a project that brought ancient Roman history to life, 500 flaming
the breaks in the narrative ~ beacons were lit along the 84-mile-lenth of Hadrian's wall, from Tyneside
to the Cumbrian coast.
keep Usyk at bay direction: fire / light & dark / journeys & trips
Joshua struggled to ~ (boxing)
bead (draw a bead / have a bead)
kept at bay
the modern world can't be ~ forever had a bead on the corruption
he ~, similar to today (Hal Holbrook about Mark Twain)
remains at bay
inflation ~ (economy) target: weapon
♦ This refers to the barking of dogs as they prevent a stranger from
approaching a cabin, or force a bear to climb a tree.
beak (Parrot's Beak, etc.)
avoidance & separation: dog / sound Le Bec d'Aigle
~ is a giant rock overlooking the calanque (Eagle's Beak)
bay (bay for blood, etc.)
Parrot's Beak
baying for blood the ~ juts into Vietnam from southeast Cambodia
the fans are always ~ (boxing) the Mano River flows through the ~ area of Guinea
baying for the blood proper name: bird / shape
they are ~ of Nancy Pelosi (politics) geography: bird / proper name / shape
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beak (area) round, to get my bearings. Dersu took a bunch of reeds and mugwort
and bent it down as a patteran. I looked ahead and all round.
Everywhere, on every side, extended the endless, waving ocean of
Eagles Beak grass.” (Dersu Uzala by V. K. Arseniev. A patteran is a sign relating to a
the ~ is a natural arch in Arizona course. Nowadays a person might use blaze orange flagging tape.)

area: shape direction: journeys & trips / tools & technology

shape: bird beast (‘The Beast’ Mugabi, etc.)
bear (a bear of an epidemic, etc.)
‘The Beast’ Mugabi
bear of an epidemic John ~ vs. “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler (boxing)
he has a ~ on his hands (mayor and coronavirus rates) earned the nickname “the Beast”
behavior / force: animal he has ~ (the boxer Artur Beterbiev)

bear (a weight, etc.) epithet: animal

force: epithet
bear
the death of a child is almost too much to ~
beast (insult)
affliction: burden / verb / weight beast
oppression: burden / verb / weight this person, not even a person, this ~... (a murderer)

bear (bear fruit, etc.) wild beasts

those ~ shot you in the back (said at a funeral)
bore fruit
their protests ~ only after… turn into (wild) beasts
when we see their faces, we ~, thugs and murderers (WWI)
borne fruit ♦ “He had finally tracked the beast to its lair.” (Churchill visits Hitler’s
British attempts to deter Iran have not ~ bunker in 1945. From Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew
Roberts.)
bearing fruit
the development program appears to be ~ insult: animal

Bears Fruit beast (power)

War on Piracy ~
beast
product: fruits & vegetables / verb the weather is a ~ today across much of the country
he’s a ~ (said by NFL player admiringly about another)
bearbaiting Day two on the Eiger was a ~ (climbing conditions)
Gronkowski is a ~ (RazB / Super Bowl 55)
form of (human) bearbaiting the whole thing is a ~ (a road train of the Outback)
a judge summed up the show as a ~ (Jeremy Kyle Show)
beast of a wave
conflict: animal / violence
another bruising encounter with a ~ (Nazare surfing)
bearing (direction) beast on the drums
find his bearings she is an absolute ~ (10-year-old Nandi Bushell)
he spent two months trying to ~ and a job (new city) beasts at major finals
lose your bearings there are teams who are ~ (Euro 2020 in 2021 / soccer)
when you're homeless, you kind of ~ Beast inside
losing its bearings Beauty outside, ~ (Apple computer advertisement)
the city is ~, it's heritage (development) beast mode
lost her bearings that marine going ~ with the rammer (Wolfie)
she ~ in the pursuit of fame f****** beast
get his bearings how does he do it, he’s a ~ (Marine howitzer rammer)
it took him a while to ~ (a new job) giant beasts
get his bearings back social media is a landscape with some ~ in it (Facebook)
it took him a while to ~ (stunned boxer) much scarier beast
regain my bearings he’s a ~ now because... (Conor McGregor / MMA)
after the birth of my first child, it took me time to ~ stubborn beast
♦ “We strayed from the path several times, but quickly corrected our Baranchyk, a ~, didn’t fall (exciting boxing match)
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such a beast Yahoo and AOL are ~ spammers
oh, he’s got it, he’s such a beast (Alex Honnold)
attempt to beat back
beast, a monster in an ~ the epidemic, the government is... (Luanda)
this storm is a ~ (satellite image of a hurricane)
resistance, opposition & defeat: fist / verb
♦ “She is an absolute beast on the drums.” (Ten-year-old Nandi Bushell.)
♦ “I don’t even know how this man does it, he’s a f****** beast, every gun beat (beat down / the sun, etc.)
has two people ramming, it’s just this guy alone, he is tearing it up...”
(Praise for Wolf, AKA Wolfie, a Marine Corp rammer on a 15- round beat down on the (black) rocks
mission. youtube.com/watch?v=CdO_0twP_CU the sun ~ (Kilauea)
character & personality / force / power / size: animal beat down relentlessly
beast (different beast, etc.) the desert sun ~
force: fist / verb / violence
complex beasts
modern airliners are ~ (engineering, computers, etc.) beaten (beaten up)
different beast from what get beaten up
distilled alcohol is a ~ came before it (wine, beer) he knows he'll get attacked and ~ (politics)
different beast accusation & criticism: fist / violence
he insists his film is a ~ (sequel, not a reboot)
beatification (noun)
rare beast
flavorists are ~s (inventing smells for the food industry) beatification
♦ “Neither fish nor fowl...” his ~ has taken a long time (writer / literary canon)
♦ see also animal (different animal, etc.) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
taxonomy & classification: animal beatify (verb)
beat (defeat) beatify all Northerners
she did not demonize all Southerners, or ~ (Stowe)
beat you
it was the weather that ~ (Mt. Everest) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / verb
conflict / success & failure: sports & games / verb beating (take a beating, etc.)
beat (beat oneself up) public relations beatings
the embassy’s career officers were used to taking ~
beat myself up
I’d ~, sometimes I would cry (a drinking problem) 4-0 beating
as Wales contemplated the ~ (Euro 2020 vs. Denmark)
beat yourself up
if you slip up or hit a plateau, don't ~ (weight loss) taken a beating
she said her confidence had ~ (athlete)
beat yourself up over that
the industry has ~ recently
don't ~ (a performance mistake)
the dollar has ~ abroad
beat herself up for not being its stock has ~ (a company)
she should not ~ around more to help her ailing mother
took a beating
punishment & recrimination: fist / verb its reputation ~ in the financial crisis (rating service)
beat back (verb) took a (serious) beating
the Democrats ~ in the midterm elections
beat back arthritis
he squeezes a golf ball at night to ~ taken a beating over its (contract) process
the Air Force has ~
beat back the epidemic
in an attempt to ~, the government is... (Luanda) taken a beating from the storms
the coastline has ~
beat back (mounting) skepticism
she is trying to ~ of her qualifications taken a beating in the media
he has ~ (an athlete)
beat back dirt and disease
their lives, a daily struggle to ~ (Kabul slums) feeling, emotion & effect: fist / verb

fighting to beat back

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beat up (storm) judgment / responsibility: house / verb

beating up Texas
bedazzled (decorated)
the rain and flooding is just ~ (ABC News) bedazzled case
force: storm a white iPhone with a ~

beaver (verb) bedazzled masks

little girls with ~ (pandemic)
beavered at neural nets he sells ~ on Etsy (pandemic)
AI scientists ~ for decades before...
bedazzled suit
beavering away he’s got the pompadour and ~ (an Elvis impersonator)
a small army of Canadian zealots was ~ at the case
appearance: light & dark
our readers have been ~ (a prediction challenge)
difficulty, easiness & effort: animal / verb bedevil (verb)
work & duty: animal / verb bedeviled the governor
behavior: animal / verb the scandal ~
beckon (verb) bedeviled his (own party’s) leadership
deep pockets beckon he ~ by blocking compromise
the Gulf’s ~ (arms sales) bedeviled the (Democratic) nominee
devices beckon the story ~ right up until election day
the line is long and other ~ (tech convention) bedevils the people
attraction & repulsion: gesture / hand / verb corruption ~
fictive communication: gesture / hand / verb affliction: creature / religion / verb
bed (put something to bed) bedeviled
put to bed bedeviled by the (sluggish) economy
a successful launch will help ~ memories of the problems he found himself ~ (president)
put this (silly) incident to bed bedeviled by (technical) problems
we need to ~ (sports controversy) the company has been ~ (autos)
put questions (about his age) to bed bedeviled by a lack
his performance didn’t ~, but... (elderly politician at debate) the response effort was ~ of organization
put the tie to bed affliction: creature / religion
they pushed forward to ~ but... (soccer second-leg game)
bedfellow (companion)
starting, going, continuing & ending: sleep / verb
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: sleep / verb bedfellows
bed (put to bed) how Africa’s football and politics are ~ (BBC)
unpromising bedfellow
put to bed yet history suggests the state and steel are ~ (subsidies)
this matter has not been ~ (COVID 19 origin)
ideological bedfellows
starting, going, continuing & ending: sleep
he and Mr DeSantis are seen as ~ (politics)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: sleep
bed (jump into bed with someone) natural bedfellows
Somaliland and Taiwan are ~ (diplomatic recognition)
jump into bed with the Syrian government strange bedfellows
the Kurds don’t immediately want to ~ the bill has made for some ~ (from both parties)
allegiance, support & betrayal: love, courtship & marriage /
unlikely bedfellows
verb a new album combines ~ (romantic / avant-garde)
bed (lie in one’s bed) examine your bedfellows
lie in it you need to ~ and ask yourself... (manosphere & far right)
he has made this bed and he’s got to ~ (politics) make (strange) bedfellows
politics can ~

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♦ “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” his fictional creation James Bond to Roy Plomley on BBC’s Desert Island
(Ismael about sharing a bed with Queequeg, from Moby-Dick by Herman Discs in 1963.)
Melville.)
♦ “Why should we be afraid of latex, when we see that it can save
lives...? I just don’t mention [making condoms available] in my report to
relationship: sleep / journeys & trips the bishop.” (A Catholic nun in Cameroon, dealing with the AIDS
bedlam (noun) epidemic.)
♦ “Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.”
bedlam sex: euphemism
it was ~, the whole city was on the run (Berlin 1 May)
bedlam of the city
bee (busy as a bee)
the ~ recedes (in a courtyard garden) as busy as a bee
bedlam in the streets he was ~
there was ~ (World Cup victory) activity / behavior: animal / insect
construction bedlam bee (queen bee)
he surveyed the ~ (restaurant being built)
queen bee of wellness
management bedlam Belle Gibson was the ~ (the
it’s ~ (at Fox News)
hierarchy: animal / insect / royalty
political bedlam
the system breeds ~ (government) beef (conflict)
bedlam ensued my particular beef
the announcement was made, and ~ ~ is with the newspapers (the beloved John Cleese)
bedlam engulfed the fans issues and beefs
~ (a victory) tells us about some of the ~ (2021 Oscars)
♦ According to Wikipedia, this word comes from Bethlem Royal Hospital
in England. It was one of the first institutions to house the insane. has a beef with someone
if he ~, it should be with the medical staff (an athlete)
behavior / environment: mental health
conflict: cows & cattle
bedrock (noun)
beefed up
bedrock of who we are
quality is the ~ (Boeing) security has been ~
~ at the Capitol
bedrock of our storytelling tradition
these 100 stories are a ~ (the Decameron by Boccaccio) amelioration & renewal / strength & weakness: cows &
cattle / food & drink / meat / verb
bedrock belief
it's a ~ of mine (people have souls, animals don't) beef up (verb)
bedrock policy beefed up (border) controls
keeping employee costs down is a ~ (a retail giant) the US has ~ (against smuggling)

bedrock principle amelioration & renewal / strength & weakness: cows &
a ~ is civilian control of the military (US governance) cattle / food & drink / meat / verb
innocent until proven guilty is one of our country’s ~s
beehive (activity)
bedrock value
he brought some ~s to the job (a cop about right / wrong) beehive
the ~s that make America unique (freedom of religion) the military hospital was a ~ (heavily guarded)

bedrock of safety beehive of activity

the ~ inside, these buildings were a ~ (hospital)
the place was a ~ (a city newspaper before the internet)
bases: ground, terrain & land
activity / environment: insect
bedroom (sex)
beehive (Beehive cluster, etc.)
bedroom issues
the church doesn’t know what it’s talking about on ~ Beehive cluster
M44, the ~
♦ “Well, he has one girl per book, approximately, and that’s one a year.
He’s a bachelor, and he moves around the world pretty rapidly. And umm proper name: insect / shape
I don’t see any great harm in that myself.” (Ian Fleming speaking about

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been through (endure, etc.) few living directors ~ that... (the filmmaker Roy Andersson)

been through anything like that begot ingenuity

scarcity ~ (poor kids devise ways to have fun)
we’ve never ~ in our family (murder)
creation & transformation / relationship: birth / verb
been through hell
I’ve ~ beginning (just the beginning, etc.)
been through this before beginning
this is not our first rodeo, we’ve ~ (hurricanes) it’s just the ~ (first picture of black hole in space)
♦ see also get through (endure, etc.), go through (endure, etc.) ♦ “Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.” (A Japanese saying.)
survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / progress & lack of progress / starting, going, continuing &
movement / prep, adv, adj, particle ending: journeys & trips / movement
experience: journeys & trips / movement
behavior (fire, etc.)
before (at an earlier time)
fire behavior
before tractors and combines they are seeing ~ that they’ve never even been trained for
then I did plowing and scything, that was ~, you know...
character & personality: materials & substances
best-before
the ~ dates are usually 3 or 4 months after delivery (beer) behemoth (noun)
sequence / time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, behemoth among (federal) agencies
particle the Department of Defense is a ~

before (we have hard work before us) behemoth pickup trucks
~ roar down Main Street (oil-boom town in Texas)
before us
we have hard work ~ civil rights behemoth
it has built itself into a ~ (Southern Poverty Law Center)
future / time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
online (classifieds) behemoth
beg (verb) the ~, Craigslist…
begging the Department of Defense to address economic behemoth
the group has been ~ this issue China has emerged as an ~
she begged her daughter to come home political behemoth
she ~ other candidates understand that he is a ~ (Joe Biden)
begged the coach to give tabular behemoths
Mom ~ me a chance, and he did (Allen Iverson) these ~ catch in the shallows (icebergs / S. Georgia Island)
beg you to move cutthroat behemoth
melodies, groove and beats ~ (Electric Warrior) antitrust regulators depict it as a ~ (a tech company)
begged for his life pop-culture behemoth
he ~ the ~ Game of Thrones
pushed and begged lactating behemoths
he ~ for an evacuation plan (Fall of Saigon / 1975) Holsteins are ~ (versus Ankole cattle)
♦ “Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene / I’m begging of you please don’t take
my man.” (Dolly Parton. Miley Cyrus. Nuff said.) 2,300-page behemoth
it is a ~ (a government act)
wants, needs, hopes & goals: speech / verb
speech: verb four-billion-dollar (accessories) behemoth
Coach is a ~ (fashion)
beget (verb)
built the company into a behemoth
begat the Freedom Caucus begat Donald Trump he ~ (security)
the Tea Party ~ (NPR’s Mara Liasson / 2016)
spells the end for a behemoth
begat Michael Jordan who begat Tier Woods the decision to pull the show ~ that dominated schedules
he created this paradigm that ~ (O.J. Simpson) ♦ The Behemoth was a huge land monster mentioned in the Book of Job.
Its aquatic counterpart was the Leviathan. Both creatures were controlled
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size: allusion / Bible / creature / religion behind (in the past)
behind (behind schedule, etc.) behind
behind on payments the team's best days are ~ (sports)
we were ~ behind her
behind schedule now it's all ~ (wild lifestyle)
they were now almost 2 months ~ behind him
falls behind in college, with his high school playing days ~...
Faisal ~ (worker at Dairy Queen) behind it
fell behind on a (key) module the 100th mission is ~ (space shuttles)
later, as Russia ~ (space station) behind us
fell behind in his mortgage now that this is ~, we can move forward (divorce)
he ~ (money woes) it is tempting to believe the danger is ~ (terrorism)
the first phase of the pandemic is ~
time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: direction / position / our darkness days are ahead of us, not ~ (pandemic)
prep, adv, adj, particle
long behind
behind (competition) his best writing days were ~ by then

behind in the race get the case behind him

Uber is ~ to develop autonomous vehicles he just wanted to ~ (object of criminal investigation)

left behind left his old life behind

Nokia has been ~ by competitors in the smartphone market he ~
competition: direction / movement / position / prep, adv, leave our colonial past behind
adj, particle / sports & games / walking, running & jumping the time has come to fully ~ (Barbados)

behind (progress) put his old life behind him

he tried to ~
behind in school
he is way ~ put their differences behind them
they sought to ~ (diplomacy)
behind the (learning) curve
we were well ~ (for a military operation) put their (money) problems behind them
her new job ~
way behind ♦ "Now that that is in the rear-view mirror…" (Behind us.)
he is ~ in school ♦ "That's all water under the bridge."
well behind ♦ “We’re so focused on what’s ahead, we’re not worried about what’s
behind us.” (The boxer Anthony Joshua, speaking about his rematch with
we were ~ the learning curve (for a military operation)
Andy Ruiz Jr. AJ had lost the first match, in a tremendous upset.)
fall behind past & present / time: direction / journeys & trips /
we want to keep up and not ~ (government official) movement / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
the US could ~ China (digital currency)
behind (responsibility)
fallen behind at Fremont
he had ~ at Fremont, not just in history but... (school) behind the bombing
no one knows who is ~
fell behind by 3 years
our program ~ (space) behind the machinery
he is the brains ~ that makes the wave (Kelly Slater’s wave)
lag behind
women ~ men in the most visible arenas of science behind the (new) policy
he is a driving force ~ (a doctor)
lagging (far) behind
US students are ~ (education) behind the project
he was the brains ~
left behind
the poor are ~ (services go to wealthy) responsibility: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
progress & lack of progress: direction / movement / prep, behind (basis)
adv, adj. particle / walking, running & jumping
behind this decision

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 what could be ~ behind-the-scenes
behind these new levels behind-the-scenes
what are the causes ~ of stress (colleges)
a ~ of world hegemony
idea behind the program behind-the-scenes controversy
the ~ was to…
fraught with ~
logic behind (military) training behind-the-scenes documentary
the hidden ~
a ~ (making of a film)
motivation behind the attack behind-the-scenes negotiations
the ~ seems to be to…
~ failed
personalities behind the inventions behind-the-scenes role
the exhibition is an attempt to bring to life the ~
his ~
reasoning behind this behind-the-scenes strategist
the ~ is that…
behind-the-scenes workers
story behind the plaque
a cadre of ~ (state fair)
do you know the ~
behind-the-scenes lobbying
theory behind this practice
months of ~
the ~ is that…
concealment & lack of concealment: theater
driving force behind development
economics is usually the ~ (zoning) belch (verb)
driving force behind globalization belched up
the ~ a great cloud of steam ~ through the hatch (burst pipe)
driving force behind hostess bars belched forth smoke, ash and lava
ultimately money is the ~ (Roppongi) the volcano ~
lies behind belched from the smokestacks
inequality in incomes ~ the divisiveness of our politics black smoke ~
what ~ human behavior
belched (diesel) exhaust
bases: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle trucks ~
relationship: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
belched smoke
behind (support) the engine ~ (coal-fired)
behind it resemblance: bodily reaction / verb
the government has to get ~ and the Prime Minister is
against it (a proposal) Belichick (the racing Bill Belichick, etc.)
behind you racing Bill Belichick
I'm ~ (I support you) he’s a little bit the ~ (Bob Bufford and Justified)

get behind the development subterfuge: epithet

it's time we ~ of renewable energy believer (true believer)
allegiance, support & betrayal: prep, adv, adj, particle
true believer in the cause
behind (put something behind) she was a ~ (Irish Republican Army)

behind me dogged true believers

they tell me I have to put Nick’s death ~ (grieving widow) the Wikipedia system can put it at the mercy of the ~

put her trauma behind her progressive true believers

she has tried to ~ (rape) the ~ who flocked to Mr Sanders in 2016 (politics)

put this behind us allegiance, support & betrayal: allusion

we’ve got to ~ and move on with our lives (after disaster) identity & nature: allusion
commitment & determination: allusion
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / resiliency: direction
/ prep, adv, adj, particle / verb

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bell (warning) bellwether of (African) progress
Ghana again became a ~ (peace, democracy)
alarm bell
bellwether for the condition
civil rights activists sounded the ~s
small businesses have become a ~ of the US economy
“fight or flight” bells
bellwether for the industry
that type of rhetoric tends to ring the ~ (Jewish Americans)
the labor talks could serve as a ~ (airline unions)
warning bell
watched (by other defendants) as a (potential)
spiraling suicide rates sound a ~
bellwether
ring (any) bells the case has been widely ~
one case doesn't usually ~ (epidemics) ♦ A wether is a ram leading a flock of sheep. The shepherd attaches a
bell around the ram's neck, to indicate the location of the flock.
ringing the alarm bell
the mayor is ~ as loudly as he can (coronavirus cases) direction: sheep

set off alarm bells belly (orientation)

for Western intelligence, it ~ (Mig-25 “Foxbat”)
belly of the rover
sounded the alarm bells an umbilical runs to a computer inside the ~ (on Mars)
environmentalist have ~ (pollution in Lake Baikal)
civil rights activists ~
belly of a tank
the slug punches a hole in the ~
sound a warning bell
spiraling suicide rates ~
belly landing
he questioned whether a ~ would work (space shuttle)
warning: bell / sound
Perseverance’s belly
bell (bells and whistles) at present, the aircraft is slung beneath ~ (Mars)

bell and whistle orientation: direction / stomach

$3,200 for a top of the line model with every ~ (a toilet) belly flop (noun)
bells and whistles
it has more ~ than a fire engine (a sports watch)
prime-time belly flop
her speech was a ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound / train
failure, accident & impairment: sports & games / water
bell (ring a bell) bellyful (amount)
ring a bell
did that name mean anything to you, did it ~ (murder)
bellyful of war
I’ve had a ~
consciousness & awareness: bell / sound / verb
bellyful of promises and politicking
bell (unring a bell) the people of Britain have had a ~

unring a bell bellyful of deceit, waste and incompetence

you can't ~ that has already been rung there has been a ~ (New Labour)
reversal: bell / sound / verb amount / consumption: food & drink / stomach
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink / stomach
bell curve (shape) feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / stomach
distribution of a bell curve belly-up (adjective)
the scores have the ~
belly-up
shape: bell / direction we had plenty of excuses to go ~
bellwether (noun) went belly-up
the company ~ (failed)
bellwether election
Democrats are fretting about losing a ~ ♦ This refers to a dead fish or other animal dead in water.

failure, accident & impairment: animal / death & life / fish

bellwether of (global) conservation efforts
island initiatives are a ~ condition & status: animal / death & life / fish

bellwether of (economic) health

the housing market is seen as a ~ by many (US)

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belong (verb) belt (under one's belt)
belongs to the fifth century one expedition (to Gasherbrum II) under his belt
of the great philosophers, only Socrates properly ~ he had ~
belongs to the past 7 deployments under his belt
what happened ~ (a historical injustice) he has ~ (first sergeant)
fictive possession: verb 6,000 jumps under his belt
a skydiver with ~
below (behavior)
25 years (of Forest Service work) under his belt
below you he has ~
that’s ~
experience: clothing & accessories
behavior: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
admiration & contempt: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle belt (notch in a belt)
belt (area) conviction notch in their belts
prosecutors just want another ~ (convict exonerated)
belt of ice
♦ “Carly had belt-notched all those coveted hotties—Cat Stevens, Kris
in winter a 600-mile-wide ~ seals off Antarctica Kristofferson, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger, James
Taylor...” (Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller.)
belt of (coniferous) forests
the taiga—the huge circumpolar ~ achievement, recognition & praise: history / mark /
violence
Bible Belt
Atlanta versus the surrounding ~ (strip clubs) belt (tighten one’s belt)
Black Belt tightening our belts this summer
the ~, an impoverished region of the rural South (US) we will be ~ (pandemic ruins tourist season)
banana belt sacrifice: food & drink
the lush ~ of southern Ecuador sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink
farm belt belt-tightening
Louisiana's ~
belt-tightening at the Pentagon
mineral belt he will announce a new round of ~
a large ~ west of Albuquerque
belt-tightening measures
radiation belt the school will also take ~ like…
the ~s of earth
corporate belt-tightening
snow belt recent years of ~
few move from the sun belt to the ~ (US)
fiscal belt-tightening
ecologically diverse (transition) belt in an age of ~
this remote, fragile, and ~ between forest and steppe
sacrifice: food & drink
circumpolar belt sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink
the taiga—the huge ~ of coniferous forests
bemoan (verb)
semiarid belt
the Sahel, a ~ that spans Africa just below the Sahara bemoan the paywall
advocates of open access ~ (academic articles)
25-mile belt
oil fields clustered along a ~ between Basra, Kuwait resistance, opposition & defeat: sound / verb
♦ A belt often has a buckle. See buckle (attachment) bench (verb)
area / configuration: clothing & accessories / shape
bench him
belt (below the belt) the channel decided to ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: sports & games / verb
belt
he's known for hitting ~ (politics) benchmark (at a benchmark)
behavior: boundary / boxing
at or near that benchmark
restraint & lack of restraint: boundary / boxing these year's figures already are ~ (female graduates)

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measurement: mark bend the government to their will
local leaders who wish to ~
benchmark (other)
refuse to bend
benchmark Shiites ~ to demands by Sunnis that...
it is a ~ that we must keep in mind
caused him to bend
benchmark of skill the threat ~ but not break
I consider the Green Narrows as a ~ (kayaking)
♦ A reed bends but does not break.
benchmark for toughness resistance, opposition & defeat: materials & substances /
support for capital punishment is a ~ for politicians
verb
benchmark indicator beneath (behavior)
use objective criteria to establish ~s (environment)
benchmark run beneath me
the Green Narrows is a ~ in the Southeast (kayaking) that’s ~

benchmarks, the milestones beneath the dignity

the ~ you speak of in this book, like marriage... is anything ~ of the Obama White House (politics)

standards and benchmarks beneath you

we are working on meeting ~ for curricula (education) that's way ~ (her reaction to his rude proposal)
behavior: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
barriers and benchmarks
when it comes to ~, snowboarding has the 1440° spin admiration & contempt: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle

established (climbing's new) benchmark

Bermuda Triangle
the man who ~ (Tomaz Humar / south face of Dhaulagiri) Bermuda Triangle of airspeed
performance benchmarks transonic is the unknown, it is the ~ (flying)
it ranks first on three of the industry's leading ~ legal Bermuda Triangle
reached (all) the benchmarks this is a ~, trying to figure out who’s at fault
he ~ on or close to schedule (child development) certainty & uncertainty fantasy & reality: allusion / history
set the benchmark berserk
she ~ in 1996 (time spent in space)
♦ The round metal USGS plaques on mountaintops are benchmarks that went berserk
indicate height above sea level. the elephant ~ and killed its trainer
♦ “The benchmarks I don’t worry about that much...” (Teresa Thayer the 200-pound chimpanzee ~ and was shot dead by police
Snyder, former superintendent of Voorheesville school district in upstate he hit a home run, and the crowd ~ (sports)
New York. She doesn’t want schools to get too focused on so-called “lost she ~ and stormed out (angry and upset)
time” to the COVID-19 pandemic, because the kids learned plenty during
the pandemic.) behavior / control & lack of control: mental health
measurement: mark berth (a wide berth)
bend (bend over backwards) give her a wide berth
bends over backwards to be cooperative I always ~ (a boss)
the staff ~ avoidance & separation: boat
bends over backwards being polite beside (support)
he ~
beside me
bending over backwards to comply life is so cruel without you ~
we are ~ with the rules
allegiance, support & betrayal: position / prep, adv, adj,
difficulty, easiness & effort: standing, sitting & lying / verb particle
bend (verb) besiege (verb)
bend to demands besieged (northern) Mexico
Shiites refuse to ~ by Sunnis that... violence has ~
bend (in any way) to economic pressure besieged NBC with calls
he won’t ~ (Daniel Ortega) they ~ (to kill a story)

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amount & effect: fortification / military / verb betrayed an erosion
the recrimination ~ of confidence (Israeli raid)
besieged
betraying him
besieged by email after so many years, his body was ~ (an athlete)
she has been ~
betrayed a hint
besieged by lobbyists neither man ~ of anxiety
Congress is ~
betray a (profound) ignorance
besieged by the media animal rightists ~ about nature (opinion)
he was ~
evidence / fictive communication: verb
besieged by questions concealment & lack of concealment: verb
doctors have been ~ from patients
betray (fail)
besieged by reporters
he has been ~ betrayed him
he got clipped and his legs ~ (a boxer)
besieged by (corruption) scandals
his government has been ~ failure, accident & impairment: verb

besieged borough betrayed

more food relief is needed across the ~ (Bronx / pandemic)
betrayed by (bad) leadership
besieged politicians he had been ~
the ~ have started a counterattack (politics)
allegiance, support & betrayal: speech
amount & effect: fortification / military
between (come between, etc.)
besity (infobesity, etc.)
come between them and their mom
“infobesity” the only thing that would ~ was death (mom murdered)
~ is affecting our brains and lives (information overload)
division & connection: prep, adv, adj, particle
increase & decrease / size: affix
bewail (verb)
bestial (adjective)
bewailed what they called
bestial wretchedness defense contractor ~ declining weapons spending
he sees out his days in a state of ~ (retirement)
resistance, opposition & defeat: sound / verb
comparison & contrast: affix / animal conflict / speech: sound / verb
bestiary (noun) bewitch (verb)
nautical bestiary bewitched all
silhouettes of sailing junks, different sizes and designs, a ~ she ~ with a mesmerizing performance
taxonomy & classification: animal feeling, emotion & effect: magic / verb
bet (all bets are off) bewitching (adjective)
all bets are off bewitching city
~ (election) Kim is a perfect companion to a ~ (Lahore)
certainty & uncertainty / fate, fortune & chance: cards / feeling, emotion & effect: magic
gambling / sports & games
Bhopal (Australia’s Bhopal, etc.)
bete noire (black beast)
Australia’s Bhopal
his (obstreperous) bete noire Wittenoom is ~ (asbestos contamination)
~, Major Ross failure, accident & impairment: epithet
affliction: animal / color
bible (enthusiasm)
betray (verb)
Bible of Boxing
betrayed no emotion The Ring magazine, the ~…
he ~ while the charges against him were read
bibles of (backpacking) seekers

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 those ~ everywhere (A Time of Gifts, etc.) even when the plan is published, there will be ~...
The Sound Effects Bible so big
Rick Viers, author of ~ I knew this was huge, this was ~ (photojournalist)
♦ “That was Luigi. We met at his house at two, with our good boots on
our feet, but no backpacks, no rope (about whose use none of us had big name
any real notion anyway; but we knew—having studied the Alpine Club see big (big name, etc.)
guidebook—the theory of the double rope, the respective merits of hemp
and manila, the technique for rescuing someone from a crevasse, and importance & significance: size
other fine points), a hundred grams of chocolate in our pockets, and
(may God forgive us!) wearing shorts.” (“Bear Meat” by Primo Levy. big (big name, etc.)
Translated from the Italian by Alessandra Bastagli.)

enthusiasm: Bible / religion

so big
I knew this was huge, this was ~ (photojournalist)
Bible (authority)
big names
Bible of sports some ~ have not made official announcements yet
the ~ on the Internet (Internet site) a who’s who of ~ were present (at Aretha’s funeral)

Bible of (psychiatric) diagnosis importance & significance: size

according to the ~, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Big (comprehension, scope)
Bible of the (social-media) movement Big data
the ~ is Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody"
~ is a field that treats way to analyze... (Wikipedia)
bible of psychiatry Big History
the DSM—the ~ (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual)
~ has long been out of favor in academic circles
bible for educators the glib tendentiousness of ~
the text became a ~ (The Uses of the University)
Big Physics
fashion bible “~ and New Ideas” by Melvyn J. Shochet (Science, 1993)
Vogue’s rise to dominance as the world’s ~
Big science
so-called bible ~ (see the Wikipedia entry)
the DSM, the ~ of psychiatry…
deep ecology
psychiatric bible books about ~
the DSM is the ~ for mental disorders ♦ Big History; “all-encompassing explanatory histories”; “high-wrought”
theory; grand narratives; popular history (Jared Diamond, etc.); the
♦ The DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. standard textbook version... (“Free For All: Is it time to rethink everything
we’ve been taught about the origins of ‘civilization’?” by Gideon Lewis-
sanctioning, authority, & non-conformity: Bible / religion Kraus, The New Yorker, November 8, 2021.)
bible (hand on the bible, etc.) extent & scope / importance & significance: size
hand on a Bible big bang (“Big Bang” of country music,
~, but you must come clean with me...
etc.)
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: Bible / religion
big bang
big (as noun) the ~ had been the surprise hit, “Tom Dooley” (folk)
do big big bang of the beginning
we don’t just think big, we ~ (an Amazon advertisement) the ~ of country music is supposed to be in 1927
size: part of speech legislative “big bang”
it is a ~ on par with the creation of the euro (“Fit For 55”)
big (big fan, etc.)
“Big Bang” of country music
big crossword guy the sessions at Bristol became known as the ~
my stat teacher was like a ~
♦ The “Big Bang” of country music was 1927. That’s the year of the
extent & scope: size Bristol sessions when both the Carter family and Jimmie Rodgers
recorded in Bristol, Tennessee. The rest is history.
big (significance) ♦ The Big Bang had been the Kingston Trio’s 1958 surprise #1 hit, “Tom
Dooley...” (The 1960s mainstream ascendance of folk music. From the
big fight wonderful Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller.)
we want a ~, a marquee fight (Eddie “Who else” Hearns) epithet: astronomy
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big bang (in a big bang) character & personality / size: heart
heart: size
go out in a big bang big league (and big leagues)
he wanted ~ (suicide)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: astronomy / sound big-league hotel
it's a ~ with a celebrity chef
big brother (relationship)
big-league philanthropy
Instagram’s big brother ~ has its critics (Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg, etc.)
he came from ~, Facebook (Mosseri)
big-league politician
role of the big brother he's a ~
he was playing the ~ (making things better for athletes)
drafted into the big leagues
calls Taiwan its “big brother” many internet celebrities may never be ~ (stardom)
Somaliland ~ (mutual diplomatic recognition)
attainment / importance & significance / success & failure:
thought of him as a big brother baseball / size / sports & games
his players ~, he took an interest in their off-field lives
big shot (person)
♦ “Sorry I wasn’t there to watch your back like a big brother’s supposed
to.” (Chris Eubank Jnr’s tweet on the tragic death of Sebastian, the third-
eldest child of the great boxer Chris Eubank.) big-shot (Hollywood) director
he's a ~
relationship: family
children of big shots
Big Brother (oppression) ~ and university admissions
Big Brother intrusion protozoological big shots
why cave in to such a ~ on your privacy before he was thirty Schaudinn was one of the ~
oppression: allusion person: force / weapon
allusion: books & reading importance & significance / power: person / size / weapon
big gun (and heavy gun) big up (as verb)
big gun big his career up
they didn’t have their ~s tonight (injured players) he’s just trying to ~
he has brought in another ~ to help in his Senate bid
big himself up
heavy guns he’s just trying to ~ by using someone else’s grief
he is bringing out his ~ (wife and family / scandal)
big yourself up
spiked their guns do you really need to ~ by...
Spallanzani had ~ with a simple fact (science dispute)
increase & decrease: part of speech / size / verb
♦ “When you wheel out your biggest gun to take down the incumbent
president, it frees Biden to be a lot more positive tonight.” (Political
strategist Paul Begala, speaking about Obama’s direct criticism of Trump
bigwig (person)
at the Democratic Convention.)
psychiatric bigwigs
♦ "Big guns" refer to artillery, the King of Battle. Artillerymen have been
traditionally referred to as Redlegs. They tend to be hard of hearing.
the ~ of Europe...
♦ "The Turks have 12-inch guns at Aqaba, Sir. Can you imagine what person: society
that means?" (Lawrence of Arabia, the film.)
importance & significance / power: person / size
♦ “This is the battle for Tumbledown Mountain, with the Scots Guards
and the Gurkhas going in on Monday morning in the early hours. The big bilge (noun)
guns have been talking to each other, and now it’s the troops on the
ground who are moving in.” (A BBC reporter covering the 1982 Falklands bilge
War.)
he has lost credibility for writing that ~
strength & weakness: military / weapon
worth & lack of worth: boat
importance & significance: military / size / weapon
bighearted (and big-hearted) bill (butcher’s bill, etc.)
“butcher’s bill”
big-hearted personality
the Duke of Wellington used to call it the ~ (casualties)
he was known for his ~
butcher’s bill to be paid
bighearted, (supremely) patient man
there’s a ~, and it accrues to bin Laden (embassy bombings)
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♦ “At the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, on July 1, 1916, the
British Army suffered 60,000 dead and wounded—in one day. It was bind (connect)
arguably the worst butcher's bill in military history.” ("Why World War I
Resonates," by William Boyd, The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2012.) bind
♦ “The Gulf War was 30 years ago and we’re still there messing around. I the ties that ~
don’t know what the answer is but the people who profit sure aren’t
paying the bills.” (Kbbpll, March 3, 2021, about the rocket attack on al- bind the characters
Asad airbase, March 3, 2021.) the ties that ~ gradually become clear
military: consumption / meat / money binds us to where
billboard (noun) making wine ~ we are (California)

billboard for what build and bind

book clubs can help ~ communities
Walmart is a ~ employment practices should be
attachment / division & connection: rope / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion / representation: picture /
sign, signal, symbol binding (adjective)
bill of health (clean bill of health) binding changes
there are these legally ~ from Brussels (Brexit)
clean bill of health
the bank was given a ~ (by auditors) non-binding referendum
Puerto Rico voted for US statehood in a ~
gives them a clean bill of health
the E.P.A. still ~ (chemicals in tap water) ironclad, waterproof, bulletproof, (legally) binding
we need ~ guarantees (Sergey Ryabkov / diplomacy)
give investments a clean bill of health
analysts felt pressured to ~ or lose business constraint & lack of constraint: rope
received a clean bill of health binge (on a binge)
the reservoir ~ from inspectors (prior to collapse)
♦ This phrase probably relates to ships in foreign ports. Such ships would
on a building binge
be in quarantine until port officials determined that the crew was not China has been ~ for decades (infrastructure)
carrying an infectious disease.
gone on a (hiring) binge
condition & status: health & medicine the company has ~
billy club behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: alcohol
psychological billy club binge (other)
it’s a ~ to coerce a person (lie-detector test)
binge
coercion & motivation: violence / weapon the ~ is over (spending by elected officials)
oppression: violence / weapon the ~ was epic and so is the hangover (housing market)
bind (in a bind) binge of (skate-park) construction
the city continued the ~ (NYC)
leaving cities in a bind
a police shortage is ~ binge flying
London seeks to curb "~" (airport expansions)
put it in a bind
Pakistan’s support for militants has ~ gone on a (spending) binge
the Democrats have ~
situation: container / rope
behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: alcohol
bind (constraint)
biography (non-human)
double bind
too sweet or two shrill, the ~ for women “biography of the grain”
Amber Waves presents itself as a ~ (by Catherine Zabinski)
constraint & lack of constraint: rope
bind (constrain) biography of a movie
his book is, essentially, the ~ (Shooting ‘Midnight Cowboy’)
bind her ♦ “The human relationship with wheat is the subject of Catherine
she questions the traditions that ~ Zabinski’s short book Amber Waves, which presents itself as a
‘biography’ of the grain, although she reminds us on page three that
constraint & lack of constraint: rope / verb ‘wheat isn’t a person’ in case we were liable to be confused.” (Flour
Fixated” by Bee Wilson, London Review of Books, 24 September 2020.)
♦ Nonhuman and nonliving things can have biographies,
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analysis, interpretation & explanation: books & reading creation & transformation: birth
biopsy (analysis) birthed (created)
biopsy that birthed in the mid to early 2000’s
one way you could kind of ~ or look at it... (a subject) the movement was most likely ~ by two men (MGTOW)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: death & life / health creation & transformation: birth
& medicine / verb
birthplace (the birthplace of democracy,
bird-dog (verb) etc.)
bird-dogged him birthplace of democracy
we ~ at press conferences (Chicago protestor / mayor) Greece, the ~
affliction: animal / dog / hunting birthplace of Islam
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / dog / hunting Saudi Arabia, the ~
birds and the bees birthplace of humanity
talk about the birds and the bees Africa is the ~
I finally had that ~ with my son birthplace of country music
know about the birds and the bees Bristol, Tennessee has been called the ~ (1927)
does she ~ birthplace of Chinese maritime shipbuilding
sex: euphemism the Pagoda Anchorage has been called the “~” (Mawei)

bird's-eye (bird's-eye view) birthplace of the French tacos

it is among several contenders for the ~ (Vaulx-en-Velin)
bird's-eye view of the battlefield
epithet: birth
drones give commanders a ~
origin: birth / epithet
bird's-eye view from a plane
you get a ~ bit (champ at the bit)
♦ This has morphed to “helicopter view,” a “3,000-foot perspective,” “the champing at the bit to start
30,000-foot level,” “the 40,000-foot level,” and “maybe you have to look
at things from 20 billion miles up to get this kind of perspective.” he was ~
♦ “Ten years later he likened his own position as minister to riding eagerness & reluctance: horse / verb
‘comfortably on an elephant, whose trunk could pick up a pin or uproot a
tree with equal ease, and from whose back a wide scene lay open.’” starting, going, continuing & ending: horse
(Winston Churchill, Minister of Munitions of War in 1917. From Churchill:
Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts.)
bit (bit between its teeth)
perception, perspective & point of view: animal / bird / get the bit between his teeth
height / position Whyte will ~ (Dillian Whyte / boxing)

birth (creation) got the bit between his teeth alright

he’s ~ (T.E. Lawrence and Damascus / the film)
birth of Pakistan
commitment & determination / constraint & lack of
since the ~ in 1947
constraint / control & lack of control: horse / verb
movement's birth
the city of their ~ (Kandahar / Taliban)
bite (resemblance)
nation's birth bit into him
Sunnis have dominated politics since the ~ in 1920 (Iraq) the lash ~again and again (Call of the Wild)

given birth bit into her neck

Atlanta has ~ to a new generation of rappers (US) the cord ~

creation & transformation: birth resemblance: animal / teeth / verb

birthday (creation) biting (adjective)

France’s birthday biting cold
July 14 is ~ once the ~ arrives

175th birthday biting (social) critic

the institution’s ~ (the Smithsonian Institution) he was a ~

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biting sanctions bitter end
these are the most ~ every imposed she maintained her innocence to the ~
it’s a ~ to a pioneering, powerful career (prison)
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / sensation / teeth
bitter enemies
bitten (enthusiasm) Ethiopia and Eritrea, ~... (fighting proxy war in Somalia)
bitten by the bug bitter fact
and so I really got ~ (acting, in high school) car-jacking is a ~ of life
bitten by the action bug bitter feelings
as a boy, he was ~ Iranians have ~ towards Saddam Hussein
bitten by the cycling bug bitter irony
as a youth he played soccer before he was ~ in a ~, female military personnel guard captured Taliban
enthusiasm: insect / sensation bitter memories
bitter (personality) helped erase ~ of the 1994 players strike (baseball)

bitter bitter negotiations

he isn't ~, just wiser flight attendants are engaged in ~ with the company

bitter, angry and hostile bitter (late-night) negotiations

he was ~ (sick man with undiagnosed illness) after ~

angry, bitter (m) bitter taste

I've talked to amputees that went through a real ~ stage the ~ of regret (bad decisions)

became bitter bitter (family) power struggle

he ~ to the point of suicidal (soldier back from Iraq) he is kept on the throne because of a ~
♦ Don’t be bitter, be better! bitter and long-running (m)
feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste the bloody culmination of a ~ feud (cop / citizen)
character & personality: food & drink / taste long and bitter
bitter (bitter weather, etc.) a ~ family feud over the estate of Jimi Hendrix
consumption / feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink /
bitter cold
taste
they escaped into the ~ (house fire in winter)
bitter winds
bittersweet (adjective)
~ from Manchuria bittersweet
bitter (Balkan) winter the recognition was ~ (combat soldier who survived)
the ~ the victory was ~

feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste

bitter (a bitter blow, etc.) black (Black Sea, etc.)

bitter battles Black Sea
she resigned last June after four years of ~ (university) Turkey has coast on the ~

bitter blow Black Volta

the defeat was a ~ for Serbia and Montenegro (soccer) the ~ is a tributary of the Volta River
♦ The White Volta’s main tributaries are the Black Volta and the Red
bitter (political) climate Volta.
the increasingly ~ ahead of elections next summer
proper name: color
bitter (international) controversy geography: color / proper name
despite the ~ (oil project) black (warning)
bitter disappointment
he proved to be a ~ (a judge)
black diamond
only expert skiers should try a double ~ trail
but a ~ awaited us… (expedition)
bitter dispute black flag
don’t swim or boat if you see a ~ at the beach
they are locked in a ~ over Kashmir

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black (rainstorm) warning he writes about encountering racism on his blog, ~ (NPR)
it was the city’s first ~ this year (Hong Kong)
living while black
♦ “Hong Kong has three levels of rainstorm warning, with black being the
highest. The second highest is red. The third highest is amber.”
what it’s like ~, in Japan (NPR)
getting a citation for ~ (King Anyi Howell / NPR)
warning: color / sign, signal, symbol
PWI-ing While Black
black (feeling) ~ was created for the NPR Student Podcast Challenge
black depression Rowing While Black
he fell into a ~ “A Most Beautiful Thing: ~” (NPR)
black dog running while black
I am trying to hold on to my senses, to fend off the ~ he was 25 years old, and ~ (Ahmaud Arbery / NPR)
black mood “running while black”
still the ~ clung to Scott there has been a lot more conversation about ~ (Arbery)
feeling, emotion & effect: color sleeping while black
Breonna Taylor was ~
black (black day, etc.)
Traveling While Black
black day her new book, ~ (Nanjala Nyabola / NPR)
it was a ~ for democracy (Zimbabwe)
his resignation was a ~ for British diplomacy Living (and Dying) While Black
401 jobs slashed on ~ for Fife (the Courier) The Beast Side: ~in America (by D. Watkins)
Black Friday play classical music while Black
~, 1929, when the New York stock market crashed... what it can look like to ~ (NPR)
♦ “You can’t walk while black. With Ahmaud you can’t jog while black...
black summer Driving while black. But Breonna Taylor was sleeping while black in the
Australia’s ~ (2019-2020 bushfire season) sanctity of her own home.” (Civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben
Crump.)
Black Sunday ♦ “Black women have been killed in many of the same circumstances as
the ~ dust storm of April 14, 1935 (US) their brothers, fathers and sons. They’ve been killed driving while Black,
being in their homes while Black, having mental crises while Black.”
feeling, emotion & effect: color (Kimberle Crenshaw.)

black (while black, female, brown, ♦ DWB (driving while black); LWB (living while black)... (Text.)
♦ “Talking While Female.” (Narrated by NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin.)
Muslim, etc.) ♦ “Reporting While Brown in The Summer of Trump.” (Gene Denby.)

being royal while black ♦ “Running while brown. Skittish while Muslim.” (NPR. Code Switch.
Race. In Your Face.)
~ (the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan / NPR)
♦ “Like the murder of Sarah Everard in the UK last year, [the murder of
being watched while black Ashling Murphy] has reignited the debate about safety of women as they
go about their everyday business [italics mine].” (“Ashling Murphy: Irish
the play is about ~ (Fairview) police arrest man on suspicion of teacher’s murder” by Lisa O’Carroll,
The Guardian, 18 Jan 2022.)
Birding While Black
♦ “Outside lay the body of a man killed for being in his home.” (An ABC
~ (Jason Ward / Christian Cooper / NPR) report on Ukraine-Russia War, the first war of the TikTok era.)
‘Canvassing While Black’ inclusion & exclusion: society
the ~ incident (Janelle Bynum, Oregon representative)
blackball (verb)
coping while black
~ (race-based trauma) blackball him
he has accused teams of colluding to ~ (an athlete)
“Driving While Black”
the new PBS documentary, ~ (history) acceptance & rejection: color / mark / society / verb
oppression: color / mark / society / verb
driving while Black
~ is still a crime in Louisiana (Eugene W. Collins) blackballed
existing while black blackballed by league owners
the challenges of ~ (NPR) the truth is he was ~ (NFL player Colin Kaepernick)
Farming While Black acceptance & rejection: color / mark / society
she details her experiences in her new book, ~ (NPR) oppression: color / mark / society
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black belt (person) oppression: color / mark / society /verb
blacklisted
bureaucratic black belt
he was a skilled infighter, a ~ (State Department) blacklisted
person: sports & games his books have been ~ (disgraced French author)
ability & lack of ability / conflict: person / sports & games acceptance & rejection: color / mark / society
black box (noun) oppression: color / mark / society
Black Mirror
black box
the military is a ~, you never know what’s going on Black Mirror
~s whose inner workings are mysterious (brains) it’s all very ~, isn’t it (deep fakes and journalism, etc.)
it’s really a ~ (human embryo research vs. rats, mice)
the FCC is a ~, they don[‘t tell you what they are doing Black Mirror stuff
this is some real-life ~ (facial recognition)
big black box ♦ Black Mirror is a TV science-fiction series created by Charlie Brooker
it’s the ~ we’re going to try and look into (investigation) that updated the older Twilight Zone series (see Twilight Zone).

access & lack of access / analysis, interpretation & fantasy & reality: allusion
explanation / concealment & lack of concealment: color /
tools & technology
black operations (and black ops)
black eye Black Ops Advertising
she is the author of ~
black eye for Rupert Murdoch ♦ “Just as the military has moved from face-to-face action to covert
what a ~ (scandal) operations, so-called black ops, so advertising has moved from being
obvious to more hidden, in particular, through social media.” (“The Kids
black eye for the sport Who Decide What All The Other Kids Talk About,” BBC Sounds,
presented by journalist Paul Mason.)
when judges cheat, it's a ~ (Olympic figure skating)
concealment & lack of concealment / subterfuge: military
brought a black eye to the sport
they have ~ (swim coaches photograph nude girls) black out (verb)
puts a black eye on the sport blacked out
it really ~ (cyclist admits to doping) I ~ (alcohol)
take a black eye for this consciousness & awareness: alcohol / color / verb
I don’t think Cleveland will ~ (fan riot)
black sheep
gives us (all) a black eye
it ~ (hunter on hunter who shot a tame deer) black sheep of the band
Dennis was already the ~ (the Beach Boys)
flaws & lack of flaws / reputation: color / eye / mark
black sheep of the family
black hole he's the ~
I was the ~ and took the wrong direction (gang)
legal black hole
he is being kept in a ~ (arrested) black-sheep brother
invite the ~ to the wedding
black hole for communication
Afghanistan was a ~ (no infrastructure) character & personality: animal / color / sheep
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: animal / color /
in a black hole sheep
I was ~ (unable to easily communicate)
♦ In a black hole, the gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. black site (national security)
In other words, nothing gets out.
archipelago of black sites
access & lack of access / concealment & lack of he had been tortured in the CIA’s ~
concealment / consciousness & awareness / isolation &
access & lack of access / concealment & lack of
remoteness: astronomy / color / light & dark
concealment / consciousness & awareness / isolation &
blacklist (verb) remoteness: color / light & dark
blacklist the (Chinese) company blank (fill in the blanks)
the decision to ~ was seen as a bargaining ploy (tariffs)
fill in the blanks
acceptance & rejection: color / mark / society / verb they want to ~, connect the dots, figure out... (probe)

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analysis, interpretation & explanation: school & education blaring (headlines, etc.)
blanket (verb) blaring headlines
blanketed (much of) the Northwest in ash ~, fleshy photos and breathless coverage (a tabloid)
the eruption ~ (volcano) attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound
blanketed the city with (orange) dust blasphemy
the huge sandstorm ~ (Beijing / 2010)
committing blasphemy
blanketed the Southeast is he ~ by… (analysis of war strategy)
forests ~ before European settlers arrived
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
blanketed the area
federal, state and local police ~ (manhunt) blast (criticize)
blanketed (several) cities blasted him for taking
snow and ice ~ they ~ this position (politics)
blanketed the island blasted her
ash and smoke have ~ of St. Vincent (eruption) her critics ~ (politics)
blanketed mountains blasted his predecessor
snow ~ in the UAE, a rare occurrence Obama finally ~ by name
configuration / cover: blanket / cloth / verb speech: explosion / sound / verb / weapon
accusation & criticism: explosion / force / military / verb /
blanket (under a blanket) weapon
under the blanket of snow blast (blasted the Bahamas, etc.)
polar plants and animals ~
blasted the Bahamas with (maximum sustained) winds
configuration / cover: cloth / blanket
Hurricane Dorian ~ of 185 m.p.h.
blanket (cover) force: storm
blanket of ash blasted apart
a ~ covered the orange and lemon trees (eruption)
canon has been blasted apart
blanket of clouds but that ~ (doctors withhold prognosis)
a ~ hid Pumori, Ama Dablam, and other lesser peaks
destruction: explosion
configuration / cover: blanket / cloth
blather (noun)
blanket (blanket amnesty, etc.)
patriotic blather
blanket amnesty ~ like “Dulce et decorum est / Pro Patria mori”
he has offered a ~ to the soldiers (New Guinea)
he does not favor a ~ for illegal immigrants worth & lack of worth: speech

blanket guarantee blaze (blaze a trail, etc.)

is that a ~ that…
blazed
blanket policy thank you, Penny Marshall, for the trails you ~
airlines handle it on a case-by-case basis, without a ~
importance & significance: history / journeys & trips / mark
blanket statement searching & discovery: history / journeys & trips / mark
it is a ~ that is just not right
blaze (in a blaze of glory)
extent & scope: cloth / blanket
went out in a blaze of glory
blanketed he ~ (Custer)
blanketed by (lush) forests attention, scrutiny & promotion: fire / light & dark
Haiti was once ~ (now 90% deforested)
bleed (verb)
configuration / cover: cloth / blanket
bled across borders
the crisis has ~ (terrorism)

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bleeding into everything concealment & lack of concealment: mixture / verb
politics is ~ (Dancing with Stars kerfuffle) attention, scrutiny & promotion: mixture / verb
bleed over into other things blessed
does that delusional disorder ~
blessed
bleeds into their personal lives with sun and wind, California is ~ (renewable energy)
inevitably their work ~ (FBI hunters of serial killers)
blessed with (over) 100 waterfalls
bleeding us dry Sri Lanka is ~
this price war is ~ (destroying our profits)
blessed with good looks and money
bleeding cash she wasn't just ~, she was also smart
Airbus is ~, chief executive warns
cost & benefit: religion
bleeding jobs
US manufacturing have been ~
blessing (sanction)
bleeding money blessing of the board
the school was ~ (troubled charter school) the bid is expected to get the ~

leaking: blood / health & medicine / verb with the city's blessing
~, cars pair up for duels (legal drag racing)
bleed (noun)
his blessing
talent bleed to acquire public credibility, ~ was essential
the conventional explanation for ~ is… (military)
given the vote its blessing
stanch the (talent) bleed the election board has ~
if the Army hopes to ~, it needs to…
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
leaking: blood / health & medicine
blessing (benefit)
bleeding
blessing
financial bleeding the seasonal flooding of the Mekong is a ~, not a curse
you need to stop your ~ now
blessing or a bane
staunched the bleeding oil can be a ~ for a country (corruption, etc.)
opening up ~ of its tourism sector (Dubai / pandemic)
blessing and a burden
leaking: blood / health & medicine patients see choice as both a ~
blemish (noun) blessing and a curse
these gems have been a ~ (Sierra Leone diamonds)
blemish on the game the annual rains are a ~ for the subcontinent (floods)
his injury was the only ~ (sports)
blessings as well as its scourges
blemishes against him celebrity’s ~
I’m a massive fan, but there are those two ~ (boxer / drugs)
mixed blessing
ugly blemish progress has been a ~
the Charlottesville tragedy was “an ~” on the US (2017)
cost & benefit: religion
flaws & lack of flaws: mark
blight (verb)
blend (mixture)
blighted (Aboriginal) communities
blend of fear, anger, need, and love alcohol and poverty have ~ (Northern Territory)
their relationship was a toxic ~
blights the present
mixture: materials & substances history ~ (Balkans)
blend in (verb) corruption: plant / verb
blend in blight (noun)
Tom Wolfe did not ~ (clothes, writing)
moral blight
easily blend in “whiteness” is not a ~ (race)
drug traffickers ~ (Atlanta)

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urban blight blind hatred
the group is devoted to fighting ~ (buildings) terrorists are driven by ~
corruption: plant blind optimism
hope is not ~ (Barak Obama)
blighted
commitment & determination: eye
blighted economy
as Greece's ~ plunges further into the abyss blind (not controlled by intelligence)
blighted neighborhoods blind draw
the city's ~ one judge becomes a substitute in a ~
corruption: plant fate, fortune & chance: eye
blind (noticing, understanding, blind (fly blind)
judging) flying blind
the psychiatrist is ~ (treating soldiers with drugs)
blind to merit the US economy is ~ (during government shutdown)
the military personnel system is nearly ~
♦ “We are flying partly blind. It’s like having, maybe, thirty flashlights that
you’re just arbitrarily shining at different locales around the United
“blind” to genocide preparations States, and the rest of the country is in the dark.” (Identifying mutations
the report said France had been ~ (Rwanda) of the COVID virus. Dr. David Relman of Stanford University.)

blind to race, religion and ethnicity consciousness & awareness: plane

the state is ~ (French ideal)
blind alley (noun)
blind to (all) reason and decency
terrorists are ~ ran into blind alleys
he ~ (a scientist)
blind spot
rivals of the U.S. are aware of this ~ (NSA surveillance) lead him down blind alleys
his dribbling skills would ~ (young soccer phenom)
blind, deaf and dumb
terrorists are ~ to all reason and decency success & failure: infrastructure / journeys & trips
progress & lack of progress: infrastructure / journeys &
colorblind trips
~ justice under the law is enshrined in our system (US)
the ~ application of the rule of law blind date
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye blind date
consciousness & awareness: eye I was on a ~ with this great guy
blind (hard to see, hidden) sight: eye

blind curve blinded

~ (sign)
blinded by love
blind drop I was so ~ that I didn't see the problem in front of me
please scout ~s (kayaker Edward Lee Green) consciousness & awareness: eye
blind spot perception, perspective & point of view: eye
deserts can produce ~s (radio signal strength) blinder (noun)
face blind
narrow blinders
some people are ~ (can't recognize familiar faces)
it takes self-awareness to view the world without ~
♦ "Edward Lee Green / 1953-Dec. 27, 1998 / Outstanding musician,
adventurer, loving father, beloved friend. His unique talents will be blinders fell from her eyes
forever missed by those who knew him. / Died as a result of pinning at
Crack-in-the-Rock Rapid Dec. 23, 1998 on the Raven Fork in Cherokee, she recalled how the ~ (she thought he loved only her)
NC. / Please Scout Blind Drops. / Jesus said, "I am the way…" John
14:6. (Monument at Dillsboro put-in on the Tuckasegee River.) viewed through the blinders
every issue is ~ of a particular interest (government)
sight: eye
♦ Blinders are the same as blinkers.
blind (disregarding evidence, logic) perception, perspective & point of view: eye / horse
blind faith consciousness & awareness: eye / horse
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blindfold (noun) blinked and then backed down
Obama ~ (Syria crosses red line)
America’s blindfold
feeling, emotion & effect: eye
~ was finally coming off (COVID spreading in US)
conflict / confronting, dealing with & ignoring things /
consciousness & awareness: eye dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
animal / eye / gesture / verb
blinding
blink (in the blink of an eye)
blinding sandstorm
another day of ~s and battlefield confusion (Iraq) in the blink of an eye
a ~ in Baghdad forced the postponement of… and ~ it let go (cougar attack)
my family disappeared ~ (pandemic)
blinding whiteout flowering plants conquered the world seemingly ~
a snowstorm caused a ~ (50-vehicle pileup)
speed: eye
sight: eye
blink (light)
blindly
blinked its lights
blindly committed a Mercedes ~
the IMF is ~ to the policy of…
resemblance: eye / verb
commitment & determination: eye
blinkered (adjective)
blind side (from the blind side)
blinkered denial
blind side his ~ of what is obvious tells us all we need to know
fire team approaches the bunker from its ~
blinkered narrow-mindedness
sight: eye if only the Western media could shed its ~
blindsided perception, perspective & point of view: horse / eye
blindsided by his action consciousness & awareness: horse / eye
we were ~ blinkers (noun)
blindsided by Johnson’s announcement pulls away the blinkers
the Lakers were clearly ~ (“Magic” Earvin resigns) she ~, widening the focus (The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen)
blindside by (nude-photos) leak ♦ Blinkers are the same as blinders.
Jennifer Lawrence ~ perception, perspective & point of view: horse / eye
readiness & preparedness: eye consciousness & awareness: horse / eye
consciousness & awareness: eye blip (noun)
blind spot blip
blind spot the drop may simply be a “~” (deaths from virus)
it’s a ~ so enormous we barely notice it (concern for future) blip of cases
ethical blind spot we don’t want these ~ to become resurgences of cases
he has an ~ regarding the appearance of impropriety blip of coverage
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye after a mere ~, it fell off the front pages (club fire)
consciousness & awareness: eye blip on the radar screen
perception, perspective & point of view: eye Ecstasy is no longer a ~ (the club scene)
blink (conflict) blip on the (campaign) radar
blink foreign policy was barely a ~ (2019 electioneering)
America will not ~ in the fight against terrorists blip on the (historical) radar
there’s a conflict here and somebody has to ~ (politics) the industry is such a small ~ right now
blink first blip in the data
who will ~ in this third set (tennis / Wimbledon) is it a trend or just a ~
blinks first blip in the history of the United States
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blip or a lasting feature Carlsen beat Karpov in a game of ~
economists disagree over whether it is a short-term ~
media blitz
blip or a trend a local ~ keeps her picture on the front pages (missing)
is his loss a ~ (electoral defeat)
publicity blitz
blip or a lasting trend a ~ arranged by advisers (for a politician)
is the record number of women candidates a ~
public-relations blitz
blip or a hint of the future the news precipitated a ~ by the White House
are falling oil prices a ~
advertising blitz
short-term blip a lavish ~ (for Microsoft software)
it may be a ~ or a lasting feature (wage inflation)
promotional blitz
temporary blip the ~ surrounding her latest album (singer)
the figures suggest a recovery, not just a ~ (economy)
his success was still dismissed as a ~ (young politician)
waging a (full-scale media) blitz
he has been ~ (ex-politician promotes his book)
slight blips
amount & effect / attention, scrutiny & promotion /
police report only ~ in security plans
campaign: military / weapon
tiny little blip
the Wuhan virus will be “a ~ on the horizon” (prediction)
blizzard (consciousness)
barely a blip “blizzard of everything”
for the young, the nuclear test is ~ (not important) a life lived online in the ~ (Patricia Lockwood character)

just a blip feeling their way in a blizzard

the decrease in the daily death toll may be ~ (pandemic) financial analysts are ~, squinting through the snow

movement or a blip consciousness & awareness: snow & ice / weather &
is it a ~ (voters elect socialist mayor in US) climate

ignored the movement as a blip blizzard (noun)

many ~ that would never break into the mainstream (gays)
blizzard
♦ Oscillographs and radar screens have blips. with the ~ in full fury, I sent out a tweet (a Twitter storm)
importance & significance: size / tools & technology
blizzard of (red, white and blue) confetti
presence & absence: size / tools & technology a ~ (New Years in Time Square)
starting, going, continuing & ending: size / tools &
technology blizzard of fire
blistering (adjective) there was a ~ at the intersection (combat)
blizzard of intruders
blistering attacks we are constantly faced by a positive ~ (pathogens)
many groups have issued ~ on her (a journalist)
blizzard of punches
blistering comment he has withstood a ~ (a boxer)
a ~ came from…. he would throw a ~ (prior to fight / Muhammad Ali)
blistering speech blizzard of (new) regulations
Greta Thunberg gave a ~ at the climate summit businesspeople have been affected by a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves
blizzard of speculation
& bone there has been a ~ (honeymoon murder)
blitz (campaign) blizzard of facts and figures
blitz by the White House it is included in a ~ that obscures…
the news precipitated a public-relations ~ Scorsesian blizzard
blitz of (negative) advertising there is a ~ of directors’ names (during an interview)
there has been a ~ (politics) ♦ "The blizzard was what we called a purga, during which the
temperature can drop well below zero, with the gale so violent that it will
blitz surrounding her (latest) album lift roofs off houses and uproot trees. Walking during a purga is out of the
question. As a rule every blizzard is accompanied by loss of life. / Around
the promotional ~ us the scene was unbelievable... / We shrank back in our tents and sat in
silent awe…" (Dersu Uzala by V. K. Arseniev.)
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amount & effect: snow & ice / storm the videos appear to be firmly entrenched ~
bloated (size) computer: earth & world / place

bloated budget blogosphere (other)

the US must resolve its ~
blogosphere
bloated bureaucracy the ~ is alight with conspiracy theories
the ~ isn't keeping us safer (national security)
percolating (for years) around the blogosphere
bloated inbox the argument has been ~
a ~ is a familiar headache
computer: earth & world / place
bloated and inefficient
our intelligence agencies are ~
blood (in one's blood)
refugee-bloated (m) in his blood
a ~ population he has politics and showmanship ~ (Gov. Andrew Cuomo)
it was in his genes, ~ (Calvin Klein sketches as kid)
size: fatness & thinness / health & medicine
in my blood
block (around the block) it wasn't ~ (working in family business)
this place is ~ (High Street resident / Newark)
around the block the city is ~ (Baghdad)
he has been ~ and fought for world titles (a boxer)
in our blood
experience: infrastructure
cricket is ~ (A Pakistani fan)
block (obstacle) the love of jade is ~ (a Han Chinese)

writer’s block gets in your blood

but sometimes ~ hits and I can’t think of a way to start it ~ (helping others at Arlington National Cemetery)
♦ "The city is in my blood, the ruins of its palaces, the mosques and the
♦ In the dictionary I use, there is no entry for “writer’s block” but there is
river." (An Iraqi, speaking of Baghdad.)
an entry for “writer’s cramp.”
♦ "He has aviation fuel running through his veins.” Said of an ex-RAF, ex-
♦ “The log jam broke.” (Writer’s block.)
BA pilot who flies airshows.
obstacles & impedance: wall identity & nature: blood
block (out of the blocks) blood (identity)
quick out of the blocks family blood
Liverpool were ~ in the second half (soccer) our ~ says never give up, continue on (Nik Wallenda)
starting, going, continuing & ending: sports & games
drop of Russian blood
blockbuster (noun) there was not a ~ in her veins (Catherine the Great)
♦ “I may be from Tampa, but my blood is in Cuba... I have a lot of family
blockbuster still left in Cuba.” (Kevin Morejon, protesting in Florida.)
the modern age of ~s (films)
identity & nature: blood
blockbuster antidepressant
Prozac, its ~ (drug company)
blood (in cold blood)
blockbuster (IMAX) film shoot her (3 times) in cold blood
the ~ Everest how could he ~....
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / temperature
blockbuster (fraud) suit
the agency brought a ~ against the company blood (blood on one's hands, etc.)
blockbuster writer blood on his hands
such ~s as… he has ~ (terrorist financier)
* Blockbusters were high-explosive bombs dropped on cities in World
War II. blood on their hands
we say they have ~ (companies that used slaves)
amount & effect / attention, scrutiny & promotion / feeling,
emotion & effect / success & failure: explosion / weapon has blood on his hands
he ~ (a politician)
blogosphere (in the blogosphere)
drenched in blood
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 his hands were ~ (a terrorist) blood (bad blood)
drenched Russia in blood bad blood
he has ~ (Stalin)
the ~ started early (politics)
guilt / involvement / responsibility: blood / hand
bad blood between them
blood (smell blood) there is ~

scent blood conflict: blood

Mr Prayuth’s enemies ~ (Thailand) blood (effort)
smell blood blood and sacrifice
they ~ (victory in tournament)
all the ~ we made up to his point is for nothing (war)
smells blood blood and treasure
the opposition Labor Party ~ (vote of no confidence)
we have wasted an enormous amount of ~ in Afghanistan
smell blood in the water it’s a complete waste in terms of ~ (Afghanistan)
Republicans ~ President Johnson reflected on the cost in ~ (Vietnam War)
we need to pull out and save American ~ (Afghanistan)
conflict: animal / blood / predation / verb
blood, sweat and tears
blood (blood in one’s eyes, etc.) he gave the franchise 20 years of his ~ (Kobe Bryant)
with blood in their eyes blood, treasure and effort
other soldiers, ~, came up and threatened to shoot him after so many years, and so much ~ (US in Afghanistan)
♦ see also mist (red mist), red (see red)
sweat and blood
feeling, emotion & effect / violence: blood / color / mental a lot of ~ went into it (making a film)
health
difficulty, easiness & effort: blood / sign, signal, symbol
blood (out for blood) sacrifice: blood / sign, signal, symbol

out for blood blood (blood represents life)

she is ~ (vindictive)
blood and tears
conflict / punishment & recrimination: animal / blood / enough of ~, enough (Palestinian-Israeli conflict)
predation
treasure and blood
blood (draw blood) how much more can we give in ~ (foreign wars)
death & life: blood / sign, signal, symbol
drawn blood
nobody has ~ yet (chess match with 8 draws) bloodbath (noun)
conflict: animal / blood / predation
bloodbath
blood (blood boils) there's going to be a ~ (a football game)

blood boils ‘Blood Bath’

my ~ when I see violations (traffic) political fighting could make redistricting a ~ (Texas)

feeling, emotion & effect: blood / temperature bloodbath in tech stocks

there was a ~ (Dow)
blood (blood runs cold)
partisan bloodbath
made my blood run cold he turned the hearings into a ~ (politics)
and then he said something that ~ (violence)
conflict: blood / violence
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / temperature
blood brother (connection)
blood (young blood, etc.)
blood brothers
fresh blood soldiering and drinking have always been ~
the king might reshuffle his cabinet to inject ~
relationship: blood / family
young blood division & connection: blood / family
the US must add ~ to its veteran roster (women's soccer)
experience: blood

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bloodhound (noun) the case has ~

bloodhound bloomed into a showroom

his small home shop has ~
he’s a born ~ who lives to track the scent of malfeasance
searching & discovery: animal / dog / hunting bloomed during the last decade
interest has ~ (new literature theory)
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / dog / hunting
blood sport (noun) bloomed as a teenager
she ~ (physically)
blood sport
when law and politics were a noble pursuit, not a ~ (the past)
bloomed intellectually
that year our daughter ~ (in a gifted class)
blood sport of politics
I would not be deterred by the ~ (Hillary R. Clinton)
bloomed late
their careers both ~ (successful athletes)
blood sport of (party) politics
the ~ drives the US media
romance bloomed
in this emotional wasteland, ~ (divorce)
bloodsport of (Red vs. Blue party) politics growth & development: plant / verb
the ~ drives the US media
bloom (bloom has faded, etc.)
tabloid blood sport
she became the target of ~ (Britney Spears) bloom is off the rose
at 30, the ~ of both grownup life and their careers
Washington blood sport
even by the lowly standards of ~, this was bare-knuckled bloom had faded
politics as soon as the first ~ of my work... (a writer)
♦ Blood sports include dog fighting, bullfighting, fox-hunting, cockfighting,
and bear-baiting. decline: plant
conflict: animal / blood / predation / sports & games / bloomer (late bloomer)
violence
late bloomer
bloodthirsty (adjectivity) as someone who has always considered himself a ~...

bloodthirsty zeal timeliness & lack of timeliness: fruits & vegetables / plant
the ~ of revisionist history growth & development: death & life / fruits & vegetables /
plant
behavior: animal / blood / predation
character & personality: animal / blood / predation blossom (verb)
bloody (guilt) blossomed
he has ~ after a slow start (a Chelsea soccer player)
hands are bloody
his ~ (a politician) blossomed into (real) depression
my uncertainty had ~ (the future)
guilt / responsibility: blood
blossomed into (full-blown) panic
bloody (conflict) the thought ~
bloody (intraparty) quarrel blossomed into warfare
it’s not what Republicans wanted, a ~ (politics) simmering resentments ~ (two politicians)
conflict: blood blossoming in the Middle East
a revolutionary spirit is ~
bloom (verb)
blossom out of control
bloomed the consequences can ~ (problems on 767 jetliner)
their relationship ~
membership (in professional social networks) has ~ blossomed all over the country
his career has ~ now citizens' groups have ~
romance ~
his paranoia ~ groups have blossomed
now citizens' ~ all over the country (Siberia)
bloomed in the role
she truly ~ (an actor) love (for yo-yos) blossomed
his ~ again
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growth & development: plant / verb crippling blow
his death dealt a ~ to his network (a terrorist)
blot (noun)
crushing blow
blot on his record a string of ~s to this community
his racial ideas appear to modern eyes as a ~ (Churchill)
devastating blow
blot on our reputation loss of the coral reefs would be a ~
renditions and torture will long remain a ~ (US in Iraq)
embarrassing blow
flaws & lack of flaws: mark
the decision is an ~ to the city
reputation: mark
stinging blow
blow (body blow, etc.) the death of a donor dealt the hospital's reputation a ~
body blow to the home team bitter blow
the goal was a ~ (soccer) the defeat was a ~ for Serbia and Montenegro (soccer)
body blow for Biden final blow
it’s been a ~ (politics) they saw the confrontation as the ~ (firing)
body blow to Manchester United huge blow
make no mistake, this is a ~ (loss to Middlesbrough) losing him, it's a ~ to our defense (football)
Body Blow for Assad's regime major blow
“A ~” (title of article) loss of the reefs will be a ~ to the environment
knock-out blow mortal blow
he was unable to land a ~ on Amy Klobuchar (politics) the law would strike a ~ to a system that... (athletics)
knockout blow the Supreme Court’s decision was a ~ to the union
the air campaign failed to deliver a ~ (Iraqi Freedom) psychological blow
the ~ was delivered when… (investigation / indictments) the takeover was a huge ~ to the regime (airport)
feeling, emotion & effect: boxing / fist / sensation
sharp (dagger) blow
blow (bitter blow, etc.) we must deal ~s to the terrorists

blow string of (crushing) blows

this is not a ~ but a boost a ~ to this community

blow to the city soften the blow

the decision is an embarrassing ~ he tried to ~ (economic news)
Boeing will try to ~ for them (supply chain)
blows to this community
a string of crushing ~ deal a blow against the enemy
we will ~
blow to our defense
losing him, it's a huge ~ (football) dealt a (heavy) blow to Hamas
the offensive has ~ (Israel attacks Gaza)
blow to the environment
feeling, emotion & effect: fist / sensation
loss of the reefs will be a major ~
blow to the regime
blowback (noun)
loss of the airport was a huge psychological ~ (war) blowback risk
blow to the city's reputation the ~ to Sanders is real (a political endorsement)
the violence is a ~ (Rio / carnival) explosive blowback
blow to the (farmworkers) union the group faced ~ when it... (Southern Poverty Law Center)
the Supreme Court’s decision was a mortal ~ legal blowback
dagger blow the ~ forced the company into bankruptcy (opioids)
we must deal sharp ~s to the terrorists political blowback
knockout blow you can't attack Wall Street without ~
the air campaign failed to deliver a ~ (Iraqi Freedom) getting blowback
the ~ was delivered when… (indictments) she is already ~ on how and when schools should reopen

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♦ “Brady just happened to be the blowback. He got caught up in the this is the guy who ~ in the Obama years (McConnell)
blowback, Skip, the collateral damage, that’s what Brady is. And so, it
was a blast radius. He dropped the bomb, ‘I got BA [Bruce Arians], I got destruction / disruption: explosion / verb
the Tampa medical staff, I got...’ and Tom Brady and Guerrero, they got
caught up in that, Skip, the blast radius. (Shannon Sharpe talking with
Skip Bayless on their great sports show “Undisputed” about the Antonio
blow up (blow up on TikTok, etc.)
Brown controversy of January 2022.)
blew up
reversal: explosion / weapon the case ~ (attention paid to child abduction)
resistance, opposition & defeat: explosion / weapon it had a signature dance that ~ with it (song “Hot Boy”)
blow-by-blow (a blow-by-blow account, blew up on TikTok
etc.) his song ~
blowing up on our help line
blow-by-blow account
this is such a popular scam, it is ~ (rental cars)
he gave me a ~ of what had happened
sequence / speech: boxing blowing up on TikTok
I want to talk about an artist who is ~ (Blanco Brown)
blow-in (noun)
blew up with congratulations
blow-in coaches’ phones ~
he is not quite a native but he’s not a ~, an outsider
blowing up with texts
migration: bird / wind my phone starts ~ from Cari (I hate you, etc.)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: bird / wind
blew up from other schools
blown away my phone ~, “Are we in danger...” (superintendent shot)

blown away blown up the internet

I was ~ the nursing community has ~ rallying to her cause (nurse)

prepare to be blown away increase & decrease / initiation: explosion / verb

~ (a TV ad for a new movie) attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / verb
amount & effect: explosion / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / weapon
blowup (attention / noun)
blow off (verb)
song’s massive blowup
blew him off the ~ is partially thanks to TikTok
at first, she said, she ~ (dismissed him)
increase & decrease / initiation: explosion
dismissal, removal & resignation: breathing / verb attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion
blowout (noun) blow up (blow up in one's face)
blowout blow up in his face
the fight was a ~ (easy victory) it could ~ (if he ignored the infraction)
difficulty, easiness & effort: explosion blown up in our face
blow over (verb) this has ~ (supporting Somali warlords)
reversal: explosion / verb / weapon
things blow over
we'll be gone until ~ blow up (emotion)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: storm / verb / wind blew up
starting, going, continuing & ending: storm / verb / wind I couldn’t take it anymore and I just ~
blow up (destroy / disrupt) blew up over the issue
a recent city council meeting ~ (immigration)
blow up the norms
♦ One hundred forty people were killed when a boiler blew up on a
he did more to ~ than any five majority leaders (McConnell) steamship in 1838. (See the Wikipedia entry “Steamship Pulaski
disaster.”)
blow up the system
we want to ~ (anti-Nancy Pelosi young democrats) feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: explosion / pressure /
verb / weapon
blow up Wall Street
the guy who helped ~ (Michael Osinski) blowup (conflict)
blew up the Senate blowup

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 there's going to be a ~ (controversy) blue blood
initiation: explosion / pressure / weapon
fellow blue-bloods
conflict: explosion / pressure / weapon
North Carolina and ~ Kentucky and Duke (basketball teams)
blue (out of the blue, etc.) hierarchy / superiority & inferiority: blood / color / royalty
out of the blue blueprint
I was thinking of calling her when ~ she called me
pulmonary edema can, ~, strike down the best climber blueprint
they had to figure it out for themselves, there was no ~
absolutely out of the blue
FDR didn’t have a ~, he was an experimenter (New Deal)
her disappearance was ~
blueprint about what
totally out of the blue
there is no ~ to do next
then something ~ happened... (a murder investigation)
blueprint for change
bolt-from-the-blue
the plan is a ~, for action
any US military action will look like a ~ act of aggression
blueprint for a better future
appear out of the blue
clean energy is a ~
a thunderstorm can ~
blueprint for reforming
appears out of the blue
his ~ education has some good points
an electrical problem ~ (HomeWire)
administration's blueprint
came out of the blue
the ~ calls on states to adopt new standards
nobody could do anything about the pandemic, it ~ (boxing)
education blueprint
came (quite) out of the blue
the president will send his ~ to Congress
the "genius award” ~ (John D. MacArthur Foundation)
draw up a blueprint
comes out of the blue
leaders met to ~ for economic cooperation
it ~ and you don’t know when it will hit you (pandemics)
♦ “In southern Indiana lightning struck a ball field, injuring four members script: infrastructure
of the Seymour girl’s high school softball team. One of the girls was in
critical condition, while the other three sustained non-critical injuries... blues (the blues)
The skies were reportedly clear at the time of the strike.”
coronavirus blues
fate, fortune & chance: color / electricity / lightning / sky /
five glimmers of hope to beat the ~ (BBC)
storm
appearance & disappearance / occurrence / origin: air / feeling, emotion & effect: color / music
atmosphere / color / lightning / sky
blue whale
blue (politics)
blue whale
blue state it’s what a journalist might call a ~ (a story)
is Iowa at this point a red state or a ~
♦ “So it’s this vital, forgotten buried event that’s what journalists might call
♦ "Is Iowa at this point a red state or a blue state?" "Iowa is still a purple a blue whale, it’s this event that sounded and sank in the past, dwelled
state." (US politics, as talked about on NPR.) unspoken for years and decades, and then it resurfaced in our present
time, specifically in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting... And it
♦ “Red, R, Reagan, that’s why we chose red.” (A network broadcaster
sings this really strange song of a very different past...” (Robert W.
during the 1984 presidential election, explaining why states that had
Fieseler, speaking about his book Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up
gone for Reagan were colored red on a national map. Democratic states
Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation.)
were colored blue.)
♦ see also black swan.
identity & nature: color
appearance & disappearance / fate, fortune & chance /
blue (feeling) occurrence: animal / color / sea
broken and blue bluff (verb)
and so if I seem ~, walk on by (Dionne Warwick)
bluffing
feeling blue is the party ~, will they really do it (politics)
I'm ~ she thinks I’m ~ but I’m not
♦ “But when I’m down, and feeling blue, I close my eyes so I can be with
you.” (Irene Cara.) bluffing on Brexit
the EU is not ~
feeling, emotion & effect: color
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 we are not ~ (diplomacy) boast (verb)
bluff his way out of it boast of its (statistically high) success rate
he managed to ~ (a sticky situation)
every summit allows a company to ~ (Mt. Everest)
position, policy & negotiation / sincerity, lack of sincerity &
fictive communication: speech / verb
honesty / strategy / strength & weakness / subterfuge:
cards / gambling / verb boat (boat of science, etc.)
bluff (noun) boat of science
he rocked the ~ (Pasteur)
call your bluff ♦ “[He] splashed up a great wave of excitement about microbes that
you're lucky she didn't ~ (negotiations) rocked the boat of science for thirty years.” (Pasteur. From Microbe
Hunters by Paul De Kruif.)
position, policy & negotiation / sincerity, lack of sincerity &
honesty / strategy / strength & weakness / subterfuge: bases: boat
cards / gambling boat (in the same boat)
blunt (speech) in the same boat
blunt all the teams are ~ (concerns about fuel)
he is ~ (speech) empathy & lack of empathy / situation: boat
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech unanimity & consensus: boat
speech: blade / knife / force boat (rock the boat)
blush (embarrassment) rock the boat
saved Welsh blushes they can be expected to ~
his header ~ (soccer) rock (Mr. Erdogan’s) boat
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / gesture / skin, muscle, the EU does not want to ~ (immigrants)
nerves & bone rocked the boat
board (on board) he ~ of science (Pasteur)
rocks the boat
on board with (Mursi's) changes if anyone ~, it’s not going to be me
if the military is ~…
♦ He wasn’t there to rock the boat, he intended to sink it.
on board with the plan disruption / equilibrium & stability: boat
she is not really ~
unanimity & consensus / society: boat
bring people on board sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: boat
they've gone out of their way to ~ (developer) boat (slow boat to China)
climbing on board
proverbial slow boat to China
many voters are ~ (politics)
what must have seemed the ~
get the managers on board speed / timeliness & lack of timeliness: boat
we need to ~ (workplace flexibility)
boat (burn one’s boats)
hopped on board
other companies have ~ (normcore fashion, music, etc.) burned the boats
we ~, the only way home was through them (sports)
jumped on board
Harvard ~ last month (sex / romance policy) ♦ See the Wikipedia entry, “Point of no return.” Cortes supposedly began
his conquest of Mexico by burning his boats; the Bounty mutineers
certainly burned the Bounty after reaching Pitcairn Island.
keep them on board
it was hard to ~ commitment & determination / fate, fortune & chance:
unanimity & consensus: boat / train allusion / history / journeys & trips / river
allegiance, support & betrayal: boat / train body (body of the plane, etc.)
board (off the board / euphemism) body of the device
off the board the needle retracts into the ~ after use (safety syringe)
the two other members of the ISIS cell are already ~ bases: body
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body (body economic, etc.) Islamist bogeyman
the US is obsessed with the ~ (foreign policy)
body economic
his description of the ~ had appeal (Adam Smith) creates a boogeyman
the myth ~ to stir up fear and repression (white anarchists)
body politic
affliction: creature
see body politic
bases: body bogged down
body (body of literacy, etc.) bogged down in (federal) bureaucracy
the plan got ~ (to restore the Everglades)
body of world literacy
the magazine is an open running sore on the ~ bogged down in (scientific) squabbles
the test has been ~ and bureaucratic foot-dragging
sore on the body
the magazine is an open running ~ of world literacy bogged down in the (UN) system
the US is ~
bases: body
bogged down by red tape
body count (actual) rescue efforts got ~ (Kobe earthquake)
coronavirus body count overloaded, bogged down
with a ~ exceeding... (politics) hospitals are ~ (epidemic)
death & life: military get bogged down
if they ~ at some bottleneck like the Hillary Step (Everest)
body count (figurative)
got bogged down
professional body count the plan ~ in federal bureaucracy (environment)
there has been quite a ~ (firings, replacements) rescue efforts ~ by red tape (Kobe earthquake)
♦ see also casualty (noun) ♦ “Making our way through the submerged forest was no easy job. The
mules sank up to their knees in the mud, fell into deep holes, and
dismissal, removal & resignation: death & life / military exhausted themselves. / It was not till dusk that we managed to reach
the hills on the right side of the valley. The mules were dead beat, but
body politic the men were still more tired.” (Dersu Uzala by V. K. Arseniev.)

body politic obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land / journeys &
Republicans kowtow to the ~ trips
body politic versus the body natural boil (affliction)
the ~ and how it related to sovereignty and Kings
perpetual boil
China’s body politic this ~ needs to be lanced (diplomacy)
the damage that the British did to ~ was echoed in...
two boils
diseases of our body politic ~ were lanced today (fired from The New York Times)
more fundamental causes of the current ~
affliction: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
scar upon the body politic
homelessness is a ~ boil (initiation)
sore in the body politic emotions are boiling
Bloody Sunday became a running ~ (Ireland) ~ (Tea Party advocates in US)

injecting poison into the body politic tension are boiling

they are ~ (Fox News, etc.) ~ (police shooting and verdict)

plaguing the body politic makes my blood boil

he presents a litany of ills that are ~ it ~ (removal of fairy doors from forest)

poisoning our body politic initiation: heating water / temperature / verb / water
the media is ~, and hurting our entire country feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / verb / water
activity: heating water / temperature / water
bases: body
boil (boil down to something)
bogeyman (and boogeyman)
boil down to
bogeyman of many but what does all this jargon ~
Venezuela has become the ~ on the right (politics)

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boils down to Ashley takes us on a deep dive into...; and Julia takes us on a deep dive
into... That’s a lot of divers and diving! The repetition shows how a
eventually it all ~ do I want a car or.... figurative expression can go from novel to cliché to the kind of boilerplate
language you might find in a disclaimer or label that is too boring to read.
boils down to this Guests break down, unpack, unpick, discuss, walk us through, give us
it all ~... an overview of, and help us with their respective topics.)
♦ see also buzzword (noun), ese (legalese, etc.), funny language,
boil down to the following language (of sports, cars, etc.), lip service (pay lip service, etc.), speak
your options ~... (NASA-speak, etc.), supersizing (linguistic supersizing), talk (mediator
talk, etc.)
boils down to cost
script: manufacturing / tools & technology
the matter ~...
language: speech
boiled down to the fact
today it ~ we didn't get the bounces (loss / soccer)
boiling point
boils down to one (major) issue reached a boiling point
the debate usually ~... the crisis has ~

boil down to a (chronic) lack sent (racial) tensions to a boiling point

others say Metro's problems ~ of rail cars his death ~ (Amadou Diallo, shot by police)
feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: heating water /
boiled down to choice and safety
the issue ~ (midwifery) temperature / water

boiled down to two (simple) things boil over (verb)

his allure ~: money and power (drugs)
boiling over
analysis, interpretation & explanation: heating water / as the #MeToo movement was ~, he was cooked (a chef)
temperature / water / verb
anger boiled over
bases: heating water / temperature / water / verb his ~ Monday when he… (student shoots professors)
boilerplate (noun) crisis was boiling over
the energy ~
boilerplate
some of the charges seemed routine, almost ~ (crime) party boiled over
a ~ (violence)
boilerplate about "common sense and compromise"
there was nothing new, just ~ resentment boiled over
her ~ and we had a big fight (husband / wife)
boilerplate element
it contained the ~s of any rejection letter streets are boiling over
the ~ (Egyptian protests)
boilerplate ideologies
they just repeat the ~ of their respective sides (a talk show) about to boil over
boilerplate motion the situation is ~
it's a ~ filed by many defendants feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: heating water /
boiler-plate points temperature / verb / water
he made all the ~ (a politician) Bolshevik
boilerplate sentimentality bolshevik against the science
the production is steeped in ~ (a play) Jules Bordet was a little ~ of his master, Metchnikoff
boilerplate statement little bolshevik
the auditor's report was little more than a ~ he was a ~ against the phagocyte science (Bordet)
boilerplate stuff “saboteur” and “Bolshevik”
the ~ you’d expect in any trial (jury-selection questions) he was called a ~ (lexicographer Philip Babcock Grove)
legal boilerplate ♦ Stalin visited his old mother and regaled her with stories about how
nice the Kremlin was, how deep the carpets were, how nice the furniture.
the warning was mere ~ (company’s filing)
His old mother listened, and her brows knit. “But Soso,” she said. “What
if the Bolsheviks come back?”
upbeat management boilerplate
it was written in the idiom of ~ disruption: allusion / history / violence
♦ “Along with host Augusta Dell’Omo, Natalie takes us on a deep dive
into... “ (Right Rising / RR on Stitcher. In other episodes Michael takes us bolster (verb)
on a deep dive into...; Sophie takes us on a deep dive into...; Simon
takes us on a deep dive into...; Ashton takes us on a deep dive into...; bolster our forces against the enemy

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 we must ~ bomb (danger)
bolsters his analysis with an army bomb cyclone
he ~ of statistics
West Coast braces for ‘~’ (CNN Weather Center)
bolster their arguments “lava bomb”
to ~ the Egyptians… (NTSB investigation)
a ball of solidified molten rock, also known as a ~
bolstered its capabilities weather bomb
the Coast Guard has ~ for port security
Vancouver Island feeling the wrath of the coastal ~
bolster their case ticking bomb
to ~, FBI officials have prepared a… (terrorism)
we must control it, it’s a ~ (online influence campaigns
bolster (babies') health he was a “~” planning to carry out attacks (a terrorist)
living with a dog or a cat may ~ (germs)
ticking bomb for any woman
bolster morale he was a ~ involved with him, glad he’s in a cell
hot food and the Internet ~ (US military in Iraq) ♦ “Any excuse to say Bomb cyclone and I am ON. BOARD.”
(#BombCylcone)
bolster the myth ♦ ‘Lava bomb’ speeds down Cumbre Vieja volcano (© Harri Geiger @
this has helped to ~ that children… (intersexed) Harrigeiger. Super!)
♦ see also time bomb
bolstered the notion
archaeological expeditions ~ of… (archaeology) danger: explosion / military / weapon
bolster patrols bomb (roach bomb, etc.)
the Highway Patrol has hired 150 new officers to ~
roach bombs
bolster his reputation you can buy rat-resistant trash cans and ~ (at a store)
he was just shooting off his mouth to ~ ♦ “A New York City woman set off 21 bug bombs insider her apartment,
causing an explosion that collapsed her five-story building, injuring 14
bolster security people.”
funds to ~ for nuclear weapons and waste (terrorism)
resemblance: explosion
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / verb
protection & lack of protection: infrastructure / verb bomb (code bomb)
strength & weakness: infrastructure / verb
"code bomb"
bolstered after he was demoted, he inserted a ~ (hacker)

bolstered by the courage computer: explosion / weapon

~ of their teammate, they won the game easily bomb (drop a bomb)
bolstered by (a handful of) studies
his insights are ~
dropped this bomb
Assange ~ without providing any evidence
bolstered by the work
his conclusions were ~ of…
dropped that little bomb in there
you just kind of ~ that you yourself got COVID (NPR)
findings are bolstered amount & effect: explosion / weapon
experts say the ~ by the fact that…
attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / sound /
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure weapon
protection & lack of protection: infrastructure bomb (fail)
bolt-hole (and bolthole)
bombed
bolthole for the world’s shadow elite his previous movie had ~
it provides a ~ (the UAE)
bomb at a comedy club
♦ The woodchuck, feeling threatened, bolts to its hole.
so badly does he ~
protection & lack of protection: animal / hole success & failure: explosion / weapon
bomb (review-bomb) bombard (verb)
review-bomb the game bombarded principals with messages
audiences were so offended they proceeded to ~ parents ~ (worried for kids)
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bombard him with complaints new bombshells
the young men he employed would ~ stayed tuned for ~ (entertainment TV)
bombarded Friedel from all directions bombshell landed
Mexico ~ (soccer) perhaps the most jaw-dropping ~ just 3 days ago (trial)
amount & effect: explosion / military / verb / weapon dropped his bombshell
he ~ (a lawyer)
bombarded
fired (back) a bombshell
bombarded with notices about today’s deadline she ~ (divorce back-and-forth)
her neighborhood has been ~ to file for compensation
amount & effect / attention, scrutiny & promotion / feeling,
bombarded with emails from opponents emotion & effect: explosion / military / sound / weapon
lawmakers were ~
bombarded with faxes from around the world
bonanza (noun)
the president's office was ~ from around the world bonanza of waves
bombarded with complaints the storm has created a ~ for surfers (hurricane)
the company was ~ bonanza for credit card companies
bombarded by (job) offers from companies the move away from cash has been a ~
he was ~ propaganda bonanza
bombarded by hateful emails the attack was a ~ for the insurgents
she is being ~ marketing bonanza
bombarded by (visual and auditory) stimuli his success has been a ~ (Japanese ballplayer)
we are constantly ~ commercial bonanza
bombarded by (so many unspecific) warnings the drug has been a ~
citizens have been ~ (terror) financial bonanza
bombarded by new ideas the ~ from Turkmenistan's gas fields
in 1999, China was being ~ (due to Internet) activity / amount & effect / cost & benefit / worth & lack of
amount & effect: explosion / military / weapon worth: mining / money

bombardment (noun) bond (noun)

bombardment of (food) advertising invisible bonds
the constant ~ (health) the ~ that weave a country together into a single polity

amount & effect: explosion / military / weapon attachment / division & connection: chemistry

bombproof bone (close to the bone, etc.)

bombproof close to the bone
your pro should be ~ (climbing) his arrest hit ~

bombproof roll proximity: skin, muscle, nerves & bone

you need a ~ (kayaking) bone (cut something to the bone, etc.)
flaws & lack of flaws: explosion
cut his rations to the bone
bombshell (noun) Shackleton had taken risks, he had ~

bombshell pared to the bone

dropping a real-life ~ from his past the delegation has been ~ (government trip abroad)
♦ see also pared (pared to the bone)
bombshell of a story
what a ~ (the horse Justified failed doping test) dismissal, removal & resignation / sufficiency, insufficiency
& excess: knife / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
bombshell claim
the ~ came on cross-examination (murder trial) bone (racist bone, etc.)
economic bombshell bone in my body
the president dropped an ~ when he announced... I have not one evil ~

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political bone House GOP aide, about ethics “guidance” from House and Senate ethics
committees, that could turn simply attending a party into a “booby trap”
he doesn’t have a ~ in his body (a military man) that could “blow up in one’s face.”)

racist bone ♦ “They’re trying to grab the House, and we’ve got barricades, picket
fences and booby traps to defeat that.” (A Kentucky Democrat,
there’s not a ~ in my body presumably speaking figuratively.)
I don’t have a ~ in my body
♦ “Booby traps: Man in Maine killed by own device.”
to the bone ♦ “New technologies in cars are potential booby traps for first
Marcos Llorente, a Blanco ~ (Real Madrid player) responders.”

♦ “When it comes to matters of morals, I’m Catholic right down to my little ♦ “I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs. That’s when I
knew I was screwed.” (Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, aka “Iron Mike”
toes.” (The abortion issue.)
and “Gunny,” just before getting blown up by a trap while investigating an
identity & nature: skin, muscle, nerves & bone IED in Ramadi. Incredibly, he was not too badly wounded. A photo of him
“flipping off” whoever detonated the trap became famous on the
bone (throw a bone to someone) Internet.)
♦ “Victim-operated improvised explosive devices, known as VOIEDs,
throwing them a bone have various switches known as pressure plates. The idea is that the
bomb is detonated by an unsuspecting individual by completing the
she is just ~ hoping they’ll support her (politics) circuit when pressure is applied or removed to the switch. / A power
source supplies electricity between the switch and the detonator and by
coercion & motivation: animal / food & drink completing the circuit, the main charge explodes...” (“A U.S. Marine, A
Curious Boy And An Unfathomable Moment” by AP investigative reporter
bone (bone of contention) James LaPorta, at NPR, September 9, 2021.)

big bone of contention danger: explosion / military / weapon

a ~ is Biden’s embrace of “Buy American” (with Canada)
booby-trapped
conflict: animal
booby-trapped email
boo (verb) most ransomware attacks begin with a ~
boo danger: explosion / military / weapon
some of you may cheer and others will ~
book (rule book)
judgment: sound / verb
achievement, recognition & praise: sound / verb rip up the rule book
its willingness to ~ (Fast & Furious franchise)
boo (noun)
script: books & reading / sports & games
cheers and boos constraint & lack of constraint: books & reading / sports &
the judge’s decision drew ~ games
judgment: sound book (close the book)
achievement, recognition & praise: sound
closed the book on a NFL future
booby trap he has ~ (athlete)
booby trap of missteps close the book on this
their fraudulent marriage creates a ~ (plot of book) we need to ~ and move on
booby traps for unwary workers curtailment / development: books & reading / verb
many 401(k) plans have options that are ~ reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, going,
continuing & ending: books & reading / verb
party booby traps
holiday ~ (ethics laws and partying / government) book (books and covers)
budgetary booby trap judge a book by its cover
legislators concocted a ~ and must now defuse it (cuts) you can't ~

political, ideological and geopolitical booby traps appearance / appearance & reality / judgment: books &
the Middle East is such a mess of ~ reading

overcome a booby trap book (open book)

cooks had to ~ (the stink of Brussels Sprouts)
open book
♦ “He took responsibility for and poured resources into improved public
schools when most mayors thought schools were political booby traps.” the rookie driver is a refreshingly ~ (interviews, etc.)
(Scott Simon’s wonderful tribute to Richard M. Daley. From “Chicago’s
Recommended Daley Allowance, NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, character & personality: books & reading
September 11, 2010.) sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: books & reading
♦ “Someone could get nailed for two beers and a bacon wrap. Nobody
wants to be the example... I’m just going to avoid them this year.” (A

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book (by the book) millennial ~ may consume resources, finances and time
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: weapon
by-the-book
he was strictly ~ (a soldier) booming (adjective)
character & personality: books & reading booming popularity
constraint & lack of constraint / script: books & reading the ~ of audiobooks coincides with the rise of podcasts
book (throw the book at somebody) increase & decrease: explosion / sound
“throw the book” at anyone boost (verb)
he vowed to ~ responsible
boost the economy
threw the book at him it will ~ (medical tourism)
the judge ~
boost his image
punishment & recrimination: books & reading / verb this will ~ in the public eye (a fallen celebrity)
book (development) boost (sagging) morale
they turned to sports to ~ (soldiers in war zone)
book of life
a man's ~ should be considered, not just one chapter (trial) boost scores
what is the ~ itself but man’s war with nature (wild beasts) schools are under relentless pressure to ~
♦ “It is a book as old as time: a good young person makes a mistake,
chapter two is a good, young person is full of remorse. Chapter three is a boosted my spirits
good young person learns from the mistake and becomes a better it ~
person.” (Australia Olympic team boss Ian Chesterman, following the
bad behavior of some Australian athletes at the Tokyo Olympics.) increase & decrease: direction / force / verb
development: books & reading boost (noun)
bookworm boost of expertise
bookworm big business can offer a ~ (vaccination campaign)
I admit it, I'm a ~ boost from the private sector
enthusiasm: animal / books & reading / person public health can get a ~ (outsourcing)
person: books & reading give a boost
boom (jade boom, etc.) the deal would ~ to health programs (federal spending)

jade boom increase & decrease: direction / force

the ~ has been fueled by the Chinese boot (area)
boom and bust boot of Italy
Argentina is used to ~ (the economy) the ~ ( Io Stivale)
activity / cost & benefit: explosion
Italy’s boot
boom (increase) Taras and Croton, on the heel and instep, respectively, of ~

booming instep of Italy’s boot

business is ~ the road reached the Ionian Sea at the ~ (Taranto)
♦ “If you look at that boot of Louisiana, the regions that will get hit the
increase & decrease: explosion / sound / verb hardest are at the ball of the foot. Those sparsely populated parishes
activity: explosion / sound / verb facing the Gulf like Terrebonne, Lafourche, and Plaquemines.” (John
Burnett reporting on Hurricane Ida.)
boomerang (verb) ♦ The state of Missouri has a bootheel region, based on its shape.

boomeranged on him shape: clothing & accessories

it ~ (controversy) area: shape
boomerang (back) on us boot (oppression)
it could ~
boot
reversal: direction / verb / weapon as the ~ is removed from the neck of the people
boomerang (noun) boot of the Americans
Latin America felt the heavy ~ (Guatemala / 1950s)
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under the boot borders on rudeness
the people are ~ of barbaric power (Albania) this ~
has its boot on the neck configuration / proximity: boundary
the government ~ of the company
borderland (noun)
oppression: clothing & accessories
borderlands of science
boot (shake in one’s boots) a broad humanistic interest led him to pioneer on the ~
shaking in their boots proximity: boundary
a lot of HR folks are ~ (mass resignations / COVID) division & connection: boundary / line
area / environment: ground, terrain & land
feeling, emotion & effect: clothing & accessories
born (born teacher, etc.)
boot (get the boot)
born to do this
got the boot you were ~ (a porn site)
he ~ after making the final four (a dance contest)
born athlete
dismissal, removal & resignation: clothing & accessories the kid was a ~
boot (soldier) born bloodhound
boots on the ground he’s a ~ who lives to track the scent of malfeasance
we needed ~ (soldiers abroad to fight terrorism) born teacher
we have increased our ~ (US-Mexico border) he was, it seemed, a ~
military / person: sign, signal, symbol born worrier
bootleg (adjective) ~s versus people who are carefree

bootleg copy natural-born

he bought a ~ of Microsoft Windows ~ genius is often deliberate technique (teachers)
she is a ~ leader
concealment & lack of concealment / subterfuge: alcohol / there are no ~ salesmen
clothing & accessories
identity & nature: birth
bootlegger born (creation)
digital bootlegger born
new tools to go after ~s (a bill)
how to let peace be ~ despite the difficult labor pains
concealment & lack of concealment: alcohol the Red Guards were ~, and a period of madness began...
Macedonia was where Slavic Christianity was ~
boot out (verb)
born of war
boot out the IMF like so many fundamentalist movements, the Taliban were ~
Chavez helped Argentina ~
born in the 1970's
dismissal, removal & resignation: clothing & accessories / the shadowy Baluchistan Liberation Army, ~ (Pakistan)
verb
born in the Swiss Alps
border (proximity) On was ~ (On is a company that makes running shoes)
border on the absurd born in ancient Greece
his arguments ~ the Olympics, ~ and reborn in Athens in 1896
bordered on miraculous born in New Orleans, Louisiana
the last-minute goal ~ (sports) Satch(mo), both you and jazz were ~, right (Roy Plomley)
bordered on obsession born in (great) jubilation
his pursuit ~ South Sudan, ~, is plunging into a vortex of violence
bordered on panic born on 23 May 1991
her response ~ the Koori Mail was ~ (indigenous Australian newspaper)
border on racism born on platforms
his comments ~ it was ~ associated with far right extremism (QAnon)

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born on the kitchen table Bottleneck Peak
the Chicago Defender was ~ of its publisher in 1905 routes up ~ include Tippin The Bottle (Utah)
born on the (New York) subway Bottleneck Wash
the Guardian Angels were ~ about 40 years ago (crime) ~ enters from the left (into Granite Creek, Arizona)
born from Wounded Knee proper name: bottle / neck / shape
he thinks of everything that’s been ~ geography: bottle / neck / proper name
born out of frustration or ignorance bottleneck (noun)
his comments were ~
bottleneck
born digitally Native Americans hunted the pronghorn at this ~
the material wasn't ~ and must be hand-scanned the Panama Canal has become a ~ (too narrow, etc.)
opening this ~ is critical (shortage of nurses)
conceived, born and raised
Nature was ~ to serve polemic purpose (the magazine) bottlenecks on highways
traffic ~
phrase was born
the ~ in a Facebook post in 2013 (“Black Lives Matter”) bottlenecks in the (nation's) power grid
~ can cause outages
star was born
a ~ (Tom Daley at Beijing Olympics) transportation bottleneck
♦ “Six months after Hotcakes and Sally [Sarah] were born, James it’s really going to be a ~ (lack of trucks)
released his fifth Album, Walking Man... (Carly Simon’s album, the baby,
and James Taylor. From Girls Like Us by the fine writer Sheila Weller.) genetic bottleneck
♦ “Icebergs are born to wither and melt away.” (BBC “How a colossal blood samples reveal a ~ (too few Amur tigers left)
block of ice became an obsession” by Jonathan Amos, 15 Jan 2022.)
at some bottleneck
creation & transformation: birth if they get bogged down ~ like the Hillary Step (Everest)
born-again become a bottleneck
the Step has frequently ~ (Hillary Step / Everest)
born-again Christian
his conversion from hell-raiser to ~ remove (refining) bottlenecks
industry must ~ (oil)
born-again conservative
♦ “We will have more eh neck bottles, traffic jams, and that is a
he is a ~ dangerous thing.” (The remarkable Ecuadorian mountain guide Carla
Perez on a relatively crowded K2 in 2019.)
commitment & determination / creation & transformation /
identity & nature: religion obstacles & impedance: bottle / neck / shape
shape: bottle / neck
born-on (adjective)
bottle up (emotions)
born on date
best consumed within 110 days of the ~ (Budweiser) bottles things up
she ~
creation & transformation: birth
bottle it up and put it away
bottled up (emotions) you kind of ~ (male on male abuse)
bottled up inside feeling, emotion & effect: bottle / container / verb
he must have a lot of fright and anxiety ~ (soldier) access & lack of access: bottle / container / verb
bottled up rage bottle up (impede)
the ~ of black people (the rapper Bobby Sessions)
bottled up the Russian Far Eastern Fleet
kept them bottled up the Japanese ~ at Port Arthur (1904)
these things I internalized, I ~ (Andre Leon Talley)
obstacles & impedance: bottle / container / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: bottle / container
access & lack of access: bottle / container bottom (at the bottom)
bottleneck (the Bottleneck, etc.) at the bottom of the barrel
do their time ~ (worst job assignment)
the Bottleneck
the climbers came to the infamous passage called the ~ at the bottom of the (economic) pyramid
~, an hourglass-shaped gully beneath a serac (on K2) new jobs are coming ~ (poorly paid jobs)

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at the bottom of the pecking order extent & scope: depth / direction
we were ~ (biker club) amount: container / depth / direction
hierarchy: direction / position bottom line
bottom (hit bottom) bottom line
what it is going to mean for the ~ (sanctions)
hit bottom
we may have ~ (unemployment) cost & benefit: money
analysis, interpretation & explanation: money
hit rock bottom
the moment you ~ and admit to yourself… (addiction) bouillabaisse (mixture)
he was a person who had ~
things had ~ (bad relationship) bouillabaisse of his forebears
before you can get better, you have to ~ (addiction) Lil Nas X is a ~ (George Michael, Elton John, etc.)
mixture: food & drink
hitting rock bottom
livestock prices are ~ bounce (verb)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
bounced from one idea to the next
decline: direction I ~ (what to do this summer)
bottom (get to the bottom of something) bounced around Southwest Asia
get to the bottom of where he ~ (a terrorist)
he was never able to ~ the money had gone bouncing around
get to the bottom of the error he was ~ a lot back then (rootless)
state officials said they would ~ bounces in and out of bankruptcy
get to the bottom of this case everybody ~ (airlines)
we want to ~ bounced between homes
get to the bottom of this mystery his family ~ (rootless)
no one wants to ~ quicker than... (crash) movement: ball / direction / verb
get to the bottom of that bounce back (verb)
we’re never ever ever going to ~ (a boxing issue)
bounce back
get to the bottom of things the love and support of someone who helps them ~
we need to ~ (a murder investigation) she was always able to ~ (Whitney Houston)
get to the bottom of this bounced back
we will ~ (investigation into fatal stampede) I matured and ~ (a boxer)
I want to ~ (US sits by during genocide in Rwanda)
we'd really like to ~ (mystery illness) bounce back from (natural) disasters
modern economies ~ (Kobe earthquake, etc.)
get to the bottom about what happened
we need to ~ (congressional investigation) bouncing back from the pandemic
the economy is ~ (UK)
analysis, interpretation & explanation / bases /
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / searching & bounce back from setbacks
discovery: direction the UFC has been able to ~
bottom (no bottom) bounce back quickly
resilient people ~ from failure
no bottom to his willingness
there is ~ to abuse his power (politics) resiliency: ball / movement / verb

extent & scope: depth / water bounce back (noun)

bottomless (adjective) tremendous bounce back
we’re going to see a ~ (lifting COVID restrictions)
bottomless
the well of outrage is ~ (fundamentalists) resiliency: ball / movement

bottomless thirst bound (destination)

China has a ~ for oil and gas
college-bound

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 ~ high-schoolers are making their final deliberations constraint & lack of constraint: rope
direction: journeys & trips / movement boundless (adjective)
bound (constrained) boundless energy
he was known for his ~ and tireless volunteerism
bound by a (strict) code
they are ~ of ethics (education consultants) boundless enthusiasm
he didn't share his ~
bound by the rules
he did not feel ~ that governed most men boundless optimism
a ~ in the power of technology (computing)
bound by the (military's) code of silence
he didn't feel ~ amount / extent & scope: boundary
desk-bound boundary (division)
the Chairman oversaw only the 1,600 ~ officers
boundaries of the (doctor-patient) relationship
duty-bound a psychiatrist may relax the normally strict ~
nurses are ~ to report what they think is abuse
boundaries between plant species
fogbound the ~ are far more porous than among animals
the plane crashed in ~ mountains
boundary expressions
fog-bound lexicographers must deal with these ~
a pileup on a ~ stretch of freeway killed eight (France)
racial boundary
hidebound Hispanic is an ethnicity crossing ~s
see hidebound
strict boundaries
homebound a psychiatrist may relax the ~ (doctor-patient)
the ~ elderly
he takes meals to a ~ invalid social, cultural and religious boundaries
his teachings transcend all ~
honor-bound
I am ~ to pay him back boundaries blur
when ~
house-bound
she is ~ relax the boundaries
a psychiatrist may ~ of the doctor-patient relationship
ice-bound
Siberia's ~ expanse transcended (racial) boundaries
the climate of ~ coastal regions his work ~ (playwright August Wilson)

leather-bound division & connection: boundary

~ books boundary (behavior)
muscle-bound
boundary
a ~ frat boy
the usual ~s keep getting crossed (politicians)
snowbound
boundaries of their (famed) tolerance
we were ~
the Dutch are rethinking the ~ (drugs, sex, squatting)
Nigata Prefecture is ~ for months (Japan)
pushes boundaries
spellbound
he ~ (the comic Dave Chappelle)
see spellbound
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: boundary
tradition-bound
the Marines are the most ~ of the services bounded
tradition-bound bounded on the east
the Navy was run by ~ admirals the plateau is ~ by an escarpment of 100m
wheelchair-bound bounded (on the east) by an escarpment
the ~ author the plateau is ~ of 100m
feel bound plateau is bounded
he didn't ~ by the military's code of silence the ~ on the east by an escarpment of 100m

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configuration: boundary back down or bow
she’s an artist who won’t ~ to convention
bounds (no bounds, etc.)
knows no bounds dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
the hypocrisy of the NCAA ~ direction / religion / standing, sitting & lying / verb

overstepped his bounds bowels (noun)

he’s a creep who ~ (gossip)
bowels of the prison
overstepping their bounds a tiny, dark room in the ~ (solitary confinement)
Homeowner’s Associations are ~
bowels of Madison Square Gardens
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / extent & scope: we’re now walking through the ~ (radio show)
boundary
bowels of the Los Angeles Superior Court
bound up I found in the ~ a lawsuit... (O.J. Simpson trial)

bound up in the myths bowels of the ship

Indians are ~ white Americans have created he gathered his men in the engine room in the ~

constraint & lack of constraint: rope deep in the bowels

involvement: movement / rope scientists walk around ~ of the CDC (Atlanta, Georgia)

bouquet (collection) place: infrastructure

bouquet of memories bowl (Vietnam’s rice bowl, etc.)

this record brings back a particular ~ (Melvyn Bragg) grain bowl
bouquet of tests Punjab is India’s “~”
Kerala is doing a ~, diagnostic, pooled... (pandemic) rice bowl
group, set & collection: plant the Mekong Delta, Vietnam's ~

boutique (noun) farming & agriculture: epithet / sign, signal, symbol

boutique (mountain guide) service bowl (America’s salad bowl, etc.)

Madison Mountaineering is a ~ “Salad Bowl of the World”
superiority & inferiority: money the city bills itself as the ~ (Salinas, California)

bow (and bow down) America’s salad bowl

the Salinas Valley is known as ~ (greens)
bows before legend the Salinas Valley is nicknamed ~
rational explanation often ~ (folklore) Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed ~
bowing to cancel culture farming & agriculture: epithet / sign, signal, symbol
they are ~
bowl (salad bowl / mixture)
bow to the inevitable
we will have to ~ mixing bowl
the club was a ~ (young musicians learn from elders)
bowed to the inevitable
he has ~ (minister under attack resigns) melting pot, a (beautiful) tapestry, or a salad bowl
is the United States a ~
bowed to pressure
he has ~ from industrialists (a politician) reimagined as a salad bowl
the melting pot was being ~ (ethnic identity, etc.)
bow (down) to (government) pressure ♦ “Macedonia [was] the inspiration for the French word for ‘mixed salad’
he thought the Washington Post would ~ (macedoine).” (Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D.
Kaplan.)
bowed to (public) pressure ♦ Argentina was once describe by a Polish émigré as “batter that has not
he finally ~ to do something yet become cake.” (“Another New World” by Larry Rohter, The New York
Review, June 10, 2021.)
bow (down) to Russia ♦ “This points to a unique understanding of plurality of Indian society—it
for cheap gas, we should ~ (a Moldovan taxi driver) is more like a thali (an Indian meal comprising a selection of separate
dishes served on a platter), rather than a melting pot.” (Neha Sahgal, a
bowing to the U.S. lead author of a Pew study that found Indians support religious tolerance
and religious segregation.)
the Turks are not ~ (arms dispute)
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bow out (verb) ticked all the boxes
he had ~ he needed to (to travel / COVID)
bow out
he has refused pressure to ~ (a politician) ticks all the boxes
it would have been a good time for him to ~ (a boxer) Tyson Fury ~ (the boxer)
♦ “This is a pretty special way to bow out if this is indeed his swan song.” ticks every box
(Commentary about the great and beloved boxer Amir Khan, who lost his
match to Kell Brook by TKO in the sixth round in a packed Manchester
her game ~ (Emma Raducanu)
arena.)
ticks off (just about) every box
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / dismissal, she ~ that liberals might want in a nominee (Supreme Court)
removal & resignation / starting, going, continuing &
ticking a box
ending: theater / verb it’s not just an exercise of ~ anymore, it’s taken seriously
box (box somebody into a corner) ♦ “Satisfies all requirements for success.”

boxed himself into a corner judgement / cost & benefit: letters & characters
he has ~ on tax increases (a politician) box (check the box, etc.)
movement: corner
box to be checked
constraint & lack of constraint / situation: boxing / corner / the FAA was just another ~ (profits over safety)
movement / sports & games / verb
box (in / out / outside the box) check the boxes
it seemed like an exercise to ~ (bureaucratic formality)
out-of-the-box checked a lot of boxes for my dream next thing
how ~ can I go (actor takes strange roles)
this ~ (Anthony Weiner about his company)
out-of-the-box idea check-the-box exercise
she came up with an ~
it’s merely a one-week ~ (mental health / policing)
think out of the box check-the-box holiday
we have to think ~ (WHO and Ebola)
a paid holiday vs. just a ~ (Juneteenth)
think outside the box check off (multiple) boxes
she learned how to ~
it would ~ for ethnic and racial diversity
fit it (neatly) into a (single conceptual) box tick in a box
“data” escapes attempts to ~ (cloud, stream, mine)
I don’t think it is a procedural ~ (cold case investigation)
constraint & lack of constraint / idea: container ♦ “Check, check, check, and it was a no-brainer...” (The popular NFL
player Cam Newton returns to the Carolina Panthers. Or as Newton
box (labeling) himself said, “You know where I’m here, and this ain’t for no ploy.”)

Eurovision box substance & lack of substance: letters & characters

they didn’t try to fit into a ~ (an Italian group) boxed in (verb)
put them in a box
boxed in
we don’t want to brand people, to ~ (legacy students)
she’s not about to be ~ (a singer and her style)
forces autistic people into a box constraint & lack of constraint: container
the world often ~
characterization: container
boy (golden boy)
box (tick a box, etc.) golden boy
he was a ~ from the get-go (Justice John Roberts)
boxes of (so-called) diversity
golden boy of this (island) nation
there are easy ways to tick the ~ and not critically engage
he was once the ~ (Malta’s prime minister resigns)
box-ticking exercise
golden boy quarterback
this is just a ~ to silence criticism
~ faces uncertain future (in NFL draft)
tick-box exercises
England’s golden boy
~ that really have no clinical value (NHS bureaucracy)
Rooney was ~ (2004 Euros)
tick both boxes
PSG’s (attacking) golden boys
trying to ~ was always the goal (to make a film popular)
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Hollywood golden boy brace for (yet another) election
at the time, he was riding high as a ~ Israelis ~
Democratic golden boy bracing for more fallout
the ~’s career could be about to end (Gavin Newsom) Washington is ~ from the scandal
liberal golden boy braced for a typhoon
he became a ~ during his Senate bid (Beto O’Rourke) the Philippines ~ that could trigger flooding
brings down (Rhode Island) ‘golden boy’ readiness & preparedness: equilibrium & stability /
college cheating scandal ~ (tennis coach took bribes) infrastructure / verb
♦ see also boy (blue-eyed boy), girl (golden girl), guy (character), man
(big man, little man, etc.), Mister (and Mr., Missus, Mrs.)
braced
person: society braced for a long siege
achievement, recognition & praise: person the demonstrators are ~
attraction & repulsion / character & personality: person
braced for a (tropical) storm
boy (blue-eyed boy) Florida is ~

blue-eyed boy of publishing readiness & preparedness: equilibrium & stability /

audio is the ~ at the moment (audio books) infrastructure
♦ see also guy (character), man (big man, little man, etc.), Mister (and
Mr., Missus, Mrs.)
Brahmin (person)
achievement, recognition & praise / superlative / worth & Brahmin Caste
lack of worth: family / person the ~ of New England (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
character & personality: person brahmin elite
person: family they are an insular, intermarrying ~ (Bohemian Bourgeois)
boy (big boy, etc.) Boston Brahmin
really big boys the ~ is a Wikipedia entry
they haven’t played against the ~ yet (Italian soccer) ♦ “They have coalesced into an insular, intermarrying brahmin elite.”
(“How The Bobos Broke America” by David Brooks, The Atlantic,
put on the big boy pants September 2021. A Bobo is short for Bohemian Bourgeois, or the young,
multicultural left.)
he needs to ~ and act as commander in chief
♦ “And this is good old Boston, / The home of the bean and the cod, /
put his big-boy pants on Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, / And the Cabots talk only to
God.” (“Boston Toast” by John Collins Bossidy.)
the president needs to ~ and acknowledge that he lost
♦ see also guy (character), man (big man, little man, etc.), Mister (and acceptance & rejection / hierarchy: society
Mr., Missus, Mrs.) society: person
person: baby person: society
growth & development: death & life brain (noun)
character & personality: person
boy (bad boy) brains behind the machinery
he is the ~ that makes the wave (Kelly Slater’s wave)
‘bad boy’ of basketball brains behind the project
he was the ~ (the remarkable Dennis Rodman) he was the ~
bad boy of Western philosophy mathematical brain
Nietzsche is the ~ he is the ~ behind the striking timepieces (sundials)
called “Bad Boys” knowledge & intelligence: head
the team was ~ (NBA Detroit Pistons / 1988)
♦ see also guy (character), man (big man, little man, etc.), Mister (and brain (on the brain)
Mr., Missus, Mrs.)
sex on the brain
person: force not that men need help getting ~
behavior / character & personality / sanctioning, authority
& non-conformity: person wants, needs, hopes & goals: addiction

brace (verb) brainchild (noun)

brace yourself brainchild of a Ladakhi engineer
~ for bad news the ice stupa is the ~ (Sonam Wangchuk)

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brainchild of Ted Turner brainstorm (noun)
24-hour news was the ~ (CNN)
latest brainstorm
brainchild of a (16-year-old high school) student his ~ is to open a chain of "As Seen on TV" stores
the stunt was the ~ (viral news story)
idea: head / storm
Mat Damon’s brainchild
The Last Duel is ~ (the film) brain trust
idea: family / head medical brain trust
creation & transformation: family / head he compared notes with the NFL's ~ (concussions, etc.)
brain-dead (adjective) knowledge & intelligence: head
group, set & collection: money
brain dead
Macron described NATO as “~” brainwash (verb)
‘Brain Dead Liberal’ brainwashed him
“Why I Am No Longer a ~” (article by David Mamet) the cult had ~
“brain dead” and “morons” violence: head / hygiene
he labeled complaining residents as ~
brainwashed
♦ “Porgy and Bess is a buncha good songs but has nothing to do with
race relations, which is the flag of convenience under which it sailed.”
(The great playwright David Mamet, from “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain
brainwashed to believe
Dead Liberal,’” The Village Voice, March 11, 2008.”) they have been ~ that everything is about race (CRT)
consciousness & awareness: health & medicine brainwashed by the media
condition & status: death & life / health & medicine he says his co-worker has been ~ (politics)
brain death (noun) coerced, brainwashed or (even) drugged
she may have been ~ (a terrorist)
brain death of Nato ♦ According to the Wikipedia entry, “The term ‘brainwashing’ was first
what we are currently experiencing is the ~ (Macron) used in English by Edward Hunter in 1950” in reference to the Korean
♦ “You have to look at the background and see exactly which bits of Nato war.”
Macron was criticizing.” (Sophie Pedder, Paris Bureau Chief of the ♦ "He's a human being; we should treat him the same as we treat any
Economist, talking on NPR about Macron’s description of NATO as other G.I.... I don't think it's the boy's own fault. No doubt at the time—I
“brain dead.” Angela Merkle labeled Macron’s description “drastic never seen him or never met him—No doubt he was young and he
words.”) wasn't trained properly." (Charles E. Kelly, World War Two veteran and
Medal of Honor recipient, when he was asked by Mike Wallace,
condition & status: health & medicine newsman, "How do you think that we should treat US Army turncoats?"
like Samuel David Hawkins, who had just returned back to the US from
brain drain (and brain gain) China in 1957.)

brain drain violence: head / hygiene

the agency has suffered a severe ~
brake (control)
"brain gain"
out-of-state students lead to a ~ (at Chapel Hill, NC) emergency brake
they are pulling the ~ (COVID shutdown)
reverse brain drain
the US is seeing a ~ as foreign students go home pump the brakes
some voters want them to ~ (impeachment)
knowledge & intelligence / leaking: head moderates are saying, hey, let’s ~ (slow down of demands)
brainstorm (verb) tap the brakes
something is causing shoppers to ~ on spending
brainstorm ideas
~ for his current script tapping the brakes
the Fed is ~ a bit on the economy
brainstorm solutions
meet key people and ~ to the challenges you face put the brakes on (economic) growth
industrialists fears the unions would ~
brainstorm everything
if we tried to ~ that could possibly go wrong, we'd… put the brakes on your feelings
you ~ to avoid confrontation (Japanese “Gaman”)
idea: head / storm / verb
tap the brakes on spring break
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control & lack of control / increase & decrease / speed: special operations forces from ~ of the military
mechanism / movement
adherents of the (Shi'a) branch
branch (taxonomy) discrimination against ~ (in Saudi Arabia)

branches of Buddhism taxonomy & classification: tree

the various ~ (Zen, Tibetan, etc.) branching system: tree

branches of Christianity branch out (verb)

the Armenian Church, one of the most ancient ~ branch out
branch of Islam I just thought I’d ~ (make new friends)
the Hazara are members of the Shiite ~ (Afghanistan) branched out into (food) wholesaling
discrimination against adherents of the Shi'a ~ he ~ (a businessman)
the Salafiya ~ regards Shiites as non-Muslims
the Ismailis are a minority within the minority Shia ~ growth & development: tree / verb
branching system: tree / verb
branches of Islam
the centuries of enmity between the Sunni and Shiite ~ brand (verb)
branch of Shia Islam branded his accusers liars
Ismailism is a ~ he ~ (convicted sex abuser)
branches of biology brand them apostates
ecology is one of the hardest ~ (it's so complex) Sunni Arab extremists ~ (Iraq's Christians)
branches of the (Hawiye) clan branded the extradition "unlawful"
the many ~ (Mogadishu) the Russians ~
branch of government branded all Chechen rebels baby killers
judges constitute a third ~ he ~ (post-Beslan)
branch of knowledge characterization: fire / mark / verb
theology was accepted as the supreme ~
brave (verb)
branches of the military
special operations forces from various ~ braved the weather
several hundred people ~ for a screening
branch of physics
quantum mechanics is a ~ courage & lack of courage: verb

branch of engineering brave (girls and women, etc.)

he felt the oil industry ~ suited his personality
brave book
branch of the Bani Hassan Bari Weiss has written what must be judged a ~ (blurb)
Al-khalayleh is a ~ (Jordan)
bravest (red carpet) looks
branch bank Taylor Swift’s ~
each of the four corners has a ~ (NYC)
brave plaintiffs
branch library the two ~ who took on Florida’s anti-gay marriage ban
or any other ~
brave (widower) type
ordnance branch the press wanted him to be this very ~ (Joe Biden)
he is in the ~, which provides ammunition
Brave, a Badass, a Heretic
service branch I have been called ~ (a female blogger)
veterans from all four ~s
how brave
Salafiya branch ~ he is at being so outwardly gay (a pop star)
the ~ of Islam regards Shiites as non-Muslims
extraordinarily brave
Shi'a branch she made the ~ decision to create a new show... (I May
discrimination against adherents of the ~ of Islam Destroy You)

Shia branch incredibly brave

the Ismailis are a minority within the minority ~ it’s ~ that she has revealed her truth (depression)

various branches bold or brave

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 I don’t think it’s ~ (Superman’s son is bisexual) that takes ~ (Simone Biles prioritizes her wellbeing)
need to be brave showed enormous bravery
girls coming through ~ (soccer lesbians / Lisa De Vanna) he ~ (Muhammad Ali refuses induction)
♦ “It takes huge bravery to say what she’s saying.” (Simon Biles
called the professor extraordinarily brave withdraws from Tokyo Olympics event to prioritize her wellbeing.)
she ~ for leading the charge against the cancel mob
♦ “It’s bravery for the left, it’s not bravery for the world.” (Fox anchor Todd
♦ “When one person speaks truth, it gives license for all of us to do the Piro, about DC Comics making Superman’s son bisexual.)
same.” (Meghan Markel about her miscarriage. When her daughter was
born, her photographer Misan Harriman tweeted, “Lilibet has arrived. inclusion & exclusion: society
Congratulations to my brave friend and her lovely family!”)
♦ “I have been called Brave, a Badass, a Heretic...” (A female blogger
brawl (noun)
who has written for the Huffington Post, ScaryMommy, the Houston
Moms Blog, etc.) political brawl
♦ “Choosing yourself, and acknowledging that you are worthy simply the government's ~s with the Muslim Brotherhood
because you are breathing—that is a brave thing.” (“A Letter to College this is turning into a ~ (funding)
Sports” by Cailin Bracken.)
♦ “What makes Lil Nas X so extraordinary is how brave he is at being so
public brawl
outwardly gay within the urban music world.” (Elton John.) he knew he would lose in a ~ with a Naval officer
♦ bibleexpert: He died after a “brave” battle with cancer. Dropping bombs
on Iraq, on the other hand, didn’t require quite as much bravery. / James
scientific brawl
to bibleexpert: The Air Force and Navy drop bombs the Army fights on his appetite for ~s is increasing with age (scientist)
the ground and that takes brave men and women. / Lake Life to
bibleexpert: Speaking of bravery, a coward behind a key board criticizing conflict: fist / violence
a much greater man than he could ever be is pathetic. / bibleexpert to
Lake Life: How did you assess that I’m a “coward”? (ABC’s “Join the brazen (adjective)
Discussion,” about the death of an Army general who died of cancer.)
♦ “Why is this brave? What’s brave about not being brave?” (Talk radio brazen
host Clay Travis about the gymnast who quit her Olympic team because, the company was ~ (bribes)
as she explained, “I was like, I am not in the right headspace.” The
gymnast was widely praised as brave.) brazen play
♦ “They said it’s a bold new direction. I say [DC Comics is] they orchestrated a ~ (political corruption)
bandwagoning. I don’t think it’s bold or brave... If they had done this 20
years ago, perhaps that would be bold or brave.” (Dean Cain, ♦ The origin of this word relates to brass.
commenting on DC Comics decision to make Superman’s son bisexual.)
restraint & lack of restraint: materials & substances
♦ “Good morning, everyone. It’s very brave of you to all be up this early.”
(Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah.)
behavior: materials & substances

inclusion & exclusion: society breach (verb)

brave new world breached (parts of) the agreement
Iran has already ~ since the Trump administration...
brave new workers
~, how workers adapt to the changing economy breached a (2012) agreement
the question of whether Facebook ~ over user privacy
brave new streaming world
we live in a ~ (a filmmaker) breached article 16
Hong Kong supporters ~ of the FIFA Disciplinary Code
brave new world of business
Wal-Mart and the ~ breached a (a key, bust seldom tested “morality”) clause
PBS argued that he ~
brave new world of ‘editing’ human genes
the ~ (CRISPR) breached confidentiality
the Board members who contacted the press ~
in the brave new world
it’s a detective story ~ that we live in (hacking) breached its contract
♦ Aldous Huxley wrote the book in 1931 and it was published in 1932.
reports that the startup ~ (Philly Fighting COVID)
The book creates a dystopian future world, the only goal of which is Parler claimed the tech giant breached ~ by...
stability based on the principles of science and social science. Huxley
wrote it as a parody of H.G. Wells’ books on utopias. breached their (fiduciary) duties
the Board members willfully ~ to the union
oppression: allusion / books & reading
allusion: books & reading breached EU Law
Dutch rules ~ on protecting nature from...
bravery (groups)
breached his obligations
bravery the court ruled Snowden ~ to the intelligence agencies
his fear, and his ~ is not in doubt (John A. Symonds)
breached the terms
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breached a certain threshold step into the breach
schools would have to shut down if infections ~ the Germans and French have offered to ~ (intel)
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military / verb stepping into the breach
zoom fatigue set in months ago, but audio is ~
breach (noun)
stepped into the breach
breach of etiquette ordinary citizens have ~ (disaster relief)
the ~ was startling
♦ “We showed we were willing to stand in the gap.” (Sherrilyn Ifill of the
she was chastised for a ~ (teen golfer at tournament) NAACP Legal Defense Fund, about the “challenge of 2020.”)

breach of the peace ♦ “Those who stormed this Capitol, and those who instigated and incited,
and those who called on them to do so, held a dagger at the throat of
acts causing a ~ are prohibited (city park) America, and American democracy... I will stand in this breach, I will
defend this nation, I’ll allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of
breach of (academic) politics democracy.” (President Joe Biden, in a speech on January 6th, 2022.)
the ~ destroyed his university career ♦ “The trenches having been opened and the works carried on in the
usual manner, the artillery at length began to make a breach, and after a
breach of (investigative) protocol three days’ cannonade having made such an opening in the massive
it is the worst ~ (leak about case) wall that it was reported practicable by Colonel Wellesley, orders were
issued for storming the place... / Crossing the rocky bed of the Cavery,
breaches of respect under a terrible fire of cannon, jingalls, and musketry, the glacis and ditch
were soon crossed.../ Lieutenant-Colonel Dunlop was here wounded
~ are sometimes met with vicious reprisal (surfing) when half way up by a sirdar of Mysore, who met him scimitar in hand.
Parrying a cut with his sabre, the colonel slashed open his antagonist’s
breaches of the rules breast, and mortally wounded him. The sirdar made another cut that
police were guilty of ~ on questioning suspects nearly hewed off the head of the colonel, and falling back into the breach
was instantly bayoneted. Dunlop reached the summit, and then fell from
breach of the (truce) treaty loss of blood... / Within seven minutes from the time the assault began,
we urge the North to apologize for the ~ the British standard was waving on the outer bastion of the fortress...”
(“Seringapatam, 1799, from British Battles on Land and Sea by James
Grant.)
breach of trust
Gordimer accused Roberts of ~ (over biography of her) protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
charges include bribery, fraud and ~ (a Prime Minister)
charges include misappropriation of Nissan funds and a ~ breached
breaches of Islamic law breached during the pandemic
they police the streets on the lookout for ~ IEPs have been ~ (education / a lawsuit)

breach in the public health system breached by a (crippling) cyberattack

the closure creates a serious ~ the elections office was ~ (Florida in 2016)

breach with President Yeltsin breached lease

how do you avoid a major ~ (diplomacy) he does not want to continue in a ~ (a landlord)

data breach database was breached

the latest ~ (from the Dept. of Veterans Affair) the FBI is investigating how the ~

safety breach information is breached

China closed the lab after a ~ (SARS) when consumer’s personal ~

security breach privacy has been breached

a series of ~s on the Internet those whose digital ~ have little resort
the CIA's handling of the ~ ♦ “Cynthia responded to that and said, ‘You wanted to make her squirm a
a ~ of customer information (40 million credit-card holders) little.’ / The fortifications had been breached, to continue the military
reports on ~s in airports metaphor, and Cynthia charged right through. She said, ‘In fact, General,
you knew your daughter was not the victim of some rapist...’” (The
General’s Daughter by Nelson DeMille. The author is noteworthy in the
computer-security breaches way he explicitly notices language and dialect.)
many companies have detected ~
subterfuge: allusion / verb
substantial and significant breaches
police were guilty of ~ of the rules on questioning suspects bread and butter (livelihood)
guilty of breaches bread and butter
the police were ~ of the rules on questioning suspects positive stories are our ~ (Koori Mail newspaper)
detected (computer-security) breaches bread and butter of prime-time TV
many companies have ~ medical dramas are the ~ (2020)
jump into the breach bread and butter to reporting
the company enlisted him to ~

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 making sources is ~ subterfuge: allusion / verb
earn its bread and butter breadcrumbed
science has to ~ (practical applications)
breadcrumbed
bases / importance & significance: food & drink how to know you’re being ~
bread-and-butter (adjective) subterfuge: allusion

bread-and-butter model breadcrumbing (leading someone on)

the company's ~
breadcrumbing
bases / importance & significance: food & drink ~ is a modern term for intermittent reinforcement
~ is leading someone on (at work or in a relationship)
breadbasket (Pakistan’s breadbasket, ♦ A boss might breadcrumb you by hinting at a reward that he never
etc.) intends to give you. Or a person you’re interested in might breadcrumb
you by texting you just enough to make you think she is interested in
you. Sound familiar?
breadbasket of India
the Punjab is the ~ (Sikhs) subterfuge: allusion
breadbasket to the Revolution break (destroy / disrupt)
the Mohawk Valley acted as the ~
break capitalism
Afghanistan's breadbasket a super intelligent machine could ~ (AI)
the broad Shomali Plain that was once ~
broke the internet
Brazil's (southern) breadbasket what ~ (Facebook issues, etc.)
~ flourishes (vs. Amazon)
broke the Democratic Party
Pakistan's breadbasket how Ted Kennedy ~
Punjab is known as ~ for its agriculture
broke the Senate
country’s breadbasket many critics think that McConnell ~ (US politics)
Northern India, the ~ (larger farms, grain)
Broke the World
♦ This is the same as granary.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who ~ (Liaquat Ahamed)
farming & agriculture / wheat: epithet / sign, signal, symbol
destruction: mechanism / verb
breadcrumb (evidence) disruption: mechanism / verb

breadcrumbs for the police breakdown (nervous breakdown, etc.)

he would leave few ~ (serial murderer changes identity, etc.)
on the edge of a (nervous) breakdown
bread crumbs to the crime scene I'm ~
her clothes were ~ (Central Park jogger) feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / mental health
breadcrumb trail break down (explain)
an electronic ~ lets users backtrack (GPS)
clickstreams are the digital ~ which Amazon follows break it (all) down for us
they will ~us (TV news analysis)
digital breadcrumbs
police followed the ~ left behind by the victim and suspect analysis, interpretation & explanation: mechanism / verb

“Q drops” or “breadcrumbs” break down (functioning)

these messages became known as ~ QAnon conspiracy)
authority broke down
♦ A breadcrumb trail is an allusion to the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel.
The children’s horrid mother wished to get rid of them in a time of famine.
political ~
She led them deep into the forest but the kids were able to return home
by following a trail of small white stones they had dropped along the way. discipline can break down
The second time, they had no time to collect stones, so they dropped in a crisis, ~ (first responders)
crumbs of bread. But the birds ate the crumbs, and the kids were lost. fire ~ upon contact (military)
They eventually come to a gingerbread house where a cannibal witch
imprisoned them... negotiations broke down
direction / evidence: allusion ~ and resumed and broke down again

breadcrumb (verb) communications system broke down

the state-of-the-art ~
breadcrumbing you
he’s just ~ by hinting at a new position for you social order is breaking down

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 the ~ (in the wake of a great natural disaster) breaker (deal-breaker, etc.)
law and order has broken down deal-breaker
functioning: mechanism / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb it was a ~ in that respect (surprise rough sex)
failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / prep, adv, adj, rule breaker
particle / verb
she is a classically trained ~ (a musician)
break down (destroy) he made a name for himself as a self-styled ~ (musician)

break down (trade) barriers silence breakers

the European Union seeks to ~ Time announced the ~ as their person of the year (2017)

break down the resistance destruction / disruption: affix / mechanism

the operation seeks to ~ in Balad (military) breaking point (at the breaking point)
break down stereotypes at the breaking point
we must ~ about Muslims they are ~ (financially)
break down the stigma at a breaking point
we must ~ of adoption the system is ~ (immigration)
breaks down blood clots failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
the enzyme ~ (medicine) feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
help break down condition & status: materials & substances
study abroad can ~ stereotypes and prejudice breaking point (to the breaking point)
destruction: mechanism / verb stretched to the breaking point
break down (feeling) we are ~ (police chief facing layoffs)
the Army and Marines are ~ (US in Iraq)
break down fire crews are ~ (California wildfires)
he would ~ and start sobbing about his dad
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
broke down feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
when police arrested her, she ~ condition & status: materials & substances
broke down in tears breaking point (other)
she ~ as she told her sad story
breaking point
broke down into tears every man has his ~ (the film Shawshank Redemption)
Walter Cronkite ~ on national television (Kennedy)
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
broke down in his tent feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
he ~ and wept for 45 minutes (climber) condition & status: materials & substances
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / mental health / breakneck (adjective)
verb
breakneck rate
break down (divide) Boeing has been churning out the popular model at a ~

breaks down into (many small-unit) battles speed: animal / horse

combat in urban areas ~ (military) break off (verb)
breaks down into two (different) categories broke off the attack
the issue ~ the mountain lion finally ~ (on 70-year-old man / CA)
breaks down features into elements broke off his engagement
faction-recognition devices ~ he ~ to the former Playboy model
broke down its data by age broke off (diplomatic) relations
the company ~ as well as income Venezuela then ~ in response
break down ounces into gram broke off (business) ties
midsize dealers ~ (illegal drugs) it ~ with... (two companies)
taxonomy & classification: mechanism
broke off (diplomatic) ties
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break it off it was a ~ for a young man (Federer beats Sampras in 2001)
until I got the nerve to ~ with my then-girlfriend
breakthrough pain
starting, going, continuing & ending: hand / verb a "rescue dose" for sudden, severe ~ (morphine)
curtailment: hand / verb
breakthrough year
break out (verb) he is having a ~ (baseball player)

broke out in celebration research breakthrough

an army of fans ~ (#FreeBritney) ~s have reduced the cost
~s have led to new treatments for stroke
fight broke out
the ~ on Alexanderplatz square diplomatic breakthrough
the U.N.-sponsored gathering is a ~
typhus broke out
~ in the ships anchored on the Motherbank revolutionary breakthroughs
~ in armor technology (military)
initiation / occurrence: pursuit, capture & escape / verb
scientific breakthrough
breakout (breakout sessions, etc.) it's a ~
breakout rooms technological breakthrough
Zoom ~ (online video conferencing) the first ATMs were a ~ (1970s)
breakout session chance of a breakthrough
a ~ has been scheduled... (TESL convention) climate policy is gridlocked, with no ~
♦ My dictionary gives two definitions. One relates to escape from enemy ♦ In dictionaries, this word dates to 1918—World War I—when soldiers
encirclement or from a prison. The other is a skin eruption. Teacher struggled and died to break through enemy defenses.
education and educational conferences are well known for their
“breakout” sessions followed by the blessed break for lunch. importance & significance / obstacles & impedance /
division & connection: school & education progress & lack of progress: direction / military /
movement
break through (verb)
breath (take one's breath away)
break through
it’s difficult to predict which words will ~ (into dictionary) took my breath away
it ~ (a huge inflated medical bill)
importance & significance / obstacles & impedance / she ~ (“It must be love”)
progress & lack of progress: direction / military /
movement took your breath away
it ~ (an exciting boxing match)
breakthrough (noun)
takes your breath away
breakthrough the canyon always ~ (Grand Canyon in winter)
research failures are finally being outnumbered by the ~s
fairly took my breath away
breakthrough in the (murder) case the book review was so spiteful it ~
we are hoping for a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing / verb
breakthroughs in medicine
the new research might lead to ~
breath (hold one's breath)
breakthrough in (stalled) talks held their breath
a ~ on a bill that… (lawmakers) everyone ~, to see what she was gonna do (raped)

breakthroughs in (armor) technology holding their breaths

revolutionary ~ (military) people are ~ (waiting for a remedy)

breakthrough cases holding its breath

experts are monitoring ~ among the vaccinated (COVID) the world is collectively ~ (Japan nuclear disaster)

breakthrough infection holding my breath

a ~ doesn’t necessarily mean the vaccine is failing I was ~ walking to the mailbox... (worried about a bill)

breakthrough lead holding their breath

even a $2.5 million reward has not produced a ~ people are ~, waiting to see what happens next

breakthrough moment fate, fortune & chance: bodily reaction / breathing / verb

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breath (take a breath, etc.) the system ~ (government)

take a deep breath breeds corruption

the ruling ~ (campaign finance)
this is a moment to ~ and think through things (crisis)
take a deep breath and take the long view breeds the desire
success ~ for more success (school)
it’s a good time to ~ (hope during pandemic)
♦ Keep calm and carry on. (Great Britain, World War II.) bred jealousy
success has ~ elsewhere (sports)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing / verb
breathe (caves breathe, etc.) breeds peace
strength ~, right (US still in S. Korea, etc.)
breathe Breeds Peril
all caves ~ Yellowstone Bison Thrive, but Success ~ (article)
resemblance: bodily reaction / breathing
bred (more) success
breathing space (and breathing room) success ~ (diplomacy)

breathing room breed further success

provide ~ to consider the options that success would ~ (MGM gym)

a little breathing room creation & transformation: animal / verb

the Turks are giving the Saudis ~ (to reply) relationship: animal / verb
we have ~ to establish alternative energy sources breed (type)
breathing space breed of enthusiast
travel bans can give you ~ (to prepare for virus) roller coasters inspire a peculiar ~
gives the Postal Service “breathing room” breed apart
the rate increase ~ the war made them a ~ (W.W. II veterans)
amelioration & renewal: breathing they are a ~ and make no sense (white settlers)
time: breathing / place
breed of athlete
breathless (adjective) a pole vaulter is a very special ~ (danger)

breathless coverage different breed

blaring headlines, fleshy photos and ~ (the media) they are a ~ to those who... (big riders / surfing)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing new breed
the ~ of explorers (Blacks / National Geographic)
breathtaking (adjective)
peculiar breed
breathtaking action roller coasters inspire a ~ of enthusiast
he defeated his longtime rival in 6 rounds of ~ (boxing)
rare breed
breathtaking advance he’s one of a ~ of technical divers
this is a ~ (legislative act)
special breed
breathtaking performance it's a dangerous job that takes a ~
she gave a ~ (skater) a pole vaulter is a very ~ of athlete (danger)
breathtaking power ♦ “Some professors are jerks, and students should learn the identifying
marks of the latter breed early on.” (Taking sexual advantage of
American prosecutors have ~ students.)

breathtaking speed ♦ “There’s a new breed of explorer... We down here ya’ all.” (Will Smith in
the official trailer for “Welcome To Earth” by National Geographic, on
the cars go at ~s (racing) Disney Plus.)

breathtaking view ♦ “Chingachgook warned me about people like you... He said, ‘Do not try
to understand them. And don’t try to make them understand you. That is
a front porch with a ~ of the mountains because they are a breed apart and make no sense.” (Last of the
the skyway provides ~s of the southern Appalachians Mohicans, the 1992 film.)

feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing taxonomy & classification: animal
identity & nature: animal
breed (create)
breeds (political) bedlam

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breed (dying breed, etc.) a new ~ (too little space at Metro stations)

dying breed revolution is brewing

a ~ (against bilingual education)
he is the last of a ~ (race car driver)
moderates are a ~ (politics) storm was brewing
outside, the ~ (protests against the government)
Old Breed
With the ~ (World War II soldiers) tensions are brewing
decline / past & present: animal ~ between supporters and opponents
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal activity: heating water / temperature / verb / water
breeder reactor (noun) initiation: heating water / temperature / verb / water
bride (Bride of the Red Sea, etc.)
breeder reactor for extremism
the Punjab has been called a ~ (Pakistan) Bride of the Sea
creation & transformation: nuclear energy Venice, the ~

breeding ground Bride of the Red Sea

Jeddah, the ~ (Saudi Arabia)
breeding ground for (religious) extremism configuration / relationship: epithet
mosques are a ~ (Pakistan)
bridge (noun)
breeding ground for (would-be) jihadists
Zarqa is a ~ (Jordan) bridge between the diaspora and the continent
explore your roots, build a ~ (Ghana)
breeding ground for (serial) killers
the Pacific Northwest is a ~ mirror and a bridge
we are a ~ to culture at large (TikTok)
breeding grounds for terrorism
the refugee camps are prime ~ build bridges to the Taliban
the Sudan and Somalia, ~ he has sought to ~
breeding ground for viruses burned some bridges
the Internet is a ~ he's ~ in the tennis world (troubled athlete)
creation & transformation: animal serves as a bridge
brew (mixture) the Public Editor ~ between the newsroom and the public
division & connection: bridge / river
witches' brew
at one time, the US military was a ~ of racism bridge (verb)
lethal brew bridge the divide
driving fatalities result from a ~ of… (India) they want to ~ and find common ground (gun control)
toxic brew bridging the divide
their illnesses resulted from a ~ of contaminants ballet and baseball are ~ (Cuba and the US)
we fight this ~ of stupidity and… (US exceptionalism) ~ won’t be easy (NFL players’ protests)
mixture: food & drink bridge the gap
brew (activity) ~ between the life you lead and the life you want to live

brewing bridge the rupture

US diplomats are trying to ~ (Middle East)
this issue has been ~, and they knew it would bubble up
again division & connection: bridge / river / verb
brewing in Nasiriya amelioration & renewal: bridge / river / verb
another humanitarian crisis may be ~ (Iraq War) bridge (air bridge, etc.)
controversy is brewing bridge between the Middle East and Anatolia
a~ Turkey is a ~ (eastern Turkey / Van)
crisis (in Haiti) has been brewing air bridge
~ since… the ~ is important (food drops to starving refugees)
Egypt poured men and materiel into Yemen over an ~
problem is brewing
she will fly out of Sanaa as part of this medical ~

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Arctic Bridge we’re going to ~ when we get to it on Friday
Arctic warming could revitalize the so-called ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / future / time /
trans-Atlantic bridge timeliness & lack of timeliness: bridge / journeys & trips /
they have been trying to reestablish that ~ (Mafia / heroin) movement / river / verb
transportation: bridge / river bridge (burn one’s bridges)
division & connection: bridge / river
route: bridge / infrastructure / river burn bridges
you never want to ~
bridge (water under the bridge)
burned some bridges
water under the bridge he's ~ in the tennis world (troubled athlete)
it's ~ now
burned that bridge
past & present: bridge / movement / river / water but he ~ when he accused... (a soccer player)
time: bridge / movement / river / water
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: bridge / movement division & connection: bridge / river / water
/ river / water fate, fortune & chance: bridge / river / water
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: bridge / river
bridge (a bridge to sell) / water
sell that same bridge over and over again bridge-building (through bridge-
they are happy to ~ (N. Korean promises)
building)
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: bridge
resolve issues through bridge-building
bridge (a bridge too far, etc.) they sought to ~
a bridge too far division & connection: bridge / river
the idea is ~ (a bad idea that goes too far) amelioration & renewal: bridge / river
I hope he wins, but my head says it will be ~ (Amir Khan)
he didn’t ask them to wear a mask, that was a ~ (staff)
bridge-building
bridge too far for some viewers bridge-building visit
its use of racial slurs is an understandable ~ (Tarantino) the admission came ahead of Medvedev's ~ to Warsaw
division & connection: bridge / river
a game too far
it was, in some respects, ~ for England (World Cup) amelioration & renewal: bridge / river

a step too far

bridgehead (noun)
this could just be ~ (Khan vs. Crawford) bridgehead
this approach is ~ (media coverage) Hong Kong is not a ~ to subvert the mainland (China)
this may be ~ (substituting “bae” for “babe” / 2014)
♦ This echoes the title of the great 1977 Richard Attenborough film, establish a bridgehead
about Operation Market Garden during World War II. Its meaning is to hackers are keen to ~ on internal networks
overreach. The actual operation was a noble and heroic attempt to end
the war early. It nearly succeeded. The unintended consequences were presence & absence: bridge / military / river
horrible, however, in the parts of Holland that weren’t liberated: the Dutch
famine of 1944-1945. Market Garden started September 17, 1944. Anne
survival, persistence & endurance: bridge / military / river
Frank was apprehended by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944, and she died
in Bergen-Belsen, perhaps in March, 1945. Allusions like these are a
bridle (verb)
double-edged sword. On the one hand, they memorialize. But as time
goes on and people forget, they trivialize. bridled against it
♦ see also far (too far) Biden ~ (becoming a public symbol of grieving)

allusion: film / military bridle against (received) norms

restraint & lack of restraint: allusion / bridge / history / the film does not ~ (the pieties of the Cold War)
military
bridal at criticism
bridge (we will cross that bridge when he has a tendency to ~ (a politician)
we come to it) “bridle” the executive
impeachment is designed to ~ if he engages in excesses
bridge
that’s a ~ she can cross at a later date photographers bridle
~ as NFL announces policy
cross that bridge
we will ~ when we come to it restraint & lack of restraint: horse / verb
we will ~ and that decision will be made constraint & lack of constraint: horse / verb

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control & lack of control: horse / verb knowledge & intelligence: mechanism
resistance, opposition & defeat: horse / verb ability & lack of ability: mechanism
bridle (mechanical bridle, etc.) brilliant (superlative)
mechanical bridles brilliant (medical and military) career
3 ~ hold the rover under the descent stage (Perseverance) after a ~
configuration: horse brilliant hacker
bright (adjective) he is a ~ (computers)
brilliant idea
bright
I had a ~
her future is ~
brilliant job
brighter
who did such a ~
the future for the company has never been ~
brilliant (new) plan
bright idea
a ~ to…
it's not easy to turn a ~ into a genuine business
superlative: light & dark brilliant scientist
she's a ~ who…
bright (bright side)
brilliant and abrasive (m)
look on the bright side a ~ engineer named…
well, ~…. (consolation) superlative: light & dark
♦ “The most ironic thing is that it became really quite serious and in the character & personality: light & dark
Falklands War the sailors sitting on the HMS Sheffield after they had
been hit by an Exocet sang it for 3 hours while they were waiting to be brim (verb)
rescued. And the RAF pilots would sing it in great jeopardy, when they
were changing for their long, low-level bombing in the Bush Wars, Desert
Storm. And so you know, it took on a kind of optimistic component to it...” brimming with patriotism
(“Always Look on the Brightside of Life,” Monty Python. BBC Radio 4- he staged a revival meeting ~
Inheritance Tracks, Eric Idle. U.S. veterans at Camp Vinnell in Saudi
Arabia delighted in recalling and reenacting Monty Python sketches at brims with irony
the Tiki Hut on weekends.) his account ~ (a book)
♦ seangamut: This is what is known as Karma! / Ambleside: “Always look
on the bright side of life!” (Manchester United 0-Liverpool 4.) amount: container / verb
♦ see also Panglossian (adjective) sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: container / verb
flaws & lack of flaws: light & dark bring (verb)
resiliency: light & dark
brought joy to the citizens
brighten (verb) the musical ~ of an anxious nation at war (“Oklahoma!”)

brightened the mood bring perpetrators to justice

the glad tidings ~ of Lincoln (military victories we need to ~ (sexual abuse)
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / mental health / brought the South Pole into the public consciousness
verb Shackleton ~ (in the UK)

brilliance (superlative) brought the (bitter) rift to the surface

the incident ~ (between military and government)
flashes of brilliance
this was a performance of heart, quality and ~ (soccer) brought gusts
he produced occasional ~ when he returned (a soccer player) the storm ~ of almost 100 mph

superlative: light & dark brings (political) pain

Trump knows economic meltdown ~ (coronavirus)
brilliant (technology)
brought its own problems
"brilliant" bomb the solution has ~
~s are in the future (Low Cost Autonomous Attack Systems)
~s are the smart bombs of the future brought territory
~s strike some as the ultimate nightmare trade had ~, territory war, war an Empire (Great Britain)

from dumb to smart to brilliant (m) brought (150mph) winds

~ bombs (military) the storm ~ (a hurricane)
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb

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fictive transportation: verb speech: ground, terrain & land
relationship: movement / verb
brink (on the brink)
bring (the future can bring something)
on the brink of collapse
see future (the future can bring something) the government is ~
bring (bring it) on the brink of default
the country is teetering ~ (Greece / economy)
bring it
if you’re gonna sing it, you gotta ~ (gospel music) on the brink of disaster
the country is ~ (economy)
brought it
people were looking for a new realism, and he ~ (Brando) on the brink of a (polio) epidemic
West and Central Africa are ~
bringing the brawl
Ryder though is ~ and has done all night (boxing) on the brink of failure
the meeting was ~ (UN)
brought it in Game 1
Cassidy Hubbarth talks about who ~ (NBA finals) on the brink of insolvency
♦ “It’s all about that dog that he gonna bring to the fight.” (A boxer the factory is teetering ~
speaking about what makes a winning boxer.)
♦ “We know what he’s going to bring, like he always comes forward, puts on the brink of unconsciousness
on pressure, throws big bombs...” (Joseph Parker about an upcoming he was ~ (trapped caver)
match with Derek “Del Boy” Chisora.)
on the brink of stardom
commitment & determination: giving, receiving, bringing & he has been hovering ~ (a film actor)
returning / verb
on the brink of (another) summit bid
bring around (verb) 10 days later, ~ (climbing)
bring Londoners around hovering on the brink
what will ~ (to support the Olympics) he has been ~ of stardom (a film actor)
allegiance, support & betrayal: direction / verb teetering on the brink
bring back (restore) the factory is ~ of insolvency
proximity: ground, terrain & land
bring the beaver back fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land
efforts are underway to ~
brink (to the brink)
bring him back
nothing we can do can ~ (executed for murder) push Iraq to the brink
he urged them not to ~ of confrontation
amelioration & renewal / primacy, currency, decline &
obsolescence / survival, persistence & endurance: giving, proximity: ground, terrain & land
receiving, bringing & returning / verb fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land
bring down (verb) brink (back from the brink)
bring down some racial barriers back from the brink
it helped to ~ (basketball) Wall Street is ~

brought down his own career step back from the brink
he ~ with drugs (a baseball player) they must ~ (rioters battle soldiers)

bring down the (whole) edifice bring them back from the brink
any crack in the system would ~ (dictatorship) we must ~ of extinction (endangered animals)

destruction: direction / ruins / verb pull his friend back from the brink
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / verb he tried to ~ (drug intervention)
bring up (a subject, etc.) proximity: ground, terrain & land
fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land
brought up Honnold survival, persistence & endurance: ground, terrain & land
Caldwell, sitting on the deck that night, ~... (climbers)
brinksmanship (noun)
brought up the (new California sport) climb
when I ~ (in conversation with a climber) brinksmanship
there’s a lot of ~ involved (negotiations)

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fate, fortune & chance: ground, terrain & land he launched a ~ against Jeff Sessions (politics)
position, policy & negotiation: ground, terrain & land
legal broadside
bristle (emotional arousal) she leveled the fiercest ~ yet against the Sackler family

bristled at questions aimed another broadside

the senator ~ about his patriotism he ~ at Pelosi (President Trump)

bristles at the suggestion level broadsides

she ~ that she encouraged cheating (an educator) Democrats ~ at Romney’s wealth (politics)
♦ Piloerection is a sign of emotional arousal. In chimpanzees, it will ♦ “Hood, in the Zealous, took the station, and from the port-holes of his
cause the hair on their shoulders to stick straight up. At the same time, seventy-four poured such a tempest of shot upon the Guerrier, that in
chimpanzees might hoot and throw pebbles. twelve minutes he riddled and totally disabled her... Passing gracefully
and swiftly to windward of the Zealous, [the Orion] fired her larboard
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / dog / hair / verb guns so long as they could be brought to bear upon the Guerrier, then
passing inside the Goliath, by a single broadside she shattered and sunk
bristle (with security, etc.) a frigate, La Serieuse, which annoyed her, sending her to the bottom in
an instant with all hands on board, 250 men... / By this time the sun had
set. The Audacious, under Captain Gould, was pouring a crashing fire
bristling with security into the Guerrier... The Theseus, Captain Miller, following next, swept
the courthouse is ~ away the remaining masts of the Guerrier...” / The victory was ours; the
loss to the French was terrible... (The Battle of the Nile, 1798, also
protection & lack of protection: animal / fortification / known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay. Only four French ships escaped.
military / verb From British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant. Crowds of Arabs
and Mamelukes on shore celebrated and cheered on the destruction of
British (British of South America, etc.) their enemies.)

accusation & criticism: boat / military / weapon

British of South America
conflict / speech: boat / military / weapon
people used to say we are the ~ (Chileans)
Brobdingnagian (adjective)
character & personality / identity & nature / migration:
epithet Brobdingnagian Embassy
the US is downsizing its ~ in Iraq
brittle (emotionally brittle, etc.)
♦The allusion is to the satire Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. The
same book contributed Lilliputian to the language.
angrier and more brittle
she seems ~ (emotions) ♦ Elena Tapia in “Primary Metaphor and the Fantastic” analyzes
Gulliver’s Travels and other fantastical works of literature, including Alice
and Wonderland, through the lens of conceptual metaphor in order to
emerged (emotionally) brittle explain what it is that makes them so fantastic. Even better, her paper is
he ~ (from a turbulent childhood) available at ERIC, ED472663.

feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances size: allusion / person
ability & lack of ability: materials & substances allusion: books & reading
broad (adjective) broken (failure)
too broad broken
for some the brush stroke was ~ (cancel culture includes our food-safety system in this country is ~ (salmonella)
Abraham Lincoln) there is no question in my mind that the system is ~
the economy is ~, and Obama can't fix it
extent & scope: breadth
what is ~ (teachers, parents, students / education)
broadside (noun) the judiciary is ~, the law needs to change

broadside against China broken home

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched another ~ he comes from a ~

broadside against the 2015 same-sex marriage decision broken life

Thomas and Alito issued a ~ on Monday when... put back the pieces of a ~ (schizophrenia)
condition & status / failure, accident & impairment / flaws
broadside’ against fellow lawmaker
Tiller backs challenger in ‘extraordinary ~ (politics) & lack of flaws / functioning: mechanism

Twitter broadside broken (English, etc.)

Senator’s Grassley’s ~ at Obama...
broken Arabic
Trump’s broadsides reporters asked him in ~ if…
it’s unclear if ~ will have much sway...
broken English
ferocious broadside the Peruvian liaison officer spoke ~

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flaws & lack of flaws: speech / mechanism brother (brother in arms, etc.)
speech: functioning
broken (feeling) brothers
the Serbs and Russians are ~ (Kosovo)
broken man brothers to us
he left high-spirited, but he returned a ~ (war) the Syrians are ~ (Iraqi Christian refugee)
left (absolutely) broken brother in arms
his family had been ~ by his death the soldier's reflexive instinct to protect his ~
♦ “You must not think of him as a man who had been broken... He had
been hurt, he was wounded, but he was still the same man in great brother from another mother
spirits. He thought the best spirit of resistance is joyfulness.” (An he was my ~ (David Grohl about Taylor Hawkins)
acquaintance of Boris Pasternak in his last years.)

feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / mechanism fraternity brothers

he died after chugging whiskey with ~ (initiation)
broken-hearted
band of brothers
broken-hearted (m) they are more than a fun-loving, bike-riding ~ (gang)
a ~ man
division & connection / person / relationship: family
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart
brotherhood (noun)
heart: functioning / mechanism
bromide (noun) brotherhood of the sea
we have seen what the ~ means (international rescue)
bromide
this is sound advice as far as it goes, but it's a ~ brotherhood of firefighters
the ~
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
brotherhood of submariners
speech: health & medicine the ~

broom (broom of reform, etc.) brotherhood, loyalty, courage, and self-sacrifice

the virtues of ~
broom of reform
I will grab the ~ and sweep this state clean brotherhood, service, sacrifice
~ (Rangers)
♦ Michele Rhee was an educational crusader. As chancellor of the
Washington, D.C. school system, she was given a mandate to "clean Sufi brotherhoods
house." She appeared on the cover of Time Magazine with a broom. But
community members felt like they had been compared to dirt, and she Chechnya's ~
ended up having to resign her position.
have a (long) brotherhood
amelioration & renewal: house / hygiene Columbia and Venezuela ~ (Cucuta Constitution, etc.)
disruption: house / hygiene ♦ “The code, the brotherhood, the three hours we come together as
brother (Instagram’s brother, etc.) one...” (Sports talk, about a player who controversially quit on his team
during a game. Coaches often say, “There is no “I” in “team.” Players
retort, “There’s an “I” in “win.”)
brother of igneous volcanoes ♦ "We have seen in deeds, not words, what the brotherhood of the sea
mud volcanoes are the poor ~ (research, etc.) means." (A Russian Navy official, on the successful rescue of sailors
aboard a sunken mini-sub. The British, Japanese, and Americans had all
big brother rushed to help.)
he came from Instagram’s ~, Facebook (Mosseri) ♦ "My hope is that this site contributes to making more people visit our
museum and that the pilgrimage to the Island of Gorée provides an
poor brother impetus to an enhanced brotherhood able to exorcise the demons of the
mud volcanoes are the ~ of igneous volcanoes (research) past." (Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal, 2005,
speaking about the island opposite Dakar which was one of many slave-
relationship: family trading centers on the African coast, ruled in succession by the
Portuguese, Dutch, English and French.)
brother (big brother, etc.) group, set & collection: family
big sister division & connection / relationship: family
I was like a mother hen to them, I was like ~ brought up
big sister to young rockers brought up to feel
Judy Collins was a kind of ~ (place to crash, etc.) I was ~ proud of the Empire
help & assistance: family
brought up harsh, strict
I was ~, but just normal discipline (boxer Conor Benn)

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growth & development: death & life brush-off
bruise (verb) gave me the brush off
bruised feelings she ~
but the decision has ~ here (by church, to…) dismissal, removal & resignation: hand
bruised some egos brush up against
he ruffled some feathers and ~ (a general)
brushed up against this story
feeling, emotion & effect: color / health & medicine / mark
I was amazed I had never ~ (author / camels in US)
/ sensation / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
fictive meeting & seeing: verb
bruised
brutality (noun)
left the Administration bruised
the experience ~ (diplomacy) brutality of storms
the suddenness, the ~ now, it is different (NYC mayor)
feeling, emotion & effect: color / health & medicine / mark
/ sensation / skin, muscle, nerves & bone force: violence

bruising (adjective) bubble (verb)

bruising (political) attacks bubbling here
after days of ~ on his tax returns and his record... there has been a long-term democracy moment ~

bruising election bubbling (just) under the surface

it was a ~ conflict is ~

bruising encounter bubbled to the surface

another ~ with a beast of a wave (Nazare surfing) all those feelings and emotions ~ again (abuse)

bruising encounter activity / initiation: bubble / heating water / temperature /

he was finding college a ~ (depression, etc.) verb / water

feeling, emotion & effect: color / health & medicine / mark bubble (activity)
/ sensation / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
investment bubble
brush (characterization) their current popularity is an ~ (NFTs)

same brush stock bubble

it is wrong to paint them all with the ~ (a few bad cops) but now that the ~ has burst (1990s)

brush stroke was too broad dot-com bubble

for some, the ~ (cancel culture includes Abe Lincoln) the ~

characterization: picture housing bubble

the ~ will eventually pop (housing market)
brush aside (verb)
in an (influence) bubble
brushed aside their hosts we are in ~ (the advertising industry)
the Titans ~ (NFL football)
boom and bust of (Iceland’s tourism) bubble
dismissal, removal & resignation: hand / verb the ~
brush off (verb) bubble has burst
but now that the stock ~… (1990s)
brushed off concerns
he ~ about his security bubble burst
then the ~, and investors lost fortunes (stocks)
brushed off their concerns
he angrily ~ (a manager) bubble has deflated
Iceland’s tourism ~
brushed off his protest
they ~ activity: bubble / water
substance & lack of substance: bubble / water
dismissal, removal & resignation: hand / verb
bubble (isolation)
bubble of this isolated leadership

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 Trump pierced the ~ (North Korea) created a bubble
the college has ~ to keep COVID-19 out
Canberra bubble
he and the whole ~ face a much more persistent issue stay in their “bubble”
NBA playoffs are underway as players ~
filter bubble
♦ Beijing will be “bubble-ized,” there will be “bubble-ized” flights... (A
the term ~ was coined by Eli Pariser (Wikipedia) sports columnist about the Beijing Winter Olympics.)
tailored web searches put users in a ~
isolation & remoteness: bubble / container / water
their own bubble protection & lack of protection: bubble / container / water
they can’t see outside of ~ (Facebook leaders) avoidance & separation: bubble / container / water
media bubble bubble up (verb)
the ~ caused blind spots and groupthink (politics)
bubble up
overprotective bubble the Troubles continue to ~ in unexpected places (Ireland)
so many parents now raise their children in an ~ this issue has been brewing, and they knew it would ~ again
in a bubble activity / appearance & disappearance / initiation: bubble /
the people who live ~ (partisan, cultural identity) heating water / prep, adv, adj, particle / temperature / verb
live in a bubble / water
the people at Facebook ~ bubbling (adjective)
lives in a bubble
she ~, away from reality the rest of us face (a celebrity)
bubbling, unsolved mystery
his case remained a ~ for years (Kim Philby)
pierced the bubble
activity / initiation: bubble / heating water / temperature /
Trump ~ of this isolated leadership (North Korea)
water
get out of the (Washington) bubble
NPR needs to ~
bubbly (personality)
♦ “Sixty-eight percent of tweets between journalists who work at The chatty, bubbly and (unfailingly) polite
Washington Post, NPR, [and the] New York Times... are to each other.”
(“How Journalists Congregating Into ‘Microbubbles’ Affects Quality Of
~, she is comfortable in the spotlight (Emma Raducanu)
News Reporting,” NPR, All Things Considered, August 12, 2020.)
character & personality: bubble / water
isolation & remoteness: bubble / container / water
avoidance & separation: bubble / container / water
buccaneer (person)
bubble (quarantine) individualist, a buccaneer
Amundsen was an ~ (not a public servant)
“Bubble Boy”
the ~ was described in a documentary in the mid ‘70s buccaneers, outsiders, (political) pirates
gene therapy to treat ~disease (SCID) they want to be seen as ~ (opposition researchers)

bubble experiment taking & removing: boat / crime / person / sea

for the NHL, the ~ paid off (sports goes on in pandemic) person: boat / crime / sea
character & personality: boat / crime / person / sea
quarantine bubble
some TV shows have continued to shoot in ~s
buck (verb)
social bubbles bucked his party
the pros and cons of ~ or pods... (COVID-19) he ~ (John McCain / politics)

one-way ‘bubble’ resistance, opposition & defeat: horse / animal / verb

~ opens between Australia and New Zealand (Covid-19) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: horse / animal /
verb
COVID-Free Bubbles
sleep away camps offer ~ for remote learning
bucket (category)
in a bubble police bucket
when you’re ~ for 100 days, it’s tough (COVID-19) maybe this shouldn’t be in the ~ of things

in the Bubble neat buckets

David Vetter became “the Boy in ~” (1984) the motivators don’t fit into ~ (mass-casualty incidents)

in the (NBA) bubble essential and nonessential buckets

what it’s like to be one of the chefs cooking for athletes ~ it’s hard to put things in ~

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divide things into three buckets constraint & lack of constraint: money
Biden and Pope Francis can ~ (issues)
buffet (noun)
put them in the same bucket
but with Snowden & Assange, I do ~ buffet of injustices
that place was a virtual ~ (Southern Poverty Law Center)
taxonomy & classification: container
alternatives & choices / amount: food & drink
buckle (give way) group, set & collection: food & drink
buckled buffeted
instead of doubling down on the policy, he ~
buffeted by the news
destruction / failure, accident & impairment / resistance, for readers ~... (pandemic)
opposition & defeat: infrastructure / ruins / verb
force: fist / violence / wave / wind
buckle (attachment) bug (enthusiasm)
buckle on the strap
acting bug
Vicksburg was the ~ that held the Confederacy together
he took some drama classes and developed an ~
buckle of the Bible Belt
skating bug
they landed at the ~ (Fujianese workers in Oklahoma City)
he caught the ~ at age 8 (ice-skater Rudy Galindo)
♦ A belt often has a buckle. See belt (area).
ballet bug
attachment / configuration: clothing & accessories
if she hadn’t been bitten by the ~...
bud (nipped in the bud) travel bug
nipped in the bud she said she got the ~ from her father...
the plot had been ~ at the zero hour bitten by the bug
sedition has been ~ (a plot) and so I really got ~ (acting, in high school)
curtailment / growth & development: plant
bitten by the (cycling) bug
appearance & disappearance: plant as a youth he played soccer before he was ~
budding get the (acting) bug
budding adventurer when people ~, there’s really nothing you can do about it
the ~ claimed she was not afraid (Abby Sunderland, 16) enthusiasm: insect
budding career build (create)
her ~ came to a screeching halt (a Nike runner)
build an (international anti-terror) coalition
budding ("heritage language") movement they seek to ~
the ~ in education
build confidence
budding relationship rehearsals ~ and improve performance (military)
they managed to keep their ~ a secret (guy / girl)
build his confidence
budding romance he needs time to ~
the innocence of a ~ (teens)
build my confidence
growth & development: plant
rehearsals ~ and improve performance (military)
appearance & disappearance: plant
budge (verb) built a (drug-trafficking) empire
he ~ in the Caribbean
budge built a (nationwide freight-hauling) empire
the negotiators won’t ~, they are immovable Johnnie B. Hunt, who ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: movement / verb
build the future
position, policy & negotiation: movement / verb the motto was Pro futuro aedificamus—we ~ (school)
commitment & determination: movement / verb
budget (attention budget, etc.) build a (secure) future
~ for their children
attention budget build interest
ads take a toll on the user’s ~ (internet)
Leslie's dunk will ~ in the WNBA

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build a (16-point) lead failure to build
~ (basketball) his government's ~ a healthy economy
built a good life time to build
we ~ together he needs ~ his confidence
build muscles hard to build
some bodybuilders use GHB thinking it will ~ the company's reputation, ~, easy to destroy
build opposition creation & transformation: infrastructure / verb
he participated in clandestine meetings to ~
building block
build (a series of working) partnerships
~ (federal agencies) building block of society
the tribe is the ~ (rural south Iraq)
built a (fragile) present
they ~ out of pieces of the past (Balkans diplomacy) use the experience as a building block
you can ~
build rapport
bases: infrastructure
a personable style of communication that aims to ~
builds (close) relationships build up (verb)
the chaplain ~ with prisoners (prison) building up
built her reputation a lot of anger is ~
she ~ as an educator over two decades (fired) increase & decrease: infrastructure / verb
build a reputation built
you can't ~ on what you are going to do (Henry Ford);
Cotto continues to ~ (the boxer) built around the church
his life was ~
build (deductive) skills
~ early in doctors' training configuration: infrastructure

build (company) solidarity built in

he pays for Caribbean cruises to ~
built in
build a team is there an assessment tool that is ~
trying to ~ is a hard juggling act (basketball)
downtime built in
build (community) ties their jobs have extended ~ (firefighters)
people don't stay long enough to ~
built-in incentive
building a better tomorrow stock options provide a ~
we are ~
attachment: infrastructure
build trust identity & nature: infrastructure
you can ~ by… (dealing with kid's separation anxiety) configuration: infrastructure
build a (peaceful) world community bulge (shape)
they seek to ~
youth bulge
built her reputation over two decades population trends will dramatically increase the Yemeni ~
she ~ (an educator)
increase & decrease: shape
building a case one block at a time
they are ~ (for conspiracy)
bull (bull in a china shop)
build self-esteem bull in a china shop
some argue that the best way to ~ is to… she's a ~

anger is building bull-in-a-china-shop reputation

the ~ here (oil spill) he showed a tactical skill which belied his ~ (politician)

aims to build force: animal / cows & cattle

a personable style of communication that ~ rapport bulldoze (verb)
trying to build bulldozed him
~ a team is a hard juggling act (basketball)

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 Wilder then fell again as Fury ~ (boxing) we ~ here (car bomb ignites but fails to explode)
bulldoze me dodged a (big) bullet
he tried to ~, but I resisted... we ~ (hurricane misses refineries)
bulldozing values fate, fortune & chance: bullet / weapon / verb
critics say he is ~ that Americans hold dear (politics)
bullet (take a bullet for somebody)
destruction: tools & technology / verb
force: tools & technology / verb take a bullet for the president
he has said he would ~ (a lawyer)
bulldozed ♦ “I’ve never seen an athlete in my generation take the bullets in the way
he has taken the bullets. Metaphorically speaking, he is a martyr.” (The
bulldozed through the parliament broadcaster Craig Mitch about Raheem Sterling, and the latter’s efforts
the bold reforms were ~ (India) to fight racism in football and the media.)

force: tools & technology allegiance, support & betrayal: bullet / weapon / verb
commitment & determination: bullet / weapon / verb
bulldozer (epithet)
bullet (bite the bullet)
nicknamed “the Bulldozer”
he was ~ for his toughness on corruption (John Magufuli) bite the bullet
we’re going to have to ~ (pay the tariff)
epithet: force
character & personality: epithet / force / tools & technology survival, persistence & endurance: bullet / verb / weapon
commitment & determination: bullet / verb / weapon
bulldozer (noun)
bulletproof (adjective)
expect a bulldozer
if you took on Joe McCarthy, you could ~ coming your way bulletproof
your logic is ~
destruction / force: tools & technology our story was ~ (investigative reporter)
the case against him needed to be ~ (expensive lawyers)
bullet (velocity)
ironclad, waterproof, bulletproof, (legally) binding
bullets of sound we need ~ guarantees (Sergey Ryabkov / diplomacy)
acoustic weapons can fire ~
seemed bulletproof
bullet train he ~ just a few weeks ago (politician under fire)
at the controls of a Japanese ~
flaws & lack of flaws: bullet / weapon
speed: bullet / weapon
bullied
bullet (shape)
bullied by a liberal media
bullets, needles, prisms, columns we won’t be ~ (politics)
snowflakes come in shapes: ~, stars cups, and plates
bullied by the north
shape: bullet / weapon
southerners complain of being ~ (Sudan)
bullet (magic or silver bullet, etc.) getting bullied
magic bullet Twitter is ~ by the government
nothing yet has proved a ~ (against oak-killing spore) coercion & motivation: school & education
silver bullet oppression: school & education
the system was sold as a ~ but it never worked (E-Verify) bull's-eye (shape)
this problem will take time to fix and there is no ~
"bull's-eye" rash
vaccine ‘silver bullets’ the disease is characterized by a ~ (Lyme disease)
COVID-19 advisor says there are no ~
shape: target / weapon
proved to be a silver bullet
hydroxychloroquine has not ~ (COVID) bull's-eye (target)
amelioration & renewal: bullet / magic / weapon bull's-eye on his back
he has a ~ (a wanted terrorist)
bullet (dodge a bullet)
put a bull's-eye on the city
dodged a bullet the hurricane has ~ (New Orleans 2012)

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target: weapon bulwark against (government) tyranny
the Second Amendment is a ~ (right to bear arms)
bully (verb)
bulwark against vice
bullied colleagues playgrounds provide a ~ (urbanization)
there are charges that she ~ (administration)
bulwark of stability and democracy
bully the (national) judiciary India represents a ~ compared with Pakistan
his comments are a shameless effort to ~
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
bully the president into backing down
the Republicans are trying to ~ on reform bump (speed bump)
let the US bully it speed bumps
China will not ~ there have been a few ~ (negotiations)
coercion & motivation: school & education / verb speed bump of the land
oppression: school & education / verb so as soon as it gets over the ~ (hurricane / Yucatan)
bully (person) hit a speedbump
his investigation ~ when he met with...
bully in their region
Israel was the classic ~ (Egyptians / 1973 war) obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips
bullies on the block
the Patriots are no longer the ~ (NFL football) bump (bump in the road, etc.)
bully tactic bump in the road
the letter is a ~ (impeachment trial) this is just a ~ (personal setback)
it was just a ~ of their ideal lives
Hollywood bullies
other ~ are being sidelined, but not... bumps in the road to toilet training
many families encounter ~
internet bullies
people who have been harassed by ~ encounter bumps in the road
many families ~ to toilet training
regional bully
many see Saudi Arabia as a ~ (its neighbors) obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips
technological bully
Google’s co-founders reviled Microsoft as a ~ bump (increase)
stood up to the (schoolyard) bully bump in business
he ~ (student vs. record-industry lawyers) the films saw a ~ following their Tony wins
♦ A boy shall learn to fight, or let him put skirts about his knees. This boy
has never been taught to fight, but he shall have his first lesson to-night.
bump in earnings
We will see if the National Schools can beat a Morgan... Now, a good the company has seen a ~
straight left is the bully’s downfall. That is lesson one from the book.
Like this.” (How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn. Huw had increase & decrease: shape
been beaten up by a bully after his first day in class at a new school.)
bumper (bumper crop)
coercion & motivation: school & education / person
oppression: school & education / person bumper crop
person: school & education what a ~ (of works / Public Domain Day)
bulwark (resemblance) amount: farming & agriculture

sandstone bulwark bumpy (adjective)

the Ennedi is a ~ in the middle of the Sahara (Chad)
bumpy ride
resemblance: fortification consumers are in for a ~ this year (customer service)
bulwark (protection) bumpy road
the economy is on the ~ to recovery
bulwark against (Republican) excesses
he was a ~ (a politician) flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land

bulwark against (religious) extremism bunker (noun)

he had been a ~ (deposed leader)
bunker mentality

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 England must discard its ~ after Chennai defeat (cricket) keeps prices buoyant
♦ “When we dug bunkers we saw how the dead lay in layers one above the rarity of such collectibles ~
the other.” (The Storm of Steel by Lieutenant Ernst Junger, quoted in
The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund.) increase & decrease: direction / water
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military buoyed
buoy (verb) buoyed with hope
he seemed ~
buoy the movement
Trump’s rhetoric continues to ~ feeling, emotion & effect: direction / water
survival, persistence & endurance: direction / water
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / verb / water
burden (verb)
buoyant (feeling)
burden his wife with (toilsome and difficult) work
buoyant a man should not ~, based on her abilities and custom
the Russian mood is definitely ~
the German fans are ~ and singing (soccer game) burden our grandchildren with this debt
it is wrong to ~
buoyant about ending
they were ~ their opponents' unbeaten streak (sports) affliction / oppression: burden / weight / verb

buoyant mood burden (noun)

the members of the expedition were in a ~
burden
buoyant music some view stress as a challenge rather than a ~
she loved the musical's ~
burden of expectation
buoyant optimism she suffers from the ~
he expressed ~ that…
burden of guilt
buoyant and hopeful they share a ~
her depression had lifted , and she felt ~
burden of history
buoyant, lively (m) the special ~ that contemporary Greece has to deal with
it was a ~ performance (music)
burdens of leadership
felt buoyant the ~ are heavy (politics)
people who have ~ in the economy (housing market)
burden of the past
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / water future generations won't suffer the ~
buoyant (personality) burden of proof
the ~ is on the FDA to show…
buoyant 70
he is a ~ (years of age) burden (of paperwork) on researchers
the ~ can be great
buoyant confidence
she projects a ~ debt burden
she couldn't get out from under her crushing ~
buoyant personality ~ keeps poor countries from healing their sick
she has a ~ given her circumstances (illegal immigrant)
tax burden
buoyant temperament the ~ still falls on the shoulders of regular Americans
she has a ~ the local ~ on the mall store
character & personality: direction / water financial burden
buoyant (strong) we must reduce the ~s on patients (health care)
a wedding can be a huge ~ (Arab countries)
buoyant
voters supported him while the economy was ~
heavy burden
Asian economies remain resilient, even ~ he carries a ~ of responsibility (ruler)
the ~ of this mammoth job (Man U manager)
buoyant demand the stigma of AIDS is still a ~
the offering has seen ~ from investors
physical and emotional burdens
buoyant (job) growth the ~ of child-rearing (on grandparents)
we are seeing rapid, ~

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blessing and a burden concealment & lack of concealment: ground, terrain & land
patients see choice as both a ~
buried (buried in debt, etc.)
burden falls
the ~ on the shoulders of those least able to bear it buried in debt
the ~ primarily on women (health-care decisions) are you ~

carry the burden buried in work

some kids ~ of extra responsibility (autistic sibling) homicide detectives were ~ (leads)

ease the burden buried under a (huge) mountain of debt

how can we ~ of the poor they were ~

get out from under her crushing (debt) burden buried away
she couldn't ~ she was ~ in the U.S. Department of Agriculture

shoulder the burden involvement / oppression: burial / ground, terrain & land
locals must ~ after regime change (Rumsfeld) burned (impressed)
affliction / oppression: burden / weight
burned into our (collective) consciousness
burgeoning (adjective) fairy tales or folktales ~

burgeoning influence impression: fire / mark / sensation

they wish to allay fears about its ~ burned (hurt)
burgeoning momentum burned by their (past) investments
a 3-week break stopped Baylor’s ~ (basketball) they were ~ in failed projects (tech industry)
♦ This verb form relates to the new growth of buds and branches.
got burned
growth & development: plant many investors ~ (fraud)
increase & decrease: plant ♦ Once burned, twice shy!
buried (dead and buried, etc.) feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation
dead and buried burned-out (and burnt-out)
the peace process is ~
Spurs looked ~ when Ziyech scored against them, but... burnt out from years
Switzerland were ~ but kept fighting (Euro 2020) he felt ~ of working on...
they looked ~ at half-time, but never write off this team
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation
condition & status / destruction: burial / death & life
burner (front burner)
buried (concealment)
put the environment on the front burner
buried they seek to ~ (election)
it’s the past, it’s ~, we don’t want to dig it up again
put having more fun on the front burner
buried in the archives maybe it's time to ~ (ad for a cruise ship)
the information was ~
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
buried in the past inferiority: center & periphery / direction / position
it is ~…
burning (burning desire, etc.)
buried in a (158-page) report
the information is ~ burning desire
the ~ to be the best (basketball)
buried in the navigation bar he has a ~ to get the facts (human rights investigator)
the link was ~ (poor Web site design)
burning question
buried facts she has one ~ (what did my son die for in Iraq war)
~ about the (plutonium) contamination
burning righteousness
buried secrets she pays a price for her ~ (a play)
~ have teeth (Ad for Truth be Told TV series)
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation
stay buried
the past did not ~ (The Troubles and Brexit)
♦ “Secrets, long buried, sometimes don’t stay that way.” (Dateline NBC.)

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burning (slow-burning) maintain a happy work / life balance and ~

slow-burning rebellion contribute to burnout

three key factors ~...
the nation is in the grip of a ~ against the regime
♦ The concept of “burnout,” originally coined to describe the way many
slow-burning war drug addicts felt in the late 1960s, has been expanded to Achilles in the
Bronze Age. (See “It’s Just Too Much” by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker,
the Troubles, the ~ in Northern Ireland May 24, 2021. An excellent article by an excellent writer.)
activity: fire feeling, emotion & effect: fire / mental health
burnish (verb) burn through (verb)
burnished his credentials burning through cash
his work in Beijing ~ (a politician) Boeing has been ~ at a significant rate
burnished his reputation consumption: fire / verb
his sermons have ~
♦ If you burnish something, you rub it until it shines.
burrito (shape)
increase & decrease: light & dark / verb “burritos”
~, long, sand-filled tubes covered by heavy fabric
burnished
sand burritos
burnished and tarnished ~ contribute to beach loss (Sunset Beach, Oahu)
reputations were ~ (2021 Trump impeachment trial)
shape: food & drink
increase & decrease: light & dark
burrow (burrow into)
burn off (verb)
burrowing into the coal industry
burn off her (abundant) energy Communists are ~, newspapers and shipyards
your toddler needs to ~
burrowing their way into the computer networks
burn off stress hackers were ~ of government agencies (SolarWinds)
exercise is a great way to ~
concealment & lack of concealment: animal
amelioration & renewal: fire / verb subterfuge: animal
burn out (verb) burst (activity)
burn out burst of negotiating
he warns that troops will "~" and leave the service the crisis signaled a fresh ~
burned out burst of recognition
what happens to adjuncts once they've ~ you’re getting a ~ (an old Blues singer)
burn out from the environment activity: explosion
people who ~ (technology and computers)
burst (burst into tears, etc.)
burn out or fade away
playboating didn't ~ (whitewater rodeos, etc.) burst into applause
the staff ~ (teachers)
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb
decline: fire / verb burst into laughter
she ~
burnout (noun)
burst into tears
burnout I ~, assuming…
the new IN thing is “~” (a Times-Picayune columnist)
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb
Women’s Burnout
~: How to Spot It, Reverse It, Prevent It (a book) burst (burst into violence, etc.)
competitive burnout burst into violence
he quit the tour, citing ~ (a surfer) lingering tensions ~
digital burnout initiation: explosion / verb
with the Web, people started talking about “~”
avoid burnout

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burst on / onto the scene, etc. bus (allegiance)
burst into our consciousness on the bus
she’s ~ (tennis player Emma Raducanu) you’re either ~ or not on the bus, and I’m driving the bus
burst into the headlines driving the bus
the conservatorship ~ this week (#FreeBritney) I am ~ to make sure we get this country back on track
♦ This is like the politician who said, “This is my truck, and in my truck we
burst on the scene go by my rules.”
he ~ in 1991 (independent politician Ross Perot)
allegiance, support & betrayal / control & lack of control /
burst onto the stage unanimity & consensus: mechanism
he was one of several poets who ~ in the 60s (Russia)
busy (active)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / coming, arriving, staying,
leaving & returning: explosion / verb busy with groups of hikers
unlike the previous day, the path was ~
bury (conceal)
busy hurricane season
bury it it’s expected to be a ~
catch and kill is buying the rights to a story to ~
activity: movement
bury the truth
the government is trying to ~ bust (oil bust, etc.)
bury (radio) listings oil bust
newspapers ~ historic oil bust delivers a gut punch to Texas county
buried the report boom and bust
Harvard found the same thing but ~ (race issue) Argentina is used to ~ (the economy)
concealment & lack of concealment: burial / light & dark / activity: explosion
ground, terrain & land / verb cost & benefit: explosion
bury (bury oneself in something, etc.) butcher (verb)
buries herself in her phone butchered his presentation
whenever they’re together, she ~ (teen and father) he ~
absorption & immersion: burial / verb failure, accident & impairment: meat / verb

bury (kill) butcher (Butcher of Baghdad, etc.)

bury any chance Butcher of Baghdad
annexation moves would ~ of peace (Middle East) ridding the world of the ~ (Saddam Hussein)
destruction: burial / death & life / verb Butcher of Ethiopia
curtailment: burial / death & life / verb General Rodolfo Graziani, the ~ (Yekatit 12, 1937)
bus (throw somebody under the bus) Butcher of Fezzan
the Arabs called him “the ~” (Graziani, 1930-34, Libya)
threw him under the bus
the police chief ~ (a policeman) butcher of Mosul
the execution of Shukair Farid, "the ~" (Iraq)
threw us under the bus
I felt like he ~ (a politician) Butcher of the Monks
♦ Geoff Nunberg talked about this idiom in “Primaries Toss Some ‘Under the general became known as the ~ (Zhao Erfang)
the Bus,’ on Fresh Air, April 22, 2008.
quisling butcher
♦I n 2019, NPR’s All Things Considered gave the expression a “1-Minute
Listen” with examples, dates of usage, and its use in a rap song. In that he was a ~ (Croatia / Jasenovac)
1-minute listen, Ammon Shea at Merriam-Webster points out that the
expression is not usually, if ever, used as a direct threat: “I will throw you criminals and butchers
under the bus!” certainly does sound odd. (“The Origins Of ‘Throw Him the terrorists are ~ (Prince Abdullah)
(Or Her) Under the Bus,’” NPR, All Things Considered, November 11,
2019.) cast Grant as a “butcher”
allegiance, support & betrayal: violence / verb Southern historians ~ (revisionism)
nicknamed the Butcher
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♦ “The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.” (The we need to ~ (gene editing)
Italian General Rodolfo Graziani.)
it never really ended, we just ~ (Korean War)
♦ AVENUE DU BOUCHER BUGEAUD (A defaced street sign in Paris.
Thomas Robert Bugeaud was instrumental in the subjection of Algeria in action, inaction & delay: mechanism
the 1830s and 40s.)
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism
epithet: person button (panic button)
death & life / military / oppression: epithet
butterfly (shape) panic button
I was scared, I hit the ~
butterfly ballot
the ~ confused many voters (2000 presidential election)
hit the panic button
it’s not time to ~ yet
"butterfly" mines feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
PFM-1 ~ scattered from the air (Afghanistan);
children think ~ are toys button (hot button)
shape: animal / insect hot buttons
butterfly (social butterfly) he addresses love, expectation, and other ~ (writer)
he addresses jealousy, grief, and other ~ (writer)
social butterfly he addresses disappointment, fidelity and other ~
she's a ~
hot-button issue
person: insect / society another ~ at the WTO was dumping
character & personality / society: insect / person let's talk about some of the ~s (politics)
butterfly (butterflies in stomach) hot-button subject
it's a ~ (racism and bias)
had butterflies in my stomach
I ~ (a nervous performer before a performance) feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / temperature

feeling, emotion & effect: insect / stomach buttress (verb)

button (push a button / action) buttress Ethiopia against threats
a better approach is to ~ to its survival by…
push the button
officials must decide when to ~ (COVID circuit-breaker) buttress its argument
Eritrea produced Italian colonial-era maps to ~
♦ “We pressed the big button with rescue helicopters, rescue dogs, the
Red Cross, the civil defense, fire, health and police.” (A Norwegian,
speaking in Norwegian, about eight homes that were swept into the sea
buttressed his case
by a mudslide. His speech was translated by the BBC, which showed the he has ~ with science's latest discoveries about…
video of the astonishing event. Amazingly, nobody was injured in the
disaster.) buttress European influence
♦ “We never had any time for that, we just pushed the easy button.” (US the pipeline will ~ all the way to Azerbaijan
in Afghanistan.)
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / mining / verb
action, inaction & delay / initiation: mechanism / verb strength & weakness: infrastructure / verb
button (push a button / emotion) buttress (resemblance)
buttons buttresses of (dark, gabbro) rock
he knows what ~ to push (to provoke reaction) these peaks and ~ are called the Black Cuillin
he knows how to push ~ (Jake Paul / boxing)
resemblance: infrastructure
pushes South Africa’s racial buttons
rugby ~ buttress (Castle Buttress, etc.)
pushed my button Buttress Point
that's what ~ too far (a suspension) ~ is a point in New Zealand

push people's buttons Castle Buttress

I like to ~ (George Carlin / comedian / taboos) ~ is a peak in KwaZulu-Natal
he likes to ~ (get them upset)
Porcupine Buttress
feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: mechanism / verb the ~ is a series of promontories (Western Cape)
button (pause button) proper name: infrastructure
geography: proper name
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buy (time) buzz (sound)
bought us time buzz with the sound
the lockdown ~ (pandemic) forests ~ of chain saws
time: money sound: insect
buy (buy into something) buzz (activity)
buy in to the company buzzing with anticipation
workers who ~ (enthusiasm vs. apathy) the students were ~ (school assembly)
bought into the bravado buzzing with excitement
he initially ~ (claims of a corporation) the city is ~ ahead of next month's World Cup
bought into the (e-wallet) concept buzzing with questions
parents that have ~ my mind was ~
buy into the stereotype buzzed with possibilities
does this guy ~ that Asian women are generally weak my mind ~
acceptance & rejection: money buzzed with rumors
allegiance, support & betrayal: money the school ~
buy (accept) buzzing with shoppers
Rockefeller Center is ~
buy their argument
do you ~ that… activity: insect / sound

buy the “bad apples” argument buzz (attention)

I don’t ~ (combat, war, and atrocities)
buzz
buying his excuses the ~ this years is that…
his colleagues are not ~ (ethics violations)
buzz about the (new) hotel
acceptance & rejection: money / verb there was a lot of ~ (a Japanese robot hotel)
buy-in (noun) buzz and excitement and a coming together
there’s a ~ for the city (Super Bowl LVI (56) / Cincinnati)
buy-in
~ is acceptance, support, participation (employment) buzz about the Nationals
there has been a lot of ~ (sports team)
employee buy-in
companies that demand ~ audience buzz
~ is a major part of some corporate cultures the TV show is getting critical acclaim and ~
buy-in from parents water-cooler buzz
we didn't have enough of a deep ~ (school) the ~ is underway (a controversy)
loss of buy-in most buzz
several factors can lead to a ~ (enthusiasm turns to apathy) which story is getting the ~
♦ A BBC Worklife article about buy-in included the following expressions:
get on board; drinking the Kool-Aid; go all in... negative buzz
the group survived the initial ~
acceptance & rejection: money
allegiance, support & betrayal: money generated quite some buzz
commitment & determination: money this has ~ in the last 24 hours or so (politics)
♦ Buzzword has morphed to fuzzword (social-justice language, feminism,
bypass (verb) etc.)

bypass Congress attention, scrutiny & promotion: insect / sound

the President will try to ~ to get what he wants
buzz (sensation)
bypass the gatekeepers
the internet allowed people to ~ who controlled music beer buzz
I like a good ~ in the morning
avoidance & separation: movement / verb / walking,
running & jumping euphoria or buzz or high
inhaling to get a sensation of ~ (toluene abuse)

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feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / sound Anne Hathaway talks ~
buzzed (buzzed about, etc.) attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound

buzzed about bygone (adjective)

this is a company that is ~ and for good reason
bygone days
attention, scrutiny & promotion: insect / sound reliving ~ of going to drive-in movie theaters (pandemic)
buzz saw (noun) bygone era
hallmarks of a ~
hit the buzz saw he dressed and sounded like he had stepped out of a ~
we were one of them that ~ (industry loses funding) in modern-day America, there is no such thing as a ~
ran into a buzz saw ♦ Ago also means “gone by.”
Minnesota went to Iowa and ~ (football loss) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: movement /
♦ “Up to about the time of the Civil War, trees were cut down by axes, prep, adv, adj, particle
which was slow, laborious work. The arrival of the crosscut saw speeded past & present / time: movement / prep, adv, adj, particle
this process immeasurably, and the cant hook and peavey, perfected in
the pineries of Maine at about the same time, made it much easier to byproduct (noun)
handle the logs... In the same way the equipment at the sawmills was
vastly improved... and the mill’s capacity for processing logs was almost
unimaginably increased... So over most of the state of Michigan the byproduct of (Mexico's) culture
forest was destroyed.” (Waiting for the Morning Train: An American domestic violence is an ugly ~ of machismo
Boyhood by Bruce Catton.)
♦ According to Merriam-Webster, a buzz saw is the same as a circular
byproducts of the war
saw, and its first known use was in 1847. renditions and torture are ~ (US in Iraq)
destruction / force: tools & technology ugly byproduct
domestic violence is an ~ of Mexico's culture of machismo
buzzword (noun)
product / relationship: manufacturing
buzzword-laden creation & transformation: manufacturing
Kendall’s ~ corporate-speak (TV series Succession)
Byron (epithet)
just a buzzword
is Web3 the future of the Internet or ~ Byron of the antipodes
the 33-year-old ~ (D’Arcy Wentworth)
become a buzzword
mindfulness has ~ in current mainstream culture character & personality: allusion / epithet
♦ Buzzword has morphed to fuzzword (social-justice language, feminism,
allusion: books & reading
etc.) byzantine
♦ “Politics, Pundits And The Problem With The Word ‘Pivot’” is a very
nice opinion piece by Scott Simon. (NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, byzantine (Third World) bureaucracy
June 11, 2016.) Simon rightly characterizes the word as a buzzword.
solutions have been impeded by a ~
♦ “To keep class discussion buoyant, lecturers are told to ‘encourage
students to practise the verbalisation aspect of knowledge’. Multiple byzantine formula
‘learning outcomes’, sacred buzzwords before the pandemic, have been
supplemented with ‘learner journeys’, promising against the odds a
fees are calculated according to ~s
positive experience as well as a realistic hope of achieving something.”
(“Diary: On Quitting Academia” by Malcolm Gaskill, London Review of byzantine (asylum) process
Books, 24 September 2020. “In May, I gave up my academic career after he navigates a ~ to finally get a court hearing
27 years...”)
♦ “Kyle was not an active shooter, that is a buzzword the state wants to byzantine regulations
latch onto because it excuses the actions of that mob.” (Defense attorney ~ are difficult for the outsider to navigate (Egypt)
Mark Richards, an attorney defending Kyle Rittenhouse. The jury found the ~ are stifling
Kyle not guilty on all counts.)
♦ see also boilerplate (noun), ese (legalese, etc.), funny language, byzantine tax law
language (of sports, cars, etc.), lip service (pay lip service, etc.), speak he relied on Smith's knowledge of ~
(NASA-speak, etc.), supersizing (linguistic supersizing), talk (mediator
talk, etc.) Byzantine twist of fate
speech / substance & lack of substance: sound in a ~...
language: speech often-byzantine
buzzy (adjective) navigating America’s ~ health care systems

buzzy (electric vehicle) market complexity: history

skeptics take aim at ~
buzzy (new) role

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C we cannot change Pakistan's ~

Caesar (Chinese Caesar, etc.) part of our calculus

that was ~, if we... (war strategy in Afghanistan)
Chinese Caesar altering the calculus
the “~,” the precocious King Cheng (c. 221 BC)
changes in Cairo are ~ of the entire region
history / military: epithet
changed that calculus
cage (a gilded cage) her string of stumbles ~ (that she could win easily)

in a (gilded) cage analysis, interpretation & explanation: number

the 4 Russian princesses lived ~ (isolated in a palace) strategy: number

constraint & lack of constraint: animal calibrate (adjust)

cage (jail, prison) calibrate its use
it must ~ of force (a country)
threw my boy in a cage
they ~ with those wild animals amelioration & renewal: tools & technology / verb
measurement: tools & technology / verb
oppression: animal / justice
calibrated (adjusted)
cakewalk (dance)
calibrated to the moment
cakewalk his temperament was exquisitely ~ (soldier)
this election is not going to be a ~ for...
England are still well placed, but it has not been a ~ (cricket) amelioration & renewal: tools & technology
no Indy 500 is a ~, it’s a massive challenge (motorsports) measurement: tools & technology
military intelligence suggested the campaign would be a ~ Caligulan
♦ For the history of this word, see “The Extraordinary Story Of Why A
‘Cakewalk’ Wasn’t Always Easy” by Lakshmi Gandhi, NPR, Code Switch, Caligulan dissoluteness
Race and Identity, Remixed, December 23, 2013. The title says it all!
Toghon Temur Khan, a man of ~ (last Mongol Emperor)
attainment / difficulty, easiness & effort: food & drink behavior / character & personality: history
California (California of Europe, etc.) comparison & contrast: affix

California of Europe call (the mountains are calling, etc.)

Portugal, the ~ (beaches, wine, laid-back lifestyle, etc.) mountains calling him
geography: epithet he longs to return to Patagonia, there are so many ~

calculus appeal: sound / speech / verb

fictive communication: sound / speech / verb
calculus of subsidizing
for China, the ~ green industries is quite different
call (call to arms)
complicated calculus call to arms for everyone
it is a ~ (universities try to reopen during pandemic) this is a ~ who may have a hospitalized relative

cynical (political) calculus call to arms against the epidemic

the racist language they used was part of a ~ (politicians) the report was a ~ (Koop / AIDS)

economic calculus troll call to arms

the recent rise of shale drilling has changed the ~ her followers saw it as a ~ (criticism)

mental calculus wake-up call, cri de coeur, call to arms

he committed an instant ~ (a sports player) his book is a ~ (about language)

new calculus appeal / message: military / sound

for many Mexicans looking north, a ~ favors home call (close call / judgment)
political calculus close call
the recent ~ hasn't resulted in a winning calculus this was not a ~, there was no case (a judge)
regional calculus scientific close call
the ~ has swiftly and dramatically altered (diplomacy)

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 this was a ~, and it was my call to make (CDC director calls for (peaceful) protests
overturns her advisory panel) despite ~, trouble broke out
judgment: baseball / sports & games calls for resistance
call (the right call) ~ emanate from mosque loudspeakers (Iraq)
calls for revenge
right call rival families would issue ~
he remains convinced that he made the ~ (a judge)
judgment: baseball / sports & games
call for equal rights
the ~ was heard all over the country (civil rights)
call (call of duty, etc.)
calls for democracy and human rights
call of duty universal ~
his extraordinary heroism, above and beyond the ~ heed his call
call of fads I wish more gays would ~ (gays shouldn't assimilate)
don't give in to the siren ~ (tattoos you can live with) rebuffed calls
call of the wild Iraqi leaders have ~ for the abolishment of the death penalty
it heard the ~ and disappeared (a pet deer) appeal: speech / sound
call to action call (cattle call)
boredom should be a ~
political cattle call
call to duty all the Democrats will try to stand out at the ~ (Iowa)
men and women who feel the ~
assembling: animal / theater
God's call
he has answered ~ to preach the Gospel (Billy Graham) call for (appeal)
clarion call calls (out) for (decisive) action
his legacy is a ~ to pursue creative freedom (Dirk Bogarde) the crisis ~ (terrorism)
siren call called for a ban
don't give in to the ~ of fads (tattoos you can live with) he ~ of anti-personnel mines
answered the call call for (immediate) intervention
she ~ of duty and lost her life (RCMP officer) these situations may ~ (medicine)
♦ “Chou has not abandoned the mountains entirely, though. He still feels
their call.” (The remarkable Chou Yeh-Cheng of Formosa. From “Can calls for the removal
Taiwan become Asia’s next great hiking destination?” by Joe Henley, another option ~ of the population (Nauru)
BBC, Travel, 14 December 2021.)
called for a summit
appeal / attraction & repulsion: speech / sound Yeltsin ~ among the superpowers
call (appeal) appeal: speech / verb
calls (for the FBI) to share call for (a recipe can call for something)
~ information
calls for flour
calls for the abolishment when a gravy, sauce, soup, or stew recipe ~
Iraqi leaders have rebuffed ~ of the death penalty
fictive communication: speech / verb
calls for democracy
universal ~ and human rights call (wake-up call)
calls for his head wake-up call
there have been ~ (a government official) this death is a ~
the oil spill has been a ~
call for help
that night they got a ~ (climbing) wake-up call to world leaders
Greta’s message is a ~ everywhere (Greta Thunberg)
call for jihad
his out-and-out ~ wake-up call to the Saudis
the bombings are a ~ (terrorists)
call for a (mass) protest
a ~ against anti-Semitism and racism (France) wake up call for the colonized world
it was a bit of a ~ (Russo-Japanese War for Egypt, Indians)

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wake-up call, cri de coeur, call to arms oasis of (relative) calm
his book is a ~ (about language) it provides an ~ within Iraq (Kurdish region)
consciousness & awareness / warning: sleep keep calm
~ and carry on
calling card
remained calm
calling card the atmosphere on the plane ~ (hijacking)
the way he positions his victims is his ~
the way the body was left amounted to a ~ (murder) stay calm
bravado, cunning and carelessness are his ~s ~, there is no reason for alarm
her openheartedness has always been her ~ (a singer) ♦ Keep calm and carry on. (Great Britain, World War II.)

calling card of many (neo-Nazi) groups ♦ Keep calm and chive on. (KCCO.)
the swastika is still the contemporary ~ ♦ Keep calm and wear a mask. (The COVID-19 pandemic.)
♦ Keep Calm and Call Drew! (Drew Cochran, criminal defense, Maryland
calling card of a monstrous storm State Bar.)
debris everywhere, tossed and scattered, the ~ (hurricane)
feeling, emotion & effect: water / wind
calling card for one's personality and lifestyle
weddings serve as a ~ calm (activity)
grim calling card calm
mesothelioma has become the substance’s ~ (asbestos) right now, things are ~

microscopic call cards calm before the storm

touch DNA, the ~ we leave behind (murder) this is likely to be the ~ (lull in computer hacking)
this is still the ~ (pandemic cases)
became his calling card
the film ~ in Hollywood (an actor) activity: water / wind
♦ A calling card was a visiting card. Calling cards were once very calm (verb)
important in the days of "society." They would include a name, perhaps
an address, and a lady's "day at home." Cards were left at balls, calm traffic
receptions and teas. Those arriving in a new city might inform members
of society there by sending calling cards. the aim is to ~ (low traffic neighborhoods / LTNs)
a radar speed display, or “speed trailer,” can ~
evidence: object
♦ “Roundabouts are one example of the modern effort to make urban
call out (verb) roads safer by reducing speeds. Other tactics include traffic calming and
road diets, such as the narrowing of Charlotte Street from four lanes to
three.” (“Embrace the age of roundabouts” by Bill McGoun, Columnist,
call his teammates out Asheville Citizen Times, Sunday, August 1, 2021.)
he isn’t afraid to ~ publicly (NFL quarterback)
amelioration & renewal / control & lack of control / feeling,
called them out emotion & effect: animal / verb
the students ~, we go on the ground and rallied (protest)
calve (verb)
accusation & criticism: speech / verb
judgment: speech / verb calved from the Ronne ice shelf into the Weddell Sea
a giant iceberg has ~ (A-76)
callout (criticism)
calved from the east of the continent
callout D28 ~ (Antarctica)
not every ~ escalates into a full-scale dragging
calve (immense serac) avalanches
callout question hanging glaciers ~ (Everest base camp)
well, that is a bit of a ~ (aggressive BBC interviewer)
calve icebergs
callouts, draggings, and pile-ons tidewater glaciers ~
some Y.A. books are targeted in intense social-media ~
calve underwater
accusation & criticism / judgment: speech glaciers can ~, causing an iceberg to leap up
calm (emotion) creation & transformation: animal / birth / cows & cattle /
glacier / snow & ice / verb
calm in a sea
he is ~ of performative-anger posers (election candidate) calving
calm atmosphere calving of icebergs
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calving of an iceberg can (kick the can down the road)
the ~ can create a huge wave
creation & transformation: animal / birth / cows & cattle / kicked the can down the road
they just ~ (negligent doctor not dealt with)
glacier / snow & ice
kicked the can down the road for a year
camel (camel's nose in the tent, etc.) they ~ (a troubled NFL team)
camel's nose in the tent action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
he sees the decision as the ~ (a judicial case) ignoring things: movement / verb / walking, running &
♦ “In August 1942 a single reinforced US Marine division splashed jumping
ashore on Guadalcanal Island... [Ernest J.] King knew full well that it
would also be the camel’s nose under the tent. That once you put one
division ashore...it would have to be supported, and supplied, and
canal (birth canal, etc.)
reinforced. It would draw more equipment and men and materiel like a
black hole into Guadalcanal and that is exactly what did happen.” (The birth canal
Guadalcanal Campaign violated the “Germany First” US policy and push the baby through the ~
almost failed for lack of materiel. From “World War II at Sea: A Global
a woman can die if her baby becomes stuck in the ~
History,” presented by Craig L. Symonds to the New-York Historical
Society, May 17th, 2018.)
alimentary canal
access & lack of access: doors & thresholds / tent the ~ extends from the mouth to the anus
starting, going, continuing & ending: doors & thresholds /
anal canal
tent
the sigmoidoscope is introduced into the ~
cameo (noun)
auditory canal
celebrity cameos sound waves go through the external ear into the ~
the film featured a cavalcade of ~ ♦ “On a turnpike four horses could draw in a day three thousand pounds
a distance of 18 miles; on the canal four horses could draw in a day a
necklace of (burnished) cameos boat loaded with two hundred thousand pounds of goods a distance of
his book affords a ~ (Germany: Memories of a Nation) twenty-four miles.” (The US in 1825. From A New American History by
W.E. Woodward.)
characterization: clothing & accessories / picture ♦ “There is but one way to enter life, but the gates of death are without
number.”
camouflage (verb)
route / shape / transportation: canal / infrastructure
camouflage my disability route: water
growing up, I was always trying to ~ (polio victim)
canary (canary in the coal mine / cave)
concealment & lack of concealment: military / verb
subterfuge: military / verb canary in the coalmine
brook trout are the ~ (for water quality)
camouflage (concealment) Jews are the ~ and they are raising the alarm (hate, etc.)
camouflage canaries in the coal mine
“boring” is his ~ (criticism of a vice president) they are the ~, super-sensitive to warming (corals)
‘social camouflage’ canary in the cave about rationing challenges
~ may lead to underdiagnosis of autism in girls it's the ~ (changes to who gets a transplant kidney)
concealment & lack of concealment: military canary in the coal mine for disconnected societies
subterfuge: military Japan’s lost generation could be the ~ (hikikomori)
camp (noun) evidence: animal / bird / mining

camps of advisers and loyalists cancel (groups, etc.)

frictions between their ~ (politicians)
cancel
two camps we don’t have to ~, to dismiss or silence... (books)
there will be ~, just as there are now (a debate)
the fault lines break people into ~ (computers) cancels or erases
I want to assure people this in no way ~ history
split into (rival) camps ♦ “Good point. ‘Cancel’ alludes more power than they have. they’re just
our fear that America is ~ (Red / Blue) boycotting.” (On a discussion board.)
♦ “Every step I’ve taken has gaslighted those whom I love... I am not a
division: military culture vulture. I am a culture leech. You should absolutely cancel me,
and I absolutely cancel myself.” (An academic who claimed “identities of
color,” including Black Caribbean, North African Blackness, US rooted
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♦ See “The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to and beginning to reek.” (“What Do We Do About John James Audubon?”
a White-grievance watchword,” by Clyde McGrady, The Washington by J. Drew Lanham.)
Post, April 2, 2021.
♦ “Some nights at the bar I would descend into discussions with
♦ “Cancelling is what comes out of Black discourse, it’s what comes out cosmologists and other[s]... and discover that Doctor Seuss meant more
of Black Queer discourse... If this had remained something that just stuck to them than a menagerie of imagined animals and a vivid and
within Black communities, within Latinx communities, then this wouldn’t troublesome cat.” (“The Science of Dr Seuss,” BBC, Sounds, with Robin
really be a story. But because it has crossed over...” (Meredith Clark, Ince. Seven Doctor Seuss books were cancelled in 2021.)
who teaches media studies at the University of Virginia. From “Cancel
♦ “The program got cancelled, but she is cancelled no more.” (The
Culture Debate Has Early ‘90s Roots: Political Correctness,” NPR, All
presenter for Blue Origin’s New Shepard flight, referring to Mary Wallace
Things Considered, July 9, 2021. Compare with McGrady’s article cited
“Wally” Funk. Her real name seemed to have gotten cancelled in all of
directly above.)
the publicity. She was almost exclusively referred to as “Wally Funk” by
the media.)
inclusion & exclusion: society / verb
cancel culture (groups, etc.) inclusion & exclusion: society
cancer (noun)
cancel culture
~ is leading us to an Orwellian dystopic society cancer
this is a ~ that has been allowed to metastasize (issue)
cancel culture people
government corruption is a ~ that destroys from within
the ~, the woke people... (the beloved John Cleese)
cancer of our time
“cancel culture” and “language orthodoxy”
fake news is the ~
she shares her thoughts on ~ (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
cancer on our society
left-wing cancel culture
Wall Street is a ~
the case has provoked allegations of ~ (France)
cancer on the Internet
constitutional cancel culture
Facebook is a ~ (parent of teen)
this is ~ (Trump’s second impeachment trial)
cancer has metastasized
victims of cancel culture
the ~ into a regional crisis (terrorism)
the Free Speech Union supports people who are ~
♦ "It was ironic, it was arch, so it felt like, ‘Oh My God! they’re using this cut out this cancer
against us!’” (Ruth Perry, who founded the Women’s Study Department there is a need to ~ that we found (misconduct)
at MIT in 1984, about the term “political correctness.” From “How Cancel
Culture Became Politicized—Just Like Political Correctness,” NPR, All considers hacking a cancer
Things Considered, July 26, 2021.)
the Chinese government ~ to the whole society (Internet)
♦ “Honestly, I think we should probably retire the phrase ‘cancel culture’
at this point. Because it’s losing its meaning...when people just use it to affliction: health & medicine
mean, ‘I resent your drawing attention to my crazy ideas.’” (Mona
Charen, the Bulwark.) growth & development: health & medicine
♦ “I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now, so before the cancerous (adjective)
final nail gets put in my cancel culture casket, I’d like to set the record
straight...” (The NFL’s Aaron Rodgers, employing nice alliteration.) cancerous growth
inclusion & exclusion: society how can we stop the ~ of hate radio

cancellation (groups, etc.) affliction: health & medicine

growth & development: health & medicine
cancellation
many Broadway pros aren’t too torn up about his ~
candle (candle of hope, etc.)
cancellation culture candle of hope
this ~ is the SJW McCarthy moment (of Walt Whitman) we need to light a ~ (victims of mass shootings)
♦ The lighthouse is an important symbol and icon to certain groups of
act of cancellation Christians.
the ~ is still mostly conceptual or socially performative ♦ Florence Nightingale was known as “the Lady with the Lamp.” She was
not, in fact, a nurse. She was an administrator, logistician, statistician,
inclusion & exclusion: society advocate, reformer, founder, writer, etc. And beloved by all those to
whom she administered “stump pillows.” There’s a collocation for you.
cancelled (groups, etc.) ♦ “She became the center and the hope of the sick men’s lives. Their
letters home were filled with her, and through these letters her name
cancelled no more became a byword in thousands of English homes. ‘What a comfort it was
the program got cancelled, but she is ~ to see her pass even,’ wrote one of her men, in the most famous of all
letters about Florence Nightingale. ‘She would speak to one and nod
♦ “sorry, henry david Thoreau—ya (sic) cancelled” (Gerry Canavan of and smile to as many more; but she could not do it to all, you know. We
Marquette University, Wisconsin. According to a ratemyprofessors lay there by hundreds. But we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay
comment, “His Afrofuturism class is uber-interesting and a piece of our heads on the pillow again, content.’ / This was the passage that
cake...”) inspired the American poet Longfellow to write the poem on which the
♦ “John James Audubon’s racism is the albatross rotting around the popular image of Florence Nightingale is based: Lo! in that hour of
necks of those who would hold him in reverence. It is past smelling foul misery / A lady with a lamp I see / Pass through the glimmering gloom, /
And flit from room to room. / And slow, as in a dream of bliss, / This

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speechless sufferer turns to kiss / Her shadow as it falls / Upon the
darkening walls.” (From Florence Nightingale by Ruth Fox Hume.) cannibalize (verb)
♦ "We stopped killing whales for oil only when kerosene and finally
electric bulbs provided better and cheaper lighting."
cannibalizing other formats
that fear that e-books were ~ in the book world
♦ “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
(Thomas Edison, December, 1879.) cannibalizing the sale
wants, needs, hopes & goals: light & dark / sign, signal, library lending is ~ of e-books (borrowed for free)
symbol destruction: food & drink / verb
candy (noun) cannibalized
eye candy cannibalized
many go to auto shows looking for ~ the buildings had been ~
eye candy for philistines destruction: food & drink
the work is ~ (Koons’ Bouquet of Tulips)
cannon (loose cannon)
blond eye candy
there’s lots of ~ Down Under (Oz) loose cannon
there are a lot of ~s out there (crazy people)
“goose candy” police are calling him a ~ (man on crime spree)
replacing Kentucky blue grass, called ~ had he appointed a ~ who would wreck the system
attraction & repulsion / consumption: food & drink / taste person: military / weapon
cannibal (the Cannibal, etc.) behavior / character & personality / control & lack of
control / restraint & lack of restraint: military / person /
Cannibal weapon
his nickname is “the ~” because he chews up his rivals cannon fodder (military)
Cannibal
used as cannon fodder
in snow weather, ‘The ~’ took off... (Eddy Merckx)
the prospect of being ~ makes many conscripts defect
‘Corsa Cannibals’ ♦ Merriam-Webster dictionary gives 1847 for the first use.
~ can strip Vauxhall Corsas of their parts in just minutes ♦ "There is a very real sense in which the modern world—our world—
♦ The modernist Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade, in his 1928 was born between 1914 and 1918. Something changed in human
“Cannibalist Manifesto,” wrote about Brazil’s propensity for “cultural sensibility. Soldiers wouldn't be willing to engage in such slaughter.
cannibalism” (canibalismo cultural), or the mixing of various cultures to Toward the end of the first World War, even, tolerance for past norms
create something new, which he considered a very good thing indeed. had begun to end. In 1917, much of the French Army mutinied and
refused to attack. They would defend but not attack. The days of cannon
♦ “In 1809 [the Maoris] captured the vessel Boyd, further up the coast, fodder were over forever as a result of that war…" ("Why World War I
and killed and ate its crew...” (The Boyd massacre in New Zealand. From Resonates," by William Boyd, NYT, Jan. 21, 2012. At the beginning of
The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead. You would not wish to have been the Battle of the Somme, on July 1, 1916, the British Army suffered
anywhere near this event!) 60,000 dead and wounded—in one day. It was arguably the worst
♦ “I collected here a great many specimens of the beautiful Paradisea butcher's bill in military history.)
Guilielmi, in my opinion one of the most exquisite of all the Paradisea; ♦ The Butcher of Baghdad; Cannon fodder; Hamburger Hill; lambs to the
also a great number of rare and new papilios. After spending a few days slaughter; fresh meat... (Warfare.)
here we returned to Simbang in time to catch the Ysabel, which took us
back to Stephansort.” (Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries military: animal / consumption / farming & agriculture /
by Herbert Cayley-Webster, 1898.)
plant
♦ In World War I, the western part of the Island of New Guinea was
controlled by the Dutch (neutral), the southeast was controlled by Britain, cannon fodder (other)
and the northeast was controlled by Germany. Hermann Philipp Detzner
wrote a book about his adventures: "Four Years Among the Cannibals in
the Interior of German New Guinea under the Imperial Flag, from 1914 cannon fodder
until the Armistice." West Ham has been ~ for years now (EPL)
♦ “When an Edwardian anthropologist told her Nenets hosts the story of written off as ~, they triumphed (World Series)
Captain Oates’s heroic ‘I am just going outside; I may be some time,’
they refused to believe her. Scott, they objected would surely have eaten worth & lack of worth: military
him.” (The Shaman’s Coat by the great journalist Anna Reid.)
♦ "The victim responded to a posting placed by Mr. Meiwes on the
canon (literature)
Internet seeking a person willing to be killed and eaten." (Armin Meiwes
killed the willing victim in 2001, ate parts of his body, and was sentenced canon of (English) literature
to a few years in prison. There was an uproar about his "light" sentence, certain authors occupy a central place in the ~
and he was re-sentenced to life in prison.)
canon of "great books"
epithet: person who decides what the ~ is (literature)
destruction: epithet / person
standard canon
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traditional canon ♦ “Humphrey, the whole national health service is an advanced case of
galloping bureaucracy.” / “Certainly not. Not galloping. A gentle canter at
the battle between defenders and detractors of the ~ most.” (The TV series Yes Minister, “The Compassionate Society.”)

parallel, oppositional canons speed: animal / horse / movement / verb / walking,

establish ~ of work by women, gays… running & jumping
concept of the canon movement: animal / horse / speed / verb / walking,
many would repudiate the ~ entirely (literature) running & jumping

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion cap (tip one’s cap)

canon (other) tip their cap to Duke Ellington
younger musicians like Sonny and Max Roach always ~
culinary canon
achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / hat / verb
a native ~ embraces rice, persimmons, corn, bison (US)
vegetables are certainly part of his ~ (Niklas Ekstedt) capital (value)
canon has been blasted apart capital in the bank
but that ~ (doctors withhold prognosis) any study, any work you do on your voice is ~ (an actor)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion human capital
canonical (adjective) we must invest in ~

canonical political capital

his Cold War scholarship is ~ (John Lewis Gaddis) he is willing to spend ~ on the issue
when you’re president you have a limited amount of ~
canonical example
it was a ~ of what a computer couldn’t do capital evaporated
in the last 2 weeks his political ~ (resigned)
canonical greats ♦ The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu wrote “The forms of Capital” in
reissuing the work of ~ like Kurt Vonnegut (publishing) 1986. He talked about economic, cultural, and social capital. Cultural
capital is knowledge, social capital is your network.
canonical rules ♦ “As a Black woman, I see things through color... race is a lens for me,
it breaks many of the ~ of the series (a film) and it’s a lens that my children experience as well and I think for
someone to say, “Well, I don’t see skin color, I just see who you are,” I
canonical songs think you’re leaving out a really big part of who I am, you’re leaving out
my cultural capital.” (Gina Parker Collins, founder of RIISE. From “The
they cover some of Waits’ ~ Trials of Critical Race Theory,” CBSN Originals.)
canonical (theatrical) works ♦ “Maybe I’ll lean into the pain narrative, write that and get a good
advance, ya’ll pay me for that, right.” (Fantasy author L.L. McKinney.)
~ such as those of Shakespeare
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion cost & benefit / worth & lack of worth: money

canonize (verb) capital (capital of the world, etc.)

canonized him “cherry capital of the world”
since his suicide, his fans have ~ (an author) Traverse City bills itself ~ (Northwestern Michigan)

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / verb cowboy capital of the world
they call it the ~ (Stephenville, Texas)
canter (noun)
“Gem Capital of the World”
canter Franklin, North Carolina, the ~
at a ~, take us through the voyage... (radio show)
“Live Music Capital of the World”
at a canter Austin bills itself as the ~ (Sixth Street, etc.)
he should beat Jake Paul ~ (Tommy Fury)
“ostrich capital of the world”
speed: animal / horse / movement / walking, running & Oudtshoorn, the ~ (South Africa)
jumping
perfume capital of the world
movement: animal / horse / speed / walking, running &
Grasse is known as the ~ (France)
jumping
canter (verb) Shark Bite Capital of the world
Volusia County, Florida, has been dubbed the ~
cantering to their first league title
stabbing capital of the world
Liverpool is ~ since 1990 (soccer)
Alice Springs now holds the unenviable title of ~ (2008)

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waterfowl hunting capital of the world capstone of the peace treaty
Katy, Texas, ~ the independence vote is the ~ (Sudan)
world’s turkey capital capstone to his agenda
Cuero, Texas, the ~ (disputed by Worthington, MN ) the ratification of the treaty was the ~ (president)
geography: epithet capstone to his career
his present job is the ~ (service to his homeland)
capital (Black Bear capital, etc.)
capstone for the neighborhood
capital of America it will be the ~ (architectural project)
San Francisco was the car-break-in ~
capstone (warfighting) doctrine
capital of Canada AirLand Operations is the Army's ~
Thunder Bay is the murder ~
legal capstone
capital of crime the case puts a ~ on a historic election (court)
Detroit has a reputation as the ~
♦ Two pillars often support a capstone, which is the stone at the top.
cardoon capital importance & significance: infrastructure / height
Vaulx-en-Velin is known as the ~ of France
captive (held captive, etc.)
Back Bear Capital
Pine Mountain is claimed to be the ~ of Kentucky captive to its own delusions
the Party was a ~
coal capital
Blackwater, the ~ of Queensland (Australia) captive to its past
America, once forward looking, is now ~ (1619, etc.)
gem capital
Ratnapura is known as the ~ of Sri Lanka held captive
an anxious nation suddenly ~ by crisis (a pandemic)
murder capital
Thunder Bay is the ~ of Canada possession / taking & removing: crime
constraint & lack of constraint / control & lack of control:
surf capital
crime
Scheveningen is known as the ~ (Holland)
captivity (noun)
shark attack capital
New Smyrna Beach is known as the ~ (Florida) live in captivity
child stars ~ (US female celebrities)
Trout Capital
boosters say Jackson County is the North Carolina ~ possession / taking & removing: crime
constraint & lack of constraint / control & lack of control:
Whale Capital crime
the town calls itself the ~ of Iceland (Husavik, Iceland)
capture (verb)
next crypto currency capital
Texas is becoming the ~ captured him on a phone in the airport
security cameras ~ (terrorist)
financial capital
an earthquake rattled Italy’s ~ of Milan (no injuries) captured it on video
no one had ~ until now (citizens videoing cops)
geography: epithet
capital punishment captured Oscars
it ~ for best picture, director and actor (film)
capital punishment captured (the world's) attention
this was the political equivalent of ~ (calls for resignation) airstrikes in Baghdad ~
career capital punishment capture headlines
an apology should have sufficed, not ~ it goes on every day but doesn’t ~
punishment & recrimination: justice
captured my heart
capstone (noun) the first time I saw him, he ~ (an orphan)

capstone of his career captured my imagination

the banking overhaul was the ~ (politician) that speaks to me, that ~ (a quotation)
he wants health-care legislation to be the ~ (politician) the mountain ~ (Machhapuchhare)

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captured the imagination regulatory capture
the job of fire watcher has long ~ this is an example of ~ (Boeing and FAA)
he has ~ of fans (an athlete) ♦ “We can confirm hard capture is complete.” (SpaceX’s Crew Dragon
the young Mancini has ~ of boxing fans everywhere capsule attaches itself to the International Space Station.)
climbing films have ~s of movie goers (Free Solo, etc.)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
captured imaginations fictive possession: hand
theories about what happened have ~ for decades (Earhart) captured
captured the (public's) imagination
what has most ~ is… captured by an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob
he is riding on a new artistic wave which has ~ (Doug Hyde) Brearley has been~ (the school / obsession with race)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
captured the (public) imagination
the film character ~ (Dirk Bogarde as Simon Sparrow) fictive possession: hand

captured the (nation’s) imagination

carapace (protection)
her rise and sudden downfall ~ (Elizabeth Holmes) subjects’ protective carapaces
capture the loyalty her job is to cut her ~ down to the bone (a journalist)
it has managed to ~ of working women (WNBA) ♦ A carapace is the exoskeleton of a creature like a turtle or crustacean
such as a lobster, crab, shrimp or prawn, or an arachnid (8-legged
captures our minds creature vs. a 6-legged insect) like a spider or scorpion.
the story incapsulates how outrage ~ (viral online clip) protection & lack of protection: animal
capture ("impulse") moviegoers isolation & remoteness: animal
advertising to ~ carcass (noun)
captures the plight carcass of a tank
Scott Adams's Dilbert ~ of the cubicle slave (cartoon) he stood by the burned-out ~
capture market share destruction / resemblance: animal
~ while the market is small
card (in the cards)
captures (satellite) signals
the GPS receiver ~ in the cards
that's not ~
captures the uncertainty if you’re a Congolese, you know a life of comfort is not ~
she ~ that comes with big life changes (a songwriter) a permanent revival is just not ~ (the coal industry)
capture the zeitgeist fate, fortune & chance: cards / gambling / sports & games
the challenge is to make enough noise to ~ (adult superhero
films) card (guilt card, etc.)
captured the hearts and minds compassion card
he has ~ of Americans (Olympic athlete) Democrats are playing the ~ (unemployment benefits)
failed to capture evidence card
they ~ audio of the landing , but... (Perseverance / Mars) they had the race card, we were playing the ~ (O.J. trial)
♦ "Now that we have captured your imagination, don't make us come
after the rest of you. (A clever TV advertisement from the Eastern Band gender card
of the Cherokee Nation promoting tourism on their reservation in stop playing the ~, the fact you’re a woman... (politics)
Cherokee, North Carolina.)
♦ “California Highway Patrol Captures Runaway Emu After 30 minutes... guilt card
The Highway patrol said no one was hurt...” / “A [Chapel Hill] emu on the the ~ works—if they have any guilt (Internet suck sites)
run in North Carolina was most recently seen jumping on the hood of a
car. It’s been loose for weeks...” (NPR. So many emus on the run. Emu?) race card
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb he played heavily on the ~ (Peru)
some accused the lawyer of playing the ~ to the jury
fictive possession: hand / verb
they had the ~, we had the evidence card (O.J. trial)
capture (noun)
sympathy (get-out-of-jail) card
carbon capture no ~ for this case, go straight to jail
Wyoming has invested heavily in ~ (coal)
get out of jail card
there are two types of ~ (point-source and direct air)
no sympathy ~ for this case, go straight to jail
hard capture
political cards
~ is complete (SpaceX crew capsule docks with ISS)

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 but the New Left never had any ~ to play (students) card (hold all the cards)
he played his ~ right and got a plum job
hold all the cards
policy and philosophical cards
when prosecutors ~, can any defendant get a fair trial
they will have to show their ~ (party in power)
strength & weakness: cards / gambling / sports & games
strategy: cards / gambling / sports & games
card (play one's cards) card (cards on the table)
cards on the table
played his cards very carefully
~, I can’t say... (I won’t lie to you)
he ~, negotiating a deal that... (Ahmed Zaki Yamani)
concealment & lack of concealment / sincerity, lack of
play my cards right
sincerity & honesty: cards / gambling / sports & games
if I ~, I could be head cheerleader
played his (political) cards right
career (noun)
he ~ and got a plum job (Secretary of State) career of the metaphor
strategy: cards / gambling / sports & games / verb a case study of the ~ (weaponization)

card (hold one's cards close) growth & development: death & life

holds his cards close to his vest

caretaker (role)
he ~ and knows just when to play them (an official) caretaker government
character & personality / concealment & lack of the ~ is fragile and weak
concealment: cards / gambling / sports & games / verb Israel’s ~ can only make limited decision (2019)

card (dealt cards) caretaker manager

a ~ will be appointed
dealt some cards he met with ~ Michael Carrick (the new interim manager)
they were ~ they can't play (under-privileged)
caretaker PM
♦ "They were dealt some cards they can't play to this day. Fortunately, I Hassan Diab is currently serving as ~ (Lebanon)
was dealt cards and somehow managed to play the right hand." (Olympic
champion speaking of his heroin-addict mother and step-father.)
caretakers of the land
♦ "It's not the cards you're dealt, it's how you play your hand." farmers are ~
fate, fortune & chance: cards / gambling / sports & games help & assistance: infrastructure / person
card (strong card) Carnegie Hall (epithet)
strong card Carnegie Hall of Broadway
we don't have ~s but… (negotiations) onstage at the Shubert Theatre, the ~
fear is a ~, if not a trump card (national security / politics)
his only ~ is that he… superlative: epithet
it would be a ~ to play, but not perhaps a winning one
literature was never his ~
carnival (noun)
strong card in Afghanistan carnival
he is the Pakistan Army's ~ (network leader) boxing has always been a bit of a ~, a con (Jake Paul)
performance / resemblance: circus
Administration's (last) strong card
the ~ is to maintain economic sanctions against… attention, scrutiny & promotion: circus

hold one strong card

carpet (verb)
we ~ carpets the (rolling) highlands in emerald and gold
strength & weakness: cards / gambling / sports & games cheatgrass ~

card (trump card) carpeted the meadow

flowers ~
trump card
cover / resemblance: carpets & rugs / verb
this was her ~ (an endorsement for her)
fear is a strong card, if not a ~ (national security / politics) configuration: carpets & rugs / verb

strength & weakness: cards / gambling / sports & games

carpet (a carpet of flowers, etc.)
carpet of ash
a ~ covered the city (eruption)

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carpet of (low-rise) buildings carpetbagger (person)
a ~ cover the seven hills (Istanbul)
carpetbaggers
carpet of color Canada’s Olympic team has the most ~ (born elsewhere)
wildflowers create a ~ (Arctic summer)
carpetbagger politicians
carpet of flowers ~ adopt Florida as their native land
a ~ has been left (a memorial for dead fans)
East Coast carpetbagger
carpet of frogs he is an ~ (Montana politics)
there was a ~ (on a road in Greece)
gentrifying carpetbaggers
lush carpet he accuses his neighbors of being ~
the bird nests in the ~ of moss and vines (in a crater)
opportunistic carpetbagger
thick carpet he accused her of being an ~ (politics)
a crew laid down a ~ of insulation
social carpetbagger
carpet of wildflowers he’s a ~, always code-switching to blend in
the ~ in subalpine meadows (Mt. Rainier)
♦ “He calls himself an activist investor, and I would call him a carpet
cover / resemblance: carpets & rugs bagger, and one who is trying to spread a climate of fear that pushes
studios to want to make only tent poles... He’s trying to manipulate the
configuration: carpets & rugs market... Hedge fund guys do not create jobs, and we do.” (“George
carpet (under the carpet, etc.) Clooney To Hedge Fund Honcho Daniel Loeb: Stop Spreading Fear At
Sony” by Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, August 2, 2013.)

brush it under the carpet ♦ “But, of course, the new South had embraced all of this [commercial
strips, huge parking lots, motels, fast-food places, discount store, car
they will try to ~ dealers, nightclubs, etc.], not quickly, as we had done up North, but
embraced it nonetheless. And in some strange way, the garish
brushing it under the carpet commercial strip was now more associated with the South than with
it’s a whitewash, they’re ~ (education / PS752) anywhere else in the country. The carpetbaggers have finally taken
over.” (The General’s Daughter by Nelson DeMille.)
sweep it under the carpet
character & personality: history / person
we can't any longer ~ (educational issue)
identity & nature: history / person
♦ “The problem with brushing things under the carpet is that they are still
there and one day someone is going to lift that carpet up and all you are carpeted
going to feel is shame and embarrassment.” (A celebrity who committed
suicide, who had been trolled mercilessly on social media.)
carpeted with flowers
♦ see also rug (under the rug) the meadow was ~
concealment & lack of concealment: carpets & rugs carpeted with wild blueberry plants
carpet (Operation Magic Carpet, etc.) the tiny island is ~

Operation Magic Carpet carpeted (at the base) with starfish and mussels
service members were repatriated by ~ (1945-1946) we drifted into an inlet alongside cliffs ~
Operation on Wings of Eagles, also known as ~ (1949) carpeted eastern Washington
the White Helmets were rescued in ~ (2018) old-growth forests once ~
proper name: carpets & rugs / magic cover / resemblance: carpets & rugs
military: proper name configuration: carpets & rugs
carpet (magic carpet / other) carried away
magic carpet get carried away
a ~ made of steel (a train) it is no time to ~ (panic over virus)
magic carpet into a (serious intellectual) life control & lack of control: movement
librarians were her ~ feeling, emotion & effect: movement
magic carpet away fictive transportation: movement
Azerbaijan is a magical land, just a ~ carried off (died)
♦ “Feel the wheels rumbling ‘neath the floors / And the sons of Pullman
Porters / And the sons of Engineers / Ride their fathers’ magic carpet were carried off
made of steel...” (The rousing song “Good Morning America How Are one third of the population of Europe ~ (the Black death)
You? / City of New Orleans.”)
death & life: euphemism
transportation: carpets & rugs / magic

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carrot (reward) carry on (verb)
carrot carry on
offering ~s and wielding sticks to persuade people to… I got injured, but you still got to ~
amid the ~s, there will be some sharp sticks
resiliency / starting, going, continuing & ending / survival,
carrot of membership persistence & endurance: burden / journeys & trips / prep,
the EU is dangling the ~ in front of the two countries adv, adj, particle / verb
coercion & motivation: fruits & vegetables / plant cart (cart off)
carrot-and-stick carted (31) Christians off to the station
carrot-and-stick approach police ~
it requires a ~ (a zoning alternative) carted him (off the field) on a stretcher
using a ~ to the millions moving into the fire zone they ~ (injured player)
commanders say a ~ is necessary (military occupation)
♦ “The carrots do not work much. Now, we’re seeing more pressure
transportation: animal / verb
coming from the other side.” (Dr. Arthur Caplan, about requiring COVID
vaccinations in the US.) carved out
coercion & motivation: fruits & vegetables / plant carved out of the Middle East
Jordan was ~
carrousel (noun)
carved out of the Maasai land
carrousel of helicopters the Masai Mara was ~
this constant ~ flying over the reactor (Chernobyl)
carved out by the British
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / movement: Jordan was ~
sports & games
carved out in the 1920's
carry (carry me away, etc.) Jordan was ~
carry me away creation & transformation: blade / knife
I let my emotions ~
carve out (verb)
carry the memory of my half-brother with me
I ~ every day (murdered) carve out an Islamic state
they want to ~ in Mindanao
carry the pain
families still ~ 19 years later (9/11 memorial) carve a Muslim state out of the south
the group is fighting to ~ (Mindanao)
feeling, emotion & effect: movement / verb
fictive transportation: movement / verb carve out a future
young Brazilians are trying to ~
carry (transport)
carve out her own lane
carry this loss she has managed to ~ (singing, fashion, etc.)
while I will ~ for a long time, it will motivate me
carve out (decent) lives
carries a (maximum) sentence homesteaders tried to ~ (North Dakota)
Count Fourteen ~ of 20 years imprisonment
carve out a living
carry viruses wolves are forced to ~ on the steeper slopes
smuggled pangolins have been found to ~
carved out (new) markets
fictive transportation: verb some entrepreneurs have ~ by selling…
carry (assist) carve out a new role
Britain wants to ~ (post-Brexit)
carried this team
♦ Carve out, fashion, shape...
he ~ like we needed him to (Olympic basketball)
creation & transformation: blade / knife / verb
carried the team on his back
he ~ (football player) Casanova (Serbian Casanova, etc.)
♦ See the Wikipedia entry, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.”
determined bovine Casanova
help & assistance: burden / verb / weight a feat impossible for even the most ~ (insemination)

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Serbian Casanova “Go Ahead! regardless of the consequences and indifferent to the value
of human life.” (A diarist in the 1840s about science, technology, and the
Dusko Popov, a ~… (a double agent for MI6) use of steam for power.)
allusion: books & reading message: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
sex / character & personality: allusion / epithet / books &
reading cast (cast of candidates, etc.)
cascade (verb) cast of candidates
a whole new ~ will be onstage at their debate (politics)
cascade through generations
negative attitudes ~ group, set & collection: theater

movement: direction / water cast (cast doubt)

cascade (noun) cast doubt on the (confession's) accuracy
the defense ~
cascade of decisions
the computer models triggered a ~ (transportation) cast doubts on such assumptions
the hearings ~ (politics of abortion)
cascade of disasters
we have seen a ~ lately cast doubts on plans
the difficulties could ~ to reopen New Orleans
cascade of (damaging) events
head injury can initiate a ~ cast (any) doubt on (Hamilton's) skills
she said she did not want to ~
cascade of problems
the events combined to create a ~ casts (serious) doubt on another theory
the new finding ~ that had…
cascades of white death
the 22 natural avalanche chutes are ~ (pass and highway) casts (some) doubt on a (popular) theory
the report also ~ that…
set off a cascade
the decision has ~ of accusations and counter-accusations throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb
trigger a cascade cast (light)
these chemicals ~ of allergic symptoms (food allergies)
cast a beam
amount & effect: water reflectors ~ (lighthouse)
cascade (a cascade of hair, etc.) cast a (dark) shadow
the tragic accident ~ over US-Korean relations
cascade of strawberry-blond hair
she has pale skin and a ~ throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb
resemblance: water cast (other)
cash in (verb) cast blame
officials can ~ only so much before the backlash starts
cashing in
the economy is growing, but not all are ~ cast a curse
somebody must have ~ on his camel
cash in on the experience
a failure is a man who blundered but is not able to ~ cast discredit
the government alleges the paper ~ on the courts
cash in on his fame
opportunists who want to ~ (sex-abuse accusers) cast a net
the authorities have ~ for the escapees
cash in on those investments
early success could position her to ~ (candidate’s hard work) cast a pall
♦ “They are monetizing, they know what the game is.” (A lawyer for a Chen's death ~ over the mountain (climbing)
singer accused of sex abuse.)
cast a spell
cost & benefit: money / verb at times he seemed to ~ on the ball (Ronaldo)
Cassandra throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb
Cassandra cast (characterize)
for years he was a ~, his message ignored
cast Grant as a "butcher"
Southern historians ~ (revisionism)

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cast the debate as a class struggle the ~ will retain its grip (in time of war and conscription)
they have ~ ♦ "It's a caste system, and we are the untouchables of academia." (An
adjunct professor.)
cast the problem as a health issue ♦ “Major Sleeman reveals the fact that the trade union and the boycott
she has ~ (TV violence, etc.) are antiquities in India. India seems to have originated everything. The
‘sweeper’ belongs to the bottom caste; he is the lowest of the low—all
characterization: manufacturing / verb other castes despise him and scorn his office. But that does not trouble
him. His caste is a caste, and that is sufficient for him, and so he is proud
cast (characterized) of it, not ashamed... A footnote by Major Sleeman’s editor, Mr. Vincent
Arthur Smith, says...’The sweepers cannot be readily coerced, because
cast as a hero no Hindoo or Mussulman would do their work to save his life, nor will he
pollute himself by beating the refractory scavenger.’ They certainly do
a guard ~ was recast as a villain (Richard Jewell) seem to have the whip-hand... Just like a milk-route; or like a London
crossing-sweepership.” (Following the Equator: A Journey Around the
characterization: manufacturing World by Mark Twain.)

cast aside (verb) division & connection / hierarchy: society

society: person
cast your fears aside
and you ~ (song) castle (protection)
cast security aside castle
at 48, he ~ to pursue his passion (left his profession) a man's home is his ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: arm / verb castle doctrine
castaway (person) Texas has a ~ which extends to your vehicles (deadly force)
~ is similar to “stand your ground” (deadly force)
Hollywood castaways ♦ “Warning / Castle Doctrine / “No Duty to Retreat” (A sign / decal /
mix with ranchers, fishermen and ~ (Livingston, Mont,) sticker.)

protection & lack of protection: fortification / military /

homeless castaways
a dystopian future where children are ~ (a song video) royalty

life’s castaways castle (Castle Peaks, etc.)

she gives ~ the gift of merriment (film River of Grass)
Castle
society’s castaways the Smithsonian is popularly known as the ~ (D.C.)
~—hookers, addicts, the homeless...
Castle Peaks
♦ A castaway usually becomes one by shipwreck. In cases of mutiny, a the ~ are peaks in Queensland, Australia
person or persons might be cast adrift or left marooned on a deserted
shore. Alexander Selkirk is a famous example of a voluntary castaway.
He spent 4 years 4 months on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands in the
Castle Valley
Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile before being rescued. He probably ~, Utah, is east of Arches National Park
inspired Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
♦ Classic castaway stories include Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss
Baboons Castle
Family Robinson. The TV show Gilligan’s Island ran for 3 seasons. The the ~is a mountain in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
film Cast Away with Tom Hanks was very popular. People remember his
companion, Wilson, a soccer ball, and the scene where he removes a New Castle
rotten tooth with an ice skate. they were arrested in ~, Indiana (a town)
♦ Tromelin Island in the Indian Ocean got its name from the captain who
rescued a group of castaways from that place. The whole story is quite White Castle
amazing! ~ is an oasis for late-night customers (hamburgers)
person: island / society ♦ This word often appears in geographical place names, as well as
isolation & remoteness / society: island / person / sea / cities. For example, Castle Creek / Islet / Mountain, Pass / Peak / Point /
Rock, etc.
throwing, putting & planting
caste (noun) proper name: fortification
casualty (noun)
caste society
America as a ~ casualty of the (real-estate) boom
the development was an early ~
caste system
lodgings follow a kind of unwritten ~ (officials) casualties of Covid-19
the airlines use a ~ (paying more gets better treatment) this is one of the biggest ~ (great boxing match, no fans)
warrior caste casualty of his own faith
Marine pilots are an insular ~ he became a ~ (Columbus and geography)
professional military caste casualty of the (slimmed-down) plan

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 the proposed sum is an apparent ~ (money for VA hospitals) initiation: chemistry
casualty of early stardom catalyze (verb)
he could have become Basquiat, a ~ (Jean Michel Basquiat)
catalyzed them to come forward
too many casualties other accusers said that she ~ Me Too Movement)
there have been ~ (man accused of touching female athletes)
initiation: chemistry / verb
one of the first casualties
the low price of petrol has become ~ (pandemic recovery) catapult (verb)
♦ “Two bass boats collided at night and there was a casualty.”
catapulted Western Europe to (global) dominance
♦ Deaths from COVID have been described as a body count. the industrial revolution ~
failure, accident & impairment: death & life / military catapulted him to fame
cat (cat and mouse) his admission ~

see game (game of cat and mouse) catapulted Obama into the White House
the type of voter who ~
cat (cat out of the bag, etc.)
catapulted into the ranks
cat was (already) out of the bag the company has ~ of top tech companies
the ~, it already spread (virus)
catapulted over (more veteran) officials
concealment & lack of concealment / pursuit, capture & she ~ (government promotion)
escape: cat / container
catapulted from an unknown to a superstar
catalogue (list) he ~

catalogue of failures throwing, putting & planting: mechanism / verb

the report describes a ~ (an air crash) catapulted
catalogue of problems catapulted to the forefront
it’s one of a ~ caused by unplanned overdevelopment
he has been ~ of the death-penalty debate
amount: money
catapulted to stardom
catalyst (noun) she was plucked from obscurity and ~ (talent show)

catalyst catapulted out of obscurity

he was the ~, not the cause of the problem he was ~ (a politician who won an election)
this is a bill that will jump start, jolt, be a ~ (business)
catapulted into the limelight
the ~ for the government shutdown was…
after the broadcast, he was ~ (sports doping)
Auschwitz was the ~ that made him into a great writer
catapulted from obscurity to (prime-time) fame
catalyst of the team
he was ~ (an actor)
he's been the ~
throwing, putting & planting: mechanism
catalysts in this conflagration
Lincoln and his cronies were the ~ (US Civil War) catch (catch the imagination, etc.)
catalyst for change catch the (national) imagination
disaster can be a ~ his account of the aerial voyage would ~
art can be a ~
caught FitzRoy’s imagination
catalyst for (economic) growth but it was the sea that had ~
the software industry could be a ~ (India)
caught the (national) imagination
catalyst for a (cultural) shift his account would be published in the Times, where it ~
snowboarding was a ~ in the world of skiing
caught my interest
catalyst for moving it really ~ so I started researching (a mine disaster)
the Morton case is going to be a ~ reforms forward (law) the team ~ after I watched the game against Celtic
economic catalyst pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
she said the museum would be an ~ fictive possession: hand / verb
served as a catalyst
the crash served as a ~ to mend relations (Poland-Russia)

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catch (marriage) progress & lack of progress: movement / walking, running
& jumping / verb
seemed the perfect catch
when she met him, he ~ (marriage / murdered by him) catchy (attention)
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting / love, courtship & catchy headlines
marriage these are ~

catch (catch and release) attention, scrutiny & promotion: hunting

catch and release

catechism (noun)
they basically had a ~, they should have been arrested Cold War catechism
why the repeated ~, was he an informant the ~ dictated that...
pattern of catch and release script / unanimity & consensus: religion
it supports the ~ (interference to protect informant)
cathedral (Cathedral Cave, etc.)
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb
Cathedral Cave
Catch-22 large elliptical cupolas have been found in ~ (Australia)
in a Catch-22 Cathedral Mountain
he’s ~ (the rapper Bobby Shmurda and police protection) we visited ~ (Tasmania)
allusion / alternatives & choices / situation: books & Cathedral Room
reading ~ is 204 feet high (Marvel Cave, Missouri)
catchment (noun) proper name: religion
geography: proper name
catchment area
about 1/3 of the state falls within our ~ (medical examiner) cathedral (resemblance)
extent & scope: river / water calcite cathedrals
catch up (his past caught up to him, etc.) these flooded caves are spectacular ~ of stalactites…
resemblance: religion
caught up to him
his past finally ~ cathedral (Big Snowbird Creek, etc.)
the allegations have trailed him, and today the claims ~
by 2008, the truth had ~ (Bernie Madoff) cathedral
mountains are truly ~s ("Big" Jim Whittaker)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb it's my church, it's my ~ (Yosemite on foot in winter)
past & present / time: hunting / verb
cathedral of the Russian underground
catch up (catch up to something) the club was a religion, the ~ (the Leningrad Rock Club)
catching up to men cathedral of stock-car racing
women are ~ in their number of partners Daytona track, the ~…
catching up to science fiction cathedrals for fly fishermen
reality is finally ~ (AI) the waters here are ~ (Montana)
catching up in submarines enthusiasm / reverence: place / religion
China is ~ (to the US)
catnip (attraction)
competition / progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips
/ movement / sports & games / verb / walking, running & catnip to (post World War I) audiences
jumping adultery and divorce were ~

catch up (catch up with something) catnip to screenwriters

it has proved ~ (The Turn of the Screw)
catch up with the technologies
standards have begun to ~ (biometrics) catnip for (avid) travelers
lost and abandoned places are ~
catch up with the outside world
Fanning Island is anxious to ~ (Kiribati) box-office catnip
he was ~ (Dirk Bogarde)
♦ "Let's keep moving, guys. Keep the line tight and keep it moving.
United 8114, I need you to catch up with the group." (An air-traffic attraction & repulsion: cat / plant
controller, directing traffic.)

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caught (other) pursuit, capture & escape / situation: hunting
cauldron (noun)
caught in the middle
civilians are ~ (war) cauldron
it’s going to be a ~ in there on Saturday (boxing match)
caught in the open
3 people ~ suffocated in the dust storm (Kansas / 1935) cauldrons of contagion
wet markets are ~ (coronaviruses, etc.)
caught in a (lightning) storm
they were ~ on a mountainside cauldron of (internal) controversy
the Republican party is a ~
caught in a (ferocious) storm
they were ~ near the summit of Les Droites cauldron of grievances
a ~ bubbles beneath the surface
caught in a rip current
if you become ~, swim parallel to shore cauldron of socialization
the school bus used to be a ~
caught in the drift ice
we'd be ~, but it was all right (fishing) cauldron of (sectarian) violence
the country has become a ~
caught in a crossfire
three soldiers were ~ cauldron of war, violence and brutality
the US has hurled Afghanistan into the ~
caught on film
unsuspecting women ~... (Internet porn) witch's cauldron
the US is a ~ of unemployment and poor education
caught on the back foot
police admit they have been ~ by the protests bubbling cauldron
the country has become a ~ since Ben Ali left (Tunisia)
become caught
if you ~ in a rip current, swim parallel to shore simmering cauldron
the straps of his river sandals ~ on a rock you’ve got this ~ of hatred and revolution (Paris)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting ethnic cauldron
fictive possession: hand the Balkans are a confused, often violent ~
caught out red-hot cauldron
the Middle East is a ~ (protests, etc.)
caught out by public reaction
he seemed to be ~ (a leader) revolutionary cauldron
♦ Many associate this with the game of cricket. many emerge from the ~ to become conservatives
failure, accident & impairment: ball / sports & games send its children into that cauldron
a humane society would not ~ (war)
caught up (in or by something)
environment: container / fire / heating water / temperature
caught up (again) in drugs
they go back out on the streets and get ~ caustic (adjective)
caught up in the film caustic characterization
I was ~ and didn't hear the door open the leaked cables contained ~s of world leaders

caught up in a web caustic comment

~ of drug addiction and crime she made a few ~s

caught up in red tape caustic observation

his expedition got ~ she offered some ~s about their qualifications

caught up in the drinking caustic remark

I just got ~ and the drugs and fighting they direct a lot of ~s and mockery

don't get caught up in that caustic welcome

~ (weight loss / low self-esteem) he got a ~ (politics)

got caught up in red tape blunt and (sometimes) caustic

his expedition ~ he defended his ~ style (governor)
involvement: hunting feeling, emotion & effect / speech: chemistry / materials &
substances / sensation

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caustically today’s ~ means mobility and speed (military)

caustically critical called in the cavalry

he ~, the FBI, ATF, State Police, US Marshalls (murder)
she is now ~ (about school reform)
once a supporter, she is now ~ (an educator) ♦ “He claimed his newspaper had ridden heroically to the rescue of the
campaign.”
caustically funny ♦ “There’s no cavalry, no one will magically appear and save you.” (The
she is ~ (comic) need to be self-reliant when mountain climbing.)

caustically intelligent help & assistance / resistance, opposition & defeat: horse
he is ~ / military

caustically witty cave (isolation)

his song is ~
cave
caustically described unless you are living in a ~, you know...
she ~ him as a figurehead isolation & remoteness: mountains & hills
caustically dismiss cave in (verb)
some scientists ~ his claims
said caustically caved
instead of doubling down on his policy, he ~
but he ~, "On a political level, …
speech: chemistry / materials & substances / sensation caved in
I ~, just as Jean knew I would (and admitted truth)
cavalcade (noun)
cave in to his fears
cavalcade of (Nashville) artists he refuses to ~ (a stock-market investor)
she is joined by a ~ (an album)
cave in to (Serb) pressure
cavalcade of (celebrity) cameos Europe will ~ (diplomacy)
the film featured a ~
caved in under the weight
cavalcade of arm gestures the regime finally ~ of its impossible contradictions
his every sentence is punctuated by a ~ (a politician)
cave to threats or fear
cavalcade of people he did not ~ (from MS-13 members)
there’s going to be a ~ saying you were wrong failure, accident & impairment: mining / verb
♦ “We stood up now and then to get our circulation going, and it was
resistance, opposition & defeat: mining / verb
always the same: the wind was always blowing, there was always a
semblance of moon... and in front of the moon a fantastic cavalcade of
ragged clouds...” (“Bear Meat” by Primo Levy, translated by Alessandra
cavernous (adjective)
Bastagli.)
cavernous headquarters
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / group, set & as we left the ~, only we were in the lobby (pandemic)
collection: horse / movement
resemblance / size: ground, terrain & land
cavalier (adjective) comparison & contrast: affix

cavalier attitude ceasefire (noun)

he had a ~ towards going to war (a hawk)
Ceasefire on Immigration
cavalier and disrespectful Clergy urge ~ (politics)
Pelosi said Barr was ~ (at a Senate hearing)
ceasefire in the war
♦ The root is from caballus, Latin for horse, with the meaning of there needs to be a ~ of words (dispute)
supercilious. The rider has traditionally been dominant over the man who
walks.
judicial ceasefire
character & personality: height / horse the DA's office has offered to declare a ~ (drop charges)
hierarchy / superiority & inferiority: height / horse conflict: military
cavalry (noun) reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: military
starting, going, continuing & ending: military
cavalry
the ~ has come, God bless you all (military aid in disaster) ceiling (glass ceiling)
the ~ is on the way (regulation of online abuse) glass ceiling
mechanized cavalry the ~ is alive and well on Wall Street

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glass ceiling for women in politics celebrate Juneteenth
there is a perceived ~ (Massachusetts) Americans ~ after it becomes a national holiday
NPR employees ~
glass ceilings and other barriers
~ barring women celebrate (Black History) Month
this week we ~ with an episode featuring...
Japan's glass ceiling
she has helped to crack ~ (Toshiba team leader) celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month
Alt. Latino and Tiny Desk ~ (NPR)
Oscars' glass ceiling
Kathryn Bigelow broke the ~ (Best Director) celebrates Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month
how NPR ~
age barrier, (no) gender gap, (no) glass ceiling
no ~ celebrate their (childhood) neighborhood
2 cousins ~ in ‘Dream Street’ (a children’s book)
break the glass ceiling
success is the best way to ~ celebrates powerful women
on ‘Celia,’ Tiwa Savage ~
broke the (Oscars') glass ceiling
Kathryn Bigelow ~ (first woman Best Director) celebrates the cultural heritage, triumphs, adversities
Black History Month ~ that are part of our history
raise the glass ceiling
quotas could ~ (employment) celebrate, educate, and empower
we ~ African American/Diverse people (arts & counseling)
shatter that glass ceiling
women can ~ once and for all preserve, celebrate
♦ Related is the glass cliff. That refers to putting a woman or minority in a she uses social media to ~ Inuit throat singing
position of power in a bad organization, in which they are bound to fail.
♦ “There are studies that suggest that women are more likely to get jobs
rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action
at a point at which a company is in crisis. And I wonder if you think that American Anthem, songs that ~ (NPR)
might be an issue as well.” / Jill Abramson: “It definitely was bad times, I ♦ “What I wanted to do in this book was to create those kind of poems of
mean it was very soon after I became executive editor that we had one celebration for places and people that were denigrated, right? So they’re
of the biggest waves of staff reduction which, you know, creates pain and also poems of reparation for me.” (Joshua Bennett. From “‘Owed’:
misery throughout a newsroom.” (“Transcript: Former ‘New York Times’ Poems That Celebrate Denigrated Places And People,” NPR, All Things
Editor Jill Abramson Addresses Book Allegations,” NPR, All Things Considered, September 23, 2020.)
Considered, February 7, 2019.)
♦ “Sandra Oh on celebrating Pixar, puberty and periods.”
obstacles & impedance: infrastructure ♦ “Swiss Celebrate Tradition Of Blowing Up Snowman To Ring In
constraint & lack of constraint: infrastructure Spring.”
concealment & lack of concealment: infrastructure ♦ “US zoo celebrates 50 years of giant pandas.” (BBC.)

ceiling (debt ceiling, etc.) inclusion & exclusion: society

debt ceiling celebrated (groups)

politicians battle over budget deficits and the ~
celebrated
biological ceiling Black lives are ~ in her extraordinary quilts
120 years old is the ~ for human longevity
inclusion & exclusion: society
obstacles & impedance: infrastructure
constraint & lack of constraint: infrastructure celebration (groups)
ceiling (high point) celebration of (Boston’s unique) accents
a~
ceiling and the floor
his numbers have been durable, the ~ (president’s celebration of (Black) artists
popularity) the Black Opry is a ~
increase & decrease: direction / height / house celebration of (Indian-American) cuisine
celebrate (groups) Bollywood Kitchen is a ~ (a cookbook)
celebration of cultures
celebrate Black children
her books for very young readers ~ it’s a ~ (a dress worn at a Met Gala)

celebrate your differences celebration of diversity

her goal is to help you acknowledge, accept and ~ Waiting for the Waters to Rise is a ~ (a book)

celebrates Black excellence celebration of (gay-marriage) law

in Newark, a drive-in movie theater ~ in New York, a ~

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celebration of (Haitian) music she has chosen to ~ (politics)
Rasanbleman (Red Moon) is a ~ (an album) attention, scrutiny & promotion: center & periphery /
celebration of (indigenous) resilience position / verb
the forest will be renamed as a ~ center (society)
celebration of women
center
In Defense of Witches is a ~ (a book) you drive people from the ~ towards the fringes (extremism)
celebration of (Southern) rap society: center & periphery
the South got something to say: a ~
center of gravity
celebration of love, inclusion and strength
it’s a ~ (Jon Batiste’s “FREEDOM”) center of gravity of Europe
Vienna had become the musical ~, drawing to it...
celebration of uniqueness, individuality, representation
Pride is a ~ and so much more... center of gravity for so many important developments
Asia and China are going to be the ~ in the 21st century
♦ “It’s world sleep day, a celebration of an activity we don’t do enough.”
(NPR.)
political center of gravity
inclusion & exclusion: society Buffalo is not the ~ in New York State
cement (verb) bases: astronomy
attraction & repulsion: astronomy
cemented it in the public consciousness
the book really ~ (Helter Skelter scenario / Manson Family) centerpiece (noun)
cemented his position centerpiece
he has ~ as front-runner in the race (politics) its ~ is the Inc. record label (a studio)
a ~ of their argument is… (scientific evidence)
cemented his status
the show ~ as Britain’s best rapper (Glastonbury) centerpiece of the Circumpolar North
the Arctic Ocean is the ~
cement her surge
she is looking to ~ in opinion polls (politician) centerpiece of his agenda
he has made it the ~ (crime bill)
attachment / strength & weakness / survival, persistence
& endurance: materials & substances / verb centerpiece of our (domestic) agenda
health care is the ~
cemented
centerpiece of her campaign
cemented in the American consciousness her support of Medicare was the ~ (politician)
how did this narrative become ~ (Manson Family murders)
centerpiece of their culture
attachment / strength & weakness / survival, persistence the camel is the ~ (Arab Bedouins)
& endurance: materials & substances
centerpiece of their lives
cemetery (place) for many people, work is the ~

graveyard for (Antarctica’s greatest) icebergs centerpiece of their plan

South Georgia is something of a ~ city officials see the pier as the ~ to unify various sites

bell cemeteries importance & significance: center & periphery / position

collection points, known as Glockenfriedhofe, or ~ central (adjective)
spacecraft cemetery
central
Point Nemo, also known as the ~ (remote Pacific Ocean)
the military is ~ (in Egyptian society)
♦ Between 1939 and 1945, 175,000 bells across Europe were taken by
Nazi Germany. They were transported to collection points, known as importance & significance: center & periphery / position
Glockenfriedhofe, or bell cemeteries, the biggest of them in Hamburg.
(“The seizing of Europe’s bells” by Stephen J. Thorne, in Legion: central nervous system (basis)
Canada’s Military History Magazine, November 21, 2018.)
central nervous system of modern life
place: burial / death & life
the internet is the ~
center (verb) bases: back / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
center her family

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cesspit (noun) searching & discovery: farming & agriculture / verb / wheat
worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture / verb / wheat
cesspit of snarky poison dismissal, removal & resignation: farming & agriculture /
you know how social media and twitter in particular is a ~ verb / wheat

cesspits of arguments, misinformation chain (configuration)

the comment threads are absolute ~
chain of camps
environment: hygiene the porters established a ~ up the mountain
corruption: smell
chain of islands
cesspool (noun) the southern end of the ~ known as Lofoten (Norway)

cesspool chain of mountains

the neighborhood is a ~ that breeds crime this great ~ (Caucasus Mountains)

cesspool of corruption human chain

college sports are a ~ policemen formed ~a (Hajj)
arriving police formed a ~ (rescue boys in river)
cesspools of fraud
the federal mortgage agencies are ~ island chain
a nearby ~ was evacuated (typhoon)
cesspool of hate an ~ that is part of the Antarctic peninsula
the website is a ~
mountain chain
cesspool of negativity the Rwenzori ~ includes Africa's third highest peak
the Internet can be a ~ (consumer reviews, comments)
750-mile chain
cesspool of character assassination a ~ of rugged mountains (the Caucasus)
the Web site is a ~ (gossip site in rural towns)
divided into four chains
reality-show cesspool Tonga is composed of 140 islands ~
it's hard to stand out in the ~ (TV)
configuration: chain
ethical cesspool
he is disgusted by the ~ of Albany (New York politics) chain (chain of events)
moral cesspool chain of events
this is indicative of the ~ that is America (nudity on TV) the ~ that caused the airliner to crash
problems in this ~ (conception and infertility)
political cesspool
finally somebody was doing something to clean up the ~ chains of events
describing hypothetical ~, he noted if…
social cesspool
the tenements are ~s (1903) chain of critical events
disasters are triggered by a ~ (engineering, crashes, etc.)
clean the cesspool
they are trying to ~ (Web) bizarre chain of events
in a ~, a passenger was killed... (NJ Transit Train)
drain this (stinking) cesspool surprise and sadness at the ~ (astronaut arrested)
he wants to ~ (New York politics)
fatal chain of events
environment: hygiene the ~ began at 10:04 (car wreck)
corruption: smell falling debris started the ~ (loss of shuttle Columbia)
Ceuta and Melilla hypothetical chains of events
describing ~, he noted if…
linguistic Ceutas and Melillas
stranded like ~ (fuzzy semantics) sequence: chain
division & connection: history chain (oppression)
chaff (separate the wheat from the chaff) people's chains
we must break the shackles of an oppressed ~
separate the wheat from the chaff
we need to ~ (real cases vs. imagined of a syndrome) invisible chains
she was exploited by “~” (sex trafficking)
separating the wheat from the chaff
G-2 had great difficulty ~ (military intelligence) constraint & lack of constraint / oppression: chain

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chain (other) went outside of his chain of command
he was removed after he ~ (Navy captain)
chain of custody ♦ “You can jump the chain of command if you want and take the
drug screeners must follow the ~ consequences, you can disobey the chain of command and take the
consequences, but there is no, no situation where you go to the media...”
chain of evidence (Acting SECNAV Thomas Modley on his decision to reassign Captain
Brett Crozier from command of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS
a ~ ties him to the crime Theodore Roosevelt.)
the ~ must be preserved (rape)
hierarchy: direction / chain / military
chain of (massive) explosions
Lagos struggled to recover from a ~ (ammo) chain reaction
chain of trial and error chain reaction
behind every discovery is a long ~ (astronomy) the ~ can go on for centuries (cyanide pollution)
cold chain chain reaction of car hitting car
the ~—keeping the vaccine refrigerated (for measles) a ~ (traffic pileup)
supply chain chain-reaction accident
they have a very efficient ~ (Wal-Mart) a ~ that involved 125 vehicles (fog in Georgia);
the army's ~ across the open desert is vulnerable to attack low visibility caused a number of ~s (dust storm)
there’s a whole ~ that feeds the production of the plane
chain-reaction crash
link in the (global) chain the ~ happened in a snowstorm (highway)
you're only as secure as the weakest ~ of information
chain reaction wreck
predators in the chain 16 cars had a ~
they were the top ~ (Iraqi terrorists)
chain reaction, a snowball effect
break the chain this will create a ~ (falling in a crowd crush)
we need to ~ of transmission (COVID-19)
sequence: chain
sequence: chain
chainsaw (noun)
chain of command (and chain)
take a chainsaw to regulations
chain of command he wants to ~ (politics)
contact your immediate ~ if your believe…(military)
requests go through the normal ~ (military) destruction / force: tools & technology
he forwards the report through the ~ (military) chalice (poisoned chalice)
the information went up the ~ to President Bush
poisoned chalice
program's chain of command the United job is a ~ (English soccer)
the ~
poisoned chalice of naval command
launch-control chain of command Baltaoglu vanished, and the ~ passed back to Hamza Bey
those in the ~ (NASA)
biggest prize and a poisoned chalice
top-down chain of command the job is both the ~ (being the mayor of Rome)
older workers are used to a ~ (business)
fate, fortune & chance: allusion / food & drink
military chain of command appearance & reality: allusion / food & drink
federal military forces remain under the ~ destruction / subterfuge: health & medicine
level in the chain of command chameleon (change)
the highest appropriate ~ must address…
social chameleon
chain of command (soon) broke down I was a ~, I went from group to group
the ~ (Suvla Bay / Gallipoli)
style chameleons
complained (for months) to the chain of command celebrities tend to be ~, changing their looks
he ~ about the poor gear
political chameleon
come down from the chain of command he was a ~ who charmed France (Jacques Chirac)
a memo had ~ that said…
♦ “One of his nicknames was the Chameleon, his career was a stylistic
kaleidoscope.” (The musician Chick Corea.)
run it up the chain
Irving told him he’d have to ~ (a request for troops) ♦ “I’m so glad I was a Canadian in a way, because the Canadian can
take the best of the British, and the best of the American school, and uh

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we’re rather good at that, we’re kind of like chameleons, in that respect,
that’s why there’s so many good Canadian comics.” (“Remembering championed
‘Sound of Music’ Star Christopher Plummer,” NPR, Fresh Air, Feb 12
2021, originally broadcast in 2007.) championed by authors, consultants, and startup gurus
♦ “[Chameleons] can camouflage themselves well... but they ultimately gamification is ~
did not outsmart the X-Ray machine.” (Smuggled chameleons from the
Usambara Mountains of Tanzania discovered in a suitcase at the Vienna allegiance, support & betrayal / attention, scrutiny &
airport.) promotion: Middle Ages
appearance & reality / character & personality / creation & change (sea change)
transformation / identity & nature: animal
sea change for Saudi Arabia
chameleonic (adjective) it’s a ~ (ending reliance on oil)
chameleonic political sea change
her transformation was so ~ (Taylor Swift’s The Man video) there has been a ~ in Virginia (election)
chameleonic and controversial amount & effect / creation & transformation / reversal: sea
to the public, she’s been a ~ celebrity (Angelina Jolie)
channel (direct)
surprisingly chameleonic
the series has proved ~ (Fast & Furious films) channeled (corporate) donation to Texas state races
he ~ (a convicted politician)
appearance & reality / character & personality / creation &
transformation / identity & nature: animal channeled his fears in music
comparison & contrast: affix he ~ (sickness therapy)
champagne (money) channel his (mental) illness to stay
he learned how to ~ functional
Champagne Johnny
his high living earned him the nickname ~ (John Osborne) channels (more) money to (local) health centers
his plan ~ (reform)
champagne socialists
~ are far removed from reality (politics) channeled her unhappiness into writing
she ~
champagne wishes
“~ and caviar dreams” (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous) directing: verb / water
♦ “Collaborating with these gentry was a mixed crowd of wide-minded, channel (through channels)
wide-mouthed Liberals, who darkened council with pious but
disintegrating catch-words, and took care to live very well indeed.”
(Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling.)
through administrative channels
submit requests ~ (military)
♦ “No, I can’t swig that sweet champagne, I’d rather drink beer all night,
in a tavern, or in a Honkey-tonk, or in a four-wheel-drive tailgate... Let me
get a big ‘hell yeah’ from the Redneck girls like me.” (Gretchen Wilson,
through diplomatic channel
“Redneck Woman.” Hell yeah!) India informed the US ~s that…
money: sign, signal, symbol through operational channels
send NBC reports ~ (military)
champion (verb)
through proper channels
championing women’s voices a request has to go through ~
we have been ~ (a publisher)
submit requests through administrative channels
allegiance, support & betrayal / attention, scrutiny &
promotion: Middle Ages / verb informed the US through diplomatic channels
Spain ~ that…
champion (noun)
go through proper channels
champion of social justice a report has to ~
he was a ~
route: water
champion of justice and equality
she was a giant in the law, a ~ (RBG) channel (back channel)
its champions back-channel operation
each one has ~ (translations of Dante’s Divine Comedy) he was alarmed by a ~ in Ukraine (diplomacy)
supply chains, ~s, costs and cycle times
allegiance, support & betrayal / attention, scrutiny &
promotion: Middle Ages route: water

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channel (distribution channel, etc.) chapter of history
we are spectators in a ~ (a significant labor dispute)
distribution channel
a new ~ has arisen (e-commerce) chapter of their lives
supply chains, ~s, costs and cycle times as they venture into this next ~ (retirement)

route: water chapter of your life

it's kind of sad to end a ~ (breakup of band)
channeled
chapter of our (not-so-recent) past
channeled to paramilitaries that troubling ~
US dollars have been ~
chapter in a career
channeled through the I.S.I. fans witnessed another bizarre ~ that… (Mike Tyson)
Pakistan wants talks with the Taliban to be ~
chapter in his life
channeled to militants he started a new ~
it is not clear how much money is ~
chapter in the (still-unfolding) story
channeled and exploited a~
people's anger is being ~ by corporate interests (politics)
concluding chapter
directing: water the play was the ~ in a spellbinding story (series of plays)
chaotic (adjective) troubling chapter
chaotic that ~ of our not-so-distant past
Fury’s life has been ~ bizarre chapter
chaotic home fans witnessed another ~ in his career (a boxer)
they were raised in a ~ with lots of siblings dark chapter
flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene we would rather close this ~ of our history and move on

chaperone (role) darkest chapter

his capture was one of the country's ~s of the war
worldly chaperone
he positioned himself as the grownup in the room, the ~ final chapter
the war against terrorism is not near its ~
control & lack of control / experience: person
person: school & education last chapter
a bizarre ~ in a divorce battle (townhouse explodes)
chapter (close a chapter, etc.)
latest chapter
close a chapter the ~ in the long, checkered history of…
the decision helps ~ on a painful period (Baylor University) this ~ has only tightened the family bonds (injury)
this is the ~ in the tragedy that is Haiti (epidemic)
close a (tragic) chapter
the resolution will help ~ in Balkan history (apology) new chapter
he is poised to write a triumphant ~ (Obama)
close that chapter
we want to ~ in the department (remedy for racism) next chapter
it was time to ~ of my life (quit job) as they venture into this ~ of their lives (retirement)

close this chapter painful chapter

it is time to ~ in our history (discrimination) it was a ~ in Indian history (white boarding schools)

close this (dark) chapter dark and forgotten chapter

we would rather ~ of our history and move on it was a ~ in history (Kinkaseki POW camp / Taiwan)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, going, succession of chapters
continuing & ending: books & reading the lives of athletes are a ~ (playground, NBA, China)
chapter (other) begin the (next) chapter
he will ~ of his distinguished career
chapter
I'm definitely glad that ~ is over (in a career) close a chapter
the decision helps ~ on a painful period (Baylor University)
chapter of the (euthanasia) debate
ending that ~ close a (tragic) chapter

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 the resolution will help ~ in Balkan history (apology) the leading philanthropy is ~ (Mellon / monuments)
close that chapter commitment & determination / driving force / eagerness &
we want to ~ in the department (remedy for racism) reluctance: horse / military / movement / verb
it was time to ~ of my life (quit job)
charge (lead the charge, etc.)
close this chapter
it is time to ~ in our history (discrimination) leading the charge
Republicans are ~ (for fiscal responsibility)
marks a new chapter the young people are ~ (new media)
his win ~ in American history (election)
led the charge
write more chapters he disappeared when he should have ~ (a politician)
it's been a storybook season, hopefully we can ~ (team)
led the (political and rhetorical) charge
write a (new) chapter the NRA ~ (guns and 2nd Amendment)
the protests could ~ in Arab politics
led the charge to go
write his most glorious chapter Republicans ~ to war with Iraq
on Sunday he could ~ (Raheem Sterling, Euro 2020)
♦ “It closes the chapter but hasn’t ended the story, has it? I mean, clearly
leading the charge to make
there will be further trials connected to the violence of 2015... Even she is ~ mandatory (systemic racism / high schools)
during this trial there was more violence...” (BBC Newshour for 16 Dec
2020, “Fourteen people convicted in Charlie Hebdo trial.”) led the charge to overturn
♦ “It is a book as old as time: a good young person makes a mistake, he ~ the ban
chapter two is a good, young person is full of remorse. Chapter three is a
good young person learns from the mistake and becomes a better led the charge for restricting
person.” (Australia Olympic team boss Ian Chesterman, following the the three organizations have ~ immigration
bad behavior of some Australian athletes at the Tokyo Olympics and on
their way home.) led the charge against the notion
development: books & reading he ~ of human-caused global warming

character (non-human) led the charge against charter schools

school boards have ~
character in her work
fashion is as much a ~ as everyone else (music videos) led the charge for (educational) reform
he ~
becomes a character
the music is woven into the documentary and ~ led the charge for (greater) regulation
Democrats have ~
♦ Nonhuman and nonliving things can have biographies,
autobiographies, obituaries and even be characters. driving force: military / verb
♦ “The year is 1925, and the place is Montana, which is played onscreen
by Campion’s native New Zealand. Whether it fulfills the role charged (highly charged, etc.)
convincingly...is a question that only Montanans will be qualified to
answer.” (“All In The Family: The Power of the Dog and King Richard” by charged with desperation and despair
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, November 29, 2021.)
the words, recently so ~...
person: books & reading
highly charged
charade (noun) these are ~ issues (protests)
there was a ~ atmosphere in Kenosha (rioting)
Charade of Changing the World in this ~ atmosphere the bombings started (Saudi Arabia)
Winners Take All: The Elite ~ (a book)
♦ “The words ‘I’m hungry,’ recently so charged with desperation and
despair, only slowly reverted to their old function of expressing an
stop this charade ordinary desire for lunch.” (Leningrad by the great writer Anna Reid.)
we need to ~ ("rubber rooms" for bad teachers)
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity
performance / subterfuge: sports & games
substance & lack of substance: sports & games charisma (attraction)
charge (in, into, ahead, etc.) a lot of charism
he has ~ (a politician)
charged ahead
the president ~ with his plans to... attraction & repulsion: religion
charging forward charm (verb)
she is ~ with a civil case (a lawyer)
charmed New Yorkers with his humor
charging into (one of the country’s) leading debates the mayor ~

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charmed everyone with her culture, grace and beauty for a few ~, he was on top (success)
she ~
fate, fortune & chance / protection & lack of protection:
charmed her with his good humor magic
he ~
charmed (charmed by something, etc.)
charmed his way into homes and shops
he ~ (the photographer Peter Sekaer) charmed by the architecture
he was ~ (buying a house)
charm the pants off (just about) anyone
he could ~ (politician Ronald Reagan) charmed by the (rugged) beauty
we were ~ of New Mexico
charmed the audience
he ~ (a dancer) charmed by his speeches
voters were ~ and inspired by his vision (Obama)
charmed fans
Baghdatis ~ at the 2006 Australian Open (tennis) charmed by the terrain
the young artist was ~ (the desert)
charms people
with his gentle manner, he ~ wherever he goes (a boxer) charmed by her good-heartedness
we were ~
charmed reporters
while he has ~, others find him abrasive attraction & repulsion / feeling, emotion & effect: magic

charmed and impressed charming (people)

she ~ colleagues with her low-key style and commitment charming
feeling, emotion & effect: magic / verb he was cute, he was ~, he was very athletic… (psycho)
attraction & repulsion: magic / verb utterly charming
charm (noun) she could be ~ (a narcissist)

charm bracelet attraction & repulsion / character & personality: magic

her ~ spelled out "LOVE" chart (verb)
one of the year's hottest jewelry fads is the ~
chart its own course
charm campaign Iraq is free to ~
Sudan's ~
chart a (fresh) course
charm school helping convicted felons ~
beauty pageants and charm schools
charted a (new) course
charm and beauty President Obama has ~ for the next two years
for centuries, visitors praised Basra's ~
chart the future
charm, warmth and vivacity Iraqis will ~ of Iraq
stories of her ~ are innumerable
chart a new path
period charm the leader is trying to ~
set in 1980, the show has a certain ~
direction: boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
attraction & repulsion: magic
chase (verb)
charmed (charmed life, etc.)
chase after their dreams
charmed circle artists and actors ~
teachers compete to enter the ~ of tenured academe
they spend their time in a ~ (acquaintances, etc.) chase (small) effects
studies ~ (unable to replicate)
charmed existence
he enjoyed a ~, and then his family was poor chase headlines
scientists who manipulate data and ~
charmed life
she led a ~ (affluent) pursuit, capture & escape: walking, running & jumping /
verb
charmed run
their ~ finally ended (sports team) chase down (verb)
charmed years chase it (all) down

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 but what is the implicit comedy of that song, if you ~ check (in check)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: walking, running &
in check
jumping / verb
we have to keep North Korea ~
chasm (noun) control & lack of control: chess / movement / sports &
chasm between Africans and African-Americans games
the ~ (in Ghana) checkmate (verb)
widen into a chasm checkmate the West’s harshest sanctions
the cracks could ~ (politics)
the Kremlin can ~
division & connection: ground, terrain & land
resistance, opposition & defeat: chess / sports & games /
chatter (signals intelligence, etc.) verb

far-right chatter checkmate (noun)

experts tracking ~ online said...
checkmate
speculation and chatter your American critics say you have run out of moves, ~
there’s a lot of ~ on social media (an issue)
resistance, opposition & defeat: chess / sports & games
jump in (suspicious) chatter checkbook
there has been a ~
activity / analysis, interpretation & explanation / open their checkbooks
surveillance: sound / speech a few companies may ~ (reparations for slavery)
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol
cheap (words are cheap, etc.)
checkpoint (at a checkpoint)
cheap
words are ~, let’s see what they do at progress checkpoints
assign a grade or points ~ (projects / schools)
cheap on those streets
life is very ~ (parts of Essex County, New Jersey) progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement
getting (very) cheap cheer (verb)
life is ~ (gang violence)
cheer
worth & lack of worth: money / speech some of you may ~ and others will boo
cheap shot judgment: sound / verb
cheap shot achievement, recognition & praise: sound / verb
he may have thought his ~ was funny, but it wasn't cheer (noun)
his comment was a ~, totally unwarranted (insult)
his insinuation is unsubstantiated and a ~ cheers and boos
~s get cheap laughs the judge’s decision drew ~
cheap shot against him achievement, recognition & praise / judgment: sound
that was a real ~ (a comment in newspaper)
cheerlead (verb)
cheap shot against the White House
she has taken a ~ (political commentary) cheerlead for big projects
volunteers are less likely to ~ (Peace Corps)
cheap-shot artist
enthusiasm: school & education / verb
he's a clever ~ (a political comedian)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: school & education / verb
cheap shot and dirty trick cheerleader (person)
he has bashed him with every ~ in the book (politics)
takes a cheap shot cheerleader
she ~ at him when she says… Roger Ver is its most visible ~ (Bitcoin Cash)
♦ In sports, a cheap shot refers to an unnecessary and vicious hit on a cheerleaders for the Pentagon
defenseless player. some say they served as ~ (reporters)
accusation & criticism / behavior / speech: sports & games
cheerleader for the city
/ violence / weapon he is a ~ (mayor of Las Vegas)

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cheerleader for the industry screen chemistry
she was a ~, no matter what it was selling (Louella Parsons) the two actors have so much ~ (movie)
cheerleader for the superiority on-screen chemistry
she is a ~ of all things American they had great ~ (Donna Reed and John Wayne)
cheerleader for war team chemistry
he was the exile ~ (an Iraqi) his top priority is to improve ~ (sports)
cheerleaders for war good chemistry
women have often been ~ (Spartan mothers) teams, actors, orchestras require ~
are teams good because they have ~
cheerleader role do teams have ~ because they are good
he is in the ~, he wants the economy back up (pandemic) ~ sometimes trumps outright talent (sports team)
♦ “In Aristophanes’ comic play, Lysistrata, the women go on sex strike as
a way of ending the Peloponnese War. Do you think we would be as lack of chemistry
warlike if women were in charge?” [Delighted laughter and clapping from a ~ is blamed for failure
the audience.] / “It’s such a good question. My brief answer is no.
[Nervous laughter from audience.] You know, the Peloponnesian war, it
was the Spartan mothers who said, ‘Come back bearing your shield or
wealth of chemistry
on it....’ I’m not sure that women are by nature kinder or gentler.” a ~ is credited for success
(Margaret MacMillan, “War and Humanity,” the Reith Lectures, BBC.)
♦ "Wars are almost always begun with gaiety and lightness of spirit, with
chemistry can trump talent
cheers and songs. The day after the surrender of Fort Sumter the entire good ~ (sports teams)
land, both North and South, blazed with an ardent and confident
patriotism, although the patriotism of the South was precisely opposite to have chemistry
that of the North. The streets of the cities were colorful with flags and in sports, good teams ~
smart uniforms. Ladies waved handkerchiefs and threw kisses. The
barrooms did the largest day's business in the history of the nation, up to hurt the (team) chemistry
that time… The churches were kept open all day for the saying of
bloodthirsty prayers. God, as usual, was on both side." (A New he ~ (an athlete)
American History by W.E. Woodward.) ♦ "Chemistry is when you hang around each other when you don't have
to. That's us." (Chris Weber, speaking of the Sacramento Kings, an NBA
person: school & education team.)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / enthusiasm: person /
school & education functioning / mixture: chemistry

cheer on (verb) Chernobyl (rainforest Chernobyl, etc.)

cheered him on rainforest Chernobyl
everybody ~ (musician who abused underaged girls) Texaco created a ~ (toxic waste in Ecuador)

cheering her on for years destruction / failure, accident & impairment: epithet /
her mother and father have been ~ (a tennis phenom) history / nuclear energy / place
enthusiasm: sound / verb cherubic (adjective)
Che Guevara cherubic preteen
a ~ with a gentle smile
“Africa’s Che Guevara”
the murder of the man known as ~ (Thomas Sankara) appearance: creature / religion
comparison & contrast: affix
found an unlikely Che Guevara
in Pospisil, the P.T.P.A. ~ (tennis reform) chess (noun)
disruption: allusion / history playing chess
he was ~ (Larry Bird of the NBA)
chemistry
♦ “He was playing chess and everybody else was playing checkers. He
was three moves ahead of everybody else.” (Tommy Heinsohn, Celtic
chemistry of the team broadcaster, about the great Larry Bird from French Lick, Indiana.)
he insists the ~ is fine (troubled NFL team)
strategy: chess / sports & games
chemistry between client and therapist
~ is crucial (psychotherapist) chess (chess game)
chemistry between a boxer and a trainer see game (chess game)
the ~ is crucial
chessboard (noun)
Dream Team’s chemistry
the ~ turned out to be the hallmark to their success (1992) North Korean Chessboard
“The ~: What Next for The Main Players” (Wapo)

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complex geopolitical chessboard the old women ~ (a bit of gossip)
trying to figure out Putin’s next move on a ~
consumption: food & drink / verb
strategic chessboard Chicago (China’s Chicago, etc.)
Truman and the Soviets were arranging pieces on a ~
off the board Chicago of China
the two other members of the ISIS cell are already ~ (one six hundred miles up the Yangtze lies Hankow, “the ~”
killed, one in prison) China’s Chicago
moves on the chessboard the city they call ~ (Wuhan)
these were big ~ in Asia (US versus China) modern-day Chicago
pawns on a chessboard the leaders of Chongqing hope to turn it into a ~ (2007)
they must stop being used as ~ (migrants) ♦ “With all these fake Chinese Chicagos, how can anyone use the
phrase, “the Chicago of China” with any confidence or authority? Fact is,
square in (Europe’s Military) Chess Board nobody can.” (“The Chicago(s) of China” by Lauri Apple, the Chicago
Reader, August 17, 2010. Her delightful article mentions Chongqing
Sweden’s Gotland is a crucial ~ (Chungking, the “Chicago on the Yangtze); Hankow (now part of the
larger area of Wuhan, also on the Yangtze River); Zhengzhou
removed Mary from the chessboard (Chengchow, on the Yellow River, referred to as the “Chicago of the
Elizabeth’s statecraft eventually ~ (history) East); and Shanghai. She includes a link to “Chinese City’s ‘Chicago’
Hopes Face Obstacles,” the Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2007, which
shift its pieces around the chessboard lists good and interesting reasons why Chongqing deserves the epithet.)
the U.N. has had to ~ (troops in DRC) ♦ US newspaper readers knew Hankow as the Chicago of China in 1918
and also in the 1930s. The city was mostly forgotten until the 2019
♦ “The Democrats wrote the rules, then set up the chessboard. We are COVID pandemic, associated with Wuhan.
now playing in the chessboard with the rules they set up.” (Voter drop-
boxes, which became controversial during the 2020 presidential comparison & contrast / geography: epithet
election.)
chicken (chicken and egg)
strategy: chess / sports & games
chess match (noun) chicken and egg
this is the classic ~ that has plagued rural America (housing)
chess match chicken and the egg
so far this match has been a ~ (Arguello vs. Ray Mancini) it's kind of the ~ (support for losing team)
strategy: chess / sports & games
chicken and egg problem
chest (beat one’s chest, etc.) it's a ~

chest-thumping chicken-and-egg problem

liberals dismiss conservatives as ~ cartoons it's a ~ (plants need oil, oil refineries need power)

stand up and beat their chests relationship: bird

terrorists want to take credit, they want to ~ chicken (come home to roost)
conflict: animal / gesture / standing, sitting & lying
chickens coming home to roost
performance: animal / gesture / standing, sitting & lying this is a sort of ~ (political battle)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: animal / gesture /
standing, sitting & lying chickens would come home to roost so soon
chew (and chew up) Kennedy never foresaw that the ~ (Malcolm X)
they came home to roost
chew barbed wire in Flanders
these chickens took a very long flight before ~ (scandal)
is there an alternative to having our armies ~
Justice of Roosting Chickens
chews up his rivals
On the ~ (notorious book blaming the West for 9/11)
his nickname is “the Cannibal” because he ~ (cycling)
♦ The legend of the “Brazen Bull” (Wikipedia) is instructive. Perillus of
♦ “Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew Athens invented and built it for Phalaris, Tyrant of Sicily. Its first victim
barbed wire in Flanders?” (Winston Churchill, in a letter of advice to was its inventor and its owner ended up within it.
Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. The alternative turned out to be
Gallipoli.) ♦ “This rude automaton is a tiger, killing and about to devour a European,
who lies prostrate under the savage beast. In the interior of the tiger
♦ “His nickname is “the Cannibal” because he chews up his rivals.” (The there is a rude kind of organ, played upon by turning a handle, like our
great Eddy Merckx) street hand-organs, and the notes produced are intended to represent
the growls of the tiger and the moans of the dying man.” (Charles
consumption / experience: food & drink / verb Macfarlane, in Our Indian Empire, quoted by James Grant in British
Battles on Land and Sea. Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, met his end
chew over (verb) at the Battle of Seringapatam, 1799.)

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♦ “Yep, could be called a ‘shooting pandemic’... Unfortunately the planets ♦ “He was now Fortune’s pet instead of her stepson.” (Change in fortune
are lining up and the chickens are coming home to roost.” (Fredrika to good fortune from awful fortune.)
Wade to Rick Chase on ABC’s “Join the Discussion” about the latest
mass shooting.) person / relationship: family
♦ “We misuse our military power, and the chickens came home to roost.” worth & lack of worth: family / person
♦ Karma; what goes around comes around; live by the sword, die by the
sword; you made this bed, now lie in it...
chill (feeling)
fate, fortune & chance / judgment / responsibility / chill
reversal: animal / bird / justice / verb I get ~s thinking about it (an exciting event)

chicken-hearted feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bones /
temperature
chicken-hearted
he is ~ (afraid)
chill (oppression)
courage & lack of courage: animal / bird / heart sent a chill through the academic world
heart: bird the sentences ~ (police arrests)

chicken (game of chicken) oppression: temperature

see game (game of chicken) chilling (adjective)

chicken out (verb) chilling
the accusations against him are ~ (a terrorist)
chickened out
he ~ and never gave her the letter chilling account
he has written a ~ of the murder (writer)
courage & lack of courage: animal / bird / verb
chilling development
chieftain (noun) it is the latest ~ in this chilling case (sniper murders)
corporate chieftain chilling effect
~s who sell off shares of their companies (ethics) this will have a ~ on the coal industry (project vetoed)
these bills will have a ~ (Internet regulation)
banking industry chieftain
a former ~ chilling incident
there have been two ~s (religious attacks)
power: person / military
child (spoiled child) chilling message
it was a ~
West's spoiled child chilling street name
Israel is the ~ the crimes have a ~, "Guat-bashing" (Guatemalans)
behavior: family / person feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
child (child of the Soviet Union, etc.) chilly (adjective)
child of the Victorian era chilly toward women's soccer
Churchill freely conceded that he was a ~ England has been ~
child of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia chilly reception
he was a cynical ~ she received a ~ (a politician)
child of Bill Cosby chilly response
I was a ~, he was part of the wallpaper of Black America he got a ~ from… (meeting / law-enforcement officers)
children of the same (foul) spirit feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
they are ~ (domestic and international terrorists)
chime in (verb)
child of the underground
I, too, was a ~ (Zionist Palestine) chimed in that
he ~ he does the same thing (conversation)
identity & nature: family / person
child (bastard child) chimed in on the controversy
readers ~
bastard child, the second class citizen chimed in with his own statement
creative non-fiction is no longer the ~ (to literature) he has ~

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chimed in from Haiti chip away (verb)
he ~ (a reporter)
chip away at an employee's confidence
involvement: sound / verb
he uses insults to ~ (bad boss)
speech: sound / verb
chin (take something on the chin) chip away at our information
these companies will never stop trying to ~ (Internet)
took the news on the chin chip away at personal privacy
she ~ (Naomi Wolf) big tech companies continue to stifle speech and ~
feeling, emotion & effect / force: boxing
chipping away (at the edifice) with hammer or chisel
Chinatown (the film) lawyers are ~ (of personal responsibility)

“forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown” taking & removing: blade / verb
a fatalistic ~ notion... chloroform (noun)
allusion: film
chloroform in print
feeling, emotion & effect: allusion / film Young Adult Literature is ~ (paraphrase of Mark Twain)
fate, fortune & chance: allusion / film
consciousness & awareness: health & medicine
chink (chink in one’s armor)
chocolate (African Americans)
chink in her opponent's armor
she uncovered a critical chink in her ~ ‘chocolate cities’
~ should be viewed as America’s heartland (Ernest Owens)
chink in his armor
she found a ~ identity & nature: color
the one ~ has been… (an athlete)
he has not been able to find a ~ (tennis) choir (preach to the choir)
protection & lack of protection: Middle Ages / military / preaching to the choir
weapon they are ~ (sympathetic audience)
we are ~ (a drug program / parents)
chink (flaw)
message / unanimity & consensus: religion
chink in conditioning
any ~ could mean defeat (Olympic swimming)
choirboy (behavior)
chink of vulnerability choirboy
he hasn’t shown a ~ he was a ~ compared to some of Hernandez’s other friends

flaws & lack of flaws: hole behavior: person / religion

person: religion
chip (bargaining chip)
choke (verb)
bargaining chip
the proposals are on the table as a ~ choking on its own success
China is ~ (pollution)
bargaining chip in (peace) negotiations
the fleet was a ~ (World War I) choke on those words
Sanders would ~ (perfect is the enemy of good)
used as a bargaining chip
acceptance & rejection / affliction / consumption /
he was kidnapped to be ~ with Washington
obstacles & impedance: bodily reaction / breathing / food
position, policy & negotiation / strategy: gambling & drink / throat / verb
chip (chips fall, etc.) choke (fail)
let the chips fall where they may chokes during pressure
let’s have the hearing and ~ (investigation) she ~ (an athlete)
chips may fall success & failure: breathing / verb
the ~ in ways that are uncomfortable for all sides
choke chain (noun)
fate, fortune & chance: tree
choke chain around its neck
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♦ “Choke collar” is an entry in the dictionary I use, but not “choke chain.”
Dictionary entries of words and phrases can be maddening! “Dollar yoke” choose (chose me, found me, etc.)
also appears in the article that uses this phrase.
domesticated humans
constraint & lack of constraint: animal / breathing / chain / some say wheat ~
dog / pressure / violence
chose him
choked history, in its many meanings, ~ (John Hope Franklin)
choked with emotion chooses me
…, he said, his voice ~ the part ~, I don’t choose it (actor Peter O’Toole)
choked with people chose me
the prisons are ~ who stole to eat (Mexico) golf ~, it’s the most fun thing I have (Aditi Ashok)
tennis ~ (Bernard Tomic)
choked with traffic
crowded intersections ~ (Brooklyn) found me
boxing ~, I didn’t have to look for it (Bilal Fawaz)
boulder-choked
the ~ Cheoah River in Graham County, North Carolina found him
Tommy has never sought notoriety, it just sort of ~
briar-choked
as a boy, he explored the ~ woods behind his house shape us
we shape our buildings and afterwards they ~
cholesterol-choked
♦ “Tennis chose me. It’s something I never fell in love with.” (The
he needs an operation for his ~ arteries extraordinary Bernard Tomic.)

smoke-choked ♦ This idea, once so fresh, is becoming quite a cliché nowadays.

the firefighters ascended the ~ stairwell alternatives & choices: verb
traffic-choked chopping block (on the chopping
it has been an average, ~ rush hour (Los Angeles)
block)
weed-choked
behind the house was a ~ garden on the chopping block
the footbridge cross a ~ stream their heads will be ~ the next election (politics)
my neck is ~ (accountability)
obstacles & impedance: breathing
many social services are ~
chokepoint (noun) their collective-bargaining rights are ~ (teachers)

choke points, bridges, tunnels put the school on the chopping block
identify ~ (military) officials have ~ (underperforming)

choke point or kill zone dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / head / neck
as the enemy moves into the ~ fate, fortune & chance: ax / blade / head / neck
destruction: ax / blade / head / neck
chokepoints in the Northwest Passage
include one off Barrow, Alaska, and in Canada
chopping block (other)
choke points on interstates keep the program off the chopping block
~ and state highways supporters are trying to ~

world's choke points saved from the chopping block

the ~—the Suez and Panama Canals, the Bab el Mandeb 19 schools were ~
the ~—the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Malacca Strait taken off the chopping block
oil choke point some bus routes will be ~
Hormuz is the most important ~ in the world dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / head / neck
important chokepoint fate, fortune & chance: ax / blade / head / neck
it is one of the world's strategically ~ (Strait of Hormuz) destruction: ax / blade / head / neck

migratory chokepoint chops (expertise)

the Central Valley is an incredibly important ~ for birds chops to do the job
♦ This word seems to have arisen during World War II. Other words she proved she had the ~ (Pelosi / politics)
derived from warfare include blockbuster, breakthrough, breakout, and
basket case. narrative audio chops
obstacles & impedance: breathing NPR is looking for editors with ~ (job advertisement)

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foreign-relation chops Christmas
any candidate will have to show their ~ (election)
Christmas
experience / knowledge & intelligence: music
May is the ~ of the limousine business (proms)
ability & lack of ability: music
chops (lick one’s chops) Christmas list
see Christmas (Christmas list)
licking their chops superlative: epithet / day
energy companies are ~ at the prospect of new oil pipelines epithet: day
these guys are ~, they want to eat up the defense (NFL)
Christmas (Christmas list)
eagerness & reluctance: animal / bodily reaction / mouth
Christmas list of unrelated progressive spending
chord (evidence) the bill is a ~ (politics)
chord of jealousy amount / wants, needs, hopes & goals: day
some Russians detect a ~ (attitudes to immigrants)
chum (noun)
evidence: sound
chord (strike a chord) chumboxes
Outbrain and Taboola specialize in ~ (clickbait)
struck a chord with her book internet chum
she clearly ~ he pulled up a Blogspot page bloated with ~
struck a chord with the (American) public political chum
these cases have always ~ (capital cases) Biden and his allies use that as ~ (“fund the police”)
striking a strong chord ♦ “A mysterious gut doctor is begging Americans to throw out ‘this
his message is ~ with voters (about corruption) vegetable’ now. But, like, which?” by Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, May 8, 2019.
♦ see also clickbait (noun)
striking the wrong chord
I’m terrified of ~ (a writer and cultural appropriation) attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting

effect / feeling, emotion & effect: sound / verb church (noun)

chorus (chorus of critics, etc.) church
it's my ~, it's my cathedral (Yosemite on foot in winter)
chorus of (outraged) denunciation from liberals
the term brought a ~ (Asianization) enthusiasm / reverence: religion

chorus of critics Churchillian (adjective)

every four years a ~ calls for an end to conventions
Churchillian expressions
joined a chorus he was fond of ~ like “our flesh and blood...” (a Zionist)
she ~ of Democrats who have called on Mr. Barr to resign military: epithet
led a chorus comparison & contrast: affix
Iran’s Javad Zarif ~, calling the picture inappropriate churn (move)
amount & effect: music / speech
churned up the coast
unanimity & consensus: music / speech a winter storm ~
chorus (resemblance)
churn through the (criminal justice) system
dawn chorus millions of people ~
birdlife, we had this incredibly vibrant ~ (extinction) movement: force / verb
resemblance: music force: movement / verb
christen (verb) churn out (verb)
christened it the "green hell" churn out books
travelers ~ (Mato Grosso) she continued to ~, among other pursuits (comic)

christened the plane the A320neo churn out so much content

Airbus ~ there is pressure to ~ (films post-COVID)

characterization: religion / verb churn out (unneeded advanced) degrees

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 universities continue to ~ circle (run circles around somebody)
churn out jobs running circles around us
small firms also ~ (economy)
China is ~ (in technology)
churns out (around six and a half gallons of) milk superiority & inferiority: verb / walking, running & jumping
the cow ~ a day
circle (go in circles)
churns out misinformation
the rumor mill ~ going in circles
we're just ~
churning out the (popular) model
Boeing has been ~ at a breakneck rate (a plane) failure, accident & impairment / progress & lack of
progress: direction / journeys & trips / movement / verb
churn out products
factories ~ circle back (return)
churn out great product circle back to something
I ~ (Questlove) let’s ~ you mentioned, Marcia... (talk show)
creation & transformation: manufacturing / tools & circle back to the United States
technology / verb I want to ~... (changing the subject, talk radio)
Cinderella circle you back to the question
so let me ~ I posed at the onset (talk radio)
Cinderella of Tech
she was hailed as the ~ (Sophia Amoruso) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction /
journeys & trips / movement / verb
Cinderella story
T.M. Landry school has become a viral ~ past & present: direction / journeys & trips / movement /
verb
♦ This story relates to unjust oppression and triumphant reward.
♦ “T.M. Landry school has become a viral Cinderella story, a small circle back (judgment)
school...whose predominantly black, working-class students have
escaped the rural South for the nation’s most elite colleges. A video of a circled back to you
16-year-old student opening his Harvard acceptance letter las year has this has all ~ (sex abuser gets long sentence)
been viewed more than eight million times.” (“Louisiana School Made
Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality” judgment / responsibility / reversal: justice / verb
by Erica L. Green and Katie Benner, The New York Times, Nov. 30,
2018.) circled
oppression / success & failure: allusion
circled by a (jogging) trail
allusion: books & reading
the park is ~
circle (predation)
circled with (high) walls
circling the towns are ~ (Palestine)
his rivals are ~ (politics)
configuration: shape
the vultures are already ~ on the web (health of official)
behavior: animal / bird / predation / shark / verb
circuit breaker (noun)
circle (a circle can close) circuit breaker
a ~ is a short period of tightened restrictions (COVID)
circle is closing
the ~ (around Saddam's regime / Iraqi Freedom)
circuit breakers
can ~ stop rumors on Facebook or Twitter
a ~ (memories of Holocaust dim)
a ~ (Israeli Holocaust survivor returns to free Berlin) used as “circuit breakers”
♦ This expression seems to relate to the completion of a development, to lockdowns should be ~ (pandemic)
something being finished.
control & lack of control: electricity / tools & technology
development / fate, fortune & chance: geometry / shape
curtailment: electricity / tools & technology
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: geometry / shape
circus (media circus, etc.)
circle (full circle)
circus
comes full circle this case was a ~ (O. J. Simson trial)
this week she ~ (ends career where it started) the ~ that is now our political system (New Age candidate)
development: geometry / shape circus of the literary circuit

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 he found the ~ insufferable claim (stake a claim)
circus act
he's a ~ and he's killing boxing (a troubled boxer) staking his claim to be the moderate
he is ~ (a politician)
2019 circus
laid claim to the feminist mantle
the ~ led directly to casualties (crowding on Mt. Everest)
she has ~
travelling circus possession: boundary / ground, terrain & land / surveying
the heavyweight division is little more than a ~ (boxing)
claim (kill)
walking circus
he is seen as a ~ by some (a flamboyant boxer) claimed (an estimated) 10,000 lives
a killer heat wave ~ (France)
media circus
he became the attention of a ~ claimed (more than) 16,000 lives
the virus has ~
publicity circus
he is a one-man ~ (Richard Branson) death & life: euphemism
unbelievable circus claim (take)
most Americans won’t watch this ~ (government hearing)
♦ “The heavyweight division used to be the pinnacle of the sport but now
claimed another big scalp
it’s little more than a travelling circus where the ring masters behind the Palace ~ (victory against Tottenham Hotspur)
scenes lift your wallets by putting on a clown show.” (Captain Y-Fronts,
on BBC’s HYS about the Fury-Schwarz fight.) claim a seat
♦ “The thing that keeps the whole circus moving is money.” (The English the drive was on to ~ at the table (minority poets)
Premier League / soccer.)
claimed victory
behavior / performance / resemblance: circus he ~ in a photo finish (Mathieu van der Poel)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: circus
taking & removing: hand / verb
citadel (the Citadel, etc.) fictive possession: hand / verb
Citadel LLC clamor (verb)
~ is one of the world’s largest asset managers ($35 billion)
clamoring for an investigation
the Citadel they have been ~ of the investigators (politics)
~, the Military College of South Carolina
clamor for playlists and show lineups
Operation Citadel listeners ~ that reflect diversity (Blacks, gays, etc.)
~ was the German attack that initiated the Battle of Kursk
attention, scrutiny & promotion / conflict / resistance,
proper name: fortification opposition & defeat: sound / verb
citadel (noun) clampdown (noun)
citadel of our democracy clampdown
the Capitol is the very ~ flights have been cancelled since the ~ began (eruption)
citadel of segregation clampdown by the authorities on credit
whites detected a crumbling in the ~ (the South) a new ~ could hurt domestic demand
citadels of free inquiry clampdown on opponents
universities are supposed to be ~ but... (campus censorship) the arrest are part of a broader ~
attacks on citadels government clampdown
this was only one of Valla’s ~ of orthodoxy the ~ includes a strict curfew
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military major clampdown
civil war (noun) security forces engaged in a ~

civil war within the world vicious clampdown

the ~ has estranged millions from the regime
it’s nothing less than a ~ football (proposed ESL league)
conflict: military promoted a clampdown on intellectuals
the government ~
pressure: tools & technology

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coercion & motivation: pressure conflict / difficulty, easiness & effort: animal / verb
oppression: pressure behavior / conflict: animal / verb
clamp down (verb) claw (noun)
clamp down on criminal activity claw of the pincer
we must ~ in the informational sphere (ransomware) he wanted to see the southern ~ on the map (war)
pressure: tools & technology / verb tooth and claw
coercion & motivation: pressure / verb Nature, red in ~
oppression: pressure / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / hunting / predation
clap back (verb)
clay (noun)
clapping back at criticism
she is ~ of her looks (an actor) soft clay
he is ~, you can manipulate him (politics)
claps back at critics
Kristin Davis ~ creation & transformation: materials & substances
♦ Tagged at Wiktionary as African-American Vernacular and gay slang. character & personality: materials & substances

resistance, opposition & defeat: sound / verb clean (verb)

clarity (adjective) clean the cesspool
they are trying to ~ (of the Web)
clarity on how
we need full ~ such a tragedy happened (Flight 752) clean our shame
kill yourself and ~ or we will kill you first (honor killing)
clarity of purpose
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / verb
without scrutiny, there could be no ~ (war)
concealment & lack of concealment: eye / light & dark clean (come clean)
clash (verb) came clean
he ~ and confirmed what many had suspected
clashed with the network
but he ~ and resigned (a reporter come clean
if you're a sinner, ~ (a preacher)
clashes with these local laws instead of letting the questions fester, why not ~
what happens when free speech ~ (Twitter in India, etc.)
come clean about the origins
conflict: sound / verb they have refused to ~ of the coronavirus
clash (noun) come clean with the information
they should ~ they have (nuclear power plant)
clash
the ~ showed how a small spark could ignite another war concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / verb
clash with Henry Kissinger sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: hygiene / verb
he left government after a ~
clean (a clean record, etc.)
generational clash
this is a ~ between two progressives (politics) clean
my name is ~ (falsely convicted, then exonerated)
maritime clash she has been ~ for two years (an addict)
the ~ has hardened opinion
clean of corruption
wild clash he is widely viewed as ~ (government)
a ~ erupted during a motorcycle rally
clean (final) draft
conflict: sound the writer finally produced a ~ (on a typewriter)
claw (verb) clean, evocative prose
fought and clawed he crafts imaginative narratives using ~
once you’ve ~ your way up the tenure ladder (academia) clean (driving) record
scratch and claw I have a ~
she is going to ~ for the maximum she can get (politics) flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene

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clean out (verb) even engineers have learned to ~

clean them out clean up the sport

it may be impossible to ~ of cycling (Tour de France)
if there are any VC in there, that will sure as hell ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: hygiene / verb clean up the (education) system
it will be difficult to ~
cleanse (make clean)
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / verb
cleansed his rhetoric of cliche cleanup (military)
the murk of the trenches ~ (Wilfred Owen)
cleansed him of this sins cleanup operation
she was a victim of a government ~ against the rebels
being Obama’s vice-president ~ (Joe Biden)
violence: euphemism / hygiene / military
dismissal, removal & resignation: hygiene / verb / water
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / verb / water clear (crystal clear)
cleanse (violence) crystal-clear
it was ~ that…
cleanse the area of agents
we must ~ crystal clear
the Second Amendment is ~
cleanse the Foca area of Muslims
the purpose of the Serb campaign was “to ~” crystal-clear (m)
the trouble is the show doesn't have a ~ message
cleansing their enemies
they are ~ (government loyalists against protestors) certainty & uncertainty: eye / light & dark
violence: euphemism / hygiene / verb comprehension & incomprehension: eye / light & dark

cleansing (ethnic cleansing) clear (perception)

victims of ethnic cleansing clear picture

confused parents have no ~ of their kids
they claim they are the ~
violence: euphemism / hygiene clear seeing
the crystal was the symbol of the mind and of ~ (Navaho)
clean up (speech)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / light & dark
cleaned up the language comprehension & incomprehension: eye / light & dark
they have ~ to make Mark Twain available to schools clear (clear conscience)
speech: hygiene / verb
clear conscience
clean up (improve) you can sell them to widows and orphans with a ~

clean up your act guilt: light & dark

you need to ~ clear (in the clear / into the clear)
clean up your document
out of the woods and into the clear
review and ~ (text document)
we are not ~ yet (pandemic)
clean up its image ♦ An ABC news reader, speaking about a resurgence of COVID, warned,
in a drive to ~, the club holds charity events (bikers) “Another reminder that we are not out of the clear just yet.” Surely, she
meant, “out of the woods and into the clear.”
clean up the mess ♦ “You can only go halfway into the darkest forest, then you are coming
he has had to ~ the previous administration created out the other side.” (Chinese.)
we need to ~ in government (politician) danger / obstacles & impedance / survival, persistence &
cleaning up this mess endurance: forest / journeys & trips
we're ~ (diplomacy)
clear (unambiguous)
clean up (Mexico's human rights) record
Fox has promised to ~, but… clear
it was not ~ how many would take the advice
clean up her reputation it is not ~ if…
if the book is seen as an attempt to ~… it's not ~ how long the warming cycle will last
make it ~ that it was nobody's fault
clean up their resumes as many writings of the frontier era make ~

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 the specific target of the threats was not ~ (terrorism) clear, concise, and complete
dirty air is often blamed, but its role isn't ~ (asthma) make the text ~ (military message)
the cause of the blast was not immediately ~
clear and consistent
clear to him be ~ (disciplining a toddler)
what was ~ was invisible to others (native tracker)
clear and convincing (m)
clear how there is no ~ proof that…
it's not ~ one would deter an attack like 9/11
clear and present (m)
clear whether experts see a ~ danger (terrorism / Olympics)
he did not make ~ he supported a timeline or a deadline
clear and thorough (m)
clear if explains information in a ~ manner (nurse assistant)
it is not ~ they are using any sterile technique at all
clear, unambiguous (m)
clear directions provide ~ instructions (teachers)
the nurse must give ~ (when delegating tasks)
make clear
clear evidence as many writings of the frontier era ~
we see ~ that… he did not ~ if he supported a timeline or a deadline
clear goal make it clear
the decisive use of force with a ~ (military) ~ that it was nobody's fault
clear indication made his position clear
the results from this testing provided the first ~ of… he ~
clear link certainty & uncertainty: eye / light & dark
no ~ between thimerosal and autism has been found comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark
clear objectives clear-eyed (adjective)
establish ~ (warfare)
clear-eyed about the risks
clear (but unstated) objective we are ~
the ~ was to…
consciousness & awareness: eye
clear proof
the company had ~ the drug was dangerous clear up (verb)
clear provenance clear (all) this up
museums should refuse antiquities without a ~ he could ~ by releasing the records (controversy)

clear sign amelioration & renewal: light & dark / verb

take it as a ~ he's not interested click (verb)
clear signal
no ~s from the miners had been heard since… (cave-in)
clicking
the team is ~
clear strategy functioning: sound / verb
we need a ~ to achieve those goals (Iraq)
clickbait (noun)
clear threat
the town seemed under ~ of destruction (wildfire) clickbait
clear warnings ~ is being replaced by subscriber bait (paywalls)
the pilot missed ~ and crashed (airport) ~ will be with us always

clear warnings referred to the article as “clickbait”

signs should give ~ of the end of the detour (military) he ~ (a sports controversy)
♦ ‘Explosive sex’ wins top wildlife photo award (BBC)
clear directions and instructions ♦ “Do Dolphins living near Wales have a Welsh accent?” (BBC)
did the nurse give ~ ♦ “A Tasty Looking Moon And Sharing Caring Chimpanzees” (NPR)
clear guidelines ♦ “Space sleeping bag to stop squashed eyeball disorder.” (BBC)
have ~ on what behavior is not acceptable ♦ “Teachers ‘should not be crawling on ice for money.’” (ABC)
♦ “Canada’s 6,000-year-old ‘Silk Road’” (BBC. The article is about the
clear, concise (m) Nuxalk-Carrier Grease Trail in British Columbia, which is 279 miles long.)
the commander issues ~ orders and guidance

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♦ “In the disinformation world, we know that those questioning headlines an election marred by low turnout and a ~
are just clickbait.” (For example, “Can you have sex while pregnant?”
Many pregnancy apps not only spread misinformation but also have the climate of violence
malign intent to make money off of pregnant people.)
a ~ has always run through American politics
♦ see also chum (noun)
climate of fear and anxiety
attraction & repulsion / computer / pursuit, capture &
people are living in a ~
escape: hunting
climate of fear and intimidation
cliff (glass cliff) people live in a ~ (Iraq / Baath party)
got pushed off a glass cliff climate of backlash
she ~ (set up to fail) today in the ~ against bilingual education
♦ This is a variation of the glass ceiling. It refers to putting a woman or
minority in a position of power in a bad organization, in which they are Zimbabwe’s poisonous political climate
bound to fail. the report details ~
destruction: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills command climate
cliff (fall off a cliff, etc.) our ~ surveys measure toxic leadership (military)
you are accountable for true ~ (military officers)
eviction cliff
the bill will prevent them from falling off an ~ (relief)
investment climate
the nanotechnology ~ is warming up
fiscal cliff
the country is headed off a ~ of runaway spending
work climate
a negative ~ is created
on the edge of the cliff
we’re ~, we don’t have much time to back away (diplomacy)
classroom climate
establish a ~ that supports learning
dropped off a cliff create a ~ that is accepting, comfortable, and noncompetitive
I noticed that sales just ~ (online fake negative reviews)
revenue-driven climate
fell off a cliff UCLA is in a ~ (coach fired for losing record)
but then demand ~ (poor economy)
bitter (political) climate
fallen off a cliff the increasingly ~ ahead of elections next summer
venture capital investing ~ (low returns)
negative (work) climate
fallen off an economic cliff a ~ is created
we have just ~ (recession)
poisonous (political and rhetorical) climate
going over a cliff politics suffers from a ~
the economy is ~
political climate
push American off a (fiscal) cliff the increasingly bitter ~ ahead of elections
political paralysis may ~ a reporter asked him if he was afraid, given the ~

fall off a cliff tomorrow racial climate

we’re not going to ~ in terms of vaccine efficiency the ~ in our country today
(mutations)
social climate
♦ “He has put himself on a one-way road heading toward a cliff and there
is no turning back.”
the ~ is bad there (a black / U-Michigan)

decline / destruction / fate, fortune & chance: direction / tense climate

ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills / verb the ~ following the terrorist attacks

climate (work climate, etc.) toxic (command) climate

he fostered a ~ (military)
climate of cooperation
create a (classroom) climate
a ~ between the media and police
~ that is accepting, comfortable, and noncompetitive
climate of fear
fostered a (toxic command) climate
there is still a pervasive ~ (Basra under Baath control)
he ~ (military)
climate of (growing) hostility
improve (class) climate
coming of age in a ~ to immigration
~ through incentives or rewards (teachers)
climate of intimidation
maintain a climate

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 we struggle to ~ that meets our expectations (rape in continued to climb
military) as gasoline prices ~ last week
♦ In the Chicago Tribune, on August 2, 2012, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
editorial cartoonist Dick Locher published a cartoon that relates the continues to climb
weather to the US climate of violence. It shows a TV weatherman, the online population ~
pointing to a weather map of the US with highs and lows. The caption
reads, "LIGHT TO MODERATE GUNFIRE WITH OCCASIONAL started climbing
SHOWERS OF AUTOMATIC WEAPON FIRE COUPLED WITH
INTERMITTENT GUN SALES ACTIVITY AND SCATTERED DRIVE-BY
in the 1980s the numbers of TV deaths in the US ~
SHOOTINGS.”
earnings climbed
environment: air / atmosphere / weather & climate Nokia ~ 21%
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / weather &
increase & decrease: direction / number / verb
climate
climax (noun) climb (roads, etc.)
climax climbs the (green) slopes
antagonism reached a ~ in 1994 (illegal immigrants) Highway 37 ~ of Haleakala (Hawaii)
route: direction
climax of the Hajj
the Standing on Mount Arafat is the ~ fictive motion: verb

climax of my career
climb down (verb)
covering Hajj is the ~ (a journalist) climbed down from his decision
climax of the (religious) festival he has ~ to expel US diplomats
Shia pilgrims flocked to Karbala for the ~ (Ashura) climb down from all this
climax of the pilgrimage how do you ~ (diplomatic problem)
the short trek to Mount Arafat, marking the ~ reversal: direction / verb
marks the climax climber (social climber, etc.)
the ceremony ~ of the summer season (battlefield)
determined climber
nearing a climax he was a ~ (a young drug lord)
the drama is ~ (who to select as goalkeeper)
society: person
reached its climax
partisan politics ~ with the impeachment cling (verb)
development: theater cling on
he tried to ~ by offering new elections
climb (scale)
cling to the belief
climbed a (well-worn) immigrant ladder some parents ~ that vaccines cause autism
Chaudri ~ (dishwasher, cab driver)
clings to her
way to climb it’s a deeply embarrassing episode that still ~ today (singer)
the people of Africa have a long ~
cling to hope
attainment / progress & lack of progress: direction / families ~ as the search for survivors continues
mountains & hills / movement / verb
clung to his innocence
climb (increase) a large minority ~ (guilty verdict)
climbed to 612 cling to their own language
as Los Angeles' murder count ~ for the year in this region of China, where Tibetans ~ (Qinghai)
climbed to 40 degrees clinging to life
as the temperature ~ he is in the hospital, ~
he is critical and ~ (shot)
climbed in velocity
the wind suddenly switched in direction and ~ (ship) clung to the marriage
she ~ for longer than she should have
climbed 21%
Nokia earnings ~ cling to the past
it's foolish to ~ (an opinion)
climbed to $70
the price of a barrel of oil ~ clinging to power

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 how is he ~ (Maduro) invisibility cloak
Tor’s protocol is a kind of digital ~
cling to their language and customs
the Berbers in the Kabylia region ~ cover themselves in the (righteous) cloak
they ~ of religion (blasphemy laws)
clung to the hope
some convicts ~ of a last-minute pardon reformer cloak
he has donned the ~
clung to the traditions
Trinidad has ~ of carnival constitutional cloak
club members wrap themselves in a ~ (men only club)
clung to the (fading) values
he ~ of honor and omerta (mobster) hung a cloak (of secrecy) over the mission
the air force ~ (X-37B)
attachment / possession: hand / verb
survival, persistence & endurance: hand / verb concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
clingy (adjective) accessories
cloaked (covered)
possessive and (more) clingy
he got more ~ towards her (abusive relationship) mist-cloaked
feeling, emotion & effect / possession: hand the dispute centers over the ~ region of Tawang (India)
attachment / character & personality: hand configuration / cover: clothing & accessories
cloak (conceal) cloaked (concealed)
cloaks itself in "Christian" values cloaked in the mantle
the party cynically ~ blasphemy laws are ~ of religion
cloak a bully's identity concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
the Internet can ~ accessories
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing & cloak-and-dagger
accessories / verb
cloak-and-dagger precautions
cloak (under a cloak) they took elaborate ~
under a cloak of secrecy subterfuge: clothing & accessories
she arrived in Yemen ~ (government official)
clobbered (by rain, etc.)
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing &
accessories clobbered by (relentless) rain
San Diego has been ~
cloak (in a cloak)
force: storm
in the cloak of journalism
gossip is dressed ~ clock (turn back the clock)
in the cloak of reform and patriotism turn back the clock
scoundrels shroud themselves ~ you can't ~ (return to the past)
maybe we can ~ (relationship)
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / clothing & we don’t want to ~ (plunging vaccination rates)
accessories
turn the clock back
cloak (cloak of secrecy, etc.) how do you ~ at this point (Gibraltar and sovereignty)
cloak of legality turn back the clock some twenty years
judges twisted the law to give a ~ to crimes one needs to ~ to understand how... (history)
cloak of respectability turn back the clock (about) a hundred years
a deal built on rank expediency needed a ~ (Kenya) when we ~...
cloak of secrecy turn back the clock on aging
the White House has reaffirmed the ~ (Area 51) a wrinkle cream that promises to ~
the air force hung a ~ over the mission (X-37B)
turn back the clock on (racial) progress
cloak for (business-friendly) politicians they accuse him of helping to ~ (a judge)
reform can provide a ~ to appear respectable

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turn back the clock on voting rights time: clock
they are trying to ~ (Supreme Court rejects early voting) clock (around the clock)
try to turn back the clock
work around the clock
are we going to stay quiet as they ~ (a protest)
we will ~ to fix the problem
past & present / time: clock / direction / verb
direction: clock
clock (types) clock (reset the clock)
body clock
clock has been reset
the best way to follow your natural ~
the ~ (deadline extended)
ticking (biological) clock time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock
her pursuit to satisfy the ~
clock (run the clock, etc.)
biological clock
jet lag and the ~ run out the clock
her ~ is ticking (motherhood) the strategy is to punt to the courts and ~ (politics)
reproductive clocks run the clock down
men’s ~ are also ticking as they age (low sperm counts) all the Giants had to do now was ~ (NFL game)
time: clock ♦ “Do they think they’re winning and they just have to not screw it up, and
are they running the clock?” (Republican operative Dan Senor on Biden’s
clock (race with the clock, etc.) debate strategy and election campaign.)

action, inaction & delay: clock / football / sports & games /

in a race with the clock
we are ~ verb

racing the clock clockwork (noun)

we are ~ trying to prevent another tragedy (serial bombs) clockwork universe
they were ~, tying up their oyster boat (hurricane) the metaphor of a ~ (Bishop Nicole d’Oresme)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock
understand the (entire) clockwork
competition / time: clock now we ~ better than ever before (Polarstern MOSAiC)
clock (clock winds down, etc.) operation: mechanism
clock is winding down clog (noun)
the ~ to the strike deadline
clog
clock has run out such ~s affect users (distributed denial of service)
now the ~ (Brexit negotiations)
clog disappeared
clock runs out highway officials added one lane and the ~ (traffic)
concerns about what happens when the ~ (diplomacy)
obstacles & impedance: water
time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock
clogged
clock (clock is ticking, etc.)
clogged with people
clock in the back of your head Mexico's courts and jails are ~ like Hurtado
you have this ~ of how much time you can spend (Everest)
clogged with rubbish
ticking clock alleyways ~
he filed the notice to gain the advantage of a ~ (legal matter)
clogged with traffic
clock is ticking the Central Artery is ~ day and night (Boston)
and now, the ~ (to a royal wedding)
the ~ (legal decision setting a deadline) clogged with (cheap Chinese) motorbikes
streets are ~
clock is ticking on his benefits
the ~ (unemployed) clogged artery
Boston's ~ (the Central Artery)
clocks are (also) ticking
men’s reproductive ~ as they age (decreasing sperm counts) clogged roads
he is perturbed by ~ (Seattle)
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Mercedes-clogged fate, fortune & chance: proximity
we snaked our way through the ~ streets competition: horse
snow-clogged close call (danger)
a ~ mountain pass
keeping commuters off ~ streets and highways (blizzard) close call
I could have died, it was a ~
traffic-clogged
danger / fate, fortune & chance: proximity
at the intersection of a ~ street
streets are clogged
close-minded (adjective)
~ with cheap Chinese motorbikes (Ho Chi Minh City) called his critics close-minded
obstacles & impedance: water he ~
amount & effect: water mind: container
cloistered close shave
cloistered himself in his (hotel) room close shave
he ~ (from reporters) it was a ~ (narrow escape)
cloistered atmosphere ♦ “Death is as close as your jugular vein and as far away as the ends of
she felt secure within the ~ (psychiatric ward) the earth.”

danger: blade / hair / proximity

remain cloistered
the Wakhis ~ in their world of wind and ice fate, fortune & chance: blade / hair / proximity

avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation

closet (secret)
& remoteness / protection & lack of protection: religion / closet homosexual
place some people speculate that Hitler was a ~
close (close to, etc.) closet radical
he is a ~ (accusation of one politician by another)
close to losing
I was ~ my temper family closet
ghosts and phantoms from the ~
proximity: distance
in the closet
close (future) living ~ brought her pain (a lesbian)
close in O’Rourke’s closet
the deadline is ~ newly revealed skeletons have joined old ones ~ (politician)
proximity: distance
skeletons in our closet
future / time: distance I knew we had ~ (newspaper's lack of coverage of…)
close (feeling) skeletons in its (Communist) closet
close Poland exhumes ~
we're very close (relationship) skeletons in the closet
close family all the ~ are spilling out (Turkey)
we’re such a ~ (ethnic Puerto Rican-American) emerging from the closet
keeps memories of her late grandfather close more and more gay celebrities are ~
she ~ ♦ "If you autopsy anybody's personal life deep enough, everybody's got
skeletons." (A police chief under fire.)
proximity: distance ♦ “I get that feeling too. It’s like we’ve arrived in a small town and
division & connection / feeling, emotion & effect / everybody knows everybody’s dirty secrets, and we know there are
relationship / social interaction: distance / proximity skeletons in the closet, but we can’t find the closets.” (The General’s
Daughter by Nelson DeMille.)
close (and close-run) concealment & lack of concealment: house / skeleton
close-run thing evidence: house / skeleton
reaching the depots in time was often a ~ (in Antarctica) clothes (the emperor has no clothes)
that was a pretty ~ (death sentence commuted)
emperor has no clothes
nearest-run thing look, the ~, you got nothing (a consulting firm)
the ~ you ever saw in your life (Wellington / Waterloo)
it’s been obvious for years now that this ~ (Tottenham FC)

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substance & lack of substance: allusion / clothing & ethical cloud
accessories he left under an ~ (government)
clothes (deception) storm clouds
if there are some ~ on the horizon, they could come...
dressed in scientific clothes
exploration now had to be ~ clouds have gathered
given that these coronavirus storm ~...
appearance & reality / subterfuge: clothing & accessories
cloud has been lifted
clotheslined the ~ over this presidency
get clotheslined cloud (hanging over the President) has been removed
you can ~ by a fence, cable, bar, swing, or a person the ~ by this report
failure, accident & impairment: clothing & accessories ♦ "I had a cloud over my head, and I knew that was a cloud that wasn't
going to go away." (Problems at work.)
cloud (verb) feeling, emotion & effect / oppression: atmosphere / cloud
clouded his judgment / light & dark / shadow
drugs ~ cloud (resemblance)
consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / cloud / verb
cloud street
cloud (cast a cloud) ~s can indicate thermals (hang gliding)
~s are rows of cumulous clouds
cloud has been cast
a ~ over much of his work (fabricated data) bat cloud
radar can estimate the number of bats in a ~
oppression: atmosphere / cloud / light & dark / shadow
feeling, emotion & effect: atmosphere / cloud / light & dark resemblance: atmosphere / cloud
/ shadow cloud (consciousness)
cloud (under a cloud)
clouds of depression
under a cloud antidepressants can help part the black ~
she has left the Olympics ~
part the (black) clouds
under a cloud of suspicion antidepressants can help ~ of depression
he lived ~
consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / cloud
under a cloud of uncertainty cloud (sign)
they continue to work ~
under a legal and ethics cloud war clouds
he is ~ because of the affair (politician) as ~ gathered over the region (Iraqi Freedom)

lived under a cloud clouds gathered

he ~ of suspicion but ~ quickly
evidence: atmosphere / cloud
get out from under the cloud
he couldn't ~ of suspicion clouded
feeling, emotion & effect / oppression: atmosphere / cloud clouded by drugs
/ light & dark / shadow his thinking was ~
cloud (dark cloud, etc.) clouded in mystery
his past is ~
cloud
I had a ~ over my head consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / cloud
there is a ~ over the White House
cloudy (consciousness)
coronavirus storm clouds
given that these ~ have gathered... cloudy with drugs
his mind was ~
dark cloud
there are still ~s on the horizon (economy) consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / cloud

economic cloud
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cloudy (certainty) economics still stands alone as a ~

become cloudy boys club of comedy

he wants to change the ~ (Guy Branum)
news can ~ when information is controlled (rumors)
certainty & uncertainty: cloud / light & dark “boys club” culture
sexual misconduct and a general ~ (media company)
clout (noun)
boys’ club network
clout of financial journalists she describes the Academy as a ~ (the Grammys)
the ~ can affect the corporate bottom line
break through the (sportswriting) boys’ club
Washington's clout the battle to ~
~ is fading (diplomacy)
break up the boys’ club
economic clout the push to ~ at the Fed
Boeing has tremendous ~ (economy, jobs, etc.)
confronted (Rock’s) boys club
global clout they ~ (music)
China's ~
group, set & collection / hierarchy / society: school &
immense clout education
the business network carried ~ with investors
power: fist / violence
coach (verb)
cloth (cut from the same cloth, etc.) coached her on how to answer
the sheriff ~ to the FBI
cut from different cloth directing: sports & games
scientists are not ~ (self-interest)
clumsy (adjective)
cut from a different cloth
entrepreneurs are ~ clumsy term
it’s a very ~ (“systemic racism”)
cut from the same cloth
you and he don't seem to be ~ (husband and wife) clumsy writer
he is ~ as Steve Jobs (entrepreneurship) at first she was a ~
Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, Chavez, Kim, they're all ~
you and I, we are ~ ability & lack of ability: movement

character & personality / identity & nature: cloth coal (rake somebody over the coals)
taxonomy & classification: cloth
rake him over the coals
clown (verb) let's not ~s for a remark he made 30 years ago
clowning around punishment & recrimination: fire / verb
stop ~ speech: fire / verb
behavior: circus / verb coarse (speech)
clown (person) coarse word
it's a ~ (asshole)
clowns
plane was designed by ~ supervised by monkeys (Boeing) flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
speech: materials & substances
class clown
he was the ~, always dancing, singing, and joking coast (coast is clear)
he survived bullies by acting as the ~ (Richard Pryor)
coast is clear
overrated, overhyped clown let’s wait 2 weeks until we say the ~ (epidemic)
he’s an ~ (said by a boxer of another boxer)
danger: boat / sea
character & personality: circus / person
insult / person: circus
coast (coast to victory, etc.)
club (boys’ club) coasted to victory
the team ~
boy’s club
the upper echelon of music is still a ~ difficulty, easiness & effort: movement / verb

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attainment: movement / verb cocoon (isolation)
coast (noun)
cocoon of high expectations
third coast it was a ~ and harsh discipline (black school)
Atlanta is the ~ of rap (vs. LA, NY)
cocoon of seclusion
♦ “Atlanta artists and producers were trying to establish the local scene she maintains a ~ through the burqa (in public / Afghan)
as the ‘Third Coast.’ / ‘We wanted to make y’all eat this Southern fried
chicken,’ says Breeze. ‘Not chicken cordon bleu. Not pineapple chicken.’
/ So Breeze sat down with the pen. Someone made the West wild, he
cocoon of sorrow, rage and despair
reasoned. He was going to make the South dirty. Over time Dirty South, he began to emerge from the ~ that had enveloped him
not Third Coast, became a banner for artists throughout the region.”
(“Derivation of Dirty South” by Tony Rehagen, Atlanta Magazine, Nov 1, digital cocoon
2012. The dirty in Dirty South reflects the soil of the South, the red clay, she gets lost in her ~
etc.)

center & periphery: ground, terrain & land / sea ideological "cocoons"
the digital age makes it easy to spend your time in ~
cobble together (verb)
security cocoon
cobbled together a living he was wrapped in a tight ~ (president)
for a while she ~ acting and waitressing
spiritual cocoon
cobbled together a resume I was in a ~ (a nun in her pre-social justice period)
I ~ and was invited to interview
emerge from the cocoon
cobbled together a video he began to ~ of sorrow, rage and despair
he ~ with claims of an ‘amazing cancer cure’
peel away the (thick) cocoon
creation & transformation: clothing & accessories / verb I started to ~ I had built around my life (gay comes out)
cockroach (noun) avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation
& remoteness / protection & lack of protection: insect
cockroach
he is an autocrat, a “~,” despoiling the country (a leader) cocoon (resemblance)
insult / violence: animal / insect cocoon of air bags
it bounced down in a ~ (Mars "Spirit")
cocktail (noun)
resemblance: insect
cocktail of (psychoactive) drugs
he downs a daily ~ (mental illness) cocooned
cocktail of ash, acids, aerosols cocooned in privilege
the cloud, a toxic ~ (pollution / S. Asia) a metropolitan elite ~ (Great Britain)
cocktail of things cocooned in a (dignified) silence
it’s a ~, it’s never one thing (what makes serial killers) the stadium is now ~ (memorial to dead fans)
Disney’s cocktail avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation
~ of morality, stereotypes and magic (animated films) & remoteness / protection & lack of protection: insect
drug cocktail coffer (noun)
new ~s make living with HIV a reality
campaign coffers
toxic cocktail she’ll have to replenish her ~ quickly
the cloud, a ~ of ash, acids, aerosols (S. Asia)
money: container / sign, signal, symbol
mixture: alcohol / bird / food & drink
coffin (death / actual)
cocoon (verb)
coffin or the suitcase
“cocoon” in their homes it is the choice between the ~ (Algerian Civil War)
they were asked to ~ (elderly in Ireland during pandemic)
death & life: sign, signal, symbol
avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation
& remoteness / protection & lack of protection: insect / coffin (nail in the coffin, etc.)
verb standards coffin
the nails went into the ~ when... (education)

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Razor Ruddock’s (career) coffin coin (side of a coin)
Tommy Morrison put the final nail in ~ (boxing)
two sides of the same coin
nail in the coffin of the party obesity and hunger are ~ (nutrition)
the immigration issue will be the final ~ affluence and poverty should not be ~
final nail in the coffin relationship: money
that was the ~
coin (double-sided coin)
nail in the coffin came
the ~ when the army dropped him (a leader) double-sided coin
it’s a ~ (trust can help or hurt you)
driven “a big nail in the Coffin
Grant thought his victory had ~ of rebellion” (Chattanooga) relationship: money

put the (final) nail in the coffin coined

he ~ when he… (sports victory)
coined in the early 1980s
♦ "I think that was the final nail in the coffin… that the church could no
longer offer to subsidize these schools. But that was just the final the term “serial killer” was only ~
straw…” (Decline of Catholic schools.)
creation & transformation: money
♦ “I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now, so before the
final nail gets put in my cancel culture casket, I’d like to set the record
straight...” (The NFL’s Aaron Rodgers, employing nice alliteration.)
cold (feeling)
destruction / fate, fortune & chance: burial cold feeling
a ~ just came over me
cog (cog in the machine, etc.)
cold and hard
cog administrators can seem ~ (high school)
Evans was a ~ (one of thousands of government workers)
cold and impersonal
cogs in that machine the big city can be ~
he creates a machine and the players are just ~ (ten Hag)
cold and calculating
cog in the (Norwegian pedagogical) machine she is ~
he thinks of himself as a ~
emotionally cold
cogs of a (bloodthirsty) war machine I'm pretty much ~ (a marine)
making soldiers into the interchangeable ~
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
cog in a (vast, capitalist) machine character & personality: temperature
everyone was just a ~, it was brutal (1930s Hollywood)
cold (in the cold)
cog in the machinery
he was a fossilized bureaucrat, a ~ for decades left out in the cold
the West will be ~ (by Russian diplomacy)
interchangeable cogs
making soldiers into the ~ of a bloodthirsty war machine leave (excellent) workers out in the cold
requirements for degrees ~
vital cog
acceptance & rejection / dismissal, removal & resignation:
Reynolds remains a ~ in the Joshua operation (boxing)
society
♦ Alice Evans was just a cog, a “mote among drab-seeming
thousands...only a cow bacteriologist buried away in the U.S. isolation & remoteness / society: ground, terrain & land
Department of Agriculture... nothing more than a pleasant-looking girl
bacteriologist, anonymous among insignificant boy and girl microbe cold (cold case, etc.)
hunters...destined to no famous end...plodding...her specialization...Ford-
factoryish.” (And yet, she made an important contribution to science. cold case
From Men Against Death (1932) by Paul De Kruif.) ~s can rip open the wounds of the past
♦ see also machine (publicity machine, etc.)
gone cold
functioning / importance & significance / operation: his trail had ~ (crime)
mechanism
went cold
coin (verb) the case ~ for a decade (murder solved by DNA)
coined the term primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: temperature
he ~ ("virtual reality") activity: temperature
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coldblooded (and cold-blooded) cold war and zero-sum
the bill is full of ~ thinking (Chinese criticism of US)
cold-blooded one
it was a “one-off incident,” a hot-blooded crime, not a ~ tech cold war
this ~ matters (US vs. Huawei and 5G network)
seemed as coldblooded
Biden ~ as Nixon (Afghanistan / Vietnam withdrawal) long-running cold war
a ~ between news and opinion (at Fox News)
character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect: blood /
conflict: allusion / history / temperature
temperature
cold feet collapse (verb)
cold feet collapsed mentally and physically
the Saudi leaders were getting ~ Cherry-Garrard had ~ (in Antarctica)
she got ~ (bride-to-be who disappeared) destruction: infrastructure / ruins / verb
cold feet about testifying failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / ruins / verb
he was getting ~ collapse (noun)
getting cold feet collapse
he was ~ about testifying the system will reform itself or face its own ~
eagerness & reluctance: foot / temperature collapse of the (oil) boom
coldhearted (adjective) but with the ~

coldhearted person collapse of communism

she is a ~ since the ~ in 1991

coldhearted or cowardly collapse of the (cod) fishery

their decision was not ~ (climbers) the ~

heart: temperature collapse of the (Iraqi) government

empathy & lack of empathy: heart / temperature the situation could lead to the ~
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / temperature collapse of (stock) prices
coldly with the ~ (Silicon Valley)

coldly dismissed collapse of talks

she was ~ by the all-male institutions (explorer) the ~ between…(two companies)

watched coldly collapse of Taliban rule

diplomats ~ as the family was dragged away since the ~ (Afghanistan)

feeling, emotion & effect: temperature collapse in their self-esteem

empathy & lack of empathy: temperature men who experienced a near ~ (financial crisis)

cold shoulder company's collapse

an internal probe into the ~ shows…
cold shoulder from members
I received the ~ colony collapse (m)
a new bee problem, called ~ disorder (honeybees)
received the cold shoulder
I ~ from the members of the group price collapse
because of the ~ of commodities (sub-Saharan Africa)
gave the cold shoulder to the Russians
Georgia let the US help and ~ catastrophic collapse
secrecy can make a system prone to ~
♦ Some say this refers to offering a visitor a cold shoulder of meat, as
opposed to a more hospitable hot meal. This must have been before the
invention of the microwave.
economic collapse
engulfed Russia (following fall of communism)
acceptance & rejection: temperature
prone to (catastrophic) collapse
cold war secrecy can make a system ~
cold civil war on the brink of collapse
America is in a state of ~ (black vs. white history) the government is ~ (Northern Ireland)

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on the edge of collapse ♦ “I’m seeking to decolonize the birding experience.” (Tykee James, a
“birding activist” and co-founder of Freedom Birders. From “Monuments
the air travel network teeters ~ (Unfriendly Skies) And Teams Have Changed Names As America Reckons With Racism.
Birds Are Next” by Jeff St. Clair, NPR, June 5, 2021.)
on the verge of collapse
♦ “I’ve tried to decolonize the Thanksgiving meals by eating a variety of
the provincial government is ~ (Iraq) food.” (A Potawatomi.)

probe into the (company's) collapse control & lack of control / possession / taking & removing:
an internal ~ shows… ground, terrain & land / verb
collapse engulfed Russia colonized
economic ~ (following fall of communism)
colonized
faced collapse British English has been ~ (by American English)
the company asked for government intervention as it ~
♦ “Beware of the new ideological colonization that tries to destroy the
lead to the collapse family. It’s not born of the dream that we have from God and prayer—it
comes from outside and that’s why I call it a colonization.” (“Pope Warns
the situation could ~ of the Iraqi government Of ‘Ideological Colonization’; Praises Catholics in Caucasus” by Rebecca
Hersher, October 2, 2016. Pope Francis opposed rich countries foisting
failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / ruins / verb gender theory, contraception and gay marriage on poorer countries in
destruction: infrastructure / ruins / verb return for development aid.)

collide (verb) control & lack of control / possession / taking & removing:
ground, terrain & land
collide with (ancient) traditions
modern mores often ~ (Africa) color (verb)
generations collide color the residents (of the Gulf Coast) unimpressed
when ~ at work (boomers / Gen X) ~ by the government reaction to the disaster
conflict: crashes & collisions / verb colors his perspective
he is a wealthy small businessman, and that ~
collision (noun)
colors his thoughts
collision between the human and animal word his negativism ~
the bear’s death highlights the ~
colors his views
collision of cultures his vegetarianism ~ of certain countries
the dispute was a result of a ~ (temple bell vs. condo)
perception, perspective & point of view: picture / verb
collision of (all these different) cultures
it was a ~ (1930s Shanghai) color (color outside the lines, etc.)
conflict: crashes & collisions color outside the lines
back then, you could ~ (boxing marketing)
Colonel Blimp
constraint & lack of constraint: color / line / picture / verb
Colonel Blimp-ish figure
in person, Fisher cuts a ~... colored
♦ The cartoon appeared in 1934.
colored by their relationship
allusion: books & reading countries' views are ~ with Iran (on an issue)
character & personality: allusion / history perception, perspective & point of view: picture
military: sign, signal, symbol
colonialism (noun) colorful (language)

data colonialism colorful language

we learned and delighted in ~ (New York City)
this is called ~ (zero-rating WhatsApp)
I apologize for my ~ (expletives)
digital colonialism speech: color
the company engages in “~” (WhatsApp)
control & lack of control / possession / taking & removing:
colorful (politician, etc.)
ground, terrain & land colorful history
colonize (verb) Eagles fans have a ~ (Philadelphia)
colorful language
colonize Chatwin into the gay world we learned and delighted in ~ (New York City)
she felt a gay biographer might ~ (Bruce Chatwin’s widow)

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colorful (British) politician ♦ A colossus was a gigantic statue. The Colossus of Rhodes was one of
the seven wonders of the ancient world.
the ~ Boris Johnson
size: allusion / statue
character & personality: color
importance & significance: allusion / size / statue
colors (true colors, etc.) Columbus (Chinese Columbus, etc.)
true colors Chinese Columbus
he didn't show his ~ until after the wedding (abusive) but Cheng Ho, the ~, had no successors (isolation)
peoples’ true colors found its Columbus
hardships often bring out ~ in Dr. Schliemann the science of classical antiquity ~
showed his true colors ♦ “Ali never doubted that his victory against Sonny Liston in Miami was
he ~ with his shameful, dishonest attacks on a great man legitimate and repeatable. ‘In Miami I was Columbus,’ he would say. ‘I
was traveling to the unknown. I had to be cautious because I didn’t know
he ~ by walking out on his team with five minutes left what to expect. Now I know.’” (King of the World by David Remnick.)
♦ “Bearing on, the fleet came to anchor in the recent scene of Nelson’s
glory, the Bay of Aboukir...; the fleet consisted of 175 sail of all kinds. / history / searching & discovery: epithet
Broken and squally weather rendered the attempt to land impracticable
for a week; and in the meantime a French frigate, which, by capturing comatose (adjective)
some British ships, had become acquainted with our private signals, and
daringly accompanied the expedition as if she formed part of it, suddenly comatose
shot ahead of the fleet, and, hoisting the tricolour, ran safely into the
harbour of Alexandria, with a reinforcement for General Menou.”
"~," the term for servers using energy but doing no work
(“Alexandria, 1801” from British Battles on Land and Sea by James
Grant.) comatose demeanor
♦ “Duncan Gordon Boyes, Royal Navy, Midshipman of Her Majesty’s
his ~ at a G-7 meeting generated criticism
Ship Euryalus... He carried a Colour with the leading company, kept it in
advance of all, in the face of the thickest fire, his colour-sergeants having comatose state
fallen, one mortally, the other dangerously wounded...The Colour he the system is in a ~ (healthcare in Zimbabwe)
carried was six times pierced by musket balls.” (From the citation, in the
London Gazette, for Boyes’ Victoria Cross, for his actions at politically comatose
Shimonoseki, Japan, in 1864. Born in Cheltenham, Glos., England, they pronounced him ~ (a politician who later revived)
Boyes joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14. He received his VC at the
age of 17. Later, he was kicked out of the navy for ill-discipline and went activity / condition & status / consciousness & awareness /
to New Zealand. Suffering from depression and alcoholism, he
committed suicide at the age of 22.) functioning: health & medicine / mechanism / sleep
♦ “These colors don’t run.” (A T-shirt with an American flag.)
comb (verb)
identity & nature: flags & banners
combed the area on hands and knees
colossal (adjective) police ~

colossal (national) disaster combed the foothills in a (futile) search

the situation is a ~ (nuclear-power-plant failure) they ~ for the girl

colossal failure comb (former) battlegrounds for artifacts

it was a ~ hobbyists ~ (Civil War buffs)

colossal misunderstanding combed the (city's famed) canals for bombs

the message led to a ~ authorities ~ (Venice)

colossal problem combing the roadsides for evidence

we have ~s volunteers were ~ (murderers)
size: allusion / statue combed the slope for signs
Anker ~ of his missing friends (avalanche)
colossus (noun)
comb (Arabian) Desert for suspects
colossus unmanned US planes ~
Weir was a ~, what an inspiration (Scottish Rugby)
comb the seas for bluefin tuna
Antarctic colossus fishermen from New Zealand to Libya ~
the ~ is melting at a rapid rate (Thwaites Glacier)
comb through (decades-old) cases
business colossus detectives are beginning to ~, hoping...
the rise and fall of a ~ (Carlos Ghosn)
comb through (international travel) records
trading colossus analysts began to ~ (terrorism)
the East India Company was a ~
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 police ~ (for missing woman) coming our way
a new kind of war is ~
combed the school
the Jackson County Health Department ~ (rash) come again
it’s a time and style that will not ~ (Mississippi steamboats)
combed the region
police ~ came around
I didn’t get to sleep that night till the morning ~
combed the countryside
volunteers ~, on A.T.V.'s and on horseback (for girl) comes around
when the anniversary ~ every year (9/11)
combed the foothills
they ~ in a futile search for the girl come and gone
2001 has ~
searching & discovery: hair / verb
a year has ~ since we heard the news about Billy Joe
combat (verb) coming up
combat the disease a big week is ~ (politics)
he ordered a broad mobilization to ~ (SARS / China) coming next
combat (street) homelessness what is ~ is using machine learning (medicine)
it remains the principal tool to ~ (supportive housing) good days are coming
combat boredom and tension the worst part is behind us, we are seeing a new dawn, ~
they play Monopoly to ~ (soldiers / Iraq) ♦ “Every year, we know it’s coming, the birds sing differently...” (Kay
Oxendine, a member of the Haliwa Saponi Tribe in North Carolina, about
tool to combat the spring powwow season.)
it remains the principal ~ street homelessness (supportive ♦ "About the year, my folks would say, "This year," or "next year," but I
housing) couldn't discover what they meant. I used to wonder what it meant,
when they said, "A year." Sometimes they would say, "One year," or
conflict: military / verb "Two years," and sometimes, "Many years." I wondered what a year
was, and where it was. I used to think, "It must be around here." But I
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb couldn't see it. I always thought that the year must have arms and legs
and a head. It must have a body like an animal. I used to wish that I
combat (noun) could see it when it came around. But I never saw the year." (Old Man
Hat, A Navaho Autobiography.)
political combat
he relished ~ (a politician) future / time: direction / movement / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction /
waging (political) combat movement / verb
he has been ~ with Democrats (politics)
come (a time comes along)
♦ “In our social media age, disagreement can feel like combat.” (A
cultural critic.)
came a time
♦ “Fear and filth went hand in hand.” (With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and then ~ when the meat supply ceased...
Okinawa by E. B. Sledge.)

conflict: military came along

nobody saw a virus until the electron microscope ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
combative (adjective) comes along
just when things are improving, this new crisis ~
got combative
he was apologetic but he also ~ at times (at a hearing) Knott came along
before ~, fishermen caught lobsters the same way…
conflict / feeling, emotion & effect: military
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
psychoanalysis came along
until ~, the accepted antidote to hysteria was rest
combustible (adjective)
time came
combustible (recent Carter) interview when the ~, Russian industrialization turned the tide of the
perhaps the most ~ aired over the weekend war
♦ "Like most creatures of the Wild, the grey cub early experienced
initiation / speech: fire / temperature famine. There came a time when not only did the meat-supply cease, but
the milk no longer came from his mother's breast.” (White Fang by Jack
come (winter is coming, etc.) London.)

coming past & present / time: direction / movement / verb

the future is ~, whether we like it or not
a time is ~ when all will suffer under the terror...

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come (development) months to come
there will be ups and downs in the ~
come
it should not have ~ as a complete surprise (oil bust) more (Inside Edition) to come
with Empire had ~ immense problems of security (UK) there is ~

came with the airing of The Shop things to come

the final straw ~ this is a sign of ~
future / time: direction / movement
came with a heavy price
fame ~ come (see something coming)
comes every year saw it coming
influenza is an old enemy, one that ~ I never ~
♦ “It seemed like there was light at the end of the tunnel, and then the they never ~
Delta variant came along, the Omicron variant came along...”
nobody ~ (boy arrested)
development: direction / movement / verb we were caught flatfooted, we never ~
appearance & disappearance: direction / movement / verb see it coming
relationship: movement / verb he didn't ~ (heart attack)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction /
♦ Shrek: My father was an ogre. He tried to eat me. I should have seen it
movement / verb coming.
come (come a long way) ♦ You don't play with snakes and not expect to get bitten.
♦ "You fall when your life is over." (Mini on the death of the great free-
come a long way solo climber, John Bachar, posted at supertopo.)
we have ~ (a business)
we have ~, but we have much further to go consciousness & awareness / development / future / time:
we have ~, but not far enough direction / eye / movement / verb

come a long way in race relations come (for a time to come)

we have ~, but we keep going backwards
for years to come
come a long way since the 1990s the problem will occupy botanists ~
Kosovo has ~
for decades to come
come a long way from its (humble) beginnings he may last ~ (a leader)
the company has ~
for centuries to come
come a long way in four decades shrinking coastlines will be the new normal ~
the sport has ~
future: direction / movement
development / progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips
/ movement
come (come out swinging)
come (to come) came out swinging
the president ~
to come she ~ against her critics
more hearings are ~ accusation & criticism / conflict / resistance, opposition &
yet to come defeat / speech: boxing
there are changes ~ (global warming)
it does make you wonder what is ~ (politics)
come after (and come for)
the best is ~ coming after our children
sure to come they are ~ (culture wars)
change is ~ come after your guns
decades to come everybody’s trying to ~ (gun control)
we are left with this legacy for ~ come after their studios next
future to come we’re going to ~ (a demonstrator)
they are waiting for the ~, but it’s already here come after you
generations to come if you speak up, the immigration system will ~ (an activist)
these issues will affect ~ coming for you
what we do will echo through ~ (2020 election) we’re ~, the party is over (cops versus gang)

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pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / resiliency /
survival, persistence & endurance: direction
come along (appearance)
come down on (verb)
come along very often
opportunities like this don’t ~ (quite job for a better one) came down (hard) on his critics
appearance & disappearance: movement / verb President Trump ~
accusation & criticism: direction / verb
come away with (verb)
oppression: direction / verb
came away with come forward (verb)
the message I ~ is that...
analysis, interpretation & explanation: giving, receiving,
came forward
dozens of women ~ and said... (sex abuse)
bringing & returning / verb
come forward
come back (to bite, haunt, etc.) she decided to ~, despite the publicity (accusation)
come back police have appealed for any witnesses to ~
I never thought it would ~ again (convicted of cold case) come forward with allegations
come back to haunt 4,000+ people have ~ of sexual assault (Australia)
what you do on the computer can ~ (queries) appearance & disappearance: direction / verb
come back to bite the president confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction / verb
a lot of that conduct and those words may ~ come from (origin)
come back to bite us come from
this will ~ (no test to get driving license) where does his temper ~ (a politician)
come back to haunt the Ethiopians comes from dishonesty
such tactics may ~ (torture / rebels) nothing good ever ~
come back to haunt you ♦ You don’t harvest grapes from planting thorns. (An Arab proverb.)
gossip can ~ origin / product / relationship: verb
♦ “Be careful about sharing intimate gossip in a party situation—you may
find it comes back to haunt you...” come from (analysis)
reversal: animal / teeth / verb come from
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: verb where did all this ~ (stigmas and stereotypes)
judgment: verb
analysis, interpretation & explanation: journey & trips / verb
come back (resiliency)
come from (emotion)
came back to level it
the defending champions ~ (Olympic basketball) coming from
he understood where their anger was ~ (an official)
come back stronger I just want people to understand where you’re ~ (mom died)
I'm going to ~ than ever
feeling, emotion & effect: place / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / resiliency /
survival, persistence & endurance: direction / movement / come out (verb)
verb coming out
comeback (noun) people ask why I’m ~ now (male on male historical abuse)
now the truth is ~ (an expose that was quashed)
comeback kid
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / verb
he’s not the ~, he’s Lazarus (a politician)
comeback trail
come out (against something)
they are on the ~ after serious injuries (skiers) come out against anti-Semitic tropes
the genre is on the ~ (hard rock music) we felt the need to ~
spark for his comeback resistance, opposition & defeat: movement / verb
the rivalry was the ~ (a rapper)
comer (up-and-comer, etc.)
made a comeback
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 I know he’s an ~ so... (Ray Mancini about Connor Benn) come up on (a date, etc.)
up-and-comers coming up on a new trial
there’s a long list of ~ bringing fresh sounds to the city
he is ~
up-and-comer from Chattanooga coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement
in 2013, Rashad was still a relatively unknown ~
future / time: direction / movement / verb
up-and-comer artist coming (in the coming months, etc.)
~ Gemma Laurence (sapphic folk music / wlw)
in the coming months
Republican up-and-comer a series of reports is expected ~
from Texas underdog to ~ (Ted Cruz / politics)
♦ See up-and-coming, arrive (attainment) in the coming years
such events will become more frequent ~ (droughts)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
movement future / time: direction / movement

come to (come to an answer, etc.) coming out (party, etc.)

come to coming out party
what decision did they ~ this was his ~ to set up big money (Brit boxer fights in US)

came to his decision experience: love, courtship & marriage / sex

he asked for an assessment and that’s how he ~ come with (and come along with /
analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips / attachment)
movement / verb
comes with being
come to (development) her poems involve the cultural baggage that ~
coming to come with its territory
impeachment is crazy, what is this ~ (politics) his book avoids the pitfalls that ~ (a biography)
come to mean come along with that
“gaslight” has ~ a type of psychological manipulation there are questions that ~ (athlete’s drug-taking)
came to a head come with the sudden wealth
it all ~ in December (conflict) leeches ~ (pro athletes)
development: movement / verb attachment / relationship: journeys & trips / movement /
verb
come through (verb)
command (deserve and get)
still came through
Italy was not at its best but it ~ (a Euro 2020 game) commands (an annual) rent
the space ~ of $800 a square foot
came through for people
I ~ (the great Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini / Youngstown) commands respect
obstacles & impedance / success & failure / survival & she ~ (a veteran teacher)
perseverance: journeys & trips commands the highest prices
sweet crude ~… (oil)
come up (appear)
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: speech / verb
come up fictive communication: speech / verb
that’s an option that has ~
common denominator
appearance & disappearance: direction / prep, adv , adj,
particle / verb common denominator
music is a ~ (vs. class, race, ability)
come up with (discovery)
division & connection: number
come up with nothing
they have dug through and ~ (investigation) commodity (noun)
searching & discovery: direction / ground, terrain & land / most precious commodity
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questionable commodity tell us about a time your moral ~
for all his talent, he is still a ~ (athlete)
lacks a moral compass
scarcest commodities he is a menacing creature who ~ (a dictator)
time is one of your ~ (owners of small businesses)
lose their moral compass
limited and precious commodity they are so mired in bad fortune they ~
time is a ~ ♦ The metaphor of a compass is a very trendy cliche in writing and
speaking nowadays, and it is obvious that almost everyone utilizing the
treat virginity as a commodity word has never owned or used one. The compass doesn’t waver, the
men should not ~ compass needle does. The compass doesn’t go off course, the user of
the compass does. What in the world does it mean to “realign” a
worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture compass “once wires get crossed,” or to be “tuned in to” your moral
compass? Is there really a compass or something like it inside us? Are
consumption / product: farming & agriculture compasses ordinarily distinguishable as “strong” or “weak”? How can a
compass “waver off true north” when its sole job is to indicate north!
companion (noun) Read or listen to “Resetting Your Moral Compass After An ‘Ethical Slip,’”
NPR, Talk of the Nation, April 8, 2013.
companion of time
change is a constant ~ (said by a diplomat) behavior / direction: tools & technology

companion to a (bewitching) city complex (military-industrial complex,

for me, the book was a perfect ~ (Kaplan / Kim / Lahore) etc.)
companion for 105 days celebrity industrial complex
the wind was a pretty constant ~ (Antarctica) by the 1950s, he was a big face in the ~ (Dirk Bogarde)
constant companion deadline-industrial complex
exhaustion is a ~ (work at nursing homes) we buy in to the ~
cruelty is their ~ (untouchables / India)
“Lolita” industrial complex
constant companions the ~ (film adaptations, fashion shows, podcast, etc.)
thirst and hunger were their ~
modern life and ancient traditions are ~ (Bangkok) media-industrial complex
a camera and tape recorder were his ~ (a filmmaker) the best-of-the-decade ~ (2019-2020)

near companion prison industrial complex

death was always a ~ (diseases / British Raj) the ~ is profit driven (for-profit incarceration)

turns a poem into a companion tragedy-industrial complex

memorization ~ (Billy Collins) the printed press and its ~ (the film Ace in the Hole)
relationship: person Democrat-media complex
the full ~ was on display (politics)
compass (within / outside the compass)
Democrat-Media Complex
within the compass of that subpoena the ~ lives in the past... (historical debate)
if there are papers that are ~
♦ Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term “the military-industrial complex” in
♦ “Keep within compass and you shall be sure to avoid many troubles his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961. About that, the
which others endure.” (An illustration of a virtuous woman, inside the linguist Noam Chomsky said, “There is no military-industrial complex: it’s
legs of a compass. The compass is not a nautical one, but the one used just the industrial system operating under one or another pretext.”
to inscribe a circle, the drawing tool. The idea is that correct behavior is
circumscribed by precise boundaries.) power: allusion / history
extent & scope: boundary / tools & technology conceived
compass (moral compass) conceived, born and raised
Nature was ~ to serve polemic purpose (the magazine)
moral compass
a friend with a stronger ~ (told police of crime) creation & transformation: birth
so many are intelligent, with decent ~s (teens / dating)
~ can point you in the right direction concierge (person)
his own inner moral compass concierge-style
he had lost sight of ~ a ~ (health care) start-up with offices in...

compass had shifted Book Concierge

the moral ~ 180 degrees (seduction is abuse) NPR’s annual literary recommendation tool ~
♦ Wealthy Bobos expect to be catered to by Sherpas, concierges,
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help & assistance: person I want to ~ something that is happening (an author)
concoct (verb) ♦ The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines this as “to make
concrete, specific, definite.”

concocted such a (wild artistic and musical) gumbo strength & weakness: materials & substances / verb
few have ~ (Van Dyke Parks)
concretized
concocted an (escape) plan
she ~ (to get away from a cult) concretized
♦ Originally, this meant to cook together. As such, it is congruent with
once a clear definition is ~ (academia)
cook up.
strength & weakness: materials & substances
creation & transformation: cooking / mixture / verb
condemn (verb)
concoction (noun)
condemned his men to march or die
plot-driven concoction he had ~ (Robert Falcon Scott / logistics)
State of Terror is a ~
condemned Scott as a “sentimentalist”
creation & transformation / mixture: cooking / food & drink Meares ~ (Antarctica)
concrete (noun) judgment: justice / verb

concrete conduit (noun)

their thinking becomes less ~ and more abstract (kids)
conduits for contributors
concrete evidence Visa and PayPal refused to be ~ (to WikiLeaks)
for now, there was no ~ linking... (terror attack)
conduit for refugees from Tibet
concrete examples the passes into Sikkim became a ~ after 1950
some ~ will illustrate this point
conduit between publishers and consumers
concrete information originally the company was to be a ~ (Amazon)
he didn't give any ~ about the crime
communications conduit
concrete offer he acted as a ~ (terrorist messenger)
I haven't gotten any ~s (job search)
media conduit
concrete question the group acts as a ~ for the ALF
unable to answer ~s about…
vital conduit
concrete results the Gulf of Aden is a ~ for Middle East oil
we need ~ from this conference (U.N.)
route: water
substance & lack of substance: materials & substances
confetti (noun)
concretize (verb)
turned the insulation into confetti
concretize what’s going on the machine-gun fire ~ (an aircraft)
trying to ~ today (racial attitudes)
resemblance: waste
concretize (possible) approaches conflagration (noun)
steps designed to ~ to the problem of...
concretized the connection financial conflagration
Foucault further ~ between knowledge and power proprietary trading added tinder to the ~ (2008)

concretized a Palestinian national identity added tinder to the (financial) conflagration

the Nakba ~ post-1949 proprietary trading ~ (2008)

concretizes it avoid a conflagration

if everybody knows about it, it ~ (death of a person) the US and the UN are seeking to ~ (in Sudan)

concretize the opinion ignite a (larger) conflagration

the bumper sticker helps to ~ of the driver (or “firm up”) Somalia could ~ across the Horn of Africa

concretized our solidarity provoked a conflagration

the connection ~ (Ferguson / Gaza) (BLM / Hamas) nationalists ~
amount & effect: fire
concretize or literalize

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confluence (noun) he helped her to ~

confluence of agendas conquered Yosemite’s Half Dome

how two skiers ~
a "~" between Algeria and the West (terrorism)
confluence of (natural and manmade) disasters conquering Hollywood
digital de-aging is ~
the ~ (war, drought, etc.)
confluence of events conquered the world
he ~ of American entertainment (Marvin Hamlisch)
the odd ~ (volcanoes erupt on same day)
the ~ occurring in Iran is very sad (Hillary Clinton) conquered all in Middlesbrough
a ~ brought the Web site down she ~ (Miley Cyrus / 2019)
where is this ~ taking all of us (news-show host)
love conquer
confluence of factors can ~ travel bans (coronavirus pandemic)
a ~ has contributed to the spike in lethal violence (U.S.)
success & failure: military / verb
confluence of (several) factors
a ~ is likely responsible (falling crime rates) conscious (aware)
confluence of two problems conscious of the value
many cities struggle with the ~ (coronavirus / homelessness) people are more ~ of relationships (post-9/11)
odd confluence conscious of what
the ~ of events (volcanoes erupt on same day) I've always been very ~ I eat, how much I exercise
♦ “Many different streams of migrants were to make their confluence in
the future United States. But the British stream flowed first and remained conscious (and unconscious) beliefs
foremost. From the beginning its leaders were out of sympathy with the their ~ (stereotyping)
Government at home...” (A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,
Volume 2, “The New World,” by Winston S. Churchill.) conscious decision
division & connection: river some people make a ~ to go missing, start a new life

conga line conscious and unconscious (m)

their ~ beliefs (stereotyping)
conga line of headlamps budget-conscious
climbers create a long ~ in the dark (Mt. Everest)
~ parents
conga line of storms celebrity-conscious
a ~ is heading towards the US
Los Angeles is America's most ~ town
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement
cost-conscious
connect (verb) a ~ chef

connect ecology-conscious
two lonely teens meet and try to ~ an ~ audience

connect the distant parts fashion-conscious

migrating birds ~ of the world ~ customers

social interaction: tools & technology / verb party-conscious

division & connection: tools & technology / verb his move could alienate ~ Democrats (politics)
conquer (verb) safety conscious
kayakers are usually ~
conquer social anxiety
ways to ~ safety-conscious
NASCAR is extremely ~ (auto racing)
conquer coronavirus
how Iceland clamped down to ~ security-conscious
this year's Academy Awards will be the most ~ ever
conquered (some of the world’s) deadliest diseases
the science and medical innovations that ~ status-conscious (m)
~ people are stuck up
conquer their fears
students ~ at the outdoor adventure center style conscious
Gabriella was ~ and had expensive taste
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technology-conscious someone ~ (girl stabbed 40 times)
in ~ San Francisco
consumed by thoughts of revenge
weight-conscious he was ~
data on nearly 500 ~ women
feeling, emotion & effect: fire
earthquake-conscious consumed (destroyed)
Japanese are the most ~ people
environmentally conscious consumed in confidence
an ~ business your wisdom is ~
in an ~ world consumed by a fight
ethically conscious today will be ~ over the rules of the trial
ethically conscious investors destruction: fire / food & drink / predation
consciousness & awareness: health & medicine consumption (noun)
constellation (noun) media consumption
constellation of symptoms ~ and loneliness in the midst of hyper-connection
the ~ at the end of life public consumption
he had another patient with the same bizarre ~ (AIDS) everything is on social media, for ~ (a scandal)
configuration: astronomy consumption: food & drink
group, set & collection: astronomy
contagion (noun)
construct (artificial construct, etc.)
contagion
artificial construct if the ~ spreads widely… (failing economies of states)
this notion of genre is an ~ anyway (Rachel Yoder)
contagion of meaninglessness
creation & transformation: infrastructure this ~ (the word progress applied to Afghan War)
consume (emotions) contagion of stupidity
consumed him he described what happened as a ~ (mass beach brawl)
guilt and shame ~ (financial infidelity) ‘turnover contagion’
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb a chain reaction known as ~ (mass resignations)

consume (consumption) lead to contagion

amplification in the media can ~ (names of mass shooters)
consumed books
affliction / corruption: health & medicine
Melville ~ and was consumed by them
consuming the media
contagious (emotion)
people are ~ differently nowadays contagious
consumed no news the girl's lack of ambition was ~ (to high-school boy)
many had ~ about the case (jurors) feelings are ~
she had a laugh that was ~
consumed online overconfidence can be ~ (teams)
what they ~ warped and narrowed their vision of the world winning is ~ (sports teams)
his boldness and confidence were ~ Alex Honnold)
consumption: food & drink / verb
feeling, emotion & effect / transmission: health & medicine
consume (destroy)
contaminate (verb)
consumed 4 Turkish divisions
Yemen ~ in the 19th century contaminated the inquiry
the media ~ (Amanda Knox)
destruction: fire / food & drink / predation / verb
contaminate the interrogation
consumed (emotion) interrogators can ~ by providing details
consumed by envy corruption: materials & substances
I was not ~, but it was there (a boy)
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contamination out-of-control quality
a wild, nervy ~ to his writing
contamination
~ is the primary factor in wrongful convictions out-of-control rebel
the angry, ~
corruption: materials & substances
out-of-control shopper
contaminated an ~
contaminated out-of-control (urban) sprawl
confessions are ~ when interrogators supply details ~ (Austin)
corruption: materials & substances blossom out of control
the consequences can ~ (problems on 767 jetliner)
contest (noun)
feel out of control
contest of measure and countermeasure badly designed intelligent technology makes us ~
it's a grim ~ (IEDs / Iraq)
getting out of control
popularity contest things were ~
he was bound to lose the ~ the situation seems to be ~
grim contest got out of control
it's a ~ of measure and countermeasure (IEDs / Iraq) they were away and the kids ~
lose the (popularity) contest spinning out of control
he was bound to ~ digital downloading and copying is ~
competition: sports & games his personal life seemed to be ~
Nairobi is ~ (crime)
contour (noun)
spinning (faster) out of control
contours of it Hernandez was ~
we know some basic ~ now (from the Muller Report)
spun out of control
basic contours the argument ~
we already knew the ~ of both sides’ arguments (politics)
spiraled out of control
analysis, interpretation & explanation / area / environment: Rye's junior prom ~ (drunk teens)
ground, terrain & land
spiraling out of control
shape: ground, terrain & land
in danger of ~
control (in control)
spiral out of control
in control of his emotions medical expenses can often ~
he is not ~ his life seemed to ~ (drug addict)

more in control restraint & lack of restraint: control & lack of control
I always enjoy leading and it helped me feel ~ (kayaking) control (under control)
felt (very much) in control under control
she ~ (a positive job interview)
everything is ~
feeling, emotion & effect: control & lack of control I've got everything ~
control (out of control) restraint & lack of restraint: control & lack of control

out of control control (behavior)

the $100 billion timber industry is ~
under control
the perception that juvenile violence is ~
he can get his erratic behavior ~
he's ~ (behavior)
our wireless bills are ~ get his (erratic) behavior under control
he can ~
out-of-control drivers
laws against ~ behavior: control & lack of control
out-of-control person control (out of one's control)
an ~
out of your control

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 some things are ~ the ~ has become so binary and simplistic
fate, fortune & chance: control & lack of control necessary conversation
engage in a ~ about how to avert these risks
conversation (groups, etc.)
open conversations
conversation we have to start having more ~ about this (ageism)
is this mainly a ~ that takes place among a select group
there’s never a ~ about it (race and slavery in the U.S.) public conversation
make this a public shaming and ~ (online petition site)
conversations where
we’re having these dishonest ~ children... (race) sophisticated conversation
have these ~ people can you know choose mental health... society has to have an even more ~ about how the roots of...

conversation about what tricky conversations

a new chapter in the American ~ racial justice / inequity... it’s important not to shy away from ~ (reintroducing wolves)

conversation about whether uncomfortable conversation

the result will provoke a ~... you have to be ready to have the ~

conversation about race gatekeeper of (public) conversation

it’s time to retire the “serious ~” (SCAR) Twitter has become this ~ (India, Turkey, etc.)
her work helped change the national ~ (1619 Project)
part of the (national) conversation
conversation about these shows or plays the video became ~ over police responses
collectively, the industry must have ~ that are problematic
(the rape and murder of girls and women)
rise of conversations
with the ~ around police brutality...
conversations on Black Language education
she is a national leader in ~ (a Black academic)
weight in this conversation
it’s crazy he has ~ at all (Clooney about an investor)
conversation on police reform and race
his death jumpstarted a national ~
conversation has (really) given us space
the ~ to say, “I don’t agree with what’s going on”
conversation between Black men
a ~ (ABC News with T.J. Holmes)
conversation go next
where does this ~ (sports and mental illness)
thousand conversations
this acutely argued book will engender a ~ (blurb)
conversation has to translate
when ~ (policing reform)
broader conversation
there’s a ~ happening around Critical Race Theory
advance the conversation
there’s a ~ taking place, there’s a hot debate... (CRT) I wrote the book to encourage and ~ about race

“courageous conversations” belongs in the conversation

the office hosted a series of ~ about race (education) he will have to win to prove that he ~ (MMA)

cultural conversation bring families into the conversation

it’s provoked a conversation that has dominated the ~ discretion in terms of when to ~ (school counselors)
(#FreeBritney) changed the conversation
difficult conversation the #MeToo movement ~ around sexual assault
the ~ about Bill Cosby change the (national) conversation
familiar conversations her work helped ~ about race (1619 Project)
he tells stories that follow ~ into unfamiliar territory (ad) dominated the (cultural) conversation
hard conversations it has provoked a conversation that has ~ (#FreeBritney)
I had to have these kind of ~ with myself about... (marriage) dominating the conversation
honest conversation inflation is really ~ right now (politics)
it’s time for a more ~ (linguist John McWhorter) elevate the conversation
intentional conversations the more we ~ of how Black women are maligned...
~ between partisans could be a catalyst for national healing encourage (and advance) the conversation
national conversation I wrote the book to ~ about race (Rachel Dolezal)
her work helped change the ~ about race (1619 Project) have this conversation

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 we think it’s time to ~ ‘1619 Project’ into kids’ hands,” NPR, All Things Considered, February
17, 2022.)
left out of the conversation ♦ “The ‘good’ conversation versus the ‘sexual assault’ conversation.”
the hospitality industry has been ~ about ending lockdown (About Bill Cosby.)
♦ “Of course, one man’s negotiation is another man’s conversation is
opening up a conversation another man’s ransom.” (“A Metaphor Meltdown At The White House,”
it is ~ for people (about mental health) NPR, It’s All Politics, Ari Shapiro, October 10, 2013.)
♦ “Why It’s Time To Retire The ‘Serious Conversation About Race,’” with
prompt conversations Damon Young, 1A, WAMU, NPR, July 16, 2020.
we hope our expert report will ~ among... (a think tank) ♦ “We should have that conversation; We need to have that
conversation; What an interesting idea, I think we should have that
provoke a conversation conversation...” (Excellent ways not to say yes or no, to make no
the result will ~ about whether... commitment, while at the same time sounding sympathetic.)
♦ “it is becoming an idiotic buzz word.” (johnSchreiber) (2011.)
provoked a conversation
♦ “It’s time for a more honest conversation.”
the documentary has ~ about tabloids and celebrities
inclusion & exclusion: society
provoking the conversation
I’m glad he’s asking the questions and ~ (about Bill Cosby) convert (person)
retire the (“serious) conversation backcountry converts
it’s time to ~ about race” (SCAR) many are ~ (at Bluebird Back Country skiing resort)
spark conversations out for converts
the shootings should ~ about mental health, violence... he is a culinary evangelist ~ (chef)
sparked a conversation won many converts
his death has ~ around the treatment of sumo wrestlers he ~ to his ideas
start these conversations message / enthusiasm: person / religion
workers can ~, move these conversations, ignite that fire person: religion
stays in the conversation conveyor belt
making you wonder is how he ~ (politics / Trump)
conveyor belt of assistants
add something (of substance) to the conversation a ~ rotates in and out (an abusive Hollywood assistant)
journalist scrutiny would ~ (Ronan Farrow)
talent conveyor belt
take on this (national) conversation he is just one to come off the club’s ~ (Lochend boxing)
as we continue to ~ about systematic racism and... ♦ The Lochend Boxing and Fitness Club welcomes anyone. It has
♦ see also talk (talk about something / groups, etc.) produced many fine boxers, Josh Taylor being but one.
♦ “We do support the independence of museums and heritage
movement: mechanism
organizations, this is just the start of a conversation about working
together to protect heritage.” (Government statement after it threatened creation & transformation: manufacturing
to withhold funds from museums and was rebuked by the Museums coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: mechanism /
Association.) movement
♦ “[Her case] is opening up this space to have these conversations
where people can you know choose mental health over you know convulse (verb)
necessarily you know showing up to work when they’re feeling
miserable.” (ABC, “Naomi Osaka Steps Away.”) convulsed in a spasm
♦ “I think it’s more than a conversation now, I think it’s a movement. for 3 minutes the casino ~ of violence (biker riot)
(Osaka, Biles, etc.)
♦ “It does open up a conversation because it’s her using her voice and convulsing with change
her platform to really call out systemic change, which she has done Ethiopia has been ~
before. I think she can show other girls and women who look like her
how to empower them to stand up for themselves in ways that I think we convulsed India
haven’t always been able to see.” (C. Vaile Wright, PhD, a clinical
psychologist and the American Psychological Association’s Senior
globalism and capitalism has ~
Director of Health Care Innovation, about Naomi Osaka and mental
health.) convulsed the country
waves of anti-foreign sentiment ~ (China)
♦ “Much of the conversation about antisemitism has nothing to do with
antisemitism, it’s actually about influencing and controlling the affliction: health & medicine / movement / verb
conversation inside the Jewish community. It’s an arms race to define
what is antisemitism in the Jewish community, which is, of course, stupid activity: health & medicine / movement / verb
and it’s a waste of resources.” (Andres Spokoiny, president of the Jewish
Funders Network. From “Dark money, questionable partners behind new convulsed
group fighting antisemitism” by Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward, April 22,
2021.) convulsed by nationwide protests
♦ “[W]e are spending a lot of time on erasure, and these are great the US has been ~
conversations to have with children...” (“‘Born on the Water’ puts the

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convulsed by (ethnic) strife he is a ~
the area is ~
feeling, emotion & effect: head / temperature
affliction: health & medicine / movement character & personality: head / temperature
activity: health & medicine / movement coolly (adverb)
convulsion (noun)
coolly
financial convulsion she looked at me ~
a breakup of the EU would cause a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
affliction: health & medicine / movement
cool off (verb)
activity: health & medicine / movement
cooked up cooled off
he regrets what he did now that he has ~
cooked up at Eglin Air Force Base
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / verb
the planes were armed by a new bomb ~
creation & transformation: cooking
cooped up
cookie jar (noun) cooped up in the White House
an active man, he felt ~ (President Grant)
cookie jar of jobs, concessions, contracts
Daly wants to protect the ~ (politician) cooped up (in his study) since six o’clock
he’s been ~ this morning
got caught with his hand in the cookie jar
he ~ (corruption) cooped up indoors
he loved the outdoor life and hated being ~
money: sign, signal, symbol
isolation & remoteness: bird
cook up (verb)
copybook (noun)
cooked up a plan
he and Tomaz ~ to climb Nuptse by a new route copybook case
it was a ~ of child abuse (born with cleft palate)
cooked up the story
script: school & education
they ~ to get the reward (murder case)
creation & transformation: cooking / prep, adv, adj, particle
copycat (noun)
/ verb copycat of a terrorist attack
cool (cool off / activity) the shooting was initially feared to be a ~
copycat acts
cool off officials feared publicity would trigger ~
his career began to ~ (a singer)
activity: temperature / verb copycat films
The Omen (1976) inspired sequels and ~
cool (feeling)
copycat threats
maintain their cool students charged in rash of ~ after Oxford High shooting
they need to ~ (a team) ♦ Merriam-Webster identifies the first known use as 1896. Others identify
first use as 1887. The idea of a copycat crime seems to come from the
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature 1960s and seems to have achieved acceptance by the 1980s.

cool down (verb) repetition: cat

cool down core (basis)

I got a postponement, it will give things a chance to ~
at its core
♦ “Let me take my own advice and cool the temperature in the room a ~, this issue all boils down to money
little bit.” (An upset Michael Van Der Veen at the impeachment trial in
2021. He paused, sighed, and then continued in a less emotional tone of bases: center & periphery
voice.)

feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / verb corkscrew (verb)

coolheaded (and cool-headed) corkscrewed above the airport
he took off and ~ until we reached 8,000 feet (plane)
coolheaded killer
direction / movement: shape / verb

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corkscrew (shape) turned a corner
United fans hoped their club had ~ (loss after 3 wins)
corkscrew ascents and descents
~ to evade fire (Iraqi Airways) turn the corner on unemployment
we are beginning to ~
direction: shape
beginning to turn the corner
corner (spring is just around the we are ~ on unemployment
corner) progress & lack of progress: corner / verb
development: corner / verb
Halloween is around the corner
~ and guess what that means corner (in a tight corner, etc.)
victory is around the corner tightest corner
officials insist ~ (war) United somehow got out of the ~ in Paris (soccer win)

spring is just around the corner backed ourselves into a corner

~ and I can’t wait we've sort of ~ (war strategy)

just around the corner boxed himself into a corner

planting season is ~ he has ~ on tax increases (a politician)
Christmas is ~
painted himself into a corner
proximity: corner / distance he has ~ (world leader)
future / time: corner / distance
movement: corner
corner (in remote corners, etc.) constraint & lack of constraint / situation: boxing /
container / corner / movement
in the corners of the internet
the theories began ~ and made it into mainstream news corner (in one's corner)
in the dark corners of cyberspace in my corner
~ (child pornography) she supports me, she's ~

in some corners of the humanities allegiance, support & betrayal: boxing / corner
there is resistance to such analysis ~ corner (cut corners)
in the (more) paranoid corners of the Internet
he posted messages ~
cut corners
oil companies ~ to maximize profits
in many corners of the West
uranium mining boomed ~
cut any corners
in this business we don’t ~ (helicopter tours)
in some corners of the book world
difficulty, easiness & effort: corner / distance / journeys &
there is opposition ~
trips
area: center & periphery / corner
corner (corner cases, etc.)
corner (other)
edge and corner
from all corners of the (political) spectrum it doesn’t take long to find ~ cases (grammar rules)
he received criticism ~
division & connection: boundary
shines light into some of the darkest corners
the book ~ of M15
cornered (adjective)
ventured into remote corners felt cornered
he ~ (a photographer) the boss ~ and that person ended up quitting (pay dispute)
♦ “If you bait a cornered dog, he will bite.”
area: center & periphery / corner
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
corner (turn the corner)
cornerstone (noun)
turned the corner
we have ~ (economic upturn after downturn) cornerstone of the collection
this month he ~, and made a profit (businessman) the painting will be the ~ (a new museum)
so has America finally ~ (economic downturn)
cornerstones of the economy
blue-chip companies, once considered ~… (recession)

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cornerstone of identity corral the far left
Egyptians increasingly emphasize Islam as the ~ can she ~ in her party (politics)
cornerstone of (US) policy corral all 50 members
Egypt is the ~ in the Middle East he is still trying to ~ to agree... (politics)
cornerstones of terrorism corral their models
unemployment creates one of the ~ (Prince Talal) scientists need real-world data to ~ (for realistic outcomes)
cornerstone of (addiction) treatment corrals (a range of) voices
Alcoholics Anonymous remains the ~ in the US Women on Food, a book that ~ (Charlotte Druckman)
cornerstone of Roma life corral wildfire
child marriage is a ~ (tradition) winds frustrate effort to ~ near lake Tahoe
cornerstone of academic culture corralled politicians, executives, and officials
peer review is a ~ (publishing) for nearly six months, she ~ (Deborah Birx / pandemic)
cornerstone of the scientific method paywalls corral readers
replication is a ~ ~ like cattle into the subscriber pen
emphasize Islam as the cornerstone conflict / control & lack of control: animal / cows & cattle /
Egyptians increasingly ~ of identity horse / verb
bases: infrastructure corralled
cornucopia (variety) corralled in left field
the speedy cat was ~
cornucopia of (political) books
♦ “The speedy cat evaded the grounds crew before being corralled in left
this fall’s ~ features two kinds...
field.” (Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium.)
cornucopia of candidates control & lack of control: animal / cows & cattle / horse
the debates have featured a ~ (Democratic politics / 2020)
corridor (route)
cornucopia of goods
a ~ flooded the American marketplace (post-WWII) commuter corridors
the ~ have become the “covid corridor” (East Coast)
cornucopia of (educational) opportunities
colleges have traditionally offered a ~ (in good times) “covid corridor”
the commuter corridors have become the ~ (East Coast)
cornucopia of shit
it’s a ~ basically (dialogue from Words On Bathroom Walls) drug corridor
Interstate 44 is a ~ (Missouri)
make a cornucopia
climate change could ~ out of frigid, unproductive land migration corridor
♦ From cornu, Latin for horn, and copia, plenty: the horn of plenty. Based the Bering land bridge served as a ~ for people
on a Greek myth involving the goat Althea who nursed the infant Zeus.
travel corridor
alternatives & choices / amount: allusion / food & drink the region is a ~ for illegal immigrants
group, set & collection: allusion / food & drink
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: allusion / food & drink I-95 corridor
heroin travels down the ~ to secondary markets (from NYC)
coronation (noun)
route: infrastructure
veritable coronation transmission: infrastructure / route
the Chicago convention was a ~ of Grant (Republicans)
corridor (area)
achievement, recognition & praise: royalty
wildlife corridor
corral (verb) nature preserves provide a ~ for birds and animals
corralled her family high-technology corridor
she ~ (husband and 8 kids / and fled house / war) the metro services Northern Virginia's ~
corral multiple fires commercial corridor
fire crews rushed to ~ the Metro revitalized the sagging ~ between…
corral him green corridor
Georgia has to find a way to ~ (Bryce Young / football) in places the ~ is only 50 feet wide (along river)

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strategic corridor corrupting
Georgia is a ~ for Western oil companies
corrupting force
31-mile corridor the tabloids portrayed her as a ~
deforestation occurs in a ~ on either side of roads
corruption: health & medicine
tiny corridor
oil exports are squeezed through this ~ (Strait of Hormuz) corruption (noun)
area: shape moral corruption
TV and radio promote ~
corridor (Siliguri Corridor, etc.)
corruption: health & medicine
Gansu Corridor
the ~ between Suchow and Chang ‘an (Xi’an / Silk Road) coruscating (adjective)
“Lachin corridor” coruscating observations
the ~ links Stepanakert to Armenia he had room to make his ~ (TV)
Siliguri Corridor superlative: light & dark
the ~ is also known as the Chickens Neck
cost (verb)
National Heritage Corridor
the Blackstone River Valley ~ cost them
the editor knew all along it would ~ (controversy)
Wakhan Corridor
the ~ (Afghanistan) cost me my hand
one tiny wound ~ (a firefighter)
proper name: infrastructure
cost him his job
corridor (corridors of power) the revelation ~ (child porn on computer)
corridors of power his failure to deliver on his promise ~ (a coach)
ordinary Americans are kept out of the ~ (politics) costs you nothing
Australia’s corridors of power it ~ but your time (a free Internet program)
allegations of a toxic work culture in ~ costing teachers their jobs
in the corridors of power budget cuts are now ~
the religious right is flexing its muscles ~ cost him his life
the fine line between persuasion and intimidation ~ (politics) his drug habit very nearly ~ (a musician)
access to the corridors of power his diligence ~ (a police officer)
the reporter has unrivalled ~ (Bob Woodward) cost the climbers a shot
he loved his ~ (a media person) helping the other group ~ at the summit
gain admittance to the corridors of power cost him his (boxing) title
once women ~ his refusal to serve ~ (Muhammad Ali)
kept out of the corridors of power cost Unsoeld his toes
ordinary Americans are ~ that night ~ (high-altitude bivouac)
power: infrastructure / sign, signal, symbol cost the state thousands of jobs
corrosive (adjective) his economic policies have ~

corrosive for democracy cost you an arm and a leg

rich contributors are ~ (money) this vacation getaway won't ~

corrosive effect cost the team big time

corruption was perhaps the most ~ of communism the mistake ~

corrosive role cost the lives

the ~ of money in politics (rich special-interest groups) the civil war ~ of 100,000 Maya Indians (Guatemala)

feeling, emotion & effect: chemistry / materials & cost her votes
substances / sensation the proposal could ~ in a general election (politics)
cost & benefit: money / verb

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cost (at a cost) tragic (environmental) cost
war's ~
at the cost of his life
Sfc. Ashley's bravery ~ was in the highest traditions of... financial and human cost
the ~ was enormous (the Ugandan Railway)
at enormous cost
cost & benefit / judgment: money
gold is wrung from the earth ~
even at the cost
costly (adjective)
they are desperate to flee their country ~ of their lives costly
cost & benefit / judgment: money you have laid so ~ a sacrifice… (Lincoln)

cost (at all costs, etc.) politically costly

it's ~ to criticize Jews (US elections)
at all costs
cost & benefit: money
Czech hedgehogs symbolized “defense ~” in the USSR
protect (passengers) at all costs
couch (casting couch)
air marshals must ~ casting couch
hold Stalingrad at any cost Hollywood’s seedy underbelly, the ~
we are to ~, Comrade Stalin knows best spoke out against the casting couch
commitment & determination / cost & benefit / resistance, she ~ (Maureen O’Hara)
opposition & defeat: money sex: euphemism
cost (cost time, etc.) cough up (verb)
cost drivers 15 minutes cough up more money
construction delays on I-15 ~ the US wants its allies to ~ (for world defense)
time: money giving, receiving, bringing & returning: bodily reaction
cost (other) countdown (noun)
costs of Vietnam countdown
the ~ remain with us (troubled vets, sons, etc.) the ~ starts now (ad for big game in future)
cost of his life timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock / number
absorbing the grenade blast at the ~
counted out (boxing)
cost of war
let us not forget the terrible ~ counted out
he was ~, but... (Trump wins Republican primary)
costs of war
the ~ and the price of peace (soldiers) resistance, opposition & defeat / starting, going, continuing
& ending: boxing / sports & games
costs of gambling
the hidden ~ (divorce, etc.) counterattack (verb)
cost to having cold counterattacked
there is a ~ an overload of choice then the ~... (Antarctica temperatures fall)
hidden costs resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
the ~ of gambling (divorce, etc.)
counterattack (noun)
environmental cost
war has not only a human cost, but a tragic ~ as well counterattack
gold is wrung from the earth at enormous ~ the Embassy began a ~
the besieged politicians have started a ~ (politics)
human cost
war has not only a ~, but a tragic environmental cost preparing a counterattack
the gas industry was ~
political cost
both leaders are paying a ~ at home for… (foreign policy) conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: military

reputational cost counterbalance (verb)

the wars have carried a ~ (civilian casualties) counterbalance his dependence

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 he is trying to ~ on the US by dealing with China boardroom coup
the son deposed his father in a ~ (Budweiser beer)
counterbalance Western media
Al Jazeera was founded to ~ parliamentary coup
the opposition leaders are calling this a ~ (Venezuela)
equilibrium & stability: scale / verb
amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / scale / dismissal, removal & resignation / power: military
verb
coup (achievement)
counterbalance (noun)
publicity coup
counterbalance to industry Kipchoge’s achievement is a ~ for Ineos (marathon)
the FDA is the ~
diplomatic coup
counterbalance to the presidency the conference was a ~ for Iran
the Supreme Court is a ~
great coup
counterbalance to the US press workers hailed the decision as a ~ (unionization)
Al Jazeera is an excellent ~
pulled off a (massive) coup
counterbalance to the liberal Western order the Clippers ~, by signing... (the best free agent / NBA)
he wants to establish Russia as a ~ (Putin)
achievement, recognition & praise / success & failure:
counterbalance to corporate power military / violence
unions are a ~
coup de grace (deathblow)
generational counterbalance
the mothers of nominees provided ~ (Academy Awards) coup de grace
facing down Biden was the ~ on her evening (politics)
liberal counterbalance
she will serve as a ~ to the conservative wing courtroom coup de grace
his political adversaries were hoping for a ~ (report)
amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / scale
equilibrium & stability: scale destruction: death & life / violence / weapon
counterweight (noun) coupled
counterweight coupled with love
the international media is biased, there must be a ~ high expectations ~ is a gift (child-rearing)
counterweight against Britain and France division & connection: tools & technology
he needed a ~ (Bismarck at the Berlin Conference) relationship: tools & technology
counterweight to Iran courage (groups)
US forces remain as a ~ (on the Arabian Peninsula)
courage not to go
political counterweight it’s about ~ to the Vietnam War... (Ken Burns on Ali)
he was there to serve this ~ function (Joe Biden)
in awe of my courage
amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / scale many said they were ~ to follow my dream (female blogger)
equilibrium & stability: scale
find the courage
count on (count on me, etc.) they had to ~ to come forward (female gymnasts)
count on me ♦ “My children can have an example of what courage looks like in real
time, not in history.” (Dr. Carl L. Hart of Columbia University, author of
you can always ~ Drug Use for Grown-Ups, about being a regular heroin user.)
♦ “You can always count on me, for sure, that’s what friends are for.” ♦ A “crass exploitation play... I think this is just a play to pump up the
(Dionne Warwick with Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, and Elton John.
audience, the way lots of things are put on television to attract eyeballs—
137 million views and counting.)
not because of the validity but because of whatever the kind of gawker
♦ “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” (This means, “A friend who helps factor is.” (Bob Costas on Caitlyn Jenner receiving the 2015 Arthur Ashe
you when you are in great need is a friend indeed. For example, if you Courage Award.)
need money. But the true friend is the one who will die for you.)
♦ The mascot of the North Carolina Courage, currently based in Cary,
North Carolina, is a lioness, to “reflect the team as a group of
allegiance, support & betrayal: number / verb professional women.”

coup (power) inclusion & exclusion: society

coup courageous (groups)
I was fired, it was basically a ~ by... (political job)
the impeachment process is a ~ (President Trump) “courageous conversations”

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 the office hosted a series of ~ about race (education) changed the course
their testimony has ~ of the investigation (police)
visible, courageous and present
LBGQT folks have been so ~ chart a (fresh) course
helping convicted felons ~
call courageous
she put on a performance I think it’s safe to ~ (Simon Biles) charted a new course
he has ~ and tacked to the center (politician)
inclusion & exclusion: society
courageously corrected course
the agency has ~ on asylum detentions
courageously sharing change course
the NFL family is proud of Carl for ~ his truth (gay) he didn't hesitate to ~ (a politician)
inclusion & exclusion: society we are skeptical that Iran will ~ (diplomacy)

course (over the course / time) direction: boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
over the course of the next month / map / verb
Alabama will experience a steep increase in cases ~
course (stay the course)
over the course of a month
anxiety following a trauma that fades ~ isn’t depression stay the course
he vowed to ~ (general leading war)
time: journeys & trips / movement it is unacceptable to ~ (pandemic response)
course (run its course, etc.) stays the course
once he makes up his mind, he ~ (businessman)
run its course
Carley’s relationship with Russ had ~ direction: boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / route /
/ map / verb
verb / walking, running & jumping
course (reverse course)
course (on course)
change course
on course for victory he was forced to ~ (government policy)
they looked ~ when... (sports)
reversed course
direction: journeys & trips Iran ~ and reopened its nuclear labs
course (on a collision course) the President ~ and grounded the plane (Boeing problem)
reversal: direction / boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
on a collision course
direction: boat / journeys & trips / map / verb
the two countries are ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
on a collision course / map / verb
people and the natural world are ~ course (development)
on a collision course with his boss course of the conflict
he was ~ (Navy top brass)
we cannot predict the length or the ~ (military)
on a collision course with the clerics course of the disease
the royal family is ~ (Saudi)
we can sometimes slow the ~
on a collision course for the finals the challenge is to identify patients earlier in the ~
they are ~ (two teams) course of HIV infection
conflict: crashes & collisions the ~ is characterized primarily by latency

course (change course, etc.) course of the war

during the ~ (Gulf War)
course correction
the country is heading in the wrong direction, we need a ~ disease course
we can't move forward without a ~ (bribery scandal) we are here to help them through the ~
this could create a real ~ in the tech industry (fraud trial) relentless course
fresh course as the epidemic follows its ~ (AIDS)
helping convicted felons chart a ~ length or the course

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 we cannot predict the ~ of the conflict (military) courting its favor
both Democrats and Republicans are ~ (N.R.A.)
follow its (relentless) course
if we sit back and let the epidemic ~… courting veterans
for-profit colleges are ~
run its course
the common cold will ~ within seven days court the Black vote
Democratic politicians ~ and then fail to follow through
slow the course
we can sometimes ~ of the disease courting (younger) voters
the party is ~ (politics)
development: journeys & trips / route
course (course of action, etc.) courted and won
he ~ popular acceptance (a musician)
course of action actively courted
we thought the best ~ was to… they ~ publicity (two feuding pop stars)
I could think of no other ~
is this the right ~ (government policy) aggressively courting
he has been ~ endorsements (running for office)
similar course
see if other schools should follow a ~ (sex ed) assiduously courted
he has ~ mainstream support (a politician)
safest and wisest course
the ~ to follow (alcohol and pregnancy) feverishly courting
she has been ~ black voters
follow a (similar) course
see if other schools should ~ (same-sex classes) publicly courting
the president has been ~ him (a politician)
took the (politically risky) course
he ~ of prosecuting a member of government quietly courting
he has been ~ contributors (for a political run)
direction: journeys & trips
attraction & repulsion / pursuit, capture & escape: love,
course (course of justice, etc.)
courtship & marriage / verb
course of justice court (in the court)
he was charged with perverting the ~
take its course in the world court
they have been convicted ~ of public opinion (doping)
the law must ~
operation: journeys & trips in the (world) court of public opinion
they have been convicted ~ athletes / doping)
court (verb)
tried in the court
courting Hispanics with (Spanish) advertising he has been ~ of public opinion
the company is ~ judgment: justice
courting danger with his rhetoric court (other)
he is ~ (racist stereotypes)
court of public opinion
courting rebellion by pushing ahead the ~ condemned him
he is ~ with his plan (political party)
judgment: justice
courted adventure
when she was young she ~ (hitchhiking, etc.) court (the ball is in someone’s court)
court controversy ball is in Russia’s court
he has been known to ~ (Joe Rogan) (see ball (the ball is in somebody’s court)
court (resource-rich) countries action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
China, India ~ like Nigeria and Kazakhstan ignoring things / position, policy & negotiation /
courted death responsibility / social interaction: ball / sports & games
he ~ with his use of drugs and wild lifestyle courthouse (Devil's Courthouse, etc.)
courting (economic) disaster Devil's Courthouse
we are ~ the first person to climb ~ (a rock outcropping)

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Majlis al Jinn ♦ “The mudpuppy is relatively rare and looks a lot like its larger cousin,
the Eastern hellbender. (WNC anglers: Seen any mudpuppies lately?” by
the ~ (the assembly of the devils, a cave in Oman) Karen Chavez, Asheville Citizen-Times, USA TODAY Network, Sunday,
December 27, 2020. Hellbenders are also known as “snot otters” and
proper name: infrastructure “water dogs.”)

courtship (noun) person / relationship: family

courtship of Africa cover (under cover)
both India and China have stepped up their ~
under cover of darkness
stepped up their courtship the attacks began ~
both India and China have ~ of Africa the convoys move both in daylight and ~ (Iraq)
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage living under cover
pursuit, capture & escape: love, courtship & marriage Al-Khilewi, who was granted asylum, is now ~
cousin (relationship) concealment & lack of concealment: cloth
cousin covered up
open-wheel racing and its stock-car ~, NASCAR
covered up
cousin of Ebola his pedophilia had been known for years but ~ (priest)
Lassa fever is sometimes described as a ~
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth
cousin of estrogen subterfuge: cloth
BPA is a chemical ~
cover up (verb)
cousin to smallpox
Vaccinia, a ~ which can cause illness cover up his crime
he smashed his own head and face to ~
cousin of Turkish
Uighur is a ~, but it’s an Arabic script (the language) covers up violations
Saudi Arabia ~ of human rights abuses
dictionary's cousin
it's like the ~ (the thesaurus) covered up (security) shortcomings
the FAA ~ for years (airports)
American cousins
our ~ speak the wrong kind of English (Brits) covered up (widespread) doping
officials ~ by... (sports)
British cousins
tell our ~ I’ll meet them in Eindhoven (WWII) cover up the killing
their attempts to ~ were unsuccessful (Saudi police)
Nepali cousin
K2 and its ~, Mount Everest covered up for the (cheerleader) coach
cops allege the school's principal ~
potato cousins
incredible ~ still survive in the Andes (wild potatoes) covered up for him
when they finally did land in court, she ~ (abuse)
chemical cousin
BPA is a ~ of estrogen cover up for "honor killings"
EPO and its ~s became rampant in sports deaths are ascribed to suicide in order to ~

closest cousin covered it up

denial is associated with its ~, addiction the Army ~ (contamination from weapons depot)

distant cousin tried to cover up

it’s a ~ of true cinnamon (bark of cassia tree) they ~ what they had done... (tribal vengeance)
he also ~ the crime... (tribal vengeance)
larger cousin
the mudpuppy looks a lot like its ~, the Eastern Hellbender concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / verb
subterfuge: cloth / verb
older cousin
archaeology and its far ~, tomb robbing coverup (noun)
ugly cousin cover-up
sarcasm is anger's ~ a ~ to conceal the affair

xenophobic cousin cover-ups and corruption

the lab-leak hypothesis is a ~ to anti-vaxxism and ... investigations marred by official ~ (Mexico)

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government coverup cowboy (person)
charges of a ~
Cocaine Cowboys
failed cover-up the cartels’ ~ turned the market (1970s Florida)
prison terms for colluding in the ~ (mine disaster / China)
person: animal / cows & cattle / horse
politically motivated cover-up behavior / character & personality / control & lack of
a~ control: history / person
official coverups cower (verb)
investigations marred by ~ and corruption (Mexico)
cower in the face of (NCAA) abuses
allegations of a cover-up universities ~ (sports)
officials will investigate the ~ (China / storm)
cowered before demands
charges of a (government) coverup the publishing industry has ~ to cancel books
they have been ~
♦ If a dog can’t bite, it licks. (An insult.)
mystery and cover-up dominance & submission: standing, sitting & lying / verb
dealing with the UFO ~
courage & lack of courage: bodily reaction / verb
denied a cover-up coy (adjective)
local officials have ~ (no typhoon warning)
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth
coy about the idea
China has been ~ (of an East Asia Community)
subterfuge: cloth
covey (group) coy about the year
she is ~ of her birth
covey of bureaucrats
coy on the subject
what’s needed is a ~ to better govern the country
he has been ~ (about retiring)
covey of (industry) tycoons
a bit coy
a ~ and their wives assembled
he's a ~ about how much he can raise (a politician)
group, set & collection: animal / bird
surprisingly coy
cow (cash cow) politicians can be ~ about asking direct questions

cash cow for universities being coy

online education is a ~ she is not ~ about wanting to win (a politician)

cash cow for publishers playing coy

textbooks are the last ~ many possible candidates are ~ about running

cash cow of (American) ballet remaining coy

the Nutcracker is the ~ most potential candidates are ~ for now (presidency)

Boeing’s (long term) cash cow eagerness & reluctance: love, courtship & marriage
~ is the 737 coyote (predation)
company's cash cow
gangs of "coyotes"
the drug is the ~
~ smuggle people in from Mexico
Microsoft's cash cow character & personality: animal / person / predation
Windows is ~
cozy (adjective)
as a cash cow
he needed Clay ~ and recruitment vehicle (boxer) cozy with Boeing
♦ “It’s bye bye cash cow.” (A reference to a boxing promoter and his the FAA was too ~
fighter’s shock defeat.)
♦ Asa W. Morris in California owned the legendary Tilly Alcartra, known cozy relationship
as “the Queen of Holsteins” for her milk production. Was she a victim of he has a ~ with the prince
an anthrax outbreak, destroyed and buried along with thousands of
others to prevent the spread of that disease? too cozy
the agency was ~ with the company
worth & lack of worth: animal / cows & cattle
feeling, emotion & effect: proximity / temperature
relationship: proximity / temperature

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social interaction: proximity / temperature Cho had ~ of the university bureaucracy
crab (crab in a bucket, etc.) dropped through the cracks
Cho had ~ of the university bureaucracy
crabs in a barrel
oh, ~, I say, to hell with them all (St. Simons Island) fell through the cracks
she ~ (foster system)
crab mentality
~ is, “If I can’t have it neither can you” slipped through the cracks
he has ~ (terrorist)
crab-basket quarrels many sex sites have ~ (Internet)
he had managed to avoid the ~ and ignore the slights
failure, accident & impairment: ground, terrain & land /
crab bucket syndrome verb
when others hold you back is the ~
♦ Filipinos notice this behavior in the Philippines. Crabs in a bucket or pot
crackdown (noun)
instinctively grab at things above them. Thus, no crabs can climb out of a
pot. crackdown on corruption
the government has launched a ~
behavior / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity /
unanimity & consensus: animal crackdown against (unlicensed) Internet Cafes
authorities kicked off a nationwide ~ (China)
crack (attempt)
draconian crackdown
crack at it he has presided over the most ~ on leaks in US history
we'll take another ~
coercion & motivation: violence / whip
attempt: sound punishment & recrimination: violence / whip
crack (verb) oppression: violence / whip
crack down (verb)
cracked
their relationship ~ under the pressure cracked down on the opposition
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances / the government has ~
verb cracking down on immigration
they are ~
crack (verb / emotion)
cracking down on both men
cracked judges are ~ (investigation)
I ~ under the pressure
coercion & motivation / oppression / punishment &
feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances / verb
recrimination: verb / violence / whip
crack (division) cradle (strangled in the cradle, etc.)
crack
kill any (climate-change) bill in its cradle
the ~s could widen into a chasm (politics)
he will ~ if he has a chance (legislator)
crack in the coalition
strangled in its cradle
the Arab League statement is a worrying ~ (Libya)
Bolshevism must be ~ (Winston Churchill on Russia)
cracks in (military) solidarity
strangle the experiment in its cradle
there have been few ~ (Venezuela political unrest)
if nobody watches, it will ~ (TV show)
division & connection: ground, terrain & land
curtailment / destruction: baby
crack (flaw) cradle (cradle of Islam, etc.)
cracks
coronavirus cradle
the ~ were beginning to show (troubled corporation)
Wuhan, the ~, has partially reopened
cracks in Bierenbaum’s façade
“Cradle of (U.S. Navy) Aviation”
~ started to appear (surgeon convicted of murder)
Pensacola is known as the ~
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
cradle of Islam
crack (fall through the cracks, etc.) Saudi Arabia is the ~

dropped through the cracks cradle of civilization

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 the Caucasus was a ~ ♦ ”He called worries about Afghan refugees ‘dog whistle crap.’” (Gov.
Tony Evers of Wisconsin, about the Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy,
cradle of (ancient) civilizations after 2 refugees were charged with crimes.)
the plateau is a ~ worth & lack of worth: waste
cradle of (Chinese) civilization crash (crash and burn)
Hubei and Henan provinces, the ~
the Yellow River is known as the ~ crash and burn
so what role did he play in making it all ~ (politics)
cradle of (Serbian) civilization
Serbs claim Kosovo as the ~ crashed and burned
you know the Democratic Party has ~ when...
cradle of independence
Dolores Hidalgo is known as the ~ (Mexico) destruction: crashes & collisions / fire / flying & falling /
plane / verb
epithet: baby
origin: baby / birth / epithet / sign, signal, symbol crash (car crash)
cradle (symbol) car crash of an interview
this was a ~ (sexual abuse)
cradle-to-grave
the ~ work force walked away from more car crashes
he has ~ than any other sitting president
from the cradle to the grave
she gave advice on problems people face ~ destruction: crashes & collisions
death & life: sign, signal, symbol failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions

craft (ringcraft, etc.) crash (crash down)

came crashing down
icecraft she was the youngest female billionaire before it all ~
the subtle science of snow and ~ (Sir Edmund Hillary) his empire ~ (a company)
junglecraft destruction: direction / infrastructure / ruins / verb
he was very adapted at ~ (a Tamil Nadu bandit)
crash (crash course, etc.)
ringcraft
the ~, the intelligence, the mentality... (a boxer) crash course
an eight-day ~
stagecraft he took a ~ in genetics
he is vigilant about the ~ of statecraft (SecDef)
crash diet
spellcraft ~s can be dangerous
her rigor and ~ (Karina Longworth / podcaster)
haste: crashes & collisions
spycraft crash (population crash, etc.)
technology is redefining ~ for a new era
crash and bleed-out
tradecraft
what they call the ~ (Ebola virus)
some of the ~ was damn sloppy (CIA)
computer crash
witchcraft the data disappeared after 2 ~s (voting records)
villagers said it was ~ (Prey Rognieng / Cambodia)
♦ “The ringcraft, the intelligence, the mentality, just think about it.” population crash
(Oleksandr Usyk’s performance against Anthony Joshua.) a ~, part of the natural cycle
likely to cause an unprecedented ~
ability & lack of ability: affix
stock-market crash
crank up (verb) the ~
cranked up the pressure on the manager ecological crash
a defeat would have ~ (soccer) you're going to see an ~ (marmots / Mongolia)
increase & decrease: mechanism / verb failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions
crap (noun) functioning: crashes & collisions

dog whistle crap

he called concerns about Afghan refugees “~”

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crash-land (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bone /
verb
crash-landed on (hard) facts
his theory ~ and common sense crawl (noun)
failure, accident & impairment: crashes & collisions / plane crawl to (Aug.12) peak
/ verb Perseid meteor shower begins slow ~

crater (verb) crawl phase

having accomplished the ~ (military training)
cratered
demand and prices have ~ (oil) crawl, walk, run (m)
instruction should follow a ~ sequence (military)
cratered oil prices
massive supply with almost no demand ~ (pandemic) news crawl
run a ~ across the bottom of the screen (TV)
travel cratered
global ~ during the pandemic slow crawl
Perseid meteor shower begins ~ to Aug. 12 peak
decline: direction / flying & falling / plane / verb
increase & decrease: number slowed to a crawl
the market for initial public offerings has ~
crave (fans crave the bout, etc.) the storm’s movement has ~
craved it slow to a crawl
the media wanted it, fans ~ (a boxing matchup) the ambush was set where the convoy had to ~
crave stories, memories, (behind-the-scenes) morsels brought to a crawl
fans crave ~ (podcasts by athletes) traffic was ~ in Cincinnati (snow and ice)
enthusiasm: addiction / food & drink / health & medicine / movement / speed: walking, running & jumping
verb
craze (noun)
crave (verb)
craze of the 80's
so craves the cocaine ~
the legacy he ~ will suffer (sports doping)
craze in the 1920s
craved fame tree sitting was a national ~, like phone-booth stuffing
he ~
craze in Japan
enthusiasm / wants, needs, hopes & goals: addiction / platform shoes are the ~
food & drink / health & medicine / verb
craze in clothes, music, illegal drugs
crawl (activity) the latest teen ~

crawling with reporters craze for (sudoku) puzzles

our hotel was ~ the worldwide ~
activity: animal / insect / verb cocaine craze
the ~ of the 80's
crawl (time can crawl, etc.)
crossword craze
crawl the First World War was the start of the ~
boredom makes time ~, interest makes it race
dance craze
minutes crawled by the mambo fueled a brief but intense American ~ (1940s)
the ~
fitness craze
speed: movement / verb / walking, running & jumping cash in on the ~
movement: speed / verb / walking, running & jumping
time: movement / speed / verb / walking, running & teen craze
jumping the latest ~ in clothes, music, illegal drugs
crawl (skin can crawl, etc.) cowboy craze
the '80s ~ (urban cowboys)
crawling
my skin is ~ (disgust) snake meat craze
snakes are disappearing due to the nationwide ~ (China)

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tail-fin craze crazy and hostile
the designer behind the ~ (cars) Boston Celtic fans are ~ (NBA)
extreme sports craze crazy and wild
encouraged by the ~ it was ~ (wedding in non-traditional location)
Internet craze a little crazy
the ~ is causing distortions you have to be ~ to do it (ice canoeing / Quebec City)
worldwide craze too crazy
the ~ for sudoku puzzles his ideas were rejected as ~ by the grant process (a scientist)
skateboarding craze stupid, crazy or not cool
a few years later the ~ was over "gay" as an adjective to describe anybody ~
current craze wild and crazy
the ~ is tread and shred (exercising) he was ~, young and dumb
international craze wild and crazy
its triumph as a full-blown ~ in the 60's (folk music) the NFL has its ~ side
latest craze act crazy
the ~ is… (sports) scream and run or ~ (date-rape-prevention strategies)
national craze acting crazy
tree sitting was a ~ in the 1920s, like phone booth stuffing you got so many kids out here ~ (South LA gangs)
new craze drive me crazy
platform shoes are the ~ in Japan I need a lover who won't ~
behavior / enthusiasm: mental health drive you crazy
I like to tease you and ~
crazed (sex-crazed)
driving me crazy
sex-crazed the itch is ~
college students are often portrayed as ~
rejected as (too) crazy
sex: mental health
his ideas were ~ by the grant process (a scientist)
crazed (crazed fans, etc.) behavior: mental health
crazed fan control & lack of control: mental health
~s scoured the Web ("Blair Witch Project") crazy (enthusiasm)
cricket-crazed crazy about that dog
the ~ countries of the former British Empire she's ~ (a woman and a pit bull)
media-crazed crazy about her
the ~ public… I'm ~ (man about his female friend)
soccer-crazed crazy about hunting
the World Cup is a huge even in ~ countries he was ~ and loved to gather trophies
seafood-crazed Internet-crazy (m)
in this ~ country, tuna is king (Japan) ~ Americans
behavior / enthusiasm: mental health boy crazy
crazy (behavior) girls may become "~" (preadolescence)

crazy goes crazy

you must be ~… while the rest of the world ~ over the World Cup
are you ~ or what… ♦ The word balletomane comes from the Russian for ballet and mania.

crazy to do behavior / enthusiasm: mental health

you have to be a little ~ it (ice canoeing / Quebec City) crazy (and mad / adverb)
crazy boss Crazy Delicious
coping with a ~
he served as a judge on Netflix’s ~

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mad funny "torture creep"
he called him a snake ~ bc (because)... interrogators get sneaky, thus ~
♦ In Churchill: Walking With Destiny, Andrew Roberts says that Churchill,
superlative: part of speech in 1940, “vigilantly guarded against mission-creep.” That phrase struck a
crazy (as noun) very wrong note with me. Luckily, Wikipedia has an entry: “The phrase
first appeared in 1993, in articles published in the Washington Post and
in the New York Times concerning the United Nations peacekeeping
in between the crazy mission during the Somali Civil War.” Roberts could have put the phrase
~, she likes to... (biography of mom with 3 kids) in quotation marks, or added “in what is today called X,” as he rightly did
when he used “groupthink” in another part of his book, but for some
battled his crazy reason he didn’t. This is an example of presentism.
AB’s talent has constantly ~ for years (NFL player) increase & decrease: movement
understand crazy starting, going, continuing & ending: movement
you can’t ~ (Nashville suicide bomber) creep (verb)
character & personality: part of speech creep westward
cream (superlative) the storm continues to ~ at 1 mph (hurricane)
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping
cream of (Irish country music) artists
Daniel O’Donnell introduces the ~ speed: verb / walking, running & jumping

France’s intellectual crème de la crème

creep up (numbers)
~ have attended the elite Ecole Nationale d’Adminstration crept up
superlative: food & drink gradually the thermometer ~ towards -20 degrees C.

creature (creature of habit, etc.) increase & decrease: number

creature of his era

crescendo (noun)
he was a ~ (Frank Kameny) crescendo of anti-abortion legislation
creature of habit the Alabama law tops a ~
he is a ~ steady crescendo
creature of Fleet Street the ~ of questions led him to release a statement...
a former ~ … (a new TV interviewer) amount & effect: music / sound
creature of the theater development: music / sound
he was a ~ (George M. Cohan)
cricket (sound)
creatures of their own time
like Luther, they were ~ (slavery and Southern Baptists) clackers or "crickets"
whistles, bells, sirens, ~, and horns (military signals)
funny creatures
actors are ~ (“My dear boy, why don’t you try acting?”) sound: insect

rare creature crickets (silence)

she’s a Beethoven figure, a genius, a ~ (precocious student)
crickets
unique creature no blacks were involved, so ~
he was a ~ in absolutely every department (Marlon Brando)
crickets chirping
♦ “Crowds are very dynamic creatures and can change rapidly.” (A bullet
point on a Minneapolis Police training slide.) hello, where are you on this violence, ~ (criticism)

character & personality / identity & nature / taxonomy & crickets on the Supreme Court
classification: animal / creature but after the decision, it was essentially ~ (gun rights)
♦ The slang expression “crickets” has come to mean silence, based on
creature comfort the sound of crickets in films to indicate dead silence.
♦ Bailey Olive: “In the last two days there has been a mass shooting in
creature comforts Chicago and Philadelphia, too but they are, like this one, not one white
our campsite and all its ~ (Mt. Everest guided trip) involved, so crickets.” / Bluejay to Bailey Olive: “Did you hear that from
voices in your head?” / bibleeexpert to Bailey Olive: “So crickets? Then
wants, needs, hopes & goals: creature how did you find out about them?”
♦ “But after the landmark decision and an adjunct case two years later, it
creep (mission creep, etc.) was essentially crickets at the court on the subject of how far states may
go in regulating guns.” (Nina Totenberg, “High Court To Hear 1st Major
mission creep Gun Rights Case In More Than A Decade, NPR, Morning Edition, April
there’s a real ~ in what tech companies are doing 27, 2021.)

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♦ “As Carole sat down at the grand piano... and curled her hands over the damage at the ~ is worse than thought
the keys, the noise receded to cricket-hearing silence.” (The great Carole
King. From Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller.) remains crippled
sound: film / insect Zimbabwe ~ by economic and political troubles

cri de coeur functioning: health & medicine / movement

wake-up call, cri de coeur, call to arms

crippling
his book is a ~ (about language) crippling blow
appeal: heart / sound / speech his death dealt a ~ to his network (a terrorist)
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: heart / sound / crippling fear
speech ~s of loss and disaster (children of divorce)
crime (fashion crime, etc.) crippling poverty
no crime the ~ among mountain people (United Nations)
it's ~ to be selfish sometimes crippling, paralyzing (m)
it’s ~ for those who were right to feel a little superior I do not favor ~ sanctions (Russian President)
fashion crime feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
wearing socks with sandals is considered a ~
crisis (mid-life crisis)
judgment: crime / justice
cringe (and cringe-worthy) unpredictable mid-life crisis
democracy isn’t dying, but it’s having an ~
cringe growth & development: death & life
the writing is usually ~ (by non-specialists)
Cromwellian (adjective)
cringe comedy
~, without the laughs (a review of a movie) Cromwellian air
his railings lent a ~ to his leadership (mixed swimming)
cringe-worthy
the ~ beginnings of a relationship oppression: allusion / history
the video was criticised as being tone deaf and ~ comparison & contrast: affix
so cringe crooked (adjective)
this is ~ (Kahn pose in NYT mag photo)
crooked
laugh and cringe the election was ~
what makes you ~ reveals your hidden biases
crooked books
makes some cringe crooked auditors certified the ~
a 9 /11 key chain ~ (9/11 Memorial’s store)
crooked business
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / gesture insurance is a ~
cripple (verb) crooked cops
the force must root out ~
cripples networks
they sow malware that ~ (ransomware gangs) crooked dealer
~s take advantage of young soldiers (autos)
crippled the city
23 inches of snow ~ crooked employers
~ pay less, and make workers work more
cripple his presidency
Biden’s critics say this will ~ (Afghanistan withdrawal) crooked governors
two ~ in a row have been sent to prison (Illinois)
crippling our society
unemployment is ~ crooked politician
~s steal our money
functioning: health & medicine / movement / verb
crippled straight and crooked
he knew the difference between ~ work (a farmer)
crippled by (economic and political) troubles behavior / character & personality: direction
Zimbabwe remains ~ sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: direction
crippled reactor

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crop (noun) I don’t want to ~ of somebody who wants to clean house
♦ In 2011 in the US, the figurative versus literal meaning of this word
crop of (American) offspring caused a political controversy when the politician Gabby Giffords was
shot. The opposition had indicated her district on a map with a cross-
the first postwar ~ hairs icon. In 2019, Roger Stone apologized to Judge Amy Berman
Jackson for posting an Instagram photo of her next to a rifle scope’s
good crop crosshair. In 2022, a court heard a case involving the original icon and
we’ve got a ~ that’s just behind her (boxing prospects) The New York Times. The USS Gabrielle Giffords is named after Gabby
Giffords, and her husband is Mark Kelly, astronaut. The original shooter
growth & development / product: farming & agriculture was mentally ill, with access to a gun.
♦ “Trump in the Crosshairs: Will the former President be prosecuted?” by
crop up (verb) Jane Mayer, A Reporter at Large, The New Yorker, March 22, 2021.)

cropped up in its Proton rockets target: weapon

the Russians must fix problems that have ~
cross-pollination
problem cropped up
the ~ just hours before liftoff (space shuttle) cross-pollination
there’s so much ~, hyping each other (Black Hollywood)
questions crop up
legal ~, too cross-pollination of languages
the natural ~ where they intersect
continually crop up
growth & development / transmission: insect / plant
look for keywords that ~ in ads
appearance & disappearance: farming & agriculture / plant crossroad (Crossroads of the World, etc.)
/ prep, adv, adj, particle / verb Crossroads of the World
cross (a bridge can cross) the ~ was packed with tourists and revelers (Times Square)
place: epithet
bridge crosses the river
a ~ there crossroad (at a crossroad)
fictive motion: verb at a crossroads
crossfire (noun) his career is ~
the South was ~ (Civil War)
rhetorical crossfire South Sudan is ~ (elections for secession)
the purpose of the bill has been lost in the ~ America is ~ (midterm elections)
conflict: weapon at a political crossroads
he finds himself ~ (president)
cross hair (in the cross hairs)
at a crossroads of his presidency
in the cross hairs he is ~
another Arab dictator is ~ (Bashar al-Assad of Syria)
he is ~ (a wanted terrorist) at the (strategic) crossroads of Europe and Asia
Adrianople, ~
in the crosshairs of a (Justice Department) lawsuit
Google is ~ stands at a crossroads
the US ~ (support or non-support for dictators)
in the crosshairs of the woke mob ♦ “We’re at a crossroad, and there is a right side.” (Wearing masks
I realize I’m ~ right now (NFL’s Aaron Rodgers) during the COVID pandemic.)

in the crosshairs of the NCAA alternatives & choices: journeys & trips
it’s not the first time USC’s basketball program has been ~ development / direction: journeys & trips
in regulators' crosshairs crossroad (other)
the firm is ~ (for fraud)
crossroads in his life
in the (trade war) crosshairs he'd reached a gloomy ~
the company is ~
crossroads moment
in our crosshairs the government is at a ~ (crisis)
he's ~ (a pedophile)
gloomy crossroads
found himself in the crosshairs he'd reached a ~ in his life
he has ~ between the left and the right over… (economy)
reached a (gloomy) crossroads
end up in the crosshairs he'd ~ in his life

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alternatives & choices / development / direction: journeys environment: container / fire / manufacturing /
& trips temperature
crow (verb) crucified
crowed that crucified by the media
he ~ he had forced the president to decide (politics) she has been ~
♦ “In the old days, Yamamoto would have had to commit ritual
crowing about its (online holiday) sales disembowelment.” / “No, he wouldn’t have been given the honor! He
the company was ~ would simply have been crucified!” (“The Emperor’s Code: Breach Of
Protocol Spurs Debate in Japan” by Lucy Craft, Nov. 13, 2013.)
♦ “Kahgahgee, the King of Ravens, / With his band of black marauders.”
(“The Song of Hiawatha.”)
accusation & criticism: religion / violence
speech: bird / verb punishment & recrimination: religion / violence
crown (superlative) crucify (verb)
‘worst traffic’ crown crucify him
~ passes from L.A. to new city (New York-Newark) the media will be quick to ~ when his form dips (soccer)

jewels in the crown crucify me

they are the ~ of public education (elite NYC high schools) they are going to ~ this season (on a reality show)
I feel like this town is gonna ~ (murder trial)
contending for that crown
Don Bongino is ~ (king of right-wing media) accusation & criticism: religion / verb / violence
punishment & recrimination: religion / verb / violence
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / superlative:
royalty crude (speech)
crowned (verb) crude language
he used ~ to deride the investigation (politics)
crowned at the (party) convention he used unusually ~ for a public appearance (politician)
the eventual Democratic nominee will be ~ in July
flaws & lack of flaws / speech: materials & substances
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity royalty
cruel (adjective)
crown jewel
cruel disease
crown jewel of their empire it’s a ~, but it was especially cruel to him (AIDS)
the building is the ~ (a business)
cruel sea
crown jewel of the system they face the ~
Banff is the ~ (Canadian National Park)
cruel sport
superlative / worth & lack of worth: royalty it’s true, it’s a ~ (a boxing career)
crucible (noun) Cruel Way
Everest the ~ by Joe Tasker (a book)
crucible of anxiety
how to handle the ~ (college admissions) cruel and absurd
life is ~
crucible of power
Kandahar has been the main ~ in Afghanistan since… unjust, cruel
an ~ world
crucible of suffering
in this ~ (Arctic exploration) character & personality / oppression: person

crucible of (free-market) thought crumb (amount)

he got his degree from the University of Chicago, the ~
crumb of comfort
crucible of (Nobel Prize) Winners if the team were looking for a ~... (loss)
the Institut Curie became a ~, producing 4 more
amount: food & drink
crucible for young actors
it was a noted ~ (the Pasadena Playhouse / Hoffman, etc.)
crumble (verb)
war's (hottest) crucible crumbled
the British were sent into the ~ (Sangin, Afghanistan) their relationship has ~ (enmity)
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crumbling crusade (in a crusade)
the regime is ~ (protests)
act in (his anti-government) crusade
life crumbled it was the final ~ (Oklahoma City bombing)
my ~
engaged in an (undercover) crusade
marriage (to Charlie) was crumbling she has ~ to document teen porn sites
her ~ (the great Carole King)
campaign: Middle Ages / religion
began to crumble message: Middle Ages / religion
in the off-season, his world ~ (troubled pro athlete)
his world ~ last October, when... crusade (noun)
decline / destruction / failure, accident & impairment:
crusade to improve
erosion / ruins / verb her ~ the city parks she loved (M.M. Graff / NYC)

crunch (crunch time) crusade of violence

a ~, intimidation and harassment (animal rights)
crunch time
crusade for a bargeway
in terms of the school year, it's ~ (tests)
the ~ on the Red River
as we head into November, ~ (college football)
it was ~, end of the month (military recruitment) crusade for Ms. Katz
this is ~, we’re in the home stretch (election campaigning) finding terrorists has become a ~ (on Internet)
crunch time in the fields mothers' crusade
it’s ~ (harvesting Christmas trees) the ~ (to find serial killer of their daughters)
crunch time in college football anti-government crusade
it’s ~ it was the final act in his ~ (Oklahoma City bombing)
comes down to crunch time anti-bullying crusade
I think when it ~ he will choose... (athlete must pick college) an ~ (schools)
situation: pressure anti-cockfighting crusade
timeliness & lack of timeliness: pressure successful ~s in Missouri and Arizona
crunch (cash crunch, etc.) moral crusade
a harsh and intolerant ~
budget crunch
most states are in the middle of a horrific ~ personal crusade
he used his seniority to further his ~s (politician)
cash crunch
the agency found itself in a ~ political crusade
a grieving mother's ~ (son killed in Iraq)
power crunch
the ~ has eased (after previous rolling power outages) signature crusade
he made health-care reform the ~ of his career
stave off a cash crunch
options to ~ include bankruptcy protection successful (anti-cockfighting) crusade
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: pressure ~s in Missouri and Arizona
timeliness & lack of timeliness: pressure undercover crusade
crunch (crunch the data) she has engaged in an ~ to document… (teen porn)

crunch the data unlawful crusade

stop an ~ of violence, intimidation, harassment
the pandemic may have peaked, depending on how you ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: verb harsh and intolerant (moral) crusade
a~
crusade (on a crusade)
crusade has sparked a backlash
on a crusade to document his ~ (make school lunches more healthful)
he is ~ underage model sites (porn)
engaged in an (undercover) crusade
campaign: Middle Ages / religion she has ~ to document… (teen porn)
message: Middle Ages / religion campaign: Middle Ages / religion
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crusader (role) feeling, emotion & effect / oppression: destruction / hand /
verb
crusaders for change
articulate ~ (victims of child abuse by clergy) crush (verb / accomplishment)
crusader for peace crushed it
she is a ~ (against war in Iraq) he is like the first famous Cuban in the US that ~ (Desi
Arnaz of I Love Lucy)
crusader for human rights and harmony
he was a ~ among creeds and races (Tutu) crushing it
we are ~ in the five-star-review game (a hair product)
crusader for miners' rights N.K. Jemisin is ~ (Hugo Award winner)
Mother Jones, a ~
crushing the market
environmental crusader these German hearing aids are ~ (an internet ad)
Erin Brockovich, the ~ who…
crushing that market
anti-drug crusader SpaceX is ~ (space)
Angela Dawson was an ~ (East Baltimore) ♦ “They are killing it, they are crushing KFC.” (Chick-fil-A versus
Kentucky Fried Chicken, according to a professor of marketing at the
campaign: Middle Ages / person / religion Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, also known as
message: Middle Ages / person / religion Wharton Business School. The University of Pennsylvania is a private
person: religion Ivy League university in Philadelphia, established in 1881.)
♦ “Science is awesome, now go crush that test.” (The 2009 film Fired
crush (love) Up!)
♦ “7-year-old girl who slayed the makeup game is back.” (An online ad
crush on him from Brightly Creative.)
I had the biggest ~
success & failure: death & life / fist / force / hand / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: force / love, courtship & marriage
crushed (feeling)
crush (destroy)
crushed
crushed Brazil 3-0 when she heard the restaurant had closed, she was ~
France ~ in the final (soccer) I was ~ (gay coach loses support)
crush (Chechnya's) bid feeling, emotion & effect: force
the latest campaign to ~ for independence
crushed (destroyed)
crush dissent
the government justifies the tactics it uses to ~ had been crushed
how I felt like all of my dreams ~
crushed (political) protest
he has ~ (King Mswati) must be crushed
stubbornness ~, and crushed it shall be (kids)
crush the rebels
Ethiopian officials vowed to ~ (Ogadenis) destruction: force

crush the rebellion crushing (adjective)

the government vows to ~ (in Darfur)
crushing blows
crushed the revolt a string of ~ to this community
Hussein's loyal military units ~ (Iraq / Shiites)
crushing (debt) burden
crush the uprising she couldn’t get out from under her ~
a swift military response would ~
crushing debt
vowed to crush they are in ~ and facing financial ruin
Ethiopian officials ~ the rebels
crushing defeat
destruction: fist / hand / verb Stalingrad ended in a ~ for the Germans
crush (confidence, spirit, etc.) destruction: force

crushes (a child's) confidence crutch (noun)

nothing ~ faster than unkind words
crutch
crush the human spirit sleep is a ~ (military-training bravado)
realities in life that almost ~
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 people lean on the ~ (technology) it ~ (immigration policy)
victim crutch cried out for a canal
we’d be far better off without the ~ (race) the narrow isthmus for centuries ~ (Corinth)
permanent crutch crying out for a Grealish
a crutch can become a ~ (controlled economies) I think this game is ~ (Euro 2020 final)
lean on the crutch cried out for a (legal) remedy
people ~ of metaphor (technology) the injustice ~
use genetics as a crutch crying out for positive stories and new stars
alcoholics ~ to explain their behavior athletics is ~ (running)
turned assistance into a crutch appeal: speech / verb
the welfare state has ~ fictive communication: speech / verb
amelioration & renewal / dependency / help & assistance: crystal ball
standing, sitting & lying
crystal ball
cry (verb) I don't have a ~ (speaking about what might happen)
stock analysts are fortunetellers looking into ~s
cried the Chicago Herald and Examiner
“Radio Fake Scares Nation,” ~ fate, fortune & chance / future: magic
time: magic
♦ see also scream (scream “premium,” etc.)
♦ “Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact,” declared The cub (noun)
New York Times. “Radio Fake Scares Nation,” cried the Chicago Herald
and Examiner. “US Terrorized By Radio’s ‘Men From Mars,’” said the cub reporter
San Francisco Chronicle. (“The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds
panic” by Professor W Joseph Campbell, BBC, 30 October 2011.)
I was a ~ at the time (mid-70s England)

fictive communication: speech / verb experience: animal / wolf

cry (cry foul, etc.) cudgel (noun)

crying foul cudgel against people of color
Democrats are ~ when civility is used as a ~

resistance, opposition & defeat: sound / verb political cudgel

speech: sound they use the term as a ~ against liberals (cancel culture)

cry (cry for help) rhetorical cudgel

the word socialism has often been used as a kind of ~ (US)
heartbreaking cry for help
a~ turned into this kind of a cudgel
eventually the term was ~ and mockery (politically correct)
appeal: speech
wielded COVID-19 as a cudgel
cry (rallying cry) he ~ against China (Trump)
rallying cry coercion & motivation: speech / violence / weapon
"economic empowerment" has become the ~ oppression: speech / violence / weapon
its "best in the world" ~ (U.S. Olympic skiing team)
cue (noun)
rallying cry in education
the ~ has been… taken cues from Trump
his campaign has ~
appeal: military
repetition / script / unanimity & consensus: theater
crybaby (person)
cul-de-sac
crybaby
don't be a ~ cul de sac
his job was another ~ for him (unable to be creative)
behavior / person: baby
growth & development: baby / death & life gone down cul-de-sacs
they’ve got it wrong, taken wrong turns, ~ (a company)
cry out (verb)
success & failure: journeys & trips
cries out for attention failure, accident & impairment: journeys & trips

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progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / verb
cull (noun) cultivated
cull carefully cultivated
the ~ includes plans to... (news job cuts) their ~ image was exposed (royals)
BBC’s (brutal) cull growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
~ (headline / 450 job cuts)
curate (verb)
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal
curate lists
cull (verb) sites like MTV ~ (of songs)
cull the (primary) field
Iowa will ~ (2020 election caucus) curates the narrative
he carefully ~ around his exploits to enlarge them
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / verb
curated NPR’s home page
cult (noun) he wrote and edited feature news coverage and ~

cult of the outlaw studied and curated

its air of Western romance and ~ (Wyoming) at the Harvard College Observatory, women ~ the night sky
♦ The Merriam-Webster online site has an excellent article in its Usage
group, set & collection / reverence: religion Notes entitled, “Can You ‘Curate’ Anything? Or can it only be art?”
cult (cult following, etc.) ♦ “I curated it like I curate a show or DJ gig.” (Questlove, touting his
documentary The Summer of Soul.)
cult following ♦ Some internet language is just odd. Like, “Curating ‘friendscapes’ post-
the film has a ~ (Caddyshack) Covid...”

enthusiasm: religion group, set & collection: picture / verb

cultivate (verb) curated

cultivates allies curated for you
he assiduously ~ (a promoter and businessman) trending meme templates, ~

cultivated a (laissez-faire) approach curated by NPR

the unit ~ (psychiatric ward) great reads, thoughtfully ~ (the Books We Love)

cultivate the habit curated list

~ of proper hand washing we create a ~ of 100 books (a reader poll)

cultivated that image artistically curated

he probably ~ (James Le Mesurier / T. E. Lawrence) young people crowd its ~ cafes (Matanzas, Cuba)

cultivated informants highly curated

he ~ on the streets (military intelligence) the duo is building ~ pop sounds (Magdalena Bay)

cultivating a relationship lovingly curated

the Russian agent was ~ with a prominent Democrat (US) On Girlhood is a ~ anthology celebrating... (Liveright)

cultivate (long-term) relationships perfectly-curated

~ with preferred customers the ~ Instagram profile of the wellness blogger

cultivated a role group, set & collection: picture

she ~ of her own (versus her husband's role) curb (kick something to the curb)
cultivate their (financial) support kicked to the curb
we must grow our audience and ~ (WBUR) executives are now ~ for bullying (toxic workplaces)
cultivate a (less conformist) taste dismissal, removal & resignation: waste
give her the courage to ~ (teens)
curdle (corruption)
cultivate trust
the killings are a blow to the alliance's efforts to ~ curdled
on her second day, however, the atmosphere ~
cultivated a circle of (devoted) friends
she ~ curdled into arrogance
his confidence ~ (a politician)

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curdled into queasiness on whether the Gallipoli Peninsula should be evacuated or not. From The
Middle Sea by the wonderful historian John Julius Norwich.)
my initial excitement ~
♦ “Large animals that hopped, foxes that flew, fish that climbed—this was
curdle into resentment the world of Edward Lear and his Book of Nonsense.” (Cook and his men
in Australia, on first contact with kangaroos, flying foxes, and mud-
their joy will ~ (sports fans) skippers. From The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead. The Book of
Nonsense by Edward Lear was published in 1846. Alice in Wonderland
corruption: food & drink / verb was published in 1865.)
cure (verb) fantasy & reality: allusion / books & reading
allusion: books & reading
cures
spanking causes more problems than it ~ currency (worth)
cure the men of their loneliness currency in its negotiations
the bar scene fails to ~ China can use its relationship with Korea as ~ with the US
"cure" homosexuality gaining currency
you can't ~ terms like “systemic racism” are finally ~, thank goodness
cures problems worth & lack of worth: money
aid often causes rather than ~ (in Africa)
♦ “But talking cures no ills...”
current (swim with the current, etc.)
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / verb swimming with the scientific currents
Newton was ~ of his time (vs. Galileo)
cure (noun)
orientation: direction / river
cure difficulty, easiness & effort: direction / orientation / river
the ~ would be worse than the disease (solution)
current (swim against the current, etc.)
cure for boredom
poor, uneducated youths use heroin as a ~ (Butuo) beat on against the current
I applaud women like Hou who ~ (competitive chess)
cure for (the world's) problems
a~ swim against the current
he had to ~ his entire life
magic cure they thought he would somehow ~ (have just one wife)
there is no ~ (for kid fire-setting behavior)
swim against the current of chaos
miracle cure how is it possible to ~ in life and still remain calm
there's no ~ on the horizon (brain tumors)
swim against the current fiscally
disagree on the cure the economy has shrunk, so it is hard to ~, so to speak
experts and leaders ~ (world economy)
orientation: direction / river
use heroin as a cure difficulty, easiness & effort: direction / orientation / river
poor uneducated youths ~ for boredom (Butuo)
current (noun)
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
current of racism
cure-all the underlying ~ is still very real
technological cure-all deep current
all too often planners seek ~s (computer security) a ~ of fear is running through Iraq’s Christian minority
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine force: river
curiouser and curiouser current (feeling)
curiouser and curiouser current passes
it was all about to get ~ no ~ between this Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (Coen’s film)
♦ This is an allusion to Alice in Wonderland.
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity
♦ “Although the weather was growing rapidly colder, no winter clothing
had been received from London. Many units were now at half strength or curse (Curse of Caricola, etc.)
less, the remaining soldiers reduced to skin and bone. The guns were
rationed to two shells a day. Munro’s first sight of Suvla Bay confirmed
his worst fears. ‘Like Alice in wonderland,’ he was heard to murmur,
Curse of the Bambino
‘curiouser and curiouser.’ The following day he sent Kitchener his the ~ finally ended in 2004 (Boston)
recommendation.” (Lt. Gen. Sir Charles Monro had been sent to advise
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 the ~ mortified Cubs fans for decades (Chicago) he ~ by the poker gods
Curse of Caricola affliction: magic / religion
the club has since been haunted by the ~ (own goal) fate, fortune & chance: magic / religion
fate, fortune & chance: epithet curtain (pull back the curtain and pull
curse (noun) the curtain back)
curse pull back the curtain
the bureaucracy, already a ~, is getting worse (Russia) he is expected to ~ on the president’s business dealings
it’s my gift, and my ~ (an athlete about his personality)
pulled back the curtain on his secret life
curse of Somalia the video has ~
clan rivalries have been the ~
pulled back the curtain on dozens
curse of capitalism he ~ of failed analyses (scientist)
materialism is the ~
pulled back the curtain on spycraft
curse of the taigá he wrote novels that ~ to reveal how things really got done
the ~, flies (gnus / Ussuria) pulled the curtain back on who
oil's (historic) curse this database ~ was responsible (corporate opioid pushing)
~ (a hollow economic boom, followed by bust) concealment & lack of concealment: cloth / theater
salmon's curse curtain (the con man behind the curtain,
it is the ~ to be so nutritious (bears, eagles, etc.)
etc.)
resource curse
Venezuela suffers from the ~ (has energy, blackouts) con man behind the curtain
break the so-called ~ (wealth siphoned off by corruption) Americans have now seen the ~ (politics)
♦ This is a reference to The Wizard of Oz.
blessing and a curse
these gems have been a ~ (Sierra Leone diamonds) subterfuge: allusion / cloth / film
the annual rains are a ~ for the subcontinent (monsoon)
curtain (lower the curtain, etc.)
gift and a curse
having a good platoon, it's both a ~ (combat medic) final curtain
this might be the ~ for the Gypsy King (final fight)
break the (Alabama) curse
it seemed Georgia would not be able to ~ (2022 / football) lower the curtain on his (half-century) career
it’s just about time to ~ in American politics (election)
break the (so-called) resource curse
~ (mineral wealth siphoned off by corruption) dismissal, removal & resignation: theater
starting, going, continuing & ending: theater
comes with a curse
many believe the position ~ (Grateful Dead keyboardist)
curtain (curtain wall, etc.)
affliction: magic / religion curtain walls
fate, fortune & chance: magic / religion old castles and modern buildings may utilize ~

cursed protection & lack of protection / resemblance: cloth

cursed with allergies curtain call

I am ~ made a curtain call
cursed with droughts he ~ and tipped his hat (baseball)
the area is ~ brought winter back for a curtain call
cursed by weak leadership the spring snowstorm ~
the country is ~ appearance & disappearance: theater
cursed team coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: theater
it seemed that Brazil was a ~ (soccer) curtain raiser (noun)
seemingly cursed last night’s curtain raiser
she belongs to a ~ family after ~, VAR took center-stage (start of soccer season)
felt cursed season curtain-raiser

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 Iowa is the primary season ~ (US elections) cut (road cuts, etc.)
starting, going, continuing & ending: theater
cut inland
curve (behind / ahead of the curve) the Via Appia itself ~ and headed further east

ahead of the curve fictive motion / resemblance: blade / knife / verb

we have been ~ cut ( a person from a team, etc.)
stay ahead of the curve cut Hernandez
we need to ~ (deep-fake videos / fake news)
the Patriots ~ (NFL team and player)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: geometry
dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / knife
curveball (noun) cut (budget cuts, etc.)
curve ball deep cuts
this a ~ that we don’t believe they saw coming
he wants to make ~ in programs for the poor
throws a curveball curtailment: ax / blade / knife
nature always ~ (Covid vaccine)
cut (cut the budget, etc.)
failure, accident & impairment: ball / baseball / sports &
games cut taxes
he wants to ~ (a politician)
cushion (verb)
curtailment: ax / blade / knife / verb
cushion the blow
the official tried to ~ (son grievously wounded in war) cut (cut both ways)
amelioration & renewal / attenuation: hardness & softness cuts both ways
the Western concept ~ (human rights)
cushion (noun)
feeling, emotion & effect: blade / knife
cash cushion
corporations are sitting on ~s cut (a thousand cuts)
economic cushion death by a thousand cuts
his savings provided him with an ~ he's suffering ~ (a prosecutor with weak case)
a ~ is the future (restricting right to abortion)
financial cushion
did you save a ~ for yourself suicide by a thousand cuts
the company is committing ~ (failing)
amelioration & renewal: hardness & softness
♦ This references an actual form of torture. See the Wikipedia entry
cusp (on the cusp) “Lingchi.”

affliction: blade / knife

on the cusp of adulthood
her child died ~ cut off (verb)
she plays high schoolers ~ (an actor)
cut off (diplomatic) relations
on the cusp of (finally) getting Venezuela ~ Colombia
Golding was ~ a book deal (Lord of the Flies)
curtailment: blade / knife / verb
proximity: astronomy / star dismissal, removal & resignation: blade / knife / verb
division & connection: astronomy / star
cut off (speech)
custodian (role)
cut me off
custodian of this democracy I tried to tell her but she ~
we should expect the president to be the ~
speech: blade / knife / verb
custodians of hope
we can be ~ (environmental activism) cut short (verb)
custodian of this lost history cut short
she saw herself as a ~ his life was tragically ~
♦ “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques” is a Wikipedia entry. curtailment: blade / farming & agriculture / knife / verb
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cutthroat (competition) cylinder (fire on all cylinders, etc.)
cutthroat behemoth firing on all cylinders
antitrust regulators depict it as a ~ (a tech company) the team was ~ (won championship game)
imagine Tyson ~ (the boxer Tyson Fury)
cutthroat business we weren’t ~ (a relationship)
back then in Russia, it was a ~ (oil) it was a fantastic month, the economy was ~
cutthroat game functioning: engine / mechanism
he wasn't there to play the ~ (Survivor)
czar (and tsar)
cutthroat world
in the ~ of college admission applications climate tsar
John Kerry, the Biden administration’s ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: blade / knife / violence
behavior: blade / knife / violence coronavirus czar
competition: blade / knife / violence Dr. Ashish Jha, new White House ~
cutting edge (on the cutting edge) anti-trust tsar
the president might create an ~ (and break up Big Tech)
on the cutting edge
Californians are ~ (exercises) cybersecurity czar
Dick Clarke, a former ~
on the cutting edge of outbreak surveillance
the Medical Center is ~ Covid-testing Czar
Dr. Tom Inglesby, the ~ at the White House
driving force: blade
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: blade power: history / person / government
cutting edge (other)
cutting-edge drug D
a ~ like Zofran
dagger (insert the dagger, etc.)
cutting-edge field
the ~s of computer engineering dagger to this Cameroon side
that is a ~ (third English goal in World Cup)
cutting-edge research
the chase to produce ~ dagger blows
we must deal sharp ~ to the terrorists
cutting edge can grow dull
his life reminds us that the ~ (Hugh Hefner) 3-point dagger
driving force: blade he sealed the deal with a ~ with 5 seconds left (basketball)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: blade inserted the dagger
cyclone (noun) he ~ with a 15-foot-jumper (basketball)
put the dagger in
cyclone of chaos
you get a chance to shoot the three, ~ (basketball)
disinformation experts are bracing for a fresh ~
♦ "Out here, people had a smile on their face and a dagger behind their
amount & effect: air / atmosphere / storm / wind back." (Bigotry and discrimination.)
activity: air / atmosphere / storm / wind ♦ “Quoted sources suggested... that more than one knife was out for
him.” (PM Boris Johnson / politics.)
Cyclops (creature) ♦ "Antwerp was often described as a ‘dagger pointed at the heart of
England.’" (The Napoleonic wars.)
Cyclops eye
♦ “Korea is a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan.” (Japan fights Russia
the dim ~ of the military for control of the Korean Peninsula during the Russo-Japanese War.)
♦ “[The Soviets] turned the dim Cyclops eye of their military on the ♦ “Those who stormed this Capitol, and those who instigated and incited,
people themselves. They destroyed any village the mujahidin were and those who called on them to do so, held a dagger at the throat of
spotted in. They carpet-bombed the Panjshir Valley...” (From Fire by America, and American democracy... I will stand in this breach, I will
Sebastian Junger, the chapter entitled “The Lion In Winter (2001),” about defend this nation, I’ll allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of
the great Ahmad Shah Masoud, the Lion of Panjshir.) democracy.” (President Joe Biden, in a speech on January 6th, 2022.)
♦ In the Odyssey, Odysseus outwits the Cyclops Polyphemus and ends ♦ A rich, stupid city man insulted a Bedouin. Twenty years later, the
up blinding him, in a great win for the “nobodies.” Bedouin wiped the man’s blood from his dagger, thinking regretfully,
“Why was I in such a hurry to kill him?”
allusion: books & reading
oppression: allusion / books & reading / creature / eye / destruction / feeling, emotion & effect: blade / death & life
Iliad & Odyssey / knife / violence / weapon

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dam (psychological dam, etc.) the TV show is causing real ~ (a murder case)

air dam ongoing damage

there is an ~ (a TV show about murder case)
shave one inch off their front ~ (NASCAR)
deflection dams threat of damage
there is a ~ (to a murder case, by a TV show)
avalanche fences and ~
destruction: ruins
dental dams
male condoms, ~, and female condoms (public health) damage control
psychological dam damage control
a flood of memories burst through the ~ he had built he is not a seasoned politician who knows how to do ~
♦ “I could feel the unity of tens of millions of brothers and sisters, rising to
join the fight, creating a living dam to block the invaders’ path...” (Vasily do damage control
Grossman, author of Life and Fate.) the CEO went on CNBC to ~ (about product safety)
♦ “I was a dam-builder / cross a river deep and wide / where steel and ♦ “It wasn’t the Exocet that sank HMS Sheffield, it was poor damage
water did collide / a place called Boulder on the wild Colorado / I slipped control.” (The Falklands War.)
and fell into the wet concrete below / they buried me in that great tomb
that knows no sound / but I am still around...” (YouTube. “The amelioration & renewal: boat / military
Highwaymen—Highwayman” (American Outlaws: live at Nassau
Coliseum, 1990.) damning (adjective)
obstacles & impedance: dam / river / water
damning
constraint & lack of constraint: dam / river / water
the verdict was ~ as the team finished sixth (Olympics)
dam (water over the dam)
damning (internal) documents
water over the dam ~ leaked by a whistleblower
technically all of us are living on Indian land, but it’s ~ judgment: religion
past & present: dam / movement / river / water dampen (verb)
time: dam / movement / river / water
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: dam / movement / dampen a man's (sexual) arousal
river / water the smell of a woman's tears will ~ (a study)
damage (collateral damage) dampen the enthusiasm
heavy security didn't ~ of fans (Olympics)
collateral damage
the weather did not ~ at the fair
we don’t want to talk about the ~ he has done (behavior)
dampened (people's) spirit
collateral damage in trade wars
the wet weather has ~ (France)
farmers are tired of being ~
feeling, emotion & effect: water / verb
cultural collateral damage
attenuation: water / verb
the ~ was felt at the orchestra (tour cancelled)
♦ “Brady just happened to be the blowback. He got caught up in the dampening (adjective)
blowback, Skip, the collateral damage, that’s what Brady is. And so, it
was a blast radius. He dropped the bomb, ‘I got BA [Bruce Arians], I got dampening effect
the Tampa medical staff, I got...’ and Tom Brady and Guerrero, they got this will have a ~ on reporting (nurse convicted of error)
caught up in that, Skip, the blast radius. (Shannon Sharpe talking with
Skip Bayless on their great sports show “Undisputed” about the Antonio
Brown controversy of January 2022.)
attenuation / obstacles & impedance: mechanism
♦ "The mission received reports…of a strikingly high percentage of damper (noun)
patients with severed legs… The amputations mostly occurred at waist
height in children, generally lower in adults… Where the amputation took damper on our sex life
place, the flesh was cauterized… The patients… had no shrapnel
wounds… The Mission understands such injuries to be compatible with taking care of a baby put a real ~
the impact of DIME weapons." (From the Goldstone Report on Israel's
"Operation Cast Lead" in Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009. DIME attenuation / obstacles & impedance: mechanism
weapons are a focused blast explosive full of a dense inert metal like
tungsten. They were developed by the US Air Force to minimize dance (coordination)
collateral damage.)
♦ “When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.” dance between the telescope and the dome
it’s a ~, they work together (Giant Magellan Telescope)
destruction: military / ruins
relationship: music
damage (noun)
dance (dance with death, etc.)
damage to Amanda
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fate, fortune & chance: love, courtship & marriage
Dantesque horror
dance (resemblance) it was a scene of ~ (surgery during genocide)
♦ “It’s Dante, it’s inconceivable, it’s an inferno.” (An Israeli reminiscing
dance across the flats about the 1973 tank battle around Hushniya, in the Golan.)
whirling dust devils ~ (Nevada) ♦ “It is another path that you must take / if you would leave this savage
wilderness.”
heat waves danced
down in the valley the ~ environment / situation: allusion / religion
allusion: books & reading
resemblance: verb / walking, running & jumping
comparison & contrast: affix
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping
Danton
dance (dance around something)
raging Danton
dancing around partisan gerrymandering his views were still liberal, he was no longer a ~
the Supreme Court has been ~ for years
disruption: allusion / history / violence
danced around the issue
he ~ daredevil (person)
dance around it daredevil
we ~, but I want to come back to it (women’s language) more executives should be ~ (risky hobbies)
avoidance & separation / confronting, dealing with & daredevils and cautious persons
ignoring things: verb / walking, running & jumping ~ and everything in between
dance (last dance) thrill-seekers, daredevils, and adrenaline junkies
the psychology of ~
last dance
♦ “Samuel Patch was America’s first daredevil.” (See the Wikipedia entry
Phil Jackson called that season the ~ (Jordan’s Bulls) “Sam Patch.” He died jumping from the High Falls of the Genesee River
in 1929 in front of 8,000 people.)
Last Dance scenario
♦ “Up there you feel that you’re standing on the line between life and
that sets up a potential ~ this season (two NFL players) death—your life is hanging by a thread—that if something goes wrong
you may die... What’s the point of being scared? [Death] is inescapable.
starting, going, continuing & ending: music It comes to us all.” (The remarkable Siberian daredevil Alexander
Chernikov, a then 23-year-old living on the outskirts of Barnaul, 4,000
dandelion (character) kilometers east of Moscow. He specialized in jumping off of buildings into
snowbanks.)
dandelions ♦ “[Muhammad] Ali... peeked out the window, where a crowd stood
most kids tend to be like ~, fairly resilient and able to cope waiting to see a young man named Gary Wells attempt to jump the water
fountain at Caesars on a motorcycle, the same jump that had almost
orchid or a dandelion killed stunt rider Evel Knievel. Ali turned away. / ‘I don’t want to see
is your child an ~ nobody get his head ripped off,’ he said. ‘They encourage him, but I
know what people want to see when they watch something like that.’ /
♦ Compare with teacup and snowflake. In the old days, such people were Ali... lay down on this bed and his rubdown man, Luis Sarria, closed the
compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy; a wallflower or wilting curtains... / An hour later, the young man on the motorcycle missed his
flower. The modern update on that is orchid (versus a dandelion). landing ramp and nearly killed himself crashing into a brick wall at eighty-
five miles an hour.” (Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig.)
person: plant
character & personality / resiliency / strength & weakness: character & personality / fate, fortune & chance: circus /
person / plant person
dangle (verb) dark (in the dark)
dangled this inducement in the dark on that
he ~ (diplomacy) we were ~ (Iran nuclear purchases)
dangled military aid as a way to press in the dark about how
he ~ Ukraine to... the US was ~ events would unfold (diplomacy)
dangled a White House visit as leverage to get in the dark about the fraud
officials ~ Ukraine to... they claimed to be ~
attraction & repulsion: hunting / verb completely in the dark
coercion & motivation: arm / verb our communications are down, we're ~
groping in the dark
doctors were really ~ (cures for infection in the 1800s)

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keep the opposition in the dark his future ~ indeed
it's a way to ~
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark
kept the public in the dark oppression: light & dark
he denied he ~ about… (official) dark (go dark, etc.)
kept in the dark
lawmakers complained they were ~ (politics)
go dark
a lot of radio stations would ~ without public funding
many officials were ~ about the journey (secret visit)
he thought that the Pope was being ~ regarding key events went dark
even her father was ~ the station’s FM signal ~ (shut down by government)
left in the dark live or die, survive or go dark
transparency was never there, the community was ~ they can decide which Web sites ~ (Web hosts)
she ghosted me and I was ~ (as to why)
curtailment: light & dark / verb
concealment & lack of concealment / comprehension &
incomprehension / consciousness & awareness / dark (concealment)
knowledge & intelligence: light & dark
dark art
dark (dark mood, etc.) the methods used have always been a ~ (party obedience)

darker mood dark money

a ~ is setting in, it’s not a happy place at the White House these so-called ~ groups

darkest chapter dark web

his capture was one of the country's ~s of the war on the ~, he shared tens of thousands of images (paedo)
drugs, death and the ~
darkest hour he tried to buy grenades and Semtex on the ~ (terrorist)
we are now in the ~ of our political existence ♦ “Black books, dark arts, and quiet words...” (How political parties
enforce obedience.)
dark mood
she returned in a ~ concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark

dark name Dark Ages (in the Dark ages)

Antwerp was to be a ~ among British military failures
in the dark ages
dark obsession in those days, medical knowledge was ~
his hatred for him had become a ~ ~, when you and I were growing up (rotary phones)

dark place in the dark ages of (personal) computing

see place (feelings and emotions) ~, if you wanted to…

dark predictions in the predigital dark ages

there are ~ that Boeing will lay off even more workers ~, before computers…
dark secret keep (medical) science in the dark ages
I realized that people are carrying around ~s (pastor) the fundamentalists would ~
dark times take us back to the dark ages
you keep on going even through the ~ (musician) the fundamentalists would ~
dark tradition past & present / time: history
the Pacific Northwest's ~ of serial killers decline / growth & development: history
knowledge & intelligence: history
dark truth
there is ~ in what you are saying (a harsh conclusion) Dark Ages (other)
dark, complicated Dark Ages of ignorance
the HBO show follows the ~ lives of a groups of teens the Republican's stem-cell policy represents the ~
dark and honest ideological dark ages
Vasily Grossman’s ~ account of the battle of Stalingrad this is a step forward from the ~ (education issue)
got very dark out of the dark ages
I was a no-hoper kid, things ~ for me (Simon Reeve) we’re ~, women have equal rights (surprise rough sex)
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 this is a ~ expectations have produced a massive ~ (US weddings)
sinking into the dark ages oppression: allusion / astronomy / light & dark
the country is ~ (immigration)
darling (noun)
brought our country out of the dark ages
he ~ (Sultan Qaboos bin Said) darling of the (Obama) Administration
the solar company Solyndra was a ~ (failed)
past & present / time: history
decline / growth & development: history darling of conservationists
knowledge & intelligence: history the spoon-billed sandpiper has become a ~

Dark Continent darling of the family

Zygmunt, bright second child and only son, was the ~
dark continent of the atom
man had opened the ~ (Hiroshima) darling of the judges
Alvarez brushed off the notion that he is the ~ (boxing)
searching & discovery: map
darling of Wall Street
dark (Dark Matter, etc.) rapid growth made the company the ~ (addictive pain meds)
Dark Matter or Dark Energy darling of Silicon Valley
the Standard Model can’t explain ~ (physics) she was the ~, a woman who could do no wrong (Theranos)
comprehension & incomprehension: physics tech darling
Theranos was on the cusp of becoming a ~
darken (verb)
indie darling
darkened it hits similar beats as movies by other ~ directors
his outlook ~
progressive darlings
darken his mood he won the endorsements of ~ Sanders, Warren and...
the stressful process seemed to ~ (troubled soldier)
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / person
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: love, courtship & marriage /
oppression: light & dark / verb person
darkness (depression) dart (dart about)
in darkness darts about
there are a lot of people still ~ (the boxer Tyson Fury) the staff ~
climb out of this deep darkness activity / movement / speed: verb / weapon
that was the moment I started to ~ (Mark Whetu)
Darwinian (adjective)
found my way out of that same darkness
I once ~ (“A Letter to College Sports”) Darwinian
the process is ~ (casting boys for a popular play)
navigate my way out of the darkness
I was able to ~ (“A Letter to College Sports”) Darwinian competition
women live in ~ with one another for rich men
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / mental health
Darwinian reality
darknet (computers) the ~ of capitalism (investing during pandemic)
darknet Darwinian situation
the "~," a private swath of the Internet street hailing can create ~s (cabs)
the ~ is beyond the reach of law enforcement
Darwinian system
building the "darknet" it’s a very ~, Marty was out for himself (career)
Freenet is one of several technologies that are ~
Darwinian (insurance) system
join a darknet sick people are further stricken by a ~ (US)
to ~, a potential user must be trusted (file sharing)
Darwinian view
computer: light & dark
this ~ of the workplace is widespread
Dark Star Darwinian world
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competition: allusion it was slowly ~ the Germans had killed them all (Holocaust)
allusion: books & reading
comprehension & incomprehension / consciousness &
comparison & contrast: affix
awareness: day / light & dark / verb
dashboard (noun)
dawn (verb / start)
national test dashboard
the CDC launched its ~ two weeks ago (pandemic) 2021 dawned
they were hoping for better times as ~
see the dashboard
go to the state’s website to ~ (coronavirus info) starting, going, continuing and ending: day / verb
future / time: day / verb
measurement: tools & technology
dawn (from / since the dawn)
daughter (noun)
from the dawn of Japanese TV
daughter of Hope and Fear ~, every sumo tournament has been broadcast live
Religion is a ~ (Ambrose Bierce)
since the dawn of the Petroleum Age
daughter roots ~ more than a century ago…
the roots produce offshoots called ~ (fig tree bridges)
starting, going, continuing & ending: day
product / relationship: family
dawn (noun)
daughter (daughter of Brooklyn, etc.)
dawn of a new (pandemic) age
daughter of Brooklyn it's the ~
she told the audience that she was a proud ~
dawn of a new era
identity & nature: family / person today marks the ~ (political speech)
this is the ~ in human spaceflight (SpaceX Crew Dragon)
David (David and Goliath, etc.) Midway was the ~ in naval warfare
David dawn of the Roaring Twenties
we can be a ~ in a situation where there’s a Goliath (politics) it was the ~ and Dempsey was just getting started (boxing)
I’m essentially the ~ taking on the Goliath (whistleblower)
false dawn
David-and-Goliath affair there have been many ~s leading to frustration (unity)
major league bat making is a ~ (Louisville Slugger is #1)
new dawn
David-and-Goliath battle the worst part is behind us, we are seeing a ~, hold on...
waging a ~ against Time Warner
starting, going, continuing & ending / time: day
David versus Goliath situation
this is definitely a ~ (a coach of a team) day (have one's day)
David overcame Goliath had its day
despite long odds, ~ (American independence) the German shepherd has ~ (the dog breed)
David coming up against Goliath had their day
it’s brilliant when you get a ~ (Leicester City football) cats have ~ (on the Internet)
people versus Goliath primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
the ~, that’s what this is (day traders vs Wall Street)
day (win the day)
strength & weakness: allusion / Bible / religion
size: allusion / Bible / religion won the day
even if the government ~, it is unclear if...
dawn (verb / comprehension)
conflict / success & failure: day / military
dawning on him
it was ~ that… day (in the old days, etc.)
dawn on me early days of YouTube
it didn’t ~ at the time that… it was a viral sensation, 2010, the ~ (Usman Ahmed)

dawned on her in his day

it eventually ~ that… he was admired by millions ~ (Walter White / NAACP)

dawning on us in its early days

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 radio astronomy was still ~ day (days of yore)
in the better days days of yore
we were in Beirut, Beirut ~, and we were playing cards
the parents yearned for those ~ (when the family was rich)
(O’Toole and Sharif)
past & present / time: day
in the old days
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
the reverence accorded ~ to Joe Hill (Kentucky)
~ it was known as Happy Top (area of town) day (latter-day)
~ racial hatred was common
~ costumes were very heavy (ballet at the Mariinsky) latter-day Mary Magdalene
~, before people could buy salt blocks for their sheep a sexually adventurous mother, a ~
(Navaho) ♦ “Of present or recent times.”

in the old old days past & present / time: day

back ~ of TV, before streaming or cable...
day (day after tomorrow)
in the old days of coal
this couldn't have happened ~ (mountaintop removal) day after tomorrow
it feels like it might be the ~ but there’s still 2 years to go
in the "bad old days"
~ of Times Square (porn sleaze) today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow
we are well prepared ~ (German response to pandemic)
life in the old days
future / time: day / distance / position / prep, adv, adj,
~ was perhaps not so good
particle
past & present / time: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day day (at the end of the day)
at the end of the day
day (old days) but ~ the true beauty of the stone remains
old days but ~ they support our lives (sheep / herders)
many are speaking fondly of the ~ but ~, he has been repudiated (politician loses election)
just think back to the ~ when people didn't have… ~, you can’t put a price on that (happiness in career)

bad old days analysis, interpretation & explanation: day

memories of the ~ of Suharto (Indonesia) day (early / late in the day)
this is a step backwards to the ~ of the 1980s (policy)
early in the day
good old days it's still ~ (the progress of a war)
I heard quite a bit of talk of the so-called ~, when…
in the ~, which was just a few months ago (Brexit) late in the day
it's rather ~ to be suggesting a change to the plan
return to the "old days"
what he really wants is a ~ (Pakistani Christian) timeliness & lack of timeliness: day
faces from the old days day (of one's day / of its day)
seeing the familiar ~ (a windsurfer)
astronauts of their day
spoke (fondly) of the old days whalers were the true ~
he ~ (reminiscing)
spaceships of their day
past & present / time: day whaling ships were the ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
moonshot of its day
day (back in the day) the Brooklyn Bridge was the ~
back in the day Panama of its day
~, a teacher could keep a bottle of whiskey in her desk the Miracle Canal was truly a ~ (Qin dynasty)
the first time I heard it was ~, with my Mum (Billy Jean)
past & present / time: day
listened to back in the day primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
that's the music I ~
day (of the day)
past & present / time: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day government of the day
we occupy the towns to show that the ~ is unfair (IS)
problem of the day

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 if they don’t react to whatever the ~ is... (politicians) resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
topic of the day day (glory days, etc.)
what the media tells us is the ~ (criticizing the media)
“Those were the days”
past & present / time: day I don’t look back and think, ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
glory days are back
day (the light of day) the ~ at this hotel (restored 1891 hotel)
saw the light of day return to better days
the report never ~ (government) I want to help my hometown club ~ (soccer)
seen the light of day primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
the story might not have ~ if...
day (early days)
concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark
early days for the organization
day (these days) it’s still ~
these days early days for making
~, when Chevron signs a contract… it’s still ~ a direct comparison (a new virus)
Africans ~ are quicker to express their anger
but few people are buying baskets ~ (famine) in the early days
~, we eat once or twice a day (Zimbabwe) it’s still ~, there’s a lot we don’t know (Omicron variant)
many marginally qualified climbers flock to Everest ~ growth & development: day
past & present / time: day starting, going, continuing & ending: day
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day
day (those days)
day (day has arrived, etc.)
those days
~ are obviously long gone (dumb workers) day has arrived
~ are over (no running water) the big ~ (heavy-weight boxing match)
that was the way we operated in ~ (journalism) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: day /
past & present / time: day direction / movement / verb
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day past & present / future / time: day / direction / movement
/ verb
day (dark day)
day (modern day)
darkest days of the pandemic
the ~ could lie ahead modern-day Noah’s Ark
Norway’s Global Seed Vault is a ~ for plant seeds
dark day in the history
it's a ~ of the church (pedophilia scandals) modern-day P. T. Barnum
he is sort of a ~ (an arena builder and promoter)
darkest day in the club’s history
it was the ~ (Munich air disaster / Manchester United) modern-day hermits
in Japan half a million people live as ~ (hikikomori)
dark day for Muslims
a leading Swiss Islamic group said it was “a ~” (referendum) modern-day lepers
we treat them like ~ (fat people)
feeling, emotion & effect: day / light & dark
past & present: day
day (a new day) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
bright new day day (call it a day)
Hubert Humphrey promised America a ~
call it a day
new day has come it’s time to ~ (a boxer retires)
a~
starting, going, continuing & ending: day
starting, going, continuing & ending: day
future / time: day daylight (division)
day (save the day) daylight between the two men on the issue
there is not much ~
saving the day
we’re not ~ but we add capacity (field hospitals) leave little daylight

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 his campaign has worked to ~ for primary challengers dead (dead on arrival)
division & connection: light & dark / proximity / shadow
dead on arrival
daze (in a daze) a month ago the initiative looked ~
the film is ~ (critic did not like film)
in a daze
condition & status: death & life / health & medicine
he was ~ (news of murder)
feeling, emotion & effect: force dead (dead in the water)
consciousness & awareness: sensation dead in the water
dazzle (verb) the initiative is now ~
the Iran nuclear deal is not quite ~ but... (trouble)
dazzled the delegates that ship is ~ (a legal case)
he ~ (a politician) they economy was ~, they were doomed to failure
dazzled him condition & status: boat / movement
the kid ~ (Zion Williamson, basketball player) progress & lack of progress: boat / movement
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / verb dead (rise from the dead)
dead (status) rose from the dead
they ~ (a winning football team)
dead
reform is ~ amelioration & renewal: religion / verb

dead and buried dead (dead and gone)

the peace process is ~
Spurs looked ~ when Ziyech scored against them, but... dead and gone
Switzerland were ~ but kept fighting (Euro 2020) it won’t make much difference to the ~
they looked ~ at half-time, but never write off this team death & life: journeys & trips / movement
all but dead dead end
the Cape Horn route was ~ (due to the Panama Canal)
dead ends
deal is dead most of the tips turned out to be ~ (investigation)
the ~ (boxing negotiation)
dead-end job
appears to be dead characters with ~s
Joshua versus Fury now ~ (Usyk beats Joshua / boxing) whiling away productive years at a ~
condition & status: death & life
dead end scientifically
dead (functioning) drugs to remove amyloid may be kind of a ~ (Alzheimer’s)

dead disappointing dead ends

the rocket has been ~, following the laws of gravity... there were many ~ (hunt for missing girl)

went dead wrong turns and dead ends

the line ~ before a reporter could get more details the series had some ~ (a TV show)

functioning: death & life led to dead ends

attempts to find his birth mother ~
dead (feeling)
led to a dead end
felt (kind of) dead every lead ~ (missing hunters)
I ~ inside (mundane job, etc.)
success & failure: journeys & trips
feeling, emotion & effect: death & life / mental health failure, accident & impairment: journeys & trips
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips
dead (activity)
deadening (effect)
dead
we got downtown, but it was ~ mind-deadening
~ checks
activity: death & life
sound-deadening
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feeling, emotion & effect: death & life death (to death)
dead heat
love her to death
dead heat I ~ but she gets a little crazy... (a brother about sister)
the presidential run-off is a ~, too close to call
love it to death
statistical dead heat I grew up with doo-wop and Motown, and I ~
he is in a ~ with Bernie Sanders (election)
scared me to death
competition: horse it ~
deadly bored to death
I'm ~, let's do something
politically deadly
if the accusations are true, this would be ~ for him scared to death
I was ~ during the encounter
destruction: death & life
thrilled to death
dead weight I was ~ at his success
deadwood hyperbole: death & life
get rid of Pogba, he is ~ 80% of the time (soccer snark)
death (death by PowerPoint, etc.)
worth & lack of worth: weight
death by a thousand cuts
deadwood he's suffering ~ (a prosecutor with weak case)
a ~ is the future (restricting right to abortion)
deadwood
as the lowest-ranking official, I felt like ~ “Death by hydrofracture”
the iceberg experienced ~ (A68)
worth & lack of worth: tree
death by PowerPoint
deaf (adjective) they call it ~ (not another slide)
blind, deaf and dumb Death by Chocolate Trifle
terrorists are ~ to all reason and decency this ~ recipe is rich, decadent, and crazy delicious
consciousness & awareness: ear hyperbole: death & life
deal (done deal) death (cheat death)
done deal cheated death
just three weeks ago, his nomination looked like a ~ by recovering from such severe wounds, she ~
certainty & uncertainty: money fate, fortune & chance: death & life
deal (close the deal) death (decline and death)
close the deal in the playoffs death of journalism
they were a good team, but they could never ~ (NBA) digital journalism is the ~
attainment / reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / death by a thousand cuts
success & failure: money / verb he's suffering ~ (a prosecutor with weak case)
dean (person) a ~ is the future (restricting right to abortion)
death spiral
Dean of American Cookery
American newspapers are in a ~ (declining circulations)
Turgeon nicknamed Beard “the ~”
death and rebirth
dean of Middle Eastern correspondents
the primordial pageant of ~ of light (solar eclipse)
she has been described as the ~ (Liz Sly)
social death
dean of legal reporters
ostracism is a form of ~ (academia)
she is the ~ covering the Supreme Court (Nina Totenberg)
epithet: person dying a slow death
VHS is ~ (film fans prefer DVDs)
person: school & education
achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / person / decline / destruction: death & life
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death (death sentence / figurative) the strategy amounts to a ~ (COVID / Maori)

melting “death sentence” death warrant for the Trans-Pacific Partnership

on his first day in office President Trump signed the ~
Greenland’s ice faces ~ (global warming)
destruction: justice death warrant for us
anything over 2 degrees is a ~ (Marshall Islands / climate)
death (death sentence / literal)
destruction: justice
death sentence debris (noun)
he thought it was a ~, but... (accidental needle stick)
melting “death sentence” debris of a failed season
fans have been left to sift through the ~
Greenland’s ice faces ~ (global warming)
automatic death sentence sorting through the debris
Democrats are ~ left by Republican wave (election)
H.I.V. is no longer an ~
destruction: ruins
no longer a death sentence
AIDS is ~ (antiretrovirals) debt (in somebody's debt)
death & life: justice in his debt
deathbed (noun) America is deeply ~ (a US politician)

on its deathbed in your dept for visiting us

we are ~ (Russian President)
American democracy is in peril and may even be ~
condition & status: death & life / health & medicine deeply in his debt
America is ~ (a US politician)
deathblow (noun)
obligation: money
death blow to my enterprise debt (obligation)
I realized it was the ~
deathblow to our hopes debt of gratitude
we can never repay the ~ owed to our nation's veterans
we were dealt a ~
I owe a ~ to… (writer / acknowledgments)
campaign’s death blow
debt to society
the ~ came weeks earlier, in Michigan (elections)
he has paid his ~ (released from prison)
deliver a deathblow
debt to soldiers
the army is trying to ~ to the militants
the nation's ~ who fight abroad
dealt a deathblow to both ideas
debt to the (Hollywood) musical
the financial meltdown ~ (foreign policy)
the choreography owes a clear ~ (filmmaker John Woo)
dealt the hospital a deathblow
nation's debt
Hurricane Katrina ~
the ~ to soldiers who fight abroad
destruction: death & life / violence / weapon
sleep debt
death warrant (literal) racking up a large ~ during the week
one of the first signs of ~ is irritability
signed his own death warrant
he effectively ~ by planning attacks (terrorist killed) paid his debt
he has ~ many times over (44 years in prison)
signed his death warrant
when he signed those accords, he essentially ~ (Sadat) owes a (clear) debt
♦ “I just signed your death warrant.” (A judge, sentencing a man to a long
the choreography ~ to the Hollywood musical (film)
term that meant he would die in prison.)
repay the debt
death & life: justice we can never ~ of gratitude owed to our nation's veterans
death warrant (figurative) obligation: money

death warrant of capitalism debutant (noun)

the president has signed the ~ (a senator against FDR)
debutant Joe Burrow
‘death warrant’ for indigenous communities it was heartbreak for ~ (close loss in his first NFL game)

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tournament debutants it’s totally going to ~ (effects of political controversy)
the US team showed no mercy against the ~
disruption: cards
youngest-ever Bundesliga debutant declare (verb)
he became the club’s ~ (Kai Havertz)
experience: person / love, courtship & marriage / sex declared The New York Times
“Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact,” ~
decapitate (verb) ♦ “Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact,” declared The
New York Times. “Radio Fake Scares Nation,” cried the Chicago Herald
decapitate al-Qaida and Examiner. “US Terrorized By Radio’s ‘Men From Mars,’” said the
our goal is to ~, to dismantle it San Francisco Chronicle. (“The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds
panic” by Professor W Joseph Campbell, BBC, 30 October 2011.)
decapitate the nation’s military center fictive communication: speech / verb
he told undercover agents he wanted to ~ (Pentagon)
deconstruct (verb)
decapitate any future discussion
imposing new sanctions would ~ with Pakistan deconstructed the (show's) finale
the creators and producers ~
decapitate the cartels’ leadership
he has deployed troops to ~ and reclaim their territory analysis, interpretation & explanation: infrastructure / verb
decapitate the management deconstruction (noun)
it’s just an effort to ~ (media leader / security law)
pop deconstruction
decapitated a terrorist organization her podcast is an intensive project of ~ (diet culture)
we ~ by killing him (targeted killing)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: infrastructure
decapitate me professionally
the NFL tried to ~ (the renowned Dr. Bennet Omalu) deep (emotion)
decapitate (the agency) and eviscerate (its capacity) deep alienation
opponents worked to ~ to execute the law (politics) she began to feel a ~
♦ “Don’t simply uncork your bottle, decapitate it!” (Sabrage.) deep desire
destruction / dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / bound by a ~ to have meaning in our lives
head / neck / verb deep passion
decode (verb) she had this ~ for issues she cared about

decodes what it means run (especially) deep

fears of Moscow ~ in Poland (2009)
Want Me kinda ~ to reclaim desire for yourself
analysis, interpretation & explanation: verb runs deep
Wright's admiration for the marines ~ (correspondent)
decompression (noun) the sense of allegiance to the Catholic Church ~
resentment of the US ~ (Arabs)
decompression support for the insurgency ~ (Kandahar)
after a day at work, all I'm thinking about is ~
runs deepest
decompression time in places where anti-American sentiment ~ (Iraq, etc.)
it's real important to have ~ (rescued POWs)
feeling, emotion & effect: depth / water
amelioration & renewal: pressure
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure deep (extent and scope)
deck (deck is stacked) deep in debt
thousands of drivers were neck ~ (NYC cabbies)
deck is stacked against them
the ~ deep in thought
we drove in silence, both of us ~
deck is stacked on every hand
what if the ~ (justice for the poor) deep connections
he had ~ in Washington with politicians (Biden)
fate, fortune & chance: cards / sports & games
deep divide
deck (re-shuffle the deck) the ~ between the haves and have-nots (The White Tiger)
re-shuffle the deck deep ecology

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 books about ~ deeply loyal
like many in the force, he is ~ to her (Dame Cressida Dick)
deep (foreign affairs) experience
he had this ~ (a politician) extent & scope: depth / water
deep knowledge deep-rooted (adjective)
what makes them such good cooks is a ~ of food
he may have ~ about him, but he is a proven liar (politics) deep-rooted problems
the company must overcome its ~
deep roots
they have ~ in the community (Croatians / Louisiana) bases: depth / plant

deep sense deer (deer in the headlights)

they have a ~ of sadness
deer in the headlights
deep trouble the first time I was a ~ (MMA fighter wins rematch)
he was in ~ before he won (an exciting tennis match) ♦ “Anthony Joshua lacked ambition, and he was like a deer in the
headlights from the start, and he never wanted to get going.” (Carl Froch,
neck deep commentating on Usyk-Joshua.)
thousands of drivers were ~ in debt (NYC taxi drivers)
behavior: animal / hunting
dug deep defang (verb)
he has ~ into the science of spices
extent & scope: depth / water defanged the (country’s once-feared religious) police
substance & lack of substance: depth / water he has ~ (MBS in Saudi Arabia)

deep (in deep) defang them

he wants to demystify deadlines in order to ~ (a writer)
in deep
he is ~ and I can't get him out (financial problems) defang the consumer watchdog
the administration wants to ~
getting in deeper
strength & weakness: animal / snake / verb
you’re ~ every moment you’re gone (Thelma and Louise)
attenuation: animal / snake / verb
involvement / situation: depth / water
deficit (noun)
deepen (verb)
attention deficit
deepened the mystery children diagnosed with ~ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
the new information ~
information deficit
extent & scope: depth / water / verb there’s an ~ right now (vaccine controversy)
deeply innovation deficit
the US has an ~ (less funding for science, etc.)
deeply in his debt
America is ~ (a US politician) nature deficit
suffering from ~ disorder (forest bathing)
deeply embarrassing
it’s a ~ episode that still clings to her today (singer) trust deficit
the UN chief says the world has “~ disorder” (Guterres)
deeply troubling
the allegations are ~ sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: money

deeply disappointed define (verb)

he was ~ that...
define me
deeply entrenched I refuse to let it ~ (sex abuse)
lighting fireworks to celebrate is a ~ custom (Peru)
identity & nature: verb / writing & spelling
deeply moved deflate (emotion)
to watch them was to be ~ (old soldiers)
deeply troubled deflated a nation
he was a ~, haunted by demons (Timothy Treadwell) the loss ~ where… (Mexico / soccer)

deeply woven deflates them

Arab Americans are ~ into the fabric of America having pumped the rookies up, he now ~ (NFL)

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feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / verb delicious (Gothic) romance
a ~ strikes just the right balance (book review by Caitlyn)
deflate (pressure)
delicious, raunchy
deflated some criticism Bridgerton is a ~ tale (wealth, lust, and betrayal)
by admitting his mistakes, he has ~ (politician)
how delicious
deflate (unrealistic) expectations you have something to confide, ~ (two women)
he would try to ~
♦ 9 1/2 Weeks (strawberries); Tom Jones (chicken bones, apples,
oysters); Jamon Jamon (prosciutto or Serrano ham); Women in Love
deflate a stereotype (figs). (Films that associate food with sex, and vice versa.)
people can ~ by embracing it (Hillbilly Days Festival)
♦ "In their hotel room she was staggered at the sight of a watermelon of
attenuation: air / pressure / verb incredible size. It was Komarovsky's housewarming gift, and to her it
was symbol of his power and wealth. When he thrust a knife into this
deflated marvel, and the dark green globe split in half, revealing its icy, sugary
heart, she was frightened, but she dared not refuse a slice. The fragrant
pink mouthfuls stuck in her throat, but she forced herself to swallow
deflated them." (Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.)
does your job or land of one have you feeling ~ ♦ “The significance of sex and food is reversed between the Siriono and
us Westerners: the Sirionos’ strongest anxieties are about food, they
bored and deflated have sex virtually whenever they want, and sex compensates for food
he sounds ~ despite the Zoloft hunger, while our strongest anxieties are about sex, we have food
virtually whenever we want, and eating compensates for sexual
feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere frustration.” (The Siriono Indians live in Bolivia. From The World Until
Yesterday by Jared Diamond.)
defuse (verb)
consumption: food & drink / taste
defuse her anxiety attraction & repulsion: food & drink / taste
try to ~ (separation anxiety / toddler) delirious (adjective)
defuse crises
promote regional stability and peace and ~ (military)
delirious (Korean) fans
millions of ~, aptly known as the Red Devils (soccer)
defuse (volatile) crises
he was sent in to ~ (FBI hostage negotiator)
delirious celebration
scenes of ~ at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium (World Cup)
defuse the disagreement behavior / enthusiasm: health & medicine
he is trying to ~ among his allies (coalition)
delirium (noun)
defuse the issue
the first thing to do is ~ by backing off… (toddlers) delirium of his fans
defuse the situation he raised an arm aloft to acknowledge the ~ (a boxer)
he tried to ~ (and got shot) behavior / enthusiasm: health & medicine
Melissa Arnot intervened to ~ (on Everest)
the agents attempted to calmly ~ (at an airport) deliver (verb)
defused the situation deliver a deathblow
tribal elders ~ the army is trying to ~ to the militants

defuse tensions deliver despair

the US has urged the Russians and Georgians to ~ they promise hope and ~ (a Mexican gang)
a move to ~ between the traditional rivals (China / Japan)
deliver on his promise
amelioration & renewal: explosion / verb his failure to ~ cost him his job (a coach)
deleted (groups) deliver a knockout blow
the air campaign failed to ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
deleted from history
women who have been ~ (scientists, politicians, artists) delivered a (passionate) response
she ~
inclusion & exclusion: society
deliver tonight
delicious (adjective) anything can happen in boxing, boy did they ~
delicious dollop fictive transportation: verb
his concern for disclosure is a ~ of hypocrisy (politics) giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb
delicious novels
here are three ~ (romance)

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Delphic (adjective) demand (noun)
Delphic pronouncements demands of history and destiny
he hands out index cards inscribed with ~ (self-help guru) none of us can escape the ~
comprehension & incomprehension: allusion / religion fictive communication: speech
deluge (noun) demented
deluge demented policy
the trickle became a ~ (customer orders) the Republicans are committed to a ~ of failure
deluge of (electronic) data fantasy & reality: health & medicine / mental health
how to organize and search through a ~ behavior: health & medicine / mental health
deluge of (holiday) orders demesne (control)
companies couldn't handle the ~
gang’s demesne
deluge of refugees children serve as lookouts on the frontline of the ~
Tunisia is struggling to cope with a ~
area / control & lack of control: ground, terrain & land
deluge of tips
the public has responded with a ~ (hunting terrorists)
demise (death)
amount & effect: flood / water demise
movement: flood / water he discharged one round, causing his ~

deluged demise of a subject

this officer-involved shooting resulted in the ~
deluged with advice
death & life: euphemism
you'll be ~ (about how to potty train your toddler)
deluged with complaints demolition (noun)
they are being ~ from residents and merchants demolition job
deluged with questions a packed Manchester arena witnessed a ~ (boxing)
Hale has been ~ about Islam (9/11) this was an absolute ~ (Liverpool 4, Man U 0)

deluged with (thousands of) requests destruction: infrastructure / ruins / tools & technology
the office was ~ (for a pamphlet) demon (affliction)
drug-deluged demons of the past
a ~ neighborhood we must exorcise the ~ (Island of Gorée and slavery)
amount & effect: flood / water
demons of (political) disorder, extremism, and cruelty
delusion (under a delusion) WWI unleased the ~

under no delusion threatening demon

I'm ~ this will stop everyone from cheating, but… another ~ of the Greek male, feminism...

fantasy & reality: mental health inner demons

due to ~, it didn’t work out (talented football player)
delusion (other)
personal demons
mass delusion her life has been plagued by drugs and other ~
a ~ renders drivers blind to their faults (a study) he certainly had some kind of ~ (Nashville bomber)
the “better-than-average effect” points to a ~
drugs and other (personal) demons
delusion, denial and fantasy her life has been plagued by ~
they seek refuge in ~ (the Middle East)
exorcise the demons
fantasy & reality: mental health ~ of the past… (history)
demand (verb) fight those demons
I had hoped he’d be able to ~ (dead of overdose)
demands your attention
Mr. Whitfield, there is a matter that ~ get rid of the demons
he has to get a rematch and ~ (boxer who lost in upset)
fictive communication: speech / verb

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had (similar) demons put a dent in the deficit
we both ~ (a boxer, a trainer, and drugs) he wants to ~ (a politician)
haunted by demons feeling, emotion & effect: mark
he was a deeply troubled man, ~ (Timothy Treadwell)
depression (noun)
shake her demons
she couldn't ~ (singer dies of drug overdose) fell into a depression
she ~
stared down his (personal) demons
he ~ fell into a (deep) depression
he ~, popping pain pills and swilling tequila
unleashed the demons
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / flying & falling / height
WWI ~ of political disorder, extremism, and cruelty
/ hole
affliction: creature
depth (substance)
demonic (adjective)
depth and experience
demonic explosion the soccer team has ~ at virtually all positions
there was a ~ (ethnic conflict) ♦ “From breadth through depth to perspective.” (Motto of State University
of New York at Binghamton.)
feeling, emotion & effect: creature
comparison & contrast: affix substance & lack of substance: depth
demonization (noun) depth (out of one's depth)
demonization of a black Muslim woman out of our depth
over-the-top ~ (Omar Ilhan) we were way ~ (ignorance)
accusation & criticism / characterization: creature out of their depth
demonize (verb) they realized they were ~ and consulted psychiatrists
out of my depth in this matter
“demonize” the rich I'm ~ (lacks expertise)
he promised not to ~ (politics)
out of his depth during engineering discussions
demonize all Southerners he was ~
she did not ~, or beatify all Northerners (Stowe)
ability & lack of ability: depth / water
accusation & criticism / characterization: creature / verb
knowledge & intelligence / experience: depth / water
demonized situation: depth / water

demonized in the press depth (depths of winter, etc.)

Ms. Maxwell has been ~ (trial) in the depths of (the arctic) winter
idolized and demonized they had to find a way to survive ~
he has been alternately ~ by the press (a boxer) time: depth / water
accusation & criticism / characterization: creature depth (extent)
den (den of thieves, etc.) depths of their bitterness
den of dysfunction grasp the ~ (Turks on death fast)
they described is presidency as a ~ (politics) depth of its (fiscal) distress
den of spies accounting obscured the ~ (hospital)
Vienna has long been a ~ depth of his knowledge
place: animal / house they came away impressed with the ~

dent (noun) depth of your sorrow

we cannot imagine the ~ (daughters murdered by MS-13)
dent in spending extent & scope: depth / water
they want to make a big ~ and the deficit
descend (verb)
making a dent in that (appalling) statistic
they are ~ (death in childbirth) descended into mob rule
the confirmation hearing ~ (protests)

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descended into violence descent into (pugilistic) dementia
a peaceful mass rally ~ his slow and steady ~ (Mike Quarry)
behavior: direction / verb descent into despair
her public ~ (suicide at MIT)
derail (verb)
descent into intolerance
derailed his career this is a sad milestone on our ~ (murder)
laziness ~ (athlete)
descent into (Webcam) pornography
derail a professor’s career he described his ~
it’s just as likely that a student can ~ these days (sex)
public descent
derail (health-care) reform her ~ into despair (suicide at MIT)
the Republicans tried to ~
slow and steady descent
derail her story his ~ into pugilistic dementia (Mike Quarry)
he is trying to ~ (a celebrity)
decline / feeling, emotion & effect: direction
derail our strategy
the insurgents will not ~ desert (verb)
derail this (vulnerable economic) upturn deserted the village for the (big) towns
a conflict with Iran could yet ~ (in US) his own grown children have ~ (Indonesian Borneo)
♦ [Mr. Webb]: Well, she's late. Reckon she might've jumped the tracks. deserted him
/ [Loretta Lynn]: Oh, Daddy, them things [trains] don't do that. Do they?
/ [Mr. Webb, grimly]: They've been known to. (From the great film, Coal his smooth putting stroke ~ ("the yips" / golfing)
Miner's Daughter.)
allegiance, support & betrayal: military / verb
failure, accident & impairment: train / verb
desert (food desert, etc.)
derailed
child-care deserts
derailed about half of Americans live in ~
the hype train was ~ (a Y.A. book, by sensitivity readers)
food desert
derailed by an avalanche ~s have little access to fresh food (urban areas)
the murder trial was nearly ~ of prejudicial comment on ~s are poor areas bereft of fresh-food grocers
social media
food-desert
career and life were derailed the ideal store for ~ residents is a chain supermarket
her ~ when she met Ray...
“fresh food deserts”
failure, accident & impairment: train nutritious food is hard to find and expensive in ~ (Bronx)
descend (descend on) internet deserts
~ in rural America make it hard for people...
descend on Iowa
candidates ~ ahead of crucial caucus (election) news desert
Youngstown is a ~ (Daily Vindicator ceases)
descend on London she tracks ~s (no local news)
a million tourists will ~ (Olympics) he tried to fight back against the encroaching ~, but...
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: insect / verb ‘pharmacy deserts’
behavior: insect / verb ~ are the new front in the race to vaccinate (COVID)
descendant (come after / down) food and health care deserts
descendants of the (US-backed) mujahedeen many people live in so-called ~ (US)
some consider the Taliban the ~ cultural desert
♦ de- = “down,” “down from,” “away.” the third- and fourth-tier cities are no longer ~s
past & present / sequence / time: direction / height / digital deserts
history / mountains & hills rural communities are stuck in ~ (broadband)
descent (decline) ♦ “The living glow of the desert dawn wrapped a blue turban around the
mountain’s lofty peak... / Even the barren desert knew how to hide
surprise to reward those who are patient (grass for a camel, desert
descent into alcoholism truffles, springs, etc.). / In the desert, the soul empties and clears and
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becomes free and brave in the process.” (From Gold Dust by Ibrahim al- dethroned Anthony Joshua
Koni.)
he ~ with an incredible performance (Usyk)
♦ “This processional way greater than imagination.” (Wadi Rumm. Seven
Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter LXII, by T.E. Lawrence.) dethrone the champs
♦ "Two days later an old man came into our camp. He was limping, and this is the start of their quest to ~ (NBA)
even by Bedu standards he looked poor… The Rashid pressed forward
to greet him… I wondered at the warmth of their greetings… Bin Kabina dethrone (cultural) gatekeepers
said to me: 'Once he was one of the richest men of the tribe, now he has
nothing except a few goats… His generosity ruined him. No one ever the digerati effort to ~ (Web)
came to his tents but he killed a camel to feed them. By God, he is
generous!'" (Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger.) dethrone the king
♦ "The Bait Kathir prayed at dawn. A little later, I would hear bell-like
Yildirim will be attempting to ~ (Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez)
notes as someone pounded coffee in a brass mortar, varying his stroke
to produce the semblance of a tune…” (Arabian Sands by Wilfred
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty / verb
Thesiger.) dismissal, removal & resignation: royalty / verb
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: desert dethroned
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: ground, terrain & land
outboxed and dethroned
desert (environment) Taylor had been ~ in his own backyard (still got decision)
turning huge swathes of rainforest into desert primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
the illegal gold mining is ~ (Peru) dismissal, removal & resignation: royalty
environment / resemblance: desert / ground, terrain & land detonate (verb)
destabilize (verb) detonated (national) outrage
the manner of his killing ~ (hate crime)
upend and destabilize
sports podcasts often ~ stereotypes about black athletes primed to detonate
the film was ~ this weekend (open)
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / verb
disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb ready to detonate
a blast is ~ (the Kyoto Protocol)
destabilizing (adjective)
initiation: explosion / verb
destabilizing standoff
US officials scrambled to defuse the ~ (in Iraq) detonator (noun)
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability detonator
disruption: equilibrium & stability she was handling unstable explosives, and that letter was the
~ (a relationship)
destroy (emotion)
initiation: explosion
destroyed him
it just ~, he would melt down in my office (death of father) detour (noun)
feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / ruins inexplicable detour
to me, it’s an ~ that your life took (musician works as
detached (emotions) currency trader)
completely detached course / direction: journeys & trips
emotionally I was ~ (denial)
Detroit (India’s Detroit, etc.)
feeling, emotion & effect: distance / proximity
detective (person) India’s Detroit
Chennai is ~, an auto-industry hub
detectives comparison & contrast: epithet
editors are gatekeepers, not ~ (fraudulent studies)
devastated (emotion)
armchair detective
an ~ is a fictional character who solves crimes devastated
everyone was ~
searching & discovery: person
feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / force / ruins
dethrone (verb)
devastating (feeling)
dethrone New Zealand
they produced a fine performance to ~ (rugby) devastating blow
loss of the coral reefs would be a ~

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devastating course Devil’s Staircase
the cholera epidemic is now waning, having run its ~ the ~ Wilderness is named after a waterfall (Oregon)
devastating incident Devil’s Throat
this ~ that happened (police shooting) ~ is a must (Iguazu Falls)
devastating rape Devils Tower
the ~ of Indonesia’s forests ~, the otherworldly butte in northwest Wyoming
devastating turn Devil's Courthouse
and then the case took a ~ (missing woman found murdered) the ~ (a rock outcropping)
beyond devastating Devil's Highway
this is ~ (hospitals ban visitors during pandemic) the ~ (a 5-turn section on bobsled track)
the ~ runs between Yuma and Ajo, Arizona
feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / force / ruins
Devils Thumb
devil (Lady Devils, etc.) the ~ is a striking summit on the Alaska-BC border
Devil’s Playground the NW face of the ~ has never been climbed
The ~ (book by James Traub / Times Square circa 2004) the NW face of the ~ rises from the Witches Cauldron
the NW face of the ~ is 6,700 feet
Devil Dogs
leathernecks, jarheads, ~ (U.S. Marines) Devil’s Thumb
are pets allowed at ~ Ranch Resort & Spa (Colorado)
Lady Devils
~ Take 5 Set Win Over Andrews (Bryson City, NC) Espinazo del Diablo
El ~ (the Devil's Backbone, a road in Durango, Mexico)
Red Devils
Korea’s fans, aptly known as the ~ Majlis al Jinn
the ~ (the assembly of the devils, a cave in Oman)
epithet: creature ♦ There are Devil's Backbones in New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa.
group, set & collection: creature
proper name: creature / religion
devil (Devil's Falls, etc.)
devil (behavior)
Devil's Backbone
the road is called El Espinazo del Diablo—the ~… devil
the ~ on the Great North Road (Sydney) he can be a real ~ at times (a toddler)

Devil's Courthouse comma-shaped devils

the first person to climb ~ (a rock outcropping) a man-killing dose of those ~ (cholera microbes)

Devil’s Elbow behavior / character & personality: creature / religion

the ~ trail parallels the river (Panthertown, NC) devil (deal with the devil)
Devil's Falls
make a deal with the devil
~ (Wales)
you want something so badly you’re willing to ~
“Devil’s Glacier” fate, fortune & chance: allusion / religion
as the ~ it remains to this day on the maps (Antarctica)
devil (evil)
Devil’s Gulch
the family was found dead in the ~ area of the forest devil personified
he was the ~ (a serial killer of women)
Devils Hole
the ~ (both a cave and a North Sea undersea feature) affliction / insult: creature / religion
Devil's Home devotee (person)
the ~ (a stony hill / Udehé)
devotee of (a particular) theory
Devil's Nose he's no ~ (a coach)
the ~ (a section of the Mokelumne River)
orchid devotees
Devil's Path as other ~ will attest…
the ~ (bleak desert terrain in the Southwest of the US)
trout fishing devotees
Devil's Pulpit ~ worship Snowbird Creek (Graham County NC)
the ~ (an outcrop in a gorge)

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enthusiasm: person / religion dial down the rancor
person: religion we need to ~
devour (devour the classics, etc.) dial back arrests, incarcerations
we need to ~ (reform)
devoured these books
I ~ (on mountaineering and travel / Heinrich Harrer) refused to dial down
he has ~ his wolf-warrior diplomacy (diplomacy)
devoured the classics
I~ increase & decrease: direction / mechanism / verb

devoured Dracula dialed in

he had ~ by the age of five
dialed in
devoured these films if he gets back ~, he can help his team (troubled athlete)
this generation of adults ~ as children (Disney)
target: weapon
devoured (HG Wells’) War of the Worlds
as a child, Brunner ~ (the writer)
dialogue (global dialogue, etc.)
devour Christie’s work global dialogue
readers continue to ~ (Agatha Christie) we are hoping to change the ~ around mental health

devoured them attention, scrutiny & promotion: speech

he stumbled onto books and completely ~ (Melville) dice (noun)
consumption: food & drink / verb
roll of the dice
devour (destroy) publishing is a constant ~, a gamble
it's a ~, I suppose (correctly controlling development)
devoured hundreds of acres
the fire ~ throw of the dice
the substitution was a late ~ (soccer)
destruction: animal / food & drink / predation / verb
roll the dice
devoured the Air Force is going to ~ (new plane)
okay, if you want to ~, go ahead (take the chance)
devoured by anxiety we're going to ~ and see what happens
she is ~ when she’s not working (magazine editor) you know I like to ~, but this is going too far
devoured by guilt I don’t think we should ~ and take that risk
Caldwell was ~ (the climber Tommy Caldwell) every time we go out, you ~, it’s life or death (Hurt Locker)

destruction: animal / food & drink / predation fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / food & drink / predation Dickensian (adjective)
diabolical (adjective) Dickensian character
diabolical he was a ~, a poor immigrant adopted, then rejected
gamification is thoughtless at best and ~ at worst Dickensian childhood
behavior / character & personality: creature / religion his ~ may have fueled his ambition (poverty)
she survived a ~
diagnosis (noun)
Dickensian poverty
diagnosis she lived in ~
the ~ is wrong, and the prescription is malpractice
Dickensian (rags-to-riches) story
diagnosis for America’s ills the film is a ~
it has made equality a ~ (the Democratic Party)
Dickensian tenements
American diagnosis he rose out of the city's ~ (India)
they share the ~ but not the prescription (Quad nations)
Dickensian world
analysis, interpretation & explanation: health & medicine a ~ of haves and have-nots
dial down (dial back) Dickensian warehouses
its orphanages became famous as ~ (Romania)
dial it back
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allusion: books & reading ♦ “The balance beam is where Russia’s gold medal hopes have gone to
die in recent years.” (Commentary about the Tokyo Olympics.)
die (hyperbole) ♦ "You know, the cowboy in me just ain't gonna die." (A 92-year-old black
ex-rodeo rider.)
dying to meet him ♦ "Soldiers who die are taken to a holding area, where they are made to
I'm just ~ do manual labor to underscore the point that dying is never fun." (Military
training.)
die from boredom ♦ “I’ll tell you a funny thing about [the film] Alfie. Well, I had a very close
we were just about ready to ~ friend who was a Frenchman. And Alfie died in France, it was the only
place in the world where it died. And I said to this very close French
dying back here friend of mine, Alfie died in France, you know. He said I know it did. I
can we turn up the AC, I'm ~ (car) said why do you think that is, and he said no Frenchman could believe
that an Englishman could seduce ten women.” (The great actor Michael
innovate or die Caine speaking about the 1966 film Alfie. From “TimesTalks: Michael
Caine: Five Favorite Films, The New York Times” on YouTube. The
"~" has long been the mantra in the computer world sentence, “Alfie died in France, it was the only place in the world where it
died,” must present quite a problem in natural language processing!)
hyperbole: death & life
♦ “It is very hard to die in a modern ICU [intensive-care unit] these days.
die (non-human) This can make it harder for families to accept that there is no chance a
fatally ill patient will recover.” (End of life issues, “pulling the plug,”
religion, ethnicities, health-care costs, etc.)
die
♦ "When I eat, I live. When I drink, I die. What am I?" (A fire, of course!)
the fire would not ~ (civil rights)
where do statues go when they ~ (cancel culture) ♦ Cattle die / Friends die / Thou thyself shalt die / I know a thing / That
never dies / Judgement over the dead.
Die condition & status / starting, going, continuing & ending /
How Democracies ~ (by Steven Levitsky, Harvard U.)
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
died
the rumors never ~ (of marital infidelity)
die (the die is cast, etc.)
dies die is cast
no good thing ever ~ (Shawshank Redemption) there is nothing more, the ~ (eve of battle)
♦ In Word Origins and their Romantic Stories, Wilfred Funk, Litt. D.,
died in France devotes a couple of paragraphs to “the die is cast.” He mentions that
Alfie ~ (the film Alfie, which did not do well in France) “even today hundreds of loaded dice, be they clay, wood, or bone, are
still being dug out of Roman ruins.”
die hard fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games
dreams ~
old habits ~ die down (verb)
race-based voting traditions ~ here
hype dies down
dreams die once the media ~ (elections)
~ hard
opposition has not died down
habits die ~ (Chechnya)
old ~ hard
wind had died down
project died the ~
the ~ before it got off the ground
gunfire died down
traditions die after the ~…
race-based voting ~ hard here
eventually died down
come to die the uproar ~ (dismissal of coach)
Washington, D.C. is a city where ideas ~
decline: death & life / fire / verb
go to die
South Georgia is where many big icebergs ~ die out (end)
it’s a graveyard where all good things ~ (US Senate)
fire is dying out
the hidden life of garbage and where old PCs ~
we've used up all our wood, and the ~
this is where huge ships ~ (Indian scrap yards)
the hidden life of garbage and where old PCs ~ faded or died out
this is where championships ~ (football / Iowa) knowledge of the language has ~ (Cherokee)
needs to die starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / fire /
the phrase “people of color” ~ (Damon Young) verb
seemed (to many people) to be dying
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diet (noun) digest (verb)
diet of him digest the facts
none of us wanted a steady ~ (a dominant golfer) it was hard to ~
diet of left hooks and right hands digesting the news
he fed Mayorga a steady ~ (De La Hoya) veterans are still ~ that all troops will leave Afghanistan
♦ “How do you think this will be processed going forward, how do you
media diet think what has happened will you know sort of be metabolized?” (A
the questionnaire focused on each juror’s ~ (trial) question asked by Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR, Weekend Edition, Sunday,
Dec. 13, 2020 for “‘Jewish Telegraphic Agency’ Commemorates
social-media diet Members Of the Community Lost to COVID-19.”)
how to manage your ~ (Life Kit / Mayowa Aina)
consumption: food & drink / verb
steady diet comprehension & incomprehension: food & drink / verb
none of us wanted a ~ of him (a dominant golfer) digestible (adjective)
fed on a (steady) diet
we are ~ of gruesome news (terrorism, etc.)
digestible form
he did a good job distilling the big issue into a ~ (debate)
fed Mayorga a (steady) diet consumption: food & drink
he ~ of left hooks and right hands (De La Hoya)
comprehension & incomprehension: food & drink
served up a steady diet dig in (verb)
evangelists ~ of jargon stew (the Ethereal Summit)
♦ "If it means swallowing some humble pie, and it means eating some of digging in
your words, I can't think of a more excellent diet." (Prime Minister David he is ~ (embattled leader)
Cameron, on his coalition government formed with the Liberal
Democrats.) he is firing back and his legal team is ~
♦ “In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must protection & lack of protection / resistance, opposition &
confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” (Winston Churchill
about the volte-face in his attitude to Nehru, from dislike to complete defeat / survival, persistence & endurance: fortification /
approval.) ground, terrain & land / military / verb
consumption / experience: food & drink dig into (verb)
dig deep (determination) dug into actions
investigators ~ and uncovered crimes
dig deep
they had the determination to ~, overcome adversity... digs (deep) into their lives
he ~ until they… (TV therapist Phil McGraw)
dug deep
Italy was less than perfect, but Mancini’s side ~ (soccer) dig into a word's history
it's fun to ~ (etymology)
dig deep to avoid
they had to ~ a heavy defeat (Wales / Euro 2020) dug into the community's past
residents ~ (local history)
commitment & determination: depth / ground, terrain &
land / mining / verb dig into this
now to ~ more... (talk show)
dig deep (analysis)
♦ “You know what, we need to dig in a little bit deeper, so this year we
decided to go underneath the covers and peel back some of the layers.”
dig deeper (Megan Bigelow, about a survey of Portland, Oregon, women in
~ (command to a detective) technology.)

dig (a little) deeper analysis, interpretation & explanation / searching &

as we ~, we discover… discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining / verb
dig deep into the story dig out (verb)
in this series we ~ of his senseless murder (podcast)
dig our way out of this problem
digging for (more) information we must think how we will ~
we are ~ (TV news story)
dug herself out of the hole
dig beneath the surface she finally ~ (financial)
documentaries are the ideal way to ~ of sports
situation: hole / verb
analysis, interpretation & explanation / searching &
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dig through (verb) attention, scrutiny & promotion / primacy, currency, decline
& obsolescence / superiority & inferiority: light & dark /
digs through (bargain) bins shadow / verb
he ~ for rare music tapes
dim (hope, etc.)
dig through my crates
I'm gonna ~ for your old funky tapes hope dimmed
~ for two lost, injured whales (swam upriver)
dug through the (old case) files
he ~ (police) hope dimming
is your ~ as you watch things play out
dug through a pile of (shiny) rocks
they ~ at a gem stand optimism dimmed
their ~ fairly quickly (government watchdogs)
searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining /
verb feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / verb

dig up (verb) din (attention)

digs up documents from Web sites add their voice to the din
she ~ students are eager to ~ (campus sex policies)

dug up (a lot of) information at the library heard above the din
I~ she is doing her best to be ~ (running for president)
♦ “[Life] is a tale / told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / signifying
dug up this citation from an old magazine nothing.” (Macbeth by Shakespeare.)
he has ~ ♦ “Was this that? Where is that conversation right now? I mean in this
particular moment... Okay! How come?... Shore...” (NPR.)
dig it up
it’s the past, it’s buried, we don’t want to ~ again attention, scrutiny & promotion / conflict / feeling, emotion
& effect / obstacles & impedance / resistance, opposition
analysis, interpretation & explanation / appearance & & defeat: sound
disappearance / concealment & lack of concealment /
searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining /
dinosaur (noun)
verb dinosaur
pull those old ~s from the shed (retro rodeo / kayaking)
diluted (weakened) many like to argue that libraries are ~s
heavily diluted the network news anchormen are ~s
calls for his power to be ~ (Zuckerberg of Facebook) we're ~s (rely on old technology)
it’s a ~, a concrete monster (an old sports stadium)
attenuation: water she thinks I’m a ~, which I am, I guess (generations)
they said I was behind the times, a ~ (early critic of...)
dim (decline)
dinosaur comment
hope is dimming it’s a ~ (Eddie Hearn about something Bob Arum said)
I imagine that ~ (survivors in collapsed building)
dinosaur feminist
memories dim I'm sounding like a ~, but…
~ over time (criminal cases)
walking dinosaur
star (of Lucy Lunsford) dimmed it’s like I’m a really cute ~ (older actor Lucy Lawless)
how the ~
called the (downtown) landmarks dinosaurs
decline: light & dark / verb
the mayor has ~
dim (the dim past, etc.) go the way of the dinosaur
dim and distant frats and sororities should ~ (yet another hazing death)
the ~ past viewed the (conventional) machines as dinosaurs
time: distance / eye they ~ that would soon be rendered extinct
♦ “It’s clear that there are still a few crusty old misogynists clinging on. St
dim (overshadow) Barnabas Church would surely be a much better place if it had a woman
priest. Some of the local people who have left might return, but we now
dim the event see that the dinosaurs have won yet again.” (“Male only vicar job advert
‘misogynistic,’” BBC, 27 September 2018.)
every year some crisis threatens to ~ (awards show)
♦ “As I’m becoming more and more of a dinosaur in this league at 31
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little bit farther.” (Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, about his record course: direction
66 yard field goal. He took an extra step or two back to get more power.)
♦ “For a group of reptiles that went extinct 65 million years ago, direction (the right / wrong direction,
dinosaurs are really good at staying in the news.”
etc.)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal
past & present / time: animal in the right direction
they are going ~
dip (decrease) they are heading ~ (a company)
the talks are moving ~ (negotiations)
dip the trends are moving ~
temperatures should start to ~ by the end of the week we’re moving ~ (research on brain tumors)
decline / increase & decrease: direction I trust you will get the team pointed ~
increase & decrease: number from what I hear, it’s a step ~
the decision is a small step ~
dip (a route can dip)
in the wrong direction
dipped southeastward this is a step ~
the route ~ through the Dzungarian Gap Washington is headed ~ (politics)
70 percent of the public believes the country is heading ~
fictive motion: direction / verb they are going ~ (a losing sports team)
dip (noun) Washington is headed ~ (politics)
he was a high-priced 1st-round draft pick heading ~ (athlete)
dip in (American) deaths the numbers are heading ~
after a ~ last spring, fatalities are rising course / decline / failure, accident & impairment /
decline / increase & decrease: direction progress & lack of progress: direction / journeys & trips
increase & decrease: number direction (course / on a course)
diplomacy (noun)
direction of (scientific) research
model of diplomacy who determines the ~
a woman who had been a ~ began to cry
direction of his life
politeness and diplomacy he wanted to change the ~
~ are often the enemies of action (vs. being rude)
direction in their lives
behavior / role: government those who lack purpose and ~
diplomat (noun) future direction
China's ~
best diplomat
sport is the ~ we have (Qatar hosts event) in a direction of hope, unity, conviction
he said he would take Britain ~, and common purpose
person / representation: government
change the direction
diplomatic (adjective) he wanted to ~ of his life
more diplomatic determines the direction
you should have been ~ who ~ of scientific research
behavior / role: government follow the direction
comparison & contrast: affix the investigation will ~ the evidence leads…
direction (in every direction) led you in that direction
lurks in every direction and what ~ to start writing (an actor)
danger ~ take Britain in a direction
extent & scope: direction he would ~ of hope, unity, conviction, and…

direction (a new direction, etc.) take Britain in a historic new direction

we will ~ (elections)
in another direction course: direction / journeys & trips
I'm going ~
direction (purpose)
in a new direction
a study that takes stress research ~ purpose and direction

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 those who lack ~ in their lives reveal some dirt
critics hoped the report would ~ on the President (politics)
course: direction / journeys & trips
direction (symbol) sought political dirt
he ~ from a foreign source (politics)
directions accusation & criticism: ground, terrain & land
~ are historically metaphors
content: ground, terrain & land
♦ “The cardinal points are always, historically, metaphors. West is the
area of promise for Westerners—follow the sun. The allure of the north— dirty (dirty people, etc.)
it’s the gate to Heaven, as native people say. The fear of the south starts
with Captain Cook. The east is always behind you, you know where you dirty people
came from.” (The photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper, from “The Ends
of the Earth” by Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, October 7, 2019.) the Harif are a ~ (disparaging remark about a tribe)
♦ “As the sky breaks open its fans around him, and shimmers / And into insult: hygiene
its northern gates he rises / Snarling, complete, in the joy of a weasel...
(“For the Last Wolverine” by James Dickey. A beautiful description of the dirty (dirty energy, etc.)
aurora borealis.)
♦ “Gog and Magog were generally located in the extreme north.” (Early dirty coal
maps, based on the Bible.) we need clean energy, not ~
♦ “The destination, and the real north of life is that you’re here only for a
short time.” (The Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.) dirty money
♦ “I’m goin’ way down south... / Way down to Mexico way... / Ain’t no how easy it is to hide ~ in the UK (Pandora Papers)
hangman gonna / He ain’t gonna put a rope around me...” (“Hey Joe” by
Jimmie Hendrix.) dirty truth
♦ “Why care for these dead bodies? They really have no friends but the the ~ is that they are... (social-media companies)
worms or fishes. Their owners were coming to the New World, as
Columbus and the Pilgrims... I saw their empty hulks that came to land; flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene
but they themselves, meanwhile, were cast upon some shore yet further
west, toward which we are all tending, and which we shall reach at dirty (behavior)
last...” (“The Shipwreck” by Henry David Thoreau, writing about the Irish
immigrant ship St. John.) dirty war
♦ “It’s a mile to your objective now, but it’s a mile of thrills... A one- in the 1970s, Argentina fought a "~" against subversion
pounder in a hedge scares you with several well-placed shots before it
‘goes west’ [is destroyed].” (A member of a tank crew in World War I.) “dirty war”
♦ “The Montana doctor, McCray, had tried to find a serum to guard his the ~ in Northern Ireland (English against the IRA)
fellow citizens and one morning woke up with bloodshot eyes and an
ache in his bones. In ten days McCray had gone West to join get dirty
McClintic...” (McCray died, as had McClintic before him. From Men
against Death by Paul De Kruif.)
we're all in the mud and have to ~ (intelligence)
♦ “The East signified luck to the ancient soothsayers; the sunrise playing dirty
represented life and the beginning of things. These old time prophets
judged the future by the flight of birds. If the sacred birds flew east when
he is ~ (a politician)
the priests released them from their cages, it meant good fortune. This some online retailers are ~ (fake negative reviews)
superstition was taken over by the Christians [in the architecture of early
churches]. In these ancient Roman augurs, however, if the sacred birds behavior: hygiene
happened to fly west it presaged disaster, for the early fathers
associated the setting sun with death and destruction.” (Word Origins dirty (sex)
and their Romantic Stories by Wilfred Funk, Litt.D.)
♦ “With the morning came the minatory prayers, the hoarse clanging dirty
bells and the procession westward along the busiest streets of London, what she did was ~ (sex)
from Newgate to Tyburn, the present site of Marble Arch. Each
condemned man sat in the cart facing the rising sun, with a noose bound sex: hygiene
to his chest.” (The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding by
Robert Hughes.) dirty (dirty word)
course: direction / journeys & trips
dirty word
dirt (worthless) Obama has made profit seem like a ~
speech: hygiene
dirt
his name is ~ in the journalism world (disgraced) dirty laundry
reputation / worth & lack of worth: ground, terrain & land dirty laundry
dirt (political dirt, etc.) the divorce is over with no ~ being aired…

political dirt aired a lot of the group’s dirty laundry

this is top-grade ~ the bankruptcy trial ~

dig up dirt hung their dirty laundry out to dry

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concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories death & life / oppression: euphemism / presence &
/ hygiene absence
disappear (from the scene, etc.) discard (verb)
disappear discard the possibility
you turn 35, and you ~ (Doree Shafrir, author) don't ~ of appendicitis (diagnosis)
disappeared into obscurity dismissal, removal & resignation: cards / verb
he ~, he just faded away... (L.A.’s William Mulholland)
disciple (person)
disappeared into (relative) obscurity
the group ~ the following year Disciples
New Nordic Cuisine Draws ~
disappeared from online learning
students who ~ (during the COVID pandemic) disciple of the furniture maker Ward Bennet
he was a ~ (an interior designer)
disappeared from the limelight
enthusiasm: person / religion
after the success of those films, he largely ~
person: religion
disappeared from the scene
accused of plagiarism, he ~ (composer Osvaldo Golijov)
disconnect (noun)
appearance & disappearance: eye / verb generational disconnect
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / verb there is a ~ (society)

disappear (extinction) division & connection: tools & technology

disappeared discordant (adjective)

since 1970, roughly 30% of North American birds have ~ discordant friendships
appearance & disappearance: death & life / verb the ~ ring quite true

disappear (oppression) disruption: music / sound

disappeared (six of) the opposition candidates disease (affliction)

he has ~ (Daniel Ortega) disease of grade inflation
disappearing into prisons the ~ has infected the educational system
many of those arrested are ~ (Nicaragua / incommunicado) disease of intolerance
euphemism / oppression: death & life / verb the attack was a part of a greater ~ (terrorism)
♦ “Initially the word disease was introduced to try to force open the doors
disappearance (oppression) of hospitals and otherwise get medical treatment for people with
addiction... The term is messy.” (Carl Erik Fisher, author of The Urge: A
Involuntary Disappearances History of Addiction, a memoir and history. From “’The Urge’ says calling
addiction a disease is misleading,” Jeevika Verma, NPR, Morning
the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or ~ Edition, January 20, 2022.)
murders and disappearances affliction: health & medicine
his death was just one of many unsolved
disease (enthusiasm)
oppression: death & life
disease
disappeared (detained, murdered, etc.) it's a bit of a ~ (Jay Leno on collecting cars)
“disappeared” after being kidnapped sickness for flight
up to 30,000 were ~ (Argentina dictatorship) his wife accused him of having a ~ (Mark Stucky)
forcibly disappeared enthusiasm: health & medicine
he was ~ after making allegations...
diseased
arrested and disappeared
the elected mayor was ~ (BBC Six O’Clock News) fundamentally diseased
the tax code is ~
dead and disappeared
as the number of ~ rise (violence in Indian country) condition & status: health & medicine
♦ “By the time he walked away, the man had already disappeared two of
the shrimp and was about to get to work on the quesadilla.” (“The
disequilibrium (noun)
Iceman” by Emma Cline, The New Yorker, August 23, 2021.)
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 academic publishing has ~ and needs a new approach disintegration
equilibrium & stability: scale
disintegration of authority
flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability
the ~, courtesy and the English language (email, etc.)
dish (revenge is a dish best served cold) failure, accident & impairment: erosion
dish destruction: erosion
revenge is a ~ best served cold dismantle (verb)
♦ A rich, stupid city man insulted a Bedouin. Twenty years later, the
Bedouin wiped the man’s blood from his dagger, thinking regretfully, dismantle (legal and de facto) discrimination
“Why was I in such a hurry to kill him?”
the government should ~
♦ “It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given
Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to dismantle the (terrorist) threat
smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the
thought of his immolation.” (“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen
a campaign to identify, disrupt and ~
Poe. A just-as-creepy-and-nefarious contemporary version is Thomas
McGuane’s short story, “Balloons.”) dismantle the old order
he hopes to use EU membership to ~
♦ “If you dig a hole for your brother, you will fall down in it.” (Said in Saudi
Arabia.)
dismantled the (social) safety net
♦ He who seeks revenge digs two graves. he ~ (Pinochet / Chile)
revenge: food & drink
identify, disrupt and dismantle
dish out (verb) a campaign to ~ the terrorist threat
dismissal, removal & resignation: infrastructure / verb
dished out abuse to the children
nuns ~ curtailment: infrastructure / verb

dishes out advice to millions

dismember (verb)
she ~ of people dismember Turkey
dished out a beating to Margarito a nation taught of how the West tried to ~
Pacquiao ~ (boxing) destruction: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves &
dished out (ice-cold) revenge on his enemies bone / verb
he ~ (a media magnate) dismembered
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: food & drink / verb
dismembered into a scattered collection
disinfect (verb) the Byzantine empire was ~ of Frankish states and Italian
colonies
disinfect the computers
French police were able to ~ (a global pirate botnet) destruction: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves &
bone
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / health & medicine / verb
computer: health & medicine / verb dismemberment (noun)
disinfectant (noun) dismemberment of the Chinese nation
the treaty would begin the ~ (1842 Treaty of Nanking)
disinfectant of public scrutiny
gangs operate where the ~ struggles to reach (poor destruction: health & medicine / skin, muscle, nerves &
neighborhoods) bone
amelioration & renewal: hygiene / health & medicine dispirited (adjective)
disintegrate (verb) dispirited voters
many ~ stayed home
families have disintegrated
~ (as jobs have moved out of area) feeling, emotion & effect: religion

marriage had disintegrated dissect (verb)

evidence indicated that their ~
dissected the case
began to disintegrate she ~ in a book (a murder)
as Enron's house of cards ~ (bankrupt company)
dissected his sound
failure, accident & impairment: erosion / verb I really ~ (a singer)
destruction: erosion / verb
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 blogs are always ready to ~ Love Zac, interviewing the family of Zac Easter. Zac, age 24, shot
himself in the chest and donated his brain to science. A football player,
dissecting, analyzing he was diagnosed with CTE.)
we are ~ the blood-testing company Theranos disruption: music / sound
research and dissect distance (verb)
the hosts ~ someone’s leap into stardom (Who? Weekly)
distanced themselves from him
analysis, interpretation & explanation: death & life / health
colleges have ~ (college admissions fraud)
& medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
distanced themselves from the star
dissolve (verb) companies and organizations have ~ (Morgan Waller)
dissolve into anarchy avoidance & separation: distance / proximity / verb
celebration could ~ (Gaza) division & connection: distance / proximity / verb
dissolves into predictability distance (noun)
the movie's unpolished charm ~
distance between the two sides
appearance & disappearance: water / verb the ~ is so great that… (politics)
dissolve (break up) no distance
there is ~ between us (in our opinions)
dissolved in a wave of dissension
the team ~ (World Cup soccer) division & connection: distance / proximity
appearance & disappearance: water / verb distance (feeling)
dissolve (fade away) emotional distance
his ~ has caused problems
culture dissolved
the hunting ~ and many Sami became settlers feeling, emotion & effect: proximity
appearance & disappearance: water / verb distance (time)
dissolve (emotions) distance of time
when I think of Bombay now, at this ~...
dissolved into tears
when his Mom tried to leave, he ~ (toddler) at this distance
feeling, emotion & effect: verb / water ~, one cannot say... (a historian)
past & present / time: distance
dissolve (terminate)
distance (go the distance)
dissolve her marriage
a judge may ~ (Islam) go the distance
they just couldn’t imagine that he could ~ (Trump ./ 2016)
dissolve Parliament
he is considering giving himself the power to ~ survival, persistence & endurance: distance / horse /
sports & games
dissolved the system
in 1993 Yeltsin ~ of village councils distant (feeling)
curtailment: water / verb distant father
dismissal, removal & resignation: water / verb she didn’t get support, love or acceptances from her ~
dissolved (ended) grown distant
have her marriage dissolved she hand her son had ~
she has the right to ~ (Muslim ruling) feeling, emotion & effect: proximity
curtailment: water distant (past)
dissonance (noun) distant America
cognitive dissonance rare film is a glimpse of a ~ (Daughter of Dawn 1920)
~ was not pathology, it was policy (US in Afghanistan) distant dream
♦ “I distinctly remember the NFL game between the Vikings and the retiring at 60 has become a ~
Green Bay Packers was on the TV the whole time. It’s just so American,
[our] capacity for cognitive dissonance. If it’s something that we love, we not-so-distant history
can look past the evils because we love it.” (Reid Forgrave, author of

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 the ~ of radio jingles talented but troubled diva
the ~ wore out his welcome (football player)
past & present / time: distance
distant (future) called the player a “diva”
Bruce Arians ~ (Antonio Brown)
not-so-distant future person: theater
they imagine a ~
behavior / character & personality / performance: person /
not too distant future theater
we hope to improve this feature in the ~ dive (analyze)
seems distant
diving (deep) into the details
a deal ~ (politics)
she has been ~ of the bill
future / time: distance ♦ “NPR Congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell has been diving deep
in the details of the bill, she has resurfaced, and she joins us now, ‘Hey
distant (separation) Kelsey.’” (Mary Louise Kelley, NPR, All Things Considered.)

distant from our everyday experience absorption & immersion / analysis, interpretation &
climate change seems ~ explanation: verb / water
division & connection: distance dive (noun)
distant (relationship) stock market's dive
the ~ proved temporary
distant cousin
she is a ~ decline: direction
relationship: distance / proximity dive (deep dive)
distant (a distant second, etc.) deep dive into how
Megan takes us on a ~ far-right actors (the radical right)
distant second for a ~ COVID-19 may have first begun...
Biden was a ~ in Nevada (electoral election)
deep dive into what
extent & scope: distance a ~ is known about the coronavirus
distaste (noun) NPR takes a ~ the Mueller report reveals...
her new album takes a ~ it means to love (Jill Scott)
distaste for such associations
he has a ~ deep dive into plant-focused diets
his latest book is a ~
enthusiasm: taste
deep dive into her life
distill (verb) investigators and reporters would be doing a ~ (murdered)
distill the big issue into a digestible form Deep Dive Into The Science
he was able to ~ (a politician at a debate) ‘Invisibilia’ Team Takes A ~ Of Desire
analysis, interpretation & explanation: chemistry monthly deep-dive
BTM takes a ~ behind the scenes of the arts and sciences
ditch (stuck in a ditch, etc.)
do a deep dive
stuck in a ditch let’s ~ right into this (news show)
while our students are ~, the world is moving ahead
did a (really) deep dive
get out of the ditch these researchers ~ to analyze alcohol consumption
we're just spinning our wheels, hoping to ~ (war)
takes a deep dive
pull the government out of the ditch OPB Politics Now ~ into the hottest political topics
he seeks to ~ (a politician)
takes us on a deep dive
obstacles & impedance / progress & lack of progress: Michael ~ into the rallies undertaken by the far right
movement / ground, terrain & land
♦ “Along with host Augusta Dell’Omo, Natalie takes us on a deep dive
diva (person) into... In other episodes Michael takes us on a deep dive into... Sophie
takes us on a deep dive into... Simon takes us on a deep dive into...
Ashton takes us on a deep dive into... Ashley takes us on a deep dive
diva behaviour into... Julia takes us on a deep dive into... (Right Rising / RR on Stitcher.
critics branded her decision “~” (a tennis player) That’s a lot of divers and deep diving! The repetition shows how a
figurative expression can go from novel to cliché into the kind of

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boilerplate language you might find in a disclaimer or label that is too inclusion & exclusion: society
boring to read. Guests break down, unpack, discuss, walk us through,
give us an overview of, and help us with their respective topics.) divide (noun)
♦ The OPB Politics Now podcast offers the inside scoop, in-depth
analysis, insight, rousing conversation, and, of course deep dives into divide between him and his coaches
the hottest political topics (of the week).
the ~ grew (an athlete)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: water
left-right divide
dive in (verb) another election isn’t going to change the ~ (politics)

dive (right) in great divide

too many friends just ~ giving advice before... they stood on two sides of a ~ (Old and New Hollywood)

dove into politics impossible divide

he ~ that may be an ~ to cross

dove into peacekeeping cultural, gender and political divides

Clinton ~ and failed (diplomacy) the battle rubbed raw the country’s ~ (politics)

absorption & immersion / commitment & determination / generational and ideological divide
involvement: verb / water this exposes a ~ (in the Democratic party)

diverse (groups) divide (between him and his coaches) grew

the ~ (an athlete)
neurodiverse
people use the term ~ to recognize the rich differences... bridging the divide
ballet and baseball are ~ (between Cuba and the US)
inclusion & exclusion: society
bridge the divide
diversity (groups) they want to ~ and find common ground (gun control)

boxes of (so-called) diversity divide to cross

there are easy ways to tick the ~ and not critically engage that may be an impossible ~

neurodiversity division & connection: ground, terrain & land

~ recognizes the rich differences...
dividend (pay dividends)
Neurodiversity
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of ~ paying dividends in good-will
the new policy is ~
diversity, equity, and inclusion
embed ~ (DEI) more intentionally in TESOL activities paid huge dividends
the concept has ~ (military uses drones to kill)
drive for diversity
the ~ at flagship universities (US) pay political dividends
his wooing of Jews will ~
respect for diversity
build inclusion, belonging, and ~ (Georgetown Law) already paying dividends
the new policy is ~
model diversity
~ and the ever-changing face of fashion pressure paid dividends
England's ~ when Owen scored (soccer)
reflect diversity
cost & benefit: money
playlists and show lineups that ~ (music)
♦ “We need [a woman in Formula 1], we need diversity. (Caitlyn Jenner.) divorce (noun)
♦ “The way diversity at Riverdale was being practiced was diminish
people.” (A parent who removed his children from the school.) divorce
♦ “This points to a unique understanding of plurality of Indian society—it Brexit was a ~, which was nothing to celebrate
is more like a thali (an Indian meal comprising a selection of separate
dishes served on a platter), rather than a melting pot.” (Neha Sahgal, a Web divorce
lead author of a Pew study that found Indians support religious tolerance NBC and Microsoft agreed to an amicable ~
and religious segregation.)
♦ “The Olympic Games are universal. They stand above all differences diplomatic divorce
that divide us. The Olympic Games unite humanity in all our diversity. In a trade war could lead to a ~ (US and Canada)
our fragile world, where division, conflict, and mistrust are on the rise, the
Olympic Games always build bridges. They never erect walls.” (Mr. ugly divorce
Thomas Bach OLY, the President of the International Olympic
Committee, speaking on October 18, 2021 in Ancient Olympia, Greece,
the UK and the EU are having an ~
at the marvelous torch-lighting ceremony for the 2022 Winter Olympic
Games.)
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relationship: love, courtship & marriage part of your DNA
starting, going, continuing & ending: love, courtship & as a football player, ~ is hard work and effort
marriage
share the same DNA
divorce (verb) he believes the kitchen and bath industry ~ (House of Rohl)
divorced themselves from nature identity & nature: biology
cities have ~ (environmentalists)
doctored
divorce yourself from the past
you can’t ~ (why a man helped a felon) doctored
the photo has been ~
division & connection: love, courtship & marriage / verb
relationship: love, courtship & marriage / verb creation & transformation: health & medicine

dizzying (adjective) dodge (verb)

dizzying (new) evidence dodged a (big) bullet
~ in human evolution provokes debates we ~ (hurricane misses refineries)

dizzying changes dodged a question

~ to our understanding (evolution) he also ~ about whether…

dizzying developments dodged questions

the ~ in Puerto Rican politics both candidates ~, reverting to talking points (debate)
♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping,
head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill
dodges questions
Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first he ~ about where he gets his ideas
time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday, dodged a long prison term
April 13, 2020.) she ~ (Anita Vestal)
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / sensation avoidance & separation: movement / verb / walking,
DNA (in the DNA) running & jumping

in her DNA
dodo (noun)
maybe tribalism is just ~ (politics) going the way of the dodo
in its DNA privacy may be ~ (Facebook, government, etc.)
the FBI had politics ~ back to its creation in 1908 white-male secretaries of state seem to be ~
the dealmakers are ~ (U.S. Congress)
in my DNA
he insisted, “stopping isn’t ~” (boxer Anthony Joshua) gone the way of the Dodo
pay phones have ~
in my family DNA pension plans have ~
it’s ~, I’m a loyal Democrat (Evan Bayh / politician)
kind of gone the way of the dodo
in our DNA the notion that we are the indispensable power has ~ (U.S.)
~, we are a company that builds tech to connect (Meta) ♦ "The Wake Island Rail became a victim of World War II. It was hunted
and eaten to extinction after the Japanese forces who occupied this
in their DNA island in 1941 became cut off from the supply route in 1944." (Wikipedia
winning is ~ (Brazilian soccer team) entry for "Wake Island Rail.")
challenging death is ~ (Wallenda family) ♦ “It’s hard to put into words. To me they are a symbol of strength,
endurance and the failure—the absolute failure—to go the way of the
in the DNA of the country dodo bird. They were teetering, but now they’re back.” (Horse Capture
Jr, a member of the Aaniiih Tribe, about the bison. From “Big Money Is
conspiracies are ~ (conspiracists) Building A New Kind Of National Park In The Great Plains” by Nate
Hegyi, NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, December 8, 2019.)
inscribed in our DNA
some places are ~ (Lake Ohrid, the Balkans) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal
identity & nature: biology past & present / time: animal

DNA (other) dog (afflict)

dog him
nation’s DNA his health problems continued to ~
confrontation and conflict are hardwired into the ~ (US)
dogged him
musical DNA asthma has ~all his life (the great boxer Shannon Briggs)
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dogged her mad dog
her criminal record ~ all he is, is a ~ now (ex-marine kills cop)
affliction: animal / dog / verb called him a dog
Chavez had ~ in the week of the fight (boxing)
dog (dogs of war)
♦ “When I have a mad dog in my yard there is only one solution.” (A
comment on a discussion board about a particularly heinous murderer.)
calling up the dogs of war
the US is ~ (against Russia in 2022) insult: animal / dog
♦ See the Wikipedia entry, “The dogs of war (phrase).” person: animal / dog
♦ “‘War Dogs’ Cries Havoc And Lets Slip The Dudes Of War,” NPR,
Movie Reviews, Mark Jenkins, August 18, 2016. A clever use of the
dog (dog won’t hunt)
allusion!)
dog will hunt
affliction: allusion / animal / dog I don’t think that ~ (legal challenge to president)
dog (big dog) eagerness & reluctance / success & failure: animal / dog /
hunting
big dog
I’m the ~ here, whatever I say, goes... dog (dog in the fight)
♦ “He’s a young puppy, I’m a big dog here, whatever I say, goes.” (Magic
Johnson talking trash about Michael Jordan at the 1992 Barcelona our dog in the fight is the fair trial
Olympics. The team was famous for its chemistry. ~ for Mister... (prosecutor to judge)
♦ “Justice will be served and the battle will rage / This big dog will fight
when you rattle his cage...” (“Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue / The have a dog in the fight
Angry American” by Toby Keith.) I don’t think you ~ at this point (judge to prosecutor)
he doesn’t ~ (a witness in a trial)
person: animal / dog
dominance & submission: animal / dog / person / size don’t have a dog in this fight
dog (mad dog / epithet) I am neither white or black, so I ~ (reader comment)
see also horse (horse in the race)
“Mad Dog” Mattis
involvement: animal / dog / hunting
General ~ earned his spurs on the battlefield
Zinovy “Mad Dog” Rozhestvensky
dog (black dog / mental health)
Admiral ~ (he had a fiery temper / Russo-Japanese War) black dog starts howling
“mad dog of the Middle East” I gotta get out before my ~ (madness, not melancholia)
Reagan called him the ~ (Gadhafi) black dog returns
♦ The Wikipedia entry for “Daniel Morgan (bushranger)” has an excellent he might be useful to me if the ~ (a German doctor)
section, “The epithet ‘Mad Dog.” The epithet seems to relate to the 1976
film Mad Dog Morgan, an “Ozploitation film,” starring Dennis Hopper, fend off the black dog
who perhaps better deserves the titular epithet for his crazy behavior
while filming.) I am trying to hold on to my senses, to ~ (madness)
♦ “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.” ♦ Winston Churchill used this term to describe his depression. “Where
the black dog metaphor for depression comes from” by Marc Wilson is
behavior / epithet: animal / dog an interesting read.

epithet: person ♦ However, Andrew Roberts in his book Churchill: Walking With Destiny,
downplays the idea that Winston was clinically depressed, much less
person: animal / dog manic depressive. He mentions that Winston only used the term once in
dog (attack dog) his writing. He also explains that the term was “used by Victorian and
Edwardian nannies to describe their charges as out of sorts or ill-
tempered.”)
attack dog
normally the vice-presidential nominee would be the ~ feeling, emotion & effect: color / mental health
euphemism: mental health
attack dog for the president
he has been an ~ dog-and-pony show (noun)
attack dog for the Republicans did a dog-and-pony show
he is the ~ on the committee (impeachment trial) other legislators ~
coercion & motivation: animal / dog performance: animal / horse / theater
person: animal / dog
dog-eat-dog
dog (insult)
dog eat dog
"Dogs!" the rag trade was ~, survival of the fittest (clothing)
~ they yelled at the riot police (protestors)
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 in a ~ ♦ A dogleg is an abrupt angle or sharp bend. Dogleg is also an
intransitive verb. Golf courses often have doglegs.
♦ “The majority of the country doesn’t want to see a dog-eat-dog world
where everybody is angry all the time.” (Barack Obama, urging shape: animal / direction / dog
Democrats to preach hope and unity.)

competition: animal / dog / predation

dogma (noun)
dogfight (noun) Republican dogma
the plan contains every ~ about political economy
dogfight
centuries of (medical) dogma
fighter-bombers execute mock ~s
he turned ~ topsy-turvy
it's a ~ (competition for market share)
Sergio Aguero scored 64 minutes into the ~ (soccer) trapped by dogma
don't be ~ (Steve Jobs / Apple Computer)
dogfight among experts over the cause
there has been a ~ of the crash sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
conflict: animal / dog doldrums (noun)
dogged (hounded) in the doldrums of middle age
dogged by controversy she strives, ~, to defeat her own disappointment
the company has been ~ (KBR) stuck in the doldrums
dogged by questions the economy is ~
he is being ~ about whether he... (politics) lead us out of the doldrums
dogged by rumors it's Obama's job to ~ (poor economy)
he has been ~ of drug and alcohol abuse (NASCAR) mired in the doldrums
he has been ~ of excessive drinking (a politician) we remain ~ (poor economy)
dogged with poor health went back into the doldrums
he had been ~ his entire life it would break my heart if Wales ~ (2019 Rugby)
affliction: animal / dog progress & lack of progress: boat / sea / wind
dogged (determined) dollar sign (noun)
dogged determination dollar signs in their eyes
our ~ sent an important message to our enemies companies with ~
dogged persistence see $$$ signs
justice arrives through ~ (social justice) he can only ~ (a boxing promoter)
dogged (Iraqi) resistance money: letters & characters / sign, signal, symbol
a day of fierce fighting and ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
dollop (noun)
commitment & determination: animal / dog
dollops of envy
doghouse (in the doghouse, etc.) I must admit large ~ for both groups (young Obama)
Tom’s doghouse dollop of (international) intrigue
Gronkowski fell into ~ (NFL football) a Picasso, a yacht, and a ~
in the doghouse big dollop
he’s ~ (in trouble with his wife) her new album features jazz with a ~ of swing rhythm
in the coach's doghouse delicious dollop
he started out ~ because of weight problems his concern for “disclosure” is a ~ of hypocrisy (politics)
punishment & recrimination: animal / dog
generous dollop
situation: animal / dog the film adds a ~ of Jack Nicholson
dogleg (shape) ♦ “Ma would serve it with a dollop of ghee and some spicy mango pickle
and sweet potato fries on the side.” (Khichuri.)
dogleg bend
amount: food & drink
wood with a natural ~ to it (for head of golf club)
dogleg turn
dome (shape)
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 Half Dome is a ~ (Yosemite National Park) I thought the Troubles were ~ (Northern Ireland and Brexit)
another episode ~ and in the can (a podcast)
salt dome the game was ~ (but France blew its lead against Swiss)
~s can rise to the surface
starting, going, continuing & ending: cloth
heat dome reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: cloth
experts are blaming what’s known as a ~ (for heatwave)
the central US is baking in a ~ (2021) Don Juan
shape: infrastructure / roof Nordic Don Juan
Gran was tall, well-built, flamboyant, a ~
dome (Iron Dome, etc.)
allusion: books & reading
Iron Dome sex / character & personality: allusion / epithet / books &
many rockets were intercepted by the ~ air-defense system reading
proper name: infrastructure / roof / shape donkey (insult)
protection & lack of protection: materials & substances /
proper noun / shape donkey
he’s as stubborn as a ~
dome (Half Dome, etc.)
donkey job
Castle Dome it’s a ~
~ is a summit in Cochise County, Arizona
“led by donkeys”
Clingmans Dome ~ is a British expression for incompetent leadership
~ in Swain County is worth the visit (Great Smokies NP)
♦ “It is difficult to force or frighten a donkey into doing something it sees
as contrary to its own best interest.” (A comment on the alleged
Craggy Dome “stubbornness” of donkeys.)
~ is near Asheville, off the Blue Ridge Parkway
♦ “I dislocated my arm a few months ago while pulling one of the
donkeys.” (A Jordanian at Petra.)
Half Dome
~ is a granite dome (Yosemite National Park) ♦ “Donkeys are often shown in a silly light, as though they’re somehow
ridiculous.”
Iron Dome ♦ “They have a hard life and work their entire lives.” (Ethiopian donkeys.)
many rockets were intercepted by the ~ air-defense system ♦ “Without a donkey, my wife and I become the donkeys.” (A saying of
Ethiopian farmers.)
proper name: infrastructure / roof / shape
♦ Better the ass that carries you than the horse that throws you!
geography: mountains & hills / proper noun / shape
♦ It is better be the head of a donkey than the tail of a horse.
domino (domino effect, etc.)
behavior / character & personality / insult: animal
damaging domino effect doomed
a series of minor setbacks created a ~ (suicide)
set off a domino effect doomed
this ~ (economic collapse) is longhand ~ (handwriting)

toppled a lot of racist dominoes doomed to fall behind

it ~ (boycott) they are ~ (certain categories of students)
♦ “The left started the dominoes falling, and now it has no way of agenda could be doomed
stopping them.” (“Hands up, don’t shoot,” Defund the Police, and the president’s climate change ~ (Build Back Better)
increased crime.)
decline: death & life
feeling, emotion & effect / relationship / sequence: sports
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: death & life
& games
fate, fortune & chance: death & life
done (over) door (Durdle Door, etc.)
done Durdle Door
after the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans were ~ ~, the natural arch on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
starting, going, continuing & ending: prep, adv, adj, particle proper name: doors & thresholds
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: prep, adv, adj, geography: epithet
particle
door (back door / computer)
done and dusted
backdoor
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backdoors to their networks door (back door / front door)
private encryption keys are the ~ (tech vs. cops)
rear door
computer: doors & thresholds
I was back in Central Europe, albeit at the very ~
door (behind closed doors) (Transylvania)

behind closed doors “back door” communication

they are conducting business ~ (politics) the Cape Horn Route provided ~ (Japan / Germany)
~, without any sunlight whatsoever... (hearings) created back doors
♦ “The only way that I have been able to get anything done is behind are the hackers lying in wait, having ~ to come and go
closed doors, by hoarding favors, by bribing, by wheedling...” (The
character played by Donald Sutherland in the film Citizen X.) access & lack of access: doors & thresholds
concealment & lack of concealment: doors & thresholds door (back door / illegality)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: doors & thresholds
back door for Russian spying
door (closure) Italy has become somewhat of a ~
shut its doors created back doors
he notified the charter school that it must ~... are the hackers lying in wait, having ~ to come and go
curtailment: doors & thresholds
going out the back door
door (opportunity) all those fish are ~ illegally (poaching)
♦ “So where did you get it?” / “It fell off the truck.” (Stolen, fenced
doors of opportunity goods...)
many died opening the ~ (civil rights)
access & lack of access: crime
opening the ~ to all God's children (Martin Luther King)
doors in life
door (and doorway / access)
many ~ open automatically for you when you're rich doorway to access
open door all children in Maine have a ~ a public education
baseball offers a very good ~ for a better life (Latinos) open-door
closes one door I have an ~ policy (boss)
if God ~, he opens a thousand others (Turkish proverb) opened its doors
doors (in life) open Saudi Arabia has ~ to foreign tourists
many ~ automatically for you (when you're rich) banging on the door
knocking at the door they are ~ of city government (Yimbies)
opportunity is ~ (the boxer Daniel Dubois) keep the door open
open doors I wanted to ~ with him (an interviewer)
going to school will ~ for you breaking down doors
money tends to ~ she was ~ herself (a precocious college student)
opened doors broke down doors
it ~ I had never imagined (employment with Ford) she ~ in comedy (Phyllis Diller)
open all doors found the doors barred
good clothes ~ (a proverb) those trying to escape to the US ~ (to them (Jews)
opened the door had (many) doors slammed in his face
it ~ to a decent education for blacks (court decision) he ~ (a black American)
it ~ to what could be done (penicillin and transplants. etc.)
kicks down the door
opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds Dick Gregory ~, and Bill Cosby followed
door (portal) ♦ “I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” (From the famous Emma
Lazarus poem “The New Colossus,” which is inscribed on a brass plaque
doors of the spirit world and mounted inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)
the Shaman’s aim is to throw open the ~ (Korea) access & lack of access: doors & thresholds
opened the door door (knock at / on the door)
he ~ to the rave world for us
knocking on the door
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 death was ~ opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds
knocked at my door door (close a door, etc.)
the opportunity has ~ and I took it (boxer takes fight)
close the door
knocking at the door it's wrong to ~ on promising research (human cloning)
we're ~ (a team a game away from the playoffs)
they are ~ (a pressing soccer team) door has closed
opportunity is ~ (the boxer Daniel Dubois) the ~ on reform…

proximity: doors & thresholds / verb opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds

door (at someone’s door, etc.) door (shown the door, etc.)
leadership’s door shown the door
she placed much of the blame at the ~ (Labor defeat) official after official in the Department of Homeland
Security was ~
manager’s door
he is injured and that has to come to the ~ (soccer) dismissal, removal & resignation: doors & thresholds

laid the blame at Churchill’s door doormat (person)

many ~ (the Battle of Leros / Dodecanese)
muse and doormat
responsibility: doors & thresholds / proximity the muddy line between collaboration and codependence, ~
door (get one’s foot in the door) become a doormat
she allowed herself to ~ (woman-woman relationship)
get his foot in the door
he lied on his resume to ~ made herself into a doormat
she ~, she has nobody to blame but herself
opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: doors & thresholds / admiration & contempt: person / doors & thresholds
verb person: doors & thresholds
door (open the door, etc.) doorstep (on / at the doorstep)
open door at the doorstep of an (NFL) title
the 1st virus weakens, the 2nd then has an ~ to sicken they are ~

open a door on the doorstep of the EU

appeasement may ~ to peaceful co-existence, or… for a month he’s ~ (a migrant vlogging his journey)

opens the door to future lawsuits on Baghdad's doorstep

Monday’s decision ~ (Supreme Court) coalition forces are poised ~

door opens on death's doorstep

once that ~, who knows what will happen he's ~ (very sick)
the economy is ~
opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds
on its doorstep
door (hold the door open, etc.) Saudi Arabia discourages liberalization ~ (Qatar)
Turkey seeks to contain the crisis unfolding ~ (Syria)
hold the door open
he seemed to ~ for a change in Germany's policy on our doorstep
another storm behind Fred will be ~ by mid-week
opportunities & possibilities: doors & thresholds
door (leave the door open) poised on (Baghdad's) doorstep
coalition forces are ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
left open the door proximity: doors & thresholds / house
the US has ~ for storing nuclear waste in the US
dormant (adjective)
leave the door open
he seemed to ~ to the possibility of a change long-dormant
the ~ volcano has erupted (La Soufriere / St. Vincent)
left the door open
it ~ for an insanity defense activity: animal / death & life / sleep
leave the door open for the possibility
he appears to ~ of a pardon

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dose (amount) analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture / verb

dose
dot (verb)
it's the ~ that makes the poison (emailing, etc.) dot the lake
dose of inspiration floating restaurants ~ (Tonle Sap)
he provided the team a ~ configuration: mark / verb
dose of criticism dotted (arrangement)
the president received a fair ~ for his speech
dotted with surveillance) cameras
dose of humility Times Square is ~
we all need a good ~ (debate and opinions)
dotted with (observatory) domes
dose of reality the mountain is ~ (telescopes)
he needs a ~ (selfish teen)
dotted with (small mangrove) islands
dose of sanity a shallow lagoon ~ (Khor al-Beidah)
we could use a ~
dotted with (thousands of) kites
dose of wisdom the sky is ~ of different colors and styles
they got a ~ from the coach
he brings a ~ to the government dotted with monuments
the area is ~ to him (Lorca)
dose of goodwill
the project has earned the US a ~ (foreign aid) dotted with the ruins
a valley ~ of 16th-century fortresses (Georgia)
dose of good news
we could all use a ~ dotted with smokestacks
he looked out on hills ~ (Zarqa)
double dose
a ~ of fantastic news from Vicksburg and Gettysburg (war) ice-dotted
~ rivers
healthy dose
he uses research and a ~ of imagination (writer) island-dotted
the Aegean, the ~ region (sailors rarely far from land)
heavy dose
in Copenhagen he ingested a ~ of Aristotle (Tycho Brahe) monastery-dotted
a beautiful, ~ land (Montenegro)
small doses
I could only read it in ~ (a book) configuration: mark

provide a dose double down (verb)

recent advances ~ of hope for sufferers
doubling down on its decision
amount: health & medicine the government is ~
dot (connect the dots) double-downed our efforts
we ~ to not have it happen again
connect the dots
I must ~ doubled down (at the White House) and tripled down
we couldn't ~ (terrorism) the president ~ on Twitter (political dispute)
why didn't we ~
action, inaction & delay / commitment & determination:
it's impossible to ~ looking forward
people are starting to ~ (climate change) cards / gambling / verb
this report helps us ~ (climate change) double-edged (sword)
fill in the blanks, connect the dots double-edged sword
they want to ~, and figure out what’s going on (probe) opium and its derivatives are a ~
♦ Steve Inskeep: I don’t want to connect these dots too firmly yet, Carrie, science is a ~ and can be used for good or evil
but I want to note what some of the dots are... What would it mean if
these dots were more firmly connected? / Carrie Johnson: I think we’re
for Pakistan, success of this kind is a ~ (terrorists)
going to need to wait and see... rather than speculate... There’s been a
lot of bad reporting in this case, we’ve got to be careful. / Steve Inskeep: double-edged sword of biotechnology
But what we do know is those dots are there, and that the Muller the ~ (germ warfare)
investigation continues. / Carrie Johnson: Yes, that’s right.” (Vague and
ominous dots. From “News Brief: Paul Manafort, Parkland Shooting, feeling, emotion & effect: blade / sword
Spying Charges,” NPR, Morning Edition, 14 February 2019.)
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dove (person) down for that
if you’re ~, then...
dove ♦ You can be down for something or up for something with the same
he is not a ~, but he opposes attacking Iran meaning! English is crazy.

person: animal / bird allegiance, support & betrayal / commitment &

military: sign, signal, symbol determination: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
character & personality / violence: animal / bird / person /
predation
down (down through the centuries, etc.)
dovetail (verb) down through the centuries
the voice of Herodotus can be heard speaking ~ (writings)
dovetails with contemporary anxieties
the film ~ (a zombie movie) down through the generations
dancers pass their knowledge ~ (ballet)
dovetailed with (energy) plans
construction plans have not ~ (China) down the generations
that voice still echoes out ~ (the filmmaker John Ford)
dovetailed with US policy
reports by US cyber-security companies appear to have ~ down hundreds of years
the saint’s feast day had been kept ~ of worship
dovetail with his (warped) view
he denigrates ideas that don’t ~ of what America should be on down
the legend lives on from the Chippewa ~ (Gordon Lightfoot)
configuration: animal / bird / verb
come down (to me) through time
dowager (old) it’s like hearing a voice that has ~ (bard recites Gesar)
dowager of the medium handed down
the podcast, which at five years old is practically a ~ see handed down (by ancestors, etc.)
♦ “Ebony Magazine turns 76 tomorrow.” (Once a pillar of the Black
community, this great magazine has fallen on hard times, and is now passed down
only available online. You would think some US philanthropist would see passed down (by ancestors, etc.)
endow a print version in perpetuity.)
♦ Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser have a wonderful discussion of
growth & development: death & life / person up-down metaphors for time in Figurative Language, and give “high / low
Middle Ages” as a French example. They mention that the metaphor
down (feeling) might relate to “reverence for the past” in French and Chinese. But the
basis for the metaphor might also relate to topography. Sound travels
farther in all directions from a high point like a mountain peak, as people
down time of mountain cultures know, from Tibet through Afghanistan and
my life is a roller coaster and this is a ~ Switzerland to the Southern Appalachians.
♦ This is an instance of up-down metaphors for time and contrasts with
get me down up (up to now, up to date, etc.). Time seems to come down from the past
it doesn’t ~ (criticism) and then up to the present. Perhaps this reflects a cyclical view of time,
or simply a hilly topography.
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
past & present / time: direction / height / history /
down (decline) mountains & hills / prep, adv, adj, particle
down downdraft (noun)
it’s a long way ~
downdraft of debt
down market the hopelessness of families caught in a ~
a ~ is as much an opportunity as an up one
downdraft in the markets
decline: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle concern about Europe helped to lead the big ~
down (functioning) economic downdraft
the powerful ~ started with the failure of Lehman
down
the system is ~ severe downdraft
condition & status / failure, accident & impairment / the fund could be damaged again by a ~ (money)
functioning: direction / mechanism / prep, adv, adj, particle bucking the downdraft
some candidates are ~ (elections)
down (down for something)
caught in the downdraft
down for this media companies have been ~ of advertising revenue
are you ~
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force: air / atmosphere / wind downhill (easy)
downfall (noun)
all downhill
downfall the hard part was over, and it was ~
their greed will be their ~ difficulty, easiness & effort: direction / mountains & hills /
contributed to his downfall walking, running & jumping
his protectiveness may have ~
downplay (verb)
decline / destruction: direction
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction downplay his own gifts
he does not ~, but… (a politician)
downhearted
downplayed the need
downhearted he has ~ for widespread testing (pandemic)
it made you ~
downplays the (important) role
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / heart this comment ~ that dogs play as sentries
heart: direction
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / verb
downhill (go downhill, etc.) attenuation: theater / verb
downhill direction downshift (verb)
they are going in a ~ (sports team)
downshifting to stall speed
going downhill the economy is ~
education has been ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / verb
goes downhill speed: engine / verb
the health of children with the disease ~
downside (noun)
gone downhill
things have ~ in the last few years (polarized society) downside
modern agriculture has a ~
went downhill
their relationship ~ downside of the electoral college
things ~ from there another ~ is...

spiraled downhill downsides to 5G

at home, he ~ (troubled soldier back from Iraq) are there any ~ (geo locating, facial recognition, etc.)
♦ “He got laid off... He went downhill, way downhill, he gave up on big downside
himself...He drunk every day, all day, and one day...”
outsourcing has a ~
♦ How can downhill mean something easily accomplished and also mean
decline and failure? J.P. Postgate, Litt.D., Prof. of Comparative flaws & lack of flaws: direction / orientation
Philology, addressed this question in an Inaugural Address delivered at
the opening of the Session 1896-7, at University College, London. He downstream
said its relationship to the meaning of easiness was an obvious
metaphor. As for decline, he explained that at the time of Plautus, who
used the word in both senses, “Roman waggons and carriages had no
downstream
efficient brakes.” In addition, Postgate mentioned that when Plautus used Nasa sets the goals, it no longer designs everything ~
the word for decline or failure, it was always in contrast with a flatter
level. downstream in their education
♦ “Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse grad students who were further ~
traction on snow and ice, and prevent it from slipping. Without them, a
horse can neither tow a wagon uphill, nor use them as brakes on the way downstream business
down. In the Russian winter of 1812, this spelt disaster for Napoleon's Chevron's ~ posted profits (refining, marketing)
reduced force. Horses in summer shoes would have 'fallen down
underneath whatever it was they were towing,' in the words of Bernie downstream consequences
Tidmarsh, one of Britain's leading farriers. 'They wouldn't have got any
grip going downhill any more than they would have going up,' he says. depression and PTSD have a number of ~, including suicide
'The end result would have been broken legs and mutilated limbs.' In
some cases the horses were butchered for food while still alive by downstream impact
starving soldiers." ("Napoleon's failure: For the want of a winter the technology can have a ~ (GM autos)
horseshoe," by Saul David, BBC, 8 February 2012.)
downstream industries
decline: direction / mountains & hills
are squealing ~ (steel tariffs)
failure, accident & impairment: direction / mountains &
hills downstream operations
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downstream processing assembling: military / verb
a lot of ~ will be done by China (rare earths)
drag (drag on the economy, etc.)
♦ In the oil business, oil and gas fields are upstream assets, pipelines are
midstream, and refineries and retail outlets are downstream.
drag on the economy
♦ In the area of health, upstream interventions are things like wireless Brexit uncertainty has been a ~
scales for weighing people, and free rides to medical appointments.
These measures are largely preventative in nature and save money in
higher taxes are not necessarily a ~
the long run. Downstream outcomes are things like hospitalizations and
surgeries. obstacles & impedance: burden / movement / physics

orientation: river drag (verb)

down to earth (adjective) drag her knees through the playoffs
Staley is set to ~ (WNBA)
proud and down to earth
her ~ mom dragged her butt out of bed
she ~ (teen waking up)
straightforward, down to earth
he demonstrates ~ cooking difficulty, easiness & effort: burden / movement / verb

character & personality: earth & world drag (drag somebody into something)
downturn (noun) dragged you into this
I shouldn't have ~ (dangerous situation)
downturn in business
hotels have experienced a 90 percent ~ (war) drag some along kicking and screaming
he may have to ~ (a reform police chief)
economic downturn
the company foundered during the ~ involvement: burden / verb
eagerness & reluctance: burden / verb
decline: direction
drag down (verb)
doyen (squad leader)
drag Lara down with you
doyen of inaction movies don’t ~
Andersson, the ~ (New Yorker review of the filmmaker)
dragging the country down into the gutter
experience: military / person they are ~ of rancor and vitriol (politics)
draconian (adjective) obstacles & impedance: arm / verb

draconian dragnet (noun)

the punishments for food theft were already ~
dragnet
draconian charges the largest ~ in American history (Eric Rudolph)
she faces ~, including sedition (Nuttaa Mahattana)
dragnet for the murderer
draconian (budget) cuts authorities cast a ~
he will not give in to ~ (president)
DNA dragnet
draconian crackdown authorities have conducted a ~ (Louisiana serial killer)
he has presided over the most ~ on leaks in US history
international dragnet
draconian measures authorities cast an ~ for… (accused rapist)
if hospital cases spiral, more ~ may be needed (pandemic)
conducted a (DNA) dragnet
draconian justice and rule authorities have ~ (Louisiana serial killer)
many Afghans prefer the ~ meted out by the Taliban
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / fish
criticised as draconian
his radical left-wing policies have been ~
dragnet (cast a dragnet)
judgment / oppression: allusion cast a dragnet for the murderer
comparison & contrast: affix authorities ~

draft (verb) pursuit, capture & escape: animal / fish / verb

drafted into a trade war dragon (Dragon's Jaw, etc.)

they have been ~ that was not of their making (farmers) Dragon's Back

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 the ~ is a ridge in KwaZulu-Natal drain (an emotion, etc.)
Dragon's Jaw drained out of him
the North Vietnamese called it the ~ (US bridge target)
eventually, the fight ~ (abuser)
Dragon Shoal drained him
~ is a reef off Rakhine, Myanmar
his anger seemed to have ~, and he slumped
♦ The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa. Its
name means, "the Dragon Mountains." strength drained away
proper name: creature as their blood thickened and their ~ (climbers)

dragon (resemblance) feeling, emotion & effect: verb / water

drain (noun)
dragon of the bush
the ~, a carrion-eating monitor lizard (the goanna) drain of experience and manpower
resemblance: creature the departures meant a great ~

drag on (verb) drain on the kingdom's economy

banning women from driving causes a tremendous ~
drag on for a while
drain on resources
this is going to ~ (a controversy)
responding to a terrorist event causes a tremendous ~
dragged on for months
economic drain
the crisis has ~ now (pandemic)
it's going to be a huge ~ (spending on weapons)
drag through Christmas
time drain
US shutdown looks set to ~
place limits on TV watching, as it is a great ~
case dragged on
swirling down the drain
the ~ without any arrests
the country is ~ (Somalia)
negotiations drag on leaking: water
~ (Brexit)
drain (go down the drain, etc.)
quarantine drags on
frustration and exhaustion as the ~ (COVID-19 lockdown) swirling down the drain
the country is ~ (Somalia)
war drags on
as the ~ (casualties) failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / verb
time: burden / movement / speed / verb destruction: infrastructure / verb
timeliness & lack of timeliness: burden / verb drained (attenuation)
starting, going, continuing & ending: burden / prep, adv,
adj, particle / verb drained of color
under an overcast sky the prairie looked ~
drain (remove)
attenuation: water
drain spiritual energy from the land
they worry that the drilling will ~ (Medicine Lake area) drained (feeling)
drain the Kingdom of $16 billion drained and shaken
expatriates ~ each year (Saudi Arabia) I left feeling ~ (tour of Auschwitz)

drained out of him physically drained

eventually, the fight ~ (abuser) he was out of oxygen, ~, and alone (climber on Everest)

drained his finances physically and mentally drained

what really ~ was the roll-call bribe (Mexico prison) you're ~ and then, boom…

drained him end up (emotionally) drained

his anger seemed to have ~, and he slumped you ~ (search for missing child)

strength drained away feeling, emotion & effect: container / water

as their blood thickened and their ~ (climbers)
drama (tense drama, etc.)
leaking: verb / water
drama
bring the ~ to an end (mine rescue)

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 figure skating is known for its ~ this ~ (the eruption of a volcano)
during that season's ~s (on Mt. Everest)
drama of (athletic) competition
choking and the ~ dramatic (new) evidence
even in the face of ~
Antonio Brown drama
and you thought the ~ was over (ongoing sports story) dramatic example
the dying Aral Sea is the most ~ (ecological damage)
hijack drama
the ~ saw its final act played out (Medina) dramatic feature
Karchner's most ~ (a cave)
hostage drama
one ~ may be over, but… dramatic photograph
French TV showed a ~ of the plane in flames
wildlife drama
a compelling ~ (mountain pond) dramatic return
the ~ of this national symbol (the bald eagle)
life-and-death drama
they watched their own ~ unfold on satellite TV sets dramatic turn
the case took another ~ when… (murder)
sporting drama
the ending was wild, the ultimate in ~ (an NFL game) dramatic twist
this was a ~ in the trial (Trump’s second impeachment)
tense drama
a joyous end to a ~ (mine rescue) dramatic cityscape
the ~ of steel and lights (Hong Kong)
end to a (tense) drama
a joyous ~ (mine rescue) dramatic turnaround
in another ~ (football coach's fortunes)
bring the drama to an end
~ (mine rescue) feeling, emotion & effect: theater

drama (that) is unfolding dramatic (extent)

the US should stay out of the ~ in Egypt (protests)
dramatic changes
watched their own drama unfold he can be counted on to make few ~s
passengers ~ on satellite TV sets (JetBlue Flight)
dramatic decline
feeling, emotion & effect: theater the ~ in fatality rates (boating)
drama (drama queen, etc.) dramatic improvements
in the absence of ~ in the fortunes of Nigerians
drama queen
Nikki is fussy, she's a ~ (sister) dramatic increases
manufacturing has seen ~ in productivity
sense of drama
such a high-flung ~ dramatic results
the controversial cancer drug didn't produce ~
behavior / character & personality / performance: theater
dramatic (dust) signatures
dramatic (the dramatic) rapid movement causes ~ (military)
flair for the dramatic extent & scope: theater
he displayed a ~ (traffic commissioner)
dramatically
feeling, emotion & effect: theater
changed dramatically
dramatic (dramatic child, etc.) the racial makeup of Canarsie ~
dramatic child declined dramatically
I was a very ~ (threats, etc.) Lake Chad's area has ~ since the 1960s
behavior / character & personality / performance: theater fallen dramatically
dramatic (effect) infection rates here have ~ over the past month (COVID)
extent & scope: theater
dramatic action
this sort of ~ (invasion of Kuwait) draw (attract)
dramatic event drew people from all direction

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 Rome ~ (history) drawing board (on the drawing board)
drawn criticism from whistle-blowers on the drawing board
the company has ~
also ~ is…
drawn criticism for being derivative creation & transformation: infrastructure
her videos have also ~ (music)
drawing board (other)
drawn an outpouring
her film has ~ of both praise and outrage going back to the drawing board
we’re ending the council and ~ (Google ATEAC)
drawn swarms of protestors
the meetings of the World Bank have ~ creation & transformation: infrastructure
drawn rave reviews draw near (winter is drawing near, etc.)
his new pitch has ~ (a pitcher)
night draws near
drew cheers and boos the ~
the judge’s decision ~
time is drawing near
drawing both praise and scorn the ~
their efforts are ~
future / time: direction / distance / movement / verb
attraction & repulsion: movement / verb
relationship: movement / verb
drawn in
draw (luck of the draw) drawn in
just as Daniel was leaving Larry’s orbit, others were ~
luck of the draw
there is a ~, we are on a wheel (how judges get cases) situation: container / movement
involvement: astronomy / movement
fate, fortune & chance: cards / gambling / sports & games attraction & repulsion: astronomy / movement
draw (late / early on the draw) drawn into
late on the draw get drawn into
you were very ~ (to take action) we want people to ~ the tent of conservation
action, inaction & delay / initiation: weapon involvement: astronomy / movement
situation: container / movement
draw alongside attraction & repulsion: astronomy / movement
drew alongside the railway line drawn to
the road ~
drawn to a Web site
fictive motion: verb “eyeballs,” or the number of people ~
drawbridge (protection) drawn to (conspiracy) theories
their own drawbridges I’ve always been ~ like this
countries pulling up ~ (Internet sovereignty) drawn to Ralph Waldo Emerson
drawbridge came up as a teen, Nietzsche was ~’s “Promethean individualism”
I arrived just before the ~ (France bans travelers from UK) attraction & repulsion: movement
pull up the drawbridge dream (verb)
Americans want to ~, bring the troops home
dream about
division & connection: military / fortification this is what guys like myself ~ (NFL rookie)
protection & lack of protection: military / fortification
dream of dancing
draw in (verb) in Russia, all ballerinas ~ at the Mariinsky
drew so many people in dream of finding
the conspiracy theory ~ scientists and capitalists ~ a drug that could…
attraction & repulsion: movement / verb dreams of returning
involvement: movement / verb my father ~ to his birthplace
dreamed big

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 she has always ~ (Lizzo) dream of becoming
it was a jolting blow to his lifelong ~ a fighter pilot
wants, needs, hopes & goals: sleep / verb
dream (fever dream, etc.) dream of developing
his ~ a practical turbine-powered car
fever dreams about Russian collusion dream of turning
they fill their airtime with ~ (MSNBC, CNN, etc.) he had a ~ a town into a metropolis (William Mulholland_)
fever-dream projections dreams for the future
“~” regarding pedophilia (conspiracy theories) they talked about their own ~ (Wilma Mankiller)
dream world dream car
she lives in her own ~ they got their ~ for thousands less
♦ “During his fever Davy later said that he had a repeated hallucination of the Suby is a young athlete's ~ (Subaru Outback Limited)
a beautiful, tender, unknown woman who nursed him, held him and had
‘intellectual conversations’ with him. ‘[When] I contracted that terrible dream (surfing) destination
form of typhus fever known by the name of jail fever... there was always
before me the form of a beautiful woman... This spirit of my vision had Indonesia or other ~s
brown hair, blue eyes, and a bright rosy complexion... Her figure was so
distinct in my mind as to form almost a visual image...[but] as I gained dream guy
strength the visits of my good angel, for so I called it, became less new dating services guarantee a ~
frequent.’” (The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes.)

consciousness & awareness / fantasy & reality: health &

dream home
completing his ~
medicine / sleep
dream house
dream (noun) he talked of a ~ and a dream car
dream on Wednesday, their ~ was destroyed (wildfire)
my ~ had been to play in the final… (World Cup) dream job
our ~ is to save enough to buy a one-family home his ~ secured, he is now…
its banking system is still more a ~ than fact (Russia) Notre Dame was his ~ (coach)
dream that your man tanked the interview for his ~
it was a ~ I never thought would come true (immigrant) dream lover
first the ~, then the doubts, then the commitment at a restaurant with my ~
it was his dream to drive ~, come rescue me, take me anyway you want me
~ a bus since he was 9 "dream sheets"
it was (always) his dream to end up we were handed ~ (requests for military schools)
~ in the United States dream ship
it had been a dream (of hers) to canoe a fantastic ~
~ in Algonquin Park dream store
dream of El Dorado invited her to help him open his ~
what local newspapers call "the ~" (jobs in Europe) dream trip
dreams of (artistic) greatness this is a ~ (extended canoe trip)
he had all these ~ dream vacation
dream of hers ~s and weekend getaways
it had been a ~ to canoe in Algonquin Park dream wedding
dreams of marriage the fairy-tale star of her ~
their ~ were delayed yet again (Pakistani man, cousin) dream world
dream of peace it was her ~
the ~ has often turned into a nightmare of war (Africa) dream, fantasy, or vision
dreams of a better tomorrow the only way to keep a ~ intact or rosy
~ for our children dream and nightmare
dreams of holy war every surfer's ~ (Condition Black / huge surf)
~ vanished in the flames (Afghanistan) designer's dream
dream of attending her (fashion) show is a ~
he sacrificed his ~ college to finance his brother's studies

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everyone's dreams plans, hopes, dreams, and ambitions
~ are different—like the former pilot who swam… adults often resent death because it affects ~ (nursing)
immigrant's dream potential and dreams
he had realized the classic ~ a chance to fulfill their ~ (SuAnne Big Crow Center)
kid's dream dreams die
it is most any ~ of the perfect place to eat dinner ~ hard
promoter’s dream dream had consumed them
Ali was a ~ (poetry, quips, putdowns, predictions, etc.) the ~ (climbing K2 together)
skateboarder's dream dreams come true
20 competitors on a course that's every ~ (street) I guess ~ (player on tournament victory)
can their ~…
Everest dreams
Walter Mittys with ~ need to keep in mind… (climbing) dreams (of holy war) vanished
~ in the flames (Afghanistan)
Pakistani dream
the ~ of a weak Afghanistan under Islamabad's sway dream (vacation) turned into a nightmare
their ~
boyhood dream
he fulfilled his ~ of sailing… abandoned the dream
for some, ~s come true (an astronaut) I ~ as preposterous (climbing Mt. Everest)
childhood dream achieve your dreams
she has realized her ~ we will help you ~ (teen modeling Web site)
laboratory dreams achieved my (goal and) my dream
these ideas are still ~ (nanotechnology / foods) I ~ (Vitali Klitschko / boxer)
rock dream chase their dreams
he realized he wouldn't be living the ~ tonight will inspire people to ~ (Olympic successes)
we are boys who, with great sacrifice, ~ (FI driver)
secret dream
the ~ of any woman… chase his dreams
he is a hero for taking the risk he did to ~ (Anthoine Hubert)
lifelong dream
it's an opportunity for him to fulfill a ~ dream a new dream
it was a jolting blow to his ~ of becoming a fighter pilot you are never too old to set another goal or to ~
complete dream exceeded their (wildest) dreams
it's a ~ (reaching the semifinals of World Cup) what they actually saw ~ (astronomers)
sweet dreams find your dream
you hug her and kiss her and wish her ~ follow every rainbow, 'till you ~ (song)
age-old (Pakistani) dream fulfill his dream
the ~ of a weak Afghanistan under Islamabad's sway he wants his young friend to ~ (to become world champ)
car of my dreams fulfill (some of) his dreams
a tiny red Miata, the ~ so, either way, I did ~ (son, speaking of father)
man of (your) dreams have a dream
find the ~ I ~ (Martin Luther King Jr.)
ask the ~ out on a date
lived her dream
man of her dreams she ~, then died in a lonely hotel room (Anna Nicole)
she had a star-crossed affair with the ~
and then she met the ~ living his dream
he is now truly ~ (professional windsurfer)
blow to his (lifelong) dream
it was a jolting ~ of becoming a fighter pilot living the dream
we thought we were ~, but… (blacks in north / US)
hopes and dreams
do you have ~ beyond tomorrow morning pursue her dream
his ~ have to do with… she quit her job to ~ of becoming…
the TV show represented my ~ (Mary Tyler Moore) pursue a dream

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 people who switched courses late in life to ~ appearance & disappearance / concealment & lack of
concealment / searching & discovery: boat / ground,
realize your dream
how does it feel to ~ (award show) terrain & land / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb

sacrificed his dream drenched

he ~ of attending college to help his brother blood-drenched allegory
go after your dreams the film is a ~
it's important to ~ because life is short (skateboarding) drama-drenched
give up the dream ~ retellings of scorn and mockery (epic sports failures)
no one expects them to ~, either (for independence) neon-drenched
given up his dream the seedy, ~ combat zone of massage parlors
he had almost ~ of being an opera singer (Paul Potts) sun-drenched
give up those dreams in the ~ deserts of California
maybe it's best to ~ (a musician) absorption & immersion / amount & effect: water
give up on my dream dressed (dressed up, etc.)
I'm not one to ~ (disappointed "American Idol")
dressed in scientific clothes
give up on her dream exploration now had to be ~
she doesn't want to ~ of being a "real" professor (adjunct)
dressed up as control
allow the dream to die it is curiosity ~ (Netflix and interactive shows)
he wouldn't ~ (an athlete)
♦ “Good clothes open all doors.”
take your dreams away ♦ “Clothes make the man, naked people have little or no influence on
don't let anyone ~ society.” (Mark Twain.)
♦ “Fine feathers make fine birds.”
turned the dream into a nightmare
the loans have ~ (home ownership) appearance & reality / subterfuge: clothing & accessories

make your dreams come true dressing down (noun)

it will ~ (how-to-kiss book for teens)
public dressing down
make their dreams come true the impact of this ~ was critical
they feel that they can ~ with hard work and…
accusation & criticism / judgment: military
make that dream a reality dress up (verb)
she can now afford to ~ (an Indian able to buy an AC)
abandoned the dream as preposterous dress that up
I ~ (climbing Mt. Everest) however you ~, that is the fear...
♦ "Each day as I go through the hospitals with younger colleagues, they dress up incompetence as heroism
give me of their dreams and I give them of my experience, and I get the it is less disturbing to ~ (Scott and the South Pole)
better of the exchange." (William J. Mayo, M.D.)
♦ “Why do people talk about dreams so much in sports? Dream seasons. substance & lack of substance: clothing & accessories
Dream matchups. Dream opportunities... (“NBA “The Dream Team 1992” appearance & reality: clothing & accessories
full documentary, narrated by Ed Burns.)
concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
♦ “Playing video games for a living is a dream for many.” (Amazon’s
Twitch, etc., and online streamers.) drift (consciousness)
wants, needs, hopes & goals: sleep
drifted in and out of (bizarre) hallucinations
dredge up (verb) he ~ (K2 climber in distress)

dredging up old allegations drifted in and out of (fitful) sleep

they are ~ I ~ (high-altitude bivouac)

dredge up wild beliefs drifted off

they ~ from online fever swamps (a podcast) I was exhausted and ~ in short order (went to sleep)

dredged up (painful) memories consciousness & awareness: atmosphere / movement /

the fires have ~ of how black churches were razed (arson) verb

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drift (sound) drill down
they can ~ and address the problem (regulators)
drifted in
funeral music ~ through our windows drill down into the rankings
it doesn't really make sense, until you ~
drifts outside
music from the choir ~ drills down (very) deep
she ~ on these issues (a political analyst)
drifted (in) through our windows
analysis, interpretation & explanation: direction / ground,
funeral music ~
terrain & land / mining / verb
drift across the cuts and trails
they can hear the sound of hammers ~ drink in (verb)
♦ "A warm wind from the south blew in through the casements. drank in every (tiny) detail
Locomotives at their distant stations roared like sea lions." (Doctor
Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, “The Hour Of The Inevitable.") I ~ of her office

movement: sound drank in knowledge

he ~ from every person and place he met
drift (move)
drank in the scene
drifted back I ~ (a town)
but some laborers have since ~ (to Sichuan)
drank in the (stunning) sights
drift into oblivion I ~ (a trip abroad)
he admitted he would likely ~ (boxer)
drank in the vistas
drifted into construction work we ~ and toured the pastures
he ~
absorption & immersion: food & drink / verb
drifted (apart) from his parents and siblings consumption: food & drink / verb
he had ~
drip (and drip-drip, etc.)
drifted from job to job
for the next several years he ~ (famous actor) drip-drip
this isn’t ~, it’s a flood (sexual harassment)
drifted through a series of jobs
he then ~ drip of negative press coverage
the president was not pleased with the continuing ~
drifted about the country
disdaining regular employment, he ~ drip of these transcripts
we had a ~ being released all week long (politics)
drifting (closer) to towns and cities
most Nukak clans are ~ (Colombia) drip drip drip of (leaked) emails
the ~ (that hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances)
movement: atmosphere / wind / verb
drip drip of propaganda
drift (control) the effect of this slow ~ was that... (ethnic cleansing)

drift in the (US) approach drip-drip effect

evidence of a ~ in Afghanistan it’s a ~ (online anti-Semitism)
control & lack of control: atmosphere / boat / wind ‘drip drip’ effect
direction: atmosphere / boat / wind the ~ of gender-stereotyping (children)
drift (drift apart) drip-drip way
virginity had a corrosive effect on my self-esteem, in a ~
drifted apart (adult)
we ~ (a relationship)
constant drip-drip
drifted apart from his parents and siblings this ~ distorts all your feelings (effects of anti-Semitism)
he had ~
constant drip-drip-drip
division & connection: atmosphere / boat / verb / wind the ~ of stuff (leading to criminal conviction)
drill (drill down, etc.) daily drip
drill deeper there has been a ~ of new disclosures (impeachment)
we need to ~ into their claims (government claims) slow drip

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 the ~ of vote counting revealed his leads were dwindling ~, soldier, drive on...
steady drip resiliency: journeys & trips
this ~ as life is draining from England (Extinction Rebellion)
drool (verb)
steady drip-drip
an increasingly ~ of irritations drooling over the possibility
networks have been ~ of landing an interview with…
steady drip, drip
the ~ of casualties (Iraq) makes venture capitalists drool
his pitch ~
described the build-up as a “slow drip”
eagerness & reluctance: bodily reaction / food & drink /
the official ~ (troops on border with Ukraine)
verb
amount & effect / feeling, emotion & effect / leaking /
movement: sound / water drop (prices dropped, etc.)
drip-fed dropped by (up to) 70%
tourist arrivals ~
drip-fed information
increase & decrease: direction / number / verb
we have been ~ over a long period of time
drip-fed to the media drop (drop in sales, etc.)
every day leaks are ~ drop in sales
directing: water the company is suffering from a ~

drive (verb) increase & decrease: direction / number

drives the FAA drop (drop a case, etc.)

data, science, and risk analysis ~ dropped (international) coverage
driving force: engine / verb newspapers have ~
directing: animal / verb drop the idea
drive (drive somebody to do something) we must ~ the US is Johnny Appleseed spreading
democracy
drove him to do
necessity and poverty ~ this (mercenary / revolutionary) charges have been dropped
the ~
relationship: force / verb
let the matter drop
drive-by (conflict) maybe we should ~
♦ "I think it's wrong to pursue this, maybe we should let it drop." (A
drive-by media criminal investigation.)
when social media becomes source material in ~
♦ Rush Limbaugh used this phrase, which compares mainstream media
dismissal, removal & resignation: direction / verb
accounts to drive-by shootings, when talking about the “January 2019
Lincoln Memorial confrontation” (Wikipedia.)
drop (product launch)
♦ “I feel very misled, and it is shameful The New York Times would use drop
my words to hurt my daughter.” (The 78-year-old mother of Neera
Tanden. She had thought the interview would result in an article that the “~” is the release of a highly exclusive line
would be “a nice story about Neera.” At least one columnist described it the ~ resulted in pandemonium outside stores (fashion)
as a “blatant hit piece.”)
♦ A hatchet job, a hit job / piece, a drive-by...
dropped (this morning) for (a whopping) $1, 018
the shoes ~ (endorsed by Lil Nas X)
conflict: crime / death & life / violence
accusation & criticism: crime / death & life / violence drop culture
punishment & recrimination: crime / death & life / violence social media is central to ~

driven (adjective) product drop

the ~ is a sales tactic
incredibly driven
she was ~ and never gave up monthly drops
Burberry announced a series of ~ (24 hours to buy)
character & personality: engine
sudden (product) drops
drive on (resiliency) ~ generate more social media buzz
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 2017 was the ~ (limited release / time limit to buy) drought (play-off drought, etc.)
lined up for the drop drought of victories
a thousand people ~ (pop-up fashion display)
Clinton faces a painful ~ (Hillary in 2008 vs. Obama)
set to drop 13-year (playoff) drought
Bruised is ~ on Netflix in November (the film)
they have broken a ~ (NFL team)
inauguration: flying & falling / mechanism
goal drought
drop (a product, etc.) by his standards, that was a ~ (3 games / Messi)

dropping emails decade of (post-season) drought

Wikileaks was ~ (Hillary Clinton) the team has endured a parching ~ (Phoenix Suns)

dropped this week end a (44-year) trophy drought

the trailer for one of the most anticipated films of the year ~ Spain had a chance to ~ (Euro 2008 / soccer)

set to drop growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
the evening before her album is ~ / weather & climate
♦ “When we were promoting the show before it had aired, or dropped, or
whatever they say at Netflix.” (Christina Applegate, showing perhaps a
drove (herd or flock)
little exasperation with “contempo-speak.”)
out in droves
inauguration: mechanism / verb tourists are ~ (summer)
drop (drop in the bucket) leaving in droves
Italy’s youth are ~
drop in the bucket
in relationship to its annual revenue, it was a ~ (a fine) showed up in droves
the numbers are a ~ compared to the southern border people ~ to donate blood (mass shooting)
the league’s own contribution was a ~ compared to...
turned to BBC in their droves
amount: water people have ~ during the pandemic
drop out (verb) turn out in droves
Democrats predicted minority voters would ~
dropped out of the race
he ~ (a politician) turned out in droves
voters have ~
dropped out of the labor force ♦ In the 1800s up to 175,000 hogs passed through Asheville, western
discouraged job-seekers have ~ North Carolina, each fall on their way south to South Carolina from
Tennessee. Drovers also drove great herds of turkeys, ducks, mules,
starting, going, continuing & ending: direction / verb horses, cows, flocks of sheep, etc. along the road. Inns and stands grew
dismissal, removal & resignation: direction / verb up along the route to accommodate both men and animals at night. Local
people grew corn to feed the animals and established ferries and
drought (in a drought) bridges. And towns grew up as people prospered. The film The Journey
of August King, based on the book by John Ehle, gives a flavor of life in
those times.
in a sexual drought
I've been ~ for a while amount / behavior: animal
in the middle of a drought drown (verb)
the team is ~ (losing)
♦ "I weep for my country. When you can plow, you can hope. Right now, drown
there is no hope." (Mostafa Imam, on drought in Swaziland.) I feel like I'm treading water and will soon ~ (a teacher)
♦ "In February, when the food ran out, Ezlina Chambukira started selling
her precious possessions one by one. First, her goat. Then an old
drowning in crime
umbrella. Then two metal plates and a battered pail. When she had Detroit is ~
nothing left, she started praying for a miracle… It is harvest time, but
crops are withered and many people are eating banana roots and drowning in debt
pumpkin leaves." ("Meager Harvest in Africa Leave Millions at the Edge I’m ~ for a piece of paper I never received (college debt)
of Starvation," June 23, 2003, by Rachel L. Swarns.)
♦ "Who in the desert had never tasted drought? Who had not been drowning in its own garbage
driven into exile by famine? Such things were the inescapable fate of the Lebanon is ~
desert—and all the songs of the desert were an expression of this grief,
drought, and homelessness." (Gold Dust by the great Ibrahim al-Koni.) drowning in (kitchen) gizmos
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain in an age when we are ~...
/ weather & climate drowning in a sea
I'm ~ of acronyms (nuclear weapons)

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 if you’re ~ of medical bills... there is a ~ (against the Catholic Church / pedophilia)
drowning in crime and desperation drumbeat of criticism
small towns were ~ (the opioid crisis) here in Washington we have just heard a ~ (Afghanistan)
drowning in bitterness and booze drumbeat of news
she is a former rocker who is ~ (a film) there has been a steady ~ about the dangerous chemical
♦ “Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises.”
(Greta Thunberg during a Youth4Climate event in Milan, Italy.) drumbeat of war
the ~ has grown louder in the past few days
♦ In 2009, over one hundred people died in flash floods in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, one of the driest countries on earth.
drumbeats of war
♦ In Saudi Arabia, in the interior of the Arabian Peninsula, people drown the ~ are filling our nation
when flash floods fill wadis. They drown in flooded underpasses. They
drown in water tanks on top of roofs. Babies can drown in pails. In
addition, Saudi Arabia has 2,640 miles of coastline on the Red Sea and
drumbeat of (terror) warnings
the Arabian Gulf. Saudi students studying abroad have drowned. the recent ~…
♦ "None of us could swim," Robinson said. "They were yelling 'help me,
help me. Somebody please help me.' It was nothing I could do but watch
drumbeat of "venture capital is dead"
them drown one by one." (Six Teens Drown in Louisiana River; 7th there has been a ~, and it's getting louder
Rescued," by CBSNews, August 4, 2010.)
♦ "Turn Around, Don't Drown." (Slogan to discourage drivers from
drumbeat (of calls) for his resignation
disregarding "Road Closed Due to Flooding" signs and trying to cross there has been a deafening ~ (a politician)
flooded bridges.)
♦“Teach my children how to swim because they can find someone who
extremist drumbeat
will write for them any time but they cannot find anyone to swim for them militants were encouraged by the ~ in Cairo
at the moment of danger.”
deafening drumbeat
♦“Teach your children swimming, archery and horse riding.” (Hadith / Ibn
Umar.) there has been a ~ of calls for his resignation (politician)

survival, persistence & endurance: verb / water drumbeats (of war) are filling our nation
the ~
drown out (verb)
drumbeat of war has grown louder
drowned out his (in-ring) interview the ~ in the past few days
boos ~ (a boxer who won a split decision)
Internet drumbeat
sound / superiority & inferiority: verb / water the explanation is sometimes drowned out by the ~
drowned out drumbeat is intensifying
the ~ to toughen up laws regarding sexual predators
drowned out by the Internet drumbeat
♦ “The drumbeat of war is sounding loud and the rhetoric has gotten
the explanation is sometimes ~ rather shrill.” (Michael Carpenter, US Ambassador to the Organization for
Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe, about the Ukrainian crisis
drowned out by the thunder in January, 2022.)
informed voices were ~ of the partisan lynch mob
♦ Ari Shapiro: “Well, do you hear the drums of war beating?” / Eleanor
Beardsley: “You know what? I don’t...” (Eleanor Beardsley reporting from
sound / superiority & inferiority: water Kharkiv / Kharkov, 25 miles from the Russian border. (“The view from
drum (beat the drum / bang the drum, border city Kharkiv, Ukraine, as Russian troops appear ready to invade,”
NPR, All Things Considered, Jan. 13, 2022.)
etc.) message: military / sound
banging the drum on this problem attention, scrutiny & promotion: military / sound
he has been ~ since... drummed out
beating the drum about this drummed out of the party
the Biden administration has been ~ (COVID masking) he has been ~ (politics)
beating the drum against big government dismissal, removal & resignation: military
she is ~ (a politician)
drummer (different drummer)
pounds the drum for the power of the people
the film ~ to make things right (politics) different-drummer commitment
he offers a ~ to civility (versus political bickering)
message: military / sound / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion: military / sound / verb out-of-step, against-the-grain, different-drummer
~ types
drumbeat (noun)
march to a different drummer
drumbeat of accusations his willingness to ~ is his biggest liability (politics)

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marching to a different drummer money dried up
they are often ~ (kids with ADHD) the ~
they are ~ and choosing colleges with different profiles
overtime has dried up
unanimity & consensus: military / sound ~ (for immigrant workers)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: military / sound
work dried up
drum up (verb) other ~, and old friends stopped calling (disgraced)
drum up (public) demand appearance & disappearance: water / verb
he is trying to ~ for his invention
duck (avoid)
drum up interest
she was able to ~ on Facebook (for her company) ducked out of the (post-race) interview
he ~ (auto racing)
drum up publicity
promoters are keen to ~ by any means (boxing) duck the (tough) issues
we won't ~ (a politician)
drum up support
we are trying to ~ for the project ducked the question
they are trying to ~ for the law he ~ (State Department "official")
candidates are actively campaigning there to ~ (election) duck (the more challenging) questions
attention, scrutiny & promotion / creation & transformation: he hoped the court would not ~
military / prep, adv, adj, particle / sound / verb avoidance & separation / confronting, dealing with &
drunk (adjective) ignoring things: animal / bird / verb

drunk on power duck (verb)

he is ~ ducked into the office
restraint & lack of restraint: alcohol she ~ right away to see what was up
control & lack of control: alcohol duck into a bathroom
behavior / feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol the young women ~ to change out of their jeans
dry (come up dry) movement: animal / bird / verb
come up dry on leads dud (noun)
we have ~ (thefts of goats)
♦ This refers to a well that fails to produce water or oil. dud
the product was a ~ (marketing)
success & failure: mining / verb / water
searching & discovery: mining / verb / water dud of a book
this disappointing ~ starts with a good premise
dry run
success & failure: weapon / explosion
dry run for the All-Star Game failure, accident & impairment: weapon / explosion
the stadium manager says the game will be a ~
duel (noun)
dry run of the course
participants registered for a ~ (race with obstacles) duels for the ball
he was engaged in 20 ~ (Paul Pogba vs. Germany)
made a dry run
he ~ in a wind tunnel (parachutist) tense duel
the two were locked in a ~ for days (Tour de France)
arranged for a dry run
he ~ to make sure everything worked (technology) pair up for duels
♦ There are quite a few theories for the origin of this relatively recently
with the city's blessing, cars ~ (legal drag racing)
coined phrase. One idea is that it relates to drills by fire departments ♦ “Smollett states that the admiral [Knowles] himself did not escape
without water being pumped. It came to prominence in the military during without censure. Two of his captains were reprimanded; but Captain
World War II. Holmes, who had displayed uncommon courage, was honourably
acquitted. The admiral fought a bloodless duel with Captain Paulett, of
readiness & preparedness: military the Tilbury; but Captain Innes and Clarke met by appointment in Hyde
Park, with a case of pistols each. The former was mortally wounded, and
dry up (verb) died next morning; the latter was tried and condemned for murder, but
received His Majesty’s pardon.” (“Tortuga, 1748” from British Battles on
jobs dried up Land and Sea by James Grant.)
when the war ended, the ~ competition / conflict: weapon

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dueling (adjective) get dumped
you may ~ by him later… (relationships)
dueling ad most men who ~ think their girlfriends…
~s, each side accusing the other (politics)
dismissal, removal & resignation: pile
dueling protests
we are expecting ~ today (pro- and anti-government)
dust (dust settles)
competition / conflict: weapon let the dust settle
we will ~ and then make our decisions
dug in
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: ground, terrain &
dug in land
both sides are ~ and neither side will move (politics)
dust (collect dust)
♦ “We will weed out the rebels, but they are dug in.”
♦ “A-10 Warthogs destroyed 10 Iraqi T-55 tanks dug in a defensive collect dust
posture.” the case was left to ~
protection & lack of protection / resistance, opposition & action, inaction & delay: ground, terrain & land / verb
defeat / survival, persistence & endurance: fortification /
ground, terrain & land / military dust (bite the dust)
dull (adjective) bit the dust
many of these mom-and-pop stores ~ (failed)
grow dull
his life reminds us that the cutting edge can ~ (Hefner) bites the (desert) dust
English language program ~ (Vinnell Arabia)
flaws & lack of flaws: blade / knife
destined to bite the dust
dumb (technology) the project seems ~ (military project)
♦ In old Western films, cowboys, Indians and soldiers were often shot off
dumb mines their horses and fell into the dust.
~ versus smart mines (self-destruct / self-deactivate)
failure, accident & impairment: death & life / film
from dumb to smart to brilliant (m)
~ bombs (military) dust (leave somebody in the dust)
knowledge & intelligence: mechanism left Microsoft in the dust
ability & lack of ability: mechanism the iPhone and Android ~ (phones)
dump (verb) competition / superiority & inferiority: direction / horse /
movement / sports & games
dumped the editor
she ~ and replaced him with… (magazine) dust (fairy dust, etc.)
dump her (3,928) shares fairy dust
he told her to ~ (of stock) ~ from the “Mom wand” makes life easy for them (kids)
that something special, that star quality, that little bit of ~
dumped her stock you can find ~ in every situation, no matter how difficult
just before she ~ in December… (insider trading)
star dust
dump you can Hollywood ~ revive Wrexham (actors buy soccer club)
she's going to ~ (get out of the relationship)
sprinkle (tech company) fairy dust
dismissal, removal & resignation: pile / verb
it’s a property company trying to ~ over itself
dumped touched with fairy dust
dumped everything he does is ~ (a musician)
she worries about being ~ and getting a bad reputation ♦ “You can never tell when the bad fairy might pay you a visit and
sprinkle the f***-you-up dust.” (A saying enjoyed by special-forces types.)
dumped Gottlieb for Brown ♦ “It’s not like you sprinkle blockchain dust over it and it’s O.K.”
five year later, he ~ (editor / editors in chief) (Problems with cryptocurrencies.)
♦ “Graham Potter is now sprinkling his magic on this Brighton team and
dumped by him is getting the best out of every player including Neal Maupay.” (Liverpool
you may get ~ later (relationship) supporter right here, 27 Sept 2021.)

dumped by his girlfriend amelioration & renewal: magic

he was ~ of nine years…

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dustbin (noun) he is the last of a ~ (race car driver)
moderates are a ~ (politics)
dustbin of history
dying industry
the Afghans will send the Americans to the ~ (Taliban)
nuclear energy may be a ~
the P-word should be consigned to the ~ (Britain)
condition & status / decline / primacy, currency, decline &
consigned to history’s dustbin
obsolescence / starting, going, continuing & ending: death
his political theories have been ~
& life
sweep conversion therapy into the dustbin
we are happy to ~ of history dynamite (noun)
worth & lack of worth: waste dynamite for the (party’s) base
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: waste what he said is ~ (a gaffe / faux-pas)
dwarf (size) political dynamite
he was convinced he had ~ (a conspiracy theorist)
dwarf chameleon
Madagascar has produced a group of ~s attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / military / sound
/ weapon
dwarf pine
at high elevation, one finds many ~s dynamite (a dynamite cast, etc.)
size: person dynamite cast
he brings out the best in a ~ (a film director)
dwarf (verb)
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / military / sound /
dwarfed all others weapon
the Yankees' payroll ~ (baseball)
dynasty (sports dynasty, etc.)
dwarfs any other (economic) relationship
the US / EU partnership ~ dynasty
it’s history, we like ~s, to cheer for and against them (sports)
dwarfs spending
the ad expenditure ~ on other efforts (public health) political dynasty
she was a descendant of one of the nation’s oldest ~s (Kean)
dwarfs (all other) threats
an Iranian bomb ~ to Israel football dynasty
Coach Bowden built a ~ (at Florida State University)
dwarf his other work
the study is likely to ~ in statistics cheerleading dynasty
she leads a ~ (14 NCA National Championships)
dwarfs previous ones
the current oil spill ~ (Gulf of Mexico) fallen dynasty
he rescued a ~ (Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: height / verb
superiority & inferiority: height / verb built a dynasty
dwell (location) they had ~ that had won three Super Bowl championships
power / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
dwells in your hearts
I know the love of the constitution ~ (politics)
dwell in the past E
don’t ~ (romance)
location: house
eagle eye
place: house / death & life eagle eyes of (U.S. spy) satellites
dyed-in-the-wool the ~
surveillance: animal / bird / eye
dyed-in-the-wool optimist
she's a ~ ear (Ear of the Wind, etc.)
identity & nature: cloth Ear of the Wind
dying (dying industry, etc.) the ~ is a natural arch in Monument Valley, Arizona
proper name: ear
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ear (have somebody's ear) ear (turn a deaf ear)
has the ear of the president turned a deaf ear to that argument
he ~ Congress has ~
have the ear of (many) political leaders confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: ear
they ~ (activists)
ear (music to one’s ears)
has the president’s ear
he ~ music to Moscow’s ears
this was ~ (Macron says NATO is brain dead)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: ear
feeling, emotion & effect: ear / music
ear (attention)
earful (amount)
sympathetic ear
he offers a ~ to kids (juvenile offenders) getting an earful
he has been ~
lent an ear
amount: ear / speech
Michael unselfishly ~ to friends in need
offers a (sympathetic) ear
early (timeliness)
he ~ to kids (juvenile offenders) early in the investigation
attention, scrutiny & promotion: ear / speech as of now it’s ~

ear (surveillance) early in the (democratic presidential primary) process

it’s still very ~
ears
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day
the walls have ~
eyes and ears earn (verb)
(see eyes and ears) earned a variety of nicknames
♦ What you see here, what you do here, what you hear here, when you the jail ~ over the years (Rikers Island)
leave here, let it stay here.” (Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project.)
achievement, recognition & praise: money / verb
surveillance: ear
ear (ear of corn, etc.) earth (to the ends of the earth, etc.)
ends of the earth
ears of corn he took the faith of his nation to the ~ (Livingstone)
women roasted ~ (Kisumu)
scoured the Earth
sun's ears Bill Whitman ~ for rare fruit (collector, popularizer)
polar explorers call the circles of prismatic colors the ~
extent & scope / searching & discovery: earth & world
resemblance: ear
ear (fall on deaf ears) earthiness (character)
earthiness
fall on deaf ears her public persona belies her ~ (she swears, etc.)
calls to end the fighting that seem to ~ (Middle East)
♦ In Metaphors We Live By Lakoff and Johnson mention a fascinating
sometimes the warnings ~ metaphor: mundane reality is down. The example they give is “down to
earth.” Language that might illustrate this metaphor, besides earthiness,
fell on deaf ears could include grassroots, a worm’s eye view, “she has stars in her eyes”
his warnings ~ (Gerhart Riegner / Holocaust) versus the mature girl who has both feet on the ground, journalists on the
his call for lifting sanctions ~ (a politician) ground, the teacher who spent 34 years in the trenches, actually
teaching, the leader with a willingness to dive into the weeds to explore
complaint after complaint ~ detailed elements, people from all walks of life, etc.
police appeals for information ~ (murders of prostitutes)
♦ “I dreamed a thousand new paths...I woke and walked my one.”
his desperate appeal ~ (Haile Selassie / Italian invasion)
♦ “Men trip not on mountains but on molehills.”
falling on deaf ears ♦ “Before dinner, let us explore the southern plains and climb the
the appeals are ~ (Russia) northern mountains. After dinner, there are snakes in the southern plains
and tigers in the northern mountains.” (Chinese.)
consciousness & awareness: ear
character & personality: earth & world
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: ear

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earthquake (effect) allusions and Easter eggs
the series has included ~ from previous episodes (TV)
earthquake ♦ “Good morning, I’m A Martinez. If you’re a college student, reading
his death was an ~ that shook the world (Osama) your syllabus could be a good way to start off a semester. A University of
Tennessee professor recently taught his students that blowing it off could
cultural earthquake cost you. His name is Kenyon Wilson, and just to see who was reading
closely, he added an easter egg to the course outline. It said, “Free to
a massive ~ split the country wide open (US / 1960s) the first who claims” with a locker number and combination. In it, a fifty
dollar bill, no strings attached, but of course... nobody claimed it. It’s
political earthquake Morning Edition.” (“Tennessee professor hid a cash prize on campus.
I think it's going to be a ~ (elections) The clue was in the syllabus,” NPR, Morning Edition, December 20,
2021.)
‘political earthquake’ ♦ “In Detroit you have WONDR and MOTWN, above St. Louis there are
~ in Ireland as nationalists win (results are a seismic change) waypoints for ANNII and LENXX.” (Steve Trimble of Aviation Week,
talking about the names of aviation waypoints. From “Unusual Names Of
♦ People speak of social ferment in countries with a huge base of young
Waypoints Used For Airplanes’ Navigation,” NPR, All Things Considered,
people as "youthquakes."
May 26, 2020.)
♦ “My question was surely just a spark but the response was an
♦ “Navigation waypoints on this highway in the sky will honor Helge,
earthquake.” (The remarkable Italian journalist Riccardo Ehrman, who
Mylius, Uroa, Per, Frithjof and Lasse (six of Amundsen's Greenland
will always be associated with the fall of the Berlin Wall.)
dogs) and Jimmy Pigg, Snippets, Bones, Jehu, and Nobby (five of Scott's
♦ “A sense of insecurity, as during an earthquake, pervaded the minds of Manchurian and Siberian ponies.) ("Polar Sidekicks Earn a Place on the
men.” (Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.) Map" by John Noble Wilford, The New York Times, September 30,
2010.)
♦ “The sensation produced by an earthquake is never to be forgotten.
We feel ourselves in the grasp of a power to which the wildest fury of the ♦ “James enjoyed hiding references to heroin use in his lyrics, he once
winds and waves are as nothing; yet the effect is more a thrill of awe told one of his dope dealers...” (James Taylor. From Girls Like Us by
than the terror which the mere boisterous war of the elements produces. Sheila Weller.)
There is a mystery and an uncertainty as to the amount of danger we
♦ “Occasionally one could test a plagiarist. I had to invent a tree, with
incur, which gives greater play to the imagination, and to the influences
name to match, for a man who at that time was rather riding in my
of hope and fear. These remarks apply only to a moderate earth-quake.
pocket. In about eighteen months—the time it takes for a ‘test’ diamond
A severe one is the most destructive and the most horrible catastrophe
thrown over wires into a field of ‘blue’ rock to turn up on the Kimberley
to which human beings can be exposed.” (The Malay Archipelago by
sorting-tables—my tree appeared in his ‘nature-studies’—name as spelt
Alfred Russel Wallace.)
by me and virtues attributed. Since in our trade we be all felons, more or
less, I repented when I had caught him, but not too much.” (Something of
equilibrium & stability: earthquake / ground, terrain & land Myself by Rudyard Kipling.)
amount & effect / disruption / effect / feeling, emotion &
♦ “The whores will be busy.” (The first letter of each line of Oliver St.
effect: earthquake / equilibrium & stability / ground, terrain John Gogarty’s patriotic poem, “Ode of Welcome,” to the Irish soldiers
& land returning home from the Boer War.)
earthshaking (adjective) searching & discovery: hunting
concealment & lack of concealment: hunting
earthshaking experiment
the ~ has rocked the scientific community easy (sex)
earth-shaking transformation easy
China’s economy has experienced ~s in recent decades she’s ~
amount & effect / equilibrium & stability / extent & scope: ♦ Mac: What is easy? / Valerie: This is easy. (Silly dialogue from the film
Earth Girls Are Easy with Geena Davis.)
earthquake / ground, terrain & land
♦ “I was a bit of a slapper at Uni.” (A UK woman.)
earworm (noun) sex: euphemism
earworm easygoing (adjective)
this song has always been an ~ (“Red Beans and Rice”)
attachment: animal / ear
easy-going attitude
Atlanta's ~ toward skin and vice
Easter egg
easygoing personality
Easter eggs in music video he has one of those ~s
Taylor Swift reveals secret ~ easygoing country boy
easter eggs and jokes an ~ from Kentucky
there’re ~ throughout (The Every / Dave Eggers) good-natured and easygoing
secret Easter eggs elephants are ~ (according to keeper at zoo)
Taylor Swift reveals ~ in music video ♦ “No camel route is long with good company.” (A Turkish proverb.)

full of easter eggs character & personality: journeys & trips

Taylor Swift’s “The Man” music video is chock ~ eat (eat one’s words, etc.)
pregnant with Easter eggs
it’s ~ (the book D C-T! by Avillez and Young) eat those words

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 I'll make you ~ (competition) eat you alive
that darkness will ~ (journalist investigates sex crimes)
eat your words it’s there to ~, no pity (Nazare / big-wave surfing)
so called experts and pundits, ~ (Usyk beats Joshua)
♦ "If it means swallowing some humble pie, and it means eating some of eating my joy
your words, I can't think of a more excellent diet." (Prime Minister David the “Sunday scaries” are ~ (anxiety about work week)
Cameron, on his coalition government formed with the Liberal
Democrats.) eaten your soul
♦ “In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must and then you are lost, he has ~ (accommodating a boss)
confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” (Winston Churchill
about his change in attitude towards Nehru, to one of complete affliction / destruction / feeling, emotion & effect: animal /
approval.)
food & drink / predation / verb
speech: consumption
eat (endure)
eat (destroy)
eat only sorrow and misery
ate away at me I ~ (a Kurdish expression)
it ~ (an unpleasant truth)
my anxiety ~, like ants consuming their prey, bit by bit eaten some heavy shots
Khan has already ~ (Khan vs. Brook / boxing)
ate up entire neighborhoods
rivers ~ (floods) eating them
Lewis is throwing right hands, and Tyson is ~
eat their own ♦ “When my Dad decided the whole fatherhood thing was a buzzkill for
“SWOs ~” is a common Navy refrain (jealousy) his creativity, we had to take the shit sandwich we’d been served and
liberals ~ over the most minor slights make it edible. So I cooked...” (The film Words On Bathroom Walls.)
♦ “Just when you think you’ve got your ration of shit-happens someone
eating away the banks heaps on another helping.”
the current is ~ of the river ♦ “Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew
barbed wire in Flanders?” (Winston Churchill, in a letter of advice to
eating away at your mental health Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. The alternative turned out to be
if social media is ~, please stop (advice to athletes) Gallipoli.)
♦ James Mossman: I’m told that Tolstoy once said late in his life that life
eat away at you was a tough [?] of which one was obliged to eat slowly. Would you agree
secrets ~ with him? / Vladimir Nabokov (laughing delightedly): “I’ve never heard
that story, it’s a very funny one. The old boy was sometimes rather [a
eats away at me word that sounds like degustation]. No, my own life is fresh bread with
country butter and alpine honey.” (Vladimir Nabokov, BBC Author
that I will never face him in court ~ (sex abuse) Archive Collection, “James Mossman talks to Russian writer Vladimir
Nabokov in this 1970 interview.”)
eaten away at me
it would have ~ (not confronting his brother) consumption: food & drink / verb

eat away at America's sense of security eat (eat and breathe, etc.)
the sniper attacks ~ (D.C. area)
eat and breathe
eat through the (plastic) sheeting these guys ~ cycling (Giro d’Italia)
the chlorine will ~ ♦ “Larry slept it, ate it, drink it, eat it, it was all basketball for him.” (An
admiring comment about the great Larry “The Hick from French Lick”
eat into the flesh Bird, about his work ethic.)
necrotic ulcers are deep, open wounds that ~
absorption & immersion / commitment & determination /
eat up your mind consumption / enthusiasm: breathing / food & drink / verb
meth will ~ (methamphetamine addiction)
eat (eat and sleep, etc.)
eat you up
playing such a demanding role could ~ (Tina Turner) eating and sleeping
he has been ~ boxing, work, work, work (training)
eat him up
this will ~ bad (boxing champ loses in shock defeat) absorption & immersion / commitment & determination /
consumption / enthusiasm: food & drink / sleep / verb
eating him up
he kept quiet, but it was ~ (sexually assaulted) eaten alive, etc.
eat me up eaten up inside
I knew the shame would ~ otherwise (without confessing) whenever I thought about it, I found myself in a rage, ~

eating me up eaten alive by debt

it was ~ (reveals hidden past to family, world) I was ~

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get eaten alive his racing career is ~
don't ~ by debt (an advertisement)
decline: sea / tide
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / food & drink / predation
ebb (movement)
destruction: animal / food & drink / predation
Eaton (Eaton of Africa, etc.) ebb and flow of passengers
the ~ through the car doors and turnstiles (D.C. metro)
“Eaton of Africa”
movement: sea / tide
the so-called ~ (Kamuzu Academy in Malawi)
achievement, recognition & praise / military: epithet
ebb (development)
eat up (verb) ebb and flow of the war
the ~ (Angola)
ate it up
development: sea / tide
the crowd ~ (a campaign speech well received)
eat this stuff up
ecclesiastical (adjective)
people who watch the History Channel and ~ (UFOs) ecclesiastical stature
eating up (so much) bandwidth the “Twining memo” gained ~ among ufologists
the number of attacks is ~ that… sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
ate up comic books echo (verb / effect)
I ~ as a kid
echo and echo and echo
ate up every line war and trauma can just ~ (lack of closure)
the crowd ~ (election rally)
echoes (now) through every talk show
eating up the mist the bitter debate that ~ and coffee shop
the sun was ~ (Lord Jim)
repetition: sound / verb
eat the sun
plants essentially ~ (photosynthesis) echo (noun / effect)
ate up its own weight echo of this vote
the artillery ~ in shell in 3 or 4 minutes (Boer War) the ~ will be loud and long (anti-Hispanic vote)
ate up $5 billion misled by the echoes
the program ~ we’re ~ (of history)
consumption: food & drink / verb effect: sound
ebb (decline) echo (repeat)
ebbed away echo what
for at least 9 days they lay in their tent, as their lives ~ first, let me ~ the President said (speeches)
ebb and flow echoed Templeton
gang killings ~ but never stop (Los Angeles) the State's Attorney Joe Hettel ~... (opinion)
ebbs and flows echoes allegations
the number of cases ~ (West Nile virus in US) the report ~ that the company…
fighting ebbed echoed the (the teacher's) statement
the ~ Tuesday (Ubaydi) many school employees ~ that...
decline: sea / tide / verb echoes the style
the painting closely ~ of his friend Henri Matisse
ebb (at a low ebb)
repetition: sound / verb
at a low ebb transmission: sound / verb
the militant's fortunes in Iraq are ~
echo (in an echo)
decline: sea / tide
ebb (on the ebb) in an echo of (the president's) position
~, Michael Chukwu told BBC that....
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echo chamber attention, scrutiny & promotion / decline / primacy,
currency, decline & obsolescence / superiority & inferiority:
echo chamber astronomy / light & dark / moon / shadow / sun / verb
it’s an ~where lost souls talk up and amp up one another
eclipse (noun)
echo chamber of social media
in the fact-challenged ~, beliefs and biases are confirmed eclipse of Cantonese
older people affected by the ~ in China and the world
media echo chamber
their views are amplified by the ~ (stock analysts, etc.) beginning of his eclipse
it was the ~ (Napoleon)
online political echo chambers
~ have exacerbated America’s divisions driven the German shepherd into eclipse
overbreeding has ~ (the dog breed)
social media echo chamber
another example of the ~ that amplifies all offence gone into total eclipse
for decades before his death he had ~ (Herman Melville)
pushes people (deeper) into their own echo chambers
the amount of outrage on social media ~ attention, scrutiny & promotion / decline / primacy,
currency, decline & obsolescence / superiority & inferiority:
leapt from echo chambers (of social media) to headlines astronomy / light & dark / moon / shadow / sun
the movement ~ in the news (a conspiracy theory)
ecosystem (noun)
repetition / transmission: sound
echoed ecosystem of corruption
he exposed an ~ at the bank
echoed by NASA ecosystem of (extremist) groups
Boeing's conclusion was ~ in its mission reports
the ~ in the region (Afghanistan, etc.)
echoed by (many) Central Asians ecosystem of hate
her view is ~
far-right parties fan an ~ (Australia)
echoed by (many) Americans ecosystem of people
that sense of patriotic pride is ~
there is an ~ who serve professional athletes
echoed by others ecosystem of support
such criticisms have been ~ who...
designers rely on a complex ~ (garment district)
echoed by (numerous) others
ecosystem of entrepreneurs, engineers, investors
comments ~... (protestors)
the ~ and other players is growing (NYC tech scene)
echoed in academic circles
business ecosystem
you raise a good point that has been ~
smart executives cannot control but can influence the ~
view is echoed
disinformation ecosystem
his ~ by many Central Asians
Facebook banned a significant chunk of the ~
repetition / transmission: sound
Hollywood ecosystem
eclipse (verb) major change within the ~ was on the horizon (2001)

eclipsed fishing as (the state's major) revenue source Internet ecosystem

mining long ago ~ (Nauru) this regulation will do damage to the ~

eclipse electric tanning beds innovation ecosystem

some predict sunless tanning booths could ~ many factors created the ~ to nurture the Internet
talent acquisition and furthering the ~ (cryptocurrency)
eclipsing the feudal landowners
the middle class is finally ~ locker-room ecosystem
how a player fits into a delicate ~ (NFL / personal conflicts)
eclipses (all) others
in Havana, one feature ~ of the city (the Malecon) media ecosystem
a conservative ~ helps amplify those ideas (alt-right)
eclipse all other European palaces
the Czar wanted to ~ (Peterhoff / Peter the Great) Y.A. ecosystem
some readers don’t care about the politics of the ~ (books)
eclipsed that of 1962
the 1970 quake ~ (Peru) closed ecosystem

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 can the iPhone thrive in Apple's ~ edge (on the edge of a cliff, etc.)
self-correcting ecosystem on the edge of (electoral) abyss
the Internet is a ~ (controversy)
his campaign teetered ~, but it is scrambling back
commercial ecosystem on the edge of the cliff
the garment district is a ~
we’re ~, we don’t have much time to back away (diplomacy)
financial ecosystem on the edge of collapse
he benefited from the burgeoning ~ (NYC)
the air travel network teeters ~ (Unfriendly Skies)
fragile and interconnected ecosystem on the edge of extinction
this ~ (garment district)
they're ~ (orangutans)
global social-media ecosystem on the edge of a (nervous) breakdown
the alt-right has turbocharged this ~ of hatred
I'm ~
fit into the ecosystem lived on the edge
help me understand how he ~ of protestors in Portland
he ~ (Timothy Treadwell)
♦ “Well, you know, this is so fascinating, first of all, the fact that you use
that term, “Batchelor Nation.” So what I take from that is it isn’t just a teeters on the edge
show anymore, it’s like a whole, what? ecosystem?” Who’s in Batchelor
Nation, is it like everybody who watches the show, who was a part of it,
the air travel network ~ of collapse
what does that mean?” (Michele Martin wants to know. From “Racism ♦ On the edge for you is the middle of the road for me." (Bumper sticker
Controversy Rocks ‘Bachelor’ Nation, NPR, All Things Considered, Feb on snowboarder's car.)
20, 2021.)
danger / fate, fortune & chance / proximity: ground, terrain
area / biodiversity / environment: ground, terrain & land & land / mountains & hills
Eden edge (at the edge)
leads me through Eden at the (extreme) edge of complexity
Rob ~ (Dales Gorge in Western Australia) this is ~ (a brain operation)
biodiversity: Bible / place / religion
at the edge of starvation
edge (over the edge) meager harvests leave millions ~ (Africa)

over the edge proximity: blade / knife

in my opinion, this is ~ (a controversial song) edge (lose one’s edge)
behavior: boundary / ground, terrain & land / line /
losing his edge
mountains & hills some observers think he may be ~ (chess grandmaster)
edge (push something over the edge) ability & lack of ability / flaws & lack of flaws: blade / knife
pushed some farmers over the edge edge (rough edges, etc.)
drought has ~
smooth (capitalism’s) rough edges
push them over the edge her policies aim to ~ (a progressive)
just a tiny temperature rise can ~ (coral bleaching)
flaws & lack of flaws: hardness & softness / manufacturing
pushed the system over the edge
the hiring freeze has ~ (corrections) edge (edge cases, etc.)
destruction: ground, boundary / line / mountains & hills / edge cases
terrain & land ~ in grammar and syntax
edge (on edge) edge habitats
~ hover between domesticated and wild (zoonotic diseases)
on edge
the city is ~ (a series of murders) edge and corner
everybody was ~ (serial bomber on the loose) it doesn’t take long to find ~ cases (grammar rules)

already on edge division & connection: boundary / line

the news terrified women ~ (murders of lesbians) edict (noun)
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability
edict from on high
an ~ banned any mention of sex (Woman’s Weekly)

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his edicts creation & transformation: writing & spelling
~ and his “my way or the highway” (recall election)
editing (noun)
oppression: government / royalty
genome editing
edifice (noun) the technology of ~ (Crispr-Cas9)
edifice of (city and state) finance creation & transformation: writing & spelling
much of the ~ is jury-rigged
effervescent (personality)
edifice of the state
the ~ is in danger of crumbling effervescent personality
her ~ has endeared her to fans (Emma Raducanu)
"climate science" edifice
character & personality: bubble / water
the whole ~ is exposed and will collapse (opinion)
narrative’s edifice egg (put all one’s eggs in a basket,
the intelligent building of the ~ (book review) etc.)
imperial edifice put a lot of eggs in this basket
the bureaucracy is an ~ built on feudal foundations the president has ~ (support of a country)
once-impregnable edifice put all your eggs just in the DNA basket
the ~ of the regime's authority is starting to crumble you have to be careful not to ~ (murder investigation)
meticulously built edifice allegiance, support & betrayal: food & drink
science is a ~ commitment & determination: food & drink
cracks in the edifice egg (golden egg)
early ~ appeared in the 1990s (economy)
laid the golden egg
edifice could collapse they will kill the golden goose that ~ (ESL soccer)
and so the whole ~ (economy)
♦ “Perhaps, if he will husband his resources, and not kill, with overwork,
edifice would crumble the mental goose that has given us these golden eggs, he may one day
rank among the brightest of our wits.” (A favorable review of Mark
the ~ if… Twain’s first book, The Jumping Frog and Other Stories.)

bring down the (whole) edifice cost & benefit: allusion / animal / bird
any crack in the system would ~ (dictatorship) worth & lack of worth: allusion / animal / bird
tear down the edifice eggshell (noun)
the right has used religion to ~ and secular morality
eggshell of trust
chipping away at the edifice it shatters the ~ (Pilots Union vs. Boeing)
lawyers are ~ of person responsibility (neuroscience)
strength & weakness: animal / bird / materials &
bases: house substances
Edison (Edison of the Internet, etc.) eggshell (walking on eggshells)
Edison of the Internet walking on eggshells
Bill Joy is sometimes called the ~ for over 10 years, I spent every day ~ (domestic abuse)
creation & transformation: epithet I was ~ (interviewing Malala Yousafzai)

edit (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: animal / bird / materials &
substances
edit DNA
they developed the tools to ~
eight ball (behind the eight ball, etc.)
edit any genome way behind the eight ball
we can ~ (Crispr-Cas9) we are ~ (Patty Murray about pandemic response)

creation & transformation: verb / writing & spelling difficulty, easiness & effort: sports & games

edited (genes, etc.) Einstein (intelligence)

gene-edited Einstein
he created the world’s first ~ human babies you don’t need to be ~ to know what that means (snark)

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footballing Einstein ♦ Elbow Pass contains Elbow Lake, which is the origin for the Elbow
River, which flows to Calgary where it merges with the Bow River.
he has never been considered a ~ (a player-coach) (Alberta, Canada.)
knowledge & intelligence: allusion proper name: arm / shape
eject (verb) geography: arm / proper name / shape
elbow (the Elbow of the Andes, etc.)
eject the Iraqis out of Kuwait
our intention was to purely ~ and destroy... (Gulf War) “Elbow of the Andes”
dismissal, removal & resignation: throwing, putting & Amboro National Park, at the ~ (Bolivia)
planting / verb epithet: arm
elastic (adjective) shape: epithet
elbow (shape)
elastic definition
this ~ (of harassment) elbows
~ can change the direction of piping
elastic term
the word is an ~ (for nomads and pastoralists) shape: arm / direction
constraint & lack of constraint: materials & substances “El Chapo” (Asia’s El Chapo, etc.)
elbow (force) ‘Asia’s El Chapo’
~ is set to be extradited to Australia (Tse Chi Lop)
elbowed him out
♦ The drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is currently jailed at ADX
the company ~ Florence, “the Alcatraz of the Rockies.” El Chapo means “shorty.”
elbowed him aside comparison & contrast: epithet
she ~ (politics)
El Dorado
elbowed aside its competitors
the company has ~ skier’s eldorado
the sastrugi ceased, it was a smooth sea of snow, a ~
elbowed her way into the (heavily male) club
she ~ (a profession) new El Dorados
the traffickers that service them flock to the ~ (oil and gas
elbowed into the lineup workers)
women have ~ on the North Shore (surfing)
African El Dorado
force: arm / verb Timbuktu became this idea of an ~ (age of exploration)
elbow (sharp elbows, etc.) dream of El Dorado
sharp elbows for President Trump what local newspapers call "the ~" (jobs in Europe)
she had some ~ (political speech) ♦ “I suppose it is not very charitable of me, but I must say that to this day
I feel a malicious pleasure at the many disappointments of those
sharp-elbowed intervention pertinacious searchers for El Dorado who climbed mountains, pushed
through forests, swam rivers, floundered in bogs, without giving a single
the book was a ~ in the debate between historians... thought to the science of geography. / Not for them the serene joys of
scientific research, but infinite toil, in hunger, thirst, sickness, battle; with
sharp elbows and a lot of self-regard broken heads, unseemly squabbles, and empty pockets in the end. I
Gorsuch has somewhat ~ (the Supreme Court judge) cannot help thinking it served them right. It is an ugly tale...”
(“Geography and Some Explorers” by Joseph Conrad.)
feeling, emotion & effect / character & personality: arm / ♦ “Gaily bedight, / A gallant knight, / In sunshine and in shadow, / Had
gesture / sensation journeyed long, / Singing a song, / In search of Eldorado.” (“Eldorado” by
Edgar Allan Poe.)
elbow (Elbow Lake, etc.) fantasy & reality: allusion / history
Elbow Lake wants, needs, hopes & goals: allusion / history
we visited ~ (Becker County) searching & discovery: allusion / history

Elbow Cay
electric (feeling)
we sailed to ~ (Bahamas) electric
Elbow Point at the opening of the trial, the atmosphere was ~
~ is a point in Quezon, Philippines electric performance
Devil’s Elbow despite another ~ from Mia Hamm... (soccer)
the ~ trail parallels the river (Panthertown, NC) electric quarterbacks

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 the game showcased a pair of ~ (NFL) elegiac (adjective)
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity
hauntingly elegiac
electricity (feeling) the chorus and the chords that made the song so ~
electricity is comparison & contrast: affix
but the real ~ two iconic actresses on the same stage elegy (noun)
‘electricity’ between two people
the ~, that special spark (lovers)
elegy for those bygone days
the book is an ~
electricity in the room ♦ “Some day, they’re gonna write a blues for fighters. It’ll just be for slow
tears, shouting, there was real ~ (politics) guitar, soft trumpet and a bell.” (Sonny Liston. His biography, published
in 1963, was titled The Champ Nobody Wanted.)
♦ “No current passes between this Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.” (An
unfavorable review of Joel Coen’s film.) speech: death & life
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity elephant (elephant in the room, etc.)
electrified
elephant in the pew
electrified by the rise pornography is the ~ (Christians addicted to porn)
they were ~ of Trump
elephant in the room
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity one ~ no one wants to discuss is…
this is the ~ that nobody is talking about
electrify (verb) the condition of these banks has been the ~ (future of EU)
that really is the ~ here... (context to political story)
electrified (many) people there is always that ~, when you are different it is obvious
she ~ (a politician at a convention)
elephant in the room for all those meetings
electrified the region the ~ was Russia (India-U.S.)
Tunisia's uprising ~ (2011)
4ft 8in, 105lb elephant in the room
electrified the movie world there’s no point in talking around the ~ (Simone Biles /
he ~ with the Sixth Sense (movie director) Olympics)
♦ “I wanted to be at my parents’ house when the electricity came. It was
in 1940. We’d all go around flipping the switch, to make sure it hadn’t giant elephant (here) in this room
come on yet. When they finally came on the lights just barely glowed. I is there not just a ~, something we need to discuss...
remember my mother smiling. When they came on full, tears started to
run down her cheeks.” (A farm family that got electricity from the Rural
Electrification Administration.)
address the elephant in the room
let’s ~ (sexual misconduct)
♦ "I'll never forget how scared I was when Pa took me to the first
[electrified and blinking] Christmas tree there in our little church. That but before we do this, we need to ~ (murder case)
tree just jumped at me as I went in, it was so bright and wonderful; the they did not ~, the filibuster... (politics)
most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. When my name was
called to come up for my gift it about scared me to death. Instead of see the elephant
going on up like the others had, I just clung to Pa's legs and wouldn't nobody wants to ~
budge. Pa had to go up with me, holding on to my hand." (Alma Covel, a
textile worker, interviewed in the 1930s about her childhood. From "How
the Christmas Tree Got Its Lights," by Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic, Dec.
talk about the elephant in the room
24, 2010.) are we ever going to ~
♦ “Well, I mean, the elephant in the room as well, also, is that, although...
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / verb (An overstimulated BBC pundit makes an elephant disappear.)
electrifying presence & absence / size: animal
electrifying elevate (verb)
flamenco is ~
elevate rap from a fad to an art form
electrifying in victory he helped ~ (Tupac Shakur)
he was ~ (sports)
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height / verb
electrifying best
he was at his ~ (an athlete) elevated (level)
electrifying and polarizing elevated level
he has been both ~ (a union leader) ~s of testosterone (sports)
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity elevated blood pressure
a pregnant patient with abnormally ~

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severe, high, elevated, guarded, low > attenuation: health & medicine
(terror alert system) force / strength & weakness: health & medicine
increase & decrease: direction / height embark (embark on something)
elevation (noun) embark on new adventures
it’s time for me to ~ (she quits NPR)
his elevation
a press release announced ~ (publishing company) embarks on a new chapter
he ~ in life (David Greene leaves NPR)
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height
embarked on a (bold) course
elf (Elves Chamber, etc.) he ~ intended to lead Pakistan… (Musharraf)
Elves Chamber embarks on a (120-mile) journey
the ~ contains calcite formations (Marvel Cave) in the winter the pronghorn antelope herd ~
♦ The curupira is a mischievous red-haired elf who has feet that face
backwards and takes delight in making tracks that lead travelers astray. embarked on a big night out
(The Amazon.) they ~ (social)
♦ "My philosophy is, you don't have to see everything you believe in
because many of your greatest experiences happen with closed eyes." embarked on a path
(A person from Iceland, about the existence of elves.) China ~ of reform (economy)
♦ Residents of Hafnarfjordur sometimes dress up as elves. (Iceland.)
embarked on his (morning) run
proper name: creature he ~
Ellis Island (Ellis Island of the West, etc.) embarked on a (hacking) spree
he ~
Ellis Island of the black migration
the Illinois Central station, the ~ to Chicago embark on another
it is better to finish one thing before you ~
Ellis Island of the Southwest
♦ see also set out (and set off)
El Paso is often referred to as the ~
♦ “The inscrutable river coursed northward into the jungle, sixty-five feet
Ellis Island of the West wide, swift, deep, black, and silent. Goodbyes were exchanged.
Roosevelt, Cherrie, and Dr. Cajazeira took their places in their canoe...
Angel Island was nicknamed the ~ (San Francisco Bay) (Setting off on the Duvida River in Brazil. From Colonel Roosevelt by
Edmund Morris.)
comparison & contrast / migration: epithet
♦ “Powell’s men slid their four boats into the Green River on Monday,
Elon Musk (epithet) May 24, 1869... Powell’s men...would not emerge from their own
unprecedented epic for ninety-eight days of nearly perpetual terror,
hunger, cold, and wonder...” (The Men Who United The States by Simon
Elon Musk, shooting-for-the-heavens Winchester.)
this is a wholly ~ type thing (Andrei Doroshin)
♦ “I received my instructions in the middle of March 1906, and on 17 May
we left... It was a brilliant sunny day with a cloudless sky, although the air
creation & transformation: epithet
was heavy with moisture. Everybody was in the best of humour.” (Dersu
elusive (adjective) Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.)
♦ “Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.” (A Japanese saying.)
elusive starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
the truth is ~ (crime)
/ verb
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
subterfuge: hunting
embargo (noun)
Elvis (Afghanistan’s Elvis, etc.) “embargo”
the photo had an ~ or scheduled release time (publishing)
Afghanistan’s Elvis
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: government
they called him ~, he sang from the heart (Ahmed Zahir)
achievement, recognition & praise: epithet embattled
emasculated (adjective) embattled CEO
the company has replaced its ~
got emasculated by Tom Brady
and once Bruce Arians ~, completely undercut... embattled (accounting) industry
the ~ (fraud)
♦ Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, in her press release announcing
that she would not run for reelection as mayor, decried the possibility of
Atlanta officials being “castrated on the evening news.”
embattled singer
the ~ was hounded by reporters (sex abuse)
♦ “I circumvent the system. I circumcise the system.” (The character
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embed (verb) embrace reform
he urged Wall Street to ~ (Obama)
embed DEI (more) intentionally
~ in TESOL activities (diversity, equity, and inclusion) embrace risk
there is a subset of us who ~ (aviators / astronauts)
attachment / identity & nature / impression / relationship:
ground, terrain & land / verb embracing the role
Alabama is ~ of the favorite (football)
embedded he ~ of provocateur (a writer)

embedded in football embracing (palliative care) specialists

violence is ~ more doctors are ~ as partners

embedded into (Colombian) culture embraced his (Internet) strategy

bullfights are ~ still, investors have not ~

embedded reporter embrace (new) technology

he served as an ~ in Afghanistan schools are among the first to ~ (surveillance)

attachment / identity & nature / impression / relationship: embrace (an uncomfortable) truth
ground, terrain & land we must ~ (US corrections)

emblem (emblem of freedom, etc.) embraces change and innovation

he ~ (a high-school principal)
emblem of freedom
the bushranger became the ~ in a chained society (Oz) embraces violence and sexuality
the show ~ (Harley Quinn)
representation: sign, signal, symbol
embraced the blog world
emblematic (adjective) some restaurants have ~ (instant marketing)
emblematic of the city embrace the gift of science
my style was very ~ (Ray Mancini / Youngstown) we ~, which is a gift from God (Jews / reproduction)
representation: sign, signal, symbol embrace nor reject
he will neither ~ another quest for the presidency (Gore)
embrace (verb)
reluctance to embrace
embraced the cause America's ~ the metric system
he ~ (reparations for US slavery)
came to embrace
embrace democracy I ~ multiple identities (a man from Lebanon)
if Palestinians ~, confront corruption and reject terror
♦ “No, we weren’t [expecting his storm]. But he said [pointing her drink at
her husband], you know what, let’s just embrace it, and, um, everything
embrace the future will be fine.” (A family from Tennessee, visiting New Orleans during
a split over whether to preserve the past or ~ (Swazis) tropical storm Claudette. The storm caused flooding and spawned
we must ~ (trade and business issue) several tornados. In Alabama, a fiery 18-vehicle crash killed 10 people,
one adult and nine children.)
embraced globalization ♦ Step in / lean in and embrace it...
two nations that have ~ (Chile, Mexico)
acceptance & rejection / allegiance, support & betrayal /
embraced its image attachment / attraction & repulsion / commitment &
the company has ~ (Starbucks) determination / division & connection / welcome: arm /
embrace Soviet imports gesture / verb
the young began to ~, including vodka (Inuit) embraced
embraced Islam
I recently ~ and this is my first Hajj
embraced by Hollywood
he has been ~ (a writer)
embraced it
every supervisor has ~ or paid lip service to it (change)
embraced by the masses
that kind of message isn't going to be ~
embraced (for itself) the legacy
Gazprom has ~ of Peter the Great (skyscraper)
embraced by physicians
until the 1960s, that approach was ~
embracing who
he is ~ he is and taking control of his life
embraced by (some) teenagers
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embraced by thrill seekers and martial-arts adepts emerges early
parkour has been ~ empathy, the key emotion, ~
acceptance & rejection / allegiance, support & betrayal / patterns emerge
attachment / attraction & repulsion / division & ~ (VICAP cold-cases investigations)
connection: arm
picture emerged
embroider (verb) a different ~ of the risks...

embroiders the truth portrait emerges

he sometimes ~ (a politician) a Jekyll and Hyde ~ of SEAL accused of murder

creation & transformation: cloth / verb appearance & disappearance: plant / verb / water

embryo (noun) emerging (adjective)

embryo settlements emerging artists
England’s ~ in North America (1600s) he had been in Singapore, to meet ~ (a curator)

embryo town Emerging Journalist

in a sketch, one sees the ~ of Hobart (1805) he was named “~ of the Year” (by a national association)

growth & development: death & life / biology / birth emerging technology
she is an expert in human behavior and ~
embryonic (adjective)
emerging writers
embryonic European Common Market the magazine’s greatest achievement was publishing ~
he refused to join the ~ (Churchill)
appearance & disappearance: plant / water
embryonic stage
I’m still a novice, in the ~ of my career (a boxer)
emperor (Exmoor Emperor, etc.)
growth & development: death & life / biology / birth Exmoor Emperor
the giant red stag known as the ~
emerge (verb)
proper name: royalty
emerging
a new world is ~ (nationalism)
emperor (power)
emerged network and its emperor
a four-way race has ~ (election) the social ~, Mark Zuckerberg

emerged that power: history / person / government

it ~ she had… empire (enterprise)
emerged from the ashes empire in the Caribbean
the League ~ of World War I he built a drug-trafficking ~
emerge from the (revolutionary) cauldron empire of Facebook and Twitter and the social networks
many ~ to become conservatives the only empire of America is the ~
emerged from a turbulent childhood family's (business) empire
he ~ emotionally brittle his place in the ~
emerge from the cocoon banana empire
he began to ~ of sorrow, rage and despair that had enveloped the fourth biggest ~ in the world (Noboa / Ecuador)
him
business empire
emerge from his brother’s shadow his place in the family's ~
he was desperate to ~ (Mike Quarry)
cocaine empire
emerged as a (top talent) incubator he helped run a $1 billion ~ (Colombia)
the art gallery has ~ (Damascus)
construction empire
emerged as a pathology his late father's ~
Nazism ~ of an inflation-wracked country
department store empire
emerge in 2017 Marshall Field's ~
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nationwide (freight-hauling) empire empowerment (groups)
Johnnie B. Hunt, who built a ~
empowerment
gambling empire more ~, more representation (Beyond Inclusion)
police uncovered a ~ (video poker)
“economic empowerment”
publishing empire ~ has become the rallying cry
its vast ~
my own empowerment
drug-trafficking empire ~, not power, but empowerment as a woman (Lady Gaga)
he built a ~ in the Caribbean
anthem of (female and black) empowerment
freight-hauling empire the video is an ~ (Beyonce’s “Formation”)
Johnnie B. Hunt, who built a nationwide ~
flip victimhood into empowerment
criminal empire the art exhibit is designed to ~
he runs a ~ from his Italian restaurant in Queens
♦ “Empowerment” seems to mean anything from self-actualization, to
vast (publishing) empire “authority that is granted,” to actual power.
its ~ ♦ “I felt it was so important for someone like that to be given a voice and
then to be shown that she is actually a superheroine...” (Actor Michelle
$1 billion (cocaine) empire Yeoh about her character in Everything Everywhere All At Once. From
“Actor Michelle Yeoh wants to change the way we think of superheroes,”
he helped run a ~ (Colombia) NPR, Fresh Air, April 25, 2022.)

place in the (family's business) empire inclusion & exclusion: society

his ~
emptiness (depression)
built a (nationwide empire
Johnnie B. Hunt, who ~ (freight-hauling / trucks) emptiness
something in me broke and I felt nothing except ~
built a (drug-trafficking) empire
he ~ in the Caribbean feeling, emotion & effect: container / mental health

dismantled an empire empty (depression)

changes since Ferguson effectively ~ (Man U failures)
empty inside
power: history catching her killer won’t change anything, I’m just ~
empower (groups) feeling, emotion & effect: container / mental health

empower them to stand up for themselves empty (empty words, etc.)

she can show other girls and women how to ~
empty promise
celebrate, educate, and empower for laid-off workers, ~s of new jobs (US)
we ~ African American/Diverse people (arts & counseling) she got so many powerful people to believe in an ~

support, uplift, and empower empty threat

feel empowered, and ~ others as well (art) such talk no longer passes as an ~ (school massacres)
♦ “We empower those who act.” (An advertisement for CME showing empty words
women golfers.)
another meeting is over, and all that is left are ~ (U.N.)
inclusion & exclusion: society / verb
vague or empty (m)
empowering (groups) ~ threats are worse than useless (school discipline)

empowering about it speech / substance & lack of substance: air / atmosphere

there’s something really ~ (pose of “Fearless Girl” statue)
empty-handed
empowering to me
using my voice has been very ~ (an elite athlete) empty-handed
she departed ~
inclusive and empowering people leave the video store ~
make our language more ~ (no gender assumptions) Liverpool will finish this season ~ (Man City)

positive, safe and empowering attainment / possession: hand

our goal is to create a ~ space where... (Morphe cosmetics)
encore (noun)
inclusion & exclusion: society
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 what would she do as an ~ (fashion designer) amount: books & reading
encore career encyclopedia (knowledge)
older workers embark on ~s
many ~s build on work and life experiences encyclopedia of knowledge
he was remembered as the resident ~ (cooking school)
encore of a lifetime
he was hoping for an ~ (Magic Johnson / 1992 Olympics) encyclopedia of (cheating) tips
he is an ~
enjoying an encore
the U-2 spy plane is ~ veritable encyclopedia
he is a ~ of musical knowledge (Vic Galloway)
bring them back for an encore
we don't want to ~ (politicians) walking encyclopedia
♦ Nowadays, concertgoers may be offered a chance to choose the
he was a ~ of rhythms (a drummer)
encore by text message, using their cellphones. Not everyone thinks this he is a ~ on the history of rock and roll
is a good idea.
knowledge & intelligence: books & reading
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: theater
encyclopedic (adjective)
encounter (difficulties, etc.)
encyclopedic in breadth
encounter bumps the book is ~
many families ~ in the road to toilet training
encyclopedic knowledge
encounter the “honeymoon shocker” he had an ~ of theater songs (composer)
couples who ~ (a snoring spouse) she has an ~ of criminal law
he had an ~ of Asian culture (Lockwood Kipling)
fictive meeting & seeing: verb
encounter (kill) encyclopedic museum
~s have huge, permanent collections
catch (him) and encounter (him) comparison & contrast: affix
we will ~ (police) extent & scope / knowledge & intelligence: books & reading
♦ “We will catch the rapist and murderer, and encounter him.”
(“Hyderabad rape suspect found dead: Is it murder or suicide?” by Geeta end (go off the deep end)
Pandey, BBC News, Delhi, Sept 18, 2021. This refers to extrajudicial
murder by police who “encounter” a suspect.) go off the deep end
death & life / oppression: euphemism / verb she might ~ (sex)

encouraging (adjective) went off the deep end

she ~
certainly encouraging restraint & lack of restraint: verb / water
the data are ~
behavior: verb / water
fictive communication: speech
end (deep end)
encrustation (affliction)
deep end
encrustations of (unflattering and beatifying) hearsay she was thrown in the ~
trying to excavate Thoreau from beneath the ~
push us off the deep end
♦ see also barnacle
they ~ (a non-academic Norwegian boarding school)
affliction / attachment: animal / boat / burden / sea absorption & immersion / involvement: depth / water
encrusted end (no end in sight, etc.)
myth-encrusted end is in sight
Scott, the ~ Englishman (Robert Falcon Scott) luckily, the ~ (end to pandemic quarantine)
myth-encrusted version no end in sight
that ~ of history (that newspaper brought down Nixon) there is ~
attachment / configuration / cover: materials & substances
no end in sight for the (government) shutdown
encyclopedia (amount) there is ~

encyclopedia of sins future / time: distance / eye / journeys & trips

Europe has blamed the Jews for an ~ (Jeffrey Goldberg)

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reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, going, Iran is a factor in the ~ in Afghanistan (diplomacy)
continuing & ending: distance / eye / journeys & trips
starting, going, continuing & ending / strategy: chess
end (the end)
end run (noun)
the end of it
but that was not ~ (a religious affair) end round around the Vacancies Act
this seems to be an ~ (politics)
starting, going, continuing & ending: orientation
end run around the union
end (come to an end, etc.) union leaders have denounced the plan as an ~
came to an end end run around the public’s wishes
my career ~ for a while (drug problem) liberals are pursuing ~ (politics)
come to an end try an end run
it’s been a good run, but it’s ~ (Blog of the Nation) they plan to ~ to prove their theory (virology)
coming to an end avoidance & separation: football / movement / sports &
is the nightmare finally ~ (politics) games / walking, running & jumping
bring the drama to an end enemy (conflict)
~ (mine rescue)
enemy
curtailment / starting, going, continuing & ending: I felt like time was my ~ (child stranger abduction)
movement the Fitzgerald was now at war, the ~ the sea (sinking)
Democrats welcome change, not as an ~ but as an ally
ended (his life was ended, etc.) we must stand like in wartime, except now the ~ is a virus
ended nature is not an ~ to be conquered (Norwegian explorers)
he would have been somebody if his life wasn’t ~ uncertainty is the ~ (attempts to get hostage released)
♦ “He would have been somebody if his life wasn’t ended.” (The young enemies of action
man was murdered.)
politeness and diplomacy are often the ~
death & life: euphemism
enemy of business
endemic (adjective) instability and uncertainty are the ~

endemic in the NFL enemy of the good

race is ~ (lawsuit) don’t let the perfect be the ~

endemic in the start-up world enemy of warmth

NDAs are ~ (secrecy) sweating is the ~ (the Arctic)

endemic (drug) violence and corruption enemy number one

he condemned the country's ~ ~ is the sun (skin cancer)
♦ Commenting on a BBC article about spying pixels, “ubercurmudgeon” hidden enemy
wrote, “Interesting the use of the word ‘endemic’ in this article. There’s
still debate as to whether COVID can be eradicated. But apparently we landmines, the ~
are past the point where that might’ve been possible for these spying
pixels. Marketing people and their nefarious techniques are, it seems, sworn enemy
hardier than a virus.” Levi was a ~ of denial in all its forms (Primo Levi)
presence & absence: biology / ground, terrain & land dangerous enemy
sweating is a ~ (Arctic clothing)
endgame (noun)
formidable enemy
end game time is always the most ~ in an epidemic
what's the ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
mortal enemy
endgame unlawful command influence is the ~ of military justice
could he get to the Sudan in time to see the ~ (Mahdi)
old enemy
endgame to our involvement influenza is an ~, one that comes every year
an ~ in Afghanistan
shifty enemy
endgame (to our involvement) in Afghanistan we’re dealing with a really ~ (Omicron virus strain)
an ~
strongest enemy
uncertain endgame overconfidence was his ~ (Francois Botha vs. Tyson)

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invisible, horrible enemy engine of prosperity
defending our nation from this ~ (COVID-19) Harlem could be an ~
invisible sneaky enemy engine of (upward) mobility
it’s microscopic, fast and mysterious, an ~ (virus) education was the most reliable ~ (blacks)
♦ “As I always say, don’t let profound be the enemy of interesting.” /
“Hold on while I call the Nobel Prize Committee.” (The last panel of a engine for prosperity
great Non Sequitur cartoon by Wiley Miller, June 20, 2021.) the US economy is a fantastic ~
♦ "The enemy stands 602 feet tall and weighs 15 million tons." (Shasta
Dam versus the Winnemen Wintu group, which is opposed to making the
economic engine
dam higher.) biotechnology could be the state's new ~
♦ “It’s microscopic, fast and mysterious, an invisible sneaky enemy.
(Saudi journalist Maha Akeel, writing about COVID-19.)
economic and industrial engine
Lombardy is Italy’s ~
♦ "We are fighting malaria as we are fighting the Maoist rebels. The
mosquitoes are deadlier than the Maoists since we are more vulnerable driving force: engine
to their attacks. Mosquitoes are killing more security forces than the
rebels." (Akhileshwar Pandey, president of the Jharkhand police
association, on the deaths of more than 100 policemen and soldiers from
engineered
cerebral malaria. The police and paramilitary forces are stationed in
forest camps.) engineered by the ETA
♦ “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” the explosion was ~ (terrorism)
♦ “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” creation & transformation: infrastructure
♦ “An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.”
engineering (noun)
♦ “One hundred friends are too few; one enemy is too many.”

conflict: military / person social engineering

relationship: person Radio 2 became committed to ~ (BBC)
person: military creation & transformation: infrastructure
engine (engine room) engraved (impression)
engine room of growth for the industry engraved in my heart
streaming is the ~ (Spotify, etc. / music) your faces are ~
engine rooms of a government impression: mark / tools & technology
he takes us into the ~ under attack by its own leaders
enmeshed
in their ‘engine room’
they have race winners ~ (Team Ineos / Sky) enmeshed in corruption
he is ~
driving force: engine
involvement: movement / rope
engine (person) situation: rope
better engine enrich (verb)
he’s probably got a ~ because he’s a smaller frame (boxer)
enrich education
great engine different perspectives, stories, and experiences ~
he was quick, he’s got a ~, he could run all day
increase & decrease / worth & lack of worth: money / verb
ridiculous engine
Del Boy’s got this ~ now, he’s fitter, slimmer, smarter enshrine (verb)
♦ “He was quick, he’s got a great engine, he could run all day.” (The
young footballer Jamie Vardy.) enshrines (beach) access for all
♦ He had a non-stop motor, no-quit attitude, and willingness to... (A the act ~ (California)
football player.)
enshrine (very particular) ideologies
♦ “If Usyk keeps a high pace and makes Joshua miss with a lot of shots,
that will work to Usyk’s advantage as he has probably got a better
rankings ~ (of colleges, etc.)
engine.” (Former world champion George Groves, about Oleksandr Usyk
vs. Anthony Joshua.) enshrines free speech
the US ~ in its constitution
driving force: engine
reverence: religion / verb
engine (driving force) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion / verb
engine of growth enshrined
Punjab is the ~ for Pakistan
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 a common misperception is that this principle is ~ pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / rope
enshrined in the first amendment ensnarled (involvement)
the right to freedom of speech is ~ of the US constitution
ensnarled in the (developing racial) unrest
enshrined in law Lutheran authorities worried Graetz might become ~
the right to maternity leave is now ~ (Switzerland)
involvement / situation: rope
enshrined in textbooks
false claims have been ~ (medicine)
entangled (involvement)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion entangled in history
reverence: religion to live in Moscow is to be ~

ensnare (verb) entangled in the probe

another associate of the President has become ~
ensnared dozens of executives
the scandal has ~ entangled in the Syrian War
he became ~ (James Le Mesurier)
ensnared scores of investors
involvement / situation: movement / rope
his scam lasted for years and ~
ensnared them
enthralled
their own greed ~ enthralled by media coverage
involvement / situation: hunting / rope / verb the public was ~ (a murder case and trial)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / rope / verb feeling, emotion & effect: magic
ensnared enthralling (adjective)
ensnared in the downturn enthralling bout
Seattle has been ~ (economy) the ~ ended in a draw (boxing)
ensnared in the inquiry feeling, emotion & effect: magic
he has been ~ (politics)
entranced
ensnared in a (public-relations) nightmare
he wound up ~ entranced by one player
lots of people are ~ in particular (Zion Williamson)
ensnared in legal proceedings
he spent a huge amount of time ~ feeling, emotion & effect: magic

ensnared in the scandal entrenched

he was ~ (a lobbyist)
entrenched in Atlanta
ensnared in a love triangle Mexican drug traffickers are firmly ~
she was ~
entrenched in Uganda
ensnared by blood feuds anti-gay feeling is ~
thousands of innocents have been ~ (Albania)
entrenched on opposite sides
ensnared by a traffic jam Democrats and Republicans are ~ of the issue (abortion)
I was ~ on my way to work
entrenched attitudes
ensnared by the investigation ~ still make it difficult to report rape (Mexico)
he is the most prominent executive to be ~
entrenched bureaucracy
ensnared by a (bizarre online extortion) plot the VA is an ~
he was ~ (catfished)
entrenched insider
became ensnared he is a Washington outsider facing down ~s
he ~ in a tax inquiry
entrenched interests
got ensnared powerful ~ will thwart him
she ~ by fast food at the age of six (McDonald’s)
entrenched leader
found himself ensnared the protests have toppled ~s in Egypt and Tunisia
he has ~ in allegations of corruption
entrenched practice
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entrenched problems epic (noun)
the next police superintendent will have to take on ~
epic
culturally entrenched to a climber, "~" means "near total disaster"
child-rearing traditions are ~ (diapers, etc.)
epic battle
deeply entrenched their ~s for championship crowns (sports)
lighting fireworks to celebrate is a ~ custom (Peru) hooked makos diving into boats during ~s with anglers
firmly entrenched their ~ Saturday night (Micky Ward vs. Arturo Gatti)
Mexican drug traffickers are ~ in Atlanta epic bout
the videos appear to be ~ in the blogosphere wondering if an ~ was in store (boxing)
well entrenched epic breakout
Wal-Mart's reputation is ~ Jimmy Fastenrath was at the Marines' ~ from Chosin
even more entrenched (Korean War)
denial is becoming ~ (in politics) epic chronicle
become (deeply) entrenched Robert Caro's ~ of the life and times of Lyndon Johnson
conspiracy thinking has ~ in American society epic confrontation
protection & lack of protection / resistance, opposition & the expedition was not supposed to be an ~ with death
defeat / survival, persistence & endurance: fortification / Epic Conquest
ground, terrain & land / military "East of the Sun, the ~ and Tragic History of Siberia"
entwined epic day
this was an ~ (satisfied motorcyclist)
became entwined tales of an ~ at Waimea Bay (surfing)
the moment when the lives of two strangers ~ (photo)
epic fail
involvement: cloth / rope
her ~ is still a raw nerve among Democrats (Hillary)
attachment / division & connection: cloth / rope
relationship: cloth / rope epic failure
envelope (push the envelope) he stands at the precipice of ~ (politician)
epic game
push the envelope its ~ against the Soviets (hockey)
trendsetters ~ (eco-friendly motels)
Syracuse won an ~ (6 overtimes)
entertainment continues to ~ (sex and kids)
epic party
pushed the envelope remembering swells and ~s (surfing milieu)
the company has always ~ (oil drilling)
epic proportions
pushing the envelope it was a catastrophe of ~ (1928 St. Francis Dam fail)
he was always ~, looking for a good time
epic rivalry
pushing the envelope Muhammad Ali's ~ with Joe Frazier (boxers)
he was always ~, looking for a good time
epic scale
pushes the envelope on safety the ~, and epic inefficiency, of its coal economy
the race often ~ (Giro d'Italia death in 2011)
both of them liked to do things on an ~ (government)
push the envelope on what epic (playoff) series
they are trying to ~ is possible… (Google)
O'Neal wouldn't allow this ~ to end early (NBA)
♦ This expression seems to have originated with test pilots and flying.
epic terms
restraint & lack of restraint: allusion / plane / verb Mendes saw the material in larger, ~ (comic books)
constraint & lack of constraint: allusion / plane / verb
epic (surf) wave
envision (envision the future, etc.) an ~ had formed over Brookmont Dam (kayaking)
envisioned the end Everest epic
it was not how he ~ of his character (TV show) accounts of the 1963 ~ resonated loud and long
consciousness & awareness: eye / verb gangster epic
future / time: eye / verb this grandly stylized ~ (John Woo / A better Tomorrow)

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superlative: Iliad & Odyssey stem the epidemic
we have done nothing to ~ of violence
epicenter (noun)
verge on an epidemic
epicenter of that battle mental health problems that ~ (colleges)
Birmingham became the ~ (for civil rights)
♦ Epidemics follow war.
epicenter of the disease ♦ Endemic, epidemic, pandemic...
in Nigeria, the ~ in Africa (polio) ♦ “Murderous epidemics were routine in the lightly sanitized, pre-
antibiotic world.”
epicenter of the (new) disease ♦ “No one knows how many thousands of Comanches died in the cholera
New York City, the ~ (AIDS) epidemic of 1849.”

epicenter of the epidemic ♦ “Typhoid is epidemic along the entire Susquehanna Valley, lasting the
year round. / Dr. Edson describes the streets as still reeking with filth,
Gorakhpur, the ~ (Japanese encephalitis) and says that disinfectants are still apparently unknown to the majority of
the people there.” (“The Plague At Plymouth,” The New York Times, May
epicenter of youth culture 17, 1885.)
the ~ (Shimokitazawa in Tokyo) ♦ “New York City had seen its share of epidemic disease. From the
Dutch settlement forward, infectious outbreaks were a common part of
riot's epicenter daily life.” (Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at
South-Central, the ~ (LA) America’s Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky.)
♦ “Most of the adult male leaders in Samoa died during the 1918
global epicenter epidemic.”
Vegas is boxing’s ~
affliction / amount & effect / extent & scope: health &
♦ “I’m inside the corridors of the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital. And it
was really the epicenter of the epicenter, absolutely overwhelmed in the medicine
first wave, the scenes that woke the West up to what was in store for
them... The mental scars still run very deep... and will take a generation epitaph (noun)
to fade.” (BBC Correspondent Mark Lowen in Bergamo, Dec. 23, 2020.)
epitaph for his campaign
location / place: earthquake
the ~ may be that... (losing politician)
center & periphery: earthquake
destruction: burial / death & life
epidemic (noun)
equate (verb)
epidemic
amid that ~, one single infection was fateful (NotPetya) equates not getting the COVID shot to drunk driving
he ~ (a politician)
epidemic of crack
the neighborhood is recovering from an ~ comparison & contrast: number / verb

epidemic of fear equation (noun)

an ~ has spread over about 130 villages (black magic)
changed the equation
epidemic of piracy the added sanctions don’t seem to have ~ (diplomacy)
there has been an ~ off the coast of Somalia
strategy: number
epidemic of violence analysis, interpretation & explanation: number
an ~ which is rapidly spreading
there's an ~ that is sickening the soul of this nation
equilibrium (noun)
epidemic proportions equilibrium between mankind and nature
underage drinking has reached ~ how to restore ~
NFL’s (domestic violence) epidemic emotional equilibrium
study and rectify the ~ (players beat their partners) trolls try to disrupt your ~ (Internet)

crack epidemic mental equilibrium

the nineteen-eighties issued in the ~ she works hard to maintain her ~ (video celebrity)

cheating epidemic equilibrium returns

some blame schools for the ~ when you peel off from the herd, your ~ (a politician)
this ~ and the ‘essay mills’ who profit from it
achieve equilibrium
hidden epidemic the goal is to ~ (diplomacy)
sex trafficking is a ~ (US)
maintain some equilibrium
silent epidemic the dramas teach you to think and ~ (gentle parenting)
the ~ of America’s problem with guns (suicide)
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 eventually they ~ (dose and side effects) ♦ “If we’re rolling our eyes at African-Americans, then we should be
rolling our eyes at everyone else.” (Amani Nuru-Jeter.)
regain emotional equilibrium inclusion & exclusion: society
songs about trying to ~
equilibrium & stability: scale
equivalent (noun)
equity (groups) equivalent of Area 51
this could be China’s ~ (airfield in Lop Nur area)
equity
~ is the product of an invisible legal revolution equivalent of “mechanical doping”
the shoes are the ~ (Nike shoes at Tokyo Olympics)
equity in the entertainment industry
in a report on ~, McKinsey & Company notes that... equivalent of a conscientious objector
he views himself as the ~ (refuses to get vaccinated)
equity activists
the Democratic Party and its ~ equivalent of the full-court press
a decoy deadline is the productivity ~ (deadlines)
Equity Affairs
the Office of ~ (Wake County public-school system) equivalent to a slap on the wrist
this is the ~
equity issue
shade is an ~ (Mayor Eric Garcetti of LA / trees) food equivalent
moving the SAT online is not going to eliminate ~s it’s the ~ of the “Mona Lisa” (Jiro’s in Japan)
transgender health care is an ~, not a political one
software equivalent
equity-themed it’s the ~ of cancer (code to unlock iPhone)
a session at an ~ teachers’ conference
Twitter equivalent
equity and inclusion Benet gave Justice the ~ of a fist-bump (bro-ing up)
the culture of ~ at Georgetown Law
legal equivalent
Period Equity
Rutgers University has a ~ Project (menstruators)
the case is the ~ to nails on a chalkboard (problems)

“tree equity” literary equivalent

American Forests has championed ~ it is the ~ of potato chips (a VERY interesting book)

racial equity political equivalent

everything has a ~ component to it (White House) this was the ~ of capital punishment (calls for resignation)
it was the ~ of a food fight (presidential debate)
broadband and digital equity ♦ “By using sports terms, one could say the atmosphere has been
the director of ~ (Baltimore) exposed to doping, which means we have begun observing extremes
more often than before.” (Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World
diversity, equity, and inclusion Meteorological Organization.)
embed ~ (DEI) intentionally in TESOL activities comparison & contrast: number
♦ Equity is “removing the predictability of success or failures that
currently correlates with any social or cultural factor.” (National Equity era (time)
Project.)
♦ According to the American Forests’ website, “But a map of tree cover in era of judging
America’s cities is too often a map of income and race. That’s because, the ~ 4-year-olds is over (educational testing)
due to decades of redlining and other discriminatory policies, trees are
often sparse in neighborhoods with more low-income families and people
of color.”
vaccine era
back in December and January in the beginning of the ~
♦ “I really think about “sleep equity” as an access issue. What we find in
society is that caregiving roles or shift work—working when your body
would rather be sleeping—disproportionately falls on people of color,
waterbed era
Black people, other people of color.” (Lauren Whitehouse, an assistant he was hired right in the beginning of the ~ (cold case)
professor of psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of
Kentucky. From “More than a third of U.S. adults don’t get enough sleep. four-belt era
Here’s how to get the rest we need,” Sacha Pfeiffer, NPR, Weekend Scotland’s first undisputed world champion in the ~
Edition Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.)
♦ Access (lack of access, etc.); disparity (and disparities); bygone era
disproportionate; rates (suffer from higher rates); systemic; systematic; in modern-day America, there is no such thing as a ~
underserved (underserved communities, historically underserved)...
(Words and phrases that typically occur with equity...) golden era
♦ “Equity is everywhere. The Biden White House even has something the ~ of whaling, from about 1820 to 1860
called the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity.” (“The Inequality
the ~ of boxing was the 80s and 90s (20th century)
of ‘Equity,’” by Christopher Caldwell, National Review, May 17, 2021.)
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 it was a ~ in tennis (Federer beats Sampras in 2001) ♦ We’re not going anywhere; we’re here to stay; we’re in your face; we’re
present and not absent; you will not erase us...
end of an era inclusion & exclusion: society
is it the ~ for James (the great NBA player LeBron James)
erasure (groups, etc.)
time: history
erase (groups, etc.) Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood
Girlhood Interrupted: The ~ (a book by Jamilia Blake)
erase the event from his life erasure of my existence
he tried to ~ (sexually assaulted) I hear that call as a complete ~ (Dahlia Belle, Black trans)
erased women as public beings self-erasure
laws that ~ (Afghanistan) ~ and self-display (eating disorders)
erase the legacy black erasure
they seek to ~ of discrimination and lived experiences the term ~ is real and not an exaggeration (Questlove)
erase the past I want to make sure that ~ doesn’t happen (Questlove)
they are desperately trying to ~ and we won’t stand for it black equestrian erasure
erase his past the history of ~
he would like to ~ (a gang member) purposeful erasure
erase us and our families the data isn’t there because they don’t collect it, this is ~
they are trying to ~ (Don’t Say Gay Bill) ♦ “For many years, when our tribal leadership would go to them and push
for resources and highlight this issue, they’d say, ‘but where’s your
cancels or erases data?’ But we know the data isn’t there because they’re not collecting it.
This is purposeful erasure.” (Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban
I want to assure people this in no way ~ history Indian Health Institute.)
dehumanise and erase ♦ “In the piece, Elizabeth’s last name is spelled ‘Keckley’...[b]ut the
woman herself signed her name ‘Keckly.’ The erasure of her spelling in
stories ~ the multiplicity of black people’s existence the pages of her own memoir may be an indication of how little control
this formerly enslaved autobiographer had over her manuscript’s
obscure or even erase publication...” (“What’s In A Name?” by Jennifer Fleischner, The New
teaching online will ~ my presence (a black female) Yorker, April 14-20, 2021.)
♦ “They tried hard to erase me, I mean erase my name, erase my ♦ “Think about what that means. They didn’t even cast a Black gay actor,
position, erase my songs, erase my face, erase the memory of me, but or a Black gay character. It’s played by a straight (laughing) Italian
they couldn’t.” (“Iranian Singer Googoosh Raises Her Voice To Keep Her American man. So just like process that... that erasure.” (“Bonus:
Nation’s Culture Alive,” NPR, All Things Considered, Sept 29, 2021.) Remembering the iconic, complicated Andre Leon Talley,” NPR, Code
Switch, Jan. 23, 2022. The commentators are discussing the idea that
inclusion & exclusion: society / verb Stanley Tucci’s character in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada
represents Andre Leon Talley.)
erased (groups, etc.) ♦ “[W]e are spending a lot of time on erasure, and these are great
conversations to have with children...” (“‘Born on the Water’ puts the
erased ‘1619 Project’ into kids’ hands,” NPR, All Things Considered, February
so much history about queer life has been ~ (POC) 17, 2022.)
♦ “The history has been obfuscated and obliterated...” (An attempt to
erased from public discourse rename Chicago’s oldest house, the Henry B. Clarke House, to the Louis
this moment in history has been all but ~ Henry Ford House.)

erased from American teaching inclusion & exclusion: society

knowing your history has essentially been ~... erode (verb)
erased and invisible eroded
being ~ from conversations (non-binary gestation parent)
America’s military superiority has ~ to a dangerous degree
particularly erased erode ("traditional") beliefs
older women are ~ (TV & films / Geena Davis Institute)
modernization need not ~ in the supernatural (sangomas)
lost or erased erodes (social) cohesiveness
the rediscovery of ~ black cemeteries raises many issues
an epidemic ~
♦ “Oftentimes we don’t use the word lost or abandoned, we are really
saying erased, physically erased from the landscape for other purposes.” erode confidence
(Antoinette Jackson, Chair of the Anthropology Department at the
University of South Florida, about a Black cemetery. From “’Thank God
corrections and retractions ~ in science (journals)
you found me’: Florida officials unearth a fourth forgotten Black
cemetery,” NPR, All Things Considered, Dec 20, 2021.) eroded (public) confidence
♦ “Knowing your history has essentially been erased from American
the accident has ~ in aviation safety
teaching, how do you preserve your history and culture?” (Sommer Hill
interviews Devin Mellor, “Faces of NPR: Devin Mellor,” Dec. 1, 2021.) eroded their (political, spiritual and cultural) power

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 British policies further ~ (Maasai) error (unforced error)
erodes the (moral) underpinnings unforced error and a self-inflicted wound
capitalism ~ of society
he described it as an ~ (politics)
erode (indigenous) Tibetan culture failure, accident & impairment: baseball / sports & games
critics fear the railroad will ~
ersatz (substitute)
threaten to erode
divisions ~ France's tradition of equality (Muslims) ersatz vision quest
they weren’t on some ~ (nomads)
confidence (in him) has eroded
public ~ markedly (leader of country) suspected to be ersatz
sexuality that they ~
credibility erodes
~ when attention to detail falters (NPR journalism) ♦ This means substitute in German. It rose to prominence in World War I:
ersatz coffee (from acorns), ersatz flour (made from potatoes), etc.
Currently, it means “artificial imitation.”
grip (on this country) may be eroding
the king's ~ allusion: military
decline: erosion / verb appearance & reality / identity & nature: materials &
substances / military
failure, accident & impairment: erosion / verb
eroding erupt (feeling)
erupts in anger
eroding (ring) skills
just then he ~ and… (drunk)
questions about his ~ (Mike Tyson, the boxer)
decline: failure, accident & impairment / erosion erupted in celebration
the Fire Hall ~ (rescue of miners)
erosion (noun)
erupted in cheers
erosion of (intelligence) assets when he came across the finish line, we all ~
citing the ~
erupts into cheers
erosion of confidence the crowd of soldiers ~ (Bagram)
the recrimination betrayed an ~ (Israeli raid)
erupted with joy
erosion of (Aboriginal) culture the Yankees' dugout ~ (sports)
the historic ~
cheers erupted
erosion of privacy more ~ (rescue of coal miners)
each new ~ (Internet)
panic erupted
erosion of profits the victims were trampled to death when ~ (Hajj)
with the ~ (US sheep industry) feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb / volcano
erosion of support erupt (verb)
he faces an ~ (a politician)
erupted in Kinshasa
erosion of (sexual) values
fighting ~ (Congo)
it's wrong to blame popular culture for the ~
erupted in Lagos
erosion of viewership
violence ~
broadcasters alarmed at the ~
erupted on message boards
erosion of (NASA's) technical skills
squabbles ~ (online investments)
experts point to an ~
erupted during a (motorcycle) rally
ratings erosion
a wild clash that ~
the two TV game shows are facing serious ~
erupted in protest
physical and cultural erosion
Lebanon ~ when Hariri was murdered
American Indians try to reverse decades of ~ (diet, etc.)
erupt in violence
blame popular culture for the erosion
political races in the Niger Delta frequently ~
it's wrong to ~ of sexual values
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erupted into violence eruption (noun)
Haiti, which ~ three weeks ago
long-simmering ethnic tensions have ~ eruption of violence
the ~ has dashed hopes (Middle East)
erupt (quickly) into (violent) free-for-alls
rallies can ~ (Kenya) eruption of (gun) violence
the ~ across the country, with kids caught in the crossfire
Egypt is erupting
~ (protests) eruption of gunfire
he heard the ~ (combat)
chaos erupted
~ in the diner (Seacrest Diner attack) initiation / occurrence: volcano
the ~ at a security checkpoint (at an airport) amount & effect: volcano
conflicts erupt ery (badassery, etc.)
when ~, MSF sends teams of surgeons…
assholery
controversy erupted prestige TV is prime territory for ~ (writers’ rooms)
~ when a white fraternity performed a skit…
badassery
crisis erupts despite such ~, she never really...
the US will need to strike preemptively before a ~ overuse has leached badass of its ~
she regarded her burns as the stigmata of ~ (Tamar Adler)
fire erupted the film features the ~ of Michelle Yeoh (Everything...)
more enemy ~ and he dove for cover behind a rock
f***ery
hotspots erupt the ~ of society that results in school shootings
coronavirus ~ across country
radio-producery
lawlessness erupts and you approached this in a very ~ way (podcaster)
when disasters occur, ~
whataboutery
protests erupted there’s a lot of ~... (raising a different issue)
~ (Korea)
wordnerdery
riots erupted she’s celebrated for bringing ~ to the masses (a crossword
the ~ after Japan scored (in Moscow / World Cup) constructor)
squabbles erupted ♦ “Strong Language, A sweary blog about swearing,”
(stronglang.wordpress.com) has a very nice entry for f***ery. The
~ on online-investor message boards comments are particularly good, especially the one by a person who
lived in Jamaica for many years.
trouble erupted
♦ “We’ve Hit Peak Badass. It’s Gotta Stop” by Jesse Sheidlower, The
some minor ~
Daily Beast, Apr. 14, 2017.
trouble will erupt inclusion & exclusion: affix
bikers have been wondering if ~ in Sturgis (rally)
escalate (verb)
violence erupted
last year ~ in France's small towns (Beurs / Rebeus) violence escalated
the ~ on Saturday (protests)
gunfire erupts
♦ This word comes from the escalator. As such, it is relatively recent.
~, and bodies sprawl everywhere
increase & decrease: movement / verb
warfare erupted
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / verb
gang ~ in Compton as the Bloods sought revenge…
escape (mental health / verb)
fighting erupted
the ~ July 20 between… (rival political gangs) escape
~ in Kinshasa (Congo) I daydream to ~
caused (racial) tensions to erupt escapes from his anxiety
the altercation ~ he ~ by performing (an actor)
♦ Sounds from the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in the Sunda Strait
between Java and Sumatra in 1883 were heard up to 3,000 miles away, struggled to escape
but not by everyone, due to peculiarities of sound waves and the she ~ her mother’s shadow
atmosphere.
♦ “You can rent an underground cave to escape from election news.” (In
initiation / occurrence: verb / volcano New Mexico.)
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avoidance & separation: mental health / verb ♦ “The assertions are strident, and the vocabulary is esoteric (‘harm,’
‘insurrection’) as if it were translated from a foreign language. In a
escape (mental health / noun) sense, it is. The language is legalese, and it is designed to build a
foundation upon which a company can be held liable under civil-rights
law in an American court. This activist tactic has been widely
escape from all the chaos on land misunderstood.” (“The Inequality of ‘Equity,’” by Christopher Caldwell,
surfing is an ~ (Bethany Hamilton) National Review, May 17, 2021.)
♦ "Barney the Bear is a secure test item…" (An ESL supervisor,
his escape stressing the necessity of keeping the stuffed Teddy bear locked up
books, movies and his car were ~ (Bret Easton Ellis) before using it to test LEP first graders for the yearly high-stakes test.
Teachers had complained that the bear frightened some children, and
soothing escape wondered if they might introduce the bear to the children prior to the
the album is a ~ from the rush of everyday life test.)
♦ see also boilerplate (noun), buzzword (noun), funny language,
mental escape language (of sports, cars, etc.), lip service (pay lip service, etc.), speak
when I need a ~ from a stressful situation, I fantasize... (NASA-speak, etc.), supersizing (linguistic supersizing), talk (mediator
talk, etc.)
running was his escape speech: affix
~ from a home that was a prison (Frank Shorter)
language: speech
offer an escape essence (noun)
books that ~ (during the pandemic)
♦ “I left Saint Louis. I descended the steps of this fire-escape for a last essence
time and followed, from then on, in my father’s footsteps, attempting to his ~ rather than his show-biz surface...
find in motion what was lost in space—I travelled around a great deal.
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly essence of the (scientific) method
coloured but torn away from the branches.” (The Glass Menagerie by
Tennessee Williams.) the ~ lies in the repeatable result
♦ “Escapism is not escape.” essence of motherhood
avoidance & separation: mental health the ~ is to nurture, protect, love

ese (legalese, etc.) essence of childhood

the ~, of course, is play (Childhood by Bill Cosby)
bureaucrat-ese
bases: chemistry
this is kind of ~ big time (government guidelines)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: chemistry
crosswordese etch (verb)
the puzzle was a beauty, with a minimum of ~
diplomat-ese etched their mark
translating ‘unacceptable’ from the ~ his companies ~ on city skylines (developer)

Educationese etched itself into my memory

“A Parent’s Guide to ~” (Psychology Today) the photo ~

legalese etched him in my mind

these instructions from the judge, they’re ~ that experience has forever ~
the language is ~ (equity activism) impression: mark / tools & technology / verb
medicalese etched
~ is entered at Merriam-Webster and Wiktionary
what did my doctor just say, ~ translations etched in their faces
I could see despair and suffering ~
slopestyle-ese
the trick is a B-Spears, in ~ (snowboarding) etched in the (tribe's permanent) memory
the crime will remain ~ (murder of tribal cop)
New York-ese
his characters speak fluent, mid-20th century ~ etched in the (country's) memory
the murders are ~
Senate-ese
the two old Senate hands sometimes slip into ~ etched in stone
reform is not yet ~
wonk-ese none of the rules are ~ (about health)
“we’re de-risking” he says in perfect startup ~ nothing is ever ~ (planning)
♦ “Those instructions [from the judge], I’m a lawyer and I couldn’t
understand them... They’ve gotten to be too much. They’re legalese.” etched into the landscape
(Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney, speaking to Ailsa Chang. some journeys are ~ of our lives (Lake Ohrid)
From “Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense attorney discusses the trial and
acquittal,” NPR, All Things Considered, Nov. 19, 2021.) etched on his face

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 he stood over him with concern ~ (boxing) evangelist for the idea
I really became an ~ (E.O. Wilson / inclusive fitness)
etched by the weather
her face is ~ developer evangelist
she is a ~ who teaches programming to girls
impression: mark / tools & technology
ether (into the ether) open-source evangelist
Bruce Perens, an ~ (computing)
disappeared into the ether Web evangelist
any trace on social media has ~ (a company) I come from print, I'm not much of a ~ (newspapers)
appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky
culinary evangelist
eulogy (noun) he is a ~ out for converts (chef)

eulogy for social studies enthusiasm / message: person / religion

it is time to write the ~ person: religion

speech: death & life evaporate (verb)

eureka (moment, etc.) enthusiasm (seemed to have) evaporated
Scott’s ~ (for skiing in Antarctica)
eureka moment
but the ~ came when… forces evaporated
this was a ~, he realized what he needed to do... despite their vows to fight to the death, their ~ (rebels)

Eureka moment revenue has ~

the Aha! instant in cognitive science, the ~ ~ in the digital-music industry
♦ This word is Greek and translates as, “I found it!” Its utterance is good will has evaporated
associated with the scholar Archimedes and hydrostatics. The word is
the state motto of California and refers to the discovery of gold and the
the ~ (government)
Californian Gold Rush.
appearance & disappearance: water / verb
♦ “And then came this crucial moment...a eureka moment, and the light
went off in Semmelweis’ head... This was the final bit of evidence that he eve (on the eve)
needed... and it was at this point that everything came together...and all
of the sudden it made perfect sense and he knew that he had the
answer.” (The great Ignaz Semmelweis autopsied his good friend Jacob
on the eve of destruction
Kolletschka and connected lack of hand hygiene with puerperal we are ~
(childbed) fever. While today he is known as “the saviour of mothers,” at
the time his ideas were dismissed by the medical establishment. As John on the eve of 1914
Snow’s ideas had been dismissed, and Thomas Aitchison Latta’s. From periods that precede great upheavals such as Europe ~
BBC, Sounds, Great Lives, “Ignaz Semmelweis.”)
♦ "Eve" relates to "evening."
♦ “We were returning to the bungalow for tea and suddenly he shouted,
‘That’s it! It must be a sphere...large enough to hold two people... It will proximity / timeliness & lack of timeliness: day
be made of steel lined with thick glass. It will contain a proper store of
solidified air, concentrated food, water... One might go to the moon!”
(The First Men on the Moon by H.G. Wells.)
even-handed (adjective)
comprehension & incomprehension: allusion / exclamation even-handed policy
he's striven to maintain an ~
evangelical (adjective)
judgment: hand
evangelical about camels
Lauren Brisbane is ~ and their milk (in Australia) evening (decline)
evangelical certainty evening of my life
she speaks in staccato bursts of ~ (death penalty) if I can choose where to pass the ~, it will be Kyirong

message: religion in the evening of life

what am I called, ~ (an 81-year-old man)
evangelist (person)
time / decline: day
“evangelist of science” growth & development: day
he is a self-described ~ primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
evangelist for veterans' care evergreen (adjective)
he is the President's ~
evergreen efforts
evangelist for energy efficiency his ~ have seen him score 500 club goals (“Ibra”)
he has been an ~ (Nobel Prize winner)
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 Zlatan Ibrahimovic and that other ~, Cristiano Ronaldo accusation & criticism / destruction / speech: health &
medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
evergreen quarterback
the ~ has already won six Super Bowls (Tom Brady) evolution (noun)
evergreen question evolution from shock jock to political pundit
the ~, “What does it all mean?” (pop culture) his ~ (Charlamagne tha God)
death & life: color / tree evolution of artificial intelligence
evil (non-human) it was a landmark moment in the ~
growth & development: biology
evil disease
we will once and for all beat Covid 19, this ~ (politics) evolve (evolve the sport, etc.)
character & personality: religion evolve the sport
evil eye we must ~ (a young boxing promoter)
growth & development: biology / part of speech
parting evil eye
she gave me a ~ excavate (verb)
gave him the evil eye excavates her history
I turned and ~ (“Don’t Call Me ‘Mamacita’”) Chow ~ (Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir)
giving us the evil eye excavates the idea
sing off tune, and believe me, Ike was ~ (backup singer) Jon Savage ~ of the teenager (Teenage: the Creation of
♦ "The [camel] opened his jaws as far as they would go, and froth, Youth Culture)
mucous and black bile spilled out. Ah, black bile—sign of the evil eye.
The soothsayers all agreed on that. So, he had been envied for his excavates the legacy
[camel]. The evil eye had been behind everything that had happened.
According to the teaching of the soothsayers, envy is stronger than
Kotlowitz ~ of racism and violence (An American Summer)
poison. And the eye of the envier is deadlier than a poisoned arrow, the
blow of a sword, or the thrust of a dagger. It's deadlier than any weapon. excavate some meaning from it
So when did the envious thugs cast their eye on him?" (Ukhayyad I began to interrogate my predicament and to try to ~
realizes the source of his camel's sickness. From Gold Dust by Ibrahim
al-Koni.) excavates racial inequality and anti-Blackness
♦ "King Alfonso of Spain was reported to have the evil eye. In 1923 he the 1619 Project ~ (Nikole Hannah-Jones)
paid an official visit to Italy. Several sailors of the fleet sent to greet him
were washed overboard; there was an explosion in one of the analysis, interpretation & explanation / appearance &
submarines; an ancient cannon fired in the King's honor blew up, killing disappearance / concealment & lack of concealment /
its crew; and a naval officer with whom the King shook hands collapsed
and died shortly afterward. / During the King's tour of Lake Gleno a dam searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / mining /
burst, drowning 50 people and making 500 homeless. / The Italian verb
dictator Benito Mussolini, who was terrified of the evil eye, refused to
meet Alfonso personally...” (Reader's Digest "Strange Stories, Amazing
Facts.")
excite (verb)
♦ “If looks could kill!” excited curiosity, speculation and fear
danger: eye it ~ (the submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

eviscerate (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: verb

creation & transformation: verb
eviscerated the book exclamation point
Latino writers have ~ (cultural appropriation)
put an exclamation point on that round
eviscerated the prosecution’s case he ~ (strong finish to MMA match)
she ~, point by point (a judge)
put a (major) exclamation mark on her career
eviscerated world leaders she has ~ (Sawa Homare / football)
she ~ in a passionate speech (Greta Thunberg)
accusation & criticism / destruction / speech: health &
puts exclamation point on big day
Lilly King ~ for U.S. swimming
medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion: exclamation / letters &
eviscerated characters
eviscerated by liberal judges and politicians excommunicated
the justice system has been ~
excommunicated from the movement
he has been ~

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excommunicated from the priesthood exhausting (mental health)
he was ~ of economists
exhausting treadmill
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
it’s an ~ (trying to manage time to meet deadlines)
executed feeling, emotion & effect: mental health
executed at close range with a spear gun exhaustion (groups)
Kostis was ~ (a Mediterranean monk seal)
feelings of exhaustion
hyperbole: death & life
people expressed ~ over having to...
exhale (verb) ♦ “Others joined in expressing feelings of exhaustion over having to call
out such careless oversights, which are much more common in stories
exhale about people of color.” (“Ai Wong’s divorce news causes another case of
#wrongasian” by Vanessa Romo, NPR, April 13, 2022.)
that does not mean Florida can fully ~ (hurricane track)
inclusion & exclusion: society
exhaled
she broke up with her boyfriend, and her parents ~ (relief) exhaustion (other)
exhaling moral exhaustion
today everybody is sorta ~ (crisis averted) beneath the pep talks is a rueful sense of ~
begin to exhale condition & status: health & medicine
if the troops return to the barracks, people will ~
exhume (verb)
danger: bodily reaction / breathing / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing / verb exhumes skeletons
Poland ~ in its Communist closet
exhausted (condition)
appearance & disappearance / concealment & lack of
exhausted concealment / searching & discovery: burial / death & life /
our armed forces are ~ verb
exhausted with its wars exile (in exile)
the US is ~ in Iraq and Afghanistan
in exile
exhausted and broken you're in the inner circle, or you're ~ (politics)
an ~ post-war Britain in 1948 he's no longer ~, but… (access to President)
condition & status: health & medicine living in exile
they have been ~ (falsely accused by DA)
exhausted (groups)
society: ground, terrain & land
exhausted with the culture of country music dismissal, removal & resignation: society
I was ~ not creating space for people who look like me acceptance & rejection: society
♦ (NPR’s Michel Martin): Thank you so much for talking with us. I
imagine this just has to be exhausting. (Aly Raisman): Thank you for exile (noun)
having me on. You know, this is one of the moments where right now I’m
definitely, I’m definitely feeling it, I’m definitely exhausted, but that’s that’s exile
what surviving and healing looks like. You know, there are some
its ~ from high-school curriculums is hard to explain (The
moments where I feel okay and then other moments.....”
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane)
inclusion & exclusion: society
period of exile
exhausting (groups) the political party can look forward to a long ~

exhausting self-imposed footballing exile

all of the debate is “~” (a biracial athlete / how Black) his ~ (Zinedin Zidane)
racism is ~ and embarrassing (microaggressions)
exile has been ended
♦ (NPR’s Michel Martin): Thank you so much for talking with us. I
imagine this just has to be exhausting. (Aly Raisman): Thank you for
his international ~ by Didier Deschamps (Karim Benzema)
having me on. You know, this is one of the moments where right now I’m
definitely, I’m definitely feeling it, I’m definitely exhausted, but that’s that’s
society: ground, terrain & land
what surviving and healing looks like. You know, there are some dismissal, removal & resignation: society
moments where I feel okay and then other moments.....” acceptance & rejection: society
inclusion & exclusion: society exiled
exiled from wealth and social standing
in his eyes, the family had been ~ (poor)

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society: ground, terrain & land the company has seen a ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: society
acceptance & rejection: society
vacation exodus
the ~ brought Beijing to a standstill (Autumn Festival)
exist (verb)
annual exodus
exists in society "mudik" is an ~ in Indonesia (visiting the countryside)
anti-Semitism still ~ (desecration of Jewish graves)
prompted a (small) exodus
exist back then the score ~ towards the exits (sports)
body cameras didn’t ~ (policing)
led to a (huge) exodus
exist in the world of tomorrow Germanization of Metz ~ of the French
fixed-wing aircraft will still ~ (military)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: Bible /
never existed religion
they want to go back to a romanticized past that ~
exorcise (verb)
approach exists
no one-size-fits-all ~ (the COVID pandemic) exorcise
Baathism remains a ghost that Iraq can't ~
♦ "Under the earth's crust there exists such an enormously great world,
in absolute darkness, that we can with some justice speak of a new
continent." (Alfred Bogli.)
exorcise the demons
we must ~ of the past… (history)
♦ Sorry, you’ve reached a page that doesn’t exist.” (The internet.)

presence & absence: death & life / verb exorcised that ghost
European leaders thought they had ~ (Berlusconi)
exit (noun)
amelioration & renewal / dismissal, removal & resignation
exit / reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: creature / religion
I'm not surprised by his ~ (resignation) / verb
no possible clean exit expedition (fishing expedition)
there was ~ (combat)
fishing expedition
rush for the exits the government claimed the investigation was a ~ (politics)
the withdrawal is a hasty ~ (Afghanistan) traffic stops that became ~s (police and Latinos)
rush for the exits fishing expedition for information
US troops will not "~" (in Afghanistan) it appears to be a ~, casting a very broad net
rushing to the exit pursuit, capture & escape: animal / fish / hunting
the Biden administration is ~ (Afghanistan) searching & discovery: animal / fish / hunting
urging an exit expense (at the expense)
his generals and the prime minister were ~ (a leader)
at the expense of Arabs
pursuit, capture & escape / situation: container Turkey's growing regional role will not be ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: doors &
thresholds / theater at the expense of the animals
owners cut costs and corners ~ (ranches)
exodus (noun)
at the expense of (naive) consumers
exodus of civilians sophisticated consumers can profit ~
he expects a further ~ (war)
at the expense of the family
exodus of staff members but all this success was ~... (working women)
the magazine has been bled by an ~
at the expense of the poor
exodus of doctors, engineers, scientists privatization further enriches the rich ~
Venezuela suffers from an ~ and other professionals
at the expense of his life
exodus (of women) from the (science) fields his actions ~... (Medal of Honor)
her paper examines the ~
at the expense of troop levels
immigrant exodus shifting troops to Baghdad will come~ elsewhere
Italy fears an ~ on a biblical scale (from Libya)
at Owner's Expense
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at your expense ~ after the traditional mourning period (Caucasus)
it will be ~
starting to explode
profit at the expense of naive consumers the whole punk-rock scene was just ~
sophisticated consumers can ~
initiation: explosion / verb
cost & benefit: money
explode (increase)
experiment (noun)
exploded
experiment for some reason it took off, it ~ (Plague of Justinian)
the US is often referred to as an ~
exploded in popularity
thought experiment rafting and camping ~ (below a dam)
my book is a ~ (Break it up, about political succession)
compromise is a noble ~ (gays / religion)
exploded in the past decade
wakeboarding has ~
“Jurassic Park experiment”
they condemned the plan as a public ~ (GM mosquitos)
exploded in the United States
the sport has ~ (soccer)
* “A fool, you know, is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.”
(Erasmus Darwin to Richard Lovell Edgeworth.) exploded in the ‘90s
experimentation: chemistry Pokémon ~

expiration date exploded in the last few years

the black market has ~ (for Venus flytraps)
America’s Expiration Date
~: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers enrollment has exploded
UMUC's ~, from 21,100 to 30,700 this year
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: food & drink
explode (destroy / disrupt) interest (in cookie decorating) has exploded
~ in recent years
exploded popularity exploded
it’s been a year since the economy ~
his ~
explode this notion population has exploded
I’m really trying to ~ of genre (Rachel Yoder) the town's ~ in the last decade (increased)
destruction: explosion
population (of Niger) has exploded
explode (emotion) the ~ (increased dramatically)

explodes use (of Ecstasy) is exploding

she ~ (becomes angry) the ~

made my mind (kind of) explode Internet modeling has exploded

so what ~ when I first heard about this was... (surprise) ~ in all forms (teen modeling)

feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: explosion / pressure / caused the (mouse) population to explode
verb / weapon the hunting of snakes has ~

explode (initiation) increase & decrease: number

growth & development / increase & decrease / initiation:
explode into violence explosion / verb
he let his anger ~ explode (onto the scene, etc.)
exploded in violence
months of protests that ~ late Thursday
exploded onto the scene
she ~ last year (a singer)
exploded with support attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / sound / verb
the Internet ~ for Hanson
exploding (adjective)
intifada exploded
in 1987, when the first ~ through Gaza and… exploding population
situation exploded the world's ~
the whole ~ (divorce / violence) ensuring flood control for South Florida's ~
increase & decrease: explosion / number
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exploration (noun) ♦ “A US college outdoors club is being disbanded because its activities,
which include hiking, running and backpacking, are deemed too risky.”
(BBC, “US college says outdoors too risky for outdoors club,” April 25,
exploration of her life 2018.)
it’s an ~ (a film) ♦ “What are called UUVs or AUVs, autonomous vehicle systems. That’s
what’s going to be the force multiplier, that’s what’s going to accelerate
analysis, interpretation & explanation / searching & everything... I envy the generation in middle school right now. I’m gonna
discovery: journeys & trips be eclipsed by some kid in eighth grade that’s going to have the
technologies to do a thousand times more exploration than I have been
explore (analyze) able to do because of the advent of new technologies where they don’t
have to physically do it...” (Robert “Bob” Ballard at TED.NPR.ORG.)
explore your background ♦ “[Spallanzani] conceived himself the hero of a new epic exploration, he
compared himself—in his writings even—to Columbus and Vespucci. He
before we get into the specifics, why don’t we ~ (a trial) told of that mysterious world of microbes as a new universe, and thought
of himself as a daring explorer making first groping expeditions along its
explore this boundaries only... His genius whispered to him that the fantastic
let’s ~... (the topic of tariffs) creatures of this new world were of some sure but yet unknown
importance to their big brothers, the human species...” (Microbe Hunters
explores the lives by Paul De Kruif.)
his book ~ of Native Americans ♦ Christopher Columbus; Vasco Nunez de Balboa; Abel Tasman; James
Cook; Sir John Franklin; Mungo Park; Dr. Heinrich Barth; David
explores the (counterintuitive) notion Livingston... (Explorers mentioned by Joseph Conrad in his essay
he ~ that... (decision-making) “Geography and Some Explorers.”)
♦ “An eight-year-old boy from the city of Astrakhan in southern Russia
explore the possibility has won social media fame after setting off on an around-the-world trip. /
~ of a negotiated settlement (Middle East) The boy’s mother contacted the police after finding a note from her son
saying he had left to ‘travel around the world’. / A few hours later, a
analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips / search team found him walking down a street equipped with
encyclopaedias, a toy, money from his piggy bank and a banana, the
verb Russian Interior Ministry reported on its official website.” (BBC “Boy, 8,
found after leaving home to ‘travel the world’” by Katherine Zeveleva, 3
explore (discover) April 2019.)

explored (several) fantasies searching & discovery: journeys & trips / person
we ~ with each other (Internet) explosion (violence, etc.)
explore my (secret) fantasies
explosion of violence
my website allows me to ~
both sides shared the blame for the ~
explores matters this ~ follows weeks of simmering tension (Jerusalem)
the film ~ of love, sex, and commitment initiation: explosion
exploring its options explosion (sound)
Twitter says it’s ~ under Indian law
explosion of gunfire
explore the Bard’s life and work
he heard the ~ (combat)
we will ~ (BBC program)
sound: explosion
searching & discovery: journeys & trips / verb
explorer (person) explosion (increase)
explosion of (arctic) flowers
explorer of the past
May and June bring an ~
he was a pioneer ~ (Francesco Petrarch)
explosion of studies
explorer of race, memory and discrimination
we have seen an ~ examining violent video games
meet Jessie Yaros: an ~ (neurobiology and behavior)
explosion in (graphics) technology
Dora the Explorer
the ~
~ is one of the most recognized Latinx characters on TV
explosion in (cellphone) use
Internet Explorer
the ~ has had an impact on 911 operations
~ will die next year (the blue “e” icon)
explosion of (international) trade and travel
new (space) explorers
the ~ that's occurred
robots, not humans, are the ~
AIDS explosion
explorer and enthusiast
the potential for an ~ in the country (India)
remembering Anthony Bourdain, ~ (Linda Holmes)
♦ “What does Dora Explorer explore?” (Google search: People also crime explosion
ask...) the ~ (in Venezuela)

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information explosion moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats are ~
there is a tremendous ~ today
near-extinct
potential for an (AIDS) explosion the old sound recordings turn ~ machines into music
the ~ in the country (India)
totally extinct
increase & decrease: number / explosion ticket-splitting isn’t ~ (voting during election)
explosive (power) going extinct
old-school conglomerates are ~ (General Electric, etc.)
explosive burst
you load the dart in the mouthpiece and exhale in an ~ went extinct
the lautenwerck almost ~ (the music instrument)
power: explosion it’s time that these events ~ (monkey rodeos / abuse)
explosive (increase) ♦ “A tiny pink peanut is not a white rhinoceros. Nor is it a green turtle or a
Bengal tiger. But...” (The Lost Ancestral Peanut Of The South Is
Revived” by Jill Neimark, NPR, The Salt, December 29, 2016.)
explosive growth
the ~ of the textile industry ♦ “This fabulous bird used to visit Michigan in numbers beyond belief... A
newspaper reported in 1878 that from three to six tons of birds, plucked
the ~ in technology over the past few decades and packed in barrels of ice, were shipped south every day... It was a
keeping up with the ~ of scientific data (storage) good business while it lasted.... [T]he last passenger pigeon in North
America died in its cage in an Ohio zoo.” (Waiting for the Morning Train:
explosive rate An American Boyhood by the great writer Bruce Catton.)
condo conversion sales have been increasing at an ~ ♦ The small corpses of Carolina parakeets were used whole by milliners
to adorn women's hats. (Last known representative of its species died in
increase & decrease: explosion February 1918.)

explosive (violence, etc.) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal

past & present / time: animal
explosive mix
put them together, and it was an ~ (government figures) extinguish (verb)
explosive situation extinguish (negative) behaviors
they discussed the ~ in the Palestinian territories a discipline plan to ~ (school)
initiation: explosion destruction: fire / verb
express (Biden express, etc.) extinguished
Biden express extinguished
not that everyone has come on board the ~ (election) it is a young life that has been ~ (Swedish rapper Einar)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: train destruction: fire
express (Pineapple Express, etc.) extracurricular
Pineapple Express extracurricular activities
the ~ is the source of moisture into southern California prying into employees' harmless ~
the ~ is an atmospheric river (into southern California)
extracurricular uses
force: epithet ~ of the office computer
express (Tokyo Express, etc.) extent & scope: school & education

Tokyo Express eye (verb)

JFK lost PT-109 in an attack against the ~ (WW II)
the ~ brought Japanese troops and supplies to Guadalcanal eyed me suspiciously
he ~
military: epithet
sight: eye / verb
expressway (expressway to death, etc.)
eye (the Blue Eye of Siberia, etc.)
expressway to death
National highway 8 is known as the ~ (India) Blue Eye of Siberia
Lake Baikal, known as the ~
death & life: epithet
epithet: color
extinct (adjective) geography: epithet
almost extinct

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eye (the Eye of Kuruman, etc.) eye (roll one’s eyes)
Eye of Kuruman roll her eyes
the ~ is a natural spring (Die Oog / S. Africa) no comment from her, but she did ~, clearly I was getting on
her nerves...
Eye of the Sun
the ~ is a natural arch in Monument Valley, Arizona shaking my head and rolling my eyes
I’m just ~ (Boeing debacle of 2019-2020)
Eye of Zastron the shooter is now the victim, ~
The ~ is in the cliffs of Vulture Mountain (Aasvoelberg)
♦ “I completely respect him... I know he can be bit of a character... I’ve
♦ The Eye (Die Oog) in Kuruman is the largest known natural spring in rolled me eyes a couple of times at things he done and said.” (Ben
the southern hemisphere. And there is also an “Eye” in the town of Davison talking about the great boxer Dillian Whyte.)
Zastron, also in South Africa. In the latter case, the Eye is part of a rock
formation and has an interesting creation story! ♦ In academia, eye-rolling can be considered a sign of patriarchy and a
micro-aggression.
proper name: eye / shape ♦ “When I conferred with Dr. X... I could almost hear his eyes roll over
geography: eye / shape the phone.”
♦ “Do you have sheet music on this stuff?” (YouTube, “Time of My life”
eye (resemblance) (Final Dance”)
♦ see also eye-roll (dismissal)
eye
I was here when the ~ came right over the island comprehension & incomprehension: eye / gesture / verb
eyes of the coconut eye (met our eyes, etc.)
pierce two ~ with a sharp object
met our eyes
eye of the storm an unusual sight ~ (on a wilderness trip)
the ~ passed over Portsmith (hurricane)
fictive meeting & seeing / sight: eye
hurricane's eye
police rescued 5 families when the ~ passed over eye (more than meets the eye)
needle’s eye meets the eye
thread the thread through the ~ there is more to him than ~
a closer look at the numbers finds less there than ~
storm's eye
Gulf Shores, where the ~ blew ashore (hurricane) appearance & reality: eye

defined eye eye (catch one’s eyes)

a minimal hurricane with 75 mph winds and a ~
caught my eye
♦ See the Wikipedia entry “Eye of a needle” for references to the three she ~ (attraction)
Abrahamic religions.
♦ “I walk east, west, north and south / I have a tongue but I don’t have a caught his eye
mouth. What am I?” (Answer: Boots. Boots also generally have eyelets.) a large display of toothpaste ~ (in a store)
resemblance / shape: eye deviations from Islamic social norms also ~

eye (believe one’s eyes) caught Jean's eye

when I ~ again, I nodded towards…
believe my eyes
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye
I couldn’t ~
♦ A FUNNY CARTOON. A New Yorker cartoon shows a pirate ship at eye (public eye)
sea. A sailor, forced to walk the plank, is in the middle of an exuberant
back flip. The pirate captain, who is wearing an eyepatch, is watching in in the public eye
astonishment on the deck. The caption of the cartoon is, “I can’t believe
my eye!” this will boost his image ~ (a fallen celebrity)

comprehension & incomprehension: eye out of the public eye

he has created a new life ~…
eye (poke someone in the eye, etc.)
came to the public eye
poke the voters in the eye it never ~ (campus espionage)
he continued to kind of ~ (politics)
remained in the public eye
stick a finger in Trump’s eye Wilma Mankiller has ~ (Cherokee leader)
she welcomed the opportunity to ~ (her vote for governor)
♦ You’ll blink if I poke you in your damn eye! brought windsurfing into the public eye
he ~
punishment & recrimination: eye / finger / sensation

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fell out of the public eye keep my eyes open
she ~ for a year but returned... (an influencer) I ~ (for opportunity)
vanished from the public eye keep your eyes open
he ~ for nearly six weeks before reappearing (Korea) ~ (warning)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye opened my eyes to the opportunities
the experience ~
eye (attention)
opened my eyes to so much
eyes of the nation it ~ (a new experience / job)
the ~ are on Indianapolis today (a mass shooting)
open your eyes to the reality
Eye on America ~ that there is big-town crime here (Taos)
features like ~ (network news)
roving eye
eyes and ears my husband has a ~
they were all ~ (Germans at a Oglala Sioux powwow)
♦ “A stranger has big eyes but sees nothing.” (An African proverb about
it’s a show for the ~ (gambling at casino) traveling and travelers.)

all eyes consciousness & awareness: eye

~ were on Kate (performance)
~ will be on Queen Elizabeth (her husband’s funeral) eye (closed eyes, etc.)
once again ~ are on the Dallas district attorney (crime)
eyes closed
wary eyes people didn’t go into this with their ~ (Brexiteers)
her ~ took me in at a glance
consciousness & awareness: eye
prying eyes eye (for the eyes)
she retreated there from ~
wandering eye feast for the eyes
he was a lecher with a ~ it was a ~

wandering eyes sight for sore eyes

~ and other suspicious test activity (cheating) he was a ~
appearance: eye
keep an eye on
is there anything else to ~ (elections) eye (eye candy)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye eye candy
eye (stars in one’s eyes) many go to auto shows looking for ~

stars in her eyes eye-candy for philistines

she has ~ (not practical) the work is ~ (Koons’ Bouquet of Tulips in Paris)
she had ~ and a sense of her own destiny (Theranos) blond eye candy
character & personality: earth & world / eye there's lots of ~ Down Under (Oz)

eye (open eyes, etc.) appearance: eye

eyes wide open

eye (on the eyes)
we want him to make his own decision, ~ easy on the eyes
eye opening he’s quite good looking, ~ (Omar Kamal, Nablus)
it was very ~ for me (kids’ comments) hard on the eyes
with eyes (wide) open she’s ~, shudders (discussion board snark)
the decision was made ~ (foreign policy) appearance: eye
go into this with our eyes open eye (goal)
it is critical that we ~ (elections)
eye
keeps an (eagle) eye out for infractions he had his ~ on the nomination (Ted Kennedy)
he ~
dollar signs in their eyes
keep an eye out for you companies with ~
I'll ~ (watch for your arrival)

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♦ “I think they had dollar signs in their eyes.” (The great climber Tommy he watches ~ (an anthropologist)
Caldwell talking about being taken hostage by members of the Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan while he and his group were climbing in with fresh eyes
Kyrgyzstan.)
people are looking at his issue ~ (foreign aid)
♦ “Keep your eye on the prize, hold on.” (A moving song from the Civil
Rights era of the 1960s.) with new eyes
wants, needs, hopes & goals: eye a student may see home ~ (after studying abroad)

eye (turn a blind eye) with a suspicious eye

those who come to Jerusalem are watched ~
cast a blind eye on his conduct
the university ~ (sexual misconduct) with suspicious eyes
sportswomen are looked at ~ (homophobia)
turn a blind eye to his (intense) abuse
the university could no longer ~ of one of its students to the (outside) eye
the system appears medieval ~ (Afghanistan)
turned a blind eye to the concerns
UKA whitewashed its review and ~ (sports doping) to a (trained) eye
the data reveals a disturbing pattern ~
turn a blind eye to the consequences
loggers learn to ~ of clear-cutting to the (untrained) eye
it may look complicated ~ but…
turn a blind eye to polygamy clues not apparent ~ (police)
local officials ~ (southeastern Turkey)
to (Mexican) eyes
turn a blind eye to the problem ~ the US has more than its share of everything…
we cannot ~
to modern eyes
turned a blind eye to terrorism his racial ideas appear ~ as a blot on his record (Churchill)
they have ~
eyes of an expert
turn a blind eye to cruelty and crime what is most important is the experience of the ~
the state should never ~ (honor killings, etc.)
leaders' eyes
turns a blind eye to predators and harassers countries whose ~ are fixed on domestic voters (summit)
this culture that ~ (entertainment)
painter's eye
bribed to turn a blind eye the workings of a ~
officials were ~
keen eye
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye / verb a ~ is the result of training and practice (landmines)
recognizing traps demands intuition and a ~
eye (bat an eye / eyelash)
watches with a practiced eye
bat an eye he ~ (an anthropologist)
the students don’t ~ at the sight of fast-food-delivery robots
see home with new eyes
bat an eyelash a student may ~ (after studying abroad)
he didn't ~
looking at this issue with fresh eyes
feeling, emotion & effect: eye / gesture / verb people are ~ (foreign aid)
eye (perception) looked at with a suspicious eye
in the eyes of the US sportswomen are ~ (homophobia)
it has done a bit to improve its standing ~ (a country) watched with a suspicious eye
in the eyes of his competitors those who come to Jerusalem are ~
~, he is the best (mixed-martial arts) perception, perspective & point of view: eye
in the eyes of the public eye (an eye for an eye)
Muhammed Ali is still the champion ~
eye for an eye-style
in the eye of the beholder a crowd gathered to demand ~ justice (Pakistan)
beauty is ~
stick a finger in Trump’s eye
with his geologist's eye she welcomed the opportunity to ~ (her vote for governor)
~, he found a field nearby and found…
revenge: eye
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eye (subterfuge) eyes and ears of the Americans
interpreters were the ~ (the Taliban)
throw smoke and dust in the eyes
they are trying to ~ of the investigators (lawyers) "eyes and ears" of the commander
the Air Cavalry Team is the ~ (military)
subterfuge: eye
eyes and ears of the (battalion) commander
eye (surveillance) we serve as the ~ (scout/snipers)
eyes eyes and ears of the community
the special forces were the ~ that were out there (Gulf War) "Amber" alerts mobilized the ~ (child kidnappings)
eye in the sky eyes and ears of the outside world
you can put an ~ (drone / UAVs) African Union monitors serve as the sole ~ (Darfur)
eyes of Boston Harbor ears and eyes in the sky
we're asked to be the ~ (a Yacht club, terrorism) the NSA, Uncle Sam’s ~
eyes of (U.S. spy) satellites eyes and ears on the ground
the eagle ~ he worked under cover as Al Jazeera's ~
Dragon Eye keeping our eyes and ears open
the portable ~ (an unmanned aerial vehicle / military) we're definitely ~
♦ “Keep your head on a swivel.” “If you see something, say something.”
robot eye (Situational awareness.)
a ~ attached to the Internet, which visitors could control
surveillance: eye
robotic "eye"
a free-flying ~ that can circle the space station eye (eyes and ears / attention)
sets of eyes eyes and ears
the robots could serve as extra ~ (PSA) they were all ~ (Germans at a Oglala Sioux powwow)
it’s a show for the ~ (gambling at casino)
under the (watchful) eyes of their mothers
the cubs hunt ~ attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye

under the (watchful) eyes of (security) officers eye (see eye to eye, etc.)
he was constantly ~
see eye to eye with my (new) boss
have eyes on that money I don't ~
we don’t ~ (charitable contributions)
see eye to eye
keep a (close) eye on her we will never ~
we have to ~ they don't always ~ (European leaders)
they might ~ (two leaders)
keep a (close) eye on them
we ~ (detainees) unanimity & consensus: eye

keep a (good) eye on her eye (naked eye)

I have to ~
naked-eye observer
keep a (watchful) eye on players an inexperienced ~ (sky phenomena)
coaches must ~ (heat stroke in summer)
naked-eye light phenomena
taken out his eyes ~ in the sky
once we had ~... (Saddam’s Air Force)
naked eye, binoculars or telescope
got out from under the father's (controlling) eye don't look at the sun with the ~
when she ~
invisible to the naked eye
♦ Positive controls provide a means to put "eyes" on a target. (Military.)
trace evidence looks at microscopic evidence ~
♦ “The Five Eyes” is the intelligence sharing partnership between
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. (New Zealand. visible to the naked eye
surveillance: eye the comet should be ~
help & assistance: clothing & accessories
eye (eyes and ears / surveillance)
eyeball (up to one's eyeballs)
eyes and ears
the public is our ~ (police manhunt) up to their eyeballs in (dangerous) chemicals

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 these fish are ~ (tomcods in New York and New Jersey) ♦ “I was just really sort of eyebrow raised... (Disbelief. Heard on Who?
Weekly.)
involvement: eye
feeling, emotion & effect: eye / gesture
eyeball (attention) eyebrow-raising (adjective)
eyeball
"~s," or the number of people drawn to a Web site
eyebrow-raising claim
her ~ aroused skepticism in scientific circles
bring more eyeballs to boxing
these YouTubers are really corny and stuff, but they ~
eyebrow-raising ideas
he voiced some ~ about women (upset)
brought a ton of eyeballs to her sport
her sex appeal has ~ (Danica Patrick)
eyebrow-raising tweet
President Trump issued an ~ Friday morning
person: sign, signal, symbol
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / sign, signal, symbol
eyebrow-raising words
Justice Scalia has used some ~ (argle-bargle, etc.)
eyeball (eyeball-popping)
feeling, emotion & effect: eye / gesture
eyeball-popping conference eyebrow-raising (noun)
an ~ (politics)
♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping, a little bit of eyebrow-raising
head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill there’s ~, how will you regulate this
Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first
time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday,
some eyebrow-raising
April 13, 2020.) there is ~ to be had in the fine print (a report)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / gesture feeling, emotion & effect: eye / gesture
feeling, emotion & effect: eye / gesture eye-catching
eyeball (sight)
eye-catching
map, eyeball, and stars the figures were ~ (# of excess deaths / pandemic)
troops were still navigating by ~ (pre-GPS)
eye-catching glow
sight: eye she projected a happy, ~
eyebrow (raise eyebrows, etc.) eye-catching moves
he's got ~ (a very good lacrosse player)
raised eyebrows
it ~ last month when… (officer criticizes another officer) eye-catching (white) suit
his comments ~ a curvy Southern belle in an ~
a seaside town in Japan has ~ after it...
the report ~… eye-catching win
his decision ~ she had an ~ at Indian Wells (a tennis player)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye
raises an eyebrow
the timing ~ eye-opener
raised no eyebrows eye-opener
the marriage ~ (professor / student) the visit was an ~
raised (so many) eyebrows it is an ~ in several ways ("Lan Yu," filmed in Beijing)
he ~ with his announcement consciousness & awareness: eye
raising scientific eyebrows eye-opening
that’s one of the strange things that’s ~
the other issue that is ~ is how the virus has mutated eye-opening
the new information was ~ (a murder investigation)
instantly raised eyebrows
the timing of the murder ~ consciousness & awareness: eye

eyebrows lift eye-popping

their ~, they can’t quite hide their disapproval
eye-popping (stock) performance
eyebrows raised years of ~
there were some ~ when Bale was left out of the game
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 he pulled in an ~ (campaign contributions) the stress of collapsing economies can tear the ~ apart
we have to consider the ~ of Lebanon (politics)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / eye
part of the fabric
eye-roll (dismissal) I don't remember it being ~ (a sports tradition)
biggest eye-roll part of the (city's) fabric
that is the ~ I’ve ever seen you do violence has become a ~ (Baltimore / drugs)
become an eye-roll fraying the fabric
the term has ~ (woke) logging and roads are ~ of nature
♦ see also eye (roll one’s eyes)
eat away at the fabric
comprehension & incomprehension: eye / gesture these are things that ~ of our city (hate crime on gays)
eyesore (noun) tearing at the fabric
this is ~ of people's lives (oil spill)
eyesore
the tower is an ~ (on a mountain) threaded itself into the fabric
the cell tower near Yellowstone's Old Faithful is an ~ the gang has ~ of the village
the armory is an ~ right now and needs a facelift
woven into the fabric
armory is an eyesore cheating is ~ of accepted conduct
the ~ right now and needs a facelift Arab Americans are deeply ~ of America
tower is an eyesore bases / environment: cloth
the ~ (on a mountain)
fabricate (verb)
criticized as an eyesore
the cell tower has been ~ (in Yellowstone) fabricated her story for money and fame
he claimed she ~ (sex-abuse trial)
appearance: eye / health & medicine
flaws & lack of flaws: eye fabricated his account
there was no reason to believe that he ~ (crime)
fabricate data
F the fear that doctors who own company stock will ~

fabius (Fabius Maximus) fabricated evidence

he ~ that he had cloned human cells (scientist)
fabiused [our affairs] into a very disagreeable posture
he has ~ (criticism of General George Washington) fabricated the figures
many questioned whether the medical examiner had ~
♦ The name of the Roman general Fabius Maximus is a byword for
caution and delay in warfare. He led Rome against Hannibal. The Fabian
Society is named after this general. Fabians are socialists who advocate
fabricated (various) Black identities
a gradual reform of capitalism, as opposed to Marxists, who would she ~ (an academic)
overthrow it. The Fabian Society was formed in England in 1884 and
exists to this day. fabricated and falsified
MIT said he ~ data in a scientific paper;
allusion: military
he ~ research findings (breast-cancer researcher)
action, inaction & delay: allusion / military / part of speech
♦ She fabricated various Black identities, including Black Caribbean,
fabric (fabric of society, etc.) North African Blackness, US rooted Blackness, Caribbean rooted Bronx
Blackness, Boricua... (An academic.)
fabric of (accepted) conduct creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb
cheating is woven into the ~
fabricated
fabric of democracy
people living and working together is the ~ fabricated data
fabric of our nation a large study was based on ~ (published cancer study)
their legacy is woven through the ~ today (gen WW I) inaccurate, incomplete or fabricated
fabric of our society ~ evidence
this division tears at the very ~ (elite vs. underclass) creation & transformation: manufacturing
city's fabric fabrication (lying)
violence has become a part of the ~ (Baltimore / drugs)
fabrication
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fabrication and plagiarism confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face / verb
he committed widespread ~ in news articles
face (in one’s face)
creation & transformation: manufacturing
in your face
facade (noun) some of these feminists can be really ~ (a Swiss woman)
racism can be covert and underhanded, versus ~
façade of (mutual) esteem
the two men masked their hostility by a ~ in each other's face
the coaches want the players ~ (to call out mistakes)
façade of normalcy
it was a total ~ (US intelligence fail in Afghanistan) in-your-face president
he is an ~
facade of respectability
he lifted the ~ to reveal the hypocrisy get in people’s faces
she was not afraid to ~ (a politician)
cracks in Bierenbaum’s façade
♦ ”Why are we firing them, why are we blaming them, attacking and
~ started to appear (surgeon convicted of murder) demonizing them, why are we in their face?” (The unvaccinated.)

maintained a façade of negotiation ♦ We’re not going anywhere; we’re here to stay; we’re in your face; we’re
present and not absent; you will not erase us... (Different groups.)
the government began planning military action while it ~
♦ “Running while brown. Skittish while Muslim.” (NPR. Code Switch.
peered behind the facade Race. In Your Face.)
the center’s reputation had taken some hits from reporters ♦ “He was the originator of getting in your face and talking trash.”
who’d ~ (Orlando Woolridge about the great NBA star Larry Bird, a Hoosier from
French Lick, Indiana.)
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: face
/ subterfuge / substance & lack of substance:
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face
infrastructure
face (conflict)
face (public face, etc.)
get out of my face
face of boxing now ~ (leave / rude)
he changed the ~ (Muhammad Ali)
conflict: face
face of climate denial
President Trump has become the ~ (Al Gore) face (face facts, etc.)
face of fashion face your problems
model diversity and the ever-changing ~ you have to ~ head on

face of (sideline) protests face facts

he became the ~ (NFL’s Kaepernick) it's time to ~

face of resistance face the facts

he was one ~ to the Nazis at Stalingrad (Vasily Zaitsev) she urged her youngest daughter to ~

changing face faced the reality

the ~ of a rural Colorado community (immigration) he finally ~ that the agency was bumbling (C.I.A.)

international face confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face / verb
he was the ~ of Iraq (Tariq Aziz) face (brave face, etc.)
public face
he is the ~ of the proposed community center
putting on a brave face
his allies are ~ (politics)
he has become the ~ of the hospital (chief of trauma)
Yamani became the ~ of the oil embargo (1973) put your best face forward
the Defense Secretary is the ~ of the Pentagon sometimes you just have to ~
changing the face put a brave face on this awful situation
they are ~ of competitive skateboarding (Sky, Bombette) they are trying to ~
representation: face / picture / sign, signal, symbol appearance & reality: face
face (look something in the face) face (face anger, etc.)
looked their tragic history in the face face anger
the Americans had never ~ leaders ~ across Nigeria

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faces the ax face (in the face of)
the show still ~ (TV)
in the face of adversity
face (tight) budgets motivate soldiers to fight on ~
schools ~ the belief that men must be strong ~ (emotions)
face the challenge in the face of authority
soldiers must ~ of combat with leadership, initiative, skill the defiant gesture ~
faces a charge in the face of change
he ~ of theft by deception this marriage tradition is disappearing ~ (Yupiks)
facing charges in the face of danger
they are ~ of murder and aggravated assault we will not blink ~ (military)
faced collapse in the face of (harrowing) danger
the company asked for government intervention as it ~ his heroic actions ~ (military)
face danger in the face of death
once you ~ over and over you lose your fear all fear of embarrassment or failure fall way ~
face death in the face of failure
they still ~ by beheading (Saudi Arabia) the team has demonstrated resilience ~
face my death why do some persist ~ while others give up
a nursing staff that will help me ~ (dying) in the face of their fury
face discrimination the ceasefire meant little ~
their children ~ in Somali schools (Somali Bantus) in the face of a (major) threat
many Israeli Arabs say they ~ what would they do ~ (military)
face (widespread) discrimination in the face of (faculty) unrest
laborers from rural areas ~ (in large cities) ~ (at a college)
faces a (potential rabies) epidemic blink in the face of danger
the city ~ we will not ~ (military)
faces eviction wilt in the face of threats
the business ~ when its lease expires (nightclub) we will not ~
faces a (terrible economic) inheritance confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face
the government ~ (Britain) resistance, opposition & defeat: face
face (tough) penalties appearance & disappearance: face
some young abusers do ~ (animal abuse) face (fly in the face)
face (strong family) pressure fly in the face of notions
they ~ to be dutiful sons the 2000 census findings ~ of…
faces a (rough) road flies in the face of (social) convention
President Obama ~ (politics) his work ~ (an artist)
faces (potential) sanctions fly in the face of the facts
Missouri ~ (sports) his findings ~
faces (big) test fly in the face of power
US ~ in ambitious troop rotation artistic works that ~ (an award)
faced a (new) threat fly in the face of conventional wisdom
the Rangers ~ (mortars / Takur Ghar) his findings ~ (scientist)
face forced marriages ♦ Have you ever been "dive-bombed" by a bird protecting its nest or
territory? Perhaps that is the basis for this expression.
five girls ~ (Pakistan / result of vani tradition)
fictive meeting & seeing: face / verb resistance, opposition & defeat: bird
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: face / verb face (blow up in one's face)
blow up in his face
it could ~ (if he ignored the infraction)

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blown up in our face face (smiley face)
this has ~ (supporting Somali warlords)
smiley-face
reversal: explosion / verb
~ stickers
face (slap in the face) putting a happy face on everything
slap in the face he was still ~ (politics and the pandemic)
the offer was a ~ (to relatives of dead miners) representation: face / picture / sign, signal, symbol
slap in the face of (U.S.) politicians face (red face, red-faced, etc.)
a ~ (Saddam's view of nine-eleven)
red-faced
slap in the face for the US I am ~ (embarrassment)
the attack was a ~ (by Iran)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / color / face
slap in the face to Chicagoans
his actions were a ~ (false accusation of hate crime) face (face-palm, face palm)
slap in the face to the female students face-palm bad
it was a ~ (who had been molested at USC) my idea is bad, like you know, ~
♦ “My idea is bad, like you know, face-palm bad.” (The successful
slap in the face to his victims (relatively) young creative holds her palm to her eyes, feigning
this was a ~ (Markeith Loyd penalty decision) embarrassment but smiling.)

insult: face ♦ See the excellent Wikipedia entry, “Facepalm.” It’s a meme, an emoji,
etc. Apparently, mandrills do it, too. Like so much language, this started
face (concept) on the internet and has spread on same. Who knew?

loss of face feeling, emotion & effect: face / gesture / hand

easing him out of power without a ~ Facebook (the Facebook of knitting, etc.)
save face
Facebook of knitting
dictators always need to ~ (repression)
Ravelry is often called “the ~” (millions of accounts)
private face size: epithet
he had a public face and a ~
faceless (adjective)
public face
I have taken a lot of trouble with my ~ (Noel Coward) faceless bureaucracy
try as he may, he cannot penetrate a ~
true face
Iranians hide their ~ (speech) identity & nature: face
national, ideological and political face facelift (noun)
so much ~ was involved (building a huge dam)
undergo a (major) facelift
hide their (true) face the museum will ~ (Guggenheim)
Iranians ~ (speech)
amelioration & renewal: face
♦ "The mind thinks something, the heart feels something else, the tongue
says something else, and manners do something else. It doesn't mean
people are lying. They are just dealing with you with a different
face-saving (concept)
character." (Muhammad Atrianfar, an Iranian newspaper publisher, on
the complexities of communicating with his fellow Iranians.) British face-saving
♦ "Honne or tatmae?" (A Japanese expression for the difference between this is just an exercise in ~
one's public facade and one's real feelings.)
face-saving compromise
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty / society: face he has quietly argued for a ~ that would…
face (appearance) exercise in (British) face-saving
this is just an ~
baby face
the lean build, ~, and curly brown hair social interaction / society: face
a full beard to hide his ~
face up (face up to something)
game face
suit up and put on his ~ (NASCAR driver) face up to the need
she had on her ~ (a law-enforcement officer) the government was forced to ~ for urban planning

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 soccer must ~ and tackle it (fan racism) applause faded
as the ~ and he approached the lectern…
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction / face
/ verb enthusiasm faded
his initial ~ (an employee)
factory (creation)
fame faded
factory of extreme weather the ~ (a writer)
the supercell can be a ~
hopes faded
factories for (left-wing) political activism ~ for 102 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine
California schools are ~ his ~ (Montagnard in Cambodian refugee camp)
factory for the production impression (soon) fades
it operated as a ~ of knowledge (universities) but our initial ~ as… (of a film character)
disease-factory memories fade
packing our kids into a ~ (schools / pandemic) ~… (time)
dream factory ~ and memories change (a defense lawyer)
Los Angeles, the ~ (1980s / drugs, films, clubs) memories (of Katrina) have faded
creation & transformation: manufacturing but ~... (New Orleans)

factory (glue factory) memory (of the Hayman fire) fades

as ~ (wildfire)
sent to the glue factory
it’s time for Maguire to be ~ (disgruntled football fan) stigma is fading
the TV appearance of teen victims suggests the rape ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / horse /
manufacturing threat (of war with Spain) faded
as the ~
fade (verb)
old ways have been fading
faded into irrelevance the ~ (Inuit)
the group has ~
begins to fade
fades into obscurity if we offer hope, then the stigma ~ (HIV and retrovirals)
he may not mind if his name ~…
starting to fade
faded into the past old ways of life are ~ as the Arctic thaws
episodes of violence which have long ~ ♦ “TO LET / CARRIAGES COUPES HANSOMS VICTORIAS LIGHT
WAGONS / HORSES BOARD BY THE MONTH.” (A fading “ghost sign”
fade into the background on an old brick wall in New York City.)
many prefer to ~ (teen-model sites on Internet) appearance & disappearance / decline / primacy, currency,
faded into (grim) determination decline & obsolescence: light & dark / verb
my earlier feeling of achievement ~ as we struggled…
fade away (verb)
fades out of boxing
my hope is that Tyson just ~ (the boxer) faded away
he disappeared into obscurity, he just ~ (a civic leader)
faded after a few weeks
her latest book got lousy reviews and ~ fade away quickly
their recent memories ~ (the elderly)
fades over the course of a month
anxiety following a trauma that ~ or so isn't depression memories fade away
their recent ~ quickly (the elderly)
faded from the scene
the anti-crime campaign ~ in most urban areas support fades away
as his ~… (leader of a country)
faded from sight
the Rebel Flag ~ when the South was defeated… burn out or fade away
playboating didn't ~ (whitewater rodeos, etc.)
fading fast
appearance & disappearance / coming, arriving, staying,
America's reputation is ~ (Iraq)
leaving & returning: light & dark / verb
faded steadily
a trauma that ~ over the course of a month

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fail (a big fail, etc.) drums!' / She said they were kind to mortals who think kindly of them; but
they play tricks on busybodies and other folk that they do not like. If a
man gets too curious and spies on the Little People when they are at
Amazon fail their games, or tries to enter their caves without being invited, or pokes
an ~ is a learning experience (restaurant delivery) behind the small waterfalls with a stick, they will cast a spell upon him so
that he loses his way in the woods and goes wandering about in a daze.
/ When one finds anything pretty in the woods or among the rocks he
debate fail must say 'Little People, I want to take this,' for it may belong to them, and
after his ~ last week... (a politician) if he does not ask permission they will stone him away from the place. /
Myra used to hint to me that old Grandpa Dale brought most of his bright
stunning fail crystals and colored stones from over there; and so, she said, he must
it was a ~ (Boeing’s software problems with Max plane) be a great friend of the Little People, or they would not let him find such
things, or would make them dissolve and fade away before he could take
big fail them out of the glen." (Smoky Mountain Magic by Horace Kephart.)
I think it’s a ~ (an ad campaign) ♦ According to a legend attributed to the Cherokee Indians, the Tallulah
Gorge in northern Georgia was inhabited by a race of “little people.”
♦ In the dictionary I use, the only use of fail as a noun is in the
expression, “without fail.” proper name: creature
failure, accident & impairment: part of speech fairy tale (happy)
faint-hearted (the faint-hearted) fairytale ending
faint hearted this was not the ~ his glittering career deserved (soccer)
academia, like war, is not for the ~ fairytale ending for the club’s greatest goal scorer
this is a tough business model, it’s not for the ~ (a pub) there was no ~ (Manchester City bottles final)
filmmaking is not a world for the ~ (Scorsese)
fairy-tale romance
faint-hearted they had a ~
politics is a hard business, it has never been for the ~
fairy-tale wedding
heart: force
and after the ~ things did get bad
eagerness & reluctance / courage & lack of courage /
strength & weakness: heart modern day football fairy tale
it’s a ~ (the Jamie Vardy story)
fairy (Fairy Bridge, etc.)
resemblance: books & reading
Fairy Bridge
we floated under the ~ (a natural arch on Buliu River) fairy tale (fantasy, delusion)
Fairy Castle fairytale land
~ is a pillar in Bryce Canyon, Utah Mr. Binger must ~ to think that... (a prosecutor)
Fairy Dell fairy-tale thinking
~ is a valley in Nevada it’s hard to tell if this is ~ or an evil plot (gamification)
Fairy Ladder Falls just a fairy tale
we visited ~ near Dix Mountain at first the coronavirus was ~, a rumor in the camp...
Fairyland Canyon black fairytale
~ is a valley in Bryce Canyon he called it “the first ~” (1988 film Coming to America)
Palace of the Fairy Queen Hollywood fairy tale
the ~ is a pillar in Bryce Canyon the ~ that representation equals change (inclusion)
* "They resemble humans, but their mouths are wider and their legs are
much longer than ours, with the feet facing backward. They have wings
fantasy & reality: books & reading
to fly through the air, and are clad in green robes." (Mashraf Khan, the
royally appointed wizard of Hunza, speaking of the snow fairies that, in faith (noun)
Hunza tradition, inhabit the surrounding mountains in northwest
Pakistan. Mashraf says that they have a king and a queen, and the blind faith
queen makes prophecies, such as 'A girl will die a month from now, he had this ~ in me (defensive coach)
falling into the river to the north.' Mashraf says he dances with the
fairies. People watch him dancing, but the fairies are invisible.)
lose faith
♦ The curupira is a mischievous red-haired elf who has feet that face I began to ~ in him
backwards and takes delight in making tracks that lead travelers astray.
(The Amazon.) allegiance, support & betrayal: religion
♦ "Over there, so Myra used to say, the Little People dwell in caves on
the mountainsides and under the waterfalls. They are a tiny folk, hardly faithful (the faithful, etc.)
reaching to a man's knee, but well formed and featured, with long hair
reaching nearly to the ground. / They are fond of music and of dancing. the Laker faithful
Sometimes, on a summer day, when all else was silent about the cab,
we would hear a far-off mysterious throbbing somewhere in that glen, obviously ~ will give us a lot of energy (LeBron James)
and Myra would say to me 'Listen: it is the Little People beating their

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the pickleball faithful fall (fall ill, etc.)
the ~ have looked to the town for assistance (courts, etc.)
fall ill
enthusiasm: religion
their duty status at the time they ~...
fall (noun) those who do ~ become infectious days earlier (dengue)
they began to ~ with mysterious symptoms
fall of the (police) state decline: direction / health & medicine / verb
with the ~
fall (fall into a coma, etc.)
fall of the Soviet Union
in the chaotic period following the ~ (nuclear arms) fell into a (fatal) coma
he ~ after drinking bourbon (fraternity member)
fall from grace
it was a stunning ~ (Elizabeth Holmes) fell into a (deep) depression
he ~, popping pain pills and swilling tequila
stunning fall
now to the ~ of a CEO fall into a funk
it's easy to ~ about Russia's future
dramatic fall
the jobless aren't the only people who can ~ over work
it was a ~from grace (Hollywood mogul)
hard fall fell into a (deep) sleep
he ~
Indonesia's economy has taken a ~
imminent fall fall into a dream state
its victims ~ (tokoloshe)
diplomats predicted Taylor's ~ (Liberia)
consciousness & awareness: direction / health & medicine
took a fall
/ verb
religious coexistence ~ under Gen. Zia ul-Huq
decline: direction fall (fall into a rage, etc.)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction fell into a depression
fall (fall from power, etc.) she ~

fallen from favor fell into a (deep) depression

she has ~ (a replaced Broadway director) he ~, popping pain pills and swilling tequila

fell from power fell into panic

he ~ I ~ (a student)

stand or fall fell into rages

the theory will ~ on the strength of that argument he ~ (after traumatic brain injury)

stood or fell feeling, emotion & effect: direction / verb

the government ~ by its alliance with… fall (on Friday, etc.)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
fell on a school night
fall (defeat) Halloween ~

fell to the Incas occurrence: direction

the Chimu Kingdom ~ (Peru) time: height

fall to the opposition fall (night fell, etc.)

eastern Libya was first to ~ dark had fallen
fell in the first round full ~ by now
4 giants ~ (World Cup soccer) night had fallen
fell without a shot ~ by the time we set up camp
the rebel forces evaporated, and the city ~ occurrence: direction
city fell time: height
the rebels fled and the ~ without a shot fall (silence fell, etc.)
resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / verb
fell into (an uncomfortable) silence
they ~

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silence fell fell by 0.6%
a~ construction spending ~ in November (US)
occurrence / sound: direction income fell
increase & decrease: sound its ~ because of… (a company)
prices have been falling
fall (numbers) disk ~ (computers / storage)
fell 50% prices (subsequently) fell
attendance ~ oil ~ as low as $10 a barrel
fall to (abnormally low) levels revenues fell
causes the blood sugar to ~ ~ 6 percent (a company)
fell to 165 pounds from 198 shares fall
his weight ~ (injured bedridden skier) profits rise, but ~ at G.E.
fell to 16 below zero stock fell
temperatures ~ the ~ even though the company…
fell to single digits spending fell
his popularity ratings ~ construction ~ by 0.6% in November (US)
fell to 190 million kilograms continue falling
the country's tea exports ~ (India) commission prices are likely to ~
fell steadily decline: direction / verb
AIDS cases ~ as new, more effective drugs took hold
fall (fall into place)
attendance fell
~ more than 50 percent (at a museum) falling into place
all the pieces to this investigation are ~
cases fell
AIDS ~ as new, more effective drugs took hold analysis, interpretation & explanation: puzzle

exports fell fall (fall short)

the country's tea ~ to 190 million kilograms (India)
fall (far) short of acceptance
population has fallen we'll see improvement, but it will ~
Malaysia's wild-tiger ~ from 3,000 to 500 (2008)
fall short of demand
ratings fell the teacher supply will continue to ~
his popularity ~ to single digits
fell (7,000) short of its (recruiting) goal
temperatures fell the Navy ~
~ to 16 below zero
fell (far) short of the (UN) goals
weight fell the plan ~ for combating…
his ~ to 165 pounds from 198 (bedridden injured skier)
falls short of its hype
ridership fell the city ~ (Seattle)
~ as tourism slumped (cabs)
fell short of its promises
viewership has been falling Facebook ~ to...
~ (the Olympics)
falls short of requirements
blood pressure falls improvise where the logistics system ~ (war)
~, the pulse is rapid and weak (shock)
falls short of (professional) standards
death rates (per vehicle mile) have fallen a doctor can be admonished if he ~
decline: direction / verb fell short of its (enlistment) target
increase & decrease: number the Navy ~
fall (money) fall short of torture
methods that ~, such as sleep deprivation
fell 6 percent
revenues ~ (a company) fell (far) short of meeting
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fell 7,000 short fall into (two) groups
the Navy ~ of its recruiting goal field services ~—essential and nonessential (war)
success & failure: direction / target fell into (two) groups
failure, accident & impairment: target he believed people ~: prey and predator
fall (fall on / upon) falls into the (latter) group
don't worry if your child ~
fell upon hard times
she ~ taxonomy & classification: direction

fallen on hard times fall (fall into the hands, etc.)

the team has ~ (losing record)
fallen into the hands
decline: direction regions that have ~ of the insurgents
fall (an emotion can fall) fall into (enemy) hands
the material could ~ (military)
rose and fell
hope ~ as the hours passed (mine-rescue attempt) fell into (rebel) hands
the stronghold of Korhogo ~
feeling, emotion & effect: direction
falls into the (company's) lap
fall (fall in love) consumer data ~
fell in love with America fall into the hands
I ~ (an exchange student) weapons that may ~ of terrorists (NBC, etc.)
fall in love with the (area's) seascapes fall into the (wrong) hands
artists ~ (northern Jutland) it could ~
fell in love with (tribal) carvings fall into enemy hands
Andre Breton ~ from Oceania (artist) he feared the machine gun could ~
fell in love with the sport fell into the wrong hands
like a lot of boys, he ~ straightaway (Ben Raemers) if the information ~
fallen in love with climbing possession: direction / hand / verb
he had ~ after taking a NOLS course
fall (fall into chaos, etc.)
fell in love with cycling
she ~ while on a holiday in Turkey (an Iraqi female) fall into an abyss
♦ “What can I say, I’m in love with birds.” (A birder.) women with eating disorders ~ and can't get out
♦ “To meet a walrus is to fall in love with a walrus.” (A walrus fell into (bloody, lawless) chaos
researcher.)
Afghanistan ~
♦ “I love maps, and when you get hooked, you get hooked.” (W. Graham
Arader III, a preeminent map dealer of old American maps.) fall into a (relentless) cycle
feeling, emotion & effect: direction sufferers ~ of compulsive scratching
enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage fallen into disrepair
fall (weight) the property had ~

weight (of the tragedy) fell fallen into disuse

the full ~ over the neighborhood (AIDS) many fire lookout towers have ~

burden falls fall into the habit

the ~ primarily on women (decisions) it is easy to ~ of using stereotypes to prejudge people

oppression: direction / weight fell into the life

their children ~ of American teenagers (Somalis)
fall (fall into a category, etc.)
fell into a pattern
fall into (3) categories he ~ and was caught (criminal)
pattern injuries ~ (ED)
fall into prostitution
falls into the (choking-agent) class homeless kids often ~ as a form of "survival sex"
chlorine is a chemical that ~ (ED)
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 the Marines ~ (ambush in Anbar Province) even the best of ~…
fallen into a trap things fell apart
the Bush administration has ~ (by invading Iraq) that's what happened in Africa, ~ (aid projects)
fell into drug abuse failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / verb
she ~, self-mutilation and promiscuity (teenager)
fall behind (competition and progress)
fell into a state of disrepair
the terminal ~ (Grand Central Terminal) fall behind
we want to keep up and not ~ (government official)
easy to fall into the US could ~ China (digital currency)
it is ~ the habit of using stereotypes to prejudge people
fallen behind at Fremont
decline: direction / verb he had ~ at Fremont, not just in history but... (school)
fall (devolve) fell behind by 3 years
our program ~ (space)
falls to the sheriffs
the ultimate responsibility for safety ~ (of jailed inmates) doomed to fall behind
they are ~ (certain categories of students)
responsibility (for safety) falls
the ultimate ~ to the sheriffs (of jailed inmates) keep up and not fall behind
we want to ~ (government official)
responsibility: direction
competition / growth & development / progress & lack of
fall (fall off the radar screen, etc.) progress: direction / journeys & trips / movement / sports
fell off the charts & games / verb / walking, running & jumping
the song rose to number 3, then ~ fall down (verb)
fell off the radar screen
both men ~ (terrorists)
fell down
he ~ and now he's getting back up (redemption)
appearance & disappearance: direction / verb
behavior / success & failure: direction / verb
fall apart (emotionally) failure, accident & impairment: verb / walking, running &
jumping
falls apart
he ~ at the merest hint of frustration (toddler) fallen (dead)
fell apart fallen detective
he ~ and turned to heroin (after being molested) the NYPD paid tribute to its ~ (killed in line of duty)
I ~ and started using drugs death & life: direction / euphemism
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism / verb
fallen (the fallen)
fall apart (verb)
living and the fallen
fell apart may God bless them, the ~ (speech to military)
my life ~ after I discovered… death & life: direction / euphemism
their relationship ~ (married couple)
the case ~ (criminal trail) fall for (verb)
fallen apart fell for it
the case against him has ~ it was a scam, but more than 400 people ~
argument falls apart fell for opera
but then his ~ a gramophone and Mozart, or how I ~
arrangement fell apart fell for each other
less than 2 years later, the ~ in college, they instantly ~ (romance)
life fell apart ♦ “Any woman who grew up during the late 1960s and ’70s will fall head
over heels for Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us.” (Ladies’ Home Journal)
my ~ after I discovered…
resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / verb
marriage fell apart
she described how her perfect ~ fall off (verb)
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decline / increase & decrease: direction / verb growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
falloff (noun) fall through (verb)
falloff in travel adoption fell through
there has been a ~ to and from Bali (terrorism) if the ~ and they often do...
decline / increase & decrease: direction deal fell through
but the ~ because…
fallout (effect)
plans had fallen through
fallout of an (Iraqi) war ~ (for a shared meal)
they are worried about the ~ (Egyptians)
sale fell through
fallout from the allegations the ~ (protests)
the firm faces continued ~ (fraud)
talks fall through
fallout from the incident should the trade ~
the ~ was unexpected and severe
success & failure: direction / verb
fallout from the resignation failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb
the newspaper is still coping with the ~ of…
falter (verb)
political fallout
he faces the potential for ~ (politics) negotiations faltered
he threatened China with new tariffs as ~
psychological fallout
the ~ to those who served in Vietnam plans have faltered
their ~
mental-health fallout
the ~ has yet to peak (Gulf of Mexico) failure, accident & impairment / starting, going, continuing
& ending: movement / verb / walking, running & jumping
contain the fallout
the US seeks to ~ from the murders of civilians family (group)
bracing for (more) fallout family
Washington is ~ from the scandal policing is a ~ (Sgt Matt Ratana)
♦ “Some seventy per cent of the fallout landed on Belarus and created an
unprecedented public-health crisis.” (The Chernobyl disaster of 1996, family of nations
Ukraine.) Russia had no place in the ~ (18th century)
affliction / effect / feeling, emotion & effect: atmosphere / rugby family
nuclear energy our thoughts and those of the entire ~ are with the family
fallow (adjective) member of the (European) family
do we want to remain a ~ or wander lost (EU)
fallow
the economy is still ~ (lack of growth) drive Greece out of the family
the EU is a heartless stepmother trying to ~
fallow period
she was enduring a ~ and fighting irrelevance (comic) relationship: family
she endured ~s in her personal life (relationships)
the following 7 years were a ~ (a bacteriologist) family (gang / group)
fallow stretch Mafia family
Disney has seen a ~ at the box office (films) New York's biggest ~

fallow territory group, set & collection: family

FIFA sees the US as ~ for soccer's growth family (plants)
fallow time onion family
it was a ~, a frustrating time for him
the ramp, a member of the ~
lay fallow orchid family
his analysis ~ for half a century (economics)
the ~ has more than 40,000 species
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 120 ~s and 300 species (Botanical Gardens) ♦ The Great Irish Famine ("The Great Hunger, 1845-1852); The Russian
famine of 1921-1922 (Volga and the Urals); the Ukraine famine of 1932-
taxonomy & classification: family 33; the Siege of Leningrad... (Starvation.)
♦ "His wife was called Itusarssuk. She loved children because once,
family (animals) during a hunger period, she had to kill four of her own to spare them from
the death of starvation… / Itusarssuk was highly respected because of
families of Arabian horses her deed. She had loved her children enough to kill them so as to free
them from further sufferings." (Book of the Eskimos by Peter Freuchen.)
there are five great ~
♦ “Who in the desert had never tasted drought? Who had not been driven
dolphin family into exile by famine? Such things were the inescapable fate of the
desert—and all the songs of the desert were an expression of this grief,
killer whales, or orcas, are the largest members of the ~ drought, and homelessness...” (From Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni.)
pinniped family ♦ "Like most creatures of the Wild, the grey cub early experienced
famine. There came a time when not only did the meat-supply cease, but
monk seals are the oldest in the ~
the milk no longer came from his mother's breast. At first the cubs
whimpered and cried, but for the most part they slept…reduced to a
equine family coma of hunger…while the life that was in them flickered and died down.
the donkey, mule, and zebra are all members of the ~ When the grey cub came back to life…he found…only one sister
remained to him. The rest were gone. [And] the food had come too late
taxonomy & classification: family for her. She slept continuously, a tiny skeleton flung round with skin in
which the flame flickered lower and lower and at last went out." (White
family (viruses) Fang by Jack London.)

family of coronaviruses consumption / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food &

a new strain from the ~ is to blame (SARS) drink

family of viruses fan (verb)

it is a ~ that… (coronaviruses)
dengue is from the same ~ that causes yellow fever
fan the flames
this senator sought to further ~ of division
viral family they just ~ to get clicks (the media online)
monkeypox is a member of the same ~ as smallpox high winds helped ~
taxonomy & classification: family fanned the flames
he has ~ of the controversy
family (products)
fanning the flames
family of engines he is ~ of hostility towards Muslims (a politician)
the JT8D-200 is from the same ~ used on midsize jets
fanning civil war
notebook family Iran and Syria have been ~ in Iraq
the ~ that's won over 800 awards (computers)
increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb
combat vehicle family
each member of the future ~ fan (shape)
member of the (future vehicle) family alluvial fan
each ~ (military) a vast ~ extends out into the Bay of Bengal
♦ “As the sky breaks open / Its fans around him and shimmers / And into
taxonomy & classification: family its northern gates he rises / Snarling complete in the joy of a weasel /
With an elk’s horned heart in his stomach...” (“For the Last Wolverine” by
family (languages) James L. Dickey. The aurora resembles a fan both in shape and
movement.)
linguistic family
40 ethnic groups belonging to 3 ~s (Africa) resemblance / shape: fan

taxonomy & classification: family fanatic (person)

family tree fitness fanatic
he is a ~
family tree
the roots of his ~ lie in Ireland health fanatic
he is a fitness trainer and a ~
branching system: family / tree
jade fanatic
famine (noun) Hu Xianli, a self-professed ~ from Zhejiang Province
feast to famine sports fanatic
it was ~ in a couple of weeks (laid-off tech worker) she describes herself as a ~ (Miss USA)
go from feast to famine camel racing fanatic
you ~, bologna to steak back to bologna (coal miner)

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 a ~ bought a racing camel for $2.7 million (UAE) ♦ “In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, all the cops have wooden legs, and
the bulldogs all have rubber teeth, and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs. The
self-professed (jade) fanatic brakemen have to tip their hats, and the railroad bulls are blind. There
are birds and bees and cigarette trees, and lemonade springs where the
Hu Xianli, a ~ from Zhejiang Province bluebird sings, Oh I’m bound to go where there ain’t no snow, where the
rain don’t fall and the wind don’t blow, in the Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
describes herself as a sports fanatic (The hobo song written by Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock. Heard in the
she ~ (Miss USA) film O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
♦ "My motto is, 'Be fit, not fanatic.'" (Exercise in moderation.) ♦ “Someday, we’re gonna have us a little house and a couple acres, and
a cow and a pig and chickens. And have rabbits. We’re gonna have a big
♦ Reda The Elephant (Tunisia); Petit Bamba (Ivory Coast); Spike Lee vegetable patch and we’re gonna have a rabbit hutch. And down in the
(New York City)... (Internationally famous sports fans.) flat we’ll have a little field of alfalfa. Yeah, you get to tend the rabbits.
♦ Fan is short for fanatic, which comes from the Latin fanaticus, “in or of When it rains, in the winter, we’ll just say hell with going to work, and
the temple,” from fanum, or temple, and took on the meaning “inspired by we’ll just build a fire in the stove, and we’ll just sit there, and we’ll listen to
divinity.” It began to be used in the US around 1900 by sportswriters the rain.” (George speaking to Lennie. From the 1992 film Of Mice and
writing about baseball enthusiasts, and the Hollywood movie industry Men, with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich, screenplay by Horton Foote,
would spin off fan magazines. based on the novella by John Steinbeck.)
♦ “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride!”
enthusiasm: person / religion
wants, needs, hopes & goals: mental health
fanaticism (enthusiasm)
fantasy (fairy tale, etc.)
sneakerhead fanaticism
it’s a masterly satire of ~ (“The Day the Jordans Drop”) fantasy land
♦ “These were as brave men as ever walked the earth...destroyed, not it’s ~, brother, enjoy it (Logan Paul vs. Mayweather)
conquered, by machinery.” (Winston Churchill, about the Battle of
Omdurman. From Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts.) feminist fantasy
I fell headlong into the frantic ~
enthusiasm: religion
♦ “I fell headlong into the frantic feminist fantasy of State of Terror... The
fanboy (person) twist here is the gender of the action figure, who’s barking commands
and sweating her mascara off in the effort to save American democracy.
Not only is she female, but she’s a late middle-aged Secretary of State
fanboy status named Ellen Adams...” (Maureen Corrigan loves Hillary Clinton’s book.)
he’s made no secret of his ~ (two judges / SCOTUS)
fantasy & reality / resemblance: books & reading
enthusiasm: person / religion
fantasy (delusion)
fanfare (attention)
fantasy
with much fanfare these charges are a ~ cooked up by the prosecutors
her appointment was announced ~ (air force)
fantasy science
with little fanfare the company was based on ~ (Theranos)
the question was added to the forms ~ in 2008
delusion, denial and fantasy
with little (advanced) fanfare they seek refuge in ~ (the Middle East)
he visited smaller towns, ~ (a presidential candidate)
fantasy & reality: mental health
attention, scrutiny & promotion: music
far (farther on / time)
fan out (verb)
200 years further on
fanned out from Moscow ~ again, he enthuses about the Bauhaus (German history)
“politically literate” young Bolsheviks ~ to the rural areas
past & present / time: distance
fanning out over the country
census workers are ~ (India) far (far from, etc.)
movement: fan / shape far from where
extent & scope: fan we’re still so ~ we need to be (testing for COVID)
fantasy (dream) far from the finish line
deep into the rat race, ~ of retirement
fantasy was that
my ~ I could... far (away) from the next scandal
he was never ~ (John McAfee)
my fantasy
you are the most beautiful woman in the world, you are ~ far from over
that was ~ growing up (to be a chess grandmaster) the criticism and handwringing is ~ (foreign-policy issue)
the legal saga was ~
living my fantasy
I guess I’m ~ (a music groupie) far from perfect

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 she was ~ as the USA finished second (gymnastics) “Critics of the Georgia elections law got far out over their skis.”
(Corporations sanctioned the state, and Major League baseball removed
♦ see also way (a long way from, etc.) the All-Star Game from Atlanta. If you get too far out over your skis while
skiing, you can crash.)
proximity / time: distance
♦ For some reason this type of phrase gets tossed around a lot at my
far (progress) company. They’ll say, “you don’t want to get ahead of your skis” and I
always have the urge to shout back “actually I don’t want my skis to get
ahead of me!. Lol It’s always distracting... (MissySki, Apr 19, 2021, on
go far “The Ski Diva forum titled “Can you really get “out over your skis”? by
together we will ~ SallyCat, Apr 18, 2021.)

get this far behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: distance

I never thought I would ~ (immigrant success) failure, accident & impairment: distance
gone too far farce (noun)
we've ~ to turn back now (politics)
farce
not go far enough this was a ~, window dressing (Savoy plebiscite)
she said the law did ~ (Greta Thunberg)
courtroom farce
gone (quite) a distance the trial was less a drama than a ~
we have ~ in creating a better Afghanistan
political farce
how far he can go meanwhile, a ~ took place at Stormont
he’s looking to see ~ (a politician)
farce and tragedy
♦ “There’s no point coming this far, to only come this far.” (The #filterdrop
campaign.)
man walks a narrow line in nature between ~ (Antarctic)
♦ “So far, so good!” (Not too many problems.) become a farce
attainment / progress & lack of progress: distance / the law has ~ (anonymity destroyed by social media)
journeys & trips / movement descended into a farce
the organizational plans have ~ (Olympic security)
far (too far)
follow tragedy with farce
bridge too far this will undermine them, you will ~ (politics)
see bridge (a bridge too far, etc.)
♦ When Marx wrote that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy,
a bit too far the second time as farce,” he was specifically comparing Napoleon
Bonaparte to his nephew, Napoleon III. Victor Hugo disparagingly
he takes his theory ~ referred to Napoleon III as Napoleon the Little. Winston Churchill had a
somewhat more favorable view of Napoleon III: “For more than twenty
way too far years this amiable, dreamy figure was to play a striking and not always
this ideology has gone ~ ineffective part upon the European scene.”

going too far feeling, emotion & effect: theater

revoke her license, but being sent to jail is ~ (a nurse) farewell (noun)
gone too far
farewell to comedy
he conceded that he had ~ (behavior)
it is her ~
counterterrorism measures have ~
all this talk about rights has ~ fond farewell
Belfast is a ~ to Branagh’s childhood (the film)
went too far
he claims the officer ~ reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: exclamation /
she ~ (bad behavior gets her in trouble) speech
OSHA stepped out of its lane, it ~ (a legal case)
far-flung (adjective)
pushed the limits too far
she has ~ (nudity) far-flung parts
you have been to so many ~ (a birder)
pushed religion too far
the Islamists ~ (a Somali) extent & scope: distance / throwing, putting & planting

erred too far farm (computers)

we have ~ on the side of caution
bitcoin farms
swung too far Malaysia police crush ~ with steamroller
the pendulum has ~ and they want to push it back ~ even sell unused power back to the grid (Texas)
♦ see also ski (over one’s skis)
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farm (enterprise) fashion (out of fashion)
body farm fallen out of fashion
the ~ has revolutionized forensic anthropology empathy has ~
cadaver dogs will train at the ~ (North Carolina) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: clothing &
bitcoin farms accessories
Malaysia police crush ~ with steamroller fashion (noun)
content farm
political and intellectual fashions
Demand Media is a ~
they have picked up the latest ~ (overseas Indians)
~s employ freelance writers
~s supply articles based on search-engine queries appearance & reality: clothing & accessories
substance & lack of substance: clothing & accessories
tank farm
one of the facility's two ~s was destroyed (chemicals) fashion (verb)
wave farm fashioned a knife out of wood
the world's first ~ off Portugal (generating electricity) researchers have ~ that’s three times sharper than steel
wind farm creation & transformation: hand
a 20-megawatt ~ with 13-16 windmills
the ~ contains some 4,000 individual windmills (CA) fat (chew the fat)
Wind Farm chewed the fat for about 15 minutes
the Gray County ~ in Kansas we ~, then finally the General said... (getting serious)

computer server farm speech: food & drink

his Websites were connected to the same ~ in Russia fat (adjective)
wave energy farm
the US has awarded a permit to conduct testing for a ~
getting fat
the regime is ~ while the poor suffer
product: farming & agriculture
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: fatness & thinness
far-off (time) fatal (adjective)
far-off days
the ~ of the quill pen and the ink well
fatal to an athlete’s career
a doping ban can be ~
past & present / time: distance
fatal contradictions
far-reaching there were two ~ in the American project (Afghan war)

far-reaching fatal mistake

his predictions are ~ and broad he called it a “pretty ~” (election prospects)
♦ “She was probably a good nurse in many ways, but she made a fatal
far-reaching changes mistake. Literally.” (A nurse who injected the wrong drug, which killed her
Congress is expected to make ~ in the law that… elderly patient. The case was controversial because the nurse was
criminally charged and convicted.)
far-reaching consequences
destruction: death & life / health & medicine
the finding could have ~ for how patients...
far-reaching importance fatally (fatally wounded, etc.)
something of ~ fatally wounded
far-reaching and broad the campaign is ~ (politics / election)
his predictions are ~ destruction: death & life / health & medicine
extent & scope: arm / distance fat cat
farsighted (adjective) fat cat
heroic and farsighted plutocrats, ~s… (rich politicians)
his dedication to space flight was ~ (Von Braun)
money: cat / fatness & thinness
consciousness & awareness / future / perception,
perspective & point of view: distance / eye father (verb)
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 he had been imported to ~ the bill (C.P. Ilbert) father of the English dictionary
Samuel Johnson, the ~ (England)
creation & transformation: family / verb
father (Father of Waters, etc.) father of science fiction
Jules Verne, conventionally considered the ~
father of floods fathers of flight
the Yellow River was known as the “~” the Wright brothers are considered the ~
Father of Waters Father of Modern Chinese Geology
the ~ again goes unvexed to the sea (Mississippi River) dignified by the title of the ~ (Li Siguang)
“Down the Yellowstone, the Milk, the White and Cheyenne; / The
Cannonball, the Musselshell, the James and the Sioux; / Down the father of English grammar
Judith, the Grand, the Osage and the Platte, / The Skunk, the Salt, the
Black and Minnesota; / Down the Rock, the Illinois, and the Kankakee, /
Lindley Murray came to be known as the ~ (in the U.S.)
The Allegheny, the Monongahela, Kanawha, and Muskingum; / Down the
Miami, the Wabash, the Licking and the Green, / The Cumberland, the father of modern gynecology
Kentucky, and the Tennessee; / Down the Ouachita, the Witchita, the James Marion Sims was known as the “~” (fistula)
Red, and Yazoo. // Down the Missouri, three thousand miles from the
Rockies; / Down the Ohio, a thousand miles from the Alleghenies; / father of Impressionism
Down the Arkansas, fifteen hundred miles from the Great Divide; / Down he is often called the ~ (Manet)
the Red, a thousand miles from Texas; / Down the great Valley, twenty-
five hundred miles from Minnesota, / Carrying every rivulet and brook,
creek and rill, / Carrying all the rivers that run down two-thirds the
father of India
continent-- / The Mississippi runs to the Gulf.” (Narration from The River Mohandas K. Gandhi, the ~ (from Gujarat)
by Pare Lorentz, 1938, a New Deal government-financed documentary.)
father of the Internet
epithet: family Vint Cerf is often called “The ~”
geography: epithet
fathers of (Angola's) independence
father (father of progress, etc.) Holden Roberto, one of the ~
father of progress father of American copyright law
necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the ~ he became known as the ~ (Noah Webster)
relationship: family father of American literature
father (father of India, etc.) William Faulkner called him “the ~” (Mark Twain)
father of tropical medicine
Pater Patriae
Patrick Manson, the ~
Captain Arthur Phillip, the ~ of Australians
father of Australian medicine
fathers of Modern Anesthesia
the “~” helped reform the system (William Redfern)
the ~ (Crawford W. Long and William T.G. Morton)
father of microbiology
father of landscape architecture
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the ~
America's ~, Frederick Law Olmsted
“father of mindfulness”
father of Roman architecture
Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk and ~
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, considered by many to be the ~
father of the (modern innocence) movement
Father of Bibliography
he is considered the ~ (Jim McCloskey, Centurion)
he earned his title as the ~ (Konrad Gesner)
Father of Country Music
father of bluegrass
Jimmie Rodgers is known as “the ~”
the legendary ~, Bill Monroe
father of the (Bengali) nation
father of the atomic bomb
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is often called the ~
the man known as the ~ (Oppenheimer)
father of neurosurgery
Father of the (Pakistani) bomb
he was hailed as the ~ (Harvey Cushing, brain surgeon)
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the ~ (nuclear)
father of Pakistan
father of American musical comedy
Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the ~
he is considered the ~ (George M. Cohan)
“father” of India’s nuclear programme
father of containerization
the ~, Homi J Bhabha
Malcolm P. McLean, the ~
father of modern protozoology
father of CPR
I’ve seen him referred to as “the ~” (Fritz Schaudinn)
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father of cognitive psychology hard to fathom
Ulric Neisser, considered the ~ the military’s longer game plan is ~ (coup in Myanmar)
father of modern surgery comprehension & incomprehension: depth / sea
John Hunter, the ~
fatigue (noun)
father of Russian field surgery
N.I. Pirogov, known as the ~... COVID 19 fatigue
people have ~ (ending restrictions too early)
father of the tank
it is plausible to describe him as the ~ (Winston Churchill) compassion fatigue
we are all vulnerable to ~
father of tiramisu
Ado Campeol, dubbed “the ~” by Italian media, has died feedback fatigue
I am suffering from such a serious case of ~
father of modern Turkey
Mustapha Kemal “Ataturk,” the ~, was also a Macedonian franchise fatigue
after nine films, there is a danger of ~
father of (modern) hot-air ballooning
he was the ~ (Ed Yost / propane) internet fatigue
I think we all get ~ (during the COVID lockdown)
father of modern figure skating
Jackson Haines, the ~ (born in 1840) negotiation fatigue
we have been warning about ~ for a long time (boxing)
“father of trekking”
he is fondly remembered as the ~ in Nepal (Jimmy Roberts) Olympic fatigue
there’s a lot of ~ (viewership down)
father of modern sledge travelling
Parry was indeed the ~ (Sir Edward Parry) politics fatigue
~ is when you’re sick of talking about politics
Internet ‘father”
~ Vint Cerf on challenges ahead pop-up fatigue
~ may have contributed to the error (medication error)
♦ Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime.
the hidden dangers of EHR ~
♦ Gandhi is often referred to as the Father of India. Gandhi himself
referred to his mentor Dadabhai Naoroji as the Father of the Nation. zoom fatigue
Every father has a father!
many are suffering from ~ (pandemic)
♦ see also mother (mother of NPR, etc.)
fatigue set in
creation & transformation: epithet / family
zoom ~ months ago, but audio is stepping into the breach
epithet / person: family
♦ “I find it really annoying when they send me those emails, I never
Father Time review anything... You just buy the smallest thing and you’re asked to
review it. You know, you buy a metre of string and you’re asked to review
it. I mean, it’s ridiculous.” (BBC, Sounds, Business Daily, “Feedback
Father Time Fatigue,” 25 Oct 2017.)
there is no stopping ~
♦ “Question eight. ‘Was our delivery service awesome, just what the
doctor ordered, or well and truly hit the spot.’ Well, there’s no negative
father time option! You see, this is what they do. By the time you’ve spent 25
~ catches up with everyone (a boxer) minutes answering their short survey, they shut down all dissent in the
hope that you’ll just give up and that way they’ll never receive any
Father Time remains undefeated negative feedback!” (Ed Reardon’s Week: Series 14: You’re Cancelled,
Woods said previously that ~ (golfer Tiger Woods) BBC, written by Andrew Nicolds and Christopher Douglas. It’s hilarious!)

defied father time condition & status: health & medicine

Zlatan has ~ to continue to excel (Ibrahimovic) faucet (noun)
outrun Father Time faucet of sound
it’s impossible to ~ (boxing and age) there’s no turning off the ~ in Louisiana
time: epithet / family
money faucet
epithet: family
finally, the European Central Bank turned on the ~
fathom (verb)
turn on the faucet
fathom the magnitude many wish to ~ and shower the country with easy loans
she didn’t ~ of the problem (immigration)
turned their faucets off
difficult to fathom they just all ~ at exactly the same time (ad firm loses clients)
his demeanor made the attack even more ~ (murderer)
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 the Federal Reserve has steadily ~, hoping to keep the ♦ “The death of one of Australia’s favorite sons has shocked the country.”
(Shane Warne, the iconic sportsman and cricketeer. A consolation is that
money flowing he died on holiday in a wonderful country.)
control & lack of control: infrastructure / water person: family
increase & decrease: infrastructure / water achievement, recognition & praise / superlative / worth &
fault (fault line) lack of worth: family / person

fault line fealty (noun)

the ~s break people into two camps (computers) fealty to the Constitution
race is the ~
Republicans took control of the House with a show of ~
society’s fault lines fealty to Israel
invasion and occupation expose a ~
she has criticized those who demand that she show ~
Sunni-Shiite fault line show of fealty
the ~ originated in the deserts of Iraq in the 7th century
it was a ~ to the Constitution (a ceremony)
sectarian fault line out of fealty to Day-Lewis
Jurf as-Sakhr sits right on a ~ (Sunni / Shiite)
~, who is fiercely private, he would not elaborate...
fault line has cracked wide open flattery and fealty
a long-standing ~ (in a royal family)
he went through the requisite motions of ~ (politics)
exposed (deep) fault lines show (true) fealty
the referendum has ~ in Latvia (with ethnic Russians)
her unwillingness to ~ to him was untenable (politics)
exposed a (stark) fault line allegiance, support & betrayal: history / Middle Ages /
the Smollett case has ~ between Chicago, county and state
royalty
lays bare the fault lines fearless (girls and women, etc.)
the report ~ that divide this group (Amish)
♦ “The [Evan] Bayh defection coming on top of the stunning Democratic Fearless
loss seen in Massachusetts reveals a threatening fault line running under ~, Taylor Swift’s second studio album (2008)
the political scene. And we can expect further aftershocks...” (The great
Daniel Schorr from “Bayh Exit Highlights Public Rejection Of Politics,”
NPR, All Things Considered, Feb 18, 2010.)
fearless with love and life
she is also ~ (Mia Farrow about Carly Simon)
division & connection: earthquake / ground, terrain & land
fearless conversations
Faust (noun) the ~ about race you’ve been waiting for (NPR)
second Faust “Fearless Girl”
Nansen, the tortured driven soul, a ~ the ~ statue created by Kristen Visbal
allusion: books & reading fearless and adept
fate, fortune & chance: allusion / person / religion the world knows her as a ~ interviewer
Faustian (adjective) fearless, generous
those ~ souls (The Miracle Season / very young girls)
Faustian
we have this bargain, you can call it ~ if you want (tech) fearless, independent
our ~ journalism (The Guardian)
Faustian bargain
Obama made a ~ with the Republicans to… frank and fearless
he accused them of striking a ~ to regulate… comedienne Sommore is ~
they entered into one ~ after another (Hollywood media)
YOUNG AND FEARLESS
allusion: books & reading ~ (a pink T-shirt worn by female of S. Asian heritage)
fate, fortune & chance: allusion / person / religion
comparison & contrast: affix feel fearless
when you need to ~ this fall... (women’s fashion)
favorite son ♦ People have named their children after Sommore.

favorite son ♦ “[Her book] was described as ‘fearless’ by British writer Zadie Smith.”
(New York writer Raven Leilani, winner of 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize.)
he was welcomed to Ireland like a ~ (Obama)
♦ “12 Fierce Accessories to get you through every occasion when you
Australia’s favorite sons need to feel fearless this fall.” (Glamour X, Nine West.)
the death of one of ~ has shocked the country ♦ Forward. Jewish. Fearless. Since 1897. (The Forward digital
magazine.)

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♦ “More than 1.5 million people in 180 countries now fund our fearless, ruffle feathers in history departments
independent journalism. Will you support us?” (The Guardian.)
she is the latest revisionist to ~
inclusion & exclusion: society
ruffled feathers in Washington
fearlessly he ~ with his warnings (a diplomat)
♦ “This will ruffle some feathers. We need to know what is going on with
fearlessly forward the measurement. The fact that we have two other experiments that
he looks back—and ~... (a poet) agree with each other and the Standard Model and strongly disagree
with this experiment is worrying to me.” (Professor Ben Allanach, a
fearlessly paving theoretical physicist at Cambridge University. From “Shock result in
jazz is about ~ new ground for the future particle experiment could spark physics revolution” by Pallab Ghosh,
BBC, April 7, 2022.)
fearlessly fought feeling, emotion & effect: animal / bird / verb
he ~ those who were hurting the poor (Harry Reid)
behavior / disruption: animal / bird / verb
attacks the problem fearlessly character & personality: animal / bird / verb
she ~ and with consummate art (writer Nella Larsen) febrile (adjective)
keep creating fearlessly febrile atmosphere
just ~ (Thundercat, real name Stephen Bruner) he postponed the trial so it could take place in a less ~
♦ “Ensure carefully and dream fearlessly.” (An advertisement for the ~ of the city was... (siege of Constantinople)
American Family Insurance.)
reflecting the ~, some alleged that...
inclusion & exclusion: society
febrile energy
fearlessness (noun) the play has the ~ of the wilder parties of your youth
fearlessness of the female spirit febrile (political) environment
it’s about the ~ (Fearless Girl statue by Kristen Visbal) in that ~ (Arab Spring)
inclusion & exclusion: society febrile minds
in the ~ of anti-Semites, Jews were... (stereotypes)
feast (noun)
febrile nationalism
feast for the ears Modi seeks to hold power in a climate of ~ (India)
our ringside commentary team is a ~
activity: health & medicine / temperature
feast for the eyes feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / temperature
it was a ~
fed (supplied)
feast of great music and chat
they present a ~ (a radio show) fed a (steady) diet
he was being ~ of far-right content and conspiracy theories
feast of arts and culture
he dives into the ~ on offer in North Yorkshire (BBC) directing / supplying: food & drink

feast to famine fed up (adjective)

it was ~ in a couple of weeks (laid-off tech worker)
fed up
feast or famine he got ~ and quit the team
freelancing is ~ (lost job to pandemic) ~, his wife challenged him to…
people really felt ~ (government corruption)
visual and musical feast
it is a fast-paced ~ from start to finish (a stage show) fed up with being stereotyped
♦ Diamond Jim Brady was a notorious gourmand. See "Whether True or pensioners are ~ on TV as grumpy or sweet
False, a Real Stretch," by David Kamp, NYT, December 30, 2008, which
includes quotations about Brady from America Eats Out (1991) by John fed up with (growing) hordes
Mariani. people are ~ of homeless people begging on their streets
♦ "You know what's good? Instant mashed potatoes mixed with ramen
noodles. Now, that's good." (A hiker at the "Fontana Hilton" trail hut on fed up with incumbents
the Appalachian Trail. Hikers can eat only what they can carry.) the electorate is ~ (elections)
consumption / superlative: food & drink fed up with the police
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink people are ~ (slow response times)
feather (ruffle feathers) fed up with their (justice) system
ruffled some feathers polls show that Mexicans are ~
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 inmates are ~ she's been getting (a jailed celebrity) feed (feed on / off something)
fed up with the lack of progress fed on his antics
the commission, ~, gave both parties a year to accept
the tabloid media have ~ for years (a celebrity)
fed up with what’s going on feed on fear
people are ~ (protests)
they ~ of immigrants (extremists)
fed up and (kind of) at the end of his rope feeds on itself
he was pretty much ~
fear ~
amount / consumption / feeling, emotion & effect /
feed on one another
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink / stomach
these cycles of outrage ~ (social media)
feed (fuel) feeds off such (public) anger
feeds a climate the group ~ (collateral damage)
reject language that ~ of hate (politics) feeds off ignorance
feeds the insurgency he's the type who ~ (a radio commentator)
government corruption ~ feed off the misery
feed extremism there are predators who ~ of the refugees
how poverty may ~ (Morocco) feed into and off of
feeds lawlessness and instability they ~ of the anger of people (preachers)
Afghanistan's immense opium harvest ~ consumption / increase & decrease / supplying: food &
feeds fears, prejudices, and hate drink
the powerful ways modern media ~ feed (feed into)
increase & decrease: food & drink / verb
feed into a (broader public) discontent
consumption: food & drink / verb
concerns about unions ~ with powerful institutions
relationship / supplying: food & drink / verb
feed (direct) feeds into (the deepest) fears
his speech ~
feed intelligence to airlines
feed into the Owyhee
the US will now ~ (terrorist watch lists)
these streams ~ (Idaho river)
directing / supplying: food & drink / verb
feeds into stereotypes
feed (supply) his article ~ of American Muslims

fed Mayorga a (steady) diet feeds into the white manifest destiny thing
he ~ of left hooks and right hands (De La Hoya) the propaganda story ~

fed the Germans (fake) gossip feed into and off of

Elvira Chaudoir ~ (World War II) they ~ of the anger of people (preachers)

feeds the (fast farm) empire branching system: river / verb

the canal ~ of the Imperial Valley feed (drip feed)
feeds the production
drip feed of outrage
there’s a whole supply chain that ~ of the plane
there’s a constant ~ (social media)
supplying: food & drink / verb
supplying: water
consumption: food & drink / verb
feed (satisfy) feed (video, etc.)
feeds off the Web
feed the (public) appetite
TVs can receive video ~
the Y has increased the number of debates to ~
video feed
tap, feed and nurture
tap into the ~ between…(two cities)
he wants to ~ this anger (politician appeals to base)
TVs can receive ~s off the Web
wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink
live feed
consumption: food & drink
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 reporters in another room reported on the ~ (Oscars) searching & discovery: animal / arm / insect / verb
transmission: tools & technology feeling (sinking feeling)
feed (auto feed, etc.) sinking feeling
I had a ~ (on a date)
feed automatically
remaining towels ~ for next use (from canister) sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach
I had a ~ (about to lose)
auto feed (m)
~ function (paper shredder) feeling, emotion & effect: direction
supplying: mechanism feet (think on one’s feet)
feedback (noun) think on their feet
they must be able to ~ (Green Beret trainees)
feedback
the company takes ~ from them haste / readiness & preparedness: foot
your ~ will help us
~ makes clear the connection between… feet (get back on one’s feet, etc.)
give your team members ~ they can act on
back on its feet
feedback on their strengths and weaknesses I wanted to see it ~, get it up and running (a town)
tests give them ~ (students)
landed on his feet
feedback about their performance he ~ (fired, but found a better job)
give corrective ~ (teachers)
land on my feet
feedback loop my family calls me Kat because I always ~ (survivor)
in the 70s, we saw this unfortunate ~ (wage-price inflation)
complex ~s (AI / computers) get back on its feet
the narrative was amplified in a ~ by the media (politics) the department is beginning to ~ (university)

consumer feedback get back on their feet

user-opinion sites offer ~ people need help to ~

customer feedback get back on your feet

text mining software to analyze ~ this will help you ~ (medicine)

corrective feedback get back on our feet

give ~ about their performance (teachers) after we ~, after the economy gets going again (pandemic)

immediate feedback got (back) on his feet

achievement is higher when kids receive ~ (school) he finally ~ financially
resiliency: direction / foot / standing, sitting & lying
regular feedback
~ is more desirable than sporadic feedback (schools) amelioration & renewal: direction / foot / standing, sitting
& lying
sporadic feedback feet (drag one's feet)
regular feedback is more desirable than ~ (schools)
give (corrective) feedback dragging its feet
~ about their performance (teachers) the Pentagon has been ~ (on legalizing gays in military)

provides feedback dragging its feet on steroids

the teacher ~ (during seatwork assignments) the players union must stop ~ (MLB)

judgment: mechanism dragged its feet on carrying out

Japan's Parliament has ~ laws…
feeler (put out feelers, etc.)
action, inaction, & delay: foot / movement / verb
put out feelers about him feet (hold somebody's feet to the fire)
several clubs have ~ (an NFL player)
put out feelers on social media hold their feet to the fire
in June, the brothers ~ (for a climbing trip) you've got to ~ (to get them to act)

have all our feelers out hold the airline's feet to the fire
we ~, and there’s a lot of options he vowed to ~ (a regulator)

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coercion & motivation: fire / verb / violence destruction: direction / verb
feet (knock somebody off their feet) fence (division)
knocked me off my feet good fences
her response ~ ~ make good neighbors
♦ “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall...” (The first line of
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / force / “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost. Twice his neighbor says, “Good fences
verb make good neighbors.”)

feet (stand on one’s own two feet) division & connection: fence

stand on their own two feet fence (mend fences)

nobody knows when they will be able to ~ (Iraqi army)
mending fences
growth & development: death & life / standing, sitting & he is ~ (trying to re-establish broken trust)
lying
mend fences with the Arab countries
feet (get one's feet wet) he started to ~ (Abdullah of Jordan)

get her feet wet mend fences with Great Britain

it's a chance for her to ~ the State Department is trying to ~
♦ This focuses only on repairing what is broken.
absorption & immersion / experience: water
amelioration & renewal: fence / verb
feet (feet first)
fence (on the fence, etc.)
feet first
the soldiers came out of the hospital, ~ (yellow fever) on the fence
he is trying hard to stay ~ (between Russia, US)
death & life: euphemism
allegiance, support & betrayal: fence
feet (lay blame at the feet, etc.) position, policy & negotiation: fence
at the feet of the president fence (straddle the fence)
Democrats have been laying the blame ~ (politics)
straddling the (diplomatic) fence
falls at the feet of the president the Yemeni leader is ~ (US vs. Iraq)
this ~ (responsibility)
came off his fence
lay every problem at the president’s feet on 7 July, Bernadotte finally ~ and began marching
she tries to ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: fence / verb
responsibility: foot / proximity position, policy & negotiation: fence / verb
feet (master / protégé) fence (fence-straddling)
sat at the feet of black stride piano players fence-straddling politician
George Gershwin ~ he's just another ~
knowledge & intelligence: foot / position allegiance, support & betrayal: fence
feisty (adjective) position, policy & negotiation: fence
feral (behavior)
feisty (TV) debate
the candidates’ divisions were laid bare in the ~ feral
♦ A feist is a small hunting dog, used in the Southern Appalachians to he’s out on his own, he’s ~, not under supervision (a child)
hunt bear. They can range through the laurel and rhododendron more
easily than larger dogs. behavior / identity & nature: animal

character & personality: animal / dog ferment (verb)

fell (verb) fermented in Cavani over time
the idea for these characters had ~ (The Night Porter)
felled many a great scientist
contamination has ~ activity: alcohol / chemistry / verb

fells Navy skipper ferment (noun)

video scandal ~
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 there is a great deal of ~ in Iran ~ destroys 8,000 acres (California)
cultural ferment ferocious winds
it was a time of ~ (Russian poetry) ~ have fueled the fire (California)
activity: alcohol / chemistry more ferocious
the media attacks were ~ than ever (on Labor Party)
ferocious (groups)
♦ “The mother bear gets ferocious if another bear even wanders near
her family.” (Katmai National Park.)
ferocious achievements
~ for a woman at the time (a NYC gourmet, oenophile) character & personality / destruction / force / strength &
ferocious new album weakness: animal / predation / wolf
Flotard has released a wonderfully ~ ferociously
ferocious rapper enforced ferociously
~ Megan Thee Stallion returns with a royal guest the regulations were ~
ferocious new single destruction / force / strength & weakness: animal /
Juan Manuel Torreblanca’s ~ predation / wolf
ferocious performances ferocity (groups)
~ by conductor Andris Nelsons (Gewandhaus Orchestra)
♦ “Alexia, a punky Tank Girl played by ferocious newcomer Agathe ferocity of physical desire
Rousselle... (“Titane: The most shocking film of 2021” by Nicholas I miss the ~ (embracing menopause)
Barber, BBC, 15th July 2021.)
♦ “Simply by envisioning teen girls as ferocious beasts, Cain finds a ferocity and joy
hundred ways to mock our culture’s fear of powerful women.” (“In Wildly the group could have fed the Oscars a jolt of ~ (music)
Satirical ‘Man-Eaters,’ teen girls turn into ferocious panthers” by Etelka
Lehoczky, NPR, March 6, 2019.) that ferocity, that spirit
♦ “As a teenager, I studied its lessons carefully and now, even as an she has ~ (Lyla Kohistany)
emerging adult, I learn something new with every relisten: how to say no,
when to push myself, when to hold back, be gentle, be ferocious, where I Candy Ferocity
can hold space for grief and growth.” (“Beyonce’s ‘4’ Taught Me How To
Become And Embrace Being An Emotional Woman,” NPR, Latesha ~ of Pose (FX TV series)
Harris, June 24, 2021.)
so much ferocity
♦ “I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire, ‘cause I
am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar.” (Lyrics of song “Roar” there’s ~, such commitment to the message (music)
sung by Katy Perry.)
blithe ferocity
inclusion & exclusion: society he drops names with a kind of ~
ferocious (other) with equal ferocity
she loves and hates him ~
ferocious battle
the ~ for Hue (Vietnam War) agency, ferocity and encouragement
inspirational declarations of ~ (the TV series Pose)
ferocious criticism
♦ “[Angelica Ross’] breakthrough role came in 2018, as Candy Ferocity in
those who broke ranks are facing ~ (impeachment vote) Rya Murphy’s FX drama series Pose.” (Wikipedia.)

ferocious fighting ♦ “She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she’s dancing like she’s
never danced before.” (The film Flashdance, 1983.)
~ is taking place in Lashkar Gah (Helmand province)
inclusion & exclusion: society
ferocious fires
~ burned through the Santa Monica Mountains ferocity (other)
ferocious reputation ferocity of the ambush
he is a local military commander with a ~ (Afghanistan) commanders were stunned by the ~ (Afghanistan)
ferocious (American) response ferocity of the eruption
there is going to be a ~ (diplomacy) scientists were caught off guard by the ~
ferocious (diplomatic) row ferocity of weather
her detention led to a ~ between China and Canada we don’t normally get that sort of ~ (Storm Eunice / UK)
ferocious storm war’s ferocity
they were caught in a ~ near the summit of Les Droites the fate of one family illustrates Gaza ~ (2009)
countries in the Caribbean that have to deal with ~s
with such ferocity
ferocious wildfire he threw punches ~ (Mike Tyson)

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♦ “Tyson Fury now has an energy drink out called “Ferocity,” there’s a
plug...” (5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce.) festering (adjective)
destruction / force / strength & weakness: animal / festering dispute
predation / wolf he was murdered over a ~

farrago (confused mixture) festering sore

the conflict has remained a ~ left untended (Middle East)
farrago of nonsense
he dismissed the row as a ~ (politics) affliction / corruption / reconciliation, resolution &
♦ In Latin, mixed fodder or a mixture.
conclusion / starting, going, continuing & ending: health &
medicine
♦ “Fish and milk and tamarind juice.” (An Egyptian expression for an
unappealing mess.)
fetish (noun)
mixture: food & drink
fetish for manufacturing
ferret out (verb) they both share a ~ (politicians)
ferreted out the (hidden) information have a fetish for big food
they ~ it’s no secret Americans ~ (triple-decker cheeseburgers)
ferret out (potential) bias and prejudice makes a fetish of period detail
procedures are inadequate to ~ (jury selection) the show ~ (Mad Men / early 1960s)
searching & discovery: animal / verb makes a fetish of transparency
behavior: animal / verb the media ~
fertile (adjective) turned him into a fetish
the Republicans have ~ (Ronald Reagan)
fertile in writers
Australia is ~ whose books faithfully mirror life importance & significance: religion

fertile field fetishistic (adjective)

Donald Trump was plowing a very ~ (Mara Liasson)
fetishistic interest
fertile ground I’ve had this almost ~ in The New Yorker (Wes Anderson)
Russia is a ~ for spammers
importance & significance: religion
fertile soil comparison & contrast: affix
that chaos was the ~ for a growing insurgency (Iraq)
fetishistically
growth & development: farming & agriculture
moves almost fetishistically
fester (verb) Burns’ camera ~ over the manuscript page (Hemingway)

fester importance & significance: religion

better to correct now than to let the situation ~ fetishization (noun)
fester on the internet
fetishization of (street) art
hate and violence ~
there is an almost kind of ~ these days (Banksy, etc.)
festering for years
fetishization of (Afro-Americans’) hairstyles
these problems have been ~
white media’s ~ trivializes Blacks
fester for so long fetishization of (black) trauma
circumstances were allowed to ~ (The New York Times) this ~ epitomizes an industry (entertainment)
fester online fetishization of wealth
hateful sites ~ economic despair and the ~
hatred festers rights fetishization
~ in the Middle East ~ or rightsism (Jamal Greene / How Rights Went Wrong)
secrets fester hypersexualization and fetishization
~ between Mick and Linda the history of ~ of Asian women in the US
affliction / corruption / reconciliation, resolution & inclusion & exclusion: society
conclusion: starting, going, continuing & ending: health &
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fetishize (verb) ♦ The Howards and the Turners; the Hatfield and the McCoys; the
Lincoln County Feud; the Frenches and Eversoles; the Martins and
Tollivers; the Bakers and Howards... (Famous Appalachian family feuds.)
fetishize (military) funerals ♦ “Don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against the Campbells, but I would
we ~ so we can continue to allow our kids to be killed not stay a night in the company of one.” (Said by a MacDonald recently,
referring to a massacre of MacDonalds by Campbells after the
fetishize the work Campbells had accepted the MacDonalds’ hospitality. The murders took
we ~ of great artists as somehow mythical (music) place in 1692.)
♦ Dante put Mosca dei Lamberti in hell as a sower of discord for the role
importance & significance: religion / verb he played in igniting the feud between the Amidei and Buondelmonti in
Florence.
fetter (noun) ♦ The Sutton-Taylor feud was the longest and bloodiest in Texas.
(According to the Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas,
shake off the fetters in an article written by C. L. Sonnichsen: “Persons who wished to live in
to ~ of tradition and radically remake... the area had to take sides, there was constant pursuing and lying in
wait...”)
constraint & lack of constraint / functioning: chain / crime ♦ In the US, there has been a longtime feud between people on the East
/ leg / movement / walking, running & jumping Coast and the West Coast as to which coast has the better sports teams
and rappers. Meanwhile in Atlanta, Georgia, rappers think of themselves
fettered as being the "Third / Dirty Coast." With the rappers, this feud is not
always good natured.
fettered by calls and e-mails and errands conflict / revenge: violence
I like to not be ~
fever (fever tree, etc.)
fettered in any way
do you think your colleagues are~ (cartoonists draw women) fever tree
yellow-tinged trunks of the ~ glow (Kruger Park)
mentally fettered
his subordinates were ~ (by Naval discipline / orders) proper name: health & medicine
constraint & lack of constraint / functioning: chain / crime fever (behavior)
/ leg / movement / walking, running & jumping
fever pitch
feud (verb) all of these issues have reached a ~ (politics)
the steady buildup of hype has reached a ~
feuded with the intelligence community
he ~ throughout his presidency (US President Trump) cabin fever
~ plagues Vermont all winter
conflict / revenge: verb / violence
people are getting ~
feud (noun) launch fever
feuds one thing we have to guard against is ~
the music industry thrives on ~ lottery fever
feuds in the entertainment industry ~ draws people from surrounding states (to buy tickets)
there is considerable public appetite for stories of ~ partisan fever
feud between (next-door) neighbors Washington’s well-known ~ (vs. decorum and discretion)
a ~ led to a confrontation spring fever
family feud September is the evil twin of ~
a long and bitter ~ over the estate of Jimi Hendrix summit fever
this exposes a real ~, a generational divide (Democrats) they call it "~" (failure to summit not an option)
academic feud ~ can lead to disaster (Denali / Mt. McKinley)
this ~ began to poison the project (undersea mapping) war fever
diplomatic feud every few decades, the US catches a case of foreign "~"
the ~ between Russia and the U.S. "go fever"
political feud we do not want to get ~ (shuttle launches)
the ~ between London and Paris patriotic fever
public feud crowds energized with ~ (the Olympics)
sisters get embroiled in a ~ yellow fever
flare-up of their long-running feud some men have ~ (lust for Oriental women)
the latest ~ (2 NASCAR drivers) ♦ “A classic malaria attack has three stages. (1) Cold stage (chills): rising
fever, patient feels cold, ashen color, temperature is increasing rapidly,
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patient seeks additional covering with blankets. (2) Hot stage: patient activity: health & medicine / movement / temperature
throws off all blankets, looks red and congestive, very warm, high
temperature, splitting headache and severe neck pains. (3) Sweat stage:
patient suddenly breaks out in perspiration, clothes and bed are wet with
fever pitch (noun)
sweat, temperature falls off quickly, patient feels better, often gets
appetite back and falls asleep. An attack lasts 10-12 hours.” reached a fever pitch
speculation ~… (possible military action)
behavior: health & medicine
activity: health & medicine / temperature
fever (enthusiasm)
few and far between
Super Bowl fever
not everyone is caught up in ~ few and far between
we are ~ (a Parsi)
Cristiano Ronaldo fever
it’s fair to say ~ has hit Old Trafford (soccer) amount: distance

football fever fiddle (second fiddle)

get ready for ~ (English Premier League start)
plays second fiddle
Oshin fever when you worry about your family, the other stuff ~
a kind of ~ raged worldwide (1980s Japanese TV series)
play second fiddle to UFC
soccer fever boxing had to ~
Germany has Fussballfieber—~ (2006 World Cup)
played second fiddle to the Ambassador’s Road
vacation fever during this period the Burma Road ~ (China)
with ~ reaching new highs... (post-COVID)
importance & significance / priority / superiority &
enthusiasm: health & medicine inferiority: music / number / position
fevered (adjective) fiefdom (control)
fevered speculation fiefdom of his ship
details derived from rumor and ~ (mass murder) a captain was a monarch of the floating ~ (1777)
grew (even more) fevered gangster fiefdoms
anticipation ~ as word spread that... this new system of ~ (warlord rule in Afghanistan)
activity: health & medicine / temperature individual fiefdoms
Chicago’s 50 aldermen are mini-mayors of their ~
feverish (adjective)
personal fiefdom
feverish activity the Rainbow Coalition is his ~ (Jesse Jackson)
it is now the scene of ~ (a disaster)
rival fiefdoms
feverish labor the two groups were ~ (criminal investigation)
the end result of years of ~ (the A-bomb)
theoretical fiefdom
feverish talk everybody wants to create their own little ~ (research)
the ~ of an imminent attack has ebbed (military)
one-man fiefdom
activity: health & medicine / movement / temperature
his department was a ~ that he defended from the outside
feverishly he ran a ~, he called the shots (Curtis Institute of Music)

feverishly courting runs his or her own fiefdom

she has been ~ black voters the cabinet secretary generally ~ (without interference)

working feverishly control & lack of control: Middle Ages

we are ~ (disaster relief) area: ground, terrain & land / Middle Ages
the US is ~ behind the scenes (diplomacy) field (verb)
worked feverishly fielding calls
doctors ~ to save him he had been ~ about the accident most of the night
♦ “Hughes, Dr. E. W., b. 15 March 1819, d. at his post of duty, 31 Aug
1878.” (A marker in what is referred to locally as “the Yellow Fever” confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: sports & games
cemetery in Granada, Mississippi, on 2nd Street, east of the railroad / verb
tracks. The Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 devastated New Orleans and
Memphis, infecting at least 120,000 and killing between 13,000 and
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field (fertile field, etc.) make herself look fierce
she wanted to get some piercings to ~ (an 18-year-old queer
fertile field Latinx mestiza)
Donald Trump was plowing a very ~ (Mara Liasson) ♦ I Am... Sasha Fierce. (The 2008 studio album by Beyonce.)

growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant ♦ “She was a fierce, fierce woman who wanted him at all costs” (2008) is
the traditional construct: a determined, predatory woman who knows
field hand (person) what she wants (a particular man) and will stop at nothing to get him.
See maneater (female). This is the contemporary construct.

field hands of academia ♦ see also badass (power), beast (power), fearless (girls and women,
etc.), ferocious (other), fiercely (girls and women / groups, etc.), savage
adjunct faculty are the ~ (adj)
dominance & submission / superiority & inferiority: farming ♦ [high pitched whoop] (Closed captioning.)
& agriculture / person ♦ LFG. (The “battle cry” of the US Women’s national soccer team.)
♦ “Mean-mugging” is a meme.
fiend (behavior)
♦ “We’re standing up for fierce women who raised me to never back
down from a tough fight.” (Politics.)
fitness fiend
I’m a ~ (an NFL player) ♦ “Now that’s what I call fierce! You’re a star.” (Michelle Obama in a
tweet about Nia Dennis and her “the Culture” gymnastic routine.)
text messaging fiend ♦ “I imagine the term ‘fierce’ was coined after meeting him.” (Actor and
California girl is ~ (14,528 in one month / 2009) supermodel Milla Jovovich on the death of Andre Leon Talley, fashion
industry icon and author of The Chiffon Trenches.)
behavior: creature / mental health ♦ “Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself.” (A
blurb to promote a book.)
fierce (girls and women / groups, etc.) ♦ “12 Fierce Accessories to get you through every occasion when you
need to feel fearless this fall.” (Glamour X, Nine West.)
fierce accessories
♦ “Chrissy Metz, 40, Shows Off Massive Weight Loss In Fierce New
13 ~ to get you through every occasion (fashion) Photo.” (Promoted: Swift Verdict.)

fierce advocate ♦ “Both of you are mighty, I gotta say, both of you, and you’re bringing it
to us again, thank you so much... (Robin Roberts introducing a
she was a ~ for women’s athletics (a soccer player) travelogue on Washington State featuring Becky Worley and Ginger
Zee.)
fierce Abigail Breslin
♦ “Melina, a scientist who may know a little something about how an
moving performances by Damen and a ~ (Stillwater) army of young girls could be coerced into becoming assassins...” (Bob
Mondello reviewing Marvel’s Black Widow for NPR.)
Fierce Five
♦ Girl-boss culture; girl boss culture; girlboss... (See the Wikipedia entry.
they were known as the ~ (2012 US Olympic gym team) Or “Is Being a ‘Girl Boss’ a Bad Thing? It’s Complicated” by Paige
Skinner, Los Angeles Magazine, May 13, 2021.)
fierce honesty
♦ Girl boss culture, it’s hustle culture, it’s putting bright red lipstick on
her album gives musical form to ~ and emotional freedom capitalism.”
fierce enthusiasm ♦ Juche. (The DPRK’s state ideology. The word could be translate as
“taking charge” or “in command.”)
she was known for her ~ for sci-fi and comics
♦ “The main selling point will be ‘girl power.’” (Snark on an upcoming
fierce performance Angelina Jolie film.)
Kathryn Hunter delivers a ~ (The Tragedy of Macbeth) ♦ “She is a passionate animal advocate and fierce in the fight against
cancer.” (The biography of a meteorologist welcoming her to a different
‘fierce poise’ market.)
with ~, she poured beauty (artist Helen Frankenthaler) ♦ “”Snapped up this designer trench at Marshalls. Shoulda cost a lot
more.’ Stay fierce. Fabulous Brands. Feel Good Prices.” (An
fierce (political) views advertisement for Marshalls with music by the Pom Poms: “Look at me,
how she gained her ~ (Ani DiFranco) look at me, look at me...”)
♦ “Gatorade Fierce. Grape. Naturally Flavored with Other Natural
fierce women Flavors. Bold and Intense. Water, sugar, dextrose, citric acid, natural
we’re standing up for ~ (politics) flavor, sodium citrate, salt, monopotassium phosphate, modified food
starch, glycerol ester of rosin, blue 1, red 40.”
Fierce Little Thing ♦ “When black ladies go bald they look ferce [sic], when white women do
~ is the story of a young girl it we look like Kemo [sic] patients. (NoMoreFalseGods to Loves_Trees.)
♦ “In the mellowing afterglow of victory, they don’t seem so fierce.”
from classic to fierce (Elected women.)
~, there isn’t a red carpet look Taylor hasn’t tried ♦ “Death only comes once, I’m not afraid of them killing me.”
(Photojournalist Roya Heydari, who fled Afghanistan and is currently in
fierce and heartwarming France.)
she is a ~ hero (Afghan woman scores high on test) ♦ STOP. SAYING. “FIERCE!” (SkepDoc, on a comment board about
“The 33 Fiercest Moments From Beyonce’s Halftime Show” by Lauren
famous, fierce and fashion forward Yapalater, BuzzFeed, Feb. 4, 2013.)
RuPaul, ~ ♦ “Only then was I able to attach the name to an actual body, but I was
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unwavering in the face of the authorities and had resisted a principal with I ~ and made it to the finale
strong backing would, of course, be bold and fierce. Yet she often smiled
and her manner was gentle.” (“In Memory of Liu Hezhen” by Lu Xun.) ♦ “On ‘All Stars’ season three of the series, I competed fiercely and made
it to the finale.” (The drag superstar Shangela, also known as D. J.
♦ “Gentlemen. I am 25 years old and I have killed 309 fascist occupants Pierce. The “All Stars” season refers to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” franchise.)
by now. Don’t you think, gentlemen, that you have been hiding behind
my back for too long?” (Lyudmila Pavlichenko. From “Eleanor Roosevelt ♦ “Hello there, I’m Jennifer and welcome to Simply + Fiercely... I’m
and the Soviet Sniper” by Gilbert King, Smithsonian Magazine, Feb 21, passionate about helping other women just like me.”
2013.) ♦ “Fiercely the red sun descending / burned his way along the heavens /
♦ Assault; attack; battle; charge; combat; counterattack; defense; set the sky on fire behind him / as war parties, when retreating / burn the
engagement; fight; firefight... (Words modified by fierce in the Medal of prairie on their war trails. (“The Song of Hiawatha.”)
Honor citations of the Vietnam War.)
inclusion & exclusion: society
character & personality: animal
fierceness (noun)
inclusion & exclusion: society
fierce (other) fierceness
you see a ~ that’s coming from the girls...
fierce ♦ “You see a fierceness that’s coming from the girls that are coming up
it’s ~ our there (buying a home) now, that’s because we understand we ain’t got nuttin to lose. I already
competition for jobs is ~ done lost that job, I already done lost that job.” (Angelica Ross, about
Trans representation in media / entertainment. According to her
Wikipedia entry, “Her breakthrough role came in 2018, as Candy Ferocity
fierce battles in Rya Murphy’s FX drama series Pose.”)
waging ~ with unions and regulators
character & personality: animal
fierce (custody) battle
he was the object of a ~ fiery (character)
fierce criticism fiery (clubhouse) leader
the coach backpedaled after ~ from Chinese fans... he is their ~ (an athlete)
fierce defender fiery preacher
it helps to have a wise friend and ~ like AARP (an ad) the ~ has died at 91
your wise friend and ~ (an advertisement for AARP)
fiery temperament
fierce (price) wars the son inherited his father's ~
~ have reduced profits
fiery and brash
fierce winds she is ~
~ downed the transmission line (Hurricane Ida)
character & personality: fire / temperature
fierce and noisy initiation: fire / temperature
Tunisians are locked in a ~ debate about Islam in politics
fiery (speech)
fierce and ugly
a ~ about in-person learning (during the pandemic) fiery debate
heated words were exchanged during the ~
pretty fierce
the environment of Jupiter is ~ (Margaret Kivelson) fiery denunciation
the charges resulted in ~s of labor unions
so fierce
speech: fire / temperature
the frenzied rumors have become ~ that...
she feels a stab of love ~ (mother for husband, kids) initiation: fire / temperature

competition (for clinical training slots) was fierce

fight (noun)
~ (nursing bottlenecks) without a fight
turned fierce Amazon is unlikely to give up ~ (v. Reliance in India)
that’s when the weather ~ (climbing K2) allies in that fight
♦ “It’s a jungle out there!” she didn’t have a lot of ~ (trouble between 2 actors)
destruction / force / strength & weakness: animal /
weapon in the (COVID) fight
predation / wolf it is the third ~ (third vaccine approved)
fiercely (girls and women / groups, etc.) rearing for a fight
fiercely expressive Dees is still ~ (head of Southern Poverty Law Center)
even her silences are ~, she’s flinty, tough, guarded (film) ♦ “Hit ‘em with a left, hit ‘em with a right, it’s a fight, it’s a fight, it’s a fight,
fight, fight!” (Stirring music lyrics to a video of the great boxer Naseem
Hamid.)
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conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: military Dennis Tajer of the Allied Pilots Association, about 5G and its effect on
aviation. From “An airplane pilot details the issue 5G could have on
fight (verb) flights,” NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, Jan 22 2022.)
♦ “Now, look you here, Huw, my son. You are growing to be a man. It is
fighting to beat back a man’s place to take punishment and give back more than he takes if
there is a head on him... A boy shall learn to fight, or let him put skirts
Yahoo and AOL are ~ spammers about his knees.” (How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn.)
fights urban blight ♦ "Joe Frazier is my friend... If I had $4 left in my wallet, two of those
would go to Joe." (Larry Holmes, after a reporter asked him if he had
the group ~ (buildings) paid for an operation that Joe Frazier needed but couldn't afford. Larry
wouldn't admit to it, but he had.)
fight like hell
they’re not taking the White House, we’re going to ~ ♦ "The best fight I’ve ever seen, praying that Mick Conlan is ok.”
♦ “Some day, they’re gonna write a blues for fighters. It’ll just be for slow
fighting for his life guitar, soft trumpet and a bell.” (Sonny Liston. His biography, published
he has been ~ (hospital seeks to unplug ventilator) in 1963, was titled The Champ Nobody Wanted.)
♦ “Man... knows how to fight and win.” (A stirring speech in Greece prior
fight incessantly to the 2022 Olympics.)
people ~ online...
resistance, opposition & defeat: person
♦ “It’s an uphill battle... We’re gonna fight him in congress, we’re gonna
fight in the courts, and I believe that a large segment of the American fig leaf
public will fight the president on this.” (Democratic representative
Joaquin Castro of Texas, channeling his inner Winston Churchill.) fig leaf to cover
♦ “I want the Democrats to raise their hands if they have ever given a democracy is only a ~ the powers of capital
speech that says ‘take...back,’ ‘fight for your country.’ Who hasn’t used
the words fight figuratively, and are we going to put every politician in jail, fig leaf for its (geopolitical) ambitions
are we going to impeach every politician who has used the words fight
figuratively in a speech? Shame!” (Senator Rand Paul.) the US uses the UN as a ~
♦ “These are the metaphorical rhetorical uses of the word fight. We all fig leaf for imperialism
know that, right? Suddenly the word fight is off limits? Spare us the
hypocrisy and false indignation. It’s a term used over and over and over democracy is a ~
again by politicians on both sides of the aisle.” (Michael Van Der Veen,
defending President Trump at his second impeachment trial.) fig leaf for (US) occupation
the Afghan elections are a ~
conflict: military / verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb fig leaf for politicians
the reform bill is a ~ opposed to any serious action
fight (food fight)
fig leaf for (US) withdrawal
food fights "Vietnamization" was a ~
you can’t be proud when you have ~ breaking out in the
White House (politics) fig leaf for profiteering
philanthropy is often a ~
procedural food fight
the trial will kick off with a ~ (impeachment trial) very small fig leaf indeed
“communist influence” was now a ~ in the surveillance
equivalent of a food fight
it was the political ~ (presidential debate) under the fig leaf of comedy
he hides his conservatism ~
behavior / conflict: school & education
♦ Clement XIII (1693-1769) covered the genitalia of the Vatican's nudes
fighter (person) with fig leaves.

concealment & lack of concealment / substance & lack of

real fighter substance: clothing & accessories
she’s a ~, she has led the fight for the prisoners
figurehead (noun)
street fighter
can hope and unity beat Trump, or do you have to be a ~ figureheads
some wonder if he is the ~ they want or need (candidate) the old play-writing establishment and its ~
♦ “I understand the spirit of a fighter, I’ve also been a fighter my whole
life, my whole career.” (Halle Berry, promoting her film Bruised.) figurehead of the Somali community
♦ CEO Margaret Low of WBUR, in a staff memo announcing “a she became a ~ in Canada
significant reorganization” to include layoffs, wrote that that it was
necessary to be “in fighting shape to deliver on big ambitions.” saw Ancelotti as the figurehead
♦ "I tried to keep his spirits up, saying that this was just Round One in a Moshiri saw ~ who would fulfil his aspirations (Everton)
long-term fight. ‘More like the end of round #3...and they are winning 6-
10 every round,’ he wrote.” (“Coin Toss: A Welshman has lost the key for driving force / representation: boat
half a billion dollars’ worth of bitcoin” by D.T. Max, The New Yorker,
December 13, 2021.) filling (content)
♦ “We still have our guard up, we’re still in the ring fighting for safety, we
just now have some space between us and the opponent.” (Captain filling

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 the ~ is always a surprise (Twilight Zone episodes) filthy (language)
♦ “There was a signature tone to the stories, the same dark chocolate
coating—but the filling was always a surprise.” (Charlie Brooker, creator too filthy
of Black Mirror, about the older Twilight Zone series.)
the play was deemed ~ for theatres (Pinter’s Landscape)
content: food & drink
speech: hygiene
filter (verb) finale (noun)
filters the news finale
the country ~ you've just seen the first act, the ~ is yet to come (trial)
dismissal, removal & resignation: air / hygiene / water
development: theater
filth (insult) starting, going, continuing & ending: theater

trash, filth, and sleaze find (a date can find us, etc.)
locals use words like ~ (an annual motorcycle rally) finds us in Newman
♦ “Late Sunday, riot police sprayed putrid-smelling water to break up dawn the next day ~ (Western Australia)
Palestinian protests.” (AP, “Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank
clashes,” Feb 13, 2022.)
found the travelers in Rome
insult / violence / worth & lack of worth: hygiene August 12 ~

filthy (bad) fictive meeting & seeing: verb

filthy habit find (discover)

smoking is a ~ found that
worth & lack of worth: hygiene we ~ the language became more hostile (a study)

filthy (filthy rich) analysis, interpretation & explanation: hunting

searching & discovery: hunting
filthy lucre
I am not immune to the lure of ~ (a writer)
find (find oneself in a place, etc.)
filthy rich found myself doing something
there's rich and then there's ~ any time I ~ that didn’t feel like the intended path...

sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: hygiene found ourselves among other journalists
we ~ and aid workers scrambling to escape
filthy (corruption)
found ourselves trying
filthy business we ~ to...
greed has turned our health-care system into a ~
found ourselves cooped up
filthy mess we ~ for a while (pandemic)
we must clean up this ~ (Wall Street)
find yourself in a situation
filthy politics you could ~ where you keep boosting... (vaccines)
we have seen eight years of ~ ♦ “Over the pass we dropped at once into a gulch. The place was
extraordinarily broken. Deep screes, encumbered with boulders and
corruption: hygiene trunks, streams and rocks, all thickly overgrown with a carpet of moss;
the whole scene reminded me vividly of a picture of Walpurgis Night. It
filthy (sex) would be hard to imagine a wilder and more repellent scene that that
grim gorge.” (Dersu the Trapper by V. K. Arseniev.)
filthy joke ♦ “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray / from the straight road and
he cracked ~s woke to find myself / alone in a dark wood...” (The Inferno, translated by
John Ciardi.)
filthy mind
people who see sex in this have ~s consciousness & awareness: journeys & trips / place
old people have ~s, too find (hope, etc.)
filthy piece of trash found Jesus in prison
the book is a ~ ("Lolita" by VN) John Ellis Sparks ~ (Alabama murderer)
called the play filthy searching & discovery: hunting
Comstock ~ ("Mrs. Warren's Profession by GBS)
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fine-tune (verb) ♦ “Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving has been fined $50,000 by the NBA
for ‘making obscene gestures on court...” in their opening play-off game.”
(He gave the middle finger to Boston Celtic fans. Nuff said.)
fine-tune a search
you can ~ by using wildcards (computers) insult: finger / gesture

fine-tune scripts finger (slip through one's fingers)

she can ~
slipped through his fingers
fine-tuned the work in progress the Super Bowl has ~ again (NFL’s Aaron Rodgers)
together they ~
slipped through their fingers
amelioration & renewal: music / verb he ~ (a criminal)
finger (shape) attainment / possession / pursuit, capture & escape: finger
/ hand / verb
pokes its finger
they met where the Gulf of Issus ~ into Asia Minor finger (in the snap of a finger)
shape: finger went from 0 to 60 in the snap of a finger
he ~ (car driver)
finger (Finger Lakes, etc.)
♦ “Everything happened just like that... (he snaps his fingers four times.) I
was just shootin’.” (Markeith Loyd, at his first trial in Florida, for
Finger Lakes murdering his pregnant girlfriend.)
the ~ produce an excellent Riesling (New York)
speed: finger / gesture / sound
proper name: finger
finger (snap one’s fingers, etc.)
finger (middle finger)
snap their fingers
“middle finger” to everyone can they just ~ and make this happen (policy)
the mass party was a ~ who had suffered (pandemic)
snap your fingers
middle finger to social norms if you could ~ and change one thing, what would it be
he intended his haircut to be a ~ (the mullet hairstyle)
♦ “There will be no snap of the fingers to make the virus disappear.” (It
will become endemic, here to stay.)
middle finger to the patriarchy
the vengeance is not just personal, it’s a ~ (women) creation & transformation: finger / gesture / magic
middle-finger salute finger (point a finger)
Verstappen gave Hamilton a ~ (F1)
Kyrie hit the shot and gave the ~ to the Celtics fans finger of blame
the new bicycle lanes are a big ~ to us residents... he points the ~ at his business partner (trial)
one-finger salute finger of guilt
LeBron James got a double ~ from a brazen child pointed the ~ in this man’s direction
gave fans a one-finger salute accusing finger
he ~ it's easy to point an ~
the ~ has been pointed in every direction
gives the middle finger
she ~ to haters (a singer and her lyrics) pointing accusing fingers at white doctors
a lot of black people today are ~
seen as a middle finger
it was ~ to America (Muhammad Ali refuses induction) pointing fingers at the company
people are ~
threw out a one finger salute
he ~ pointed the finger (of guilt) in this man’s direction
♦ see also flip off (verb) circumstantial evidence also ~
♦ “Berlin’s tourism authority has launched an ad campaign featuring an point fingers and criticize
elderly woman giving the middle finger to people who refuse to wear
masks... / But the campaign has proved controversial, with some in a lot of people want to ~ (disaster relief)
Germany calling it insulting.” (“Coronavirus: Berlin ad sticks middle finger
to mask rule breakers,” BBC, October 14, 2020.) right to point fingers
♦ “We should note that you did give someone the middle finger as you the US has no ~
were leaving this event, you say it was out of frustration and you regret ♦ “A lot of black people today are wringing their hands and pointing
it...” (An otherwise sympathetic NPR interview with a public-health official accusing fingers at white doctors from the public health service.” (Janie
about a public meeting.) Taylor, “Origins of the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study,” NPR, August
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accusation & criticism: finger / gesture / verb the program leaves none of the traditional ~s (malware)
finger (lift a finger) genetic fingerprint
a person's nearly unique ~
lift a finger for him
I wouldn't ~ Saudi fingerprints
~ are everywhere (politics)
help & assistance: finger / hand / verb
difficulty, easiness & effort: finger / hand / verb unique (genetic) fingerprint
a person's nearly ~
finger (put one’s finger on something)
evidence: finger / mark
puts his finger on (one of the chief) difficulties
he ~ of the movement (can’t define itself) fingertip (at one's fingertips)
location: finger / gesture / hand / map / verb at his fingertips
he has helicopters and jets ~ (Vice President)
finger (cross one’s fingers, etc.)
proximity: finger / hand
fingers crossed
~, we go to Sunday full of energy (Liverpool FC) finger-wagging
it’s ~ that it continues... (noisy neighbors quiet down)
finger-wagging
fingers crossed approach this ~ sparked a reaction (mask-wearing)
many US companies resort to a ~ to cybersecurity
accusation & criticism: finger / gesture
keeping my fingers crossed
I was ~ (mass shooting survivor)
fire (a question, etc.)
♦ “It’s coming home... Hopefully (Fingers crossed). Realistically... fire the same questions
probably not... but hey after almost 18 months of misery let’s all get
behind them and enjoy it. You never know!” (A BBC HYS writer on the
they would ~ over and over again (police interrogation)
eve of England vs. Ukraine at Euro 2020.)
speech: verb / weapon
fate, fortune & chance: finger / gesture / verb
fire (conflict)
finger-pointing
racial fires
finger pointing he is stoking the ~ (politician)
there was much ~
there is plenty of ~ going on (blame) on fire
the Middle East is ~ (protests, regime change)
finger-pointing
~ began even before the fighting ended extinguish a fire
he was trying to ~ that would not die (civil rights)
finger-pointing among Democrats
lit the (prairie) fire
her loss led to a round of ~ (election)
this became the spark that ~ (a political issue)
finger-pointing and accusations stoking the (racial) fires
a lot of ~ (NASA failure) he is ~ (politician)
finger-pointing and (political) posturing conflict: fire
we must put behind us ~ and solve this problem
fire (through the fire, etc.)
years of (squabbling and) finger-pointing
after ~ (UN conference) through the fire
Harris has been ~ and knows what it feels like
hand-wringing and finger-pointing
the battle led to a lot of ~ in Washington (war) no way, I’ve been ~ (politician about running again)

squabbling and finger-pointing through the fire of (suicidal) depression

after years of ~ (UN conference) I have lived ~
accusation & criticism: finger / gesture pass through the fire
once children ~ of adolescence
fingerprint (noun) ♦ “I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire, ‘cause I
am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar.” (Lyrics of song “Roar”
computer fingerprint sung by Katy Perry.)
every visit leaves a ~
character & personality / experience: fire
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fire (substance) amount & effect: fire

fire
fire (hold somebody's feet to the fire)
where there’s smoke, there’s ~ see feet (hold somebody’s feet to the fire)
evidence / substance & lack of substance: fire fire (on fire / feeling)
fire (criticism)
on fire
heavy fire the team came out ~ (playing well
he has been taking ~ from his rivals (Democratic politics) feeling, emotion & effect: fire / temperature
incoming fire fire (fire and desire, etc.)
he's going to take all this ~ (a politician)
fire in my belly
took (incoming) fire I didn’t have that ~ (to become president)
I ~ on social media for that...
accusation & criticism: military / weapon
fire and desire
they have some young players with ~ (soccer)
speech: weapon
fire (under fire) competitive fires
he admitted his ~ had been banked (pro athlete)
under fire feeling, emotion & effect: fire
his judgment has repeatedly come ~
commitment & determination: fire
he is ~ after an unconfirmed report surfaced...
she displayed coolness ~ (political debate performance) fire (light a fire under somebody)
under fire for not arresting light a fire under him
the FBI is coming ~ we need to ~ (motivation)
under fire for his policy lit a fire under that boy’s ass
he has come ~ (visas) whatever it was, something ~ (Shawshank Redemption)
under fire from (human rights) groups coercion & motivation: fire / verb / violence
Egypt recently came ~
fire (fuel on the fire, etc.)
come under fire
mink farms have ~ for skinning minks alive fire of (toxic) political warfare
his judgment has repeatedly ~ (a prosecutor) this will pour fuel on the ~
accusation & criticism: military / weapon pour fuel on the fire
speech: weapon this will ~ of toxic political warfare
fire (draw fire, etc.) poured gas on the fire
the president ~ with a provocative tweet (sports issue)
drawing fire a tweet ~ when... (sports dispute)
the plan is ~
throws gas on the fire
face fire Palin ~ in Iowa (politics)
he is going to ~ from his fellow candidates (debate)
threw kerosene on an already blazing situation
accusation & criticism: military / weapon his cheap shots ~
speech: military / weapon
drain the fuel away
fire (fire back) the military alone will not ~ from the jihadists
firing back increase & decrease: fire
Smollett is ~ and his legal team is digging in
fire (play with fire)
fired back at her attackers
she ~ playing with fire
accusation & criticism: military / weapon you better be careful, you're ~
speech: weapon / verb I was ~, it was just a matter of time before I got caught
I hope they appreciate the degree to which they are ~
fire (flash fire) (diplomacy)
flash fire of hope fate, fortune & chance: fire / verb
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fire (catch fire) firefight ensued
but Skeete was clearly dazed and a ~ (boxing match)
caught fire
none of these websites have taken off and ~ continue the firefight
the youth movement ~ (US / counterculture) Khan needs to take control rather than ~ (boxing)
his campaign ~ in the spring (politics) conflict: military
his senate race ~ in 2018 (politics)
her campaign never ~ or even showed signs of a spark fire up (verb)
catches fire fire up the Democratic foot soldiers
around 2015, suddenly the movement ~ (flat earthers) she wants to ~ (politics)
interest (in Dante) caught fire fire up the Democratic base
Harvard was where his ~ (the poet John Ciardi) he wants to ~
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: fire feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb
coercion & motivation: fire / verb
fire (hang fire)
firestorm (noun)
hung fire
for almost two months, Scott’s plans ~ firestorm of controversy
the pandemic has created a ~ here (mandates, etc.)
hung fire for eight minutes
the way you ~ at the beginning (he delayed the start) firestorm of criticism
the government is trying to respond to a ~
hung fire for a while he was fired after a ~ (a comic from SNL)
the case has ~ (Pakistan refuses to release diplomat)
firestorm of envy
hang fire until the 111th Congress convenes it would create a ~ (a transfer)
both bills will likely ~ (a delay)
firestorm over his allegations
die, hang fire, or are lost the ~ shows no sign of abating
the bills ~ in limbo (in the US Senate)
media firestorm
action, inaction & delay: verb / weapon
his threat to burn the holy book caused a ~
timeliness & lack of timeliness: verb / weapon
viral firestorm
firebomb (noun) the wrongly edited footage set off a ~
rhetorical firebomb political and public relations firestorm
this was a ~ that he deliberately detonated (“lynching”) his firing ignited a ~ (free-speech issue)
amount & effect: explosion / weapon
at the center of a (political) firestorm
attention, scrutiny & promotions: explosion / weapon the oil leak has put BP ~ (oil spill)
firebrand (person) created a firestorm
firebrand Republican the book has ~
the ~ from Florida... ignited a (national) firestorm
liberal firebrand he ~ with his blog post
~ Elizabeth Warren took center stage at the heated forum set off a firestorm
he is not known as a ~ (a Democratic politician) he ~ of opposition when he…
character & personality: fire / person
found himself in a firestorm
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / person he ~ after key investor withdrawals (hedge fund)
person: fire / temperature
fired up whipped the criticisms of the press into a firestorm
this ~ (a public statement)
fired up ♦ "For the first time in my life I beheld a raging forest fire at close
I'm ~ and ready to go to the finals (victor) quarters, a fearful spectacle! Enormous cedars, gripped by the flame,
were blazing like colossal torches. Beneath them, on the ground, was a
feeling, emotion & effect: fire sea of fire. Everything was burning, grass, fallen leaves, trunks, logs,
stumps. We could hear living trees groan and burst from the heat. The
firefight (and fire fight) yellow smoke rolled upwards in enormous billows. Waves of fire raced
over the ground. Tongues of flame wound round the stumps and licked
the red-hot rocks… I saw a wild boar make his way across the river, a
firefight big snake swim sinuously over, and a woodpecker flew from tree to tree
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like a mad thing, while a nutcracker never ceased its raucous chatter…” stars of the (democratic foreign-policy) firmament
(Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.)
they are the ~
amount & effect: fire
rising star in the (Lincoln) firmament
firing squad General Grant was a ~

literary firing squads part of the (political) firmament

and then come the ~ (Amos Oz on criticism) he has just been ~ for so long (Joe Biden)
accusation & criticism / judgment: justice / military environment: astronomy / sky

firewall (computers) fish (verb)

firewall fishing for information
upgraded the ~ that was supposed to keep hackers out she was ~

firewall program fishing for referrals

you can download a good ~ (computer) he is always ~ (a businessman)

firewall software pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting / verb

Windows XP includes basic ~ (Internet security) fish (big fish)
firewall, network and browser (m)
flaws in its ~ settings (Windows)
big fish
the arrest is big progress because he is a ~ (LRA leader)
Great Firewall the first ~ to testify was Vincent “Fat Vinnie” Teresa
the ~ of China can censor the Internet
big fish in a small pond
high-security firewall back home, I was a ~ (a model now in Miami)
~s that protect secret data (computers)
get the big fish
computer / protection & lack of protection: fire / wall the only way you can ~ is through the little fish (crime)
firewall (other) ♦ "Back home I was a big fish in a small pond, but in Miami I'm just a
minnow surrounded by sharks." (A model.)

firewall importance & significance: animal / fish / size

black voters are his “~” (they will vote for him) power / strength & weakness: animal / fish / size
size: animal / fish
firewall against Nancy Pelosi’s agenda
we are the ~ (Trump Republicans) fish (small fish)
firewall hopes small fish
his ~ aren’t unfounded (politician needs black vote) he was a ~ (an elderly Nazi)
firewall state importance & significance: animal / fish / size
his campaign needs a good result in his ~ power / strength & weakness: animal / fish / size
size: animal / fish
build firewalls
bankruptcy courts can ~ around a company’s assets fish (fish out of water)
protection & lack of protection: fire / infrastructure / wall fish out of water
I was a ~ out there (rookie NASCAR driver)
fireworks (conflict)
environment: fish
fireworks
this congressional hearing was notable for its ~ fish (different kettle of fish)
conflict: explosion / sound / speech different kettle of fish
speech: explosion / sound we’re a ~ (southeastern vs west Michiganders)
Holmes was a ~, he didn’t like people all that much...
firmament (noun)
taxonomy & classification: animal / fish / food & drink
public-health firmament
nobody in the ~ was doing anything (early days of AIDS) fishbowl (in a fishbowl)
place in the (current Democratic) firmament works in a fishbowl
he doesn’t occupy the ~ that Schiff does everyone in media today ~ (criticism, etc.)
star in the (neoconservative) firmament environment: fish / water
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fishbowl (other) rules with an iron fist
he ~ (a dictator)
fishbowl
force / oppression / violence: fist
his office was a ~
she hated living in a ~ (a celebrity) fist bump (noun)
environment: fish / water equivalent of a fist-bump
fisheye (fisheye view, etc.) Benet gave Justice the Twitter ~ (bro-ing up / support)
achievement, recognition & praise: fist / gesture
fisheye view
a ~ from Spirit's navigation camera shows… (Mars) fit (adjective)
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / fish / position fit to stand trial
fishtail (verb) a psychiatrist determined that she was ~
ability & lack of ability / condition & status / flaws & lack of
fishtails
the vehicle ~ under hard steering (rollover accidents) flaws: health & medicine

movement: animal / fish / verb fit in (verb)

fishy (something smells fishy, etc.) fit in
he ~ well (a teammate)
something fishy
cops were pretty sure that ~ was going on sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: mechanism
he noticed ~ (a scam) society: center & periphery

smells fishy fitness (ability)

something ~ fitness to practice
smelled (very) fishy aging doctors' ~ has come under question
the timing ~ (article causes stock to plunge) fitness for office
noticed something fishy some question his ~
he ~ (a scam) fitness of Thomas
♦ "There’s something dead up the branch." (A Southern Appalachians the association split on the ~ for the Supreme Court
expression. A branch is a watercourse like a creek or a stream.)

evidence / suspicion: animal / fish / smell reproductive fitness

~ is a factor in evolution
fissure (noun)
spiritual fitness
deep fissure the Army now assesses the ~ of troops (US)
the resignations revealed a ~ among Afghan leaders
spiritual-fitness
division & connection: ground, terrain & land soldiers are suing to eliminate the ~ assessment (US)

fist (armored fist, etc.) ability & lack of ability: health & medicine
flaws & lack of flaws: health & medicine
armored fist
the ~ of the tank-heavy 1991 Persian Gulf War
fix (verb)
driving force / force: fist / military fix it
the economy is broken, and Obama can't ~
fist (a boss with an iron fist, etc.)
fix relations
ran the company with an iron fist the US is trying to ~ (with Pakistan)
he ~
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb
treated with an iron fist
some patients are ~ (mentally ill, etc.)
fix (daily fix, etc.)
character & personality / control & lack of control: fist daily fix
news junkies can get a ~ (Web site)
fist (a leader with an iron fist)
weekly fix
iron fist of a brutal dictator it’s Fight Talk, your ~ of boxing news (BBC boxing)
my grandparents fled the ~
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fizzle (and fizzle out) flag (plant one’s flag)
fizzled out in the playoffs plant my flag
the team ~ this is what should happen, this is where I ~, we must do this
fizzle fast planted his flag in that stretch of cyberspace
most memes ~ (but not Florida Man) he ~, declaring that... (defending his company)
investigation fizzled out planting their flag about what
the police department’s ~ (a murder) this is them ~ they’re going to do now (celebrity couple)
♦ “How the economy went from sizzle to fizzle.”
commitment & determination / possession / resistance,
failure, accident & impairment / starting, going, continuing opposition & defeat: flags & banners / ground, terrain &
& ending: explosion / fire / verb land / military
flabby (adjective) flag (flag of convenience)
flabby reasoning flag of convenience
but this is ~ race relations is the ~ under which it sailed (Broadway)
♦ “Porgy and Bess is a buncha good songs but has nothing to do with
ability & lack of ability / flaws & lack of flaws / size / race relations, which is the flag of convenience under which it sailed.”
strength & weakness / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: (The great playwright David Mamet, from “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain
fatness & thinness / health & medicine Dead Liberal,’” The Village Voice, March 11, 2008.”)

flag (rally around the flag) representation: boat / flags & banners
flag-bearer
rally-round-the-flag
sometimes there has been a ~ effect for a president party's flag-bearer
♦ “Yes we’ll rally round the flag, boys, we’ll rally once again / Shouting the decision shortened his run as his ~ (politics)
the battle cry of freedom / We will rally from the hillside, we’ll gather from
the plain / Shouting the battle cry of freedom!” (The “Battle Cry of person / representation: flags & banners / military
Freedom,” also known as “Rally ‘Round the Flag.”)
♦ “About ten thousand wounded soldiers were in the care of thirty or forty flagellation (noun)
surgeons. Still, a fellow worker described Barton as a cheerful spirit,
seeming to be everywhere in her blue dress and white apron. He self-flagellation
remembered that she sometimes encouraged the men to join her in ~ versus self-congratulation (debate over US history)
singing ‘Rally Round the Flag, Boys.” (Clara Barton: Civil War Nurse by
Nancy Whitelaw. Historical American Biographies. Of course, “the Angel punishment & recrimination: violence / whip
of the Battlefield” was not always cheerful in her life. But it the face of
horror, it seems she knew how to put on a brave face.) flagpole (run something up the flagpole)
allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners
run it up the flagpole
flag (false flag) when you ~ for review...

false flag for the election running up the flag pole

is it a Likud ~ (a provocation) the administration is ~ the idea of a tax that... (just an idea)

“false-flag” attack experimentation: atmosphere / flags & banners

the regime called it a ~ by the rebels against their own side attention, scrutiny & promotion: atmosphere / flags &
banners
false flag operation
a ~ is right out of their playbook (military tensions) flagship (superlative)
♦ “Broken and squally weather rendered the attempt to land flagship campus
impracticable for a week; and in the meantime a French frigate, which,
by capturing some British ships, had become acquainted with our private the university of Illinois’ ~ (at Urbana-Champaign)
signals, and daringly accompanied the expedition as if she formed part of
it, suddenly shot ahead of the fleet, and, hoisting the tricolour, ran safely flagship dealership
into the harbour of Alexandria, with a reinforcement for General Menou.” Mercedes-Benz USA is building a ~ (330,000 sq/ft)
(“Alexandria, 1801” from British Battles on Land and Sea.)
flagship fund
subterfuge: flags & banners
investors are withdrawing from his ~
flag (raise a flag, etc.) flagship imprint
raised the Beaujolais flag he will control the company's ~, Simon & Schuster
he ~ all over the world (Georges Duboeuf) flagship (public) institution
representation: flags & banners / verb the university is a ~
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flagship product flame (in flames)
the car competes with similar ~s
up in flames
flagship restaurant with yet another relationship ~, all bets are off (marriage)
he is moving his ~ to the Left Bank (Guy Savoy)
shot down in flames
flagship shows its strategy has been ~ (a political party)
CBS has announced major changes to its ~ (anchors, etc.)
destruction / failure, accident & impairment: fire
flagship (E-commerce) site
the company's ~ flame (conflict)
flagship (Orion) software flames of division
SolarWinds has updated its ~ this senator sought to further fan the ~
flagship store flames of hostility
Ralph Lauren's new ~ on Madison Avenue he is fanning the ~ towards Muslims (a politician)
Macy's ~ in Herald Square
flames of intolerance
flagship universities extremists are stoking the ~
the drive for diversity at ~ (US)
flames of revolt
flagship venture Libya is going up in the ~
the probe is a ~ of the European Space Agency
flames (of strife) flickered out
♦ HMS Victory was Lord Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar.
J.M.W. Turner’s great painting “The Fighting Temeraire” (1839) is an as the ~ in the US (the Civil War ends)
elegy for the great ships of the line. But they live on in the language.
fanned the flames
superlative: boat he has ~ of white supremacy in this nation (politics)
flak (criticism) fanning the flames
his policies are ~ (of Arab rage)
flak from those he is ~ of hostility towards Muslims (a politician)
journalists often take ~ they criticize
fuel the flames
flak for the photo shoot don't ~ (a controversy)
yeah, I do catch ~, and I totally don’t care
stoking the flames
flak and responsibility extremists are ~ of intolerance
I’m the manager and I’ll take the ~ (Ole Solskjaer)
conflict: fire
heavy flak
she had taken ~ for suggesting... (an academic) flameout (noun)
catches flak complete flameout
Obama ~ for remarks on working class he had a ~
♦ Attack ads; battleground states; blood; political bombshells; crash and
burn; campaigns; carnage; crosshair; drop dead; fire away; catch flak;
failure, accident & impairment: engine / plane
gun (“they bring a knife, you bring a gun”), outgunned; kill (and killing); starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / plane
lock and load; marching orders; take no prisoners; shoot down; shot
through; target; war rooms... (“How traumatic Events Change Our View flame out (verb)
of Language,” Geoff Nunberg, NPR, Fresh Air, January 20, 2011. He
talks about “de-natured metaphors” and dead metaphors.) flame out
accusation & criticism: military / weapon it’s a trend that’s unlikely to ~ (vaping)
speech: military / weapon failure, accident & impairment: engine / plane / verb
flame (life is a flame) starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / plane / verb

flame flickered (lower) and (at last) went out

flank (side)
the ~ (death) flanks of a mountain
death & life / decline: fire half a mile up on the ~, the Yangtze looked like...

flame (moth to a flame, etc.) orientation: animal

see moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)

flank (protection)
left flank of the culture wars
it has taken up the ~ (Southern Poverty Law Center)

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orientation / protection & lack of protection: military since the ~ over the issue (eating dog meat)
flare (noun) unrest flared up
serious ~ following the killing of protestors
send up a flare
if engineers spot a problem, they can more easily ~ initiation: fire

attention, scrutiny & promotion: fire / light & dark flare-up (noun)
message / warning: fire / light & dark
flare-up
flare (verb) drawing lessons from the ~
Muslim prayers at the shrine passed without a ~
flares in the Delta
political violence regularly ~ (Nigeria / oil, etc.) flare-up of their (long-running) feud
the latest ~ (2 NASCAR drivers)
flared on (Russia's) border
fighting ~ with Georgia today… border flareup
a war, a skirmish, a ~
flared for a third day
Christian-Muslim violence ~ in Kaduna current flareup
the ~
flared into violence
pent-up frustrations have ~ (Nigeria) latest flare-up
the ~ of their long-running feud (2 NASCAR drivers)
flared with a new ugliness
racial hatred has ~ war, skirmish, or a (border) flareup
a~
flared sporadically
sectarian violence has ~ across the country (Nigeria) increase & decrease / initiation: fire

conflicts will flare flash in the pan

generational ~ (baby boomers vs. Gen X, etc.)
flash in the pan
fighting flared this is not a ~ (success of tennis player Emma Raducanu)
~ on Russia's border with Georgia today…
failure, accident & impairment: weapon
issue has flared flashpoint (noun)
the ~ in the wake of 2 incidents (fans invade field)
tempers flare flashpoint of the (civil-rights) era
the appropriate response when ~ in business meetings Philadelphia, Mississippi was a ~ (murders)

tempers flared flashpoint of resistance

at airports, ~ (weather delays) Fallujah has been a ~ to occupation (Iraq)
~ as the team wilted (sports) flash point of (two) wars
tempers are flaring Kashmir has been the ~
~ over the oil spill flashpoint in this debate
tensions (with Georgia) flared the ~ was…
the latest ~ on July 27 when… flashpoint for (racial) antagonism
uprising flared the book was a ~
an ~ after the cancellation of a general election (Algeria) flashpoint for violence
caused tempers to flares the area has become a ~ (in Jerusalem)
police said the hot weather ~ flashpoint issues
initiation: fire / verb the ~ of our times (guns, abortion, religion)

flare up (verb) political flashpoint

her murder has become a ~ (by illegal immigrant)
flare up
a few years ago his asthma started to ~ become a flash point
his suicide has ~ (teacher and education)
battles have been flaring up
initiation: fire
biker ~ around California and the West…
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flatfooted (caught flatfooted) ♦ “Squirrel soup with a lot of hot peppers is very popular.” (Hmong
maintain their hunting tradition in the US.)
♦ “Wasna, a patty Lakota elders used to fashion from the kidney fat and
caught the army flatfooted meat of bison mashed with chokeberries...”
the insurgency ~ (Iraq)
♦ “You crave it.” (A Native American on the delight of fry bread.)
caught flatfooted ♦ “When you eat them they squirm in your mouth and then you bite
the Defense department can't be ~ (contingency plans) them.” (Grubs from the Sago tree in Papua New Guinea.)
we were ~, we never saw it coming (Uber’s success) ♦ “Australian Aborigines like witchetty grubs.”
♦ “The staple food in this region is tsampa. This is how they prepare it...”
readiness & preparedness: foot / standing, sitting & lying (Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer, from the chapter, “The Village
of Happiness.”)
flatline (verb)
character & personality / identity & nature: taste
flatlined with inert sexual chemistry
the film ~ between... (a bad review) flawed (adjective)
caused her relationships to flatline flawed
fame ~ the studies turned out to be ~
♦ “Arsenal: Freddie Ljungberg has flatlined and lifeless Gunners are he was not a mean man but he was ~
heading south,” by Phil McNulty, Chief football writer, 15 December
2019.) flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances

success & failure: death & life / verb flawless (adjective)

flatten (verb) flawless
his performance was ~ (sports)
flatten you
the fever, aches and chills can ~ fast (ad for flu medicine) flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances

destruction: ruins / verb fledgling (adjective)

flattened (emotion) fledgling democracy
support for Nigeria's ~
flattened Iraq's ~ seems to be coming of age
you will be ~ by the end of the movie, you’ll be floored
fledgling firm
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / force most of these ~s will fail (dot-coms)
flavor (flavor of the month) fledgling government
flavor-of-the-month (m) foreign aid to help the ~ (Afghanistan)
the requirements have a ~ feeling (demands on nurses) fledgling (electronic publishing) market
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: taste the ~

flavor (regional flavor, etc.) fledgling sport

if the ~ can take off (snowkiting)
flavor of old Istanbul
he highlights the rich ~ (novelist Jason Goodwin)
fledgling space station
the three batteries were ferried to the ~
flavor of youth ♦ Man: That's pretty good for a fledgling charity. / Woman: 'Fledgling'?
no other book better catches the ~ in wartime I'm impressed. (Silly dialog from an episode of Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit.)
local flavor ♦ “Television was a fledging, barely out of the nest, when I began...” (The
crowds prefer musical theater with a ~ (Singapore) beloved actress and comedienne Betty White, “the First Lady of
Television,” known to many for the TV series The Golden Girls.)
regional flavor
growth & development: animal / bird
the race has a ~ now (running)
American flavor flee (verb)
audiences are enjoying the festival's ~ (ballet in Cuba) flee the heat and humidity
Southern flavor they ~ (Egyptians go to the coast)
the one-man show is rich with ~ avoidance & separation: walking, running & jumping / verb
1970s flavor fleeced
all the running added to the game’s ~ (football)
♦ “Walrus flippers with sea cabbage. It’s delicious food.” (Ludmilla getting fleeced
Ainana, a 66-year-old woman, reminiscing on the food she ate at coastal we are ~ (universities, by academic publishers)
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taking & removing: animal / sheep ♦ Sometimes Flexing and a “power move” are synonymous: "Fame is so
powerful that renouncing it can seem like the supreme power move."
flesh (inside) ♦ “Weird flex. Good flex. Flex with our annual mileage discount.
Insurance that flexes with you.” (A silly online advertisement for USAA
fruit’s flesh Auto Insurance. When a cliche is used by corporate advertisers, it has
been societally sanctioned, even if it is not in a dictionary. And it will be
the mango skin ripping away from the ~... transmitted, and picked up.)
white flesh feeling, emotion & effect: gesture / skin, muscle, nerves &
foods with ~ include apples and pears bone
delicious, crisp, yellow flesh flex (muscle, etc.)
Ashmead’s Kernel has ~ (the apple)
♦ Foods with white flesh include apples, pears, bananas, cauliflowers, flexes a lot of (political) influence
and cucumbers. Eating them may reduce the risk of a stroke. Boeing ~ in Washington, D.C.
orientation: skin, muscle, nerves & bone flex its muscles
resemblance: skin, muscle nerves & bone North Korea might ~
flesh and blood flexing its muscles
flesh and blood the religious right is ~ in the corridors of power
when he discusses a film, it becomes ~ flexing its (geopolitical) muscles
substance & lack of substance: death & life / skin, muscle, Iran is increasingly ~
nerves & bone flexed its (political) muscle
flesh out (verb) the Eastern Band has visibly ~ (Cherokee)
power: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
flesh it out force: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
this is a skeleton, you need to ~ (an essay)
flexible (adjective)
substance & lack of substance: skin, muscle, nerves &
bone / verb flexible
natural gas is not as ~ a commodity as oil
fleshed out
flexible approach
fleshed out by his experience a ~ allows mission crews to modify plans (military)
his approach is ~ of being in the White House
flexible (retirement) plan
fleshed out in the House investigation a more ~…
adding more detail to a narrative that has been ~ (politics)
flexible (work) schedule
fleshed out quickly everyone would like a ~, but...
the program contains little of substance and must be ~
flexible and convenient (m)
substance & lack of substance: skin, muscle, nerves & a ~ way to get your college degree
bone
more flexible
flex (bragging) people's moral codes are ~ than generally understood
small flex fast and flexible
I predicted them to win, ~ (“you deserve the flex”) the air Volcano is ~ (military)
weird flex rigid versus a flexible
squatting next to a bear you just murdered is such a ~ commanders must weigh the benefits of a ~ plan
describes her album as a flex ♦ A reed bends but does not break.
she ~ (sole producer, plays many of the instruments) ability & lack of ability / constraint & lack of constraint:
deserve the flex materials & substances / movement
you ~ (to a man crowing about a right prediction) flexible (character)
♦ Boasting, bragging, showing off, etc. This usage probably refers to
bodybuilders and their poses. It seems analogous to the lexicalized “take flexible
a bow.” Or actually bowing. Or pantomiming blowing smoke away from
the barrel of a pistol. Or kissing the back of one’s hand or one’s fingertips
being ~ is an important survival skill (new economy)
to express admiration for oneself—the Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Girls” “Gotta
kiss myself, so pretty” flex. Or a soccer player kissing his bicep after a flexible in their ability
superb goal. In other words, the flex is a sign of extreme self-satisfaction, some elderly are less ~ to change their attitudes
which narcissists feel all the time and the rest of us feel hardly ever.
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 agility requires quick-minded, ~s (military) flipped
quick-minded, flexible (m) flipped
agility requires ~ leaders (military)
my life got ~, turned upside down
ability & lack of ability / character & personality / resiliency:
disruption / reversal: direction
materials & substances / movement
flirt (verb)
flimsy (adjective)
flirting with bankruptcy
flimsy charges we're ~
prominent political leaders were jailed on ~
flirted with disaster
flimsy at best he ~
the evidence is ~
flirt with the freezing point
flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness / substance &
Chicago and Detroit will ~ (weather report)
lack of substance: materials & substances
attraction & repulsion / fate, fortune & chance: love,
flinch (verb) courtship & marriage / verb
flinch in our coverage float (a plan, etc.)
it was important not to ~ (AIDS)
float (immigration reform) plan
flinched from responsibility Democrats ~
he never ~ (President bush on Donald Rumsfeld)
floated that possibility
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / courage & lack
officials ~ prompting angry denials (origin of virus)
of courage: bodily reaction / verb
experimentation: atmosphere / balloon / verb
flip (verb)
floated
flip the blame
they try to ~ (sex abuse) floated
one of the ideas that is being ~ is…
flipping the script the idea was first ~ in 1898 (Indian cricket team)
older gymnasts are ~ (gymnasts are usually girls) the idea has been ~ for 20 years (a US space force)
flipped seats floated as a possible presidential contender
she is one of those Democrats who ~ in 2018 she was ~ in 2016 (politics)
flip victimhood into empowerment experimentation: atmosphere / balloon
the art exhibit is designed to ~
flock (verb)
reversal: direction / movement / verb
flocked to Karbala for the climax
flip-flop (verb) Shia pilgrims ~ of Ashura
flip-flopped on increasing flocking to the Guardian for quality news
Biden ~ the refugee cap millions are ~ every day
reversal: direction / movement / verb flock to Bahrain and Dubai to celebrate
flip-flopping (reversal) Saudis ~ the New Year
flocked to cooling centers
reputation for flip-flopping
New Yorkers ~ (heat wave)
he has a ~ (a politician)
reversal: direction flock to their summer homes
out-of-towners ~ (New Hampshire)
flip off (verb)
flocked to Parker
flipped off the camera with both hands black teenagers from all over ~ (a Birmingham school)
she ~ (a spoiled young internet influencer)
flocked to the polls
♦ see also finger (middle finger) Southern Sudanese ~ (vote on succession)
insult: finger / gesture / verb
flocking to the slopes
people are ~ (French ski season reopens / pandemic)

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1.5 million people flocked a ~ around mosques and markets asking for money
~ to watch the procession (Wellington’s funeral / 1852)
flood of calls
behavior: animal / bird / sheep / verb I've had a ~ from people who say…
movement: animal / bird / sheep / verb
flood of (passenger) complaints
flog (criticize) a ~ (plane flights)

flog CNN flood of (genetic) data

Trump has a reason to ~ (CNN leaked interview questions) aided by a ~
♦ The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia’s Founding by Robert Hughes
details the horrible practice of flogging. Men would be flogged to death,
flood of emotions
survivors might have the white bones of their shoulder blades in the back when I read the letter, a ~ came back to me
permanently exposed, and the flogger would work spattered with blood
and bits of flesh. Two hundred strokes were common. flood of (cheap) heroin
Uzbek volunteers fight a ~
punishment & recrimination: speech / verb / violence /
whip flood of (newly unleashed) hormones
flood (amount / verb) caught up in a ~ (middle schoolers)
flood of (Chinese) immigrants
flooded the state with ads Tibetan exiles fear the rail line will unleash a ~
the union ~ (elections)
flood of (conflicting) information
flood the market with (boring) options the public was being inundated by a ~ (epidemic in US)
businesses that ~
flood of (new) inmates
flood all forms of the media with depictions new prisons for the ~ (US)
they ~ of sex (ads)
flood of leads
flood the country with (good) governance the media attention generated a ~ (criminals on loose)
the strategy is to ~ (USAID / Afghanistan)
flood of memories
flooded highways with (coal) trucks the trial has brought back a ~ (murder)
China's policy has ~ (electricity) a ~ burst through the psychological dam he had built
flooded the Nation Mall flood of misinformation
crowds ~ (rally) social-media companies have little incentive to stop the ~
flooding south flood of (uniformed) officers
guns are ~ (to Mexico, from the US) a ~ washed over the thicket (body)
flood the area floods of refugees
as undocumented workers ~ (a town in Arkansas) fighting has sent new ~ across the border
flooded (neighboring) states flood of (new accommodation) requests
2 million Iraqis have ~ (Jordan, Egypt, etc.) if there's a ~ (SAT)
applications (for asylum) flooded in flood of tourists
19,000 ~ (Zimbabweans in S. Africa) controlling the ~ visiting Kartchner Caverns
amount & effect: flood / river / verb / water
flood of waste
flood (move) short-term projects to stem the ~ (Kabul)

flooded onto the island became a flood

as thousands of new workers ~ (Sakhalin) the trickle of surrendering soldiers ~

flooded into (booming) Shenzhen become a flood

millions of jobseekers ~ (China) it's a constant trickle that threatens to ~ (email inbox)

flooded into Uzbekistan inundated by a flood

70,000 ethnic Uzbeks have ~ (from Kyrgyzstan) the public is being ~ of conflicting information

movement: flood / river / verb / water stem the flood

projects to ~ of waste (Kabul slums)
flood (flood of refugees, etc.)
unleash a flood
flood of beggars Tibetan exiles fear the rail line will ~ of Chinese
at the end of each Hajj, Jeddah is invaded by a ~

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♦ Last time we held the levy / But the Mississippi claimed her valley / She constraint & lack of constraint: dam / flood / river / water
backed into Tennessee, and Arkansas, and Illinois, and Missouri / She
spread her arms over thousands of acres of land / and she left farms floodtide (noun)
ruined, stock drowned, houses torn loose / nineteen-three, nineteen-
seven, nineteen-fifteen, nineteen-sixteen, nineteen twenty-two, nineteen
twenty-seven, nineteen thirty-six, nineteen thirty-seven / We built a
floodtide of (school-age) children
hundred cities and a thousand towns / But at what a cost. [Scenes of a sub-Saharan Africa's 45 countries face a ~
dog marooned on a rooftop; inundated houses; aerial views of flooded
countryside and of flooded cities] (Narration from The River by Pare floodtide of filth
Lorentz, 1938, a New Deal government-financed documentary.) a ~ has engulfed the newsstands (pornography)
amount & effect: flood / river / water ♦ At floodtide, the water is coming in towards the beach or coast.

flooded amount & effect: sea / tide / water

force: sea / tide / water
flooded with (e-mail) messages
the company was ~
floodwaters
flooded with ads, calls and pamphlets stop the floodwaters
voters were ~ (elections we are trying to ~ (immigration)

amount & effect: flood / river / water amount & effect: flood / river / water

floodgate (open the floodgates / sluice floor (pelvic floor, etc.)

gates) pelvic floor
her ~ was so weak that she peed all over the set (actor)
opened the floodgates
the court's ruling ~, raising questions about whether… orientation: direction / house

opened the sluice gates floor (low point)

these events suddenly opened the ~, and the thing moved
with a rush (government policy) ceiling and the floor
his numbers have been durable, the ~ (president’s
opened the floodgates to (million-dollar) contracts popularity)
in the 1970's, Steinbrenner ~ (baseball)
increase & decrease: direction / height / house
open the floodgates to people floor (dance floor)
this will ~ who want to beat the system
opened the floodgates to more upheaval literary dance floor
the miners' action has ~ there’s room on this ~ for everyone (website)

amount & effect: dam / flood / river / water acceptance & rejection: party
constraint & lack of constraint: dam / flood / river / water floored (emotion)
floodgate (other) floored
floodgates of memory you’ll be flattened by the end of the movie, you’ll be ~
as he began to write, the ~ opened (Leigh Fermor) floored when
floodgates of the past I was ~ I heard the news
his dark moods open up the ~ (a boxer) floored by this decision
floodgates for misuse many are ~ (released from prison on technicality)
the ~ are wide open (euthanasia law) feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / force
emotional floodgates Florence (Florence on the Elbe, etc.)
once he starts telling his story, the ~ open
Florence on the Elbe
floodgates opened nearby Dresden, then known as ~
I told him to use street language and the ~ (writing class)
in his 60s the ~ with an outpouring of poems (Geoffrey Hill) Greek Florence
here for a fragile moment, Constantinople rebuilt itself in
floodgates were flung (wide) open miniature as a ~ (Mystras, in the Peloponnese)
in 1985, the ~ when… (guided climbs up Mount Everest)
♦ Floodgates control the level and flow of water, particularly in dams. If
knowledge & intelligence: epithet
the water level gets too high behind a dam, engineers will open the
floodgates to lower the level of the reservoir. Floodgates can also keep
tidal surges out.

amount & effect: dam / flood / river / water

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Florence Nightingale (our Florence flow through Dubai
drugs from Afghanistan and Iran ~
Nightingale, etc.)
flow from the RAS to the …
our Florence Nightingale supplies ~ (military)
~ is Sally Tompkins (the Confederacy)
♦ Florence Nightingale was known as “the Lady with the Lamp.” She was
flow around the obstruction
not, in fact, a nurse. She was an administrator, logistician, statistician, legitimate traffic could ~ (Internet)
advocate, reformer, founder, writer, etc.
flow south
military: epithet the wealth from our land continues to ~ (Canadian Innuit)
flotilla (flotilla of icebergs, etc.) flowing normally
traffic is ~
flotilla of icebergs
Spalte Glacier has become a ~ (breaks into pieces) flow smoothly
amount / group, set & collection / resemblance: boat the right aperitif will make your picnic ~…

flounder (verb) money is flowing

military ~ to Boeing, Lockheed Martin and…
floundering supplies flow
his campaign has been ~ (election)
~ from the RAS to the… (military)
♦ Flounder may come from founder. The literal use of flounder means to
struggle to move or to thrash about. kept flowing
failure, accident & impairment: movement / verb / walking, with only a few exceptions, traffic ~ (protest)
running & jumping started flowing
flourish (verb) after the merge lane was lengthened, traffic ~ normally
keeps the (combat) information flowing
flourish in the netherworld this ~ rapidly to… (military)
these falsehoods ~ of internet pranksters and trolls
movement: river / verb / water
flourished from his first day
he ~ (in his new job) flow (increase)
black market flourished ebb and flow
wages plummeted, and the ~ gang killings ~ but never stop (Los Angeles)
growth & development: plant / verb increase & decrease: tide / verb / water
flow (flow of the lesson, etc.) flow (noun)
flow of the lesson flow of arms
disciplinary actions should not interrupt the ~ (ed) stop the ~ into Macedonia
even flow flow of capital
establish an ~ of aircraft into maintenance… (military) the ~
interrupt the flow flow of the crowd
disciplinary actions should not ~ of the lesson (ed) the ~ pushed him down the stairs (nightclub crush)
movement: river / water flow of (illegal) drugs
flow (go with the flow, etc.) the ~ into the US (from Mexico)
flow of goods
go with the flow improve the ~ to its stores (a retail chain)
just ~ (don't get upset, anxious, worried, etc.)
flow of information
control & lack of control: mental health
control of the ~ (politics)
flow (move) supports the free ~ (computers)
managing the ~ is another critical task (military)
flow across the (southwest) border
drugs ~ (from Mexico into US) flow of insurgents
shut down the ~ into Kashmir
flow into theater
as corps forces ~ (military) flow of intelligence
try to improve how they manage the huge ~ (F.B.I.)

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flow of materiel cash flow
intercept the ~ along Vietcong supply routes concern about the company's ~
flow of migrants cash-flow
slowing the ~ (from Mexico to U.S.) the ~ situation
step up naval patrols to reduce the ~ (Italy and Libya) he may have ~ problems
flow of money information flow
the ~ around the globe our economy is one that is increasingly based on ~
flow of (government) money logistics flow
the dwindling ~ (to hospitals) Figure 5-4 shows the ARSOA ~ (military)
flow of pilgrims traffic flow
security forces tried to ensure a smooth ~ (Hajj) solutions include rerouting ~
flow of supplies high-volume flow
it is prudent to start the ~ now (military) today's ~ of E-mail
flow of traffic dwindling flow
police directed the ~ around the accident scene; the ~ of government money (to hospitals)
regulate the ~ on MSRs (MPs / military)
accelerated flow
flow of (pedestrian) traffic the ~ of information in combat (laptops, com, etc.)
the ~ can be regulated
endless flow
flow of (illegal Chinese) workers an ~ of paperwork
a more recent ~ (into France)
free flow
flow of E-mail supports the ~ of information (computers)
today's high-volume ~
paper flow
flow of natural gas the ~ between headquarters and the field
Russia failed to restore the ~ (to Georgia)
the disruption in the ~ from fields in Siberia smooth flow
security forces tried to ensure a ~ of pilgrims (Hajj)
flow of paperwork
an endless ~ control of the flow
~ of information (politics)
flow of drugs and alcohol
stemming the ~ into Saudi Arabia tempo and flow
the ~ of the game probably will come down to… (soccer)
flow of goods, services
the ~ and investment capital (globalization) trickle, flow, gush
we had a theory called, "~" (to rescue hostages)
flow of patients and visitors
control the ~ so that… (ED post terror event) flow has slowed
the ~ to a trickle (migrants)
flow (of traffic) on MSRs
regulate the ~ (MPs / military) cut off the flow
efforts to ~ of diamonds through Taylor's network
flow (of arms) into Macedonia
stop the ~ facilitate the flow
ways to ~ of passengers through security (airports)
flow (of alcohol) into Saudi Arabia
the authorities want to stem the ~ manage the (huge) flow
try to improve how they ~ of intelligence (F.B.I.)
flow (of money) around the globe
the ~ reduce the flow
step up naval patrols to ~ of migrants
flow through Boston
the project will improve traffic ~ regulate the flow
~ on MSRs (MPs / military)
flow (of information) between ACTs and troops
the ~ (military) shut down the flow
~ of insurgents into Kashmir
Flow Control
nicknamed, in typical FAA-speak, "~" (planes aloft) slow the flow
the objective is to ~ of forces into the area of operations

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slowed the flow she seemed not really very ~ (foreign policy)
controllers ~ of planes into O'Hare (labor dispute)
looked (much less) fluent
stanch the flow but the team ~ in the second half (Tottenham Hotspur)
he asked the elders to help ~ (of Somalis to Lewiston)
ability & lack of ability: speech
stem the flow fluid (adjective)
the authorities want to ~ of drugs into Saudi Arabia
flow of arms fluid situation
stop the ~ into Macedonia this is a ~ and bears very close watch (politics)

movement: river / water fluid and confusing

the situation on the ground is ~ (rebellion)
flower (wilting flower, etc.)
gender fluid
wilting flower some think the Pharaoh might have been ~
Joni’s feistiness surfaced, she was not a ~
control & lack of control / movement: water
person: plant
flurry (activity)
character & personality / resiliency / strength & weakness:
person / plant flurry of (diplomatic) activity
flower (verb) we’ve seen a ~

flowered intellectually flurry of (law-enforcement) activity

Islam ~ (early centuries) there was a ~ from agencies all over (murder of girls)

growth & development: plant / verb flurry of trial balloons

his office floated a ~
flowering
flurries of requests
flowering of creativity officials sent him ~ (a filmmaker)
this apparently abrupt ~ (European cave drawings)
flurry of social media posts and retweets
growth & development: plant Trump responded with a ~
flowing ♦ This word is often used to describe snow and leaves in the wind.

activity: flying & falling / rain / wind

flowing (black) abaya amount & effect: flying & falling / rain / wind
she remained shrouded in a ~ (Doha)
flush (remove)
flowing (white) beard
a farmer in a ~ trotted by on a tiny donkey flush them out
security services launched an operation to ~ (criminals)
movement / resemblance: water
flushed (some of the organization’s staff) from the city
flu (enthusiasm) the violence ~ (UN in Yemen)
Oxford flu dismissal, removal & resignation / violence: hygiene / verb
interest in quantum computing has been called the ~ / water
enthusiasm: health & medicine fly (on the fly)
fluctuate (verb) adjust on the fly
morale fluctuated they are used to having to ~ (wildfire fighters)
~ (during Mao’s Long March) learn on the fly
♦ Up and down, side to side, like water or a wave. he had to do it all by himself, ~ (programming website)
increase & decrease: number do it on the fly
movement: verb / water / wave I wasn’t going to ~ with all that consequence (climbing)
increase & decrease: movement / verb / water / wave
crafted untried solutions on the fly
fluent (ability) the FED, having to act with unimaginable speed, ~
fluent in the language figured it out on the fly
Jake Paul was ~ of YouTube we kind of ~ (retired vets evacuate Afghans)
fluent in the subject make (good) decisions on the fly

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 he can ~ (a football player) it’s so crazy how ~, my boys are so tall now
get science on the fly time: movement / speed
we are having to ~
fly (fly on the wall)
♦ Birds can do astonishing things “on the fly.” Not to mention their ability
to fly in, among, and through the densest foliage.
flies on the wall
haste / readiness & preparedness: bird thank you for letting us be ~ (a documentary maker)
fly (fly into a rage, etc.) fly-on-the-wall reporter
he was a ~
flew into a (jealous) rage
he ~ (murderer) presence & absence / surveillance: animal / insect
flew into a (jealous) rage after finding fly (fly in the ointment)
he ~ a text message…
fly in the ointment
flew into a rage over her refusal the ~ though is... (emergence of variants / vaccines)
he ~ to cooperate
flaws & lack of flaws: animal / insect
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / flying & falling / verb
focus (verb)
fly (activity)
focusing on target genes
flying off the rack he is ~ for schizophrenia
fur is ~ worldwide (fashion industry)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / verb
fly off the shelves
skin-whitening products ~ (Philippines) focus (noun)
flying off the shelves focus of the day
her tell-all book is ~ the ~ differs within the strands of Christianity (Epiphany)
toilet paper and milk were ~ (coronavirus panic)
political and policy focus
flying off (store) shelves Republicans should keep the ~ on promoting job creation
the new product is ~
ongoing focus
flying all over campus there is an ~ on these economic issues (White House)
rumors were ~ (students charged with rape)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye
flying around
there are plenty of gruesome rumours ~
fodder (tabloid fodder, etc.)
flew between them fodder for comedy
letters ~ (writer / publisher) his ridiculous ideas are ~

rumors flew fodder for debate

~ (campus gossip about surveillance cameras) his legal woes are more than ~ (politics)

rumors fly fodder for some (lively) discussions

~ in small communities (Red Lake Reservation) she was perfect ~ in the newspapers (a celebrity)

rumors were flying fodder for (cruel) mockery

~ all over campus (students charged with rape) her life became ~ (#FreeBritney)

activity: animal / bird / flying & falling / verb fodder for clicks, likes, and views
speed: animal / bird / flying & falling / verb these images became ~ (GIF reactions / digital blackface)

fly (constraint) campaign fodder

his gaffe has given Democrats ~
let his imagination fly
he let his ~ (a poet) meme fodder
her dress was easy ~ that the Internet ate up
constraint & lack of constraint: bird / flying & falling / verb
tabloid fodder
fly (time flies) his five marriages provided endless ~
the story is overblown sensational ~ (celebrity gossip)
time flies
~ when you’re having fun political fodder
that term has become ~ (concentration camp)

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used as fodder curtailment / dismissal, removal & resignation: cards / verb
the academic paper was ~ for conspiracy theorists fold (to / into the fold)
consumption: animal / farming & agriculture / plant
brought him back into the fold
content: animal / farming & agriculture / plant
Damenech ~ (soccer player on national team)
gossip: animal / farming & agriculture / plant
fog (fog of war, etc.) brought Egypt back to the (Arab) fold
he ~ (Mubarak)
fog of battle
in the ~ initial reports are often confusing
drew many into the (gang's) fold
money and power ~ (prison)
fog (and friction) of war acceptance & rejection / society: sheep
in the midst of the ~
folded in (and folded into)
fog and friction
soldiers must show initiative in the ~ of battle folded into the (Q) theories
fog and a friction vaccine rhetoric starts to get ~ (Momfluencers)
there is a ~ to war (civilian deaths) attachment / relationship: cooking
casualties of the fog of war configuration / identity & nature: cooking
innocents are sometimes the ~ fold in (verb)
attributed the tragedy to the fog of war fold in the voices
an official ~ (lost convoy) we will absolutely ~ of our critics (Time’s Up)
♦ The term, "fog of war," was coined in the era of black-powder rifles.
attachment / relationship: cooking / verb
consciousness & awareness: fog / military / weather & configuration / identity & nature: cooking / verb
climate mixture: cooking / verb
fog (mental fog, etc.) follow (result, sequence)
fog of pain followed
he listened, in a ~ where he went, violence and death ~ (Q. Soleimani)

fog lifts follows weeks

as soon as you make the mental shift, the ~ (probability) the explosion of violence ~ of simmering tensions

brain fog relationship: direction / movement / verb

fatigue, ~, shortness of breath (lingering COVID) follow (it follows that, etc.)
“cognitive fog”
symptoms include ~ (mysterious “Havana Syndrome”) follows that growth must be a good sign
and so it ~ (economics)
put me in a fog
the medications ~ follows that the sight of it frightens many
and so it ~ (blood)
♦ Wikipedia redirects queries for “brain fog” to “Clouding of
consciousness.” follows that we have to bear them
consciousness & awareness: fog / weather & climate if school shootings continue, it ~ (no solutions)

foggy (adjective) analysis, interpretation & explanation / development /

relationship: direction / movement / verb
recollection is foggy
my ~ (testimony at trial) follow (at a later time)
consciousness & awareness: fog / weather & climate followed the horse
the car ~
fold (verb)
sequence / time: direction / movement / position / verb
fold its case
the House is not going to ~ (against Trump) follow (the facts, etc.)
administration has folded follow the facts
the ~ we will ~ and go where they take us

resistance, opposition & defeat: cards / verb follow the science

starting, going, continuing & ending: cards / verb “~” has been a refrain from Democrats (pandemic)

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 will the diplomats ~ on climate change (COP26) ♦ see also go (argument)
we are urging them to ~ (environmental activists) analysis, interpretation & explanation / comprehension &
analysis, interpretation & explanation: direction / verb incomprehension: journeys & trips / movement / verb
follow (afflict) follow (a road can follow, etc.)
follow me for life follows the shore
the Internet was full of trash that threatened to ~ a road ~ of the lake

following him since 2007 fictive motion: verb

this scandal has been ~ (Sarkozy) following (sequence)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
affliction: hunting / verb following items
click on the ~ on the View menu (computers)
follow (follow a feeling or emotion)
following reasons
follow my instincts he has been compared to Obama for the ~ (Sagbo)
I can't do anything if I don't ~ (Saudi intellectual)
sequence: movement
followed a (gut) instinct following (at a later time)
I ~ and chose to run the rapid (kayaker)
followed his passion following days
he ~ (a windsurfer) in the ~ the soldiers rested from battle
sequence / time: direction / movement / position / prep,
follow your passion
that's part of the spirit of mountaineering, to ~ adv, adj, particle

followed my curiosity and intuition follow-through (investigation, etc.)

I ~ (the young Steve Jobs / Apple) follow-through
♦ “I should have followed my instincts, not my generals!” (President now we’re seeing some ~ (investigation)
Trump, about the “endless war” in Afghanistan.)
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / sports &
feeling, emotion & effect: journeys & trips / movement /
games
verb
follow (a path, route, road, etc.) food (food for thought)
follow in Qeis's path food for thought
he vowed he will ~ (suicide bomber) what you said is ~
consumption: food & drink
follow its (relentless) course
if we sit back and let the epidemic ~… content / substance & lack of substance: food & drink

follow the direction

food (meat)
the investigation will ~ the evidence leads… food for every dude at 130
follow his lead you’re going to be ~ (a losing boxer)
in a note, he urged his supporters to ~ (suicide bomber) consumption: animal / meat / military / predation
followed his (father's) path food chain
he eventually ~ (seminarian)
food chain
follow their (mothers') paths he is working his way up the ~
often, young prostitutes ~ into the sex trade
higher up the food chain
follow in his (murderous) footsteps you need to ask somebody ~ (Hollywood)
he is determined his son will not ~
at the top of the chain
follow in the footsteps the wolf is at the ~ and it’s very important (Iberian wolf)
Aborigines must ~ of their ancestors
at the (very) top of the food chain
direction: journeys & trips / movement / verb women ~ at the studios (executives)
follow (argument) working his way up the food chain
follow you he is ~ starting with small fry (a prosecutor)
I don't ~

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hierarchy: animal / predation pardon me, their back foot here! I spoke to...” (NPR, All Things
Considered.)
fool’s errand readiness & preparedness: foot / standing, sitting & lying
fool’s errand foot (back / front foot)
it’s really been a ~ to try and predict when, if, or how...
♦ Hazing inexperienced sailors by sending them on a fool’s errand is a get off the back foot
hallowed maritime tradition. we have to ~, we have to lead on this issue (Beto O’Rourke)
worth & lack of worth: allusion readiness & preparedness: foot / standing, sitting & lying
fool's gold foot (one foot / the other foot)
fool's gold one foot (firmly) planted in the commercial world
a degree nowadays is ~ (no job, debt) their strategy is to have ~ and the other in the defense
business (Boeing)
mining for a fool's gold
let's not revert to ~ (a poor solution to a problem) division & connection: leg / line / standing, sitting & lying
paying (high) prices for fool's gold foot (put a foot forward)
we are ~ (involvement in overseas war)
put America's best foot forward
chasing fool's gold an opportunity for us to ~ forward (Olympics)
the state is ~ legalizing (gambling vs. social costs)
put her best foot forward
searching & discovery / success & failure / worth & lack of she was determined to ~
worth: ground, terrain & land / mining
appearance & reality: ground, terrain & land / mining representation: foot

foot (on the right foot / on the wrong foot (put one’s foot down)
foot) put his foot down
he ~ about another interview (said “No”)
on the right foot
start the new year ~ resistance, opposition & defeat: foot / verb

on the wrong foot foot (under the foot)

their relationship began ~
we started the season ~ (sports) under the foot of white men
we both live ~ (a gay man about cisgender women)
got off on the wrong foot
oppression: foot
I think he ~, but… (politics)
yes, Romney "~" in Britain (Wall Street Journal) foot (foot in the door)
started off on the wrong foot get his foot in the door
he ~ by trying to... he lied on his resume to ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: foot / walking, running access & lack of access: doors & thresholds / foot
& jumping
flaws & lack of flaws: foot / walking, running & jumping foot (foot in both worlds, etc.)
foot (on the back foot / on the front foot) foot in both worlds
people with a ~ (Chinese students in US)
on the front foot
many people were ~ ready to criticize division & connection: leg / line / standing, sitting & lying

on the back foot militarily foot (shoot oneself in the foot)

the Mau Mau were now ~
see shoot (shoot oneself in the foot)
on the back foot from the moment foot (orientation)
the Lakers were ~ Anthony Davis hobbled off... (NBA)
caught on the back foot foot of the bed
police admit they have been ~ by the protests his pillow had slipped off the ~
she’d curl up at the ~ and fall asleep (a cat)
placed on the back foot
he hates being ~ and having to defend himself publicly
foot of the gallows
the condemned recited the Psalm 51 at the ~ (Tyburn)
♦ “The [Republican] campaign would much rather be talking about the
gaffes that Joe Biden made. But instead they’re on their back fence... foot of the glacier

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 the dogs were supposed to turn back at the ~ foothold (noun)
ponies could only be taken to the ~
their bodies were found at the ~ (years later) foothold
US forces established a ~ in…
foot of the memorial
citizens leave objects at the ~ (Vietnam War Memorial) foothold in the Caribbean
eliminate lymphatic filariasis from its last ~
foot of the stage
they pushed their way to the ~ (crowd stampede) Arctic foothold
the eight countries with ~s
foot of the stairs
he stood at the ~ and looked up... dangerous foothold
a subpopulation can offer the virus a ~ (Covid, etc.)
foot of the tree
a small shrine at the ~ is filled with offerings (Japan) last foothold
eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from their ~
at the foot of the Himalayas
hills, deep valleys and fast-flowing rivers ~ gains a foothold
stop coronavirus before it ~
at the foot of the Ko’olau Mountains
he grew up in Waimanalo, ~ (Cyril Pahinui) give socialism a foothold
~, and nothing can arrest the slide to perdition
at the foot of the Statue of Liberty
the Immigration and Nationality Act was signed ~ (1965) presence & absence: foot / mountains & hills
survival, persistence & endurance: foot / mountains & hills
at the foot of the Washington Monument
the demonstrators rallied ~ (Washington, D.C.) footing (position)
orientation: direction / foot emergency footing
football (conflict) all parts of the UK are on ~ (pandemic)
war footing
political football land forces could shift to a ~ on short notice
the Anthem protests became a ~ (NFL)
AstraZeneca has become a ~ in a European blame game put the nation on a war footing
President Kennedy ~ (Cuban Crisis)
cultural, political footballs
this has become one of those ~ (culture war kerfuffle) position, policy & negotiation: foot / standing, sitting & lying
playing (political) football footing (solid footing, etc.)
they are ~ with women’s health (politics)
on solid (financial) footing
competition: football / sports & games he has never been able to put the review ~
conflict: football / sports & games
bases: foot / ground, terrain & land / walking, running &
football (spike the football) jumping
spike the football footing (find one’s footing, etc.)
we don’t want to ~ too early (public health emergency)
find their footing
spike the football on the five-yard-line politicians struggled to ~ in the new political landscape
the president has been very careful not to ~
♦ “I think he’ll get it done. I think the president has been very careful not found its footing
to you know spike the football on the five-yard line, and not declare her campaign stumbled out of the gate but has since ~
victory before he has it in hand.” (Getting a paid-family-leave bill through
Congress.) find her footing
success & failure: football / sports & games she struggled to ~ as a newly separated woman

foot-dragging regain our footing

we are struggling to ~ (a political party)
foot-dragging by (school) officials
regained his footing
so why the ~ (reform)
since then, Biden has ~ (elections)
bureaucratic foot-dragging bases / equilibrium & stability: foot / ground, terrain & land
the test has been bogged down by squabbles and ~
/ walking, running & jumping
action, inaction & delay / eagerness & reluctance: foot /
walking, running & jumping

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footnote (noun) military footprint
we must reduce our ~ in Iraq (a politician)
fleeting, feel-good footnotes
they could turn out to be ~ to the pandemic (“freedges”) small footprint
the Stinger missile has a ~
made a footnote
they have largely been ~ (hip hop group the Sequence) expanding its footprint
it is ~ in several parts of Africa (a terror group)
separate the footnotes from the milestones
it can be hard to ~ (journalism) reduce our (military) footprint
we must ~ in Iraq (a politician)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters
shrink its footprint
footprint (noun) as the US military begins to ~ in Afghanistan
footprint presence & absence: foot / ground, terrain & land
Hezbollah has its ~ everywhere here (Tyre)
our ~, the influence of the US in the world, will diminish
foot soldier (duty)
"footprint" of a credit card foot soldiers for Martin Luther King
the camera has the ~, weighing just 5.6 ounces he was one of those ~ (Reverend James Orange)

"footprint" of oil infrastructure foot soldiers in a (vast right-wing) conspiracy

limiting the ~ (Arctic oil) they were recast as ~ (government lawyers / prosecutors)

footprint on the environment movement’s foot soldiers

we might lighten our collective ~ the ~ are less inhibited (alt-right)

footprint overseas Democratic foot soldiers

he wants to shrink the military and reduce its ~ fire up the ~ (for a coming election)
work & duty: military / person
footprint or signature
they don't have a ~ (terrorists) hierarchy / person: military

city footprint
footstep (in the footsteps)
this will affect the entire ~ (urban-renewal project) in the footsteps of their ancestors
consumption footprint Aborigines must follow ~
the enormous ~ of someone living in the state right now in his father's footsteps
noise "footprint" he was going to follow in his ~
they should have a smaller ~ than… (airplanes) in their parents' footsteps
terrain footprint too young to be thinking about following in their ~
the Stinger missile has a small ~ in his murderous footsteps
online footprint he is determined his son will not follow ~
his other ~ includes a site… (Web sites) follow in the footsteps
combat service support (CSS) footprint Aborigines must ~ of their ancestors
the Stinger has a small ~ follow in his (murderous) footsteps
digital footprint he is determined his son will not ~
investigators are examining the case’s “~” direction: foot / journeys & trips / movement
the ~ led cops to the suspect’s house (cell-phone towers)
footstep (retrace one's footsteps)
industrial footprint
concerns about the ~ (drilling in Arctic) retraced my footsteps in Haiti
one year after the earthquake, I ~ (journalist)
large footprint
the ~ created when the minefield is fired (war) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: foot /
due to the ~ when the minefield is fired... movement / verb
larger "footprint" footstep (conceal one’s footsteps, etc.)
a tire with a ~ on the road has more rolling resistance
digital footsteps
light footprint TOR drags branches behind your ~
the coalition has limited its ambitions and kept a ~
pursuit, capture & escape / subterfuge: hunting

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concealment & lack of concealment: hunting foreground (verb)
footwork (noun)
foregrounded his virtues
clever footwork he has lied about his crimes and ~ (a flawed individual)
some companies are getting by with some ~ (pandemic)
foregrounds warfare
ability & lack of ability: movement Colley ~ (The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen / constitutions)

for (support) attention, scrutiny & promotion: picture

appearance & disappearance: picture
for you perception, perspective & point of view: picture
I am ~
forenoon (at an earlier time)
allegiance, support & betrayal: prep, adv, adj, particle
in the forenoon
force (show of force) ~, we built igloos
♦ This means before noon, in the morning. Earlier times are before (in
political show of force front of) later times. So this seems to be the time queue.
a campaign kick-off is a ~
sequence / time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj,
conflict / force / power: military particle
fore (come to the fore, etc.) foresight (noun)
come to the fore foresight
issues of race have ~ (2020 presidential election) his ~ was miraculous (a prediction)
bringing those voices to the fore ♦ In this use, it seems that the future is ahead, and approaching.
Contrast with forefather.
so it’s ~ (diversity & inclusion / Archibald Prize)
time: direction / eye / prep, adv, adj, particle
brought to the fore
it has ~ some ethnic tensions (Elian Gonzales case) future: direction / eye / prep, adv, adj, particle

attention, scrutiny & promotion / importance & significance

forest (a forest of cranes, etc.)
/ priority / superiority & inferiority: center & periphery / forest of (empty) bottles
direction / position a ~ spread across the tables...
forefront (center) forest of cranes
I saw a ~ and, beyond them, skyscrapers
to the forefront of the (death-penalty) debate
he has been catapulted ~ forest of stalactites
a hanging ~ (Kartchner Caverns)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / importance & significance
/ priority / superiority & inferiority: center & periphery / kelp forests
direction / position the ~ off of California
the Great Southern Reef and its ~ (Australia)
foreground (noun) the underwater ~ off the southwest tip of Cape Town
move to the foreground stalagmite forest
as the midterm elections ~ (news cycle) she threads her way through a ~ (underwater cave)
moved into the foreground amount / group, set & collection / resemblance: forest
money has ~ (doctor-patient relationship)
forever (forever chemicals, etc.)
pull nuclear energy into the foreground
we need to ~ “forever” chemicals
the discovery of so-called ~ in the soil (agriculture)
pushed the instrument into the foreground
he has ~ (African musician) ‘forever chemicals’
detecting ~ like PFAS is costly and difficult
center & periphery: direction / picture / position
appearance & disappearance / attention, scrutiny & forever wars
promotion / importance & significance / perception, tired of ~, the U.S. weighs options if Russia invades...
perspective & point of view: center & periphery / picture / Biden pledged to end the ~
position Trump promised to end the “~”
♦ “Foreign policy is domestic policy... We’ve got to turn the page on the
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♦ Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Abu Zubaydah is named The the ~, where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers join
Forever Prisoner. (HBO Max.)
♦ PS Resorts, a hospitality organization, has decided “Forever Marilyn’s” epithet / branching system: shape
forever home will be the Coachella Valley.” (“Giant Marilyn Monroe geography: epithet
Statue Returns to Palm Springs, But Its Backside Faces Backlash” by
Matt Guilhem, NPR, Weekend Edition Sunday, May 16, 2021.) fork (a fork in the road, etc.)
♦ “You’re my forever love.” (NPR. A friendship between a gay Black man
and a woman. There is an reprise of my “My Endless Love” by Lionel at a fork in his career
Richie et al. in that.) he's ~
♦ The origin, progression and promotion of this cliché is utterly typical.
alternatives & choices / direction: journeys & trips
survival, persistence & endurance: part of speech
fork over (verb)
forge (verb)
forked over three hundred million dollars
forge an agreement the Saudis reluctantly ~
we will do our very best to ~ (politics)
forked over billions of dollars
forged checks American taxpayers had ~ in economic aid (to Greece)
she graduated to cocaine and ~ to support her habit
possession: food & drink / verb
forge compromise giving, receiving, bringing & returning: food & drink / verb
how hard it will be for him to ~ (a diplomat)
formula (script)
forged (new American) heroes
each test has ~ (natural disasters, mass shootings, etc.) formula to satisfy
officials are seeking a ~ both sides (diplomacy)
creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb
formula for creating
forged he has to learn the American ~ (politics)
forged from (nearly) a decade formula for maintaining
doctrines ~ of fighting in both wars there is no neat ~ this balance (secrecy / press)
forged in her own adversity magic formula
she was ~ (overcame a rare medical condition) there is no ~, but try… (predicting NCAA winner);
we don't have a ~ for predicting wildfires
forged in the furnace
he is ~ of Parris Island and San Diego (a marine) simple formula
her long, ludicrous career has followed a ~ (feminist)
forged document
the terrorist groups have coordinated in acquiring ~s standard formula
the ~ of a romantic comedy
forged notes
~ and other bogus documents followed a (simple) formula
he long, ludicrous career has followed a ~ (feminist)
forged (immunization) records
many legal visitors carry ~ (Hajj / Saudi) seeking a formula
negotiators were ~ to keep the talks going (diplomacy)
forged (immigration) stamp
falsified passports and ~s (Singapore) script: number
forged passports fort (hold down the fort)
foreign nationals entering the US with ~
hold down the fort
forged transcripts and (recommendation) letters ~ until reinforcements can be hired, trained (a company)
~ (college)
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
creation & transformation: manufacturing
fortress (noun)
fork (a trail can fork, etc.)
fortress
forked terror concerns have turned public buildings into ~s
the trail ~, one branch following the stream, the other...
fortress mentality
fictive motion: shape / verb a ~ that protects the home folks while… (public health)
fork (the Forks of the Ohio, etc.) neighborhood fortress
it is a ~ (a high school in South-Central LA)
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protection & lack of protection: fortification / military she wants to ~ (abuse victim)
fortuneteller (person) find a way forward
unless the Paris meeting can ~, Iran...
fortuneteller hopefully, negotiators can pick up the pieces and ~
are these things probable, I don’t know, I’m not a ~
stock analysts are modern-day ~s looking into crystal balls progress & lack of progress: direction / journeys & trips /
movement / verb
fortune tellers
the latest pronouncement from the ~ (stock analysts) forward (bring something forward, etc.)
modern-day fortune tellers bring that (important) narrative forward
they are ~ promising riches (stock analysts, etc.) how can they ~
♦ In Canto XX of The Inferno, the fortune tellers and diviners have their
heads screwed on backwards, so that as they walk forward they can only
attention, scrutiny & promotion: direction / position / prep,
see backwards, and their tears run down their buttocks. About adv, adj, particle / verb
Amphiareus, Virgil tells Dante: “In life he wished to see too far before
him, / and now he must crab backwards round this track.” (From the forward (come forward)
great translation of The Inferno by John Ciardi.)

message: person / magic see come forward (verb)

person: magic forward (future forward, etc.)
future / time: person / magic
action-forward
forward (look forward, etc.) this month has been about ~ that are entertaining, but...
forward fashion forward
we will probably see this every year ~ RuPaul, famous, fierce and ~
going ~, who can predict what will happen (boxing)
from this day ~, you will be known as Muhammad Ali fashion-forward
~ men, take note (tiny pants)
go forward
this will not help us as we ~ future-forward
their music is a ~ experiment
look forward
New Year's day is a time to ~ and backward technology-forward
the company has taken a ~ approach
move forward
as we ~, we will see (politics) attention, scrutiny & promotion: position / affix
♦ In Canto X of The Inferno, Dante is curious as to why the heretics can forward-looking
foresee the future, but know nothing of the present, for example, if
somebody is currently dead or alive. Farinata Degli Uberti, the great
Tuscan war chief, explains: “We see asquint, like those whose twisted forward-looking approach
sight / can make out only the far-off... / When things draw near, or a ~ to marketing
happen, we perceive / nothing of them...” (From the great translation of
The Inferno by John Ciardi.) future / time: direction / eye
perception, perspective & point of view: direction / eye
future / time: direction / movement / prep, adv, adj,
particle forwardness (noun)
forward (move forward, go forward, etc.) female forwardness
her appealing expression of ~ (music)
go forward
drilling projects continue to ~ sex-forwardness
this will not help us as we ~ the sly acknowledgment of her ~ (song lyric)
moved us forward attention, scrutiny & promotion: direction
inventions that ~
fossil (noun)
move forward
we just want to ~, and hopefully change will come fossil
my computer is a ~ (very old)
moving forward
we are ~ in a cautious way (diplomacy) living fossils
things aren't ~, we're stuck (refugees) sturgeon are ~ (Wisconsin)
things are ~ and they're moving quickly (many projects) Lake Ohrid is known for its species of ~
we are ~ with solutions on many issues (politics) archaic or a fossil
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viewed as troglodytes we've ~ of distrust (Iran / US)
debating literary lions now ~
lay a foundation
♦ “On the white sand of the bottom / Lay the monster Mishe-Nahma, /
Lay the sturgeon, King of Fishes; / Through his gills he breathed the
you ~ for a sense of community
water, / With his fins he fanned and winnowed, / With his tail he swept
the sand-floor. // There he lay in all his armor...” (“The Song of Hiawatha” laid a foundation
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) we ~ to talk about those issues ( diplomacy)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal rests upon a foundation
past & present / time: animal our global role ~ of unmatched military power (US)
fossilize (verb) bases: house

fossilises foundational (adjective)

an organisation that does not change ~
foundational in teaching and learning
past & present / time: animal / verb collocation is ~ language
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal / verb
foundational for American democracy
fossilized liberal arts education is ~
fossilized bureaucrat foundational to the narrative
a ~, a cog in the machinery for decades... education is ~ of social mobility in this country
fossilized method foundational to a free society
low voter participation indicates a ~ of outreach (Latinos) privacy, including privacy online, is ~
fossilized understanding foundational element
she is an out-of-touch relic with a ~ of race and gender a ~ of US society is that we are a cultural melting pot
calcified and fossilized foundational myths
everyone is so partisan, our political views have become ~ as the US awakens from one of its ~ (that it is classless)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal foundational narrative
past & present / time: animal their work threatens the ~ of Polish Society (Holocaust)
foundation (noun) foundational values
ensuring America lives up to its ~ of equality and freedom
foundation of identity
in Egypt, nationalism and Arabism once were the ~ foundational part of himself
Shakespeare is a ~ as an actor (Denzel Washington)
foundation in (native-language) literacy
a solid ~ bases: house
comparison & contrast: affix
foundation of (modern) research
being able to replicate results is the ~ (medicine) founder (verb)
foundation for success foundered
brand loyalty is the ~ (business) the TV channel quickly ~
education is the ~ (life) two previous tried have ~ in the courts
the plan ~ with depressed stock prices
foundation narrative the company ~ during the economic downturn
the ~s of particular Native Nations (US) Spain's economy has ~
foundation story foundering on the shoals
the Long March became a ~ for Communist China he finds himself ~ of issues around race (a politician)
solid foundation ♦ Flounder may come from this word. The literal use of founder was often
used for horses and is still used for boats.
a ~ in native-language literacy
destruction: boat / horse / sea / verb
foundation (of the lithium-ion battery) was laid failure, accident & impairment: boat / horse / sea / verb
the ~ during the oil crisis of the 1970s
fountain (resemblance)
foundations (of the postwar order) are cracking
the ~ in Europe (economies) fountains of (bright red) lava
~ and towering clouds of ash
build a foundation
we help people ~ for the rest of their lives (ad for school) resemblance: fountain / water
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fountain (source) protection & lack of protection: animal / fox / hole / military
fracture (failure)
fountain of Islam
they come and drink from the ~ (mosque) fracture in politics between elites and nationalists
source: fountain / water there is a ~ (European Union)
failure, accident & impairment: materials & substances
fountainhead
fractured (separated)
fountainhead of freedom
England was a ~ (Enlightenment) fractured
the cartels are ~ and fighting over territory (Mexico)
fountainhead of (chamber) music
the festival was a ~ in America division & connection: materials & substances
fountainhead of ideas and discovery fragile (weak)
the university has historically been a ~
fragile
fountainhead of ideals and law the ceasefire is ~ (Israel / Gaza)
Lincoln saw the Declaration of Independence as the ~
fragile economy
poetic fountainhead Bosnia's ~ was hit hard by the global financial crisis
Shakespeare was a ~
fragile and weak
source: fountain / river / water the caretaker government is ~
Fountain of Youth strength & weakness: materials & substances
looking for the fountain of youth fragile (feelings)
women and men are ~ (cosmetics, surgery, etc.)
♦ There is no real proof that Ponce de Leon sought the Fountain of Youth
fragile ones
in America. enact measures to protect athletes, especially the ~
♦ “We have grown up in a society that has always pursued the Holy
Grail, the fountain of youth.” (Madeline Di Nonno, president of the Geena
emotionally fragile
Davis Institute on Gender in Media, about ageism, particularly towards he was an ~ young man (suicide)
older female actors.)
feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
amelioration & renewal: allusion / death & life / fountain /
water fragility (feelings)
fox (subterfuge) fundamental fragility
accept and be honest about our ~ (Simon Reeve)
fox ♦ “We’re confronted by so many images of perfection now, and I think, as
the ~ is in the henhouse, and we invited it in much as we can, it’s a good thing for us to accept and be honest about
our fundamental fragility.” (Simon Reeve, traveler. He is talking about
put the fox in charge of the henhouse failings and insecurities.)
the FAA ~ (safety of Boeing planes) feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
♦ "They're going to burn the forest to kill the fox." (An Iraqi, speaking of
US invasion to rid Iraq of Saddam.) frame (characterize)
behavior / subterfuge: animal / fox frame what happened to young players
foxhole (Keynesians in a foxhole, etc.) leaders are trying to ~ (football tragedy)

in a foxhole frame the story as a religious issue

they ~ between locals and outsiders
we’re all Keynesians ~ (gov’t intervention in crises)
♦ "There are no atheists in foxholes." (Father Cummings, Bataan.) framed it as a character study
♦ "I always wondered who invented the absurd lie that proclaimed there she has ~ as opposed to an attack (Nomadland)
were 'no atheists in foxholes.' Where else could atheism better thrive
than in the killing fields where homicide was honored? In the Third frames Aboriginal identity in a narrative
General Hospital at Aix, the poker game was as religious as things got." the “deficit narrative” ~ of negativity
(The wonderful Tony Hillerman, from Seldom Disappointed.)
♦”During a time of a serious epidemic, religiosity rises. People become characterization: infrastructure / picture / verb
more religious. And that actually is generally reversed, when the analysis, interpretation & explanation: infrastructure /
epidemic goes away. You know, they say there are no atheists in
foxholes, well, we’re under a barrage right now, so you know people get
picture / verb
religious, but then afterwards, you know, their religiosity sort of returns to
baseline...” (Nicholas Christakis, “Denial And Lies Are ‘Almost An
frame (in the frame / involvement)
Intrinsic Part Of An Epidemic,’ Doctor Says,” NPR, Fresh Air, October 29,
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 he was born in Innsbruck, so he was ~ (why Buhl became a a ~ gone wrong
climber)
higher education's Frankenstein
involvement: picture the NCAA has become ~, terrifying its overseers
framed (characterized) create a Frankenstein
it gets out of hand, they ~ (extrajudicial killings)
framed
♦ “And now it’s grown so much, how do you control it? BA [Bruce Arians]
once a story has been ~, it’s hard to change the narrative thought they could control it. Even Tom [Brady] thought he could control
it until, guess what, it got so big, even he couldn’t control Frankenstein.
characterization: picture And then Frankenstein started consuming. Mike Tomlin can’t control it,
analysis, interpretation & explanation: infrastructure / Jon Gruden... even Coach Belichick... This is who AB [Antonio Brown]
picture is.” (Shannon Sharpe talking with Skip Bayless about the great NFL
player Antonio Brown on "Undisputed.")
franchise (noun) ♦ The oppression of Frankenstein’s monster in the sentimental film
versions seems irrational and cruel. Less so if you read Mary Shelley’s
regional franchises harrowing and creepy novel!
Al-Qaeda still has its ~ affliction: allusion / creature
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: government allusion: books & reading
Franken (Frankenfoods, etc.) Frankenstein (as verb)
Frankenfood Frankenstein them back together
~ has been included in the Oxford dictionary (2000) you could ~ if you had the right parts (blown up MRAPS)

Frankenstorm Frankensteins various takes together

weather forecasts deliver threats of ~s (hyperbole) he ~ to get a flawless rendition (music producer)

affliction: affix / allusion / creature Frankensteining alternatives

he has been ~ (Michael McAlpine / body parts)
Frankenstein (Frankenstein Cliff, etc.) ♦ “Michael McAlpine has been Frankensteining alternatives.” (“It’s Alive!
3D-Printing Body Parts” by Rebecca Heilweil, Wired, December 2018.)
Frankenstein
~ was tough (named rapid / kayaking) creation & transformation: part of speech / verb
Frankenstein Cliff fraternity (noun)
excellent views along ~ (near a waterfall)
fraternity of test pilots
Son of Frankenstein death wasn’t unusual within our ~
we got to ~ (named rapid / kayaking)
small fraternity
proper name: allusion / creature the Las Vegas boxing community is a ~
geography: allusion / creature / proper name
member of the fraternity
Frankenstein (product) I'm proud to be a ~ (a retired boxer)
"Frankenstein" foods society: school & education
concerns about the safety of the so-called ~ group, set & collection: school & education
Frankenstein hybrid fray (verb)
2 coronavirus variants can give birth to a ~ (NPR)
fray the fabric
“Frankenstein” vehicles logging and roads ~ of nature
the limo crash raises safety questions about ~
frayed (US-China) ties
Frankenstein’s monster many issues have ~
Ducournau has sewn together a ~ from disparate ideas
the song is a ~ of pop genres (“Can I Get It?”) badly frayed
♦ “When two coronavirus variants meet inside one person, a the incident ~ inter-Korean relations
Frankenstein hybrid can be born.” (NPR Morning Edition, Michaeleen
Doucleff, March 23, 2022. With a graphic that is perhaps meant to be the bond frayed
Bride of Frankenstein by Francesco Zorzi.) their ~ almost to the breaking break
affliction / product: allusion / creature coalition frayed
allusion: books & reading the ~
Frankenstein (a monster) consensus is fraying
the political ~
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fibers (within the tendons) fray become frayed
the ~ (tendinopathies) nerves can ~ in the blasting Antarctic winds
nerves are fraying feeling, emotion & effect: rope
~ as the lockdown continues (coronavirus)
freak show (noun)
relationship frayed
the ~ over the past year (diplomacy) leave behind the freak show
the party must return to its center and ~ (politics)
began to fray
performance: circus
relations between the countries ~ in November
beginning to fray free-fall (in free-fall)
tolerance is ~ in free fall
failure, accident & impairment: cloth / verb his life was ~
flaws & lack of flaws: cloth / verb house prices continue to be ~ nationwide
the economy is ~, economic meltdown (Zimbabwe)
fray (above the fray)
increase & decrease: direction / number
above the fray decline: direction / flying & falling
he is trying to stay ~ (a politician)
free-fall (noun)
conflict: military
behavior: direction free fall in (air) travel
the ~ post-9/11 (due to fears of terrorism)
fray (conflict)
company's (financial) free fall
2020 fray the ~ (into bankruptcy)
he is joining the ~ (running for president)
stock-market free fall
conflict: military the ~ was harrowing to watch
frayed (degraded) financial free fall
the company's ~ (into bankruptcy)
frayed by his rejection
their longtime alliance has been ~ of the bill mental freefall
he went into a ~ (murderer)
frayed by scandals
taxpayer confidence has been ~ decline: direction / flying & falling

frayed relations free-for-all (control)

Obama has worked hard to repair his ~ with…
he wants to rebuild ~ with neighbor Argentina free-for-all
space is a ~ right now (space pollution)
frayed (political) system
the two leaders promised to reform the country's ~ free-for-all of people
it is a ~ suggesting that...
frayed ties
Obama is trying to smooth ~ with business leaders free-for-all on what
it’s a bit of a ~ the government can do (facial recognition)
badly frayed (m)
he sought to mend ~ relations between the two countries behavior / control & lack of control: sports & games

seriously frayed freeze (verb)

the social safety net is ~ freeze assets
grow (yet more) frayed ~ of terrorists
an already strained social compact will ~ frozen its (nuclear) tests
failure, accident & impairment: cloth North Korea has ~
flaws & lack of flaws: cloth activity: snow & ice / verb
frayed (emotions) freeze (computers, etc.)
frayed nerves computer freezes
he experienced ~ and growing exhaustion if your ~…
he tried to smooth the ~
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freeze (position of body) social media feeding frenzy
the information generated a ~
hold the freeze
activity / behavior: animal / predation
patrol members ~ until signaled to do something else
movement: snow & ice frenzy (other)
freeze (activity) media frenzy
such was the ~ around the trial (national attention)
freeze on (U.S.) aid
if that's the case, should there be a ~ (politics) center of a (media) frenzy
he is now the ~ (accusations of sex abuse)
freeze on (high-level) contacts
the European Union recently ended its ~ with Iran whipped the snow into a frenzy
the winds ~ (ground blizzard)
freeze on (all state) hiring
it would put a ~ working themselves into a frenzy
the fans are ~ (World Cup)
price freeze
activity / behavior: health & medicine / mental health
a ~ until 2002 (public utilities)
hiring freeze
fresh (fresh evidence, etc.)
a ~ is often a last-ditch effort to reduce staff… fresh approach
60-day freeze we need a ~ to this problem
he asked for a ~ (on aid to Russia / politician) fresh attempt
put a freeze on (all state) hiring the time seemed ripe for a ~ (scientific ballooning)
it would ~ fresh blood
freeze began to thaw when… the king might reshuffle his cabinet to inject ~
the ~ fresh burst
activity: snow & ice the crisis signaled a ~ of negotiating

freeze out (verb) fresh concerns

the floods have sparked ~ over… (N. Korea)
frozen Tomaz out of funding
the Alpine Association had ~ (climber) fresh effort
a ~ is underway to refloat the ship
acceptance & rejection: snow & ice / society / temperature
/ verb fresh evidence
they said there was ~ available (politics)
freighted
fresh (scientific) evidence
freighted with (historical and cultural) baggage ~ is turning this case on its head
the N-word is ~ (racial epithets)
fresh search warrants
history: burden / journeys & trips / weight armed with ~ police arrived...
oppression: burden / journeys & trips / weight amelioration & renewal: food & drink
speech: burden / journeys & trips / weight
freight train (force) freshman (adjective)
unstoppable freight trains freshman Democrat
the 29-year-old ~
hurricanes are the ~ of weather (wind and water)
experience: school & education
force: train
frenzied (adjective) Freud (sex)
frenzied rumors Freud of the botanical world
Linnaeus was the ~ (all about sex)
the ~ have become so fierce that...
sex: epithet
activity / behavior: health & medicine / mental health
frenzy (feeding frenzy) friction (conflict)
media feeding frenzy friction
get along enough to avoid ~ in the office
it was a ~

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 the ~ of 37,000 US troops (anti-Americanism in Korea) ♦ “When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.”
in one step to reduce ~… (US forces) ♦ “A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.”
♦ “A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.” (Morocco.)
friction between cyclists and motorists
♦ “Friends are better than money.” (That is because if you need money,
~ who have to share the road you can ask your friend.)
friction between the LAPD and the residents ♦ “Lend your money, lose your friend.”
decades of ~ (LA) ♦ “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” (This means that in bad times
most of your friends will abandon you, but a true friend will stick with you
friction between pedestrians and motorists and help you. But a real friend will die for you.)
the road network has created ~ ♦ “We have no friends but the mountains.” (Kurdish.)

frictions between their camps help & assistance / relationship: person

~ of advisors and loyalists (politicians)
friendly (adjective)
friction between you
there was obviously a lot of ~ (antagonism) friendly to life
salt in very high concentrations is not very ~ (Mars)
avoid friction
get along enough to ~ in the office friendly atmosphere
the ~ that originally drew foreigners to Wisconsin
conflict: physics
friendly face
friction (impedance) fraud often hides behind a ~
friction friendly fire
government rules are only one kind of ~ to free markets they were killed by ~ (soldiers)
does e-commerce reduce ~, add convenience and…
friendly ground
trade friction don’t assume Ireland will be ~ for the pope (sex abuse)
~ is channeled into the WTO's dispute settlement process
friendly microbes
points of friction there are things called ~ (digestion, etc.)
troops would pull back from ~
friendly neighbors
fog and a friction Azerbaijan and Armenia are not ~
there is a ~ to war (civilian deaths)
“friendly skies”
♦ Friction, it turns out, is the parent of the profit margin. The more you
move toward a perfect market mechanism the fewer opportunities there the ~ have become unfriendly (air travel)
are for anyone to make money." (E-commerce.)
friendly and enemy
obstacles & impedance: physics ~ thermal and optical signatures (military)
frictionless dog-friendly
track down ~ cafes and hotels (a Web site)
frictionless travel
the airlines' attempts to create ~ eco-friendly
trendsetters are visiting ~ resorts
obstacles & impedance: physics
help & assistance: person
friend (noun)
frigid (adjective)
friend
technology is not our ~ today (glitches during trial / judge) frigid reception
we will be your ~, not your slave (PM Imran Khan to US) the idea had met a ~ from France and Britain

best friend feeling, emotion & effect: temperature

why the A-10 Warthog is a ground soldier’s ~ fringe (configuration)
I grew up an only child, so my ~s were books (Lucy Yu)
no friends left fringe of islets
the lagoon, with its distant ~
the NCAA has ~ (on the left or on the right)
friends and allies broad fringe
a ~ of sea ice builds each austral winter
Kosovo needs more ~
configuration: cloth
becomes a friend
ultimately, in cold case murders, time ~ (new technology)
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fringe (edge) he is a figure on the most ~ of the movement

fringe of the storm violent fringe

they are members of a nationalist, sometimes ~
wind and rain from the ~ lashed the state
fringes of the solar system from the fringes into the mainstream
social media can push conspiracies ~
unmanned vehicles are zipping to the ~
society: center & periphery / cloth / direction
desert's (southern) fringe
center & periphery: cloth / direction / society
the ~
fringed
southern fringe
the desert's ~ fringed by (mountain) peaks
the Salar de Uyuni is ~ (salt flat in Bolivia)
eastern fringes
this country on the ~ of Europe (Ukraine) fringed with coral reefs
Kenya's southeast coastline is ~
southern and eastern fringe
the arc of deforestation along the ~ of the Amazon palm-fringed
a beautiful, ~ beach…
outer fringes
icy rocks found on the ~ of the solar system configuration: cloth
center & periphery: cloth frog (frog in boiling water)
fringe (on the fringe) frog in the boiling water
ignoring the need to fix entitlement programs is the ~
on the political fringe
both groups arose ~ (Occupiers, Tea Party) ♦ This fable illustrates the danger of changes that occur slowly.
♦ “Are we frogs? Are we being boiled and don’t know it yet?” (A
operate on the fringes Californian, discouraged by fires, drought, and record temperatures.)
the gangs ~ (versus established gangs)
consciousness & awareness / environment / situation:
center & periphery: cloth / direction / society allusion / animal / frog / temperature / water
society: center & periphery / cloth / direction front (get in front of an announcement,
fringe (versus mainstream) etc.)
fringe Berlin get in front of it
the restaurant is ~ at its best we’ll announce it later today, I don’t want to ~
fringe books got out in front of Obama
we are seeing fewer ~ and new authors (publishing) Biden ~ on gay marriage
fringe cult timeliness & lack of timeliness: position / prep, adv, adj,
he joined a ~ particle
fringe dwellers front (in front / competition)
every society has its ~
get in front of it
fringe idea the nationwide quarantine is an effort to ~ (coronavirus)
animal liberation is no longer the ~ it once was
competition: direction / position / sports & games / verb /
fringe minority walking, running & jumping
the so-called “~” is actually the government (Elon Musk)
front (the future is in front of us)
fringe territory
their most recent article veered into ~ (UFOs / NYT) in front of her
she had her whole life ~ (committed a murder)
criminal fringe
the "one percenters" are the ~ of the biker world future: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
lunatic fringe
the group is part of the ~ front (in front / proximity)
militant fringe in front of me
Turkey has been at war with the ~ of the Kurds I was so blinded by love that I didn’t see the problem ~
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 the answer is ~ state and local law enforcement ~
we have these issues ~ the dedicated people ~ (social services)
she tells what it’s really like ~ (nurse in pandemic)
proximity: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
on the front lines of this battle
front (conflict) he is ~ (agency fighting spam phone calls)
front in the (overall) struggle on the front lines of this disease
his indictment could be a new ~ to get at what happened health care workers ~ (COVID-19)
legislative front on the front line of (interpersonal) violence
do you think something will get done on the ~ (politics) doctors are ~ (EM)
new front on the front lines of the drug crisis
a ~ in the president’s battle with congress is emerging they have been working ~
fake 1-star reviews are the ~ of review manipulation
♦ “They get awfully sick at the big-print headlines in some of the
papers—‘The Hill 60 Thrill’! ‘Thrill, indeed! There’s nothing thrilling about
two-front ploughing over parapets into a machinegun, with high explosives
he’s fighting a ~ campaign (Bernie Sanders) bursting round you,—it’s merely beastly,’ said a boy this evening, who is
all over shrapnel splinters. / Saturday, May 8th, 9 A.M. [1915]—This is
on all fronts Der Tag. Could anybody go to bed and undress? / I have been cutting
the oil spill is being attacked ~ dressings all night. One of the most stabbing things in this war is seeing
the lines of empty motor ambulances going up to bring down the wrecks
on several fronts who at this moment are sound and fit, and all absolutely ready to be
turned into wrecks.” (Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front:
our efforts are advancing ~ (oil-spill cleanup) 1914-1915 by Kate (Katherine) Evelyn Luard.)

on that front experience / place: military

how are you doing ~ (protective supplies / COVID)
front line (other)
conflict: military
front line
front (front and center) in battles of identity, language often becomes the ~
front and center frontline
the wave of sex-abuse scandals will be ~ conference) the CDC is the ~ in any public health emergency
front and center on his mind front lines of COVID-19
clearly this topic is ~ medical students are rushed to ~
center & periphery: position front line of the (culture) war
attention, scrutiny & promotion / importance & significance the judiciary committee is the ~ (U.S. politics)
/ priority / superiority & inferiority: center & periphery /
direction / position frontline in the fight
this is the ~ against a deadly global trade (poaching)
frontier (noun)
front-line caregivers
frontier of crime nurses are the ~
Silk Road was the new ~, a digital-era Wild West (drugs)
become the front line
frontier between barbarism and civilization in the battle to contain the contagion, these labs have ~
this is a humanity problem on a modern-day ~ (a war)
♦ There were great husky men crying with the pain of gaping wounds
and dreadfully swollen, discolored trench feet, who sank down exhausted
final frontier the moment they stopped. There were strings of from eight to twenty
direct flights represented the ~ (Australia to London) blind boys filing up the road, clinging tightly and pitifully to each other’s
hands, and led by some bedraggled limping youngster who could still
latest frontier see... I wonder if I’ll ever be able to look at marching men anywhere
Oklahoma is the ~ in the marijuana gold rush again without seeing those blinded boys, with five and six wound stripes
on their sleeves, struggling painfully along the road.” (Sister: The War
Diary of a Nurse by Helen Dore Boylston.)
next frontier
deep fake videos are the ~ in fake news place: military
the Metaverse is the ~ (according to Mark Zuckerberg)
front-runner (noun)
push the frontiers
the US has always wanted to ~ (physics, etc.) front-runner
he is the ~
searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land the ~ Barak Obama (politics)
front line (on the front line) front-runner in the race
on the front lines he has cemented his position as ~ (politics)

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front-runners for the job frozen with fear and grief
there are two ~ I knew if I watched it I would be ~ (a video)
front-runner for a (future Supreme Court) nomination feeling, emotion & effect: movement / snow & ice /
he is a ~ temperature / water
front-runners and underdogs frozen (development)
~ loved him (a race-car driver)
frozen in time
competition: person / sports & games / walking, running & the Framers did not expect the Constitution to be ~
jumping
frozen conflict
frostily ~s don’t remain frozen forever (Nagorno-Karabakh, etc.)

replied frostily development: snow & ice

Cynthia ~, “It’s disgusting” frozen (frozen in time)
feeling, emotion & effect: snow & ice / temperature
frozen in time
frosty (adjective) Vietnam's Ha Giang Province remains ~
Trans-Dniester is a place ~ (Transnistria / Tiraspol)
frosty it was a unique environment, sort of ~ (military reservation)
US relations with Cambodia have long been ~ ♦ What things are frozen in time? Countries like North Korea and Bhutan
and Transnistria seem like such places. Certainly places like Australia
frosty handshake when Cook visited or New Guinea when the first whites arrived in the
they shared a ~ after their match (two tennis rivals) highlands in the 1930s must have seem frozen in time, and other remote
places, such as northern Burma.
frosty relationship ♦ Cataclysms can lock places in time, like Pompeii and Herculaneum by
he has a ~ with Netanyahu (diplomacy) the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and Chernobyl in the Ukraine by the failure
of a nuclear reactor.
feeling, emotion & effect: snow & ice / temperature
♦ Fossils are frozen in time, whether in stone or in amber, in peat or in
frothy (substance) permafrost, in a glacier or in the long-vanished sediment of an ancient
river or sea.

frothy page-turner ♦ Demilitarized zones, like the one between North and South Korea, or
between Ethiopia and Eritrea, can be frozen in time, often to the
the ~, the one book everybody is reading... advantage of the wildlife.

substance & lack of substance: water ♦ In the U.S., military reservations, some taken over in the First World
War, have been frozen in time. The small communities that existed on
frown (verb) them were simply left to decay in place.
♦ The Great Smoky National Park has been frozen in time since its
frown on those things creation. The small communities were left to decay, so that only the
foundations of buildings remain. Its old-time cemeteries, however, like
we ~ the Proctor Cemetery, are still kept up or “V-upped” by descendants
annually on Decoration Day.
frowned upon homosexuality
♦ Areas flooded by dams are frozen in time. This is the case with Lake
he came from a religious background that ~ Fontana in North Carolina, where drowned bridges, trees, and even
buildings may reappear when water levels drop.
judgment / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: face /
♦ All places “frozen in time” are inherently interesting to people, because
gesture / sign, signal, symbol / verb they make us think of the past, our own mortality, and eternity.
frowned upon ♦ see also time capsule (noun)

frowned upon by some past & present / time: snow & ice
skateboarding is still ~ frozen (activity)
judgment / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: face / frozen funds
gesture / sign, signal, symbol is it time to release the ~ (sanctions)
frozen (movement) activity: snow & ice / temperature
frozen to the spot frozen out (excluded)
we were all ~
frozen out of discussions
movement: snow & ice they have been ~ about how the law will work (veterans)
frozen (emotion) acceptance & rejection: snow & ice / society / temperature
frozen with fear fruit (product)
well, I was terrified, I was ~ (in an acting class)
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 the first ~ have been mundane (nanotechnology) pun incorporates the figurative and the literal. A classic and classy ad
from an American icon!
fruits of my labor worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture / fruits &
she carefully examined the ~ (a woodcarver)
vegetables / plant
fruits of that work
you are now seeing the ~ (war planning)
fruition (noun)
bore fruit came to fruition
their protests ~ only after… the plan never ~

product / worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture / growth & development: farming & agriculture / fruits &
fruits & vegetables / plant vegetables / plant

fruit (low-hanging fruit) fruitless (adjective)

low-hanging fruit largely fruitless exercise
for people who want to consume less plastic, straws are ~ comparing these rates is a ~
vacant lot greening is a piece of ~ (simple, low cost) worth & lack of worth: farming & agriculture / fruits &
the expulsion of intelligence officers is ~ (symbolic only) vegetables / plant
pick some ~ that can be accomplished (in tax reform)
he explores deeper cuts and textures, rather than ~ (music) fry (small fry)
low-hanging fruit of international health small fry
cataract surgery is the ~ (just $75 per patient) he is working his way up the food chain, starting with ~
(prosecutor)
pick that low-hanging fruit clean
they ~ (film about old women reentering the dating scene) small fry team
he grew up with Adams and played on the same ~ (football)
go-to, reflexive, low-hanging-fruit
~ complaints (about American Vandal season two) growth & development / size: animal / fish
difficulty, easiness & effort: fruits & vegetables / tree importance & significance / power / strength & weakness:
animal / fish / size
fruitful (adjective) frying pan (jump from the frying pan
fruitful approach into the fire)
I decided that wasn't a ~ for me
jumps from the frying pan into the fire
fruitful avenue like one who ~
this might be a ~ for further research
fate, fortune & chance / situation: cooking / fire
fruitful discourse
there hasn't been much ~ lately (politics) fuel (verb)
fruitful place fuel (Internet) abuse
this is a ~ to do business (a city) depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders can ~

fruitful relationship fuels conflict

they had a long and ~ (two companies) Captagon ~, for fighters it banishes fear

artistically fruitful fueled (much of the ) corruption

their relationship was ~ his bribes ~ in the state

less fruitful fuel the (ongoing) debate

subsequent efforts were ~ the results are likely to ~ over how… (cancer)

more fruitful fueled the debate

I think it would be ~ if we… those differences in point of view ~ (Confederate flag)

long, fruitful (m) fueling U.S Israel-Gaza debate

in the course of a ~ career, he… (a poet) how social media is ~

prove fruitful fuels the diaspora

negotiations could ~ if… poverty ~ of Malians
♦ The Smucker’s Company has a very cute full-page ad on the back of
the January 21, 2019 Christian Science Monitor Weekly. It shows 12
fuel the flames
bottles of their iconic jams and jellies in three rows with the dates of their don't ~ (a controversy)
introduction below them, and the title reads, “Fruitful Since 1897.” The

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fueled (public) interest an epic, ~ party…
journalism ~ (an Arctic rescue) he died at an ~ party (fraternity)

fueled an (overblown political) narrative rum-fueled

poor photo selection ~ (#defundNPR) the ~ party culminates Fat Tuesday (Trinidad)

fueled the notion whiskey-fueled

the photo ~ that NPR is trying to tilt the narrative a ~ high

fuel this pandemic ignited and fueled

infections among the unvaccinated continue to ~ opposition was ~ by the church (innovation)

fueled a (growing) panic stoked, fueled, and manipulated

Tuesday's developments ~ in Japan (nuclear catastrophe) hatred can be ~ (Bosnia)

fueling his (inner) rage increase & decrease / initiation: fire

a cause that is ~ (environment) fulcrum (noun)
fueled in him a sense of self-importance
the militia ~
fulcrum moment
the Capture of Istanbul was a ~ in the Middle Ages
increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb ♦ Turning point, year zero, etc.

fuel (pour fuel on something, etc.) development: direction / mechanism

importance & significance: mechanism
adds fuel to every fire
he ~ (politics) full (adjective)
adds (fresh) fuel to a (longstanding) controversy full of choppers
his role in the new ad ~ a sky ~ and a jungle full of danger (Vietnam War)
pour fuel on the fire full of danger
this will ~ of toxic political warfare a sky full of choppers and a jungle ~ (Vietnam War)
pour fuel on the flames full life
the documents are likely to ~ of a strained relationship she led a ~
increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb amount: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
fuel (noun) full-bore (and full bore)
fuel coming in full bore
the taunts were the ~... it was an all call, SWAT, FBI, everyone ~ (mass shooting)
hurricane fuel extent & scope: weapon
water above 79 degrees is ~ (Gulf of Mexico)
full-court press
any more fuel
she would not give the issue ~ (“no comment”) full-court press in Washington
there was a ~ (foreign lobbying campaign)
increase & decrease / initiation: fire
full-court press from our department
fueled there is a ~ (search for missing child)
fueled by the Chinese full-court press to capture him
the jade boom has been ~ there was a ~, once they knew his identity (a bomber)
fueled by local issues full-court press (by the administration) to contain
the conflict is ~ (IS in Mozambique) it has been a ~ the company (tariff dispute with China)
fueled by a movie equivalent of the full-court press
the fury is ~ (anti-US protests by Muslims) a decoy deadline is the productivity ~ (deadlines)
fueled by the occupation difficulty, easiness & effort: basketball / sports & games
anti-American sentiment ~ of Iraq commitment & determination: basketball / sports & games
fueled by (Internet) pornography full-fledged (adjective)
soldiers who come home with sexual addictions ~
full-fledged atrocity
alcohol-fueled a ~ would be difficult to ignore

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full-fledged (academic) discipline these companies know everything we do ~ (tech)
it is not yet a ~ with departments of its own (services
attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters
science)
full-throated (adjective)
full-fledged gangsters
ties to ~ full-throated defense
full-fledged member his speech was a ~ of his actions (military withdrawal)
China will become a ~ (WTO) amount & effect / attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound
the first steps in becoming a ~ of the Hells Angels
fulminate (speech)
full-fledged stroke
people who have had ~s press fulminated
the Western ~ (against use of force in China)
full-fledged bantamweight ♦ This relates to striking and lightning.
moving up to ~
speech: force / lightning / verb
full-fledged drug dealer
a~ fumble (verb)
full-fledged comeback fumbled this moment
a~ Boeing has ~ (failed to ground its plane after crashes)
growth & development: animal / bird fumbled the disaster response
full on (adjective) the government ~
failure, accident & impairment: ball / hand / football /
full-on character
sports & games / verb
he is a ~ (the boxer Sunny Edwards)
full-on engagement
fumble (noun)
it was just ~ (a blind rock climber) diplomatic fumble
full-on (international espionage) operation it was his latest ~
he mounted a ~ against the reporter failure, accident & impairment: ball / football / hand /
full-on migraine sports & games
what we’ve got coming this weekend is a ~ (winter storm) fumbled
full on, scary, hard
fumbled attempt
that was ~ (the Bottleneck on K2)
a ~ to reform small business taxes
straight-up, full-on failure, accident & impairment: ball / football / hand /
~ sex talk (Argentinian TV)
sports & games
extent & scope / functioning: mechanism
commitment & determination: mechanism
fume (verb)
amount & effect: mechanism fuming about the (split-decision) verdict
full on (personality) he is still ~ that went against Pacquiao (boxing)
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb
so full-on
he was ~, performative and calculating (personality) funeral (one's funeral)
character & personality: mechanism
funeral
full out (adjective) go ahead and do it, it's your ~
destruction: burial / death & life
full out
it’s gonna be ~, it’s called “No Limit” (a Vegas show) fate, fortune & chance: burial / death & life

extent & scope / functioning: mechanism funereal (adjective)

commitment & determination: mechanism funereal
amount & effect: mechanism the mood was ~
full stop funereal black
full stop they are clad in stark ~ (a music video)
this is right-wing terrorism, ~ funereal gloom

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 an atmosphere of ~ funny language
funereal silence it is February
events will take place in ~ (pandemic / no fans watching)
~ (it’s cold and snowy)
mournful, funereal, keening I am what I am
the music is ~ (for a film)
~, God help me, a 77-year-old white man, but...
feeling, emotion & effect: burial / death & life ~, love me or hate me, I’m gonna be Stephen A. Smith
comparison & contrast: affix
I am who I am
funnel (funnel through, etc.) ~, I am not changing

funneled through the Monastir Gap I was being me

the road ~ (Via Egnatia) ~ (strange behavior)

obstacles & impedance: shape / verb that’s that

Usyk did his job, and ~ (he won the match)
funnel (direct)
I believe in belief
funneled arms to the mujahedeen see, I believe in hope, ~ (the “Ted Lasso” effect)
the CIA and Saudi Arabia both ~
Hellas of Hellas
funnel (tax) dollars to the poor the ~ as Athens had lately been anointed (Plato’s time)
he wants to ~ (a president)
epicenter of the epicenter
funneled money to charities the hospital was the ~ (Queens, NYC / COVID)
he ~ with terrorist ties
“It is What it Is”
funnels the wildlife to the overpass his latest album ~, was released... (Thundercat)
three miles of fencing ~ (Utah animal crossing)
it is what it is
directing: verb / water I take precautions, but hey, ~ (delivery worker / pandemic)
funnel (shape) ~, this has happened, and... (cancer diagnosis)
~, but I’m not concerned about it (athlete / lack of rest)
funnel cloud it kind of stinks seeing baseball change, but ~
heavy rains, hail, reports of ~s I grew up on the internet, which is kind of trash, but ~
the tornado’s distinguishing feature is a ~ my wife and I have gotten multiple death threats, ~
~, it’s just boxing (no excuses for knock-out loss)
tornado funnel
~s in Oklahoma it is what it is, get over it and move on
~ (Confederate monuments)
shape: water
it is what it is, so they spend the night together
funneled (directed) you know how this happens, ~ (infidelity)
funneled (primarily) to corporations and the wealthy this is what it is
the 2017 tax cuts, ~... (politics) so I guess ~, huh (music to be murdered by)
funneled into the (digital) currencies it was something that was
how much money is being ~ (cryptocurrencies) ~, I had no control over (violent confrontation)
funneled into four other organizations it is how it is
the money was ~ (a charity scam) but ~ (a soccer issue)
funneled into a fenced pen that is how it is
the cattle were then ~ (an auction) ~, the reality that many of you are facing, this is the world
funneled through the (little-known) nonprofit we feel how we feel
private money ~ (political donations) but ~ (feelings of fatigue at home / pandemic)
directing: water they are what they are
both these women will get out worse, ~ (from prison)
funny (as noun)
a terabyte isn’t what it used to be
legacy of funny ~ (greater storage nowadays)
they’ve had a ~ (the comedy show SNL)
democracy is democracy
feeling, emotion & effect: part of speech
look, ~ (a young Palestinian craving change)

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oppression is oppression what you saw, you saw
~ across the world (Black Lives Matter and Hamas) ~ (a bystander video)
sports are sports what will be will be
~, politics is politics, they shouldn’t be mixed (Olympics) you have to learn to let go, it’s gone, and ~
rape is rape the best way to regulate behavior
this was not transactional, ~ ~ is to regulate behavior
the situation is the situation Chisora can break your heart
~, everyone is frustrated but we are bound by the rule ~ before he breaks your heart (“Del Boy” / the boxer)
trash is trash he is who he is
she’ll be back in the system, ~ (prison) on the other hand, ~
the rule is the rule that’s just Joe being Joe
~ (NFL’s overtime rule / sudden death) ~ (character and personality)
trans women are trans women Julie, being Julie
what is it about ~ that is offensive ~, was defending a teammate (got it trouble for it)
bad guys are bad guys you be you
~, the Army is the Army, orders are orders... everyone is saying “~” and “you do you” (a woman)
a win’s a win the Knicks, being the Knicks
we played poorly but ~ (soccer) ~, won the game, then lost the series (sorry, Spike)
good is good and then he does what he does
~, with a brush or a needle (artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp) ~ on Sunday (commits a bad act)
disgusting is disgusting stupid actor says something stupid
I’m not excusing his comments, ~, you can’t tolerate that headline: “~” (a sarcastic comment)
today’s world is today’s world McArthur was, well, McArthur
~ and everything is out there in public (twitterstorm) but ~, a problematic personality... (WWII)
they can’t change it, ~ (physical evidence / trial)
a stupid radio promotion is just a stupid radio promotion
sometimes a ~ (Chicago’s Disco Demolition Night) it means what it means
~ (the word “coachable”)
a cigar is just a cigar
sometimes a ~ (no need for Freudian analysis) it means we country, but we ain’t country
~ (the Dirty South)
June isn’t really June
~ anymore (James Qillaq, Inuit hunter, Arctic warming) there is jargon, and then there is jargon
~ (academic writing)
2022 isn’t 2021
~ (vaccinations and the pandemic) he did what he did
it was my dad’s decision, ~ (his father was arrested)
wildlife in Yellowstone are, indeed, wild and then ~ (boxer pushes another at press conference)
~ (woman convicted of bothering bear with cubs)
yelled what he yelled
I’d call the police, but they are the police he went back to his seat and ~ (a celebrity)
“~,” he chuckled, but it was forced...
we can only do what we can do
we are where we are ~ (limitations, constraints)
until we do that, ~ (stopping ransomware attacks)
~ (Mary Louise Kelly of NPR about Afghan situation) China can do this now because it can
~ (flexing military might)
where I am where I am
so much peace knowing where I am supposed to be, ~ he had to do what he had to do
Usyk did his job, ~ (beat Anthony Joshua)
the gas is where it is ~ (Andre Leon Talley / racism)
~ (natural gas, Russia, Europe, and the US)
you gotta do what you gotta do
liberals are going to be liberals ~ (no choice)
what a shocker, ~ (discussion board snark)
Joshua has got to do what he has got to do
we shall see what we shall see ~ (boxing)
~ (the great Spike Lee)

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I’m going to do what I’m going to do they had withstood the assault, ~ (Stalingrad)
I thought about it, ~ (Mills Lane stops Tyson-Holyfield II)
history is told by the winners—except when it’s not
crazy will do what crazy does ~ (review of the film The Last Duel)
~ (a woman)
the story is the headline...or often isn’t
I don’t know what I don’t know welcome to ABC where ~ (criticism)
~ but what I do know is that... (female speaker)
it was an unremarkable day, until it...wasn’t
we don’t know what we don’t know ~ (Dateline NBC)
I realize ~
it’s meaningless, until it’s not
you don’t know what you don’t know ~ (Dateline NBC)
~ (facts about a crime)
it was a good time until it wasn’t
I do and I don’t ~ (her childhood / Dateline NBC)
~, maybe I know a little, maybe not anything...
he was just a good guy with a gun...until he wasn’t
we get what we get ~ (comment by gun-control advocate about mass shooter)
~ (NASA buys off-the-shelf cameras for Perseverance)
he was alive until he wasn’t
you get what you get ~ (2021 trial)
~ (an idiot provokes Mike Tyson)
it is fine, until it isn’t
I’ve said what I’ve said ~ (climate change)
~ about Number 10 and the events of 12 months ago
character is invisible until it’s not
I can never say never ~ (joined the marines after 9/11)
~ (a writer, about writing another novel, vs. TV or film)
it was an arrangement that worked until it didn’t
the investigation will take us where it takes us ~ (an open relationship)
~ (cops)
you loved being a college professor, until you didn’t
come away from it with what they will ~ (an NPR interviewer)
people will ~ (war films)
her bosses had her back until they didn’t
nothing is over until it’s over she says ~ (a Levi’s executive)
~ (voting and an election)
Rick never left the mountains, except when he did
it’s gonna be what it’s gonna be ~ (flew from Idaho to New York City)
we should all just go home, ~ (Foxfire)
you can choose to go there, or not
whatever is in store for us is in store ~ (randonauting)
~, if we’re going to be cool again that’s what it’ll be
the results are gonna be the results
find food where it isn’t
~ (if we don’t love harder / gun violence in Baltimore) I’ll show you where to ~ (scrounging during war)

we don’t know what we don’t know feel safe until they don’t
~, that’s what the investigation is all about (cops) I think all children ~, you know? (Timothy Ware-Hill)

if she never works again, she never works again look the same, until they don’t
~ (the pop star Britney Spears) ~ (corrosive change in the U.S.)

if it’s your day, it’s your day I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
~ (death while climbing) ~ (DC police chief about a spate of gun violence)

if I get knocked out I get knocked out burned out on burnout

~ (the great boxer Dillian Whyte, all in) even Freudenberger said he was ~ (he coined the term)

nothing will change if nothing changes she should have been here too except she wasn’t
~ (speaking up / not being afraid) ~ (murdered Lauren McCluskey / University of Utah)

I am the age I am enough is enough

~ (an older writer) ~, today you will hear the truth from me...

those who were alive were still alive there’s a difference between knowing, and knowing
the battle had only just begun, ~ (Stalingrad) ~, you know, umm, so... (L.L. McKinney)

the men still alive were still alive just because you’re on your own on the internet

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 ~ doesn’t mean you’re on your own (spying pixels) (NASA-speak, etc.), supersizing (linguistic supersizing), talk (mediator
talk, etc.)
the way to shore up American democracy language: speech
~ is to shore up American democracy, that is, to...
furnace (Furnace Creek, etc.)
when big dog does what big dogs do
~ (poop) Furnace Creek
a temperature of 54.4C was recorded in ~ Death Valley
loved the things she loved
she just ~ (an enthusiast) proper name: fire / temperature
really, really real furnace (noun)
these forest fires are ~
♦ Democrats, and Michele Obama, used the phrase, “It is what it is,” to
furnace of an atmosphere
taunt, mock, and criticize President Trump at their national convention in who can survive in this ~ (important soccer game)
2019. Trump had used the phrase when talking about coronavirus.
China’s four “furnaces”
♦ “We definitely had a hurricane hit us last night.” (The mayor of Lake
Charles, being interviewed on ABC about a hurricane that had hit his Chongqing is one of ~ (hot and humid in summer)
town the previous night.)
forged in the furnace
♦ “It does certainly look like a big windstorm came through here.” (An
NPR report on Hurricane Ida.) he is ~ of Parris Island and San Diego (a marine)
♦ “What can Joe Biden do, given that American politics are what thrown into a furnace
American politics are.” (Steve Inskeep, NPR.)
I was ~
♦ “Like our school, like the ceilings, like they’re gone.” (Like a high-school
girl, like being interviewed, like right after a tornado.) environment: fire / temperature
♦ “The coronavirus is something that is there.”
furnish (give)
♦ “The Omicron virus is REEE•ly, REEE•ly contagious.” (Selena
Simmons-Duffin of NPR. Type in “really, really” in the search box at NPR
and you get 6,574 hits and counting.) furnished them with all the information
the report ~
♦ “The game ended in a sidelines-clearing brawl, because of course it
did.” (College football game in US.) giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb
♦ “How much quieter it would be online if it weren’t so loud.”
♦ “I’m good, thanks.” (= No.)
furniture (contents)
♦ “I don’t think there’s any way to go right to the Supreme Court with furniture of the novel
something like this, and what the this is has not been made clear.” (A
political pundit on NPR.) you’ve got none of the usual ~ (films vs. novels)
♦ “Usyk did his job, he had to do what he had to do, and that’s that, and mental furniture
Joshua has got to do what he has got to do.” (“Tyson Fury ‘absolutely
wounded’ by Anthony Joshua’s loss to Oleksandr Usyk,” BBC, Sept. 30 art was so much a part of his ~ that...
2021.) his ~ is ordinary, much of it from U.S. pop culture...
♦ “I would liken us a little bit to a bit of a wounded lion, if you like.” (Sally
Munday, the chief executive of the funding agency UK Sport.)
content: house
♦ “Barney the Bear is a secure test item.” (An ESL supervisor.) further (further along, etc.)
♦ “She is one of the most strongest, most delicate people I’ve ever met.”
(An Academy Awards speech, broadcast to millions.) further along than us
♦ “The world knows Khan’s chin is not there.” (Boxing.) they are ~ (Italian soccer team)
♦ “Unicorns are ubiquitous in Scotland.” (The symbol.) competition: distance
♦ “President Lyndon B. Johnson was a huge Alamo-head.” (History buff.)
♦ “Sorry, you’ve reached a page that doesn’t exist.” (Internet.)
fury (creature)
♦ “I never say never.” keep his furies at bay
♦ “Bobo got throated.” (Surfing.) he works hard to ~ (troubled ex-boxer)
♦ "Soldiers who die are taken to a holding area, where they are made to ♦ The furies are part of Greek mythology.
do manual labor to underscore the point that dying is never fun."
(Military-training language.) affliction: allusion / creature / religion
♦ And Alfie died in France, it was the only place in the world where it
died. (Michael Caine speaking about the 1966 film.) fuse (noun)
♦ Estheticians knead, wax, pluck, rub, and paint people.
fuse of (voter) anger
♦ “He had devoured Dracula by the age of five.” his COVID restrictions lit a ~ (recall election)
♦ see also teacher (teacher’s teacher, etc.)
♦ see also new (orange is the new black, etc.)
short fuse
our society has a ~, just waiting for a spark
♦ see also no (no Jack Kennedy, etc.)
that ~ got him in trouble (troubled Iraq veteran)
♦ see also boilerplate (noun), buzzword (noun), ese (legalese, etc.),
language (of sports, cars, etc.), lip service (pay lip service, etc.), speak fuse was (now successfully) lit

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lit the fuse in the not-too-distant future
that was the match that ~ (precipitating cause) the series is coming to Netflix ~
that really ~, and the collapse began (tainted election)
in the not too distant future
initiation: explosion / weapon we hope to improve this feature ~
fusillade (noun) set in a not-too-distant future
it’s a show ~ (space tourism)
fusillade against an “Obama judge”
Trump’s latest ~ future / time: distance
accusation & criticism: military / weapon future (where the future lies, etc.)
speech: weapon
future lay
future (the future) he saw where the ~ and learned how to fly (Amundsen)
♦ “We’re moving toward a time when COVID won’t disrupt our daily lives,
the future of the Internet where COVID won’t be a constant crisis.” (White House Covid Advisor
is Web3 ~ or just a buzzword Jeff Zients.)

the future (combat vehicle) family future / time: place

each member of ~
fuzzy (adjective)
embrace the future
a split over whether to preserve the past or ~ (Swazis) fuzzy
we must ~ (trade and business issue) the boundary lines on the continuum can often be ~

saw the future fuzzy semantics

he ~ and he set out to build it (Jeff Bezos, Amazon) ~ looks at fuzzy concepts and fuzzy language

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day fuzzy term

it’s a bit of a ~ (“hybrid warfare”)
future (of the future)
anodyne and fuzzy
currency of the future the language of these bills is ~ (culture wars)
he has bolstered Bitcoin’s image as the “~” (Nayib Bukele)
division & connection: boundary / sensation
wave of the future certainty & uncertainty: boundary / sensation
online banking is the ~ speech: boundary / sensation
♦ see also new (orange is the new black, etc.), next (next Steve Jobs,
etc.)

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day G

future (the future can bring something) gadfly (person)
bring diplomatic gadfly
nobody knows what the future will ~ he is a kind of ~ (a Lebanese businessman and advisor)
we don’t know what the future may ~
political gadfly
brings he is a ~ and host of his own internet radio show
you don’t know what tomorrow ~ she was a ~ who took on the powerful politicians (Ivins)
future: giving, receiving, bringing & returning / verb hippie and gadfly
time: giving, receiving, bringing & returning / verb he was the resident ~
future (in the future) ♦ Gadflies might be any one of several large flies, including horseflies.

in the future person: animal / insect

I might go there ~ (visit a place) affliction: animal / horse / insect / person
character & personality: animal / horse / insect / person
in your future gag (gag order, etc.)
if climbing Mount Everest is ~, please contact our office
future / time: container gag order
the judge has issued a ~
future (in the distant future) the judge put him under a ~

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gaggle (press gaggle, etc.) what ~ is…

gaggle of protesters truly galls

what ~ them is…
a ~ have gathered outside the court (Vancouver)
♦ Both trees and humans can develop galls. A gall in a human is a raised
did a gaggle boil.
the president ~ from the North Lawn affliction: health & medicine / sensation / verb
♦ This refers to a press conference by the president or press secretary
that is impromptu, informal, unscripted and unfettered. An actual gaggle gallery (play to the gallery)
refers to a flock, especially of geese, and especially on the ground.

activity / behavior: animal / bird

plays to the gallery
the representation of emotion ~ (humiliation, anguish, etc.)
resemblance / group, set & collection: animal / bird
Galapagos (Galapagos of Europe, etc.) obviously playing to the gallery
he was ~ (a presidential press conference)
Galapagos of Europe performance: theater
Lake Ohrid, the ‘~’ (endemic species / living fossils)
gallery (cheering gallery)
Galapagos of the North
the Pribilofs are known as the ~ cheering gallery
Obama still has his ~
Galapagos of the Far North
Wrangel Island just might be the ~ achievement, recognition & praise: theater
“Galapagos of the Indian Ocean” Gallipoli (a Gallipoli of an interview, etc.)
its biodiversity has earned it the nickname ~ (Socotra)
Gallipoli of an interview
Galapagos of the Orient I knew this would be a ~
the islands’ nickname of “the ~” (Bonin Islands) ♦ “I knew that this would be a Gallipoli of an interview, and that Mattis
would be playing the role of the Ottoman gunners. But I had to try.” (“The
Galápagos of Russia Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore” by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
Unesco's citation refers to Lake Baikal as the "~" Monthly, October 2019.)
♦ “It is one of the many ironies of Gallipoli that, after the chaos and
Galapagos of North America confusion that had blighted the whole operation from the beginning, the
the Channel Islands are sometimes referred to as the ~ final evacuations were models of superb organisation and planning...
(California) [Gallipoli] was a brilliant concept which should—and could—have
succeeded... With Constantinople occupied, it is doubtful whether the
Galapagos of the Poles Russians would ever have signed a separate peace—and the Russian
Revolution might never had occurred... Had the campaign succeeded—
South Georgia Island is often referred to as “The ~” as it so very nearly did—the Great War would probably have ended three
years earlier, and a million lives would have been saved.” (The Middle
American Galápagos Sea: A History Of The Mediterranean by the wonderful historian John
the ~ (Hawaiian Islands Marine National Park) Julius Norwich.)
♦ No battle is free of mistakes.
Canadian Galápagos
islands referred to as the "~" (Haida Gwaii) allusion: military
difficulty, easiness & effort / success & failure: military
biodiversity: epithet / island / place
gallop (verb)
galaxy (noun)
gallop together
galaxy of actors fiddle and banjo ~ at a break-neck pace
his films drew performances from a ~ (director)
speed: animal / horse / movement / verb / walking,
galaxy of (Western) media figures running & jumping
he introduced her to a ~ (Charlie Rose, etc.) movement: animal / horse / speed / verb / walking,
group, set & collection: astronomy / star running & jumping

Galen (Galen of Islam, etc.) gallop (haste)

“Galen of Islam” gallop through a thousand years
Rady, in his ~ of Habsburg rule (a historian)
Muslim physicians bestowed the title ~ on Avicenna
history: epithet statistical gallop
the census shows the ~ of Christianity across Nepal
gall (verb)
haste: animal / horse / movement / walking, running &
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the ~
murmurs, rubs, and gallops
note the presence of ~ (lung sounds) took the gamble
he ~ (migrant / Senegal to Canary Islands)
sound: animal / horse
fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games
galloping (speed) strategy: gambling / sports & games
galloping pneumonia game (game the system, etc.)
~ is an aggressive infection, abrupt and overwhelming
walking pneumonia versus ~ game the (asylum) process
they ~ (skip out on court dates)
galloping or surging (m)
so-called ~ glaciers can travel 250 feet per day gaming the system
parents are ~ to advantage their children (admissions)
♦ “Humphrey, the whole national health service is an advanced case of
galloping bureaucracy.” / “Certainly not. Not galloping. A gentle canter at subterfuge: sports & games
most.” (The TV series Yes Minister, “The Compassionate Society.”)

speed: animal / horse / walking, running & jumping game (in / into the game)
galvanize (verb) in the game
we will continue to be ~ (US surveillance)
galvanized people to take up
the movies ~ the cause (wrongful convictions) back in the game
we are ~
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / verb
initiation: electricity / verb get (back) into the (dating) game
ways to ~ (self-help)
gambit (noun)
involvement: sports & games
gambit
asylum has become a ~, they all have a script game (late in the game)
unwise and diversionary gambit late in the game
this is an ~ (diplomatic move) it's pretty ~ to be…
its kind of ~ to be talking about this
series of gambits
an escalating ~ by rival powers in the Gulf timeliness & lack of timeliness: sports & games

strategy: chess / sports & games game (get one's head into the game)
gamble (verb) get your head into the game
hey, ~... (coach to player)
gambled everything on getting
he ~ his dictionary published get my head (back) into the game
he reminded me to ~ (Afghan combat)
fate, fortune & chance / strategy: gambling / sports &
games / verb consciousness & awareness: sports & games

gamble (noun) game (at the top of one’s game)

gamble at the top of his game
we were in Tonga on a ~... (windsurfers) he is ~
he was ~ when he was shot and killed (a comic)
gamble on agriculture
functioning: sports & games
Saudi Arabia's ~ has sucked precious aquifers dry
Saudi Arabia's gamble
game (throw somebody off their game)
~ on agriculture has sucked precious aquifers dry throw guests off their game
political gamble he and his co-hosts like to ~ (The Breakfast Club)
he represents a ~ (choice of vice president) disruption: sports & games
daring gamble game (game-changer)
he called the initiative "a ~" to make... (space flight)
game-changer
technological gamble a free Iraq is going to be a ~, an agent of change
the plan relies on 4 highly speculative ~ (restore Everglades) tissue can grow in 3 dimensions, which is a ~ (in space)

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game changer game (rhetorical game, etc.)
it could be a ~ (a drug treatment)
rhetorical games
game changer for our profession I’m not going to evade the question and play ~
this is a ~ ~ are compulsory in official parlance (foreign policy)
geopolitical game-changer speech: sports & games
nuclear weapons are a ~
game (game of hide and seek)
development / disruption / importance & significance:
sports & games game of hide-and-seek
a very serious ~ (Palestinian student-terrorist)
game (game face)
pursuit, capture & escape: sports & games
game face
she had on her ~ (a law-enforcement officer) game (game of chicken)
appearance: face / sports & games geopolitical game of chicken
commitment & determination: face / sports & games it’s a ~
game (chess game) ♦ “You can think of the US-Russia confrontation as a geopolitical game
of chicken.” (Steve Inskeep, NPR, about Ukraine.)

chess game ♦ “So, you are wanting to play chicken? I have never yielded.
Never!...(Nervously) Ah, so, you are not a coward. Very brave.” (Silly
it really is a ~ (trying to catch terrorist) dialogue from the 1985 movie King Solomon’s Mines, involving a game
let’s look ahead, the way you have to in a ~ (Brexit) of chicken and two antique planes.)
it’s a ~, and we have to look several moves ahead (Brexit) ♦ “The hard part of playing chicken is knowing when to flinch.”

political chess game conflict / courage & lack of courage / dominance &
the politicians play ~s (at expense of laborers) submission / resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / bird
they use human beings as pawns in a ~ (hostages) / sports & games
psychological chess games game (game of cat and mouse)
winning ~s (interrogations of terrorist suspects)
game of cat and mouse
strategy: chess / sports & games
informers engage in a constant ~ with the authorities
game (guessing game) college officials find themselves in a new ~ (cheating)
this protracted ~ has frustrated Israel’s military (M. Deif)
guessing game
how the weather will affect operations comes down to a ~ cat-and-mouse game
the ~ with the virus writers will continue forever
comes down to a guessing game the ~ Iraq played with U.N. inspectors
how the weather will affect operations ~ the ~ with the virus writers (computing)
it's a ~ (campaigning for an election)
certainty & uncertainty: sports & games
it's a classic ~ (terrorists trying to evade capture)
fate, fortune & chance: sports & games
game (numbers game) enjoying their game of cat and mouse
they were ~ (Iraqi terrorists in a BMW)
numbers game ♦ “When the tiny mouse outsmarts the wicked cat, the chairman smirks
CIA case officers admit to a ~ with pleasure.” (Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder by Janet Wallach and
John Wallach.)
dating is entirely a ~
the business plan was just a ~ competition / pursuit, capture & escape: animal / cat /
job hunting is a ~ (developing contacts, etc.) hunting / sports & games
the ~ continued (changing numbers, recalculating)
game (various other games)
play the numbers game
smugglers ~, the law of averages game of (high-altitude) climbing
the high-stakes ~
strategy: number / sports & games
game of measure and countermeasure
game (blame game) EFPs are the latest twist in a lethal ~
blame game waiting game
what he did is what matters, not the ~ (trial) see waiting game
accusation & criticism / judgment: sports & games Great Game
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lethal game game (social interaction / life)
EFPs are the latest twist in a ~
game of life
five-star-review game the ~
we’re crushing it in the ~ (a hair product)
game of wink and nod
rules in this game he is playing a risky ~
there are no set ~ (starting an Internet business)
dating game
rules of the game the ~ isn't as fun as it used to be (famous actor)
our understanding of the ~ (diplomacy)
this time we will change the ~ (Israel bombs Hezbollah) mating games
social skills that underlie more serious ~ in years to come
play the game
mistakes are the price you pay to ~ (NYC publishing) competitive game
for young women in Beirut, dressing fashionably is a ~
stay on top of my game
I have to ~… part of the game
it's all just ~ (job interviewing)
keep the game interesting
to ~, the plays will be performed in repertory stages of the (dating) game
♦ "Craig Kelly was a hero to all of us, but his death seems to be just a in the early ~
part of the game." (Reaction of a snowboarder to Craig Kelly's death in
an avalanche.) rules of the (dating) game
trying to figure out the ~
work & duty: sports & games
♦ “School...is a game, it’s just not a terribly well-designed game. Right,
game (project, scheme, plan) there are levels, there are C, there are B, there’s A, there are statuses, I
mean, what is valedictorian, but a status? If we called valedictorian a you
know ‘White Knight Paladin level 20,’ I think people would probably work
game of 'gotcha' a lot harder. Uh, so so so school is a game...” (“The game layer on top of
they were playing a ~ rather than trying to help the world,” Seth Priebatsch, TEDxBoston 2010.)
♦ "They were dealt some cards they can't play to this day. Fortunately, I
games of dominance and submission was dealt cards and somehow managed to play the right hand." (Olympic
~ (relationships) champion speaking of his heroin-addict mother and step-father.)
♦ “I had no clue what the rules were, what the game even was—or that
game of wink and nod there was even a game.” (The computer scientist Richard Wallace, who
he is playing a risky ~ suffers from bipolar disease.)
♦ “What good is sitting alone in your room / Come hear the music play /
childish game Life is a cabaret, old chum / life is a cabaret.” (The musical Cabaret.)
he was playing a ~
♦ “It is not a Nintendo Game, it is a tough battlefield where people are
risking their lives...” (General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr briefing the press
head games in 1991.)
victimized by others' or your own ~
behavior / social interaction: sports & games
cutthroat game death & life: sports & games
he wasn't there to play the ~ (Survivor)
game (situation)
dangerous game
speaking truth to power is a ~ game changed
she is playing a very ~ when she suggests... (politics) then, suddenly, the whole ~ (riot that turns deadly)
long game situation: sports & games
their ~ is to be the last candidate standing
game of thrones
silly game
stop playing your ~s very game of thrones
it’s all very ~ (the history of Val d’Aran)
just a game
they know I won't shoot them, now it's ~ (Israeli sniper) strategy: film

playing a game game plan

she's ~ that could blow up in her face game plan
play games she reminded them of the ~
we don't ~, we don't bullshit (windsurfer Poles) Clinton's game plan
subterfuge: sports & games ~ is taking shape
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 ~ went out the window (a boxer) Gap; Yellow Creek Gap; Yellowhammer Gap...(Beloved places in
Graham County, western North Carolina.)
military’s (longer) game plan proper name: mountains & hills / shape
the ~ is hard to fathom (coup in Myanmar)
geography: proper name
had a (pretty good) game plan garbage (data)
we ~ but the problem was... (police)
script / strategy: sports & games garbage in, garbage out
~ (GIGO)
Gandhi (Gandhi of the Balkans, etc.)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: waste
Gandhi of the Balkans garbage (garbage fire / dumpster fire)
he was known as the ~ (Ibrahim Rugova)
military: allusion / epithet dumpster fire
the ~ my brain was slowly becoming (schizophrenia)
Gandhian (adjective)
dumpster fire for so many people
Gandhian engineering the comments section is a ~ (Facebook)
India is promoting ~ (low cost)
~ challenges convention (cars)
garbage fire
the daily ~ of our social-media accounts (Twitter, etc.)
Gandhian tactics
tire fire
he advocates the use of ~ against Israel
what a ~ from Zucker downward (a scandal at CNN)
conflict: allusion
worth & lack of worth: waste
comparison & contrast: affix
gap (noun) garbage (waste)
budget gap garbage compromise
this is a ~ (politics)
we need to close the ~
falls into a gap anti-Semitic garbage
they need to get the ~ out of their textbooks
he ~ between disciplines
division & connection: ground, terrain & land bunch of garbage
everybody thinks we're enemies, that's a ~
gap (the Monastir Gap, etc.)
piece of garbage
The Gap why feed, clothe and house this ~ (give him death penalty)
~ and the wreck of the Dunbar (Sydney)
stuffed with garbage
Cumberland Gap your heads are ~ from books (versus experience / war)
the ~, the first great gateway to the west (US) ♦ “Yes [we are writing more than ever] because the internet makes it so
easy, and that’s why you get so much garbage.” (“Harold Evans Makes
Darien Gap Himself Clear,” NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, May 13, 2017.)
migrants risk their lives to cross the ~
insult / worth & lack of worth: waste
Mohawk Gap garden (resemblance)
the ~, with the Adirondacks north and Catskills south...
Monastir Gap coral garden
the ~, a north-south opening in the mountains fragile ~s were discovered at depths of about 1,000 feet
♦ “At Cumberland Gap, the first great gateway to the west, follow the rock garden
buffalo, the Native American, the longhunter, the pioneer... all traveled technical paddling through ~s (kayaking)
this route through the mountains into the wilderness of Kentucky.” (The
National Park Service about the Cumberland Gap National Historical
Park. See the Wikipedia entry for “Longhunter.” Merriam-Webster
sculpture garden
recognizes the phrase as long hunter.) plans for a ~ to honor American heroes
♦ “It might fairly be claimed that New York City owes its very existence as group, set & collection / resemblance: plant
a world-class city to the presence and human exploitation of the Hudson-
Mohawk Gap.” (The Men Who United The States by Simon Winchester.)
garden (Cactus Garden, etc.)
♦ Atoah Gap; Axe Gap; Bearpen Gap; Bee Gap; Beech Gap; Bellcollar
Gap; Big Fat Gap; Black Gum Gap; Cable Gap; Calfpen Gap; Cherry Cactus Garden
Log Gap; Chestnut Log Gap; Deep Gap; Flint Gap; Green Gap; Hard
Slate Gap; Haw Gap; I U Gap; Locust Licklog Gap; Lucy Gap; Obadiah cavers called the new find the ~ (stalagmites)
Gap; Plankroad Gap; Saddle Tree Gap; Santeetlah Gap; Snowbird Gap;
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Garden of Eden stepped on the gas
they have ~ (election manipulation)
Garden of Eden UConn ~, ending Syracuse’s glimmer of hope (sports)
when I first visited Borneo in the 60s, it was a ~ ♦ see also pedal (pedal to the metal)
♦ The Mormon Bible locates the Garden of Eden near Independence, ♦ “It’s all gas and no brake.” (Because of the pandemic, there was only a
Missouri. short period of time between the just-finished football season and the
new football season.)
environment / superlative: Bible / religion
♦ “Ducournau has driven to the boundaries of conventional cinema—and
flaws & lack of flaws: Bible / religion then put her foot down.” (“Titane: The most shocking film of 2021” by
Nicolas Barber, BBC, 15th July 2021.)
gargantuan (size)
♦ “Our brain knows we shouldn’t stomp on the gas, but our foot does it
anyway.”
gargantuan (distribution) centers
server farms, ~, tens of thousands of trucks... (Amazon) ♦ “He’s a Ferrari without brakes.” (Said about a troubled Indiana
University basketball player, who was arrested for speeding through the
center of Bloomington.)
gargantuan characters
they were both ~ (in the Scottish climbing community) commitment & determination: engine / mechanism
gargantuan (financial technology) company gas (run out of gas)
Ant Group, the ~ founded by Jack Ma
ran out of gas
gargantuan crane he ~ (a losing boxer)
a ~ plucks a rust-colored container from a cargo ship
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / verb
gargantuan (sextuple-platinum breakout) single failure, accident & impairment: engine / verb
Jack Harlow’s ~ (“WHATS POPPIN”)
♦ Gargantua, a kindly giant in French folklore, was the giant prince with a
gas (substance)
huge appetite and loud voice in Rabelais’s 16-century satiric novel.
gas machine
♦ “That morning, Paul’s fellow lumberjacks were astonished to see him
eat only a smallish breakfast of a dainty dozen eggs, a simple side of
he's known as a ~ (a politician)
ham, a poor pound of bacon, a finicky foot of bear sausage, a small
skillet of hash browns, a tiny trough of grits, but ten or so breakfast substance & lack of substance: air / atmosphere
Burraidos, barely a half barrel of gravy poured over his biscuits, a paltry
fifty or so cartwheel-size apple granola pancakes, and a tiny tub of bread gas (pour gas on something, etc.)
pudding topped with a piddling pond of warm cream and hardly a half-
acre of wild huckleberries. / ‘Why, for God’s sake! What has happened pouring gasoline on the flames
to your appetite, Paul!’ his fellow-lumberjacks cried out in consternation he didn’t start the fire, but he is guilty of ~ (anti-vaxxer)
and concern. ‘Is the grub no good? Shall we run off the cooks, and
kidnap a new bunch? Are you feeling poorly?’ / ‘By God! My appetite increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb
seems to have deserted me,’ Paul said grimly. ‘No doubt during the
night. But it can’t have got far, and I’ll track it down and get it back or my
name’s not Paul Bunyan!’” (“When Paul Bunyan Lost His Appetite But
gasket (blow a gasket, etc.)
Recovered It” by Samuel Langhorne Clemmons.)
blew a gasket
size: allusion I asked a guy at the post office to wear a mask and he ~
allusion: books & reading
feeling, emotion & effect: engine / mechanism
gas (step on the gas / step off the gas)
gaslight (verb)
stepped off the gas
perhaps fatigued, he ~ and allowed Pulev to... (boxing) gaslighted its own employees
the company has ~ (union organizers lose vote)
take our foot off the gas
now is not the time to ~ (social distancing / pandemic) gaslighted her
her husband ~ for years
took his foot off the gas
today he ~ (president decides to delay plan) gaslight society
Weinstein is trying to ~ again (sex predation)
took its foot off the gas
with a 30-point lead, the team ~ gaslight you
when confronted, his standard reflex is to try and ~
put her foot down
she drove to the edge and then ~ (Ducournau / Titane) gaslight us into thinking
she did ~ she was a woman of color (Jessica Krug)
had your foot on the gas
you’ve ~ for two years now (public lectures) medically gaslight
you can no longer body shame or ~ us (Olympic swimmer)
kept his foot on the gas ♦ Gas Light was a 1938 English play by Patrick Hamilton. It is about an
the Compton emcee and singer-songwriter has ~ abusive and criminal husband who tries to convince his wife that she is
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manipulation. It can appear in a series like, “gaslighting, lying, and Gates of Samburu
manipulation.”
the ~ is a pass in the Rift Valley of Kenya
♦ “Every step I’ve taken has gaslighted those whom I love... I am not a
culture vulture. I am a culture leech. You should absolutely cancel me, Hells Gate
and I absolutely cancel myself.” (A female academic who claimed
“identities of color,” including Black Caribbean, North African Blackness, the Fraser River narrows at ~ (in British Columbia)
US rooted Blackness, Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness, Boricua...)
Hell's Gate
♦ “He was sharing a hotel room [in Fort Worth] with his father-in-law
Yellow Bear. Before retiring, Yellow Bear ‘blew out’ the gaslight before ~, the second big rapid (Lower Meadow River)
going to bed, a mistake that Indians often made. Before the night was the Nahanni bends through a constriction called the ~
over, he was dead of asphyxiation, and Quanah, who remained
unconscious for two days, barely survived.” (Circa 1900. From Empire of Hell’s Gates
the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the the sandbar at the mouth of ~ was silting up
Comanches by S.C. Gwynne.)

speech: allusion / film / verb Cilician Gates

from Tarsus the route fed through the narrow ~
subterfuge: allusion / film / verb
gaslighting (noun) Dzungarian Gate
the ~ is a pass between Xinjiang and Kazakhstan
gaslighting, lying, and manipulation the route dipped through the ~ (Altai and Tien Shan)
she described his ~ in the workplace as cruel
Moravian Gate
abuse and gaslighting the ~ linked southern Europe and the Baltic Sea (a pass)
I didn’t understand his psychological ~
Golden Gate
speech: allusion / film the ~ Bridge crosses the harbor
subterfuge: allusion / film
Iron Gate
gaslit (and gaslighted) the ~is a gorge on the Danube River
♦ The Golden Gate is the strait that connects San Francisco Bay to the
gaslit by the medical community Pacific Ocean. Hence the name of the famous and iconic bridge.
we are being ~ every day (Long Covid)
proper name / geography: gate
gaslit by her husband and fertility doctor
she suspects that she is being ~ (False Positive film)
gate (obstacle)
speech: allusion / film gates
subterfuge: allusion / film the ~ are closed, there is no way out of here (Gulf War)

gasp (very “gasp,” etc.) gate to this little police-state

Sydney Harbor was the ~ and it had to be kept locked
very ‘Gasp! ♦ If you open a gate, always remember to close that gate. (Rural
the coverage has been ~ Censorship’ wisdom.)

feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing / obstacles & impedance: gate
exclamation gate (society)
gasp (last gasp) gate into Europe
last gasp Melilla became a ~, just like the Balkans
that fuss he made at the Capitol was a ~ outside the gates
last gasp of an era Turkey is still ~ (admittance to European Union)
the ~ when tech didn’t rule our lives (a film) society / access & lack of access: gate
decline / destruction: death & life obstacles & impedance / division & connection: gate
resistance, opposition & defeat / starting, going, continuing gate (portal)
& ending: bodily reaction / breathing
gate (Gates of Hell, etc.) gates of death
the ~ are without number (versus the gate of birth)
known as the Gates of Hell ♦ “There is but one way to enter life, but the gates of death are without
the Darvaza gas crater, ~ (Turkmenistan / Karakum) number.”

access & lack of access / portal: epithet portal: gate

gate (Iron Gate, etc.) gate (out of the gate)

Bab al-Mandab out-of-the-gate smash
the ~, the “Gate of Tears” (Red Sea) the song was an ~

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first out of the gate the digerati effort to dethrone ~ (Web)
CNN was ~ with its story about...
monopoly gatekeeper
right out of the gate Google is the ~ to the Internet
he encountered problems ~
assistant and gatekeeper
slow out of the gate she serves as his ~ (his wife)
he was ~, taking a month to get a campaign ad on TV
hit makers, gatekeepers and fact checkers
straight out of the gate career prospects for ~ may be in doubt (Internet)
he attacked Mr Trudeau ~ (election debate)
bypass the gatekeepers
charged out of the gate the internet allowed people to ~ who controlled music
they ~ with their hit song... (musicians perform)
dethrone (cultural) gatekeepers
stumbled out of the gate the digerati effort to ~ (Web)
her campaign ~ (a politician)
dethrone (political) gatekeepers
♦ “Senator Klobuchar is out of the gate at 1pm.” (Senate hearings.)
the digerati effort to ~ (Web)
starting, going, continuing & ending: gate / horse / sports &
challenges gatekeepers
games anything that ~ is a good thing (e-publishing)
gatecrasher (person) seen themselves as the gatekeepers
gatecrasher book publishers have long ~ of literary culture
the ~ was arrested (party) serves as a gatekeeper
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: gate he ~ for those how want to meet her (a diplomat)
person: gate access & lack of access / control & lack of control /
gatekeeper (person) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: doors & thresholds
/ gate / person / society
gatekeeper person: doors & thresholds / gate / society
editors say they are ~s, not detectives (academic fraud)
gateway (gateway to India, etc.)
gatekeepers of the Tony Awards
just 30 theater professionals are the ~ (nominators) gateway to Europe
the Iberian Peninsula was an ideal ~ (drugs / Portugal)
gatekeepers of (TV) comedy
the ~ make up a small clique (bookers like Eddie Brill) gateway to India
the main ~ has always been the northwest mountain passes
gatekeeper of (public) conversation
Twitter has become this ~ (India, Turkey, etc.) gateway to Japan
Kyushu was the ~ (closest island to Asian continent)
gatekeepers of (literary) culture
book publishers have long seen themselves as the ~ gateway to the Sahara
in Tamanrasset, ~ (Algeria / Tuaregs)
gatekeepers of the (global) Internet
the ~ should treat all users equally (congestion) gateway to the (legendary) Spice Islands
the Sunda Strait, the ~ (the Moluccas)
gatekeeper to (the nation's) colleges
the SAT as a major ~ and universities... (scoring errors) gateway to the July 1st glacier and to the Gobi Desert
Jiuquan is a ~ (Gansu Province, China)
gatekeeper for information
we do not want to act as a ~ (Swisscom official) gateway to the heartland
the Mohawk Trail was the ~ of North America
gatekeeper role
they can play a ~ (building landlords vs. cable providers) gateway to the (Everest) region
the town of Lukla, the ~
grammatical gatekeepers
copy editors are the ~ of the media world (Wikipedia) gateway between Pakistan and Afghanistan
the Khyber Pass, the ancient ~
objective gatekeepers
clinical researchers should function as ~, but… gateway of the Danube delta
Tulcea, the ~ (Romania)
political gatekeeper
Facebook refuses to be a ~ (untrue stories) gateway for drugs
in 1977, Florida was the ~ into the United States
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gateway for drug smugglers gaze (male gaze, etc. / groups)
Baluchistan has been a major ~ from…
supervisory gaze
gateway for drug traffickers the ~ interrupts... (Anna Shechtman, “Black-And-White”)
southeastern Iran is a major ~ from…
white gaze
mountain gateway representation does not take into account constantly the ~
finally the ~ opened, and the plain lay spread out below
based off of the male gaze
ancient gateway our understanding of our own sexuality is completely ~
the Khyber Pass, the ~
see themselves through this male gaze
major gateway women are starting to ~ (TV and Hollywood rape)
SE Iran is a ~ for drug traffickers from…
look at violence against women through a female gaze
southern gateway
we should ~ (TV and Hollywood)
Maun serves as the ~ to the delta (Okavango / Botswana)
♦ “Marilyn was objectified, scrutinized and judged—mostly by male
access & lack of access / route: gate writers, biographers and historians...” (‘Reframed’ revisits Marilyn
Monroe’s life and legacy, from an all-women point of view” by David
gateway (portal) Bianculli, Jan 14, 2022.)
♦ “It is really important to remember that we have very limited
gateways to prehistory representation and presence isn’t the same thing as representation
trash heaps might be ~ (archaeology) representation centered around the Black American person the Black
American community and it does not take into account constantly the
white gaze.” (Bethany C. Morrow, author of So Many Beginnings: A Little
gateway into dream life Women Remix, speaking with Lulu Garcia-Navarro on NPR.)
a direct ~
judgment / perception, perspective & point of view: eye
gateway drug
some believe marijuana is a ~ gear (high gear, low gear, etc.)
"gateway theory" other gears
the ~ that pot can lead to harder drugs if he needs it, he’s got ~ to move up to (a tennis player)
guard the gateway in full gear
teacher certification programs ~ to public-school teaching the community will move to get the relief effort ~
portal: gate get the (relief) effort in full gear
the community will move to ~
gauge (noun)
shifted into high gear
gauge of malnutrition conservative talk-show hosts ~
the percent of kids under 5 who are underweight is a ~
stuck in low gear
critical gauge Farias outworked her as Ryan seemed ~ (boxing)
it is a ~ of malnutrition (underweight kids under 5)
♦ “China has only one gear, and it’s forward.” (Change, development,
progress, etc.)
good gauge
a ~ of a business’s health is the backlog of orders functioning: engine / mechanism
measurement: tools & technology gear (kick into gear, etc.)
gauntlet (lay down a gauntlet, etc.) kick into gear
that’s when you see him ~ (boxer gets ready for bout)
gauntlet of (very misogynistic) questioning
the investigation was about to ~ (of a serial rapist)
they had to undergo this ~ (Britney, Lindsay, etc.)
kicked into gear
laid down the gauntlet to Republicans
the worm only ~ when… (cyberwarfare)
Obama has ~ by asking Congress to…
moved into (high) gear
run a gauntlet of home supporters
American-led efforts to save the talks ~ (Mideast)
Brighton players had to ~ (at Crystal Palace)
shifted into high gear
thrown the gauntlet down to City
conservative talk-show hosts ~
Jurgen Klopp’s side have ~ (soccer)
♦ A gauntlet was a glove worn with Medieval armor to protect the hand. activity / initiation: engine / mechanism
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / mechanism
conflict: Middle Ages / verb

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gear (throw sand in the gears, etc.) gene (other)
throw sand in the gears “acting gene”
this bill will ~ of commerce his father told the BBC that his son had inherited the ~
they can ~ (Iraqi spies)
identity & nature: biology
throwing sand in the gears
Trump appointees are ~ (hobble, dismantle, cripple)
generation (products, etc.)
disruption: engine / mechanism / verb fourth generation
the Max was to be the ~ of the 737 family (Boeing)
gear (switch gears, shift gears, etc.)
taxonomy & classification: family
shifting gears
he isn’t pulling up stakes, just ~ (Conan O’Brien)
Geneva Convention
shifted gears to a different investigative strategy cyber Geneva Convention
we have ~ (Delphi Indiana murders) we need to develop a kind of ~ if you will... (hacking)

switch gears digital Geneva Convention

how hard it is to ~ for many adjuncts some are calling for a ~ (cyberwarfare)
I'm going to ~ here… (change the subject) ♦ “We need to develop a kind of cyber Geneva Convention if you will that
establishes norms and standards worldwide and if a country or a group
reversal: engine / mechanism / verb violates those norms, then you have worldwide sanctions, worldwide
response.” (Senator Angus King of Maine.)
gear up (verb) allusion: military
gears up for 2012 constraint & lack of constraint: crime / history / military /
as the White House ~ (election) justice

gearing up for a battle

genie (initiation)
Republicans are ~ (politics) genie
gearing up for the future the ~ is out of the bottle (cloning)
we're ~ (companies exploiting the Arctic) can the ~ every be put back in the bottle (flat-earth belief)
once that ~ is out of the bottle, it’s hard to put it back
increase & decrease: engine / mechanism / verb
difficulty, easiness & effort: engine / mechanism / verb genie (of racial hatred) has been unleashed
the ~ (Ivory Coast)
gem (noun)
micro-entertainment genie
gem of a book you can never put the ~ back in the bottle (TikTok)
he has written a ~
put the genie back in the bottle
gem in the Middle East you can’t ~
Oman is a ~ I don’t see how they can ~ (kid’s programming and ads)

gems inside British boxing put the anti-vaccine genie back in the bottle
we’ve got some ~ (Costello & Bunce) there is not easy way to ~ (COVID / 2021)

whitewater gem stuff the genie back into the bottle

this spectacular ~ (Tallulah Gorge / kayaking) it's too late to ~

hidden gem affliction / concealment & lack of concealment / initiation /

the road reveals many ~s (N7 in France) pursuit, capture & escape: container / creature
superlative: materials & substances / mining genie (knowledge)
worth & lack of worth: materials & substances / mining
lighting-design genie
gene (in one's genes) again he has shown himself to be a ~
in his genes person: creature / magic
laziness is not ~ ability & lack of ability / knowledge & intelligence: creature
it was ~, in his blood (Calvin Klein sketches as a kid) / magic / person
identity & nature: biology general (General Winter, etc.)
“General Winter”
he found himself up against ~ (Napoleon)

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military: epithet the film had a ~
general (Bobby Knight, “The General,” creation & transformation / growth & development /
etc.) timeliness & lack of timeliness: birth
gesture (groups)
“The General”
Coach Bobby Knight, or ~ as he is fondly remembered... ‘Gesture’ politics
control & lack of control: epithet she labeled our anti-racism message as ~ (taking a knee)
epithet: military ♦ “The politics are mostly gestural; leftism as fashionable posturing;
sanctimony literature; self-promotion and the airing of performatively
genocide (noun) righteous opinion...” (Criticism of a writer.)
♦ “I don’t believe in gestures, I believe in substance, I believe in doing
genocide things that make a practical difference.” (Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
what they suffered was ~ (Yazidis) asked if he would “take the knee.”)
♦ see also performative (speech / groups)
genocide of our people
residential schools were the ~ (First Nations People) inclusion & exclusion: society

“cultural genocide” get (a big get, etc.)

monks were immolating themselves, a ~
big get
question of genocide a ~ for an aspiring songwriter (a record contract)
a final ruling on the ~ could take years (ICJ / UN)
biggest interview “get”
amounts to genocide this might be the ~ of the year for TV news
violence against indigenous women and girls ~
excellent get
calls Armenian mass killings genocide he could be an ~ if Houston makes him available via trade
President Biden ~ giving, receiving, bringing & returning: part of speech
constitutes a genocide get (understand)
the mass internment, forced labor, sterilization ~
♦ “She Fled Rwanda To Survive—But Does Not Like The words gets how
‘Refugee’ Or ‘Genocide,’” NPR, Goats and Soda, April 19, 2019.) he really ~ Twitter works (Elon Musk)
♦ Many older people are uncomfortable hearing this word in any other
context than the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. get it
I~
destruction / oppression: history / violence I don’t ~
germinate (verb) I didn’t ~

gestated and (finally) germinated gets it

it was something that ~ into this thread I explored in my this guy ~ (understands)
novel here’s a guy who ~ (cleric who fights sex abuse)

creation & transformation: birth / plant / verb get the skepticism

growth & development: birth / plant / verb I totally ~

Gestapo (Gestapo of Patterson, etc.) totally get

they felt betrayed, which I ~
Gestapo of Patterson
comprehension & incomprehension: giving, receiving,
the police were the ~ (BBC’s The Hurricane Tapes)
bringing & returning / verb
oppression: allusion / epithet / history / violence
get (get somewhere)
gestate (verb)
get there
gestated and (finally) germinated how did Apple ~ (a trillion dollars)
it was something that ~ into this thread I explored in my we’re never going to ~ if... (politics)
novel
get here
creation & transformation: birth / verb how did we ~ (explain how we arrived at such a situation)
timeliness & lack of timeliness: birth / verb what has been going on, how did we ~
growth & development: birth / verb how did we ~ (Qatar: Saudi embargo ‘to be lifted’)
gestation (film, etc.)
seven-year gestation

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analysis, interpretation & explanation / attainment / pursuit, capture & escape: justice
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / get away (escape)
development: journeys & trips / verb
got away
get (not get anywhere, get nowhere) that 2008 season is the one that ~ (team lost)
get anywhere the books that ~ (under the radar, underappreciated, etc.)
without defeating corruption, we won’t ~ (government) total failure, the mountain that ~ (expedition failed)
through force, we won’t ~ ♦ “Fishing lore is full of tales about ‘the one that got away,’ and fishermen
have been known to exaggerate the size of their catch.” (Tove
getting anywhere Danovich.)

we’re not ~, three years is too long (Delphi IN murders) failure, accident & impairment: fish / verb
gotten nowhere pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb
they have tried asking for records but have ~ (politics) get by (verb)
gotten nowhere or grown worse get by
some countries have ~ (hunger levels) people are just trying to ~
development / progress & lack of progress: movement survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / verb
get across (verb) get in / get into (involvement)
get across got into movies
key elements that the politician wants to ~ little by little, I ~ (an actor)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: giving, receiving, get into the specifics
bringing & returning / verb I’m not going to ~ on the investigation
fictive transportation: verb
get into that
get along (verb) a lot of no comments, a lot of we’re not going to ~
the police chief said he did not want to ~ (an argument)
get along
to ~, you’ve got to go along (it’s the way of the world) got into trouble
you want to ~ to go along in D.C. (lobbyists / regulators) he ~ at university
social interaction: direction / movement / verb involvement: container / direction / verb
getaway (noun) get on with (get on with something)
weekend getaway get on with it
dream vacations and ~s okay, let’s ~ (sports during pandemic)
a romantic ~ as a Valentine's Day present
got on with it
romantic getaway the Queen has always just ~ (death of husband)
last summer, for a ~, we…;
reconciliation, resolution, & conclusion / resiliency /
romantic (weekend) getaway starting, going, continuing & ending / survival, persistence
a ~ as a Valentine's Day present & endurance: journeys & trips / verb
vacation getaway get out (and get out of)
this ~ won't cost you an arm and leg
pursuit, capture & escape: place
get out
I wanted to ~ but I didn’t know how (gang)
get away (get away with something)
get out of your comfort zone
get away with stuff ~, we have to challenge ourselves (Simon Reeve)
he could ~ (Bill Cosby) get you out
would have gotten away with it you do bad things, and I got to ~ (Of Mice and Men)
if he had done it elsewhere, he ~ (a murder) pursuit, capture & escape / situation: container
♦ “How long do you honestly believe that people in power like you will get
away with it? How long do you think you can continue to ignore the get out (get out from under)
climate crisis...without being held accountable? You get away with it
now, but sooner or later people are going to realize what you have been get out from under her (crushing debt) burden
doing all this time. That’s inevitable.” (Greta Thunberg.)
she couldn’t ~
guilt / responsibility: justice
get out from under the cloud

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 he couldn’t ~ of suspicion ghost (verb)
got out from under the father's (controlling) eye
when she ~... ghosting you
he’s ~ (her boyfriend disappears without contact)
get out from under its debt
the city is trying to ~ (Detroit) ghosts boyfriends
she ~ because she doesn’t want to offend
get out from under (US) sanctions
Iran wants to ~ ghosted me
she ~ and I was left in the dark (as to why)
oppression: burden / verb / weight
amelioration & renewal: burden / verb / weight
ghosted him
American had ~ (victim of #MeToo movement)
get over (overcome) ♦ In terms of dating, this refers to a boyfriend or girlfriend cutting off a
relationship with no explanation, not face to face or even on social
get over the sense of failure media. Further contact might only be related to “orbiting” on social
I know I will ~ media.

mentally get over appearance & disappearance: creature / verb

once you can ~ I’m going to be cold... (skiing) ghost (memory)
resiliency / reconciliation, resolution & conclusion /
ghost
survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / verb the ~s were brought to life (bones of slave laborers)
get through (endure, etc.) they want to keep his ~ alive (Osama bin Laden)

get through (almost) anything “ghosts” of Ms Clinton’s campaign

with the right outlook, you can ~ (life) the article questioned whether the ~ would haunt Ms Warren

get through the episode ghosts of Vietnam

I somehow managed to ~ an attempt to bury the ~ (embedded reporters / Iraq)

got through the interview ghosts of history

I somehow ~ (for a job) a debate about how to confront the ~ (Germany / 70s)

get through it confront the ghosts

I think she'll ~, she's a very strong personality (athlete) a debate about how to ~ of history (Germany, 70s)

get through that (transition) period exorcised that ghost

help the economy ~ (Russia) European leaders thought they had ~ (Berlusconi)
♦ “She walked out that side door at about 0100 hours, got into one of the
get through the (degree) program Humvees, and drove off to confront the ghosts of the past.” / “And the
ghosts won.” (The General’s Daughter by Nelson DeMille.)
working while they try to ~
affliction: creature
get through this
the Lord will give us the strength to ~ ghost (bury the ghost)
get through this somehow bury the ghosts
we'll ~ an attempt to ~ of Vietnam
get you through rough times exorcised that ghost
develop better coping skills to ~ European leaders thought they had ~ (Berlusconi)
time to get through (all) this summon her ghost and exorcise her
it takes ~, just be patient… the desire to ~ forever (a writer)
strength to get through this amelioration & renewal / reconciliation, resolution &
the Lord will give us the ~ conclusion: burial / creature / verb
way to get through it ghost (unregistered, etc.)
if you want to find a ~ all, maybe…
♦ “How do I get through one night without you...” (LeAnn Rimes.) ghost children
♦ see also been through (endure), go through (endure, etc.) North Korean ~ in China can't go to school (illegal)

obstacles & impedance / reconciliation, resolution & ghost detainees

conclusion / resiliency / survival, persistence & endurance: the CIA held ~ at various sites (unregistered)
journeys & trips / verb “ghost gun”

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 an unregistered, untraceable ~ (assembled from parts) two years later, the city is a ~ (after earthquake)
one year on, L'Aquila is still a ~ (after earthquake)
ghost guns
~ can be built with pieces bought online virtual ghost town
one-third of all firearms seized are ~ (California) the bombardments have left Aleppo a ~
so-called “~” with no registration number
so-called “~” can be made at home turn into ghost towns
communities will ~
"ghost" ship
~s have been previously hijacked (piracy) activity / presence & absence: creature
~s are a real threat to the security (world's waterways) ghostwriter (noun)
the two pirate vessels returned to a large ~ (Somalia)
ghostwriter
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: creature
he has worked as an unofficial ~
society: creature
concealment & lack of concealment: creature
ghost (abandoned, etc.) subterfuge: creature
ghost gear giant (Giants Causeway, etc.)
marine life is killed by “~” (lost and abandoned nets)
Giants Causeway
ghost homes the ~ is a cape in Northern Ireland
akiya, or ~, dot the landscape (vacant homes in Japan)
Giant's Chair
ghost nets the ~ (Gygrestolen), is a mountain in Svalbard
when these nets get lost at sea, they become ~ (trawlers)
♦ The Giants Causeway is a Unesco World Heritage site.
ghost planes proper name: creature / size
airliners are flying empty ~ to keep their flight slots
giant (sleeping giant)
“ghost” cargo ship
a ~ has washed up off the coast of Ireland (abandoned) sleeping giant
the Latino vote has always been seen as a ~ (politics)
ghost villages
this is a ~ (projected water shortage in US)
~ proliferated up in the hills (North Greece, abandoned)
they have awakened a ~ (sports team)
families have moved away, leaving “~” (Setomaa area)
appearance & disappearance: creature sleeping giant of the (Texas) Hispanic vote
the so-called ~ is about to wake up
ghost (ghost signs, etc.)
consciousness & awareness: creature / size / sleep
ghost face power: creature / size / sleep
the child noticed a ~ on the floor (Bélmez Faces) giant (gentle giant)
"ghost signs"
gentle giant
the city does not preserve ~ (on old brick walls)
he was a ~, much loved (rugby player dies)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: creature Lewis was a “~” with a “million dollar” smile (a cop)
ghost (fantasy and delusion) character & personality: creature / size

ghost airplanes giant (size)

stray missiles, ~ (Egyptian scenarios for Flight 990)
giant
“ghost soldiers” some venerable ~s grew as high as 120 feet (trees)
corrupt officials invented ~ to pocket their wages
"giant of Africa"
generals and officials pocketed the wages of ~
instability in the ~ is cause for concern (Nigeria)
fantasy & reality: creature
Giants of Asia
ghosted these two ~ (China and India)

ghosted by the actor for a potential role giant in the field

she claims she was ~ in the film (a lawsuit) the late Amos Tversky, a ~ of coincidence theory

appearance & disappearance: creature beverage giant

the Atlanta-based ~ (Coca-Cola)
ghost town
game giant
ghost town

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 the established ~s Sony and Nintendo she was a ~, a champion of justice and equality (RBG)
Wall Street giant giant figure
~ Lehman Brothers he was a ~ in American theater (August Wilson)
telecom giant romantic giants
the ~ WorldCom in an age of ~ he was a titan (Johann von Goethe)
comic-book giant shoulder of giants
a ~ (character from a comic) I've always felt I'm standing on the ~ here (windsurfer)
San Francisco Giants achievement, recognition & praise: creature / size
the ~ beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 (MLB) importance & significance: creature / size
Duiwelskloof Giant gift (gift for languages, etc.)
the ~ has a pub inside it (a South African baobab tree)
gift
Sagole giant they either have that ~ or they don't (acting)
the ~ sprawls over a half-an-acre (a baobab)
gift for knowing
fast-food giant he has a ~ what people want (games developer)
aggressive trademark protection by the ~ (McDonald's)
gift for friendship
long-distance giant Wharton had a great ~
~ AT&T
gift for languages
mobile-phone giant having an unusual ~ (explorer Sven Hedin)
~ Vodafone
gift for metaphor
natural gas giant a poet's ~
Gazprom, the ~ (Russia)
gift for theater
software giant his ~ and his populist policies (a politician)
the ~ Microsoft
poet's gift
online auction giant a ~ for metaphor
the ~, eBay
athletic gifts
banking giant the ~, but behind them was an angry teenager
the ~ Wachovia
rare gift
retailing giant he had a really ~ (the actor Michael K. Williams)
such ~s as Old Navy, Staples, Barnes & Noble
honing her (observational) gifts
complacent giant she has been ~ for 50 years (the artist Catherine Murphy)
aggressive upstarts catch ~ unawares (Japan)
ability & lack of ability: gift
4 giants
~ fell in the first round (World Cup soccer)
gift (benefit)
20,000-foot giant gift
Pumori and McKinley, among other ~s thank you GOD for blessing us with this ~
are you raising your children bilingual, what a ~ that is
catch (complacent) giant unawares it’s my ~, and my curse (an athlete about his personality)
aggressive upstarts ~ (Japan vs. Detroit)
gift to the (Iraqi) people
grow into a giant the suicide bombing was a ~
a hailstone can ~ (size of a grapefruit)
gift to Trump and the far right
size: creature “cancel culture” is a ~ (a leftist / politics)
giant (achievement) Gift of Life
the ~ brings children to the US for surgery
giant of his field
he was considered the ~ (literary critic) gift of life
organ donors make the ~ possible
giant of foreign policy
he was a true ~ gift of literacy
give the ~ and change a life forever (literacy)
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gift of science gilded (Gilded Age)
we embrace the ~, which is a gift from God (Jews)
Gilded Age of rock journalism
gift from God the sixties were the ~ (excess)
she is a ~ (woman who helps the poor)
the gift of science, which is a ~ (Jews / reproduction) new Gilded Age
Wu has criticized the concentration of power as a ~
gift from the 20th century to the 21st
♦ Salisbury: Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp, / To guard a
a ~ (eradication of polio) title that was rich before, / To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw
a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto
gift and a curse the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to
having a good platoon, it's both a ~ (combat medic) garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. (Shakespeare’s The Life and
Death of King John, Act, Scene 2.)
God's gift ♦ The title of Twain and Warner’s book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of
camels, known by some as Ata Allah, or ~ Today, which gave the US historical period its name, refers to the age’s
excess, but also focuses on the problems most people faced in a time
Australia's gift after the Civil War that was supposed to be a Golden Age.
~ to the world (fresh, fun and enthusiastic girls) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
precious gift growth & development / money: history
she was a ~ (mother talking about murdered daughter) time: history

what a gift gilded (other)

are you raising your children bilingual, ~ that is
gilded with heroic gesture
accept our lot as a gift tragedy had to be ~ (L.E. G. Oates in Antarctica)
but should we ~ (vs. genetic and self-engineering)
Gilded Age
cost & benefit / worth & lack of worth: gift the ~ was characterized by great income inequality
gift (as verb) gilded cage
the 4 Russian princesses lived in a ~ (isolated in a palace)
gifted Cameroon a goal ♦ “They were spackling a turd with gold paint.” (An upset Greg Gutfeld on
her sloppy pass back almost ~ (World Cup soccer) Fox News, speaking about the Democrat impeachment engrossment
ceremony.)
gifted me with their support ♦ The verb gild can mean to make something appear bright and
I’d like to thank everybody who has ~ attractive, and it can also mean to make something seem more valuable
or attractive than it really is.
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: gift / part of speech /
verb appearance & reality / substance & lack of substance:
materials & substances
gifted subterfuge: materials & substances
gifted children girdled
the parents of ~
a program that serves ~ girdled with reefs
harborless, cliff-bound and ~ (Norfolk Island)
gifted (young) violinist
a~ configuration: clothing & accessories / shape

gifted, high-functioning girl (golden girl)

~ individuals
golden girl of Silicon Valley
most gifted she was the ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
only the ~ math wizards understand it (Poincare)
golden girl of the music industry
naturally gifted Whitney Houston was the ~
naturally gifted athletes
Country Music’s new ‘Golden’ Girl
technically gifted Kacey Musgraves, ~ (breakout success)
he is a ~ boxer person: society
wonderfully gifted achievement, recognition & praise: person
he is a ~ footballer (Ronaldo) attraction & repulsion / character & personality: person
ability & lack of ability: gift girl (big girl, etc.)
big-girl major
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put your big-girl pants on resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
you need to ~ and deal with it
give up (stop trying)
♦ “You need to put your big-girl pants on and deal with it, pull them up
and get out there and show them what you got...”
gave up
growth & development: death & life she ~ (started drinking, etc.)
character & personality: person give up without a fight
give (give a wink, etc.) Amazon is unlikely to ~ (v. Reliance in India)

gave me a wave give up or waver

he ~ are we going to ~ when things get tough (a protest)

gave the middle finger salute to the Celtic fans resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
Kyrie hit the shot and ~ (NBA) glacial (adjective)
transmission: gesture / verb
glacial pace
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: gesture / verb
benefits and appeals are decided at a ~ (Veterans Affairs)
give (give a start, etc.)
pace (of medical research) is glacial
gives people hope the ~
she ~ (Lizzo) ♦ In the 2015 July / August issue of Sierra, in his article “Hope is Not a
Strategy,” the executive director of the Sierra Club Michael Brune wrote:
gave me a start “You could say that progress on an international climate change
agreement has been glacial, except that glaciers have been melting
it ~ faster.” In a warming future, the movement of glaciers may no longer be
glacial. Some glaciers have been referred to as galloping or surging and
gave me the creeps can travel 250 feet per day.
she ~ ♦ The Swiss have taken to covering sections of the Rhone Glacier with
tarps in the summer to slow melting.
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb
transmission: verb speed: glacier
feeling, emotion & effect: giving, receiving, bringing & comparison & contrast: affix
returning / verb
gladiator (noun)
give (give an impression, etc.)
gladiators
gave a good account football players are ~, baseball players are gentlemen
he ~ (contest)
gladiator personalities
gave a good impression sports superstars generally have ~
he ~
person: military
transmission: verb
character & personality: history / military / person
give-and-take glare (attention)
give and take glare of publicity
such ~ is uncommon he now wishes to be away from the ~ (scandal)
there has been a lot of ~ (coach / player)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark
give and take of ideas
the ~ in class discussion (vs. Internet) glass jaw
give-and-take relationship glass jaw
our ~s they are trying to protect his ~ (a politician)
marital give-and-take strength & weakness: boxing
in this parable of ~, the last word is hers to give
glean (verb)
position, policy & negotiation: direction / giving, receiving,
bringing & returning glean clues from mammoth hair
scientists ~
social interaction: direction / giving, receiving, bringing &
returning glean information from him
give in (verb) authorities hoped to ~ (spy)
♦ The Wikipedia entry for gleaning is very interesting, and it shows a very
give in affecting photo, “Impoverished Germans gleaning in 1956.”
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searching & discovery: farming & agriculture / verb Kiltie, Kabamba and Johnson ~ (each scored a goal)
gleaned added gloss to a (hard-fought) success
an extra-time goal ~ (soccer)
gleaned from the records
there’s a lot to be ~ (church sex abuse) added gloss to the win
their goals ~ (rugby)
searching & discovery: farming & agriculture
added the gloss with a fine, chipped finish
glimmer (glimmer of hope, etc.) Long ~ (soccer)
glimmer of hope superlative: light & dark
there might be a small ~ for the family (missing son)
gloss over (verb)
glimmers of hope
five ~ to beat the coronavirus blues (BBC) gloss over how difficult
he doesn’t want to ~ it was (leaving a hate group)
glimmer of progress
it looked like there was a ~ but that did not last long gloss over any (difficult) issues
Mom wants to ~
evidence: atmosphere / light & dark
amount: atmosphere / light & dark gloss over the killings
school history books ~ (Indonesia in 1965)
glittering (adjective)
gloss over addiction and overdose
glittering career she refused to ~ in her daughter’s obituary
he celebrated another landmark in his ~
he has won everything in a ~ (Nadal) concealment & lack of concealment / confronting, dealing
with & ignoring things / subterfuge: light & dark / verb
superlative: light & dark
glove (the gloves are off)
gloom (noun)
gloves are off
tension and gloom the ~ (jungle justice / no Nigerian election meddling)
people resumed their lives in an atmosphere of ~
gloves are (well and truly) off
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark
the ~ (tough G-20 negotiations)
oppression: light & dark
gloomy (adjective) the gloves are (coming) off
~ and the new US policy...
gloomy assessment restraint & lack of restraint: boxing
in this ~ of American nursing… (a book) behavior / conflict: boxing
gloomy picture glowing (adjective)
he presented quite a ~ of the region
glowing recommendation
gloomy crossroads he earned an internship because of a ~
he'd reached a ~ in his life
glowing reputation
feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark
Vada has earned a ~ in the sport (anti-doping)
oppression: light & dark
gloss (appearance) glowing things
he did not say ~ about her (an out-of-favor ambassador)
gloss of contemporary self-consciousness superlative: light & dark
it’s a Victorian novel with a ~
glue (noun)
gentlemanly gloss
many male Nashville stars have taken a more ~ glue
♦ This kind of gloss may be deceptively attractive or superficial. she is the ~ binding the family together (daughter)
their affection is the ~ that holds them together
appearance / appearance & reality / concealment & lack of he is the ~ that holds the company together (an executive)
concealment / subterfuge: light & dark / materials & oil could be the ~ that keeps the two sides civil (Sudan)
substances fear is the ~ that holds together their regime (repression)
almond butter is the ~ that holds the ingredients together
gloss (add gloss, etc.) he is the ~ that holds it together (a soccer player)
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 queues are the ~ (society, egalitarianism, fairness, etc.) he responded with a ~ for work (given responsibility)
glue of politics consumption: food & drink / person
fear was now the ~ (repressive regimes) enthusiasm: food & drink
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink / person
binding glue
nationalism was the ~ that replaced religion and dynasty gnaw (verb)
ideological glue gnawed at him
the Brotherhood has a common ~ other parties lack it ~ (what to do about a problem)
a secret worry ~ (a researcher and his results)
social glue the letter ~ (a journalist gets a tip)
her coach called her the ~ that held the players together his desperation to be vindicated ~ (Churchill)
religion provides ~ to bond groups
gnawing away at him
attachment: materials & substances it was guilt ~
glued affliction: animal / sensation / teeth / verb
glued to his ear feeling, emotion & effect: animal / sensation / teeth / verb
he had a cellphone ~ (art-auction bidder) gnawing (gnawing doubt, etc.)
glued to the floor gnawing anxiety
she sat silently, her eyes ~ the ~ that he could win again (a politician)
glued to their phones gnawing doubt
parents, some sobbing, others ~... (school shooting) I had a ~ about my choice of a profession
glued to their radios gnawing hunger
soap operas keep millions of Ethiopians ~ they had a ~ for a better life (Ellis Island immigrants)
glued to the road gnawing fear and uncertainty
all-wheel drive keeps you ~ (cars) a ~ (living in era of terrorism)
glue to their screens feeling, emotion & effect: animal / sensation / teeth
young people are ~ all day (computers) affliction: animal / sensation / teeth
glued to the television go (go wrong, etc.)
during the World Cup she was ~
go bad
glued to the TV when things ~, they go really bad
on Sundays, my husband is ~ (sports)
going badly
attachment: materials & substances
the project is ~
glut (noun) go wrong
supply glut where did I ~
a ~ of lobsters so much must go right, so much can ~ (making movies)

sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink went wrong

what ~
glutton (person) they blame Democrats for everything that ~
glutton for punishment went (so) wrong
I should have quit my job years ago, but I guess I'm a ~ a routine call that ~ so quickly (two cops murdered)
glutton for food, sex and praise gone from bad to worse
he is a ~ things have ~ (surprising news)
♦ Managers are only responsible when things go well, not when things
video glutton go wrong.
I am a ~ (stop me before I rent again)
failure, accident & impairment: movement
person: food & drink development: movement
consumption / enthusiasm: food & drink / person
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink / person go (go right, etc.)
gluttonous (adjective) go a little better
things began to ~ after that
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go right go (where are we going, etc.)
so much must ~, so much can go wrong (making movies)
where things are going
going great it’s hard to know ~ (in the future)
things are ~ (a relationship)
where things go from here
going well ~ is quite honestly up in the air
when things are ~ at home
where are we going
gone smoothly what’s next for the Brexit process, ~
but the hangings have not always ~... (Iraq)
where do we go now
went smoothly ~ (Guns N’ Roses)
elections ~ and without violence (Ghana)
where do we go from here
went well ~ (troubled relationship)
his adventure with Honnold that week ~ (climbers)
where does the program go from here
failure, accident & impairment: movement
~ (sports)
development: movement
go (not go anywhere, go nowhere) where does he go from here
but ~ (boxer after unexpected loss)
go anywhere where we are and where we’re going
that’s not going to ~ (a political strategy) the general will address ~ (Afghan evacuation / bombing)
going nowhere ♦ Where are we now, where are things going?
the project is ~ (a pipeline) development / future / time: journeys & trips / movement
development / progress & lack of progress: movement
go (go places, etc.)
go (not go anywhere, etc.)
go places
not going anywhere they are going to ~ (the Azzurri soccer team)
I’m a believer in print, print is ~ (The New York Times)
going places
♦ “Covid is, without a doubt, here to stay. (It will go from a pandemic to “Women who are ~ start at Hollins” (Virginia university)
being endemic.)
under twenty and ~ (brother and sister classical musicians)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement / I need to keep track of this guy, he’s ~ (soldier KIA)
verb ♦ “Going Places” is our new weekly travel segment...”
go (we’re not going anywhere, etc.) ♦ see also far (progress)

not going anywhere progress & lack of progress: movement

artists are saying, “we’re ~” go (have a go at something)
♦ We’re not going anywhere; we’re here to stay; we’re in your face; we’re
present and not absent; you will not erase us... (Different groups.) had a go at it
♦ “We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it.” practically everyone ~ (writing mystery novels)
inclusion & exclusion: society attempt: movement
go (develop) go (a road can go, etc.)
go either way goes from Canada to Mexico
at this point it could ~ (a criminal trial) the mountain range ~
going to go ♦ “It began at the Forum in Rome; it coursed through a virtual tunnel,
formed by villa walls on either side; it left the great outer wall through the
we know how the vote is ~ Porta Appia; it headed southeast along the line of the peninsula; it
passed the Alban Hills; it spanned the gorge of Aricia; it pushed across
how this pandemic goes the Pontine Marshes; it reached the Sea at Tarracina (Terracina); it
the next months are pivotal in terms of ~ followed a stunning cliffside cut facing the sea; it headed inland again; it
reached the shore once more at Formiae (Formia); it followed the coast
how it goes to Sinuessa; it cut inland and headed further east; it passed through
Capua and Beneventum (Benevento); it climbed onto the rocky Apennine
they want the same thing, but ~ is not the same (plot) Plateau; it reached the Ionian Sea at Tarentum (Taranto), on the instep
of the boot; it cut through the heel to Brundisium (Brindisi), the main port
where the puck is going to the East, on the Adriatic; and carried on to Otranto, a secondary port...
if you can see ~, as we use in the hockey metaphor But the Via Appia was only one-half of Rome’s Great East Road...
(Adapted from To the Ends of the Earth: The Great Travel and Trade
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fictive motion: verb / walking, running & jumping go (direction)
go (a distance to go, etc.) go
how far he can go Obama is taking this country where it should never ~
see far (progress) going forward
far to go turning back was not an option, ~ was a minefield
the field has come a long way but still has ~ (AI) went round and round
further to go we ~ (in an argument)
we have come a long way, but we have much ~ gone either way
go far it could have ~ (the decision in a close boxing match)
see far (progress) go this route
gone (quite) a distance I'm surprised more people don't ~ (reject fame)
see far (progress) direction: journeys & trips / movement / verb
a little way to go go (argument)
we still have a ~ (restoring electricity after hurricane)
goes to a difficult issue
a long way to go your question ~
we've got ~, but we've had some success
Afghanistan has ~ in its pursuit of peace goes to the heart
this is a step in the right direction, but there is still ~ this argument ~ of the issue
we still have ~ (putting out a wildfire in California) ♦ see also follow (argument)
progress & lack of progress: distance / journeys & trips / analysis, interpretation & explanation / comprehension &
movement incomprehension: journeys & trips / movement / verb
go (let something go) go (go from zero to one hundred, etc.)
let it go went from zero to one hundred
he rolled his eyes and told me to ~ (book idea) when my friend approached her, she ~, cussing...
let go of that went from zero to 100 really fast
I want to ~ (a boxer speaking of a defeat) we ~ (the popularity of the Netflix hit Cheer)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: hand / verb went from zero to 60
possession / resiliency: hand / verb we went from ~ in the first two months (a relationship)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / verb ♦ “Our life was running at 150,000 miles an hour.” (The husband about
go (behavior) his marriage to a pop celebrity, which ended badly. The inflated number
is a typical example of linguistic supersizing.)
going berserk feeling, emotion & effect / speed: engine
this crowd is ~ (an exciting boxing match)
go (the time has gone, etc.)
went too far
she ~ (bad behavior gets her in trouble) been and gone
irrelevant club whose time has ~ (Manchester United)
went overboard
she ~ (bad behavior gets her in trouble) come and gone
2001 has ~
go over the line
anything goes as long as you don't ~ (Las Vegas) time has gone
we worry about where the ~, how much of it we have left
went off the deep end
she ~ time: direction / movement / verb
past & present: direction / movement / verb
anything goes
~ as long as you don't go over the line (Las Vegas) go (a month to go, etc.)
willing to go months to go
how far are you ~ to get these people (cops) there’s still a couple of ~ (in the season)
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go (come and go) go-ahead for the flight
the ~ came through
come and go
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: movement / part
trendy eateries ~
fashion trends ~ (normcore) of speech

come and gone goal (own goal)

technological fads have ~ in schools
embarrassing own goal
came and went this is an ~ for the president’s allies
other American intelligence warnings ~
major own goal
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / primacy, claiming he was on “urgent transfer business” was a ~
currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / movement / failure, accident & impairment: sports & games
verb
goal line (across the goal line)
go (go long)
get this across the goal line
gone long she needs her party’s support to ~ (Brexit)
critics have ~ trying to explain the show’s success
success & failure: football / sports & games
fate, fortune & chance: football / sports & games
go along (verb)
go (raring to go, etc.)
go along
rarin’ to go to get along, you’ve got to ~ (it’s the way of the world)
I take a shot of Old Crow at night and wake up ~ you want to get along to ~ in D.C. (lobbyists / regulators)
I didn’t make the custom, I just ~ (segregation)
raring to get out there
he is ~ and campaign (a politician) go along with Israel
he will probably ~ (foreign policy)
raring to start
Trump’s attorneys are ~ their counter-arguments (trial) go along with it
but he was willing to ~ (a politician)
hopeful, energized and rarin’ to go
they’re ~ (activists) went along with their leader
eagerness & reluctance: horse they ~ (politics)

goad (verb) go along with what’s fair and what’s just

we’re asking you to ~
goad him into launching ♦ In a discussion about politics, the following words and phrases were
Trump appeared to ~ a presidential bid used: stand up to; challenge; take him on; bring him down; go along; and
wait it out.
goaded one another ♦ “‘What do you boys want!’ he asked us. And we said, ‘We simply want
both fighters viciously ~ in the runup to the fight (boxers) to be served.’ ‘Well, I can’t serve you here, I can’t!’ We said, ‘Can’t or
won’t? What is the problem?’ ‘Well, we just don’t serve black people at
coercion & motivation / directing / oppression: animal / this counter.’ ‘Well, why not! Do you condone this custom, of
discrimination?’ ‘Well, I didn’t make the custom. You know, I just abide
speech / verb / violence by it. I just go along.’ ‘Well, we’re asking you to go along with what’s fair
and what’s just...’” (BBC, Sounds, Witness History, “The Greensboro
go after (attack) lunch counter sit-in.)

going after the senator with reference social interaction: direction / movement / verb
the President is ~ to Native Americans goalpost (target)
went after his critics
goalpost
he ~ (Turkish President)
that ~ seemed to fade out of sight (a deadline)
going after the school
constantly changing goalposts
he was ~ (a 15-year-old school shooter)
the ~ will be a challenge (government requirements)
accusation & criticism: hunting / verb
move the goalposts
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
they shouldn’t ~ and change things in the middle of game
speech: hunting / verb
go-ahead moved the goalposts
every time Obama met their demands, they ~ (politics)
go-ahead from Turkey
uncertainty over a ~ (military operation)
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 the government keeps ~ (reporting requirements) we ~ of survival (Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic expedition)
♦ (A) “Did I do that right?” (B) “Correct. Yes.” (C) “Yes.” (A) “All right. ♦ “Five Ways you could become a memory champion” by Claudia
Through the uprights. Thank you very much. Okay, so then the question Hammond, BBC, 29 March 2019, mentions an interesting experiment at
is why...” (A radio science show with three people.) the University of Roehampton that links the past (and memory) to actual
physical backward movement.
♦ “They [the goalposts] have not so much moved as been ripped out and
carried off to another playing field. It is just not acceptable behavior. We ♦ “Do you remember...when Gas was 29 cents a gallon? WE ARE
were told...” (Backbencher Sir Charles Walker, unhappy that the OFFERING YOU A CHANCE TO GO BACK IN TIME AND PURCHASE
government was tightening, not loosening, Coronavirus restrictions for TWO GRAVE SPACES FOR ONLY $600. / Forest lawn memorial Park.
summer 2021, in spite of worldwide vaccination programs. He was
worried about the effect on the travel industry.) past & present / time: direction / movement / place / verb
success & failure: football / sports & games / target go back (and get back)
target: football / sports & games
go back
go around (verb) let’s ~ to where it all began (a podcast)
go around congress get back to basics
the president will try to ~ to get what he wants AJ needs to ~ (Anthony Joshua, the boxer)
avoidance & separation: movement / verb / walking, get back to (fiscal) health
running & jumping we need to ~
go away (verb) get back to journalism
CNN needs to ~
go away
there were some problems that didn’t ~ (physics) get back to a place
the racist abuse did not ~ we need to ~ where individuals can feel free
this is not going to ~ (a boxing controversy) ♦ see also return (and return to)

going away situation: direction / movement / verb

the reasons for migration are not ~ coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction /
I’m right here, in the middle of everything, and I’m not ~ movement / verb
went away gobble up (verb)
the coal and manufacturing jobs ~ (a region)
gobble up (as much) raw data
go away (anytime) soon the NSA wanted to ~ as it could (Edward Snowden)
the controversy over VAR is not going to ~ (sports)
gobbled up land
go away as quickly as possible developers ~ (housing and golf courses)
Republicans want this to ~ (impeachment trial)
gobbled up the market
go away and be forgotten rivals have ~
if we didn’t do this it would just ~ (ice harvesting)
consumption: food & drink / verb
appearance & disappearance: movement / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement / go big (verb)
verb
go big
go back (verb / time) keep the case local, or ~ (murder of child)
they decided to ~ (police / murder of child)
go back in time the intent is to ~ and do it now (a Biden bill)
walking backwards encouraged their mind to ~
we will ~to learn about... (prosecuting a cold case) go big on a national response
I would like to ~ we need to ~ (coronavirus pandemic)

go (too far) back in time go big, or go home

I don’t want to ~, but... (exposition) ~ (a championship soccer game)

going back in time go big or go home

you feel like you’re ~ (a visit to Wrangel Island) ~ (defend yourself against criticism)
♦ “We pressed the big button with rescue helicopters, rescue dogs, the
go (all the way) back to the 1960s Red Cross, the civil defense, fire, health and police.” (A Norwegian,
his alleged attacks ~ (sexual assaults) speaking in Norwegian, about eight homes that were swept into the sea
by a mudslide. His speech was translated by the BBC, which showed the
go back to a romanticized past video of the astonishing event. Amazingly, nobody was injured in the
disaster.)
they want to ~ that never existed
♦ Anne Hathaway: “I’m a sort of all-or-nothing girl.” / David Letterman:
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extent & scope: size / verb play god
commitment & determination: size / verb she tried to ~, and now she is in trouble
go for it (and go for broke, etc.) ♦ “Look on the Tarot card. It says, ‘Call me God.’ Do not release to the
press.” (A phone call to police by the D.C. sniper.)

go for broke control & lack of control: religion

expect the athletes to ~ (Olympics)
god (mountain gods, etc.)
go-for-broke
doing ~ art baseball gods
a skier with a ~ style the ~ are making us pay a little bit (hard-won victory)
a ~ cancer treatment
football gods
go for it the ~ weren't going to let Auburn lose last night
let's ~ (win versus tie / sports) I chalked it up to the ~ testing me a little bit personally
Pulev will ~, he will have a go (box aggressively)
golf gods
go-for-it the ~ have turned against him (a famous golfer)
you need a ~ attitude (ski competition)
he had a ~ mentality (skateboarder) mountain gods
sometimes the ~ say, "Not today" (climbing)
go for the victory Concordia is the throne room of the ~ (Pakistan / Rowell)
he decided to ~ (versus tie / coach)
poker gods
go hard and go early he felt cursed by the ~
the New Zealand response to the pandemic was “~”
river gods
♦ "He had a go-for-it mentality—'Make it, or take me to the hospital.'" (A
skateboarder.)
the ~ are hungry (a rafter)
the ~ were with me (a relieved kayaker)
♦ "I just did it, and just kind of went as big as I could, and threw it all at
the wall knowing the only mistake we could make was not going far
enough. And so we both just went for it... I had turned it up to eleven and
sea-gods
then realized I had to go even higher...” (Elisabeth Moss on performing in and since the ~ had ordained that he should soon become my
Her Smell.) shipmate... (Moby-Dick)
attempt: direction / movement / verb soccer gods
commitment & determination: direction / movement / verb the ~ at times are fair (two judging errors cancel out)
go by (an hour can go by, etc.) weather gods
the ~ had shown an uncanny sense of occasion
goes by the swell was an unexpected gift from the ~ (Jaws)
time ~, no time to cry (Joe Cocker)
the ~ had finally delivered (Eddie Aikau competition)
gone by political gods
which events will still matter after months or years ~
someone has to be sacrificed to the ~ for the greater good
went by golfing gods
an hour ~
the ~ hear that (a golfer’s boast that could jinx him)
the years ~
time: movement / verb
racing Gods
Wow! the ~ have shined down upon Red Bull (Verstappen)
god (play god, etc.)
gift (we have) from the (football) gods
god complex what a ~ today (two excellent NFL playoff games)
the sniper had a ~ (DC sniper)
cursed by the (poker) gods
there’s a little bit of the ~ (CIA does what it wants)
he felt ~
god game ♦ “On the top, on the right-hand side of the trail, stood a small joss-
a ~ called Black and White (computers) house, built of logs. Within was a crude carving illustrating Chinese gods,
and in front of it two wooden boxes with the stamps of paper candles. On
~s, like the SimCity series and Dungeon Keeper the other side were a few leaves of tobacco and a couple of pieces of
sugar, sacrifices to the God of Forests.” (Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.)
god-game (m)
he invented the ~ genre in 1987 with Populous fate, fortune & chance: religion

God gamers god (importance)

~ escape the real world (computer games)
God
“hacking god” Oates was a soldier, his ~ was duty
he described himself as a ~ (imprisoned swatter)

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“Guitar God” godfather of global warming
he is remembered as a ~ (Eddie Van Halen) he is sometimes called "~" (James Hansen of NASA)
guitar god Godfather of electronic voice phenomenon
by then his reputation as a ~ was firmly enshrined the ~ Konstantin Raudive
the astonishing techniques that made Eddie Van Halen a ~
epithet / person / relationship: family
gun god help & assistance: epithet / family
human sacrifices on this altar of the ~ (2nd amendment)
godforsaken
importance & significance: religion
godforsaken battlefields
goddess months or even years on ~ (Korea)
goddess godforsaken hellhole
she is a ~ a~
pop goddess feeling, emotion & effect: religion
a ~, Carly had been in love so many times...
godmother (Godmother of Title IX, etc.)
superlative: religion
‘Godmother of Funk’
godfather (verb) ~ Betty Davis dies aged 77
father and god-father godmother of German punk
he had been imported to ~ the bill (C.P. Ilbert) these days Nina Hagen is considered the ~
help & assistance: family / verb Godmother of Title IX
Bernice Sandler, ‘~’
godfather (Godfather of Soul, etc.)
godmother of Freak / Outsider Folk
Godfather of Clouds Josephine Foster, the ~ (Ann Powers / NPR)
some call him, with good reason, the ~ (Luke Howard)
♦ “Astronomical foremothers. At the Harvard College Observatory,
women studied and curated over 130 years of the night sky, all
godfather of Marvel Comics preserved on glass plate photographs.” (Harvard.edu.)
Lee is considered the ~ (Stan Lee, died age 95)
epithet / person / relationship: family
Godfather of ecstasy help & assistance: family / person
he became known as the ~ (Alexander Shulgin)
godmother (fairy godmother)
Godfather of Freeskiing
the ~, Mike Douglas (New Canadian Air Force) activist fairy godmother
an ~, wise, a benevolent matriarch (Color Me Country)
“godfather of grime”
the rapper Wiley, known as the ~ (“Boasty,” etc.) help & assistance: creature / family / person

“Godfather of Metal” go down (happen)

he has earned the informal title ~ (Ozzy Osbourne)
went down
godfather of (modern) mindfulness what more can you tell us about what ~
the man now considered the ~ (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
occurrence: direction / verb
Godfather of the New Right
they call him the ~ (Richard Viguerie)
go down (digestion)
godfather of black postmodernism gone down well
Ishmael Reed is the ~ (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) his comments haven’t ~ with many in India

Godfather of snowboarding go down (pretty) smoothly

Jake Burton Carpenter, known as the ~, has died... he’s able to make these questionable ideas ~ (the comic
David Chappelle)
Godfather of Soul
consumption: food & drink / verb
the governor proclaimed him the ~ (the great James Brown)
acceptance & rejection: food & drink / verb
Godfather of (modern) surfing
Hawaii and Duke Kahanamoku, the ~
go down (decrease)
godfather of kayak surfing gone down by two-thirds
Randy Phillips, the ~ my income has ~

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increase & decrease: number its reputation has ~ (the CDC)
decline / increase & decrease: direction / prep, adv, adj,
particle / verb
turned into (movie, TV and theater) gold
his books have been ~ (Roald Dahl)
godsend (noun) ♦ “They arrive with gold and depart with pepper.” (An amazed Tamil
trader. From At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson.)
godsend ♦ Gold makes the belagaana crazy. (A Navajo in a Tony Hillerman
OnlyFans was a ~, now it’s kind of a nightmare (porn) novel.)

help & assistance: religion ♦ "It is a well-known fact that gold blinds all and corrupts even the best of
people." (Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni.)
God’s-eye ♦ “With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.”
♦ “With gold I can buy things; with thinking I can understand things.” (A
God’s-eye (crane) shots Turkish proverb.)
swooping, ~ (a film) ♦ “The shroud has no pockets.” (Turkish.)
perception, perspective & point of view: religion / eye ♦ “A miser does not own money; money owns the miser.” (Said in Saudi
Arabia.)
Godzilla (force) ♦ “Better poor with honor than rich with shame.” (A point of pride in
Kosovo.)
Godzilla of news subscriptions ♦ “Friends are better than money.” (If you need money, you can borrow it
The New York Times has become the modern ~ (paywalls) from your friends.)
♦ The 1993 Nike advertisement “Godzilla vs Charles Barkley” is
wonderful. In it, Barkley dunks on Godzilla, sending Godzilla reeling.
worth & lack of worth: mining
Afterwards, we see the backs of Barkley and Godzilla as they walk down
a street. Barkley’s left arm is consolingly draped over Godzilla’s shoulder gold (strike gold)
and Barkley says, “Have you ever thought about wearing shoes?”
struck gold
force: creature / film he finally ~ (won an award)
size: creature
struck (comic) gold
gold (black gold, etc.) they knew they had ~ (idea for film)
white gold success & failure: mining
~, they sometimes called it (guano in the 19th century) searching & discovery: mining
whalers boil the ~ in giant containers (whale blubber)
cotton, also known as “~” (India)
gold digger (person)
these hair extensions are often referred to as “~” (Ukraine) gold digger
camel milk, Kenya’s new ‘~’ a ~ is someone who marries for money, not for love
lithium is now being called “~” (high demand / batteries) she was a small-town girl, a Playboy pinup, and ~
Spain’s ‘~’ super-drink (Horchata)
character & personality: mining / person
black gold person: mining / money
~, or petroleum (oil)
Arabia’s other ~, Khawlani coffee beans (dried black) gold-digging
the “~” epithet has been given to both coal and coffee
gold-digging
blue gold prenuptial agreements protect wealthy from ~ spouses
bulk water shipments could be ~ (to arid countries)
investors have called the metal “~” (cobalt) behavior: mining

gray gold golden (golden opportunity, etc.)

lead was called ~ (1820s / northwestern Illinois) golden opportunity
♦ “This is that ice cold, the Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold, them good that was a ~ for him (overthrown pass by QB / football)
girls...” (Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, and “Uptown Funk.”)
did we miss a ~
epithet: color / materials & substances his media posts destroyed a ~ (admission to Harvard)
worth & lack of worth: epithet / materials & substances / superlative: materials & substances / mining
mining
gold (worth) golden age / era
gold "golden age" of peace
they look on his reign as a ~ (Afghanistan)
speech is silver, silence is ~
worth its weight in gold golden age of quiz shows
the ~ of the 1950s
it's ~
gone from gold to tarnished brass golden age of the detective story

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 the period has been called the ~ (between world wars) gold mine
golden era gold mine of data
the ~ of whaling, from about 1820 to 1860
a ~ about enemy plans
the ~ of boxing was the 80s and 90s
gold mine of (genealogical) data
sport’s Golden Era
a ~ for family researchers (census)
the 1970s, the ~ (US boxing)
growth & development / superlative: history
gold mine of documentation
the prison is a possible ~ (Iraq / US POW)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
golden rule gold mine of information
he is a ~
golden rule the Web is a ~
the ~ in meatpacking plants is "the line never stops"
gold mine of research
message: religion it was a ~ (Lyme disease hotspot)
golden hour gold mine (of data) for researchers
the census is a ~ (genealogy)
golden hour
a clock starts ticking on what is called the ~ goldmine for (Chinese wood) traders
the "~", when life can hang in the balance the vast forests of Eastern Siberia are a ~

"Golden Hour" of injury fossil goldmine

if treatment is available within the first ~ the limestone caves contain a "~" of species

timeliness & lack of timeliness: hour potential gold mine

college graduates are ~s for retailers
Goldilocks (Goldilocks zone, etc.) ♦ "What happens when the mine closes?" (Question relating to the
degradation of the environment by gold mining, and the way gold
Goldilocks approach companies walk away from the cleanup.)
many people believe in a ~ to stress (not too much)
source / worth & lack of worth: mining
Goldilocks candidate
Klobuchar is “the ~” (Democrat contestant) gold rush
Goldilocks civilization dot-com gold rush
it’s a good example of what I call a ~ (Harappans / climate) Wall Street's ~

Goldilocks economy natural-gas gold rush

we are in the middle of a ~ (just right) the country is at the heart of Colorado's ~

Goldilocks place Internet gold rush

trying to find the sweet spot, the ~ is important (medicine) start-ups and the ~

Goldilocks principle marijuana gold rush

finding the middle way forward is called the “~” Oklahoma is the latest frontier in the ~

Goldilocks zone latter-day gold rush

planets in the “~” (not too hot or cold for liquid water) a ~ is on (Arctic oil and gas)
* In the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” Goldilocks was a “green gold rush”
horrid willful privileged naughty little girl who could not control herself,
and the bears were Mama, Papa, and Baby Bear. Goldilocks broke into Oklahoma is in the midst of a ~ (legal marijuana)
the bears’ house. She ate the porridge that was just right, sat on the the dark side of America’s ~ (marijuana)
chair that was just right, and slept on the bed that was just right. When
the bears returned, she fled. new gold rush
* In Krakatoa, Simon Winchester points out that volcanic eruptions are we are experiencing a ~ (renewable energy / California)
often associated with death and disaster and yet in fact they are one of a
number of reasons why the Earth is “just right” for life. The earth is just gold rush, or a curse
the right distance from the sun, allowing for water in liquid form. Its size it’s a ~ for Oklahoma, I don’t know which (legal marijuana)
is just right, too, with just the right gravitational pull to maintain an
atmosphere. It has just the right number of volcanoes of the right size to
create and recycle elements essential “to the making and maintenance
gold rush has attracted
of organic life.” Finally, the volcanic eruptions are often the result of the the ~ a cartoonish array (cryptocurrencies)
movement of great plates, which can’t exist on planets that are too hot or ♦ “In 1849 the harbor of San Francisco was speckled with idle ships from
too cold. which the crews had deserted in a body to go to the gold fields… The
price for washing clothes was so high that the more well-to-do among the
flaws & lack of flaws: allusion miners, gamblers and merchants sent bundles of laundry work to the
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they got back their shirts and socks… With great flourishes the primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
newspapers announced the arrival of each fresh batch of prostitutes,
describing their charms...” (From A New American History by W. E. movement / prep, adv, adj, particle
Woodward.) past & present / time: direction / movement / prep, adv,
activity / amount & effect / cost & benefit / worth & lack of adj, particle
worth: history / mining / money gone (dead)
gold standard (noun) gone
if she gets sick she’s gonna be ~ (an old woman)
“gold standard” of safety he was ~, we did CPR, we got him back (soccer player)
approved by the FDA, which he called the ~ (vaccines)
death & life: euphemism / movement / presence &
gold standard in doing voter research absence
the cellphone number is the ~
good (as noun)
gold standard for pot
it was soon the worldwide ~ (Colombian in the 1980s) feed good
feed hope, feed love, ~ (rescuing food for NYC / donate)
seen as the gold standard
PCR tests are ~ (COVID) wants, needs, hopes & goals: part of speech
superlative: mining / money goodbye (say goodbye, etc.)
Golgotha (Golgotha of Norilisk, etc.) say goodbye to Oakland Arena
Golden State Warriors ~ (basketball)
Golgotha of Norilisk
the hill is referred to as the ~ says goodbye to lectures
Vermont medical school ~
Albanian Golgotha
the Great Retreat (Serbian) is also known as the ~ (WWI) say Sayonara to your skinny jeans
♦ Or Calvary, where Jesus was crucified. is it time to finally ~ (fashion)
death & life: epithet / religion bidding goodbye to polio
Goliath (Bible) Nigeria is on the verge of ~ (2015)
Kissed Dating Goodbye
Goliath I ~ (evangelical purity movement book)
~ is Hillerich & Bradsby (holds 70% of pro bat market)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: exclamation /
a billion-dollar goliath speech / verb
he has conquered ~ (the tech industry)
Good Earth (Pearl Buck)
people versus Goliath
the ~, that’s what this is (day traders vs Wall Street) Good Earth country
strength & weakness: allusion / Bible / religion the Red Basin is ~ (China)
size: allusion / Bible / religion allusion: books & reading
gone (absent) good-hearted
gone good-hearted
you have a house, and then it is ~ a nice kid, polite and ~
gone forever character & personality: heart
his reputation is ~
goods (damaged goods)
possession: movement / prep, adv, adj, particle
presence & absence: movement / prep, adv, adj, particle damaged goods
gone (those days are gone, etc.) I was ~, I wore that badge very early on in my life
character & personality / flaws & lack of flaws / worth &
gone
lack of worth: person
those days are ~
the Ceausescus and Idi Amins and Saddams are ~ go off (verb)
long gone goes off
the days when global decisions were dictated by a small when the president ~ on one of these tweet storms...
group are ~ (Chinese criticism of Group of Seven)
♦ “Well now, Gruden is gone.” (Fired.) feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb

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initiation: explosion / verb complexity: allusion / rope
go on (what’s going on, etc.) action, inaction & delay: allusion / rope
gored
going on with Boeing
what’s ~ (explain situation / news radio) getting gored
occurrence: movement / verb the unicorns are ~ as investors rebel
destruction: animal
go on (verb)
gorge (gorge on)
go on
when you feel you can't ~, I'll come and hold you gorge on graft
life and the economy must ~ (coronavirus pandemic) many members of the ruling party ~ (corruption)
goes on gorge themselves on the tabloids
and so it’s over, and yet it ~ (congressional hearing) the British ~ (scandals, etc.)
heart does go on gorging on the latest crime thriller
near, far, wherever you are, I believe that the ~ (Titanic) sexual violence can be gripping stuff when you are ~
life goes on consumption / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food &
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, ~ (the Beatles) drink / verb
resiliency / starting, going, continuing & ending / survival, gorilla (800-pound gorilla)
persistence & endurance: journeys & trips / movement /
verb 800-pound gorilla
China is the ~ yet it is not in the negotiations
goose (golden goose) race has always been the ~ in this case
Warren’s golden goose 9,000 pound gorilla
Fury is ~ (the boxer and promoter) we as a society refuse to address the ~ in the room (guns)
♦ A lawyer said, “We refuse as a society to address the 9,000-pound
killing the golden goose gorilla in the room.” I supposed the next gorilla will be nine million tons.
they are risking ~ that laid the golden egg (ESL soccer) This is a good example of linguistic supersizing.
♦ “Perhaps, if he will husband his resources, and not kill, with overwork, ♦ In the New Yorker Magazine of 2 / 14, 2011, there is a cartoon by Mick
the mental goose that has given us these golden eggs, he may one day Stevens. It shows the back of an 800-pound gorilla, who is being
rank among the brightest of our wits.” (A favorable review of Mark interviewed by a petite human personnel officer. She is saying to him,
Twain’s first book, The Jumping Frog and Other Stories.) "We already have an eight-hundred-pound gorilla."

cost & benefit: allusion / animal / bird presence & absence: animal
worth & lack of worth: allusion / animal / bird
gospel (preach the gospel, etc.)
goosebumps
preached the gospel of (environmental) activism
gives you goosebumps he ~
it’s the kind of video that ~ (housefire)
preaching a gospel (of rebirth) to everyone
♦ In Western North Carolina many refer to these as chill bumps.
he is ~ (Detroit mayor)
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction
preached the gospel that free trade
Gordian knot they ~ was a rising tide that would lift all boats

Gordian knot of international affairs message: Bible / religion

trying to unravel that ~ go through (endure, etc.)
Gordian knot of race
the ~ continues to choke large portions of our country
go through
separation is a developmental stage that nearly all kids ~
diplomacy’s Gordian knot I don’t want them to ~ what I went through (breast cancer)
how to untie ~ (Israeli-Palestinian issue)
went through a (tough) breakup
untie this Gordian knot he ~ with his girlfriend
let the British people choose how to ~ in a referendum
(Brexit)
going through a divorce
she was ~
♦ An oracle prophesized that whoever untied the intricate knot on the
chariot of King Gordius would rule Asia. Alexander the Great simply went through much (diplomatic) haggling
slashed it apart with his sword. Cutting the Gordian knot means settling a
complex problem with bold, decisive action. the resolution ~ (U.N.)

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going through some trials attention-grabbing flourish
please keep praying for me, as I am ~ he finished with an ~
go through this whole thing attention-grabbing royal
you ~ called life (a person feeling his mortality) she is an ~
go through this again attention-grabbing blaze orange
I'm sorry you have to ~ marking high-voltage parts with ~
going through withdrawal attention, scrutiny & promotion: hand
sports fans are ~ (sports stop during pandemic) fictive possession: hand
♦ see also get through (endure, etc.), been through (endure, etc.) grace (grace period)
survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips /
grace period
movement / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb
they were given a ~ to… (new ordinance)
experience: journeys & trips / movement / verb
go up (increase) elimination of the grace period
the ~ (student loans)
go up time: religion
the number would ~ (coronavirus cases) timeliness & lack of timeliness: religion
gone up by two-thirds grace (fall from grace)
my income has ~
fall from grace
increase & decrease: direction / number / prep, adv, adj,
it was a stunning ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
particle / verb
fell from grace
grab (verb) the democracy icon who ~ (Aung San Suu Kyi)
grabbed headlines decline: direction
the Titanic ~ as the most glamorous luxury liner primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
grab you graced
boxing will ~ and hold you tight (Deontay Wilder)
graced with the talents
grabbed it with both hands the NFL had been ~ of many undrafted players
we gave him the opportunity and he ~ (Jamie Vardy)
cost & benefit: religion
possession / taking & removing: hand / verb
fictive possession: hand / verb grade (failing grade)
grab (land grab, etc.) failing grade
the media deserves a big fat ~ (President Trump)
land grab
countries are involved in an Arctic ~ deserves a failing grade
strategy in Afghanistan ~
power grab
many lawmakers called it a ~ (president’s action) gave the nation’s infrastructure a failing grade
a civil-engineering group ~
possession: hand / part of speech
judgment: school & education
grab (up for grabs) success & failure: school & education
up for grabs graduate (verb)
five belts were ~ (an important boxing match)
my word this is ~ suddenly (exciting boxing match) graduated to crack cocaine
she ~ and forged checks to support her habit
certainty & uncertainty: prep, adv, adj, particle
certainty & uncertainty / possession: hand graduated from alcohol to drugs
he ~
grabbing (attention-grabbing)
growth & development: school & education / verb
attention-grabbing advertisement
~s aimed at the superstitious (muti) grail (holy grail)
attention-grabbing antics Holy Grail
his ~ are grist for the tabloid mill for collectors, this map is the ~ (1734 Murillo Velarde)
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Holy Grail of investors cut against the grain
the ~ (stock-picking system that beats market) it ~ of the typical 80s high-school fare (a film)
I stand for a lot of issues that ~ (Dr. Cornel West)
holy grails of (tropical) medicine
a malaria vaccine is one of the ~ went against the grain
her book has two case studies that ~
“holy grail” of shipwrecks so I really consciously ~ with this record (k.d. lang)
the famed galleon is often called the ~ (San Jose)
unanimity & consensus: tree
holy grail of can you find the very first galaxy sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: tree
there is kind of this ~ of the very first stars (space telescope)
granary (Granary of Mexico, etc.)
Holy Grail for advertisers
word-of-mouth marketing is the ~ (social media) grain bowl
Punjab is India’s “~”
holy grail for collectors
the edition is considered the ~ (a book) granary of the Mediterranean
Greater Greece was a main ~ (Magna Graecia)
holy grail for any professor
tenure is the ~ Granary of Mexico
the Bajio, the traditional ~ (corn, beans, wheat)
holy grail for (flu) researchers
♦ This is the same as breadbasket.
a universal flu vaccine is the ~
wheat: epithet / sign, signal, symbol
industry's "holy grail"
farming & agriculture: epithet / sign, signal, symbol
oral insulin is the pharmaceutical ~
Grand Canyon (Grand Canyon of the
retailer's holy grail
new parents are a ~ (new shopping habits) South, etc.)
I found the holy grail tout the Breaks as the “Grand Canyon of the South”
~ (Garrett McNamara and wave off Nazare, Portugal) local signs ~ (Breaks Interstate Park, U.S.)
♦ This refers to a cup or plate used by Christ at the Last Supper. geography: epithet
♦ “We have grown up in a society that has always pursued the Holy
Grail, the fountain of youth.” (Madeline Di Nonno, president of the Geena granddaddy
Davis Institute on Gender in Media, about ageism, particularly towards
older female actors.) granddaddy of (American) caves
searching & discovery / wants, needs, hopes & goals: this is the ~ (Mammoth Cave)
allusion / Bible / epithet / Middle Ages / religion ‘granddaddy” of the cumulus family
grain (grain of truth) cumulonimbus is the ~ (massive cloud formation)

grain of truth to reports granddaddy of (adventure) races

there is a ~ of what happened Raid Gauloises, the ~

grain of truth in a lie granddaddy of all rehabs

there is often a ~ Hazelden, the ~ (Center City, Minnesota)
♦ A grain of wheat? A grain of sand? Whatever, certainly a small amount. granddaddy of all motorcycle clubs
amount: size the Hells Angels: the ~

grain (against the grain) superlative: family

against the grain

grande dame (old)
she has always won by going ~ (country music) grande dame in podcast years
against-the-grain affinity it is a ~ (debuted in 2016)
her ~ for formal wear (fashion) grande dame of (America’s) public hospitals
“Against The Grain” column Bellevue Hospital, the ~ (David Oshinsky)
his “~” is sarcastic and comic growth & development: death & life / person
against the grain of its time grand slam
it’s an album that goes sharply ~
grand slam
against the grain of what I think it's been a ~ (successful heart treatment)
music that went ~ rock was becoming (music)
success & failure: baseball / sports & games

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grandstanding (noun) ♦ “From time immemorial, it has been said that desert winds carry with
them all kinds of rumor and report—especially stories of scandal and
outrage.” (Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni.)
grandstanding ♦ “They’ve got a gallows-bad reputation, but, you know what a place the
his request is just ~ (for an exhumation) beach is for talking.” / “The beach, if you don’t know is the name of the
this is nothing to do with protecting rights but ~ gossip mill of white derelicts and rough customers that hang around your
South Sea island ports. You’ll find captains and traders too fond of their
performance: theater grog and properly down on their luck. I’ll admit, I was fond of the gin
myself back then...” (The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson.)
granular (adjective) ♦ “You may take it for a fact that anything of this kind is not only noticed
and discussed by a man’s own race but by some hundred and fifty
granular (real time) data natives as well... [T]he news flew, in the usual mysterious fashion, from
mouth to mouth, till Bisesa’s duenna heard of it and told Bisesa.” (The
Amazon used very ~ about listings and sales affecting and horrible “Beyond the Pale” by Rudyard Kipling.)
granular detail ♦ “’You’re sure you’ve took no ‘arm?” cried Mrs. Cloke, who had heard
the news by farm-telegraphy, which is older but swifter than Marconi’s. /
the book lays out in ~ how voter suppression... ‘No. I’m perfectly well,’ Sophie protested.” (“An Habitation Enforced” by
~ down to a GPS coordinate (public health) Rudyard Kipling.)
♦ “Word around the campfire for me was...that there was at least
granular (policy) issues speculation, maybe informed speculation, that...” (A sports analyst.)
his willingness to dive deep into ~ (Pete Buttigieg) ♦ “‘Gossip is a fearful thing’—this phrase was found in the note left by the
film star Ruan Langyu after she took her own life.” (“On ‘Gossip Is a
granular level Fearful Thing’ by Lu Xun, from Jottings under Lamplight, edited by Eileen
she learned about cops at a ~ (became a reserve cop) J. Cheng and Kirk A. Denton.)
♦ He who gossips to you will gossip about you!
granular picture
the documents paint a ~ of the strain on hospitals gossip: plant
(COVID-19) grapple (verb)
granular enough grappling with their aftermath
the FCC data isn’t ~ the US is still ~ (9/11 attacks)
accurate or granular grapples with (deepening) recession
automated systems are not always as ~ (YouTube) the city ~
better and more granular confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: sports & games
~ data about vaccine distribution by age, race, etc. / verb / wrestling
get more granular grasp (comprehend)
respondents have the option to ~ (census form)
grasped (that)
perception, perspective & point of view: size Dallaire quickly ~… (Rwanda genocide)
grapevine (through / over the grasp the concept
grapevine) it is so easy to ~, but… (a puzzle)

through the grapevine grasped the fact

I heard ~ that… within a few months he had ~ that… (a toddler)

over the (international surfer's) grapevine grasp the idea

word traveled quickly ~ (big waves!) they can't yet ~ that… (toddlers)

through the (college) grapevine grasp the importance

word got back to him ~ most toddlers don't yet ~ of…

heard through the grapevine grasp the news

I ~ that… his brother said the family was still trying to ~
♦ Viva voce is Medieval Latin for “with a living mouth.” If you hear grasped the significance
something viva voce it means somebody told you. It has come to mean
“word of mouth.”
minutes later, he ~ of that moment…
♦ Hawaii has the "coconut wireless" or the Coconut Wire. The Philippines grasp the potential and risks
have the Bamboo Telegraph. Ghanaians can hear things via "the talking
drum." From time immemorial, as Ibrahim al-Koni tells us, the desert
they have been among the first to ~…
winds have brought rumors and reports to the Sahrawis: “I heard it on
the wind.” Americans can "hear it through the grapevine," or hear a grasped early
report or account through the rumor mill. Italians say "per sentito dire" he and other technophiles ~ how important…
which basically means, "heard it said," and they hear gossip "voci di
corridoio" which means "hall voice" or "voices in the hall." These systems difficult (for people) to grasp
operate by word-of-mouth, and, nowadays, the Internet.
it's ~ (a physics concept)

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difficult to grasp perception, perspective & point of view: ground, terrain &
it is very ~ our situation… land / height / position

quickly grasped grate (verb)

I ~ what he was trying to do and…
grates on people
comprehension & incomprehension: hand / verb it's something that just ~ (government helps banks)
grasp (in one's grasp) feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / verb

in our grasp grave (symbol)

what was once ~ is now beyond our reach
cradle-to-grave work force
in their grasp the ~ work force
Wolves looked to have victory ~ but...
from the cradle to the grave
within their grasp she gave advice on problems people face ~
with the title ~, Boston seized it (NBA 1984) death & life: sign, signal, symbol
attainment / possession: hand
grave (end point)
grasp (out of one’s grasp)
passed into the grave
out of his grasp what was born from Wounded Knee, and what ~
but success was ~ starting, going, continuing & ending: burial / death & life
attainment / possession: hand grave (place)
grasp (attainment) grave
grasp of (spoken) English wreckage proved the Indian Ocean was its ~ (MH370)
he had a limited ~ (foreign teaching assistant) watery grave
attainment: hand when the sub is raised from its ~

grasp (possession) place: burial / death & life

grasp of reality grave (dig one's grave)

my husband's tenuous ~ slipped away (brain injury) dug their own grave
firm grasp they ~ (a basketball team that failed)
infantry leaders must have a ~ of how to motivate… destruction: burial / death & life / verb
escape its grasp fate, fortune & chance: burial / death & life / verb
he was born into poverty and determined to ~ graveyard (people)
snatched from their grasp graveyard of the Pacific
victory was ~ (athletes) the region is known as the ~ for its winter storms
possession: hand
graveyard of the German paratroopers
grassroots (grassroots level, etc.) Crete was “the ~” (a Pyrrhic victory / W.W. II)

grassroots army graveyard for the Americans

his war chest and ~ make him an unstoppable juggernaut Falluja will be a ~ (Iraq)

grass-roots democracy graveyard spiral

the kind of ~ the Founding Fathers envisioned pilots call this the ~ (flying)

grassroots efforts mariners' graveyard

~ by citizens' groups Cape Horn is a ~

grass roots level known as the graveyard of the Turks

go back home to the ~ Yemen is ~ (maqbarat al-Atrak)

grassroots organizations death & life: epithet

astroturfers present themselves as ~ graveyard (things)
bases: ground, terrain & land
graveyard of (rocket and satellite) debris
the region is a ~ (the South Pacific)

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graveyard of empires understood the gravity
Afghanistan is known as the ~ if clients truly ~ of the risks (climbing Everest)
graveyard of ships substance & lack of substance: atmosphere / weight
the reef is a veritable ~ importance & significance: weight
graveyard for (Antarctica’s greatest) icebergs gravy (noun)
South Georgia is something of a ~
mop up the last bit of the gravy
bell cemeteries they tried to ~ (profiteers)
collection points, known as Glockenfriedhofe, or ~
cost & benefit: food & drink
car graveyard
the ~ is below Lookout Park (St. Joseph, Michigan)
gravy train
ship graveyard gravy train
this ~ is the final destination for luxury liners (Turkey) more people want to get on the ~ than stop it (doctors)
cost & benefit: food & drink / train
veritable graveyard
the reef is a ~ of ships gray (gray area)
watery graveyard gray area around Canelo Alverez
Truk Lagoon is a ~ for hundreds of ships so it’s a very ~ (doping with clenbuterol)
♦ Between 1939 and 1945, 175,000 bells across Europe were taken by
Nazi Germany. They were transported to collection points, known as legal and ethical gray area
Glockenfriedhofe, or bell cemeteries, the biggest of them in Hamburg. a ~ (using drugs for interrogations)
(“The seizing of Europe’s bells” by Stephen J. Thorne, in Legion:
Canada’s Military History Magazine, November 21, 2018.) in a gray area
♦ Cars, crushed flat and stacked on one another, were used to shore up the Web site operates ~ of Russian law (spam)
sections of the riverbank. They can be seen to this day. (On the
Tuckaseegee River upstream of Bryson City, North Carolina.) certainty & uncertainty: color
place: burial / death & life / epithet great (the Great Resignation, etc.)
graveyard (of diplomacy, etc.) ‘Great Resignation’
economists have dubbed it the ~ (workplace / pandemic)
graveyard of bilingual education
if sense prevails, Massachusetts will be seen as the ~ “Great Mining Migration”
the ~ may lead to serious repercussions (bitcoin)
graveyard of (international) diplomacy
Iran has been the ~ importance & significance: epithet
epithet: size
graveyard of (US-led) peace initiatives
it is the ~ (Israelis / Palestinians) Great Gatsby
♦ “It’s a graveyard where all good things go to die.” (Said of the U.S.
Senate.) Korea’s Great Gatsby
he is known as ~ for his lavish lifestyle (Big Bang’s
destruction: burial / death & life Seungri)
gravitate (verb) money: allusion / epithet
gravitated to John Roberts allusion: books & reading
Kavanaugh ~ (two Supreme Court justices) Great Wall of China
gravitated to him “Great Wall of Lagos”
the press ~ (a politician) the ~ reinforces and protects the coast (Nigeria)
gravitate (more) towards digital protection & lack of protection: allusion / history
younger audiences ~ than listening on the car radio
green (green list, etc.)
attraction & repulsion: astronomy / verb
green-list
gravity (noun) people can travel freely to ~ (COVID pandemic)
gravity of the situation sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal,
realizing the ~, he jumped on the grenade symbol
enormous gravity
a crisis of ~ has arisen

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green (green with envy) green light (verb)
green with envy green-lighted the deal
I was ~ he heads one of the agencies that ~ (government)
♦ Green With Envy: Why Keeping Up With the Joneses is Keeping Us in
Debt. (The title of a book.) green-light a film
the one person who can ~
feeling, emotion & effect: color
green-lit the story
green (experience) the New Yorker stood up to the threats and ~
green hand sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal,
Melville shipped as a ~ on the Acushnet (age 21) symbol / verb
greenest medical student green-lighted (and green-lit)
the ~ is able to...
green-lit and budgeted
pretty green the security revamp was ~, but... (Maersk IT failure)
I was 25 when I went into that job, ~ (forensic psychologist)
♦ ”Green as we were, we said okay...”
got green-lighted
his show ~ as a two-hour pilot (TV)
experience: color
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal,
green (environment) symbol
greenspace green shoots
it is a vital ~ for all New Yorkers (Central Park)
green shoots
green steel there are, however, ~ (political science)
a market for expensive “~” ♦ Signs of progress. The phrase has been used in the context of the
investments in ~ economy, political science, sports, and the pandemic. It has a short
there is a demand for ~ (HYBRIT process) Wikipedia entry. Not entered in Merriam-Webster. Entered in the
Cambridge Dictionary. The term is hardly original: see shoot (plant).
green tsunami ♦ “Had there been any so-called green shoots or positives from the
voters turned out for her in a "~" (Marina Silva / Brazil) game...” (Test cricket.)
♦ “Going green is all the rage now.” (Environmental activism by growth & development: farming & agriculture
celebrities, corporations, etc.)
♦ See also greenwashing (noun) greenwash (noun)
biodiversity: color “greenwash” (ad) campaigns
greenhorn (person) ~ make their clothes appear sustainable (fashion)
subterfuge: color / hygiene
greenhorn
the conditions turn veterans into ~s (flying in Alaska) greenwashing (noun)
♦ William Safire examined this word, and dictionary entries for words, in
“On Language; Greenhorn” in The New York Times, June 23, 1991. greenwashing
it’s “~,” minor cosmetic measures (aviation industry)
experience: animal / color / horn / person
person: animal / color greenwashing, spin, and (outright) lying
~ (the aviation industry and the environment)
green light (noun)
accused of greenwashing
green light companies ~ (misleading environmental claims)
a judge has given the ~ to…
subterfuge: color / hygiene
green light to proceed
I was given a ~ greet (verb)
cultural green light greeted the death with relief and elation
we give a ~ to drinking (alcohol / US) Iraqis ~
gave me the green light greeted the announcement
she ~ to do the project applause ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal, greets customers
symbol the dazzlingly lit shop ~ with gunmetal gray shelves

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greet me ♦ This term relates to vehicles caught in a traffic jam.
first to ~ was the smell of hamburgers frying... ♦ "More than 10,000 vehicles are stuck in a 120 km (75-mile) traffic jam
on China's Beijing to Tibet motorway. The gridlocked section of road is in
greeted them the north-eastern region of Inner Mongolia. The majority of the vehicles
stuck in the jam are coal trucks heading for the capital. A 100 km traffic
the squalid labor camps that ~ (Black Okies in California) jam that had lasted nine days on the same motorway was cleared just
over a week ago. The authorities say roadworks are to blame for the
fictive meeting & seeing / welcome: speech / verb latest gridlock. The motorway is among China's busiest, as Beijing's
perception, perspective & point of view: speech / verb population of more than 20 million requires massive quantities of goods."
("Thousands of vehicles stuck in 120 km China traffic jam," BBC, 2
greeted September 2010.)

greeted by an alarming sight obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips

as I prepared to rappel over the lip, I was ~ gridlocked
perception, perspective & point of view: speech
gridlocked
fictive meeting & seeing: speech
climate policy is ~, with no chance of a breakthrough
gremlin (noun) obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
gremlin grill (verb)
~s love to destroy machinery
a ~ lives inside and makes the camera go all kooky grill him on arrangements
a ~ is an elusive and mischievous flaw (computing) she began to ~ for the party
gremlin in the (track) computers grilled (oil industry) executives
a ~ crippled on-track betting members of a House subcommittee ~ (oil spill)
gremlin in the software grills passengers
there appears to be a ~ Israel uses in-flight guards and ~ (terrorism)
gremlin in the system accusation & criticism / coercion & motivation / speech:
there appears to be a ~ cooking / fire / verb
common gremlin grilled
radio-wave interference is a ~ (cellphone buzz)
affliction: creature
grilled by both sides
witnesses were ~ (sports doping)
grenade (person) coercion & motivation / speech: cooking / fire
hand grenade accusation & criticism: cooking / fire
he is a ~ with a loose pin grind (daily grind, etc.)
he’s a ~ who is going to blow everyone up (a lawyer)
grind of the workplace
character & personality / person: explosion
a week's break from the ~
grenade (disruption) daily grind
hand grenade of a story I'm sick of the ~
a woman with a ~ came forward (murder investigation) stealing time away from the ~ (to go climbing)

socialism grenade work & duty: mechanism

when the pin is pulled and the ~ is lobbed (culture wars) difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism

financial grenade grind away (verb)

men in suits concoct ~s with acronyms like C.D.O. grind away
political grenade just put your head down and ~
nominating Biden will be a ~ that explodes ♦ “Get up, get up, you lazy lout / Get into your working clothes! / Toil and
slave the livelong day / With a grindstone to your nose.”
thrown a grenade into the heavyweight landscape
difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism / verb
Andy Ruiz Jr has just ~ (beat Anthony Joshua)
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb
disruption: explosion
grind down (verb)
gridlock (noun)
grinds down opponents with ground strokes
create gridlock he ~ (tennis)
people in the ER for days ~ for new patients
grinding him down

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 the amount of homework was ~ (high school) grip (in the grip)
destruction: direction / mechanism / verb
in the storm's grip
grinder (meat grinder) all Eastern Province cities were ~ (rain, wind, dust)

meat grinder on the Western Front in the grip of a (slow-burning) rebellion

the post trained infantry troops to be sent into the ~ the nation is ~ against the regime

turned into a meat-grinder control & lack of control: hand

the land war had ~ (Russo-Japanese War) fictive possession / possession: hand
♦ “This is a ship of war, and I will grind whatever grist the mill requires in grip (come to grips)
order to fulfill my duty.” (Capt. Jack Aubrey, played by Russell Crowe, in
the film Master and Commander.)
come to grips with the new reality
military: consumption / meat / mechanism unions are trying to ~

grinding (grinding poverty, etc.) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / verb

grinding deflation grip (control)

Spain faces years of ~ grip of terror
grinding poverty Saddam Hussein's ~ is being loosened (war in Iraq)
the region suffers from ~ grip on Iraq
grinding (Big East) season Hussein's three-decade-long ~
it's hard to stay fresh during a ~ (sports) grip on Nasiriyah
grinding (82-game) season US forces tightened their ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
it’s a ~ (NBA) grip on this country
grinding ugliness the king's ~ may be eroding
he experienced the ~ of racism at his high school grip on power
long, grinding (m) his ~ is still firm
we need to end this ~ war his ~ is slipping
until recently, his ~ had been near absolute (a governor)
feeling, emotion & effect: mechanism
difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism government's grip
a sign that the ~ was loosening
grind on (verb)
king's grip
grinds on the ~ on this country may be eroding
as the revolt ~ (Syria)
on the ground, the fighting ~ (warfare) rebels' grip
the ~ is being loosened (Iraq)
grinding on for 8 years
the war has been ~ (Eastern Ukraine) viselike grip
she has a ~ on power
investigations grind on
~ (politics) three-decade-long grip
Hussein's ~ on Iraq
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb
iron grip
grind out (verb) the coup leaders are keeping an ~ on the country
grind out the classics grip (on this country) may be eroding
some musicians are content to ~ (versus new work) the king's ~
creation & transformation: manufacturing / tools & grip (on the company) had been pried loose
technology / verb her ~ finger by finger
grip (verb) grip (on the area) waxed and waned
their ~
grip him
the work began to ~ (Dante’s Divine Comedy) loosened their grip
tradition, ideology, and religion have ~ in the West
control & lack of control: hand / verb
fictive possession / possession: hand / verb retain its grip
the professional military caste will ~ (conscription)

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tightened their grip commitment & determination / survival, persistence &
US forces ~ on Nasiriyah (Operation Iraqi Freedom) endurance: materials & substances
control & lack of control: hand groan (amount)
oppression / possession: hand
groaned with more food
gripped the table ~ than we could possibly eat
gripped by uncertainty groaning with stuff
she was ~ all these shelves that are ~ (runaway consumerism)
totally gripped groaned with scrolls, archives, records and registers
I was not merely interested, but ~ (Lord of the Flies) the shelves ~ (East India House in London)
♦ “As I read on, I found that, reluctantly, I was becoming not merely
interested, but totally gripped... (Charles Monteith at Faber and Faber, groaning under a mountain
reading a manuscript from the “slush pile.” An anonymous reader known Europe is ~ of debt
only as “Polly Perkins” had rejected it as rubbish, dull and pointless. It
would be published as Lord of the Flies.) fictive communication: speech / verb
feeling, emotion & effect / possession: hand amount: weight
fictive possession: hand groom (prepare)
gripping (adjective) groomed victims for his own sexual gratification
gripping account he ~ (a famous singer)
his book is a ~ of high-stakes investigative reporting readiness & preparedness: animal / horse / verb
feeling, emotion & effect / possession: hand ground (area)
fictive possession: hand
grist (grist for the mill, etc.) fertile ground for spammers and hackers
Russia is a ~
grist for their mill area: ground, terrain & land
he has given Democrats a whole lot of ~ (hearings)
ground (feeding ground)
grist for their (propaganda) mill
the leaks will be more ~ feeding ground for the music industry
YouTube is a ~ (sign up popular talent)
grist for historians’ mills
this trip would provide the ~ for centuries to come (Galileo) feeding ground for TV and dire poverty
its marshes were a ~ (the Maremma / Tuscany)
grist for the tabloid mill
his attention-grabbing antics are ~ consumption: animal / predation
grist to the mill ground (fertile ground)
this is ~ of those who dislike the pope (sex abuse)
fertile ground for spammers
sensational grist Russia is a ~ and hackers
the news was ~ for conspiracy theorists and the far right
growth & development: farming & agriculture / ground,
provided the grist terrain & land / plant
the report ~ for a lot of conspiracy theories
♦ Grist is grain that is ground to make flour.
ground (moral high ground, etc.)
♦ “This is a ship of war, and I will grind whatever grist the mill requires in moral high ground
order to fulfill my duty.” (Capt. Jack Aubrey, played by Russell Crowe, in
the film Master and Commander.)
if the US is to keep the ~, we need to…
there is no longer any ~ left to stand on (diplomacy)
content: farming & agriculture / plant / wheat the ~ can be lonely terrain
gossip: farming & agriculture / plant / wheat ♦ “We look for songs that mean something. Higher ground. You know,
everybody know where the higher ground is. It sure ain’t here on earth.
grit (political grit, etc.) It’s above us. So we all want to go to the higher ground.” (Clarence
Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama.)
political grit
candidates will need ~ to defeat the incumbent president character & personality / behavior: direction
♦ “Identifying and Building Grit in Language Learners” by Kelly Keegan, ground (break ground)
English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3.
♦ “Grit of Women” by Jack London is one of the greatest love stories ever break new ground
written. we are trying to ~ in this area (public diplomacy)

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importance & significance / starting, going, continuing & holding her ground
ending: farming & agriculture / ground, terrain & land / she is ~ and not giving in
infrastructure
stand our ground
ground (get off the ground) we must ~ on education and health care (budget cuts)

got off the ground standing their ground

the project died before it ~ other schools are ~ (mask requirements / pandemic)
the task force never ~ stood her ground
growth & development: flying & falling / ground, terrain & she ~ and didn’t let the defense undercut her (trial)
land / plane / verb stood their ground
ground (give ground) the mayor and the police chief both ~ (criticism)
the enemy fighters ~
give-no-ground
dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
the ~ defensiveness... (academia)
animal / ground, terrain & land / verb
gave no ground
he showed no fear and ~ (Pfc. Jesse Buryj / Iraq)
ground (cover ground)
gave (significant) ground covered a lot of ground
Trump ~ (a treaty) his speech ~

resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / ground, terrain & covers a lot of (historical) ground
land / verb the movie ~, from…

ground (gain ground) covers (some of) the same ground

Betts ~ as Nasaw, but his focus is... (2 authors)
gained ground
extent & scope / searching & discovery: ground, terrain &
a number of states ~ in math (educational testing)
land / journeys & trips / verb
gaining ground
the sport is ~ (public in-door ax-throwing) ground (prepare the ground)
the campaign to free them was ~ (Cardiff Three) prepare the ground for a (crucial) referendum
gained ground against government forces the elections will ~ (Sudan)
the rebels ~ preparing the ground for it
gaining ground across France he’s ~ (emergency declaration)
the coronavirus is ~ bases: ground, terrain & land / verb
gaining ground over death and fear readiness & preparedness: ground, terrain & land / verb
life is cautiously ~ (Algeria) ground (hit the ground running)
progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land /
hit the ground running
journeys & trips / movement / verb we ~ and within 36 hours we... (police)
ground (lose ground, etc.) readiness & preparedness: verb / walking, running &
losing ground jumping
climate science is ~ with the public ground (both feet on the ground)
the left is ~ in America (the culture wars)
have both feet on the ground
lost ground she does appear to ~ (a mature girl)
a hope that a secular Algeria is gaining ~
character & personality: ground, terrain & land
reclaimed ground
he ~ for the theater most thought had been abandoned ground (shaky ground, etc.)
progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land / shaky ground
journeys & trips / movement / verb their relationship is on ~
the franchise is on ~ (troubled NBA team)
ground (hold / stand one's ground)
unplowed ground
hold his ground when we got onto ~ (interview)
he elected to ~ to protect his fallen comrade
ground is shifting

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 the ~ ground (middle ground)
flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land
middle ground
equilibrium & stability: ground, terrain & land
there's no ~ with him
ground (firm ground, etc.) people either support or condemn, there's no ~
finding ~ is still elusive (compromise)
comfortable ground
steer the conversation to more ~ division & connection: ground, terrain & land

friendly ground groundbreaking

don’t assume Ireland will be ~ for the pope (sex abuse)
groundbreaking leader
safer ground Wilma Mankiller was a ~ (Cherokee)
then they'd be on ~ (by following procedure)
groundbreaking research
firm ground she has done ~
the show is still struggling to find ~
groundbreaking story
flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land the results of this ~
equilibrium & stability: ground, terrain & land
groundbreaking (gene-therapy) studies
ground (on the ground) the magazine has published many ~

ground conditions importance & significance: farming & agriculture / ground,

~ matter (resources for hospitals, etc. / pandemic) terrain & land

on the ground grounded

he is ~ covering the protests (a foreign correspondent)
the Red Cross and other organizations are ~ (disaster) grounded in science and truth
information ~, analysis rooted in integrity (the Guardian)
from the ground
journalists report the truth ~ grounded personality
his ~ is appreciated by all (boxing champ Josh Taylor)
presence & absence: ground, terrain & land
bases / character & personality: ground, terrain & land
perception, perspective & point of view: ground, terrain &
land / height Groundhog Day (film)
ground (go to ground) Groundhog Day
gone to ground we’ve been here before with Jose, it’s all very ~ (Spurs)
Bolton has ~, refusing interviews (politics) groundhog day cycle
went to ground for a few months they hope to end the ~ (EMTS take care of mentally ill)
he ~ but then resurfaced (wanted by Hague) judicial Groundhog Day
appearance & disappearance / concealment & lack of it was a ~ (a third retrial)
concealment / protection & lack of protection / pursuit, turned into Groundhog Day
capture & escape: animal / fox / ground, terrain & land / Brexit Day has ~ (yet another delay)
hole / hunting / verb
allusion: film
ground (common ground) fantasy & reality: allusion / day / film
repetition: allusion / day / film
common ground (people share) is shrinking
the ~ (journalism and the media) ground rule
find common ground ground rules
they want to bridge the divide and ~ (gun control / suicide) the new post-Cold War ~
new ~ might help
seek common ground ♦ A ground rule modifies a rule to a particular place, pitch or field.
I call upon all of us to ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sports & games
reach common ground with Iran
the US has been unable to ~ groundswell (noun)
concede common ground to his adversaries groundswell of cases
he will not ~ a ~ like hers rippled through Hollywood (MeToo)
division & connection: ground, terrain & land groundswell of hostility

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 there has been a ~ toward outsiders (migrants) medical professionals like him, who are looking to ~
groundswell of support grew very fast
there is not yet a ~ for sweeping change the company ~ (fashion)
groundswell moment growth & development: death & life / farming & agriculture
we're at that ~ (rising demand for antibiotic-free meat) / plant
♦ A groundswell refers to a swell at sea.
grow (grow the economy, etc.)
amount & effect: sea / wave
grown its (podcasting) arm
groundwork (noun) NPR has ~ in recent years to reach a younger audience
groundwork grow its arsenal
laying the ~ for a ceasefire in the Middle East how did Hamas ~ to strike Israel
groundwork for a ceasefire grow our audience
laying the ~ in the Middle East we must ~ and cultivate their financial support (WBUR)
groundwork for his own undoing grow the family business
he had laid the ~ he saw the opportunity to ~
decades of groundwork grow our economy
~ typically precede any real advances (psychiatry) we need to ~
laid the groundwork growing progress
he had ~ for his own undoing see how farmers are ~ in Tanzania (ad for Corteva Agri)
bases: ground, terrain & land growth & development: farming & agriculture / part of
speech / plant / verb
ground zero
growing (increasing)
ground zero for one of history’s greatest tank battles
Hushniya was ~ (the Golan / 1973) growing criticism
his policy is the subject of ~
ground zero in the New Economy
Austin is ~ increase & decrease: plant
ground zero of the (anti-vaccine) movement growing pains
California is ~
growing pains
ground zero for climate change a TV show can have ~, too
Miami is ~
normal growing pains
ground zero for (race-based) street gangs these are ~ for a new-film operation
California is ~
overcame (most of) its growing pains
ground zero for sea-level rise it ~ pretty quickly (a TV series)
Miami is ~
growth & development: death & life
snowboarding's ground zero
Lake Tahoe is ~ growl (verb)
♦ Related phrases are “patient zero” and also “year zero,” as in the growling at each other
following: “Fourteen eighty-five is taken by historians to be one of the
great ‘year zeros’ of history.” (Along with such dates as 1066 and 1789.) ten minutes later, you're both ~

location / place: nuclear energy conflict / speech: animal / sound / verb

effect: explosion / nuclear energy speech: animal / sound / verb
importance & significance: nuclear energy sound: animal / verb

grow (increase) grownup (person)

grew (more than) 700 percent grownup in the room
the number of women in prisons and jails ~ he positioned himself as the ~, the worldly chaperon

increase & decrease: number / plant / verb experience: baby / death & life / person
growth & development: death & life
grow (develop) person: baby

grow in their careers

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growth (cancerous, etc.) the storm ~

cancerous growth totally caught off guard

Jeanette was ~
he refers to the other country as a ~
readiness & preparedness: military
affliction: health & medicine
protection & lack of protection: military
growth & development: health & medicine
grow up (grow up together, etc.) guard (on guard)
grew up together on guard for any signs
we are ~ of infection (doctor)
census-taking and a science of statistics ~
readiness & preparedness: military
growth & development: death & life / verb
protection & lack of protection: military
relationship: death & life / verb
grow up (grow up! etc.) guard (changing of the guard)
grow up changing of the guard
I'm glad to see a ~ (liberal attitudes in sports)
as a nation, we need to ~, to accept this unpleasant reality
(pandemic) changing of the guard on Court Philippe-Chatrier
growth & development: death & life / verb it felt like a ~ (French open 2021)
experience: death & life / verb primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: military
grub (person) dismissal, removal & resignation: military
guard (lower one's guard, etc.)
cowardly grubs
he referred to the online trolls as ~ let our guard down
person: animal / insect Dr. Fauci warned it’s too early to ~ (pandemic)
character & personality / insult: animal / insect / person lowered their guard
grumble (noun) they thought they were in private and ~ (naked photos)
protection & lack of protection: military / verb
grumblings and cross-talk
readiness & preparedness: military / verb
the statement elicited ~ in the chamber (England)
guard (keep one’s guard up)
Draw Grumbles
Spain’s Civil Servants ~, And Envy... keeps her guard up
she ~
elicited grumblings
the statement ~ and cross-talk in the chamber (England) protection & lack of protection: boxing / military / verb
♦ “I think you might start seeing some grumblings on Capitol Hill that this readiness & preparedness: boxing / military / verb
is not the way it’s supposed to be done.” (An ABC reporter.)
♦ “I’m starting to notice some real grumbling.” (Lockdowns.)
guardian (protection)
resistance, opposition & defeat: sound guardian of a (150 year) legacy
speech: sound the Mariinsky Theater is a ~ (ballet and opera)
guard (off guard) guardian of his reputation
she became the ~ after his death (writer)
caught the US off guard
Iran's response ~ protection & lack of protection: military / person

caught off guard guardrail (behavior)

he is ~ (a diplomat / surprising information)
guard rails
residents said they were ~ (by a tornado)
what are the ~ to make sure that technology does no harm
caught off guard by the ferocity Facebook can have harms without adequate ~ in place
scientists were ~ of the eruption moderating individuals provide some equilibrium, some ~
this has been done, so the ~ are there (25th amendment)
caught off-guard (last year) by a (flu vaccine) shortage
many in the US were ~ guardrails
~ to prevent all forms of trafficking (Facebook)
caught me off guard
he ~ guard rails of our democracy
they have been ignoring the ~ (ethics in government)
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guardrail against the (US-Russia nuclear) rivalry guide (verb)
the treaty is a ~ (INF nuclear treaty)
guided him into the gang
guardrails within that media ecosystem
he ~
there are no more ~ (conspiracy theories, misinformation)
guides him
guardrails (at home) to prevent that
Islam ~
there were ~ (bad behavior by a child)
directing / direction: journeys & trips / verb
no guardrails
there are ~, anyone can try to create a new reality (media) guide (person)
few or no guardrails guide
there are ~ to stop it (disinformation on social media) our ~ knows China very well indeed (Reith lecture)
emergency guardrails spiritual guide
these ~, these break-the-glass measures... (Facebook) the cult became her ~
guardrail has come down ♦ “And I, sick with alarm at his new pallor, / cried out, “How can I go this
way when you / who are my strength in doubt turn pale with terror?” /
the ~ (end of INF nuclear treaty between Russia and US) And he: “The pain of these below us here, / drains the color from my face
for pity, / and leaves this pallor you mistake for fear. / Now let us go, for a
guardrails are gone long road awaits us.” (The Inferno, translated by John Ciardi.)
he is in hot water because the ~, he was relying on... ♦ Jon Krakauer’s book, Into Thin Air, confronts us with an important
question: “What do you do when your guide dies?”
have some guardrails up
presidents would ~ to avoid the appearance of impropriety direction: journeys & trips / person
person: direction / journeys & trips
have some guardrails in place relationship: direction / journeys & trips
we, as a board, didn’t ~ (Time’s Up)
guide (nonperson)
put in a bunch of guardrails
we ~ to make it less likely (another financial collapse) used the stars as guides
they ~
♦ “A backstop; a guardrail; trying to keep the President from going
outside the bounds; minimize the damage...” (“John Bolton’s Place in direction: journeys & trips
Ukraine Policy” by Mara Liasson, NPR, Morning Edition, October 25,
2019.) gulf (division)
♦ “Make sure competition doesn’t veer into unintended military conflict;
establish commonsense guardrails; establish some rules of the road...”
gulf
(Commentary about summit between President Biden and Xi Jinping.) psychologically the ~ is even wider (Mitrovica, Kosovo)

♦ “These emergency guardrails, these break-the-glass measures, are gulf of difference

blunt instruments.” (Facebook and its attempts to control fake news, hate human groups often regard each other across the ~
speech, election interference, etc. can also hurt free speech.)
gulf of mistrust
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: boundary / there was a ~ (newspaper and government)
infrastructure
gulf of misunderstanding
guinea pig the ~ is only growing (Saudi-US post-9/11)

guinea pig gulf between the haves and the have-nots

I can understand why I was used as a ~ (hospital) the ~
I convinced my sister to be the ~ (Brazilian bikini wax)
be my ~, and I'll give you a free tattoo gulf between leaders and people
we are being used as ~s (new rules in soccer) antiwar marches reveal ~
he used his own sons as “~s” (sports doping) gulf between rich and poor
pharmaceutical guinea pigs the widening ~
they feel like ~, put on one antidepressant after another gulf between the two
treated as guinea pigs there's a huge ~ (kinds of companies)
Africans should not be ~ (vaccinations) gulf between the two departments
♦ “Be my guinea pig, and I’ll give you a free tattoo.” Is that a good idea? the ~ (police helicopters, firefighters)
♦ “I’m not going to be someone’s guinea pig, we don’t know what’ll
happen to me if I take that stuff.” (The film Words On Bathroom Walls.) gulf in class
the game exposed the ~ between these two clubs (soccer)
experimentation: animal
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 the ~ appears unbridgeable (two academics) timeliness & lack of timeliness: sports & games / verb
widening gulf gun (hold a gun to one’s head, etc.)
the ~ between rich and poor
with a gun to their head
cultural and linguistic gulf the Iranians would never negotiate ~
a ~ has widened between Yoji and his parents (raised in US)
with a gun to her head
gulf has widened famously stubborn, she is unlikely to co-operate ~ (Aung
a cultural and linguistic ~ between Yoji and his parents San Suu Kyi / 2021)
bridge the (cultural, linguistic and political) gulfs holding a gun to the head
telemedicine can ~ the US is ~ of Canada (tariff negotiations)
symbolizes a (wider, more basic) gulf hold a gun to her head
the Moei River ~ between Burma and Thailand I didn’t ~, it was consensual (sex abuse)
division & connection: sea put a gun to your head
they ~ (drug treatment for doctors)
gum up (verb)
coercion & motivation: weapon / verb
gum up the system
his purpose was to ~ (politics) gun (under the gun)
functioning: mechanism / verb under the gun
failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / verb the deadline puts us ~
disruption: mechanism / verb
oppression / fate, fortune & chance: weapon
gumbo (mixture)
gun (criticism)
gumbo of (certain) characters
thrown in is a kind of ~ (The French Dispatch / real people) turn their guns on Bill Barr
I think it laughable to see Democrats ~ (politics)
gumbo of traditions
accusation & criticism: weapon
the music of New Orleans is a ~
artistic and musical gumbo
gun (with guns blazing)
few have concocted such a wild ~ (Van Dyke Parks) with (all) guns blazing
♦ “You know, you put ‘em all together, and it’s like a gumbo, you put the White House will go into that process ~ (impeachment)
everything in the pot, and, in the moment, you just fly, ya know, after you
make your 100th vat of gumbo, you get a feel fur [for] where to place coming with guns blazing
these things, and it’s not really contrived, it just is a spirit in a moment
that you follow...” (“‘Fresh Air’ Favorites: Bandleader Jon Batiste,” I’m not ~, looking for a fight (a tennis reformer)
January 1, 2020. He grew up in Louisiana, near Kenner, internalizing the
Bambara rhythm.) accusation & criticism: weapon

identity & nature / mixture: food & drink gun (stick to one’s guns)
gun (verb) sticking to his guns
he is ~, continuing to deny the allegations against him
gunning for me
why are you ~ (dispute) stuck to their guns
he and his directors ~ (resisted a takeover)
gunning for a mistrial
the defense is ~ stuck to her guns artistically
Joni is someone who’s ~ (the singer Joni Mitchell)
target: verb / weapon
commitment & determination: weapon
gun (big gun)
gun (hired gun)
see big gun (and heavy gun)
hired gun
gun (jump the gun) we are ~s (Scott Sanders / voices for political attack ads)
jump the gun hired-gun
don't ~ before 1968, ~consultants were rare (politics)
so he sits on his ideas, he doesn’t want to ~ (Darwin)
financial hired gun
eagerness & reluctance: sports & games / verb he has worked as a ~ (hedge funds, etc.)
action, inaction & delay: sports & games / verb
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 he ~ to defeat school bond referendums we had a theory called, "~" (rescuing hostages)
♦ “I used to be a warrant officer in the British SAS and now I’m a soldier
of fortune. I’m a hired gun, a mercenary if you like, and I’m the man who
amount & effect / movement: water
was trying keep the other four guys in the car alive on the drive from
Jordan to Baghdad...” (Highway To Hell: Dispatches From A Mercenary gut (destroy)
In Iraq by John Geddes.)
gutted a (historic) building
conflict / help & assistance: person / weapon the huge fire that ~
person: money
gutted the kitchen
gun-shy (adjective) a fire has ~ of a wooden clubhouse at a holiday park
gun shy gut the presidency
some have described him as “~” (a boxer after K.O.) the generals tried to ~ (Egypt)
he didn’t fight like a champion and looked ~ (a boxer)
gut the program
gun-shy about getting married again the Republicans are trying to ~
he may have felt a little ~
gut that protection
gun-shy fighter the proposed rule would ~
he was too negative, he seemed like a ~ (boxing)
gutted the (California) regulation
eagerness & reluctance: weapon the Supreme Court ~ (declared it unconstitutional)
guru (person) destruction: blade / hunting / knife / stomach / verb
adventure guru gut (feeling)
the magnum opus of ~ Ray Jardine
gut feel
computer guru he has a ~ for what the voter thinks (politics)
the N.S.A.'s alienation from the ~s
gut feeling
mind guru I went with my ~
he’s labelled as a ~ (boxing trainer Joby Clayton) he was seized by a ~ of lurking danger
motivational guru range estimation by "~" is subject to error
you may have some ~s that could be terribly wrong
he is not a traditional lacquer-haired ~
style guru gut instinct
I would never again go against my ~s (climber)
Cosmo's ~ Elaine Farley
her ~ told her that he was lying
software guru trust your ~s
a popular ~ named Tim O'Reilly I followed a ~ and chose to run the rapid (kayaker)

relationship and self-esteem guru gut feelings and emotions

~ Phil McGraw neural systems tap into ~
message: person / religion gut feelings and intuitions
knowledge & intelligence: person / religion people are often influenced by ~
person: religion
"cop's gut"
gush (verb) when a ~ tells him to stop someone

gushed about her (Sophia Loren) looks gut told me

People magazine ~ my ~ that she was lying

gush about how does everything from his gut

we’re going to ~ much we appreciate you (podcast) Biden ~ (not disciplined / doesn’t follow script)

gushed about parenthood knew in her gut

he ~ she ~ that her son was dead too

gushed about him feeling, emotion & effect / judgment: stomach

she ~ (praise) analysis, interpretation & explanation: stomach
knowledge & intelligence: stomach
amount & effect / speech: verb / water
Gutenberg
gush (noun)
Gutenberg of the blind
trickle, flow, gush Braille was the ~ (Louis Braille)

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creation & transformation: epithet I’m ~ (missed penalty)
gut out (verb) drained, run down, (mentally) low, gutted
I felt ~ (promoter after an upset boxing loss)
gutted it out
he ~ (Tyson Fury beats Wallin in ring) feeling, emotion & effect: blade / hunting / knife / stomach

courage & lack of courage: stomach / verb gutter (in the gutter / decline)
commitment & determination: stomach / verb
survival, persistence & endurance: stomach / verb
in the gutter
difficulty, easiness & effort: stomach / verb morale is ~

guts (insides) employment gutter

they are left in an “~” due to linguistic impoverishment
guts
decline: direction / infrastructure
someone had tended to its ~, if not its skin (an old rifle)
the ~ no one wants to see, think about (Web hosts) gutter (in the gutter / behavior)
orientation / bases: stomach get (down) in the gutter
guts (courage) I refuse to ~ with him
behavior: direction / height / infrastructure
guts
such bravery, such ~ (the Scottish boxer Luke Campbell) gutter (out of the gutter)
have the guts get your mind out of the gutter
do you ~ to rescind the law (politics) you need to ~ (preoccupation with sex)
showed (lots of) guts behavior: direction / infrastructure
he ~ and plenty of skill too (a boxer)
gutter (end up in the gutter)
took (a lot of) guts
it ~ to do what he did end up in the gutter
♦ No guts, no glory! if you don't do well in school, you'll ~

courage & lack of courage: stomach decline: direction / infrastructure

commitment & determination: stomach gutter (gutter politics, etc.)
gutted (destroyed)
employment gutter
gutted by fire they are left in an “~” due to linguistic impoverishment
body discovered in house ~
gutter politics
gutted by the fire this is ~ of the lowest sort
the landmark building was ~ within a matter of hours this is the dirtiest ~ that I’ve ever seen (a politician)

gutted (by legislators) and abandoned behavior / decline: direction / infrastructure

the proposal was ~ gut-wrenching (adjective)
destruction: blade / knife / hunting / stomach
gut wrenching
gutted (feeling) one scene after another is ~ (a film)

gutted gut-wrenching memoirs

I’m ~, it’s a tough one to swallow (Conor McGregor loss) incredible personal testimony, ~ (the Blitz)

gutted for you gut-wrenching testimony

I am so ~ and your family (terminal diagnosis) he heard ~ of bullying and heartbreaking stories

gutted for the players gut-wrenching visit

I’m ~ (coach on tough soccer loss) Kerry made a ~ to Hiroshima

gutted with the way feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / stomach
we’re ~ things have gone (tough soccer loss) guy (nonhuman)
gutted when
guy
she said she was ~ she heard the news
we’re seeing these ~s all over the place (carpet vipers)
gutted and heartbroken call this ~ Typhoon Seven (Hunt for Red October)

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bad guys he’s a go-out-on-his-shield ~ (the boxer Deontay Wilder)
for years they’ve been the ~ in movies like Jaws (sharks) ♦ “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a
gun.”
big guy ♦ The bad guys; bad actors; bad elements; bad hombres... (Descriptions
he’s a ~, for sure... (a large Colorado bear)_ used by the US president, military, State Department, and members of
Congress.)
fun guys ♦ “We have some bad hombres here and we’re gonna get them out.”
~ known as chanterelles (a coveted wild mushroom)
♦ “He’s a very dangerous hombre with big, big power.” (The boxer Tyson
Fury about Deontay Wilder.)
little guys
all these ~ grow here so well (cherries in Michigan) ♦ He’s just an average Joe.
♦ “I know America loves its bad guys. But I’m a great guy. I just won a
person: object Super Bowl. I’m an American hero.” (The NFL player Antonio Brown, on
being cut from his team.)
guy (character) ♦ “He’s a nice fella... A guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella.” (Of
Mice and Men.)
guy’s guy
♦ see also boy, man (big man, little man, etc.), Mister (and Mr., Missus,
his dad was a ~ (snakeskin boots, Harley, muscle truck) Mrs.)
bad guy character & personality: film / person
~s are bad guys, the Army is the Army, orders are orders
it doesn’t mean the ~s have changed their tune (Baghdad) gymnastic (adjective)
you never know who’s a good guy or a ~
our job is about killing ~s (US in Afghanistan) gymnastic voice
her rich, ~ is center stage (Sabina Sciubba)
dream guy
ability & lack of ability: movement / sports & games
new dating services guarantee a ~
difficulty, easiness & effort: movement / sports & games
good guy
the ~s are gonna win
gymnastics (effort)
you never know who’s a ~ or a bad guy “gymnastics” of the tongue and throat
he was just a ~ with a gun...until he wasn’t the vocal ~ (speech)
great guy genetic gymnastics
I was on a blind date with this ~ these ~ are a big part of why... (the polio virus)
hard guy linguistic gymnastics
he’s a tough guy, he’s a ~ (boxer Chris van Heerden) he performed ~ on the issue in testimony (Bill Clinton)
little guy logistical gymnastics
he isn’t afraid to stand up for the ~ getting surgery patients to the ship required some ~
New Guy mathematical gymnastics
the Hanoi Hilton included Heartbreak Hotel and ~ Village her plan is ~ (politics / paying for healthcare)
Nice Guy mental gymnastics
Parker is the ‘Mr ~’ of boxing (lacks nasty streak) Democrats do this ~ nearly every election cycle
right guy you don’t have to do any ~ to imagine that if...
Urban Meyer might not be the ~ for the team (a coach) verbal gymnastics
tough guy local media use ~ to avoid placing responsibility (police)
he’s a ~, he’s a hard guy (boxer Chris van Heerden) vocal gymnastics
tough-guy I would try to imitate her ~ (Celia Cruz)
he hides behind a ~ posture her guitar playing and ~ are an unstoppable force
difficulty, easiness & effort: sports & games
white guy
letting ~s or non-Indians in ruins the ceremony ability & lack of ability: movement / sports & games

type-A-my-way-or-the-highway guy
he was a ~ H
breed of guys
old, tough guys, they were just a different ~ (Italians) habit (enthusiasm)
kind of guy kayaking habit
he’s known as a hard-charging, take-no-prisoners ~ he works mainly to support his ~
Max is a no-quarter ~ and Lewis... (F1 racing)

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support his (kayaking) habit feeling, emotion & effect: animal / dog / hair / verb
he works mainly to ~ conflict: animal / dog / hair / verb
enthusiasm: addiction haggle (verb)
hack (hack something / endurance) haggle over forming
political factions continue to ~ the new government
hack the pace
Isaac wasn’t sure he could ~ (child actor) position, policy & negotiation: money / verb
survival, persistence & endurance: verb haggling
hack (break into) diplomatic haggling
the resolution went through much ~ (U.N.)
hack the NSA
he managed to ~ position, policy & negotiation: money
protection & lack of protection: blade / verb hagiographic (superlative)
computer: blade / verb
hagiographic movie
hack (fix) Hollywood made a ~ about Young (Mormon leader)
hack behavior / reverence / superlative: religion
tech can optimize, or “~”, any aspect of our lives
hail (in a hail)
amelioration & renewal: blade / verb
computer: blade / verb in a hail of (police) bullets
they died ~
hack (a fix)
in the (initial) hail of fire
hacks for coping ~, 2 soldiers were wounded
~ with extreme heat (heat waves, warming climate)
amount & effect: snow & ice / storm
hacks and tips
interesting beauty ~ found on TikTok
hail (noun)
life hacks hail of criticism
your web site for ~ the ruling drew a ~ from the legal community

tiny hack hail of gunfire

one ~ for better hips the Humvee desperately tried to escape the ~

tips and hacks hails of (machine-gun) fire

turkey ~ on TikTok (Butterball / Thanksgiving) the Allied troops who braved ~ on Normandy’s beaches
~ to make life better (NPR) ♦ “Wholesale devastation of many cereal and fruit crops; apples split in
two with ‘one half left hanging on the tree’; long pieces of bark stripped
♦ Lifehacker offers “tips and tricks for getting more done in less time.” (A off fruit trees; trees ‘absolutely barked’; hedges ‘completely peeled’; trees
website.) left leafless and stripped of bark; fields of cereal crops completely
threshed; 50,000 panes of glass broken in Chipping Norton; leaden
amelioration & renewal: blade window framework battered in; slate roofs and chimney pots destroyed;
help & assistance: blade the piles of hail contacting warmer ground created a mist or steam;
computer: blade continuous thunder and vivid lightning; roads knee-deep in hailstones;
flooding ...” (The Great Hailstorm of 9 August, 1843, in Great Britain.
hacking (fixing) Information from “Severe Hailstorms in the United Kingdom and Ireland:
A Climatological Survey with Recent and Historical Case Studies” by
Jonathan D.C. Webb and Derek M. Elsom.)
body hacking
his ~ did him in (pills, powders, liquids) amount & effect: snow & ice / storm
amelioration & renewal: blade hailed
help & assistance: blade
hailed as a liberal hero
hackles (raise hackles) Humphrey was ~ (politics)
raise some hackles attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound
this will ~
Hail Mary
raised hackles in Switzerland
the proposals have ~ (EU restrictions on firearms) Hail Mary pass
♦ Piloerection is a sign of emotional arousal. In chimpanzees, it will
legal cliffhangers include a ~ in 2009 (Death Row)
cause the hair on their shoulders to stick straight up. At the same time,
chimpanzees might hoot and throw pebbles. Hail Mary (legal) strategy

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 the legal team went for a sort of ~ half-hearted
fate, fortune & chance: football / religion / sports & games
halfhearted
hair (resemblance) I made a ~ effort to learn French
commitment & determination: heart
leaf hair
~s can help identify different kinds of oaks hall (halls of academe, etc.)
root hairs halls of academe
~ (oak tree) plagiarism can result in banishment from the ~
resemblance: hair power: infrastructure / sign, signal, symbol
hair (hair on fire) hallmark
have their hair on fire hallmarks of al-Qaida
centrist Democrats ~ over Sanders (too radical) officials said the attacks bore the ~
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / hair / sensation
hallmark of the administration
hairpin (shape) arrogance has been the ~ (Bush)

hairpin turns hallmarks of a bygone era

fans lined the ~ (Tour de France) quaint ~

shape: direction / hair hallmark of great leaders

Amundsen had the personal magnetism that is the ~
hair-raising
hallmarks of a contract killing
hair-raising glimpse his murder had none of the ~
a~
hallmarks of eating disorders
hair-raising trip one of the ~ is denial (lying about eating habits)
a~
bore the hallmarks
feeling, emotion & effect: hair officials said the attacks ~ of al-Qaida
hair trigger bore (all) the (al Qaeda) hallmarks
the operation ~ of careful planning
hair-trigger situation
he feared a ~ (miscalculation, pre-emptive strike, etc.) carried all the hallmarks
it ~ of the other rapes, the same warning... (a new rape)
hair-trigger temper
♦ Hallmarks were marks on precious metals like silver and gold used to
he had a ~ indicate purity.
he developed a ~ (steroid abuser)
he was an imperious boss with a ~ evidence: mark

initiation: weapon hallowed (adjective)

hair’s breadth (come within a hair’s hallowed ground
breadth, etc.) this memorial wall is ~ for the CIA (137 stars)
hallowed Boston Latin School
within a hair’s-breadth
few seats come open in a given year at the ~
she was ~ of losing her place in the tournament (sports)
hallowed (boxing) venue
came within a hair’s breadth of dying
Madison Square Garden is a ~
she ~ at his hands (grievous bodily harm)
importance & significance / reverence: religion
proximity: breadth / hair
half-baked (adjective) halo (noun)
Obama halo
half-baked idea
8 years of working with Obama gave him the ~ (Biden)
this ~ will pose a threat to Democrats (politics)
flaws & lack of flaws: cooking bestow a halo
the US news media was eager to ~ (Amanda Knox)
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 a little of the shine had now been ~ (a politician) geography: proper name / religion
behavior / reverence / superlative: religion / sign, signal, hammer (blizzards hammered the
symbol Karakoram, etc.)
halt (grind to a halt, etc.) hammer the Deep South
came to a screeching halt three killed as severe weather, tornadoes ~
his wild success ~ hammered the Karakoram
the sports world ~ (coronavirus epidemic) severe blizzards ~ (Gasherbrum IV)
grind to a halt hammers the Philippines
England's workplaces were set to ~ (football fever) super typhoon Mangkhut ~
innovation could gradually ~ (low returns on capital)
without the parts, factories would soon ~ force: storm

grinds to a halt hammer (criticize)

a surface transportation system that ~
hammered the White House team
ground to a halt she ~ (in her memoir / politics)
traffic on the expressway ~
accusation & criticism: force / hammer / speech / verb
France ~ (May 1968)
his career ~ soon after (architect) hammer (hammer of the law, etc.)
screeched to a halt hammer of the law
his career ~ the ~ has to come down on misconduct (social media)
shuddering to a halt the ~ falls down harder on leftist demonstrators
wide swaths of the economy are ~ (virus pandemic) combined arms hammer
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / the ~ that is about to strike him (Saddam)
movement / verb emotional hammer
failure, accident & impairment: mechanism / movement / pandemic’s ~ hits hard (depression, etc.)
verb
legal hammer
hamburger (Hamburger Hill, etc.) the group is bringing a ~ on the right (SPLC)
Hamburger Hill hammer (of the law) falls (down) harder
Hill 937 got its nickname, ~ (Vietnam War) this perception that the ~ on leftist demonstrators
♦ “This is a ship of war, and I will grind whatever grist the mill requires in
order to fulfill my duty.” (Capt. Jack Aubrey, played by Russell Crowe, in brings the hammer down
the film Master and Commander.) corporate America ~ (against conservatives)
military: consumption / epithet / meat bringing a (legal) hammer down
ham-handed the group is ~ on the right (Southern Poverty Law Center)
force: hammer / tools & technology
vague and ham-handed
the legislation is ~ hammered out
oppression: hand hammered out in negotiations
Hamlet (Hamlet on the Hudson, etc.) important deals are ~ (W.T.O.)

Hamlet on the Hudson hammered out between opponents and supporters

in a compromise ~
sometimes labeled ~, Mario Cuomo...
♦ Mario Cuomo, governor of New York, was labeled the Hamlet on the creation & transformation: hammer / manufacturing
Hudson. He got much attention as he debated the pros and cons of
running for president. hammer out (verb)
allusion: books & reading hammered out a compromise
character & personality: allusion / books & reading opponents and supporters ~ (state song)
hammer (Thor's Hammer, etc.) hammered out the trick
after some trial and error they ~ (kayakers)
Thor's Hammer
~ is an unusual rock formation in Bryce Canyon creation & transformation: hammer / manufacturing / verb
proper name: hammer / religion

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hamstrung at the hands of slave owners
the abuse his ancestors suffered ~
hamstrung
the administration is ~ at the hands of a spouse, lover or elative
a woman's risk of death ~
♦ “Every horror that could make war hideous attended this retreat;
distress, conflagration, death in all modes... And the spirit of cruelty death at the hands of the Americans
smote even the brute creation, for the French general, to lessen
incumbrances, ordered beasts of burden to be destroyed, and the a martyr's ~
inhuman fellow charged with the execution hamstrung 500 asses, and
left them to starve. They were found so by the British; and the mute, sad, harm at the hands of other students
deep expression of grief and pain visible in the poor creatures’ looks protect students from ~ (gays)
excited a strange fury in the soldiers—no quarter would have been given
at that time...” (Napier on combat against the French in 1811 on the violence at the hands of his father
Iberian Peninsula. Quoted in British Battles on Land and Sea.)
protect a four-year-old boy from ~
constraint & lack of constraint / functioning: animal /
health & medicine / leg / movement / walking, running &
violence at the hands of an intimate
victims of ~
jumping
violence at the hands of a partner
hand (at hand) patients who are victims of ~
at hand death at the hands of a spouse, lover or relative
success is ~ a woman's risk of ~
perhaps a cure is ~
death at the hands of police officers
close at hand he sought ~
they believe the end of the world is ~
die at the hands of police officers
proximity: hand his plan was to ~ (suicide by cop)
hand (in hand) die at the hands of the IRA
innocent people will ~
well in hand
she has her diabetes ~ died at the hands of an (Illinois) mob
they had things ~ (law enforcement / a school shooting) he ~ (Joseph Smith)
control & lack of control: hand suffer at the hands of other students
hand (on hand) many ~ (transgenders)
suffer at the hands of (unscrupulous) employers
on hand
these immigrants ~
thousands of police and security forces are ~ (festival)
involvement / responsibility: hand
on hand for the ceremony
bishops, archbishops and the papal nuncio were ~ hand (dealt a hand)
on hand to help dealt a difficult hand
she was ~ with translations for the doctor they have been ~
presence & absence: hand ♦ “We play with the cards we’re dealt.”

hand (at the hands) fate, fortune & chance: cards

at his hands
hand (control)
many people suffered ~ (a deposed ruler) in the hands of the Justice Department
at the hands of a mob the case is already ~
it was the eighth killing ~ this year (Peru) in the hands of (a few large) companies
at the hands of an intimate the industry is now consolidated
victims of violence ~ in the hands of the people
at the hands of an (Illinois) mob the power was not ~
he died ~ (Joseph Smith) in the hands of one person
at the hands of police officers the power was ~
he sought death ~ (suicide by cop) in small-town hands
at the hands of police officers a small-town paper ~
his plan was to die in a fire or ~

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in (very) capable hands he feared the machine gun could ~
the department is ~ (police) we don't want the information to ~

in good hands fell into rebel hands

the health of publishing is ~ (readers) the stronghold of Korhogo ~

in great hands fall into the (wrong) hands

I knew she was ~ (assisted climber on Mt. Everest) it could ~

in private hands fell into the wrong hands

the restaurants are ~ if the information ~
if Pakistan's nuclear weapons ~
in the right hands
~, that stage has enormous possibilities (a theater) get the (lost) items into the right hands
Y staffers try to ~
steady hand
he is supposed to be a ~, he’s a veteran (attorney general) get their hands on booze
minors using online ordering to ~
rests in the hands
power and wealth ~ of a small elite get their hands on (classified) information
lawyers can't ~
leave it in the judges' hands
he didn't ~ (boxer knocks out opponent) leave Saudi hands
nor did the whole $55 billion ~
control & lack of control: hand
get weapons out of the hands
hand (raise one’s hand) trying to ~ of local warlords (Afghanistan)
raised its hand right away make their way into the hands
Kosovo ~ (to accept Afghan refugees) treated, the beaver skins ~ of fashion designers
allegiance, support & betrayal: gesture / hand / verb push (Pakistani) society into the hands
hand (possession) ~ of the militants
in the hands of the enemy possession: hand
she didn't want to be left ~ (POW)
how to escape if you are ~
hand (bite the hand that feeds one)
in the hands of US forces and their allies bit the hand that feeds him
in 2 months Afghanistan was ~ he ~ (boxer withdraws without a good reason)

in enemy hands bit the hand that fed him

the ridgetop was still ~ (Afghanistan) he ~ (a troubled NFL athlete running out of chances)
♦ “Not only did they throw you a life preserver, they drove the boat and
in Palestinian hands picked you up!” (Shannon Sharpe, speaking to Skip Bayless about
that would leave the hilltop ~ Antonio Brown, on the sports show “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed.”
“They” refer to Tom Brady, Bruce Arians, and the Miami Dolphins football
team, who hired Antonio Brown after he had been cut from 3 teams.
in Kurdish hands Brown ended up walking off the field in the middle of a game.)
Kirkuk, home of ethnic Turks known as Turkomen, is ~
♦ I place a date in your lips, and you spit the pit in my face! (Arabic.)
in loving hands ♦ “Invite a beggar into your house and he will put his feet up on your
she left the restaurant ~ (died) table!”

changed hands help & assistance: hand

the town has ~ in the past month (rebels vs. government) hand (tie one’s hands, etc.)
leave the hilltop in Palestinian hands tie our hands
that would ~ this will ~ (a trade union)
left in the hands ties judges’ hands
she didn't want to be ~ of the enemy (POW) the bill ~ (vis-à-vis non-dangerous mentally ill)
fall into the hands Biden’s hands were tied
weapons that may ~ of terrorists (NBC, etc.) ~ when he came into office
fallen into the hands their hands were tied
regions that have ~ of the insurgents there was no loss of expertise but their ~ (security)
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the company's hands would be tied oppression: hand / materials & substances
the ~ if… (a court ruling)
hand (dead hand)
free hand
gave him a ~ to go after terrorists dead hand
culture isn’t a ~ blocking all progress (values can shift)
constraint & lack of constraint: hand / rope / verb
“dead hand of the 18th century”
hand (clean and dirty hands, etc.) you can’t freeze the Constitution with the ~
hand dead hand of the past
our ~s are clean (allegations of abuse) military law subjects leaders to the ~ (adultery)
my ~s are clean (I'm not guilty)
dead hand (of Summers) has been lifted
dirty hands now that the ~ (U.S. economic policy)
only ~ can get the job done (counterterrorism)
control & lack of control: death & life / hand
guilt / involvement / responsibility: hand / hygiene
hand (strengthen one’s hand)
hand (bloody hands, etc.)
strengthen our hand
blood on (his) hands this will ~ (politics)
he has ~ (terrorist financier)
power: cards / verb
he has ~ (a politician)
blood on (their) hands hand (rub one’s hands)
we say they have ~ (companies that used slaves) rubbing their hands together over the opportunity
bloody hands they are ~ presented by the vaccine (criminal gangs)
once again the ~ of terror have struck eagerness & reluctance: gesture / hand
has bloody hands hand (fate)
he ~ (a politician)
in the hands of God
guilt / involvement / responsibility: blood / hand
whatever happens, we are ~ (Muslim)
hand (upper hand) in the hands of their deity
upper hand the Samburu believe their fate lies ~, Nkai
crews are finally getting the ~ on the wildfire in the hands of the jury
protestors are starting to gain the ~ (France) the case is ~
Republicans have the ~ inside the legislative arena his fate is ~
it was Peru who had the ~ after the break (soccer)
in God's hands
dominance & submission: direction / hand
I've put the whole thing ~ (woman with brain tumor)
control & lack of control: direction / hand it is all ~ now (fate of a very sick person)
hand (iron hand, etc.) out of our hands
iron hand it's all ~ now (fate)
the country needs an ~ to lead it put the whole thing in God's hands
with an iron hand I've ~ (woman with brain tumor)
I will deal with terrorism ~ (a leader) fate, fortune & chance: hand
with an authoritarian hand hand (have one's hands full)
President Lansana Conté has ruled Guinea ~
have their hands full
with a firm hand they are going to ~ (sports team facing game)
the police will act ~ to avoid any violence (protests)
difficulty, easiness & effort: hand
with a heavy hand
he would run the settlement ~ but by the book hand (help)
with a strong hand hand
he ruled Chile ~ (a dictator) his ~ is extended to all factions (a politician)
ruled (Guinea) with an authoritarian hand hand of welcome
President Lansana Conté has ~ since 1984 extending the ~ to… (a biker convention)

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helping hand confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / verb
she often lends a ~
hand (on the one / other hand)
Helping Hand
~ Program (to pay electric bills) on one hand
~, he wanted to help Kevin…
pair of hands
Mom asked if they could use an extra ~ (volunteer) on the other hand
~, anthropological writings have suggested…
extended a hand ~, the reverse is true for…
the Web-hosting company ~ and brought Parler back online ~, there are just as many people who…
the bathrooms, ~, have made no progress (Russian trains)
lend a hand
can I ~ (help) comparison & contrast: hand
alternatives & choices: hand
join hands
people are willing to work together and ~ to solve the hand (hot hand)
problem
with the hot hand
use a hand finding the teammate ~ (basketball)
I could ~ (I need help)
success & failure: cards / temperature
help & assistance: hand
hand (sit on one’s hands)
hand (get out of hand)
sat on their hands
get out of hand they ~ on the sidelines (politicians)
in the event that hostilities ~
sit on their hands
got out of hand they’re going to ~ and not show up and vote
it ~ (a fight)
action, inaction & delay: hand / movement / verb
gotten out of hand confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand /
British worry that drinking has ~ (lager louts) movement / verb
getting out of hand hand (try one's hand)
this is ~ (proliferation of blogs, etc.)
tried his hand at bricklaying
let her problems get out of hand he ~
she ~ (at school)
attempt: hand / verb
argument got out of hand hand (throw up one's hands)
an ~, and soon Vicente lay dead...
celebrations got out of hand throw up their hands
fan ~ after several college football games... faced with a crisis, leaders simply ~ (fail to act)

hostilities get out of hand threw up his hands at the subpoenas

in the event that ~... he ~ (an overreaching request for information)

matters got out of hand throw up our hands and walk away
then ~, a knife appeared, and Igor wound up... we can’t just ~
action, inaction & delay: gesture / hand / verb
drinking has gotten out of hand
British worry that ~ (lager louts) hand (the right hand vs. the left hand)
restraint & lack of restraint: hand / verb right hand
control & lack of control: hand / verb the ~ didn't know what the left hand was doing
hand (take matters into one's hands) ♦ "The right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing." (Janet
Reno, on FBI counterterrorism prior to 9/11.)
taken matters into their own hand consciousness & awareness: hand
citizens have ~ (New Orleans recovery)
hand (work)
taking matters into their own hands
people are ~ (oil spill) experienced hands
took matters into our own hands the tension has alarmed ~ on both sides (diplomats)
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 Melville shipped as a ~ on the Acushnet (age 21) hand (one hand washes the other)
head, heart, hands and health one hand washes the other
youngsters pledge their ~—hence, 4-H
a favor, a quid pro quo, ~
♦ see also old hand (experience)
social interaction: hand / verb
experience / work & duty: hand
hand (wash one’s hands of something)
hand (worker)
washing my hands of this
short of hands I’m ~, I did all I could...
we're ~ (not enough guards)
wash his hands of the whole affair
work & duty: hand / person / sign, signal, symbol he was by now disgusted, and wanted to ~ (expedition)
person: sign, signal, symbol
wash his hand of controversial calls
hand (all hands on deck) he won’t be able to ~ (Zuckerberg / Facebook / Trump)
all hands on deck confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / starting, going,
it was ~ (response to measles epidemic) continuing & ending: hand / hygiene / verb
it was ~ (law enforcement responds to serial bomber)
these efforts will be ~ (Missing & Murdered Unit) hand (hands off)
all hands (are needed) on deck Hands Off Mueller
~ to protect the public from coronavirus a crowd gathered for a “~” protest (politics)
all-hands-on-deck effort protection & lack of protection: hand
this is absolutely an ~ (US evacuates from Afghanistan)
handcuff (verb)
“all hands on deck” moment
there has to be an ~ from the international community handcuffed themselves with turnovers
the Irish ~ (football)
all-hands-on-deck search
an ~ for him has spread to multiple states (criminal) constraint & lack of constraint: crime / hand / verb

work & duty: boat / hand / person handcuffed

difficulty, easiness & effort: boat / hand / person
commitment & determination: boat / hand / person handcuffed by government
survival, persistence & endurance: boat / hand / person business should not be ~

hand (force someone’s hand) handcuffed by his history

he seems ~ of not…
force his hand
they will try to ~ by holding that over his head handcuffed by (Isner's) big serve
he was ~ (tennis)
coercion & motivation: hand / verb
strategy: hand / verb handcuffed to my desk
I'm ~ most of the day (work)
hand (overplay one’s hand)
feel handcuffed
overplayed his hand they ~ by the rules (military)
then Kerr ~ (Clark Kerr vs. Maria Savio)
constraint & lack of constraint: crime / hand
overplayed that hand
he knew he had ~
hand down / out (punishment, etc.)
overplayed their hand handed down a (5-year) prison term to a man
they ~ (Google versus the EU) a judge ~ convicted of…
♦ In American trials, the judge is almost always front and center on a
failure, accident & impairment / position, policy & raised dais.
negotiation / restraint & lack of restraint: cards / verb
judgment / punishment & recrimination: direction / hand /
hand (play into one’s hands) justice / verb
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: direction / hand /
played (right) into Oleksandr’s hands justice / verb
he ~ (Anthony Joshua / boxing)
handed (given)
social interaction: hand / verb
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 respect is not something ~ (leadership role) handful of studies
bolstered by a ~
handed a (one-year) suspension
he was ~ for his third violation (NFL) handful of (no-frills) airlines
one of a ~
handed a victory
the extremists will have been ~ (failure of peace talks) amount: hand
handed (its first major) setback handicapped
the terrorist group was ~ when…
handicapped by glare, mirages, and haze
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand the defenders are ~ (desert warfare)
handed down / out (punishment, etc.) ability & lack of ability / condition & status / constraint &
lack of constraint / functioning: health & medicine /
handed down for murder
beheading is routinely ~ (Saudi Arabia) movement

handed out in Asia hand in hand (go hand in hand, etc.)

the harsh penalties ~ for trafficking don't deter go hand in hand with fortitude
punishment & recrimination: hand / justice hardship and suffering ~ and courage
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand / justice goes hand in hand with (military) might
judgment: hand / justice information warfare ~
handed down (by ancestors, etc.) go hand in hand
handed down by your ancestors in Africa, where oil and corruption often ~
an heirloom ~ for generations energy conservation and saving money ~
ethics and booze rarely ~ (selling alcohol)
handed down by generations reform and repression ~
a story ~ of Blackfeet rioting and looting often ~
♦ see also down (down through the centuries, etc.)
gone hand in hand
transmission: direction / hand for centuries, the words “Vatican” and “intrigue” have ~
past & present / time: direction / height / history /
mountains & hills / prep, adv, adj, particle
went hand in hand
paperwork and legwork ~ (a job)
handed over (possession) fear and filth ~ (E.B. Sledge in combat on Okinawa)

handed over to the authorities worked hand in hand

she was captured and ~ corrupt doctors and rogue pharmacists ~ (to push opioids)

handed over to the Native Americans division & connection / relationship: hand
the bones should be ~ handle (get a handle on something)
immediately handed over
Russia demanded that the fighters be ~
get a handle on the problem
they tried to ~, but...
possession: hand / pep, adv, adj, particle
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand / prep, adv,
get a handle on this problem
adj, particle how can we ~ (crime)

handful (amount) control & lack of control: hand / verb

handful of areas
handle (deal with)
only a ~ remain outside of the U.N. control handle it on a case-by-case basis
handful of cities airlines ~, without a blanket policy
a ~ have outlawed the sport (cockfighting) handle whatever
handful of items she can ~ the future brings
they could only salvage a ~ (eruption) handle (such) cases
handful of olives it had specialists to ~ (a hospital)
trees hold little more than a ~ (drought and freeze) handle the deluge
handful of (American) soldiers companies couldn't ~ of holiday orders
a ~ jumped off the planes (Ivory Coast) handle disaster

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 flaws in the nation's plans to ~ (New Orleans hurricane) handmaiden to the Russian revolution
Imperial Germany served as a ~ (gave passage to Lenin)
handle it
let the cops ~... person: hand / royalty
help & assistance / relationship: hand / person / royalty
handle the load
the system can barely ~ (airline travel) hand-me-down
handled (most of) the negotiations hand-me-downs
he ~ with the Americans (an Iraqi) they got ~ from the previous year
handle pain hand-me-down Chevy Blazer
a person may ~ well one time and poorly the next time a~
handle stage fright possession / transmission: hand
performers have various ways to ~
handout (noun)
control & lack of control: hand / verb
action, inaction & delay: hand / verb handout
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand / verb it's a hand up, not a ~ (charitable group)
handle (shape) handouts from friends and family
he survives on ~
Big Dipper's handle
the ~ government handout
~s promote discontent and a sense of helplessness
curved handle
the Big Dipper’s ~ small handout
surviving on ~s
shape: hand
looking for handouts
handled old friends came ~ (pro athlete)
handled with (great) care help & assistance: hand / prep, adv, adj, particle
it is a delicate matter that must be ~
hand over (verb)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand
control & lack of control: hand hand over the task (of patrolling) to the Marines
action, inaction & delay: hand the Army will ~
handling handed over control (of the plane) to Zurich
Munich controllers ~
handling of complaints
they are critical of police ~ handed over control to the mayor
the State Legislature has ~ (school system)
handling of the epidemic
questions about the ~ handed the documents over to the Justice Department
we voluntarily ~
handling of the investigation
the Navy's ~ handed over the documents
we ~ (government official)
Navy's handling
the ~ of the investigation possession: hand / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand / prep, adv,
police handling adj, particle / verb
critical of ~ of complaints
handover (noun)
questions about the handling
~ of the epidemic handover of power
standing in the way of a peaceful ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: hand
control & lack of control: hand hand-over ceremony
Macao's ~
handmaiden (help)
minefield handover
handmaiden of the sailor ~ is an extremely important task
it is no wonder that astronomy became the ~ (navigation)
peaceful handover
handmaiden of Saudi victory standing in the way of a ~ of power
Israel was the unlikely ~ (Yemen in 1967)

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possession: hand / prep, adv, adj, particle hand-to-mouth (live hand to mouth, etc.)
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand / prep, adv,
adj, particle hand-to-mouth basis
he had been living on a ~
hands down (certainty)
survival, persistence & endurance: food & drink
hands down
it is one of the best restaurants in the world ~ handwringer (person)
hands-down favorite handwringer
the ~ the ~s who said, "It's not going to work!" (war)
♦ This relates to horse racing, jockeys and reins. It means, "without
question." hand wringers, worriers and whiners
~ (foreign policy)
certainty & uncertainty: horse
character & personality: gesture / hand / person
hands down (easily)
handwringing (noun)
hands down
Green Destiny wins ~ (a computer) handwringing from Democrats
there has been a lot of ~ (but no action)
hands-down
the Europeans would have won ~ hand-wringing and finger-pointing
the battle led to a lot of ~ in Washington (war)
won hands-down
he ~ hand-wringing and the talking
♦ This relates to horse racing, jockeys and reins. It means, "without much
the ~ has done nothing (school shootings in the U.S.)
effort."
criticism and handwringing
difficulty, easiness & effort: horse the ~ is far from over (foreign-policy issue)
handshake (noun) feeling, emotion & effect: hand
action, inaction & delay: hand
electronic “handshake” eagerness & reluctance: hand
MH 370’s final ~ along an arc (southern Indian Ocean)
handwriting (on the wall)
division & connection: hand
handwriting
hands-off the ~ is on the wall
hands off handwriting on this Congressional Wall
though loving, their parenting was ~ social studies advocates can hardly miss the ~
hands-off approach future / time: religion / writing & spelling
continued to take a ~ fate, fortune & chance: Bible / religion / writing & spelling
those with a more ~
government should maintain a ~ to the economy hang (hang somebody out to dry)
a ~ towards the tribal areas (Pervez Musharraf)
hanging him out to dry
hands-off policy Boeing is ~ to deflect blame from others in the company
at times a ~ can be justified (diplomacy) ♦ The meaning is abandonment, and the salient point is that laundry on a
clotheslines is outside and exposed. Of course, nobody actually
avoidance & separation / control & lack of control: hand / abandons their laundry.
prep, adv, adj, particle allegiance, support & betrayal: atmosphere / clothing &
hands-on accessories / verb

hands-on approach hanging (hanging offense)

a~
hanging offense
hands-on individual his mistakes did not constitute a ~
he is a ~ (controlling micromanager)
judgment: justice / violence
hands-on organizer punishment & recrimination: justice / violence
she is a ~ hang in there
avoidance & separation / control & lack of control: hand /
hang in there
prep, adv, adj, particle
some will be less charmed, but ~ (a book review)

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♦ “We need to hang in there just a bit longer, we’re going to get through ♦ David’s painting, “Napoleon Crossing the Alps,” shows a rock with
this, we’re going to get this behind us.” (Dr. Anthony Fauci, encouraging Hannibal’s name inscribed on it.
people to continue wearing masks and socially distancing.)
♦ Hannibal is also associated with his great military victory over the
Romans at the Battle of Cannae, a double envelopment that is still taught
resiliency / survival, persistence & endurance: hand / verb at military schools. However, he failed to follow up on his victory, which
hang on (verb) has become at least one definition of a “Hannibalic victory.”
♦ Hannibal learned of the defeat of his brother’s relief force when the
hang on in office Romans delivered his brother’s head to his camp. Carthage, of course,
would end up being razed to the ground.
Churchill continued to ~
♦ The military man praised as the “American Hannibal” for his heroism in
♦ It looks like we’re in for a wild ride, so hang on. (A Wall Street bear Canada and particularly at the Battle of Saratoga was none other than
market.) Benedict Arnold, who, as the supervisor of West Point, schemed to
deliver that strongpoint on the Hudson to the British. Unlike other
resiliency / survival, persistence & endurance: hand / prep, notorious traitors, he lived out his days in relative peace and prosperity
adv, adj, particle / verb and died in London.

hang on to (verb) military: epithet

hang on to their senate seat

happy (as noun)
democrats are trying to ~ “feed your happy”
possession: hand / verb ~ (Hardee’s Monster Angus Thickburger advertisement)

hangover (relic) find your happy

~, become a member of the Beer Now Family
hangover from evolution ♦ “[You are] idiotic beyond all lexicographic parameters. (Chuckling.)
shoulder, hip and knee pain might be a ~ Your impertinent assumption that I’ve ‘found my happy’ by becoming a
member of the ‘Beer Now Family...’” (The BBC. Ed Reardon’s Week.
hangover from its (mining) past Series 14. You’re cancelled.)
Johannesburg’s mine dumps are a ~ feeling, emotion & effect: part of speech
political hangovers harbinger (noun)
there are still ~ from the past (Northern Ireland)
survival, persistence & endurance: height harbingers of these equity debates
the feminist campaigns were ~
past & present / time: height
♦ As Wilfred Funk writes about this word in his fascinating Word Origins
hangover (alcohol) And Their Romantic Stories, this is “formerly a war word.”

hangover from the last defeat driving force: military

I still have a bit of a ~ (an upset soccer manager) harbor (verb)
$1 billion hangover harbors (Colombian) rebels
Vancouver faces a ~ from its Olympic party Venezuela ~
debt hangover protection & lack of protection: boat / sea / verb
Britons face ~ from festive spending (credit cards)
harbor (safe harbor)
long economic hangover
along with the ~... (2008 financial crisis) safe harbor for those
her workshops and retreats offer a ~ who are…
feeling the hangover
♦ “Hate can be given no safe harbor in America.” (President Biden.)
the bubble has burst, and now we're ~ (economy)
protection & lack of protection: boat / sea
have a (big) hangover
we will ~ (disappointment over Euro 2020 loss) hard (character)
left us with a hangover hard man
the real estate binge has ~ see hard man (character)
feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol hard (love hard, etc.)
Hannibal (American Hannibal, etc.) flipped so hard
Pakistan’s election ~ towards the Bengalis that... (1970)
“American Hannibal”
the sheer audacity won Arnold the title of the ~ (Quebec) loved anything as hard
♦ According to historian John Julius Norwich, Hannibal led 37 elephants I have never ~ and as fast as those dogs (a musher)
over the Alps, and Norwich notes that the Carthaginians must have had
some secret way with elephants, as African elephants are generally love our neighbors harder
considered to be untamable, unlike the Indian elephant. we have work to do to ~ (gun violence / Baltimore)

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♦ “I have never loved anything as hard and as fast as I loved those dogs, he has ~ on power (leader)
as I loved dogsledding itself.” (The remarkable Blair Braverman about
her passion, from “Don’t get dragged! Iditarod musher shares tales from hardened its position
the trail,” NPR, Fresh Air, Nov. 16, 2021.)
Iran has ~
feeling, emotion & effect: part of speech
hardened its rhetoric
hard (feelings, etc.) the government has ~ about the danger

hard feelings increase & decrease: hardness & softness / verb

there shouldn’t be any ~ harden (feelings)
feeling, emotion & effect: hardness & softness / materials
& substances
harden them
some parents bully their kids to ~
hard (hard “no,” etc.)
attitudes have hardened
hard “maybe” ~ on both sides after the death of...
that sounds like a ~ (irony) feeling, emotion & effect: hardness & softness / verb
“hard no” harden (protect)
the player said it was a ~ (refuses to visit White House)
harden schools
hard ‘no’ ways to ~ (school shootings)
for 6 months it was a ~ (no visitors to hospital / COVID)
protection & lack of protection: fortification / hardness &
hard no’s softness / verb
and then what are my ~ (sex and consent)
hardened (battle-hardened, etc.)
“hard no” and a “soft no”
there is a difference between a ~ hardened criminal
♦ “I will say that we would be in a bad spot if we just said hard no, we an official report described him as a ~
can’t change at all. I mean, so where can we find some common
ground?” (Nancy Barnes, NPR’s senior vice president for news, on the jail-hardened
issue of journalists who wish to demonstrate for a cause. From “New
NPR Ethics Policy: It’s OK For Journalists To Demonstrate (Sometimes)”
he was a ~ felon (teen rapist)
by Kelly McBride, NPR, July 29, 2021.)
well trained and battle-hardened
♦ “I’m good, thanks” = no.
the fighters are ~
♦ In the old days, “no” meant no. No longer!
experience / strength & weakness: hardness & softness /
commitment & determination: hardness & softness / materials & substances
materials & substances / speech
hardened (other)
hardball (noun)
hardened to the plight
corporate hardball he has become ~ of the poor
they are playing ~
feeling, emotion & effect: hardness & softness
playing hardball
the MLB is ~ with Georgia (sports and politics) hardheaded (and hard-headed)
they have met their match, the WTA is ~ with them
hardheaded administrator
position, policy & negotiation: baseball / sports & games she was a ~
hard-charging (adjective) character & personality: hardness & softness / head

hard-charging maverick hardhearted (and hard-hearted)

he was a ~ who shook up football (a coach)
hard-hearted
character & personality / force: horse hard-edged, hard-headed, ~ education methodologists
harden (increase) character & personality: heart
heart: hardness & softness
hardened opinion against North Korea
the maritime clash has ~ (Japan) hard man (character)
hardened its policy against the Roma hard man
the government has ~ (France) he is a ~
the legendary “~” (Scotland)
hardened his grip he lives up to the ~ image

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hard men Muslims, Christians and Jews ~
all the ~ want to try it (a tough new climbing route)
worked in harmony
hard men of the IRA we ~ for four months
the ~ (Irish Republican Army)
unanimity & consensus: music
fearless hard men harrowing (adjective)
their brands as ~ (two sponsored rock climbers)
one of the hard men harrowing to watch
Pevenage was ~ (Rudy Pevenage, the Belgian cyclist) it was ~ (stock-market free fall)

hardest of (IRA) hardmen harrowing danger

he was the ~ (Bobby Storey) his heroic actions in the face of ~ (military)

character & personality: hardness & softness / materials & harrowing plunge
a day after a ~ in the stock market
substances
hard-nosed (adjective) harrowing scenes
some of the ~ are hard to watch (film about earthquake)
hard-nosed attorney harrowing tales
he was a very ~
survivors told ~ (plane crash)
hard-nosed defender ♦ A harrow is an agricultural device used to chop up clods of dirt. In the
he's a ~ (soccer) 1949 film Border Incident starring Ricardo Montalban and George
Murphy, the character played by George Murphy, Jack Bearnes, meets
character & personality: hardness & softness / nose his fate under a harrow. His end is, literally and figuratively, harrowing.
♦ Dante, in the Inferno, refers to the harrowing of hell by Christ. This
hard-pressed (adjective) usage of the word is based on the Old English word for “to harry or
despoil.”
hard-pressed
feeling, emotion & effect: farming & agriculture
to say the least we were ~ (no money)
difficulty, easiness & effort / oppression: pressure
Harvard (epithet)
harness (verb) Harvard of American evangelism
Graham graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois, the ~
harness social media to stoke
they ~ their base (young female politicians) Harvard of the Midwest
Truman State University is sometimes called the ~
harness technology to enhance Tony Romo called Eastern Illinois University the ~
~ productivity he referred to Washington University as the “~”
♦ “Now whether you like the nickname or not, the ‘Harvard of the
harness his ability Midwest’ label has stuck with Wash. U. since it first grew beyond a
the club should be able to ~ (a young soccer player) regional university. But like any nickname, the ‘Harvard of the Midwest’
label has probably been used before by other schools. So the only
harness that word-of-mouth question to ask now is how many other schools refer to themselves as
the ‘Harvard of the Midwest.’ The answer? Dozens.” (“So which school is
we ~ (social-media advertising) the real ‘Harvard of the Midwest’?” by Nathan Everly, Student Life (the
independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since
control & lack of control: animal / horse / verb eighteen seventy-eight), December 6, 2006. )
harness (in harness) ♦ “The ‘Harvard of the Midwest’ editorial in The Daily Eastern News on
Sept. 7 was the best editorial the paper has had in quite some time. /
The editorial strongly rebuked Eastern’s administration for proclaiming on
in harness at army headquarters its Web site that the university has been called ‘The Harvard of the
he remained hard at work, ~ (General U.S. Grant) Midwest.’ / As the editorial indicated, the statement is absurd and
ridiculous. The editorial was headlined: ‘The Harvard of untrue boasts.’”
work & duty: animal / horse (“The truth behind ‘The Harvard of the Midwest’” by Allan H. Keith, The
Daily Eastern News, September 12, 2005. The newspaper’s motto is,
harmony (in harmony) ‘Tell The Truth And Don’t Be Afraid.’)
♦ Google “Harvard of the Midwest” and in the “People also search for”
in harmony box you will find links to harvard of the plains; harvard of the south;
all the factions are ~ harvard of the west; and harvard of canada.
♦ “A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.” (Moby Dick by
in harmony with nature Herman Melville.)
we need to live ~
achievement, recognition & praise / knowledge &
in harmony with the ocean intelligence: epithet
for centuries the islanders lived ~
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harvest (data, etc.) creation & transformation: food & drink / verb

harvested the data hat (role)

the company ~ of 90 million unsuspecting Facebook users grammar hat
harvest text and speech with my strict ~ on, I have to say that’s called the irrealis
computer scientists ~ from the Web (machine translation) NPR hat
computer: farming & agriculture / verb I'll speak personally now as opposed to wearing my ~

harvest (verb) institutional hats

he has acquired so many ~ he is now irreplaceable
harvesting useful data
land networks were ~ (weather) three hats
you really have ~ right now (jobs and positions)
harvest grapes
you don't ~ from planting thorns in-charge hat versus the submissive-woman hat
the ~
harvested deer, moose
my family has always ~ (Lake Superior Chippewa) donning his detective hat
after ~, he began to sense the harpsichord was a fake
♦ You don't harvest grapes from planting thorns. (An Arab proverb.)

product: farming & agriculture / verb wears three very important hats
he ~ (cabinet secretary, etc.)
harvest (noun)
wear several hats
war's (chief) harvest I, like other writers, ~ (travel writer, foreign analyst, etc.)
misery is ~
wear so many hats
product: farming & agriculture I ~, from adviser to counsellor to mother (a cheer coach)
harvested put her amateur detective hat on
she ~ and called Jamie (NBC Dateline)
harvested in a decent and humane manner
it's important that whales are ~ take off your editor hat
can I ask you to ~ for a moment and talk as a student
harvested tendon ♦ “You need to put your big-girl pants on and deal with it, pull them up
the ~ looks like a piece of dental floss (from hamstring) and get out there and show them what you got...”

ice was harvested ♦ “It’s time to take your engineer’s hat off and put a managerial hat on.”
(A boss with “go fever” just prior to the Space Shuttle Challenger
~ from lakes and rivers and stored (in the old days) Disaster.)

organs were harvested representation: clothing & accessories / hat

his ~ for donation (high-school athlete) role: clothing & accessories / hat / sign, signal, symbol
product: farming & agriculture hat (old hat)
Harvey Weinstein (epithet) old hat
sundials are ~
Harvey Weinstein of the fashion industry battles over party nominees are ~
the man some call the ~ (Gerald Marie) GMOs are ~, synthetically modified food the new frontier
character & personality: epithet old masters are ~ (art reproductions no longer popular)

hash out (verb) old hat for you

is winning the Kentucky Derby ~
hash out (emerging) clues
they met to ~ (scientists / pandemic) ‘old hat’ Glastonbury festival
he is not keen to play the ~ (Charlie Watts)
hash out a compromise
experience: clothing & accessories / hat
diplomats are trying to ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: clothing &
♦ “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one
being made.” accessories / hat
♦ “We’ll figure out what the sausage looks like when it comes out of the hat (take off one's hat to somebody, etc.)
machine.” (White House press secretary Jen Psaki about a hugely
expensive bill.) hats off
♦ “While the judicial sausage-making may be more discreet on today’s congrats to both and what a fight, ~ (Khan vs. Brook)
Court...” (Dealmaking, alliances, rivalries, leaks, etc. on the Supreme
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 ~ that acted responsibly (Maha Akeel) hatchet man (person)
hats off to Usyk hatchet man
~, what a performance (victory against Anthony Joshua)
he dispatched him as his ~
hat tip your ~ has done a real number on me
big ~ again to the group, so proud of it (a tweet) coercion & motivation: blade / history / person / violence /
hats off and congratulations weapon
~ to Hamilton for writing history today (F1 victory) hate on (something)
take my hat off to you guys
I ~ (admiration and respect) hating on philosophy
why are physicists ~
achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / hat / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: prep, adv, adj, particle
hat (hold on to your hat)
haul (long haul)
hold on to your hat
~, for the first time ever... long haul
it’s a ~, son, it’s a 15-rounder... (timeline for pandemic)
♦ This means a big surprise and may relate to a rollercoaster.

feeling, emotion & effect: gesture / hat / verb / wind

for the long haul
I think we're in it ~ (an intractable bear problem)
hatch (verb) time: burden / distance / movement / weight
hatched the murders haul (verb)
she ~ with two men she'd been sleeping with
hauled him (off) to jail
hatched a (clever) scheme a sheriff's deputy ~
he ~
initiation: bird / verb
hauled him to the station
the police ~ (Mexico)
hatch (escape hatch)
haul tourists
tried-and-tested escape hatch bus-sized Tundra buggies ~ (Churchill / polar bears)
he has his ~ (just asking a question, not accusing) transportation: animal / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: mechanism hauled in (verb)
hatched
hauled in for questioning
plan was hatched he was ~ by the Mabaheth (Saudi Arabia)
a ~…
transportation: animal
initiation: bird
hauled off (verb)
hatchet (bury the hatchet)
bury the hatchet hauled off (again) to prison
let's ~ he was ~
they were unable to ~ and move forward (two teammates) hauled off from her reception to jail
♦ “Hatchets that have been buried can be dug up.” (The Balkans in the the "Bridezilla" was ~
1990s.)
hauled off in handcuffs
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: blade / military /
she was ~ (a "Bridezilla," from her wedding reception)
verb / weapon
transportation: animal
hatchet job (noun)
haunt (verb)
hatchet job on him
the New York Times did a complete ~ haunt me to this day
those images ~… (soldier back from Iraq)
political hatchet job
the “investigation” was a ~ by a rival haunted this city for (four) decades
♦ A hatchet job, a hit job / piece, a drive-by...
closing the door on a crime that has ~

accusation & criticism / conflict / punishment & haunt a community for generations
recrimination: blade / crime / violence / weapon some murder cases ~

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haunted me for a decade he is ~ he was unable to prevent
the things I saw have ~ (Rwanda genocide)
haunted by demons
haunt us forever he was a deeply troubled man, ~ (Timothy Treadwell)
the horror of the final days will ~ (family of hostage)
haunted by (perceived) failures
haunt me the rest of my life he was ~ (a suicide)
it will ~ (comment by murderer)
haunted by nightmares
haunt the Ethiopians she is ~ (veteran of war in Iraq)
such tactics may come back to ~ (torture / rebels)
haunted by evil spirits
haunt New York the Udehé say places like that are ~ (forest)
the mystery of what really happened continues to ~
became haunted
haunts the country Father Desbois ~ by the history of the Nazis in Ukraine
El Salvador's bitter civil war still ~
remain haunted
haunted detectives city residents ~ by the murders
Ms. Beal's murder had long ~ on the case (finally solved)
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: creature
haunt him haunting (adjective)
the day will ~ (Tour de France crash)
haunted him haunting images
during these years, Annapurna always ~ (3 attempts) the ~ of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
~ of starvation (Africa)
haunts every (kayak) instructor
this is the type of accident that ~
haunting memory
the Irish have ~s of the famine
haunted his life the ~s returned (of a murder)
he recounted the racism that ~
haunting premonition
haunted me she awoke with a ~ (mother of soldier who died)
these simple words ~
haunting story
haunting scientists the most ~ in the annals of exploration
these problems had been ~ for years (vaccine)
most haunting
still haunts it is one of the ~ stories in the annals of exploration
the unsolved case ~ him (a detective)
familiar and haunting
case (still) haunts him those ~ notes (24 notes of Taps at funeral)
the unsolved ~ (a detective)
painful and haunting
images haunt me the most ~ story involves SuAnne Big Crow
those ~ to this day (soldier back from Iraq)
feeling, emotion & effect: creature
came back to haunt haven (safety)
his past ~ him (Mike Richards / Jeopardy show)
come back to haunt haven for young people and their families
the school is a ~ (a violent Yorkshire community)
gossip can ~ you
what you do on the computer can ~ (queries) germ haven
continues to haunt airplane toilets have a reputation for being a ~
the mystery of what really happened ~ New York surveillance safe haven
♦ “Be careful about sharing intimate gossip in a party situation—you may Email providers ‘seen as ~’ (Germany)
find it comes back to haunt you...”
safe haven
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: creature / verb
at the nadir of the financial crisis, gold was a ~
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: creature / verb my bedroom is my ~
haunted safe haven for hate
haunted by that day he charged Facebook for providing a ~
she has spent her life ~ safe haven for priests
haunted by a death the archdiocese provided ~ accused of sex abuse

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see gold as safe haven head into this labor-day weekend
investors ~ as we ~
♦ A haven was a harbor.
headed
protection & lack of protection: boat / place / sea there is so much fear about where we are ~ (Covid)
haves (and have-nots, etc.) heading into the winter
now we are ~ (pandemic)
haves and have-nots
the deep divide between the ~ future / time: direction / movement / verb

society: money / person head (orientation)

money / superiority & inferiority: part of speech
head of the bed
hawk (person) the ~ (versus the foot of the bed)

Israeli hawks headwater

many ~ were against the attack (1981) the Yangtze has three ~ streams
person: animal / bird orientation: direction / head
military: sign, signal, symbol head (development)
character & personality / violence: animal / bird / person /
predation heading
hawkish (adjective) no one knows where the region is ~
where is the crisis ~ (racist abuse in soccer)
hawkish stance
his ~ on Iran (an Israeli) headed
we don’t know where this fight is ~ (politics)
character & personality / violence: animal / bird /
direction: journeys & trips / movement / verb
predation
development: direction / movement / verb
hay (make hay, etc.) head (reason)
political hay head
politicians make ~ out of it (pandemic)
people reason mostly from their hearts, not their ~s
make hay from the shooter’s political affiliation calmer heads
idiots try to ~ (a mass shooting)
~ have typically prevailed in our history (politics)
made (political) hay out of it analysis, interpretation & explanation: head
everybody ~, used it for their own purposes (terror event)
head (intelligence)
content: farming & agriculture / plant
haywire (go haywire, etc.) head for planning
they all said that Mrs. Enderby had the best ~
go haywire wiser heads
when things start to ~
~ among the Taliban may well argue for...
decline: farming & agriculture / verb
knowledge & intelligence: head / sign, signal, symbol
failure, accident & impairment: farming & agriculture / verb
haze (perception) head (head of the school, etc.)
head of the school
alcoholic haze he’s the ~
he spent much of the next four decades in an ~
♦ The fish rots from the head. (Organizations.)
perception, perspective & point of view: light & dark
hierarchy: head
consciousness & awareness: light & dark
head (head into the future, etc.) head (go over one's head / hierarchy)
go over their heads
head into November
he tried to ~ (to their supervisor)
as we ~, crunch time (college football)
hierarchy: direction / head / position / verb
head into summer
as we ~, don’t forget... (pandemic)

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head (butt heads) stand head and shoulders
the two ~ above the rest (baseball players)
butted heads
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: height
the mayor and the union have ~ ever since he took office
we ~... (conflict) superiority & inferiority: height

conflict: animal / head / horn / verb head (heads will roll, etc.)
head (scratch one's head) head
his ~ is under the guillotine every season (a coach)
scratching its head
Congress is ~ (over confusing remarks by President) heads rolled
~, careers were ruined (the Tailhook scandal)
scratching our heads
a lot of us are ~, with so many of these questions (a crime) heads will roll
~ if…
scratching their heads
scientists are ~ as to how… calls for his head
scientists are ~ to understand why... there have been ~ (a government official)
♦ Who actually does this? destruction / dismissal, removal & resignation / fate,
comprehension & incomprehension: gesture / head / verb fortune & chance / punishment & recrimination: ax / blade
/ head / neck / violence
head (shake one's head)
head (have one’s head handed to oneself,
shake our heads at the folly etc.)
we like to ~ of those who…
handing them their head
shaking my head and rolling my eyes
I’m boxing these guys, and I’m ~ (young Bobby Czyz)
I’m just ~ (Boeing debacle of 2019-2020)
the shooter is now the victim, I am ~ got my head handed to me
I ~ at that meeting (politician and angry constituents)
leave you shaking your head
the details of this scandal just ~ (college admissions) punishment & recrimination: ax / blade / head / neck /
comprehension & incomprehension: gesture / head / verb violence

head (clear head) head (put a head on a wall)

clear head put my client’s head on his wall
~s are needed (vs. sleep deprivation) he made it his personal goal to ~ (Kyle Rittenhouse case)

consciousness & awareness: head punishment & recrimination / pursuit, capture & escape:
head / hunting
head (keep / lose one’s head)
head (keep one's head down)
keep your head
~ and don’t go crazy keep their heads down
it might be better for them to ~
lose his head
in the closing laps he seemed to ~ (F1 racecar driver) kept their heads down
they see themselves as stoics who’ve ~ (politics)
control & lack of control: head / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: head / verb kept her head down
for her first two terms, she ~, forgoing media appearances
head (head and shoulders above) ♦ “A protruding nail will be hammered down.” (Japan.)

head and shoulders protection & lack of protection: gesture / head / military /
~, he is above everybody else (a skier) verb
head and shoulders above anyone else head (come down on one’s head, etc.)
he is ~ in his ability to lead (a politician)
come down on his head
head and shoulders above most of his colleagues a lot of opprobrium has ~ (whistle-blower)
he is ~ (a politician)
brought down on his head an avalanche
head and shoulders above most of his peers the book has ~ of publicity
for that, he is ~ (a musician)
brought her family's condemnation down on her head

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 her marriage ~ head (get one’s head around something,
brought the establishment down on her head etc.)
her early success ~ (a poet)
get our arms around it
brought disaster down on her head it’s important to try and ~ and figure out... (a report)
her meddling appears to have ~
get their heads around
amount & effect / failure, accident & impairment: head that’s very difficult for people to ~ (murder trial)
head (go over one's head / get my head around it
comprehension) I still can’t ~

went over my head get your head around

what he said just ~ (not understood) there are a lot of twists and turns to ~ (Jesse Smollett case)

comprehension & incomprehension: head / verb get my head around what

I can’t seem to ~ she just said
head (get in over one's head, etc.)
try to get their hands around this
got in over their heads they try to ~ by taking a fresh look at the data (NPR)
they ~ (crime)
wrap our minds around what
involvement / situation: depth / head / verb / water it was hard to ~ had happened
head (turn heads) ♦ “I ask for some privacy at this time to grieve and to wrap my head
around this turn of events.”
turned heads ♦ NPR has given us “get one’s hands around something,” seemingly on
the analogy of a part of the body, or perhaps to “freshen up” a cliche!
her good looks and confidence ~ What’s next?
turned heads in the ballroom and the bar comprehension & incomprehension: head / verb
personalities at the hotel who ~ (Raffles in Singapore)
head (come to a head)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: gesture / head
feeling, emotion & effect: gesture / head came to a head
head (hold something over one’s head) it all ~ in December of 1989 (ACT UP / Catholic Church)
the animosity that surfaced had now ~
hold over his head ♦ This might relate to a pimple or boil and basically means crisis.
we needed to have something to ~ (child murder case)
development: health & medicine
holding that over his head head (keep one's head up)
they will try to force his hand by ~
coercion & motivation: head / verb keep your head up
things are tough, but you've got to ~
fate, fortune & chance: head / verb
head (rear its head, etc.) keep your heads up
I spoke to some players and said ~ (after huge loss)
reared its head resiliency: direction / gesture / head / height / verb
the Ebola virus has ~ again
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / gesture / head /
♦ Ordinarily only something negative raises its head: anti-Semitism, the
Ebola virus, tyranny, etc.
height / verb

appearance & disappearance: head / verb

head (hold one’s head high)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: head / verb hold his head high
head (turn something on its head, etc.) he can ~ (a losing boxer who did well)

flip the investigation on its head holding our heads high

a tragic turn of events would ~ (DC sniper) we are ~, marching forward... (union loses vote)

turn the paradigm on its head head held high

the plan will ~ (homelessness) I leave with my ~ (cricket player retires)
resiliency: direction / gesture / head / height / verb
turned the race on its head
the late downpour ~ (F1 / changed everything) feeling, emotion & effect: direction / gesture / head /
height / verb
disruption: direction / equilibrium & stability / head / verb

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head (hang one’s head) one of our ~s is simply counting the fish (scientist)

hang his head in shame diplomatic headache

she poses a ~ for Britain (a UAE princess)
the video umpire should ~ (a hockey game)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / gesture / head / new headaches
the new system created ~ (Iowa caucus)
height / verb
head (pat on the head) caused headaches
his mercurial personality ~ (an employee)
pat on the head cause headaches for the organisers
I looked at that as a ~ the weather has continued to ~ (Tokyo Olympics)
achievement, recognition & praise: dog / gesture / head affliction: health & medicine
head (Deadhead, etc.) headed
Alamo-head headed
President Lyndon B. Johnson was a huge ~ futurists are asking questions about where we’re ~ (tech)
Chile Head headed for a train wreck
Cherries for ~s (spicy cherries in a hot cold-fruit salad) we are ~ (a politician about budget proposal)
Deadhead headed in the wrong direction
Bill Walton, ~... (the great basketball player) Washington is ~ (politics)
puzzlehead direction: journeys & trips
~s love the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament future: direction / movement
a puzzle-within-a-puzzle, for the diehard ~s (D C-T!)
headhunter
sneakerhead
it’s a masterly satire of ~ fanaticism (HBO’s South Side) headhunter
sneaker enthusiasts, otherwise known as ~s he was recruited by a management ~
for ~s, there is a style for every taste and identity
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
♦ “Chicago sneakerhead store closes after being robbed a 5th time in 2
years,” NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, April 9, 2022. headlong
♦ The Deadheads had managed to turn the North Carolinian stadium
parking lot into a very good replica of a Central Asian or North African headlong retreat
medina / Souq / casbah / caravanserai. Every half hour or so, in the full-
on grip of some mystical possession, a Deadhead with flying dreads
the Americans are in ~
would race up the glacis surrounding the castle like a forlorn hope, scale
the palisade at the top like a Barbary ape, and be arrested by an
haste: horse
oppression of waiting uniformed centurions, while the crowd in the
parking lot cheered and celebrated with much music, dancing, pipe head-on
smoking, and mushroom and cookie nibbling. I can’t say I didn’t imbibe...
(Phil Lesh and Friends.) confront these things head-on
♦ A GOOD JOKE. Question: What did the Deadhead say when the drugs we must ~
wore of? Answer: This music sucks! ♦ “Should we avoid the controversy or should we dive right into it? I say
of course we dive right into it, we confront this thing head on.” (Adrian
enthusiasm: affix / person Lamo and “Informants: villains or heroes?”)
headache (noun) conflict: animal / crashes & collisions / head / horn
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: animal /
headache crashes & collisions / head / horn
the decision is one in a series of ~s for… (a company)
head-scratching
headache for the administration
this will be a ~ (oil spill) head-scratching comments
he has made some ~
headaches (continued to mount) for the (German) Pope
the ~ (Pope Benedict) comprehension & incomprehension: gesture / head

foreign-policy headache head-spinning

Israeli-Palestinian conflict gives Biden a ~
head-spinning
transportation headache the explanations have been ~
the daily ~s faced by many
head spinning week
biggest headache it’s been a ~ in Australian politics

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♦ “Once again, a tweet sends the head spinning.” obstacles & impedance / progress & lack of progress:
♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping, atmosphere / boat / plane / wind
head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill
Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first heal (verb)
time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday, heal itself
April 13, 2020.)
remove dams and let nature ~
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / head
heal all those problems
head start Prince Salman is the doctor to ~ in Saudi Arabia

head start on the assignment healed the rift

I want to get a ~ the years have not ~ between Shipa and her family

timeliness & lack of timeliness: head / horse / journeys & heal (old racial) wounds
trips / movement help ~

heads-up (warning) heal (old) wounds

the project will ~ (slavery)
heads-up
you should have given us a ~ (warning) heal the wounds
a ceremony of reconciliation meant to ~ left by the War
warning: direction / head
heal the housing market
head-to-head we need to write down mortgages to ~
head-to-head confrontation heal and renew
~ versus guerrilla war (US in Iraq) the water has power to ~ (Medicine Lake)
head-to-head match never healed
China beats Russia in ~ (chess) the rift between his mother and father ~ (divorced)
Nadal leads their ~s by 14-7 (tennis)
time to heal
went head to head with the conservatives it's going to take ~ (emotionally)
the liberals ~ over the issue ♦ "A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not." (A Turkish
proverb.)
went head to head over the issue
they ~ of… amelioration & renewal / reconciliation, resolution &
conclusion / starting, going, continuing & ending: health &
take on Romney head-to-head medicine / verb
Santorum will ~ (nomination process)
conflict: animal / crashes & collisions / head / horn
health (in good health / in bad health)
headway (noun) in good health
everybody is hoping the lander is ~ (India space mission)
making any headway engineers report Perseverance to be ~ (on Mars)
we're not ~ at all (poor economy) condition & status: health & medicine
progress & lack of progress: boat / journeys & trips /
health (condition)
movement
headwind (noun) health of the (global) economy
what his trade policies could do to the ~ (G7)
headwind on the economy health of the planet
this is the biggest ~ (poor housing market / Obama) what his stance on climate change could mean to the ~
headwind to rebuilding health of publishing
communication missteps have created a massive ~ trust the ~ is in good hands (readers)
political headwinds health of a (free) society
Democrats know the ~ are not in their favor (elections) good journalism is essential to the ~
social and economic headwinds health and wellness
shielding the town from the larger ~ buffeting small towns those pumps were so critical to the ~ of the experiment
overcome these headwinds industry's health
he should be able to ~ (Tim Cook of Apple) absorption, an indicator of the ~ (apartment market)
force: atmosphere / boat / plane / wind

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economic and cultural health heart (allegiance)
problems that threaten the ~ (reindeer people)
way to (anyone's) heart
intellectual health
the quickest ~ is with an MCL gift card (ad)
the ~ of publishing is in good hands (readers)
after my own heart
threaten the environmental health
he’s a man ~
problems that ~ (reindeer people)
captured the hearts
get back to (fiscal) health
he has ~ and minds of Americans (Olympic athlete)
we need to ~
condition & status: health & medicine captured my heart
the first time I saw him, he ~ (an orphan)
healthy (condition)
give my heart
healthy I'm going to be very cautious who I ~ to
10 percent thought conditions were ~ (economy)
invest my heart in someone
corporate profits are ~
I can't ~ who might not stick around
the spacecraft is ~ and we’re excited (New Horizons)
win the hearts
healthy economy
we can ~ and minds of people (AID official)
his government's failure to build a ~
won our hearts
healthy (space) exploration
he has ~ (Oleksandr Usyk becomes champion)
I think it’s all ~ (privatization)
pledge their head, heart, hands and health
remains healthy
youngsters ~—hence, 4-H— to such goals as… (4-H)
NASA will extend the mission if the hardware ~ (Mars)
allegiance, support & betrayal: heart
condition & status: health & medicine
healthy (strength) heart (hearts and minds)
see hearts and minds
healthy fear
a ~ is the best defense (of scorpions / desert warfare) heart (heart and soul)
healthy skepticism see heart and soul
in science, a ~ is a professional necessity
heart (basis)
strength & weakness: health & medicine
heart of cycling
heap (verb) France, the ~ (Tour de France, etc.)
heap abuse (even) on the home team heart of courtesy
Philly fans ~ the ~ is respect for persons
heaped contempt on her (hated) rival heart of the (US) economy
she ~ (a politician) small businesses have become the beating ~
heaped invective upon whites heart of the fair
the hate group ~ they saw (at the National Mall) the ~ is the 4-H livestock show (US)
heaped praise on him and his work heart of jazz
officials have ~ (police commander) improvisation is the ~
amount & effect: pile / verb heart and soul
throwing, putting & planting: pile / verb (see heart and soul)
heaped envy at its heart
much anti-Americanism has ~
heaped on him
honors and diplomatic missions were ~ (Wellington) at the heart of the argument
~ is the claim that…
heaped on the protagonist
the preposterous excess of humiliation and suffering ~ at the heart of the debate
amount & effect: pile ~ lies the question…
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 Kandahar is again ~ (war) a lot of heart
anybody else would have quit, he's got ~ ( a boxer)
lies at the heart
a failure of political will ~ of the problem (polio) no heart
he had ~ (fighter who quit)
get to the heart
we need to ~ of the matter so much heart
the cut was serious but he warriored on, ~ (Tyson Fury)
goes to the heart
this argument ~ of the issue close to people's hearts
issues that are ~
bases: heart
heart (young at heart, etc.) heart is set on revenge
her ~
at heart heart had gone out of the game
~ he's an optimist I think me ~ (a Yorkshire boxer)
Bedouin at heart follow your heart
Sheikh Zayed remained a ~ (Abu Dhabi / UAE) ~ and dare to take risks
young at heart lost heart
she remains ~ many people have ~ (problems, obstacles)
wild at heart showed (real) heart
the play is a hymn to the ~ he ~ (a boxer)
character & personality: heart
fought his heart out
identity & nature: heart he ~ every fight (the great Arturo Gatti)
heart (identity)
sang her heart out
in your heart she ~
if you're born here it's ~ (a festival in Ivrea, Italy) fight with their hearts
♦ Home is where the heart is! they ~ more than their heads… (two boxers)
identity & nature: heart fights with his heart on his sleeve
heart (commitment) he always ~ (boxer Johnnie Tapia)

heart leave your heart on the floor

she said her ~ was now set on revenge (a Palestinian) ~ (a basketball player, exhorting his teammates)

heart of a champion left his heart in the ring

she has the ~ (coach speaking of child gymnast) he ~ every time he fought (the great "Thunder" Gatti)

heart of a (true) champion put her heart into it

he showed the ~ (boxer / title bout) she really ~ (an art project)

heart of a (true) warrior poured our hearts into the movement

battered and bloodied, but showing the ~ (boxing) for over 20 years we've ~ (social justice)

heart and intuition played with (unquestioned) heart

have the courage to follow your ~ (Steve Jobs) he ~ and leadership (dead quarterback)

heart and soul fights with (a lot of) heart

see heart and soul he ~ and determination

heart and stomach took the (hate) message to heart

his ~ for boxing are no longer there they ~ (Hispanic gang vs. blacks)
commitment & determination: heart
fighting heart
the American soldier still has the ~ and will to win heart (beating heart)
fighter’s heart beating heart of this book
he showed a true ~ (boxing) the three protagonists are the ~ (Boer War)
lion's heart beating heart of her work
I have a ~ (winning boxer after hard match) nature as a springboard to the sacred is the ~ (a poet)

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bases: heart the main purpose is to ~ (government vs. a province)
heart (eagerness and reluctance) lies in the heart
who really know what ~ of another
for the faint of heart
it's not ~ (a horror film) poured his heart (and soul) into the game
combat is not ~ he ~ (Larry Bird / basketball)
♦ see also heart (commitment) put fear in your heart
eagerness & reluctance: heart my granddaddy said don't ever let no one ~ (authority)

heart (half-hearted, etc.) put (some) hate in your heart

~ (Dhahran Scud kills 28 / Highway of Death)
with all her heart ♦ "The Hopi believe that when they die, they bring snow and moisture
she loved him ~ back to the people. So the snow is fitting." (Vanessa Charles,
commenting on the death of Lori Piestewa, killed in action in Iraq, and a
halfhearted rare April snowfall.)
I made a ~ effort to learn French heart: container
half-hearted performances heart (empathy)
boxers content to turn in uninspiring, ~
amount: heart
heart of flint
she was an elderly female with a ~
heart (container) hearts of stone
in Russian hearts those State Department bureaucrats have ~
it occupies a special place ~ (the film Irony of Fate) heart goes out to him
in our hearts your ~ (drowned child)
he’s ~, and we’re in his (friend of missing boy) hearts go out to the families
in your heart our ~ (mass shooting)
if you're born here it's ~ (Battle of Oranges, Ivrea, Italy) hearts go out to him
in the heart of another our ~ and all the other healthcare workers (pandemic)
who really knows what lies ~ marshmallow heart
goodness in their hearts she has a tough exterior, but she’s got a ~
the justness of their cause, the ~ (military) kind heart
hatred in the hearts she has a ~
this statement fuels the ~ of all the Arabs open heart
hole in my heart she has the most ~ (open to all)
it left a huge ~ (loss of a baby) bless your heart
joy in their hearts well, ~
they watched with ~ (Manger Square / Bethlehem) have a heart
heart had closed up please, ~
after his beloved married another man, Bulu’s ~ show some heart
hearts are filled with joy why can’t you ~
our ~ that she is safe (missing woman found) touch (American) hearts
hearts are opening up suffering Afghan children ~
~ through volunteering, donating, and sharing ♦ “They wouldn’t give a crippled crab a crutch if they owned a lumber
yard.” (John Artis on the Patterson, New Jersey police and the justice
fills my heart with joy and laughter system in the 1960s and 70s.)
she ~ empathy & lack of empathy: heart
find room in my heart heart (a broken heart, etc.)
I tried to ~ for him, but I couldn't
broken heart
hold her in our hearts you can overcome a ~
we're going to ~ (Lori Piestewa)
broke my heart
instill fear into people's hearts it ~ to see...

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breaks my heart heart (heart of stone, etc.)
it ~ to see these kids (politician / injured soldiers)
heart of flint
unbreak my heart she was an elderly female with a ~
~, say you love me again (Toni Braxton)
heart of gold
heart: functioning / mechanism
he had a ~ (tribute for soldier killed in combat)
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart / mechanism
heart (center) Hearts of Oak
the British have ~
in the heart of North-West Frontier Province hearts of stone
Buner (boo-NAIR) lies ~ (Pakistan) those State Department bureaucrats have ~
in the heart of peanut country marshmallow heart
Albany lies ~ (Georgia) she has a tough exterior, but she’s got a ~
in the heart of the (fall foliage) season heart: materials & substances
we are ~
heart (heart sank)
heart of the city
just north of the ~ heart sank
the Pul-i-Imam Bukhri bridge leading into the ~ my ~… (news of murder of boy)
heart of (California's wine) country heart (just) sank
the ~ (earthquake) when I heard those words, my ~ (loss of brother)
heart of the desert feeling, emotion & effect: direction / heart
invaders were never able to penetrate the ~ (Saudi) heart: direction
heart of the forest heart (heavy heart)
the Cuiabá-Santarém road, which slices through the ~
heavy heart
heart of Tanzania we definitely have some ~s here (athlete injured)
the Wagogo Plains, the wild ~
with a heavy heart
commercial heart ~, he headed down the mountain
Casablanca, a port city and the ~ of Morocco it is ~ that I…
industrial heart with heavy hearts
Manchester, the ~ of the British Empire we left ~ and broken spirits
lies in the heart with the heaviest of hearts
Buner (boo-NAIR) ~ of North-West Frontier Province it is ~ that I have to tell you of the passing of our friend...
sits in the heart with a particularly heavy heart
Albany ~ of peanut country (Georgia) he has concluded, ~, that... (commissioner of enquiry)
penetrate the heart left with heavy hearts
invaders were never able to ~ of the desert (Saudi) we ~ and broken spirits
heart, the mecca feeling, emotion & effect: heart / weight
the Strip was the ~, where you went (Summer of Love) heart: weight
center & periphery: heart heart (change of heart)
heart (goal) change of heart
industry must undergo a ~ (exploitation vs. conservation)
heart was (now) set on revenge he went public with his ~ in an opinion piece (politics)
she said her ~ (Middle East) a ~ is a good legal strategy (terrorist cooperates)
set his heart on St. Joseph's Academy change of government, ~ (diplomacy)
he ~ (desired to attend it) belated change of heart
follow his heart well, why the ~
he decided to ~ (accept a job in different city) undergo a change of heart
wants, needs, hopes & goals: heart industry must ~ (exploitation vs. conservation)
reversal: heart

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allegiance, support & betrayal: heart learned it by heart
heart (shape) he ~ (a long poem)
recite the Qur'an by heart
heart, round or oval
he can ~
whether you have a ~ face
heart: memorization
shape of a heart
it was cut into the ~ (a yearbook) heart (knife in the heart, etc.)
drawing of a heart knife in the heart
a red-ink ~ in the palm of her left hand the date Feb. 6, 1958, is still a ~ (Man. U fan)
♦ He was wearing a T-shirt that read, "I heart Kosova."
knife to the heart
♦ The heart symbol only vaguely resembles the actual shape of a heart.
it’s a shocking ~ (loss of Tangier Island to erosion)
shape: heart
rip your heart out
heart (sincerity) the new study will just ~ (coronavirus deaths)

with all her heart destruction: blade / death & life / knife / heart
she believed in his innocence ~ (wife of serial killer) feeling, emotion & effect: blade / death & life / heart /
knife
with all my heart
I honestly believe ~ that… heart (stake through the heart, etc.)
believe in you with all my heart put a stake through the heart of Row
I~ there is a majority on the court willing to ~ (SCOTUS)

from the bottom of my heart put a stake through the heart of these theories
I'd like to tell you ~ how sorry I am… you might think that would ~, but no (conspiracy theory)
thank you ~
put a stake through their hearts
his heart was in the right place we definitely ~ (Operation Anaconda, Shah-i-Kot)
he made mistakes, but ~
driving a wooden stake into the heart
his heart is (always) in the right place he thought he was ~ of the civil-rights movement (Bull
~ (Sean Penn) Connor in Birmingham, Alabama)

come from my heart destruction: allusion / creature / death & life / heart
these words ~ heart (miscellaneous)
speaking from my heart heart
I am ~ when I say... (sincerity)
if it's wrong, then my ~ won't let me be right (love)
wears his heart on his sleeve makes my heart sing
he ~ when it comes to his dad (Ray Mancini / boxer)
this kind of football ~ (Sawa Homare and team)
wearing their hearts on their sleeves feeling, emotion & effect: heart
he’d sing about people showing their emotions, ~
♦ “Do you want me to speak my heart?” (A Tigrayan woman speaking in heartache (noun)
English and being interviewed by the BBC.)
♦ “He’d pour his whole heart and his emotion into those songs... He’d heartaches and misery
sing about people crying, showing their emotions, you know, wearing all the ~ it causes (alcoholism)
their hearts on their sleeves.” (Tim Marlow talking about the great singer
Marvin Gaye on BBC’s Great Lives.) deaths and resentments and heartaches
all the ~
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: heart
heart (by heart) sorrows and heartaches
all the ~ of this life
play by heart ~ versus joy and fulfillment (religion)
it is a fixed rule that instrumentalists shall ~ (concerts) feeling, emotion & effect: heart / sensation
know symphonies by heart heart and soul
conductors ~
hearts and souls
know them by heart their ~ are in it (NASA scientists)
we've heard those slogans for so many years that we ~
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 she was considered the ~ (killed in Waukesha parade) heartbroken (adjective)
heart and soul of a newspaper
the journalists are the ~ (Asheville Citizen-Times)
heartbroken
he was ~
heart and soul of our team
he was the ~ (mountaineering) heartbroken city
Liverpool is a ~ (Hillsborough tragedy)
lost its heart and soul
racing has ~ (death of popular driver) feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart
heart: functioning / mechanism
poured his heart and soul into the game
he ~ (Larry Bird / basketball) heartfelt (adjective)
bases / identity & nature: heart / religion heartfelt commitment
commitment & determination: heart / religion a ~ to democratic values
heartbeat (in a heartbeat) heartfelt prayers
with ~, the families of the trapped miners waited…
in a heartbeat
if he could undo his actions he would ~ heartfelt sorrow
we want to express our ~ (murder of young woman)
change in a heartbeat
the weather can ~ (Kauai) heartfelt views
her ~ got her in trouble with the authorities
leave in a heartbeat
the US is unreliable, it could up and ~ (diplomacy) feeling, emotion & effect: heart / sensation
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: heart / sensation
speed: heart
heartland (noun)
heartbeat (noun)
in the heartland
heartbeat of the cave two American kids growing up ~ (“Jack and Diane”)
the ~ (dripping water)
heartland of China
heart: functioning / sound Xi'an, in the antique ~, watered by the Yellow River
heartbreak (Heartbreak Hotel, etc.) Amhara-speaking heartland
Gondar, in the ~ (Ethiopia)
Heartbreak Hill
~, the steep half-mile at mile 20 (Boston Marathon) Christian heartland
the ~ north of Beirut (Lebanon)
Heartbreak Hotel
the Hanoi Hilton included ~ and New Guy Village Yoruba heartland
Nigeria with its ~, Ibo strongholds and Hausa north
Heartbreak Ridge
the Battle of ~ (Korean War, 1951) industrial heartland
in China’s ~
Misery, Agony, and Heartbreak
the three hills at Fort Knox, ~ (recruit training) spiritual heartland
the province is the Taliban's ~ (Helmand)
military: epithet
center & periphery: heart
heartbreak (noun)
identity & nature / place: heart
heartbreak of (constant medical) crises heartless
the ~ and setbacks
heartless so-and-so
died of heartbreak he's a cool, ~ who…
I think he ~...
empathy & lack of empathy: heart
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart
heart: functioning / mechanism hearts and minds
heartbreaking (adjective) people’s hearts and minds
politics is about persuasion, about winning ~ (Ted Cruz)
heartbreaking cry for help
his suicide attempt was a ~ battle for hearts and minds
he is losing the ~ at Stamford Bridge (a soccer coach)
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / heart
heart: functioning / mechanism

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captured the hearts and minds heartwarming (adjective)
he has ~ of Americans (Olympic athlete)
heartwarming
win the hearts and minds what's ~ about them is…
we can ~ of people (AID official)
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / temperature
wins hearts and minds heart: temperature
sometimes the edit ~ at the expense of the truth
♦ “Politics is story-telling, and politics hopefully is about persuasion,
heartwood
about winning people’s hearts and minds.” (Senator Ted Cruz.)
♦ “Techniques to encourage loyalty down the years haven’t always been
heartwood
entirely compliant with the outlook of a modern human-resources the outer, lighter sap wood vs. central, darker ~
department. The former labour cabinet minister Jack Straw recalled in bark, sap wood and ~ (trees)
his memoirs being grabbed by the ‘the goolies’ by his whip, a method
that led to teary-eyed agreement within moments. More enlightened center & periphery: heart
recent times mean such tales of robust or physical twisting of arms, or
indeed anything else, are less frequent...” (Political correspondent Chris heart-wrenching
Mason, BBC Sounds, Six O’Clock News, “Senior Conservative alleges
MPs ‘intimidated’ by Government whips,” 20/01/2022.)
heart-wrenching
♦ “Get them by their balls and their hearts and minds will follow.” (A it's ~ (comment on murder of family)
saying popular among combat soldiers during the Vietnam War who
were cynical about US government campaigns to “win the hearts and
minds” of the Vietnamese people.)
heart-wrenching picture
the ~s (Haiti earthquake)
♦ “General McChrystal and every expert that talks about
counterinsurgency...we pretty clearly understand now that the key to feeling, emotion & effect: heart / sensation
winning any fight like this is to control the population, not control them,
but... I don’t want to use ‘win hearts and minds’ but that’s basically it, you
know, to get the people on your side and let them understand that you’re
heat (in the heat of passion, etc.)
here for them.” (A Marine captain in Marjah in 2010.)
♦ “Gratitude is not a relevant concept in international relations and never
in the heat of the moment
has been.” he said some things he wished he hadn't ~
I made my decision ~ (regret)
allegiance, support & betrayal: heart
in the heat of passion
heartsick threats are often thrown out ~
manslaughter is the killing of another ~
heartsick about it ~, man loses his better judgment
we're ~ (brother of soldier facing tough tour in Iraq)
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / heart
acted in the heat of passion
her lawyer contended that she ~
heart: health & medicine
heart-stopping kills in the heat of passion
the defendant is held less responsible if he ~
heart-stopping beauty committed in the heat of passion
her ~ (a ballerina)
prosecutors believe the crime was ~
heart-stopping moment feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
it was a ~ (near-accident)
heat (pressure)
feeling, emotion & effect: heart
starting, going, continuing & ending: heart catching (so much) heat
heartthrob we were ~ (cops on a stalled serial-rapist case)
feeling the heat
heartthrob
they are ~ (competition)
the ~ Leonardo DiCaprio
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / sensation keep the heat on Venezuela
the administration is trying to ~
heart-to-heart pressure: temperature
heart-to-heart with her heat (turn up the heat, etc.)
it's been a while since I have had a ~ (dad / daughter)
turned up the heat
heart-to-heart conversation
then he really ~ by starting a Web site accusing…
we had an open, ~ about sex
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: heart turning up the heat on BP
the president is ~

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turning the heat up on its (long-time NATO) ally the detective ~ as he spoke
the U.S. is ~
remains heated
turned up the heat to scalding the debate ~ (educational issue)
President Trump ~ this week... (on immigration debate)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
coercion & motivation: temperature
heatedly
heat (criticism)
debated heatedly
a lot of heat Rwanda policy was ~ by US officials
Biden has gotten ~ recently about his record on race
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature
take heat heat up (verb)
he’ll ~ for this
accusation & criticism: temperature heating up
competition is ~
punishment & recrimination: temperature
heated (emotion) activity: temperature / verb
increase & decrease: temperature / verb
heated argument heaven (move heaven and earth)
the ~s in their bar
I got into a ~ with him move heaven and earth to make certain that...
heated (phone) conversation I instructed my team to ~ (coronavirus response)
engaged in a ~ moved heaven and earth to provide
heated debate we have ~ security (Olympics)
the ~ revealed deep political divisions (politics) difficulty, easiness & effort: religion
heated disagreements commitment & determination: religion
there have been ~ over troop levels (war) heaven (environment)
heated discussion heaven
propelled scientists into a ~ two weeks of sun, sand, and surf, it was ~
a ~ about the study results in the early 1970s, it was ~ (Iran)
heated dispute in heaven
~s over strategy and tactics are inevitable (officer corps) Spielberg was ~ (filming West Side Story in New York)
heated exchange I was ~, standing right in front of the stage...
with Pro-Tools, Garage Band, I was ~ (a songwriter)
they got into a ~ (a protester and a local)
♦ "After the turmoil [of W.W.II], it looked like heaven." (Military doctor who
heated response saw Andrews, North Carolina and on the spur of the moment decided to
settle there. He spent the rest of his life living among and doctoring to the
their story drew a ~ mountain people.)
heated rhetoric ♦ In cat heaven it rains cream and all the dogs are in zoos.
~ is unlikely to disappear from politics environment / superlative: religion
heated (business) rivalry flaws & lack of flaws: religion
in a ~, you must still consider ethics heavy (amount)
heated falling out
heavy blow
a ~ between the mayor, police chief
the offensive has dealt a ~ to Hamas (in Gaza)
heated and emotional
heavy favorite
after years of ~ debate, the university banned…
she is the ~ (Tokyo Olympics)
get heated
heavy fire
when it comes to gun laws, things can sometimes ~
he has been taking ~ from his rivals (politics)
got heated
heavy rains
he went to confront her, and things ~
~, hail, reports of funnel clouds
grow heated
heavy security
arguments ~ (local government)
~ didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of fans (Olympics)
grew (more) heated
heavy toll

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 rebel resistance was taking a ~ heavy-hearted (adjective)
the US raid, while brief, inflicted a ~
heavy-hearted
heavy (Internet) user
she seemed ~
she had been a ~ (murdered)
feeling, emotion & effect: heart / weight
run-heavy
heart: weight
Alabama took a ~ approach (a football game)
heavyweight (noun)
top-heavy
a ~ senior officer corps (military) heavyweights of the industry
the meeting was attended by global ~ (mining)
amount: weight
heavy (emotion) EU heavyweights
Switzerland is next to ~ France and Germany
heavy substance & lack of substance: boxing / weight
things are getting a little ~, let's lighten things up
power: boxing / weight
feeling, emotion & effect: weight
hector (verb)
heavy (heavy heart, etc.)
hectors her children not to divulge
heavy hearts she ~ personal information online
we left with ~ and broken spirits ♦ From the Trojan hero, transformed to mean braggart or bully. As
Wilfred Funk, Litt.D., says in his fine book, Word Origins and Their
feeling, emotion & effect: weight Romantic Stories, “It is unexplainable why this distinguished name
heart: weight should have contributed such an unpleasant word to our language.”

heavy (substance) affliction / coercion & motivation: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
/ verb
heavy ideas
to get a young audience to engage with such ~... hedgehog (protection)
importance & significance: weight hedgehog concept
substance & lack of substance: weight the ~ had succeed at the Battle of Na San
heavy (oppression) hedgehog defense
they cannot be reinforced, so they must mount a ~
heavy
the burdens of leadership are ~ Czech hedgehogs
~ symbolized “defense at all costs” in the Soviet Union
heavy burden the beaches of Normandy were spiked with ~
he carries a ~ of responsibility (ruler) ♦ “The fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog, one good one.”
the ~ of this mammoth job (Man U manager) (Archilochus.)
♦ A hedgehog defense involves an isolated stronghold or strongpoint
heavy charges which can be surrounded yet still survive, in modern times, by aerial
these are ~ resupply. The strongpoints are capable of all-around (perimeter)
defense. The Battle of Khe Sanh (1968) was such a defense.
heavy price Hedgehogs or strongpoints can be bypassed but will slow an attacker
fame came with a ~ down and expose the enemy’s rear to attack. Problems include the fact
that strongpoints can simply be bypassed (as happened to the French at
heavy responsibility the start of World War II) or that the enemy can prevent aerial resupply,
as happened to the 6th Army under Paulus at Stalingrad in 1943 and the
I feel a ~ for these police failures (official) French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. In Vietnam, the hedgehog concept had
worked at the Battle of Na San but proved to be a decisive catastrophe
oppression: burden / weight for the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Many wondered if the Battle of
affliction: burden / weight Khe Sanh in 1968 would be a Dien Bien Phu for the US, but the marines
managed to hang on.
heavy-handed
protection & lack of protection: animal / military
heavy-handed heel (under the heel)
I think the punishment was ~
heavy-handed response under the heel of (Saddam's brutal) regime
the ~ of the government has invited criticism (to protests) after decades ~ (Basra)
oppression: foot / heel
heavy-handed and unnecessary
the decision was ~ (a sports kerfuffle) heel (on the heels)
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 the report came ~ migration: journeys & trips / religion
on the heels of the (debt-ceiling) debate height (at the height)
his came ~
at the height of his glory
on the heels of discovery the waters of the Nieman River reflected Napoleon ~
mapmaking follows ~
at the height of its popularity
came on the heels he stopped drawing the strip ~ (a cartoonist)
the report ~ of another security breech
at the height of his powers
come on the heels On the Waterfront, 1954, he was 30, ~ (Marlon Brando)
the protests ~ of the events elsewhere in the region
achievement, recognition & praise / primacy, currency,
sequence: heel decline & obsolescence: direction / ground, terrain & land /
heel (on one's heels) height
heighten (verb)
on its heels
the government is ~ (losing against rebels) heightened fears
the report ~ of a second recession
put the defense on its heels
they ~ (football) heightens worries
resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / heel the killing ~ over the fate of Afghan journalists

heel (dig in one's heels) increase & decrease: direction / height / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion: direction / height / verb
digging in their heels heights (to new heights, etc.)
but four members of the board are ~ (culture wars)
dug in their heels heights of government
he never scaled the ~ (MP Sir David Amess)
they have ~ and refuse to bend (negotiations)
resistance, opposition & defeat: foot / heel / verb heights of performance
it isn't likely to motivate employees to new ~
eagerness & reluctance: foot / heel / verb
heel (nip at somebody’s heels) heights of stardom
she has ascended to the ~ (film actor)
nipping at his heels
new heights
24 rivals are ~ from every direction (politics)
it isn't likely to motivate employees to ~ of performance
he is leading the pack but ~ is Pete Buttigieg (election)
competition: animal / dog / predation / verb / wolf ascended to the heights
she has ~ of stardom (film actor)
heffalump (creature)
scaled the heights
EU heffalump he never ~ of government (MP Sir David Amess)
the ~ has been taken behind the barn by the vet (Brexit)
take their rivalry to new heights
♦ The Heffalump was a creature in A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh and
they ~ (promotion for wrestling match)
The House at Pooh Corner. It occurs only in the imagination of Piglet and
Pooh.
taking flying to new heights
fantasy & reality: allusion / creature the new Boeing Dreamliner is ~
heft (noun) motivate employees to new heights
it isn't likely to ~ of performance
emotional heft
he depicted the struggles of black emotions with ~ reclaim the heights
they have managed to ~ (tennis sisters)
record industry heft
she has used her ~ to secure royalties... (Taylor Swift) achievement, recognition & praise / primacy, currency,
decline & obsolescence: direction / ground, terrain & land /
substance & lack of substance: weight height
hegira (and hejira) heir (noun)
hejira across the Himalayas to Tibet heirs to a great (and ancient) civilization
he made that amazing ~ (the wonderful Heinrich Harrer) the Egyptian people are ~
pursuit, capture & escape: journeys & trips / religion

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political heirs Hell’s jaws
they are the ~ of the segregationist South the killings began, as ~ opened... (ethnic cleansing)
product and an heir Green Hell
Napoleon was both a ~ to the French Revolution travelers christened it the "~" (Mato Grosso)
transmission: family / history / money scene from hell
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: family / history / he saw a number of bodies in a "~" (friendly fire)
money
escaped from a living hell
heir apparent he ~ (POW)
♦ I know I'm going to heaven 'cause I've spent my time in hell. (A
heir apparent veteran.)
Kamala Harris is the obvious ~ (to President Biden)
♦ War is hell. (General William Sherman.)
heir-apparent environment / situation: religion
he and his ~ are dead (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi)
hell (micro)
heir apparent to al Qaeda
he was the ~ (Hamza bin Laden) hell
I've been through ~
heir apparent of the (white nationalist) movement
he was once the ~ (Derek Black) hell of the pandemic
after the ~, football heaven... (Euro 2020 final)
Logan’s heir apparent
the role of Kendall Roy, ~ (Succession) hell of a forced marriage
his bid to rescue his love from the ~ (Pakistani)
no clear heir apparent
Nancy Pelosi has ~ (Democratic leader of the House) hell on earth
he transformed the job into a ~ (a bad supervisor)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
heirloom (noun) hell on heels
she was ~ (a troubled young socialite)
heirloom grains hell for pedophiles
flour milled from ~ grown in Illinois (bagels) prison can be a living ~
transmission: family / history / money
"hell highway"
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: family / history / killed returning to the reservation on the ~ (Arizona)
money
heist (noun) Hell week
~, trying to survive, the pressure to quit (SEAL training)
heist living hell
snatching a draw would have been a ~ (soccer) working there was a ~
taking & removing: crime sheer hell
helicopter (helicopter mom, etc.) this autumn is going to be ~ for him

helicopter mom divorce from hell

Alec Baldwin is living through the ~
~, people called her (connection to adult daughter)
slicks and (rhododendron) hells
helicopter parent
laurel ~ (Appalachia)
she was accused of being a ~ (with 21-year-old daughter)
♦ “There are helicopter parents, and then there are tennis parents...” make their wife's life a living hell
men who ~ (dowry scam)
character & personality / behavior / surveillance: plane
put you through hell
helicopter (verb) win, lose or draw, Holyfield will ~ (the great boxer)
tendency to helicopter
she had a ~ (with her adult daughter) scare the hell out of you
it will ~
behavior / surveillance: plane / verb
environment / situation: religion
hell (macro) survival, persistence & endurance: religion
hell of war
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hell (hell to pay, etc.) he is ~ the trial through (impeachment)

hell to pay hell-bent on taking down

some saw him as a sanctimonious partisan ~ the Clintons
later, they have ~ (people who cheat on their spouses)
commitment & determination: religion
hell is going to break loose
all ~ tomorrow (civil strife) hellfire (Hellfire missile, etc.)
judgment / punishment & recrimination: money / religion Hellfire missile
hell (hell hath no fury) a ~ fired from a Reaper drone killed...

hell hath no fury Hellfire (air-to-ground) missile

a ~ launched from the Predator
~ like a weak man ignored (slut-shaming by ex-husbands)
~ like an IT guy scorned (disgruntled employee) proper name: fire / religion
~ like a screenwriter’s scorn (Tales From the Script)
~ like a woman fed up with a man’s idiocy hellhole
~ like a Minnesotan scorned (Red Lake County)
~ like a recording artist scorned (self-releases for free) hell-hole
the state prison is a ~
feeling, emotion & effect / judgment / punishment &
recrimination: religion
world's hellholes
humanitarian personnel in the ~
hell (Hell's Gate, etc.)
godforsaken hellhole
Hell's Gate a~
~, the second big rapid (kayaking) environment: hole / religion
the Nahanni bends through a constriction called the ~
the explorers named the crack ~ (Kenya national park) hellish (adjective)
Hell’s Gates hellish days
the sandbar at the mouth of ~ was silting up those ~ of stock car racing's infancy
Hell’s Backbone hellish dust devils
she drove down a road called ~ (southern Utah) they had to contend with heat and ~
Hell’s Kitchen hellish situation
~, known for the Irish, actors, firefighters... (Manhattan) they found themselves caught in a ~ (mass shooting)
CTR’s ~ lithium and power project (Salton Sea, CA)
feeling, emotion & effect: religion
Hell Night
~ at the Citadel (Military School) hell-raiser (person)
proper name: religion hell-raiser
he admits he was a ~ as a young man
hell (raise hell)
Hellraiser Ball
raising hell violence erupted at the motorcycle and tattoo expo, the ~
she was ~ there, too (TV star fights with cast mates)
Hellraisers Ball
behavior: religion / verb the melee at the ~ resulted in one death
hell (go to hell) from hell-raiser to born-again Christian
his conversion ~
go to hell
the politicians should all ~ behavior: person / religion
insult: religion person: religion

hell (judgment) hell-raising

hell-raising drinkers
going to hell for this one ~ and womanizers
somebody’s ~ (responsibility for building collapse)
behavior: religion
judgment religion
hellbent helm (at the helm)
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 they have won with him ~ (a coach) they were losing money, they were ~
we need a tough person ~ (Turkey)
the church needed someone else ~ to stop the rot (a Pope) leaking: blood / health & medicine / verb
the sport grew with Carpenter ~ (snowboarding) condition & status: blood / health & medicine / verb

at the helm of the (world’s most valuable) company

hemorrhage (noun)
Tim Cook’s first decade ~ was a success (Apple) hemorrhage of personnel
at the helm of an organization the Pentagon is trying to stop the ~ (soldiers)
she is leaving after a 2-year tenure ~ beset by controversy ♦ "President Obama is sending an additional 17,000 American troops to
Afghanistan, as part of his effort to try to put a tourniquet on the
control & lack of control: boat / direction hemorrhaging war effort there."
♦ “Another spectacularly bad idea, and another cut to the already
helm (verb) bleeding-out cinema experience.” (A Brad Bird tweet about Nexflix’s new
variable playback feature.)
helm an MCU film
she is the youngest ever to ~ (director) leaking: blood / health & medicine
condition & status: blood / health & medicine
control & lack of control: boat / direction / verb
herald (verb)
helm (noun)
heralded the end
took the helm the uprising ~ of the regime
he ~ of the war this week
herald a new era
took the helm from Steve Jobs Republicans hope to ~ of limited government
when Tim Cook ~ (Apple)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: royalty / verb
control & lack of control: boat / direction coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: royalty / verb
helmet (pith helmet) herald (noun)
pith helmet heralds of winter
there is a bit of the ~ in Wrong herself (a historian) snowflakes are ~
history: sign, signal, symbol coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: royalty
character & personality: history attention, scrutiny & promotion: royalty / verb
helmsman (the Great Helmsman, etc.) herculean (adjective)
Great Helmsman herculean effort
Mao was known as the ~ we are involved in a ~
the ~ behind the 1969 moon landing
great helmsman just getting condo owners to vote can be a ~
he was our ~ (David Ben-Gurion)
“Herculean effort”
control & lack of control: epithet
the UK had made a ~ to deliver PPE (pandemic)
help (keep from, avoid) herculean task
couldn't help myself squeezing the evidence into a 90-page document was a ~
I ate the whole thing, I ~ difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion
restraint & lack of restraint: verb comparison & contrast: affix

helping (amount) herd (verb)

helping of praise herded five victims into one cooler
there are two reasons to give the show another ~ (TV) they ~ and killed them (Brown's Chicken & Pasta)

amount: food & drink herded them into (army) buses

soldiers ~ (Palestinian suspects)
hemorrhage (verb)
directing: animal / cows & cattle / verb
hemorrhaging hosts control & lack of control: animal / cows & cattle / verb
NPR is ~ from marginalized backgrounds
herd (ride herd)
hemorrhaged (star) journalists
in the last two years, The New York Times has ~ ride herd on them
we need to ~
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directing: animal / verb when we look at the past, we see we’ve ~ (pandemic)
control & lack of control: animal / verb every oil-addicted town has ~ (bust after boom)
coercion & motivation: animal / verb
past & present / time: place
herd (herd immunity, etc.) time: journeys & trips / place

herd immunity here (go from here, etc.)

high vaccination rates can ensure ~
from here on out
group, set & collection: animal what should we do now ~
herd (herd mentality, etc.) go from here
where things ~ is quite honestly up in the air
herd animals but where does he ~ (boxer after unexpected loss)
people are ~ (they take cues from others) where do we ~ (troubled relationship)
a core idea behind our research is that people are ~ where does the program ~ (sports)
herd madness development: movement / place
it’s a story of greed, deceit and ~ (OneCoin) past & present / time: movement / place
herd mentality here (the present)
~ leads to panic buying (COVID-19 panic)
it is a clear example of ~ (panic buying of toilet paper) here
the future is ~ now (wildfires caused by global warming)
human herd the moment you have been waiting for is ~
one must follow one’s conscience and not the ~ how did we get ~ (=how did that happen)
one of the herd already here
but the difference was that I’m not ~ (John Geddes) tomorrow is ~
follow the herd here and now
traders who just ~ and join the party late will lose money does it apply to the ~, or is it aspirational (diplomacy)
♦ “It’s like in the wildlife documentaries, where a herd of water buffalo will ♦ “It seemed like science fiction just 20 years ago. Well, we are there.
bunch up at the edge of a river they are collectively considering crossing. We’re looking at it right now.” (Mike Pondsmith.)
They’ll wait for a few brave ones to jump in and make it across before
doing so themselves.” (Will Felps, a management professor at the ♦ “The fire impressed upon me that the future had crashed right through
University of New South Wales in Sydney. From “‘Turnover contagion’: into our present. Climate change and its consequences were truly here
The domino effect of one resignation” by Christine Ro, BBC, 16 now in the most shocking and vivid and graphic and painful way.” (Jack
September 2021.) Eagan, Australian, about the bushfires of 2019-2020, called Australia’s
“black summer.”)
behavior / society / uniformity & consensus: animal ♦ The fuzzy boundary between time and place (or space) is
encapsulated in the irreversible binomial, “the here and now.”
herded
past & present / time: place
herded into a bus
he was handcuffed to other prisoners and ~ here (we’re here, we’re not going away,
coercion & motivation / directing: animal etc.)
here (out here) here
we are ~, we have always been here (black gay women)
out here ♦ We’re not going anywhere; we’re here to stay; we’re in your face; we’re
you got so many kids ~ acting crazy (gangs) present and not absent; you will not erase us... (Different groups.)
~, people will smile to your face and stab you in the back ♦ “We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it.”
♦ “I may not win, but I can’t be thrown / Out here on my own.” (Irene ♦ “We are resetting, we are not retreating, and we are here, we have a
Cara, “Out Here On My Own,” from the film Fame.) vision, we are capable of fulfilling it.” (Ashley Judd of Time’s Up,
responding to criticism of the organization.)
environment: ground, terrain & land
inclusion & exclusion: society
here (situation)
here (here to stay, etc.)
here
if they hadn’t let it escalate, we wouldn’t be ~ here to stay
and ~ we are (said in a bitter tone / situation) Covid is, without a doubt, ~ (will become endemic)
his brand of populist conservatism is ~
development / situation: place
survival, persistence & endurance: movement / place
here (we have been here before) presence & absence: movement / place
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning; movement /
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hereafter (from now onwards) character & personality: film / person / theater

hereafter and forever

hero (person, rat, etc.)
for ~... hero
time: place / position / prep, adv, adj, particle she’s tired of people calling health care workers ~s (a
future: place / position / prep, adv, adj, particle doctor)

heresy (noun) hero rat

Magawa the ~ retires from job detecting landmines (BBC)
risk of heresy
at the ~, I’d suggest that... hero twin sister
she doesn’t like the “~” label (saved sister from crocodile)
bordered on heresy
even asking the question ~ a year ago (COVID) American hero
they called her an ~ (Facebook whistleblower)
committing heresy
a law professor who lectures is ~ (vs. Socratic method) my (guitar) hero
he was ~ (he inspired me to play guitar)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
pandemic hero
heretic (person) he went from a ~ to a political pariah (Andrew Cuomo)
attacks of the heretics Poll Hero
he defended Establishment wisdom against the ~ ~ Project aims to recruit younger poll workers
treats him as a heretic queer heroes
the party now ~ (politics) ~ who paved the way...
person: religion unsung hero
acceptance & rejection: person / religion the ~s (five maintenance workers at pre-K-12 school)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person / religion
greatest heroes
heretical (adjective) you are truly some of the ~ this nation has seen (nurses)
heretical national hero
at the time, the idea was ~ we were afraid to consider it Jose Bove became a ~ (tore down a McDonald’s)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion superhero
~s are people, too...
hermit (person)
fierce and heartwarming hero
hermit she is a ~ (Afghan gets top score on test)
is chronic bad breath turning you into a ~
cast as a hero
modern-day hermits a guard ~ was recast as a villain (Richard Jewell)
in Japan half a million people live as ~ (hikikomori)
♦ Greta Garbo was once described as a “hermit about town.” considered heroes
at one time we were ~ (worked jobs during pandemic)
isolation & remoteness / society: person
social interaction: person hailed as a hero
avoidance & separation: person she is being ~ (recorded police trying to make arrest)
person: acceptance & rejection / society
hailed as heroes
hermit (the Hermit Kingdom, etc.) once ~, health care workers now face a rash of violence

hermit kingdom went from heroes to zeros

Bhutan, once known as the ~ of the Himalayas we ~ (pandemic starts to recede)
♦ An academic expert on a show about heroes said, “We actually call
isolation & remoteness: epithet that heroization, right...”
hero (character) ♦ “Essays by contemporary queer figures pay homage to queer heroes
who paved the way.” (A blurb for The Queer Bible.)
hero to Kyrie Irving’s villain ♦ “Heroes wear glasses.” (The character of Mirabel in Disney’s film
Jayson Tatum is ~ (NBA playoffs) Encanto.)
♦ “What I bring as a Black female to my craft and in being a director... [is]
♦ This idea of men representing Hollywood scripts may be unique to the
United States, where history, war, and everything else is monetized as recognizing how important it is that everybody deserves to be seen as a
grist for the entertainment mill. hero.” (Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of The Old Guard, speaking to
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♦ “Take Tracy in Massachusetts. She’s a nurse who’s been treating
veterans with COVID-19. Every day she’s had to put on a hazmat suit hew (hew to the line, etc.)
and go to work for 12 hours, days on end. If it wasn’t for folks like Tracy,
our own families wouldn’t have a chance to be reunited. If you want to hew to her beliefs
find a hero in America, they’re all around us, and Tracy’s one of them.” a young person trying to ~ and save the world
(Joe Biden, July 2020.)
♦ Superheroes Are Everywhere by Vice-President Kamala Harris is a hew to your intention
children’s book that celebrates ordinary people. you try to make language ~
♦ “Look inside you and be strong / and you’ll finally feel the truth / that a
hero lies in you.” (Mariah Carey.) hews to his (conservative) roots
♦ “The crowd was right. That crowd was full of heroes.” (Prosecutor he ~ (a judge)
Thomas Binger, during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The jury disagreed
with Binger, and found Kyle not guilty of all charges.) hew to the rules
♦ “The heroes saving Ireland’s seals.” (A BBC article about an “inspiring” she helped schools ~ (Title IX)
seal sanctuary.)
hews (close) to tradition
♦ “I know America loves its bad guys. But I’m a great guy. I just won a
Super Bowl. I’m an American hero.” (The NFL player Antonio Brown, on the band ~ (bluegrass)
being cut from his team.)
hew closely
♦ “I felt it was so important for someone like that to be given a voice and
then to be shown that she is actually a superheroine...” (Actor Michelle he promises to ~ to the course set by Raul Castro
Yeoh about her character in Everything Everywhere All At Once. From
“Actor Michelle Yeoh wants to change the way we think of superheroes,” hews too closely
NPR, Fresh Air, April 25, 2022.) the author ~ to events
♦ “I stopped watching, reading and listening to the media hype when I
heard the players being called ‘heroes’ after the Germany game. Get a
unanimity & consensus: line / tree / verb
grip BBC.” (Grommy on the BBC HYS on the eve of England vs. Ukraine, sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: line / tree / verb
Euro 2020.)
♦ “Rank and organization: (X). Place and date: (X). Entered service at:
heyday (noun)
(X) Citation: (X)...Suddenly, an enemy grenade landed in the midst of the
(branch of the armed forces) and rolled alongside Private First Class heyday of Brazilian rock
(X’s) head. Unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his personal the 1970’s was probably the ~
safety, he reached out, grasped the grenade, pulled it to his chest and
curled around it as it went off...” (From a Medal of Honor citation.) heyday of hotels
inclusion & exclusion: society life after the Catskills’ ~

heroic (adjective) Kameny’s heyday

in ~, and my youth... (gay history)
heroic efforts
his ~ saved the night (Black understudy goes onstage) Shanghai’s heyday
the colonial architecture that dates back to ~
heroic (TSA) officer
~ saves baby from choking (Cecilia Morales) ‘70’s heyday
his ~ (a singer)
heroic rat
a ~ has been working in Cambodia (de-mining) since the heyday of LaFace Records
the strongest R&B vibes to emerge ~ (Atlanta)
heroic tasks
Moms perform ~ every day achievement, recognition & praise: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
extraordinarily heroic
most of them do ~ (Arthur Labinjo-Hughes failure) hibernation (in hibernation)
♦ “We are proud of the heroic and swift actions of our staff to ensure that in hibernation
our residents were protected and kept safe.” (A senior living facility. A
resident shot and killed two employees he had had a conflict with, then the industry has been ~ for 20 years (the nuclear industry)
lay down on the floor and waited for the police to arrest him.)
in the winter hibernation
inclusion & exclusion: society his leadership appeared ~ at Cape Evans (in Antarctica)
heroism (noun) activity: animal / death & life / sleep
ordinary heroism hibernation (other)
her view of painful injustice and ~ (Women Is Losers)
hibernation environments
stories of heroism hospitable ~ for apples (controlled atmosphere storage)
there are great ~ (Adam Schiff promoting his book)
awoken from hibernation
dress up incompetence as heroism the comet lander, Philae, has ~
it is less disturbing to ~ (Scott and the South Pole)
emerged from his hibernation
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put in hibernation hides behind a fictitious name
the spacecraft was ~ for 31 months (Rosetta) he ~
reopen the US economy from its hibernation hides behind innocuous phrase
how and when to ~ (coronavirus pandemic) she ~ (an administrator)
activity: animal / death & life / sleep concealment & lack of concealment: direction / verb
hiccup (noun) hide-and-seek
hiccup game of hide and seek
the datacenter is having some ~s (down Websites) a very serious ~ (with Palestinian terrorist)
we've had some ~s along the way
pursuit, capture & escape: sports & games
hiccups in this matter
there’s been a lot of ~ which has taken a lot of time (trial)
hidebound (adjective)
hiccups with supply hidebound bureaucracy
limited time to sort out ~ (COVID vaccine) a~

sort out hiccups constraint & lack of constraint: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
limited time to ~ with supply (COVID vaccine) high (noble)
♦ “There are always land mines and hiccups that come along.” (Doctor
Anthony Fauci on vaccine production during the 2019-2020 pandemic.) high art
I walked past ~ and low art (New York City)
flaws & lack of flaws: bodily reaction
failure, accident & impairment: bodily reaction highbrow
hidden see highbrow (and lowbrow, middlebrow)
high character
hidden costs he is a solid American, a man of ~
the ~ of gambling (divorce, etc.)
high-character
hidden enemy it’s a team that prides itself on hiring ~ people (NBA)
landmines, the ~
high-class
hidden epidemic I’m a redneck woman, I’m not a ~ broad (hell yeah)
sex trafficking is a ~ (US)
high expectations
hidden gems it was a cocoon of ~ and harsh discipline (a black school)
the road reveals many ~ (N7 in France)
~ coupled with love is a gift (child-rearing)
hidden logic high ground
the ~ behind military training
see ground (moral high ground, etc.)
kept the story hidden high purpose
she ~ for 20 years, never sharing it with anyone
a great speech is made for a ~ (inspire, ennoble, rally...)
concealment & lack of concealment: eye
high regard
hide (hide behind something) he is held in ~

hide behind anonymity highest traditions

it's easy to be forthright when you ~ Sfc. Ashley’s bravery was in the ~ of... (died in battle)
♦ “I walked past high art and low art, past the theaters where famous
hides behind a facade people played to packed houses, past theaters where anonymous
he ~ of jokes people played with themselves.” (“In the Temple,” a chapter from All
Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg.)
hides behind the nom de plume admiration & contempt: direction / height
the woman who ~ of…
high (from on high)
hides behind a (tough-guy) posture
he ~ directive from on high
hides behind a locked door there’s a clear ~ to investigate thoroughly (government)
the bureaucrat or politician who ~ edict from on high
hides behind a friendly face an ~ banned any mention of sex (Woman’s Weekly)
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high (on a high) ♦ “He’s not a dignified old greybeard, like you know he’s not Sir Laurence
Olivier or Liam Neeson, he’d be like you know this 21-year-old surfer
dude from California with like sick abs.” (The 48-year-old George
on a high O’Connor thinking about the Greek God Zeus. From “Graphic novelist
he's ~ right now and will use it for motivation (victor) O’Connor turns ancient gods and goddesses into modern superheroes,”
NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, April 16, 2022.)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction ♦ “It’s a little bit like, say, Spitting Image has done in the past doing fur
the present moment... On the eve of Good Friday, a man on the run from
high (emotion) life finds himself in a deep dark wood, and he spends Easter weekend on
a rollercoaster...Let’s have a quick listen to Canto 26 here.” (“Dante’s
high Divine Comedy mined for 21st-century meaning,” BBC, 11 Jan 2021,
with BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler.)
emotions are ~
♦ “The short-list for this year’s Turner prize doesn’t feature any individual
highs and lows artists for the first time. Instead, the contenders are all collectives, which
created artwork ranging from a 24-hour fundraising rave to the use of
so you suffer fewer energy ~ (diet) food to help understand the workings of the world... There’s a strong
her eyes gleamed as she recalled the ~ (of her life) political thread. The raves... are part of what is described as queer, trans
it's a game of ~ (baseball) and intersex black and people of color radical activism.” (BBC Six
O’clock News, 07/05/2021. J.M.W. Turner was born 1775 and died 1851.
emotional high Many people know him for his painting, “The Fighting Temeraire.”)
it was an incredible ~ ♦ “[F]or me this is just two lads kissing, fully clothed, what could be more
normal than that? If you don’t like the picture, you’re not going to like the
incredible (emotional) high book.” (Douglas Stuart about the cover of his second novel Young
Mungo. From “Douglas Stuart: Booker Prize-winning author ‘feels like an
it was an ~ impostor,’” by Rebecca Jones, April 14, 2022.)
get our hopes (too) high ♦ “Alex Humphreys asks if video games should be appreciated as a form
of art.” (BBC.)
we should not ~
♦ “Is the nude selfie a new art form?” (BBC Culture.)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction ♦ “There is an almost kind of fetishization of street art these days.”
high (enthusiasm) (Banksy, etc.)
♦ “This is the 70th birthday of one of the most important works of art in
American history. (Sound of opening music to the TV show I love Lucy.)
real high Yeah, think of it as a work of art...” (Steve Inskeep, NPR, Morning
it's a ~, you just get hooked (genealogy) Edition, Feb 5 2021.)

enthusiasm: addiction ♦ “Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind signaled a shift
towards broader popcorn sensibilities.” (Versus 2001: A Space Odyssey,
high and low etc.)
♦ “In the modern United States, food sculpture is the art of the people.”
searching high and low (“A Toast To Butter Sculpture, The Art That Melts The Hearts Of The
Masses” by Tove Danovich, NPR, The Salt, June 25, 2015.)
they are ~ for him (a cop killer)
♦ He threw a three-hit masterpiece. (Baseball.)
extent & scope: ground, terrain & land / height ♦ The great Shaquille O’Neal, one of the greatest NBA players of all time,
has been referred to as the Big Baryshnikov. And Lynn Swann was
highbrow (and lowbrow, middlebrow) canonized as the Baryshnikov of football for his acrobatic receptions at
Super Bowl X.
highbrow conversations ♦ “Maybe I’ll lean into the pain narrative, write that and get a good
the Daily Mirror was filled with ~ about art and politics advance, ya’ll pay me for that, right.” (Fantasy author L.L. McKinney.)

highbrow critics hierarchy / superiority & inferiority: direction

it confounds the expectations of ~
higher-up (person)
middlebrow readers
Howells was acceptable to ~ and attuned to the avant-garde pressure from higher-ups
the recruiters are under ~ (military)
highbrow thinkers
contestants identify ~ by their fictional lowbrow digs hierarchy: direction / height / person

among the highbrows highlight (verb)

the argument didn’t stay in the academies ~ (a dispute) highlights a tension
attitude toward the highbrow the dilemma ~ within the ruling elite
contributors take an irreverent ~ (a podcast) highlighted (major) weaknesses
archaic and ‘highbrow’ the report ~ in the economy
in the US Shakespeare has the reputation of being ~ underline, highlight
♦ “JUNK SHAKESPEARE. A family-friendly version of the hit show the Soviets did not ~ the tragedy of the Jews (WWII)
“DRUNK “Shakespeare”! This Off-Broadway comedy combines a classic
Shakespeare play with extreme food challenges—trying to discover the attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark / verb
original intent of William Shakespeare. We don’t know what he was
eating...maybe it was Doritos?”

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high-minded (adjective) oceans are ~s rather than protective moats (geopolitics)
the oceans were the ~s of the late 19th century (ships)
high-minded politician the Med and Black Seas have been ~s since antiquity
it's hard to find a ~
“iceberg highways”
high-minded project one of the four major ~ that lead beyond Antarctica
he tried to raise money for his ~ (library)
ocean highway
character & personality: direction it’s a very busy ~ (Santa Barbara Channel / shipping)
mind: direction
water highway
high-powered (adjective) this mighty ~ of China (Yangtze River)

high-powered law firm well-travelled highways

he has retained a ~ and says he is innocent the rivers and streams of South Vietnam are ~
power: tools & technology became (enormous and busy) highways
the rivers ~ (Mississippi basin circa 1812)
high priest
route: infrastructure
high priest of imperialism
Winston Churchill, the ~ (opinion) highway (my way or the highway)
theory's high priest my way or the highway
General Petraeus, counterinsurgency ~… him and his edicts and his “~” (recall election)
message / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion type-A-my-way-or-the-highway (m)
he was a ~ guy
high-spirited
allegiance, support & betrayal / character & personality /
high-spirited control & lack of control / unanimity & consensus: walking,
if your child is ~, give her unstructured time running & jumping
high-spirited man hijack (verb)
a~
feeling, emotion & effect: direction
hijacked the agenda
anti-Western countries have ~ (UN)
high tide
hijacked the debate
high tide of American greatness she ~ to announce her candidacy (politics)
the ~ has passed hijacked the (electoral) process
extent & scope: sea / tide organized labor has ~ in Canadian provinces
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: sea / tide hijacked the revolution
high-water (high-water mark) his opponents fear that he has ~ (politics)

high-water mark of student activism hijacking our culture and our minds
this was the ~ (school shootings) how outrage is ~ (Shankar Vedantam)

high water mark of the (Sanders) campaign control & lack of control: crime / verb
Nevada was the ~ (politics) taking & removing: crime / verb
possession: crime / verb
high-water mark of his career
it was the ~ (sports) hijacked
high-water mark of partisanship hijacked around the world
the vote was a ~ (Republicans versus Democrats) meetings have been ~ (video-conferencing app)

high-water mark for religious participation hijacked by the (economic) elite

1962 as the ~ in the US (Life Magazine) government has been ~

extent & scope: flood hijacked by her emotions

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: flood she let herself be ~

highway (iceberg highway, etc.) hijacked by this group

the Republican Party has been ~ (the Tea Party)
highway
the Rhine is a ~ as much as a moat (Roman history) hijacked by the virus

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 T-cells spot which cells have been ~ and destroy them he said ~ he wouldn't have done it (forced to resign)
control & lack of control: crime lens of hindsight
possession / taking & removing: crime use of force should not be viewed from the 20-20 ~
hill (over the hill) perception, perspective & point of view: direction / eye
past & present / time: direction / eye / prep, adv, adj,
over-the-hill particle
♦ "He's still talented, but he's on the other side of the hill now." (Said
about an older boxer.) hinge (noun)
decline: mountains & hills hinge moment
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: mountains & this conflict is a ~, if could change world politics if...
hills
history’s hinges
hill (difficulty) Casey saw the Iraq War as a pivot point, one of ~
psychological hill development / reversal: direction / mechanism
he has a ~ to climb
hint (verb)
difficulty, easiness & effort: direction / mountains & hills
hints that
hilt (to the hilt) the study ~ the father’s age really might matter (birth)
defend itself ‘to the hilt’ evidence: speech / verb
the US will ~ in trade fictive communication: speech / verb
extent & scope: blade / sword / weapon hint (noun)
Hilton (Fontana Hilton, etc.) hint of foul play
there was no ~
Fontana Hilton
the ~, a famous shelter on the Appalachian Trail hint of an irregular trip
there is the ~ (naval officer)
Hanoi Hilton
the ~ included Heartbreak Hotel and New Guy Village evidence / fictive communication: speech
♦ Names like these are often ironic. The Fontana Hilton is a trail hut, but
it is near the parking lot at Fontana Dam, where there are hot showers. hint at (verb)
Those showers are much appreciated by trail walkers.
hints at an accident
proper name: infrastructure the radioactive cloud ~ further east (radiation leak)
Himalayan (miscalculation, etc.) hints at a growing American military role
the remote airstrip in Syria ~
Himalayan proportions
it was a mistake of ~ hints at ways
size: mountains & hills the research ~ to stop Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

himself (every man for himself) hint at where

Australian fossils ~ to search for life on Mars
every man for himself evidence: speech / verb
it’s ~, it’s keeping alive (the film On the Waterfront)
fictive communication: speech / verb
there’s no real sense of civil society, it’s sort of ~ (Greece)
they’ll work together and suddenly it’s ~ (Tour de France) hip (joined at the hip)
greed is good and it’s ~
joined at the hip
every-man-for-himself play he and the company he founded were ~ (MTK Global)
~ versus selfless team play (NBA) they usually disagreed, but on this they were ~ (a decision)
♦ “They were surrounded by troops led by Rommel... And being from
these ancient Scottish regiments with a very noble tradition, they linked at the (etymological) hip
wouldn’t surrender... And in the end it was every man for himself and “medicine” and “meditation” are ~ (mindfulness)
they all tried to scatter and break through the lines...” (Battle of St.
Valery, “the Other Dunkirk,” wonderfully talked about by the actor Hugh politically joined at the hip
Grant on NPR, Fresh Air, July 23, 2021.)
the gay-and-lesbian and trans movements became ~
competition: jungle
division & connection: health & medicine
hindsight (noun) relationship: family / health & medicine

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Hiroshima (epithet) hit (take a hit, etc.)
Ceausima taken a hit
Romanians referred to the razed areas as ~ (1980s) tourism along the Gulf has ~ (oil spill)
call “Hiroshima” took a (major) hit
a rubble-strewn terrain the locals ~ (Bucharest) her grades ~ (online learning / pandemic)
destruction: epithet / history / nuclear energy / place feeling, emotion & effect: fist / verb
hit (arrive) hit (affect)
hit the big time hit (real) hard
he ~ it ~ (a murder)

hit some (real) low points pandemic hit

I've ~ in my life once the ~, we started doing virtual visits
once the ~, nobody came, so... (ad for Microsoft Teams)
hit pay dirt
he finally ~ (a researcher) effect: fist / force / sensation / verb
on the fourth day, Fitch seemed to ~ (experiment) feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / sensation / verb

hit the eddy hit (affected)

he managed to roll up and ~ (kayaker)
hit by Covid-19 and the shutdowns
hit a plateau when these industries were ~... (pandemic)
if you slip up or ~, don't beat yourself up (weight loss)
hit hard
hit the weight room Bosnia's fragile economy was ~ by the financial crisis
he ~ (basketball) the cruise industry was ~ by the pandemic

hit middle age effect: fist / force / sensation

now that we've ~ feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / sensation

adolescence hits hit (computer)

childrearing can be difficult, especially when ~
hits on the (erotic) Web site
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: verb 5 million viewer ~
hit (hit the market, etc.) hits a day
his Web site was getting nearly 2 million ~
hitting the bookstores
new books on women and sex are ~ viewer hits
5 million ~ on the erotic Web site
hit the market
COVID-19 blood tests ~ 8,000 hits
the child-pornography site recorded ~ in 24 hours
hit (long-track) speedskating
clap skates ~ in 1997-98 5 million (viewer) hits
~ on the erotic Web site
inauguration: verb
computer: force
hit (hit $30, etc.)
hit (comprehension)
hit the mid-20s
during a hard freeze, temperatures ~ for 6-8 hours hit me
and then it ~, Joe was sick
hit the speed of sound
at 22,200 feet, the airplane ~ (jetliner in dive) comprehension & incomprehension: force / fist / verb

hit (an estimated) 140 mph hit (success)

winds ~ in Tennessee (tornadoes)
hit
hit $30 a ~ is better than a flop (Broadway)
the stock ~ before settling down to $23 (share price)
hit on (Top 40) radio
attainment: number / verb she has a fast-rising ~
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 his ~, "The Sunshine Boys" hitchhiker (noun)
hit song barnacles, sponges and other hitchhikers
recorded a ~, toured England
he found ~ (on the bottom of a boat)
hits and flops transmission: journeys & trips / movement
seeing ~ at the local movie theater;
he has had ~ (film actor) hit it off (verb)
monster hit hit it off well
the studio hasn't had a ~ since… (films) we ~, I didn’t really know him or his work (film actor)
TV hit attraction & repulsion: crashes & collisions / verb
it was a smash ~ from 1959 to 1963
hitter (heavy hitter)
Broadway hit
he chalked up about a dozen ~s heavy-hitters from the worlds
~ of sports, entertainment, and pop culture (NPR)
fast-rising hit
she has a ~ on Top 40 radio BBC’s big hitters
two more of the ~ are departing
success & failure: target / weapon
two heavy-hitters
hit (mob hit, etc.) you have ~ meeting (Rapinoe on France vs. US soccer)
hit job force: boxing / fist / sports & games
the Bloomberg article was a ~ (against a company)
hive (noun)
hit operation
it’s a progressive ~ now (Southern Poverty Law Center) hive
if the outside was dark and lonesome, the inside was a ~
political hit
the hearings were a ~ (politics) hive of activity
the marketplace is a ~
partisan hit job
this is a ~ (political kerfuffle) activity: insect

political hit job hives (noun)

how a ~ backfired
gives people (like Kennan) hives
ridiculous hitjob his opinions ~
he called the New York Times article a ~ (Carlos Watson) affliction: health & medicine
♦ A hatchet job, a hit job / piece, a drive-by...
hobble (verb)
conflict: crime / death & life / violence
accusation & criticism: crime / death & life / violence hobbled past (Labour) governments
punishment & recrimination: crime / death & life / violence the matter of military intervention has ~
hit back (verb) hobble the organization
the FBI were finally able to ~ (KKK)
hit back
prosecutors ~ in court documents (politics) constraint & lack of constraint / functioning: animal /
health & medicine / leg / movement / verb / walking,
resistance, opposition & defeat: fist
running, & jumping
hitchhike (verb)
hobbled
hitchhikes with people throughout the world
the Mediterranean recluse spider ~ hobbled by a (deadly) pandemic
the US economy has been ~
hitchhike with passengers
the virus continued to ~ from other hot spots (COVID) hobbled by (international) sanctions
Iran has been ~
‘hitchhiking’ on ships
invasive species are ~ (Antarctica) hobbled by a (debilitating) stammer
he was ~ (George VI)
transmission: journeys & trips / movement / verb
hobbled for a generation
the real-estate market is going to be ~

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constraint & lack of constraint / functioning: animal / hold (noun / possession)
health & medicine / leg / movement / walking, running &
jumping hold on power
he is trying to maintain his ~
Hobson's choice
lose its hold
presented him with a Hobson's choice Portugal held its monopoly, but then began to ~
the crisis ~ (response to caving fatality)
♦ Thomas Hobson was an English liveryman who required every
losing their hold
customer to take the horse nearest the door. It means an apparently free residents are ~ on the middle class (recession)
choice when there is really no alternative.
possession: hand
♦ “Health officials have said the best vaccine is the one you’re offered.”
(Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Moderna, etc.) fictive possession: hand

alternatives & choices: allusion hold (close held, etc.)

hog (verb) close held
it’s ~, few people have read this (a report)
hog photo spots
they ~ so no-one else can enjoy them (Instagram tourists) concealment & lack of concealment: cards / gambling /
sports & games / hand
behavior: animal / verb
hold (take hold)
hogtie (verb)
take hold
hogties U.S. counter-proliferation strategy the trend could ~ in other states (declaring bankruptcy)
diplomatic dialogue only ~ (with North Korea)
taking hold
constraint & lack of constraint: animal / verb competitive instincts are ~ (classroom)
hold (the future can hold something) take hold in Spain
when liberal ideas began to ~
holds
nobody knows what the future ~ take hold in the community
I am optimistic about what the future ~ we don't want extremist elements to ~
getting people to prepare for what a warmer climate ~
began to take hold
hold the idea ~
so what does the future ~ for the Supreme Court
beginning to take hold
future / time: container / verb democracy is ~
hold (long-held) failed to take hold
democracy has ~
long-held assumptions
challenge ~ about… contagion took hold
~ (Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, Massachusetts)
long-held practice
it dropped its ~ of… (way a company orders goods) drugs took hold
AIDS cases fell as new, more effective ~
long-held resentments
she was a creature of her ~ growth & development: hand / verb
fictive possession: hand / verb
long-held tradition
abandoning such a ~ is heresy hold (on hold)
possession: hand on hold
hold (verb / possession) negotiations are ~
his life in the sky has been ~ (crash with fatalities)
held him in its grip many Afghan lives now seem to be ~ (Taliban takeover)
the current ~ recovery efforts are on hold
hold its monopoly ~ because of dangerous conditions (avalanches)
Portugal ~, but then began to lose its hold put our relationship on hold
possession: hand / verb we had to ~
fictive possession: hand / verb action, inaction & delay / situation: hand

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hold back (restraint) he ~

hold back holding on to hope

they’re ~ that they will find survivors (building collapse)
Spike Lee did not ~ during the press conference
hold back at the United Nations held on to its role
the department has ~ as… (State Department)
she didn’t ~ (Greta Thunberg’s “How Dare You” speech)
restraint & lack of restraint: arm / verb held on to his people's ancient religion
Nicholas Black Elk, who ~ when it was actively suppressed
feeling, emotion & effect: arm / verb
(Oglala)
hold back (obstacle)
hold on to her sanity
held them back her work enables her to ~ (an activist)
another policy that women believe ~
hold on to my senses
holding you back I am trying to ~, to fend off the black dog (depression)
do you think I'm ~
hold on to that
hold her back if I ~, I’ll never be able to move on (a boxer and a defeat)
the fact that she is shy needn't ~ (toddler) attachment / possession: hand / verb
obstacles & impedance: arm / verb
hold out (persist)
constraint & lack of constraint: arm / verb
hold in (emotions) hold out for real change
the parents hope protesters will ~ (Sandy Hook murders)
hold it in survival, persistence & endurance: verb
don't ~ (emotions)
resistance, opposition & defeat: verb
feeling, emotion & effect: container / verb
hold out (offer)
hold off (verb)
held out the promise
held off the future California ~ of a better life for migrants
they ~ by building a fragile present from pieces of the past giving, receiving, bringing & returning: hand / verb
obstacles & impedance: arm / verb
hold up (rob)
resistance, opposition & defeat: arm / verb
hold on (survival) hold up corporations
activists can ~
hold on taking & removing: crime / verb
controller said to ~ (soldiers waiting to be exfiltrated)
the Maasai won't be able to ~ much longer ♦ “[M]inority activists can ‘hold up’ (in both senses of the idiom)
corporations, raising objections that can be overcome with
~ (911 operator to 9/11 caller) compensation.” (“The Inequality of ‘Equity,’” by Christopher Caldwell,
just ~, there will be tomorrow (Maria Carey) National Review, May 17, 2021.)

held on to win hold up (obstruct)

AC Milan ~ the title… (soccer)
holding me up
strength to hold on you are ~
I ask God to give me ~ (mother of missing kid)
obstacles & impedance: hand / verb
♦ “The worst part is behind us, we are seeing a new dawn, hold on, have
faith, because good days are coming.” holdup (noun)
♦ “Keep your eye on the prize, hold on.” (A moving song from the Civil
Rights era of the 1960s.) holdup
♦ “Keep your hand on that plow, and hold on.” (A moving Negro spiritual.) come on, what's the ~
survival, persistence & endurance: hand / verb obstacles & impedance: hand
resiliency: hand / verb action, inaction & delay: hand
hold on to (verb) hole (feeling)
hold on to faith hole in my heart
in the hell of war, how does a chaplain ~ it left a huge ~ (loss of a baby)
holds on to grievances hole in my life

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 it left a ~ that won't ever be filled (loss of her mother) we have ~ (budget deficit)
feeling, emotion & effect: hole fill in that hole
it will take a lot more jobs to ~ (unemployment)
hole (flaw)
get out of this (demographic) hole
holes in her game it’s going to be so hard to ~ (aging people, low birth rate)
there are no ~ (tennis player Emma Raducanu)
♦ First law of holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
security hole ♦ “If you dig a hole for your brother, you will fall down in it.” (Said in Saudi
the break-ins exploited ~ on these systems (computers) Arabia.)
the ~s have now been plugged (computers) involvement / situation: container / hole
gaping hole holed up
the case has ~s in it
holed up in his (Ramallah) compound
full of holes Arafat remained ~ for 2 years
your theory is ~ (discussion comment)
holed up in a (hotel) room
shoot holes in the study he is ~ after being attacked (a reporter abroad)
skeptics have been quick to ~ (science)
protection & lack of protection: animal / fox / ground,
blew a (sizable) hole in the stock terrain & land / hole
his report ~ of the high-flying, high-tech company
flaws & lack of flaws: hole
hole up (verb)
hole (tree hole) holed up
and that’s where we ~ (musicians record in bedroom)
at a tree hole protection & lack of protection: animal / fox / ground,
people can post secrets for strangers to read ~ terrain & land / hole / verb
♦ People can reveal secrets for strangers to read at several “tree hole”
sites on Weibo. holic (shopaholic, etc.)
♦ An actual tree hole used for secret communication features in the
beloved book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. shopaholic
I was a ~
concealment & lack of concealment: tree she was a ~ (designer clothes)
computer: tree
workaholic
hole (situation) I was a ~
hole of addiction behavior: addiction / affix / alcohol
it’s easy to fall into a ~ (skateboarding)
hollow (hollow promises, etc.)
job hole
we’re still in a deep, deep ~ (unemployment) hollow promise
the joint agreement was a ~ (diplomacy)
deeper hole
I want him to dig a ~ for himself with his mouth hollow victory
it’s a ~ (boxing / an impaired contestant)
demographic hole
it’s going to be so hard to get out of this ~ hollow and self-serving
their platform is ~ (politics)
financial hole
he had to declare bankruptcy to get out of his ~ hollow, cynical and inauthentic
he is often dismissed as ~ (a politician)
climb out of their hole
will they be able to ~ (losing team) proved hollow
the pledge ~ (U.N.)
dig a (deeper) hole
I want him to ~ for himself with his mouth rings hollow
his argument ~ to many
dug herself out of the hole that is an argument that ~ (a bad argument)
she finally ~ (financial)
sounded hollow
digging ourselves into a hole his speech ~ (president)
we could be ~, for a very long time...
speech / substance & lack of substance: air / atmosphere
dug ourselves into a hole / materials & substances

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hollowed out fantasy & reality: film

hollowed out
holocaust
key programs were ~ under the administration nuclear holocaust
with the State Department ~, the military is driving policy the spread of an ice sheet is more deadly to life than a ~
enforcement has been hollowed out racial holocaust
ATF ~ (politics) Fidel Castro accused Paris of carrying out a "~"
weakened and hollowed out ♦ "The use of 'holocaust' by Mr. Castro demonstrates his ignorance of
history and disdain towards its victims. Such words are unacceptable."
America’s local newspapers have been ~ (French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero, responding to
comments by Fidel Castro that France's deportation of Roma in 2010
becomes hollowed out amounted to a 'racial holocaust.'")
without the rush and brush and crush of the world, one ~
destruction: allusion / history
getting hollowed out
the middle class is ~ in America home (home of golf, etc.)
♦ “Without the rush and brush and crush of the world, one becomes
hollowed out. The cavity fills with envy.” (Cynthia Ozick, on the isolation home of golf
of being a writer without success.) St. Andrews is the ~
attenuation / strength & weakness: tree home of the great steamships
hollow out (verb) Wuhan, ~ of the Yangtze
home of whisky
hollowed out enforcement Scotland is the ~ and has the greatest expertise
years of budget cuts have ~ of the nation’s tax laws
spiritual home
hollow it out the Maracanã is the ~ of world football (hallowed turf)
the Supreme Court will reverse or ~ (Row v. Wade)
location / origin: house / place
hollow out abortion rights
legal restrictions designed to ~ home (home to)
hollowed out the island’s rural towns home to one of the island’s largest cathedrals
the recession has ~ (Puerto Rico) the city was ~ (Arecibo, Puerto Rico)
attenuation / strength & weakness: tree / verb home to an exhibition
Derry’s Tower Museum is ~ of the discovery (a galleon)
Hollywood (Hollywood of Africa, etc.)
home to a (vast) collection
Hollywood of Africa the museum is ~ of archives
Ouarzazate, sometimes called the ~ (Gladiator, etc.)
home to all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks
Bollywood Central Asia is ~
she was known as the Nightingale of ~ (Lata Mangeshkar)
home to a (major Soviet) listening station
Nollywood during the Cold War, it was ~ (Cuba / SIGINT)
Hollywood, Bollywood, make way for ~ (Nigerian films)
location: house / place
achievement, recognition & praise: epithet
home (home in Islam, etc.)
Hollywood (Hollywood ending, etc.)
home in Islam
Hollywood ending people who found a ~
this is a ~ (strike by IATSE averted = happy ending)
lucrative, satisfying home
Hollywood fantasy I had a ~ (an actor in a successful TV series)
that’s not ~ any more (robotic bees)
protection & lack of protection: house
♦ “I bet more Marines have joined the Corps because of Full Metal
Jacket than because of any fucking recruiting commercial.” / “And that’s
an antiwar film.” / “Nothing’s an antiwar film,” I say. “There’s no such
home (home for the archive, etc.)
thing.” (From the brilliant short story “War Stories” in Redeployment by
Phil Klay.) home for the archive
♦ According to Justin Chang, “The great French director Francois
a proper final ~
Truffaut once said there was no such thing as an anti-war film, because
it’s in the nature of war films to valorize the spectacle of armed combat.” final home
(“’1917’ Is A Mind-Boggling Technological Achievement—But Not A a proper ~ for the archive
Great Film,” NPR, Fresh Air, January 15, 2020.)
future home

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 ~ of First National Bank and Trust Homeric struggle
he lost a ~ (sculling)
permanent home
temporary premises vs. a ~ (museum) stern, erect, Homeric
whales making a ~ in the Gulf of Mexico he stood over his foe, ~ (a fight)
proper (final) home superlative: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
a ~ for the archive comparison & contrast: affix
location / place: house home run (success)
home (hit home) home run for Ford
the new car has become a ~
hit home
I have a brother who's an addict so it ~ home-run line
it was a ~ (a memorable line in a speech)
feeling, emotion & effect: house / verb
effect / proximity: house / verb conservation home run
home (close to home) it was a ~ (fishery rebounds)
hit a home run
hit (very) close to home you ~ (successful proposal)
this has ~ (a school shooting) this is an opportunity for us to ~ (an initiative)
feeling, emotion & effect / proximity: house success & failure: baseball / sports & games
home (feel at home) home run (swing for a home run, etc.)
feel at home swinging for the fences
Americans never ~, even in their houses he is ~ (a restaurateur)
felt at home swinging for a home run
for the first time in his life, he ~ (athlete on team) Trump is ~ (final status peace in Middle East)
she had to leave her orphanage, where she had ~
success & failure: baseball / sports & games / verb
feels at home in Japan commitment & determination: baseball / sports & games /
he ~ (a Latin baseball player) verb
feel at home with my relatives difficulty, easiness & effort: baseball / sports & game /
I don't ~ verb

feel most at home homestretch (noun)

I ~ in the gym (a boxer) homestretch of the (US mid-term) elections
♦ Home is where the heart is! race-baiting allegations have mired the ~
feeling, emotion & effect / welcome: house in the homestretch
Homeric (adjective) this is crunch time, we’re ~ (election campaign)
in the final stretch
Homeric aspirations
we are ~ (election campaign)
he left Oxford with ~ ( a politician)
development / starting, going, continuing & ending: horse /
Homeric battle
sports & games
the two teams engaged in a ~ (football)
Homeric curse
homework (noun)
he remembers the ~ of the truck drivers (Little Athens) homework
show that you have done your ~ by… (job interview)
Homeric epic
her work is described as a ~ about… did their homework
they ~ before creating the Mach-E SUV (an ad)
Homeric life
he wanted to live a more ~ (Classics grad joins the army) do your homework
~ before you buy…
Homeric proportions ~ and don't make assumptions
an armada of ~ invaded Sicily (World War II)
do (all) your homework
Homeric retreat you try to ~ (preparing for NCY marathon)
the climbing party's ~ down K2 is legendary
readiness & preparedness: school & education

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honcho (leader) ♦ The cells in a honeycomb structure are usually columnar and
hexagonal (6-sided).

honcho of The New York Times shape: animal / insect

the new head ~ is Joseph Kahn
honeycomb (verb)
hedge fund honcho
~ Daniel Loeb: stop spreading fear at Sony honeycombed the island with bunkers
Taiwan’s military ~
♦ According to Merriam-Webster, this is Japanese for “leader of the
squad, section, group,” and was brought back from Japan by U.S.
soldiers after World War II. In its original meaning, it seems to be the
configuration: animal / insect / verb
Japanese equivalent of the French doyen.
honeycombed
♦ Soka Gakkai, a modern version of Buddhism, was brought to the US by
Japanese war brides. honeycombed with caves
power: person the cliffs are ~

hone (verb) honeycombed with mines

the mountain is ~, many over a century old (Chile)
honing her (observational) gifts
she has been ~ for 50 years (the artist Catherine Murphy) honeycombed with tombs
this area is ~ (Judean foothills south of Jerusalem)
honed a sense
he has ~ of "radical informality" (a leader) honeycombed with tunnels and bunkers
North Korea is ~
hone their skills
they ~ in Iraq and then go elsewhere (terrorists) configuration: animal / insect

hone (job) skills honeymoon (noun)

as more Americans return to school to ~ honeymoon
hone their technique the ~ didn't last (teacher on job)
the hole is perfect for those wishing to ~ (kayaking) honeymoon between the media and police
develop and hone the end to the ~ (leak)
they practice a lot to ~ their routines (cheerleaders) honeymoon period
amelioration & renewal: blade / knife / verb his ~ is clearly over (an elected official)

honed voter honeymoon

he still basks in a ~ (a politician)
finely honed (m)
he demonstrates ~ political instincts (a diplomat) end to the honeymoon
the ~ between the news media and police (leak)
functioning: blade / knife
condition & status: blade / knife honeymoon didn’t last
at first things were great, but the ~ (a new teacher)
honey (honey, baby, etc.) ♦ “She wasn’t prepared for the honeymoon shocker... a snoring spouse.”
honey ♦ “She disappeared on their honeymoon in Jordan.”
hey, ~…
conflict: love, courtship & marriage
honey, baby, sweetie feeling, emotion & effect: love, courtship & marriage
he addresses me as ~ and other inappropriate names starting, going, continuing & ending: love, courtship &
marriage
vocative: taste
honey-tongued
honeycomb (shape)
honey-tongued
honeycomb cardboard the ~ French major
packaging materials such as ~
speech: taste / tongue
honeycomb mold
the glass flowed into a ~ (telescope mirror) hood (look under the hood, etc.)
honeycomb structure looked under the hood
~s are widely used in the aerospace industry he ~ of the Chrome web browser (privacy investigator)
honeycomb weathering digging under the hood
rocks and bones can display ~ they are ~ (investigators / how company operates)

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look under the hood to understand ♦ "Oxygen set a new standard by doing Grade 4 and Grade 5 jumps.
They remain the greatest tower jumps in Czech history."
Google doesn’t ~ who these companies are (trackers)
♦ “And ever since that day migration has had its hooks in me, raptors
kicking the tires, and looking under the hood have had their hooks in me...” (A 12-year-old Scott Weidensaul sitting on
Hawk Mountain with a strong northwest wind blowing on “one of the best
Microsoft is ~ of Tik-Tok (possible merger) migration days of the fall.”)
searching & discovery: engine enthusiasm: addiction / fish
analysis, interpretation & explanation: engine
hook up (connect)
hook (off the hook)
hooked up with Lashkar-e-Taiba
off the hook for now through friends in Durham, he ~ (group)
he might be ~, but… (criminal investigation)
division & connection: tools & technology / verb
got him off the hook
his lawyers ~ (acquittal) hook up (relationship)
let him off the hook hook up with her
don't ~ (prosecutor to jury) I might ~ sometime later down the road

let Real off the hook hooked up with her ex-boyfriend

City ~... (City won, but blew first-leg big lead) rumors that she might have ~

let them off the hook hooked up with a friend

she likes them, but she doesn't ~ he ~ who... (camping)

pursuit, capture & escape: fish / justice hook up online

punishment & recrimination: fish / justice as more people ~ (long-distance relationships)
hook (Hook of Holland, etc.) social interaction: tools & technology
Hook of Holland hookup (sex)
he walked from the ~ through the Low Countries to...
hookup
proper name: shape ~s are happening while on the job (sex)
hook (hook, line and sinker) with a ~, it's about instant gratification (young woman)

swallowed his story hook, line and sinker hookup in Japan

I~ a ~ is called a take-out (sex)

consumption / extent & scope: fish / food & drink homosexual hook-ups
acceptance & rejection: fish / food & drink the Minneapolis airport is known as a site for ~

hooked (enthusiasm) site for (homosexual) hookups

the Minneapolis airport is known as a ~
hooked
sex: tools & technology
I started with a free trial and then I was ~ (brand)
hooked on raptors
hoop (jump through hoops, etc.)
I got ~ because birds of prey are majestic, awe-inspiring cumbersome bureaucratic hoops
hooked on (American) TV you have to jump through ~ and wait days (healthcare)
he got ~ (diplomat's son) jump through hoops
hooked on social media or even an unboxing video they make you ~ to get a good rate (banks)
kids who are ~ jump through (superhuman) hoops
completely hooked you must ~ to become “one of the good ones” (immigrants)
I got ~ on viruses (a scientist) difficulty, easiness & effort / obstacles & impedance: circus
get hooked / sports & games / verb
when you're a young musician you ~ on a phrase hoover (hoover up, etc.)
it’s a real high, you just ~ (genealogy)
hoovering up (all of these) influences
got hooked Biden was ~ (Kennedy, Kinnock)
he ~ on the game (Cow Clicker)
he tried backcountry once last year and ~ (skiing) hoovering up talent
♦ "I love maps, and when you get hooked, you get hooked." (W. Graham big clubs have been ~
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taking & removing: mechanism / verb the ~ is at the southern end of South America
hop (verb) ♦ Towers (the Trango Towers); tooths (The Tooth near Seattle);
cathedrals (the Baltoro Cathedrals); spires (the Lobsang Spires); spurs
(the Abruzzi Spur), peaks (Broad Peak); horns (the Matterhorn),
hopping pyramids (Carstensz Pyramid / Puncak Jaya); pinnacles; pillars; crags;
the stockyards were ~ during the war (Chicago) domes (Half Dome); knobs (Huckleberry Knob); balds (Hooper Bald);
monoliths (El Capitan, Shiprock, Stone Mountain)…
the city of Memphis is ~ this month (civic festivals)
activity: movement / verb / walking, running & jumping shape: animal / horn
movement: animal / verb / walking, running & jumping horn (Horn of Africa, etc.)
hop (hop across, etc.) the Horn
hopped the ocean Eritrea and Ethiopia are the pole around which ~ moves
it has now ~ and arrived in Latin America (banana fungus) Horn of Africa
transmission: movement / verb / walking, running & over 90 million people inhabit the ~
jumping Cape Horn
horde (people) the ~ is at the southern end of South America
bedrock of the Horn
internet horde Eritrea and Ethiopia are the ~
he and the ~ discovered this and... (conspiracy theorists)
♦ This originally referred to groups of Asian nomads, for example, the proper name: animal / horn / shape
Golden Horde. geography: animal / horn / proper name / shape
amount / group, set & collection: history horn (lock horns)
horizon (on the horizon) lock horns
former champions ~, they are to go head to head (Scrabble)
on the horizon
there's no miracle cure ~ lock horns with (the inexperienced) Zelensky
a solution is not yet ~ (nuclear waste) Poroshenko would love to ~ (a debate)
with the threat of a war ~ (with Iran)
a wedding is ~, she says… (celebrity) locked horns in the debate
American sanctions are ~ (diplomacy) the three leaders ~
what’s next ~ for you (question to a celebrity)
lock horns in (television) debate
on the immediate horizon assembly candidates ~
children are not ~ (an actor)
lock horns over spy charges
see the collapse on the horizon China and US ~
we can ~
lock horns over whether
see anything on the horizon Betty and Mark ~ Bono should... (TV)
I don't ~ (a change in the law in the future)
locked horns on the economy
future / time: distance / eye / horizon / sky Labour and Conservative politicians ~ (BBC debate)
horizon (expand one's horizons) lock horns with him over whether
they will ~ LSD allows access to a deeper reality
expand his horizons (discussion)
he wanted to ~ (oilman working in Nigeria)
Oxford and Cambridge lock horns
experience: earth & world / horizon / sky live coverage as ~ (Boat Race)
horizon (extent and scope) conflict: animal / crashes & collisions / head / horn / verb
widening (strategic) horizons hornet's nest
the naval deploy is a clear sign of Iran's ~ (the Med)
hornet's nest of (antiaircraft) fire
extent & scope: horizon / sky the Apache helicopters ran into a ~ (Iraq)
horn (shape) hornet's nest of (surface-to-surface) missile
Baghdad's air defenses were a ~
Horn of Africa
over 90 million people inhabit the ~ hornet's nest of (local) politics
he stepped into a ~ and got stung (President)
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poke a stick in the hornet’s nest hyperbole: bodily reaction
what we did was to ~ (investigation)
horrified
stumbled into a hornet’s nest
she ~ (criticised transgender athletes) easily horrified
you are ~ (“join the discussion” snark)
activity / environment: animal / insect
hyperbole: bodily reaction
conflict /danger: animal / insect
horrific (adjective) horrifying (adjective)
horrific truly horrifying
the footage is ~, a terrorist attack (2021 US Capitol riot) this is ~
this season could be ‘~’ (tick season and Lyme disease) ♦ “This is truly horrifying.” (Polina Edmunds, speaking on NPR to Scott
Simon about the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva at the Beijing
horrific agenda Winter Olympics, after Valieva finished fourth in a skating event.
their ~ (an anti-abortion group) ♦ “I stopped watching, reading and listening to the media hype when I
heard the players being called ‘heroes’ after the Germany game. Get a
horrific (travel) conditions grip BBC.” (Grommy on the BBC HYS on the eve of England vs. Ukraine,
Euro 2020.)
Chinese New Year brings celebration, ~
hyperbole: bodily reaction
horrific (budget) crunch
most states are in the middle of a ~ hors de combat
‘horrific’ editorial hors de combat
she has sued the paper for its ~ (politics) Dmetri, too, was ~ (Terra Nova expedition in Antarctica)
horrific experience ♦ Out of combat; unable to perform duty.
it was a ~ (slow Black female golfers kicked off course) condition & status / functioning / presence & absence:
horrific infection military
Guinea worm is a ~ horse (hold your horses)
horrific looking
hold your horses
it was quite ~ (a beautiful frilled shark)
~, we got it right here… (a good boxing show)
fundamentally horrific eagerness & reluctance: animal / horse / verb
something ~ has happened (cleaning crew erases artwork)
control & lack of control: animal / horse / verb
called the graffiti “horrific” horse (get back on the horse)
Mayor Robert Garcia ~ (on a statue)
get back (up) on the horse
calls the situation “just horrific”
it’s important to ~ (Simon Biles / Tokyo Olympics)
Ruth ~ (Ruth Madoff, wife of Bernard Madoff)
♦ “And I think that that’s the frame that we should that I at least take into resiliency: animal / horse / verb
so many of the problems that we see in our society. It’s like, well, ya
know, we are working to end mass incarceration. We are working to end horse (switch horses)
poverty or we are working to end all these horrific things...” (Clint Smith,
author of How The Word Is Passed. From “Why Juneteenth Isn’t Taught switched horses
In Schools—And What That Means For Our Understanding Of Slavery”
with Tonya Mosley, wbur, June 15, 2021.) progressive school reformers have ~ (tactics)
♦ “Geoff Nunberg deconstructs this word in “‘Horrific’ And ‘Surreal’: The allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / horse / verb
Words We Use To Bear Witness,” NPR, Fresh Air, April 26, 2013.)
♦ "Oh for goodness sake. Anyone would think you were dying. You've horse (high horse)
only got suspected leprosy." (A British nurse to a terrified English patient
just returned from Afghanistan who is howling in pain, delirious with high (though not very reliable) horse of privilege
fever, and covered in enormous black lumps.) the foreigner tends to ride upon the ~ (in Asia)
♦ “I heard yesterday that there is a military hospital hidden in the forest
for the soldiers who have had their faces shot away. They apparently judgmental high horse
look so horrific that ordinary people can’t even look at them. Things like people are quick to jump on the ~
that make me despair.” (Elfriede Kuhr, a young German schoolgirl. From
The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund.)
come down from your high horse
hyperbole: bodily reaction you can ~ now (an overdose death)

horrifically superiority & inferiority: animal / height / horse

horrifically offensive horse (horse in the race)

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 I’m not a Democrat and ~ (comment message) hostage (other)
see also dog (dog in the fight)
hostage to (larger) forces
involvement: animal / horse / sports & games architecture is always ~ (high-rise success or failure)
horse (back the wrong horse) holding us hostage
backed the wrong horse the weather is ~ (emergency response)
he ~, Clinton trounced Bush (John Major) take yourself hostage
allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / gambling / horse / don't ~ to your own fears (reaction to terrorism)
verb constraint & lack of constraint: crime
horse (the willing horse, etc.) hostile (adjective)
willing horse hostile (work) environment
the ~ is overworked (in human organizations) she abused her power as our boss, she created a ~
work & duty: animal / horse hostile way
horseshoe (shape) she crossed a line by airing her views in a ~
bitter, angry and hostile
horseshoe of the Carpathians
he was ~ (sick man with undiagnosed illness)
every superstition is gathered into the ~
shape: horse crazy and hostile
Boston Celtic fans are ~ (NBA)
horse-trading
became more hostile
horse-trading we found that the language ~ (a study)
this ~ is disgraceful (politics) ♦ "Albert Sabin... turned to me and said, 'Now Dr. Salk, you should know
better than to ask a question like that.' It was like being kicked in the
position, policy & negotiation: horse / money teeth. I could feel the resistance and the hostility and the disapproval. I
never attended a single one of those meetings afterward without that
host (host of questions, etc.) same feeling." (Dr. Jonas Salk on being put in his place by Albert Sabin
at a meeting.)
host of questions ♦ “Our children are trained to operate in a combat zone, in a hostile
Democrats have a whole ~ environment.” (School-shooting drills.)
♦ “AFFAIRS IN MINNESOTA / Movements of the Hostile Sioux Indians /
host of symptoms ...They rushed on to the camp with that unearthly scream and yell
they have suffered a ~, including... (Gulf War Syndrome) peculiar to their race... This shouting is done on purpose to terrify their
opponents, and give them an exaggerated idea of their strength.
amount: military Whatever the strength of the assaulting party was, it is sufficient to say
they were repulsed, but not before they had killed one enlisted man of
hostage (held hostage) the Seventh Minnesota Volunteers, and one boy. Two women were
wounded and three or four men...[The] Indians carried away with them
several horses. Col. Miller, upon being informed of this unfortunate
held hostage to the unions event, immediately sent a force of well-mounted cavalry in pursuit, and if
the city is ~ (transportation unions) the redskins are captured they will be summarily dealt with. This outrage
has again stricken the inhabitants of the border settlements with terror,
held hostage to (political) posturing and many are fleeing from an expected crusade of the savages...”
(Correspondence of the New-York Times, May 1, 1863.)
reform has been ~
♦ ATTACK ON BRITISH TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN. / Bombay, April
held hostage by the (culinary) canon 18. / Intelligence has been received that a considerable force of hostile
Pathans have attacked and massacred a small party of British troops in
he is not ~ (a chef) the vicinity of Quettah. The party included the British officer
commanding. The enemy have since followed up the attack by blocking
held hostage by (union) demands the high road between Quettah and Candahar. Strong detachments have
public education is ~ been despatched against them from both places.” (The Brisbane Courier,
Tuesday, April 20, 1880.)
held hostage by elites ♦ “A machine gunner scans for hostiles while his helicopter is on patrol
democracy is ~ (Africa) over the Mekong Delta.” (Music of Vietnam, YouTube)

held hostage by politicians behavior / conflict / feeling, emotion & effect: military /
we're being ~ who don't know how we survive society
held hostage by (politically powerful) interest groups hot (controversial)
their budgets are ~ (universities)
hot
constraint & lack of constraint: crime the issue has gotten so ~ that...
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hot (emotion) hot-blooded (adjective)
hot temper hot-blooded crime
he had a ~ (an executive / verbal abuse) it was a ~, not a cold-blooded one, if you will
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature hot-blooded fits of anger
his ~, spewed in Spanish (beloved I Love Lucy TV show)
hot (activity)
hot-blooded Romeos
hottest (real estate) markets ~, looking for the perfect mate
during the housing boom, Florida was the ~ in the world
character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect: blood /
hot mess temperature
see hot mess
hot dog (person)
hot mike
she was caught on a ~ hot dog
he's a ~
hot mic
a ~ caught the candidates trading accusations character & personality: dog / person / temperature
~s are just a hot mess (Nato meeting embarrassment)
a ~ picked up his remarks about... (TV commentator) hothead (person)
activity: temperature hothead
he's a ~
hot (popularity, attention, etc.)
message for the hotheads
hot favorite here’s a ~ in the community (stand-your-ground killing)
Holloway was the ~ (Tokyo Olympics)
person: head / temperature
hot prospect behavior / character & personality / control & lack of
she is already a ~ for nomination to the Supreme Court control / feeling, emotion & effect: head / person /
temperature
hottest trends
cryotherapy has become one of the ~ in health, wellness hotheaded (and hot-headed)
♦ “Right now the California desert is the hottest place and I’m not talking
about the weather.” (The 2022 Coachella Music Festival kicks off.) hotheaded (political) aspirant
he's a ~
attention, scrutiny & promotion: temperature
hotheaded ways
hotbed (noun) he was known for his ~
hotbed of racism behavior / character & personality / control & lack of
stereotypes of Mississippi as a ~ (civil-rights activists) control / feeling, emotion & effect: head / temperature
hotbed of revolt hothouse (noun)
the region has been a ~
musical hothouse
hotbed of extremism the Dominican Republic is a ~
a reputation as a ~ (a university)
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
hotbed for al Qaeda activity creation & transformation: farming & agriculture / plant
Yemen is a ~
hotly
hotbed of volcanic activity
Iceland is a ~ hotly anticipated
boxing fans look forward to the ~ rematch
cyclo-cross hotbed
New England is a ~ (bicycling) hotly debated
this question has been ~ for decades
reputation as a hotbed
it has a ~ of extremism (a Saudi university) hotly contested
♦ A hotbed is a garden enclosed by glass and fertilized with manure. In BASE jumping is a ~ issue (Yosemite Valley)
such an environment plants grow rapidly.
hotly disputed
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant nuclear reactor safety is a ~ issue
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hot mess (person) surfing hotspot
they have turned Yakutat, Alaska into a ~
hot mess
I admit it, I’ve been a ~ lately skateboarding hot spot
being in your 20s is a ~, a mad time the Tampa Bay area is a ~
drugs, alcohol and low self-esteem turned her into a ~ global hotspot
person: hygiene / temperature the Congo basin is a ~ for thunderstorms (meteorology)
character & personality: hygiene / person / temperature newest hotspot
hot mess (situation, etc.) L.A.'s ~ for celebrities

hot mess piracy hotspot

I didn’t understand what that article said, it was a ~ the Gulf of Guinea is the world’s most dangerous ~
it’s a ~, c’mon guys, get it together (school policy) turned Yakutat into a (surfing) hotspot
flaws & lack of flaws / situation: hygiene they have ~ (Alaska)

hot seat (noun) activity / location / place: temperature

in a hot seat
hot water (in hot water)
the CEO of Boeing is back ~ on Capitol Hill (crashes) in hot water with my dad
in the hotseat with regulators I'm ~
Facebook is also ~ because... in hot water with that woman
accusation & criticism / judgment: crime / electricity / I'm already ~ (an authority figure)
justice / temperature in hot water for the crime
hotshot (noun) he now finds himself ~

hotshot in (judicial) hot water

she finds herself ~
he's a ~
hot-shot (account) executive finds himself in hot water
he now ~
a~
♦ “The engineers were formed into three divisions, and some get me into hot water
experiments were made with red-hot shot... / Artillery salvoes more my pride and stubbornness ~ once in a while
tremendous, if possible, than ever were now directed from Gibraltar;
incessant showers of red-hot balls of every calibre, of flaming carcases,
and shells of every species, flew from all quarters... / From the
gotten in hot water
depressed guns the red-hot globes of iron seemed to streak the air with he has ~ lately for his tweets (auto executive)
red lines as they went on their errand of destruction... / Upward of 8,000
rounds (more than half of which were red-hot shot) and 716 barrels of keep me in hot water
powder, were expended by our artillery.” (Gibraltar. From British Battles you ~ all the time (George to Lennie / Of Mice and Men)
On Land and Sea by James Grant.)

person: weapon
landed him in hot water
his unapologetic remarks on issues have frequently ~
behavior: hunting / person / weapon
character & personality: hunting / person / weapon situation: heating water / temperature / water
hotspot (place) Houdini
hotspot for celebrities veritable Houdini
L.A.'s newest ~ Swallow was a ~ (William Swallow, Australian convict)
hotspot for migrants ♦ “My dad wasn’t Harry Houdini, but he managed to disappear out of my
life before I knew him.” (The football player Keith McCants, referring to
Melilla became a ~, just like the Balkans the famous escape artist.)

L.A.'s (newest) hotspot pursuit, capture & escape: allusion / epithet

~ for celebrities
hound (autograph hound, etc.)
Hollywood hotspot
she stays clear of ~s autograph hound
an ~
disease hotspot
the Lyme ~ was a goldmine of research gossip hounds
~ wondered if she was doomed in love and marriage
selfie hotspot
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 joy for ~ falling in love with backcountry skiing hour (timeliness)
publicity hound hour
a pack of bizarre ~s (public meetings)
the ~ is getting late
yes he’s an opportunist, yes he’s a ~ (a lawyer)
early hours
pack of (bizarre publicity) hounds
I know it’s ~ but...
a ~ (public meetings)
enthusiasm: dog / hunting / person
eleventh hour
why did she wait until the ~ to reveal this
hound (verb) it’s disingenuous to wait until the ~ (politics)
they didn’t bring this to us until the ~ (labor talks)
hounded Congress to pass their measures
they ~ (U.S. presidents FDR and JFK) 11th-hour
Samra made no ~ appeals to the court (executed)
hounded Zhao
U.S. federal agents ~ (a Chinese national) golden hour
a clock starts ticking on what is called the ~
harassed and hounded the "~", when life can hang in the balance
bill collectors ~ me, it was horrible
"Golden Hour"
affliction: animal / dog / hunting / verb if treatment is available within the first ~ of injury
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / dog / hunting / verb
hour is getting late
hounded (dogged) so let us stop talking falsely now, the ~
hounded with questions time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: hour
candidates have been ~ about whether... (politics)
hour (of one's hour / of the hour)
hounded from their lands
Native Americans were ~ heroes of the hour
Johansen was one of the ~ (along with Nansen)
hounded until his death
he was dragged to a court and ~ man of the hour
he is the ~ (FBI director gives Congressional testimony)
hounded by allegations
he has been ~ of unethical business dealings question of the hour
women suffrage was the burning ~ (late 1860s)
hounded by “the footnote police”
he said he was being ~ (a politician / plagiarism) past & present / time: day
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
hounded by scammers
lottery winners are ~ and sometimes robbed or killed hourglass (shape)
hounded by investigators and the media hourglass figure
he has been ~ the ~ shape

hounded and hunted hourglass-shaped

the gang is on the run, ~ by the law the Bottleneck, an ~ gully beneath a serac (on K2)

paparazzi-hounded shape: clock / tools & technology

what it’s like to be a ~ celebrity hourglass (time)
affliction: animal / dog / hunting
hourglass
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / dog / hunting
the sand is running through the ~ (approaching deadline)
hour (finest hour, etc.) timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock / mechanism
finest hour time: mechanism
this was his ~ (soccer player scores important goal) house (a house in order)
Liberal Hour fiscal house
it was the ~, when liberalism was at its ascendancy (1960s)
we must get our ~ in order
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / superlative /
put your house in order
time: hour
~ before you condemn others
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 the church must ~ (pedophile priests) the batterer may ~ and refuse to leave the patient (ED)
get our own house in order hovers
we need to ~when it comes to data governance (hacking) the fear that he might recognize me still ~
amelioration & renewal: house hovered behind her
her manager ~ protectively
house (hype house)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: flying & falling
this hype house / movement / verb
this ~ is leaning into the campaign in a big way (2020)
howl (noun)
group, set & collection: house
attention, scrutiny & promotion: house howl of pain
house (clean house) that ~ has a vent through the ballot box (democracies)
heard the (same) howls
cleaning house
we ~ in the 1980s (amateurism and sports)
she is ~ and stopping harassment and discrimination
sound: animal
mandate to clean house
conflict: sound
the new police chief has a clear public ~
resistance, opposition & defeat / speech: animal / sound
on a mission to clean house howl (verb)
somebody who’s ~
howl
need to clean house why didn't liberals ~ when… (culture wars)
we ~
♦ Michele Rhee was an educational crusader. As chancellor of the howling about the (new pricing) policy
Washington, D.C. school system, she was given a mandate to "clean people are ~ (airline fees)
house." She appeared on the cover of Time Magazine with a broom. But
community members felt like they had been compared to dirt, and she howling in protest
ended up having to resign her position.
people are ~
amelioration & renewal: house / hygiene / verb
sound: animal / verb
disruption: house / hygiene / verb
conflict: sound / verb
house (origin) resistance, opposition & defeat / speech: animal / sound /
verb
royal house
his descent from a ~, the Ranas (India) hub (center)
origin: house / royalty hub airport
he is the security chief at a major ~
house of cards
hub of the militia movement
house of cards northwestern Michigan was a ~
her ~ was about to collapse (Holmes of Theranos)
hub of (contemporary Middle East) painting
Enron's house of cards Damascus has evolved into a ~
~ began to disintegrate (bankrupt company)
narcotics hub
house of cards collapses Guinea-Bissau has become a global ~ (cocaine)
the whole ~ and the entire statute falls (Supreme Court)
transit hub
substance & lack of substance: cards / house the UAE is a business and tourist center as well as a ~
hover (numbers) publishing hub
lower Manhattan is re-emerging as a ~
hovers at (around) 70%
unemployment ~ in winter (reservation) shopping hub
the Fulton Street Mall is an eclectic ~
temperatures hovered
in July 1995, when ~ around 100 degrees (Chicago) commercial hub
configuration: flying & falling / verb protestors occupied the ~ of Bangkok (2010)
increase & decrease: number financial hub
hover (other) Warsaw has become a ~
center & periphery: mechanism
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location / place / shape: mechanism obstacles and impedance: direction / infrastructure /
hub (branching system) shape

hub-and-spoke
hung (hung out to dry)
the ~ model is out of favor (airlines) hung out to dry
smuggling hub he feels like he’s been ~
Atlanta is a major ~ (US) gets hung out to dry
branching system: mechanism he does it and he ~ (CIA operator)

hug (configuration) allegiance, support & betrayal: atmosphere / clothing &

accessories
hugs the cliff
the trail ~, 70 feet above the sea, and is very dangerous
hunger (noun)
hug the (Mediterranean) coast hunger to escape
beaches that ~ (Egypt) an aching ~ the loneliness and boredom (teen)

hugs a mountainside hunger to succeed

the Poomau Ditch Trail ~ (Kauai, Hawaii / hiking) he has a ~ (an foreign athlete in US)

configuration: arm / verb hunger for (snake) meat

the ~ is a country-wide phenomenon (China)
huge (significant)
hunger for opportunity
huge they have a ~ (Samoans in NFL)
I knew this was ~, this was so big (photojournalist)
hunger for the profits
huge deal the ~ from arctic oil (Canada)
this is a ~, she is alleging... (a sensational trial)
hunger for revenge
importance & significance: size ways people can peaceably satiate their ~
hugely hunger for a better life
a gnawing ~ (Ellis Island)
hugely loved
she was ~, and she will be sorely missed by so very many nation’s hunger
our sports-starved ~ for baseball (during pandemic)
extent & scope: size
aching hunger
hum (hum along) an ~ to escape the loneliness and boredom (teen)
humming along gnawing hunger
the team just keeps ~ a ~ for a better life (Ellis Island)
the economy has been ~
hunger and desire
functioning: engine / mechanism / sound / verb the ~ which has driven them (Manchester City win treble)
activity: engine / mechanism / sound / verb
♦ “Our hosts] gave us some fat pork, corn bread, and a kind of coffee,
condition & status: engine / mechanism / sound / verb made, I think, out of burned peas. But it was warm... Hunger made that
hum (noun) breakfast the most delicious we had in six months.” (Memoirs of
Chaplain Life by W. Corby, about his service during the Civil War.)
♦ "Hunger was now torturing us. The Cossacks sat gloomily round the
hum fire and hardly spoke. Hoping to forget their hunger a little, the men tried
the ~ is incessant (emergency room / NYC) to sleep. I lay down too, but could not sleep. Anxiety and doubt
tormented me. If we did not manage to kill something tomorrow, or reach
hum of activity the Iman, things would be desperate indeed. In the summer a man can
from the vast Allied camp rose a mounting ~ carry on without food for several days, but in the winter hunger kills
quickly." ("Dersu," by V. K. Arseniev.)
activity: animal / insect / mechanism / sound ♦ “The mental adjustment took longer. It was a continual surprise to
encounter no queues at food shops—‘like a man who braces himself to
hump (noun) pick up a heavy suitcase,’ wrote Ginzburg, ‘and finds it empty.’ The
words ‘I’m hungry,’ recently so charged with desperation and despair,
get over that hump only slowly reverted to their old function of expressing an ordinary desire
for lunch.” (Leningrad by the great writer Anna Reid.)
we need to ~ (a sports team)
♦ “Man, you eat all the goddamn oranges and all the goddamn bananas
get people over the hump you want.” (An American merchant-marine sailor in 1947, to Tom Lantos
(1928-2008), who was traveling from Europe to the US on a converted
he was an elite player who could ~ (Michael Jordan) troop ship. Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, had discovered a big basket of
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sailor, ‘Should I take an orange or a banana?” On hearing the sailor, I’m ~ (defies pandemic to go to church)
Lantos thought, “Then I knew I was in paradise.” He went on to become
the lone Holocaust survivor to serve in the US Congress. He was hungry-eyed (m)
admitted to the US because he had been awarded an academic
scholarship to study in the US on the basis of an essay he had written he would stay there, ~
about the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt.)
celebrity-hungry (m)
♦ "There is always trouble if meat is not divided by lot. Someone
immediately says that he has been given more than his share, and tries a ~ electorate
to hand a piece to someone else. Then there is much arguing and
swearing 'by God!' with everyone insisting that he has been given too content-hungry (m)
much, and finally a deadlock ensues which can only be settled by casting programming for ~ cable networks
lots for the meat—as should have been done in the first place. I have
never heard a man grumble that he has received less than his share. Internet-hungry (m)
Such behaviour would be inconceivable to the Bedu, for they are careful
never to appear greedy, and quick to notice anyone who is. I remember
~ investors
the story of a destitute Bedu boy, who told his mother that he liked dining
when there was no moon, for then his companions could not see how power-hungry (m)
much food he took. His mother said, 'Sit with them in the dark and cut at another ~ self-seeker (a politician)
a piece of rope with your knife turned the wrong way round.' The boy did
so that very night. There was no moon and it was very dark, but as he publicity-hungry
picked up the knife a dozen voices called out, 'You have got it the wrong
way round!'" (Wilfred Thesiger, "Arabian Sands.")
the ~ D.C. lobbyist (a person)
♦ Bedouins will appoint a man to divide the food into portions. Each man publicity hungry
will take a portion, but never one he thinks is larger than the other prosecutors in his own office described him as ~
portions. And so, the last portion goes to the man who divided the food,
and if his portion is larger, he will eat shame. And so he is very careful to
divide the portions equally. stay hungry
~, stay foolish (Steve Jobs / Apple Computer)
♦ One third food. One third water. One third empty. (What the stomach
is for, according to a Bedouin.) ♦ “We will made do. Everyone will have a little bit.” (Abdul Aziz, 63, of
Dhaka, Bangladesh, disappointed that his money could not buy more
It is said a Tuareg can survive in the desert for nine days on just three
beans and cauliflower for his family.)
dates, if it is necessary. On the first day, he will eat the skin of one date.
On the second day, he will consume the meat of that one date. And on ♦ “It is a fact that if you are hungry and you see somebody eating
the third day he will suck the stone of that one date. And so on for nine something you would like to have your teeth in too, spit will flood to your
days. On the tenth day, however, he will die. mouth and you will swallow to make a noise. That noise Shani made as I
watched her. Then I saw her eyes, and they were on my can. / ‘Why no
♦ “He who eats his fill while his neighbor goes without food is not a
home for dinner to-day?’ I asked her... / Next morning I went to school
believer.”
with my can packed tight... Not a word from my mother, only a little smile.
/ So Shani and me sat together to have dinner every day in my mother’s
consumption / wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink smile...” (How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn.)
Hunger Games (film) wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink
Hunger Games feel consumption: food & drink
eagerness & reluctance: food & drink
it does have a bit of ~ to it (too few vaccines for teachers)
hunt (in the hunt)
evolutionary hunger games
in the ~, the drunk apes beat the sober ones (alcohol) in the hunt for the championship
they could be ~ (sports team)
from America the Beautiful to the Hunger Games
the cancel culture is leading us ~ pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
allusion: film hunt (verb)
competition / oppression: allusion / film
hunted for his sock
hungry (adjective) he ~
hungry pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
I was ~, ready... (Bruno in ring waiting for Tyson)
hunt (noun)
hungry for adventure
weary of England, ~, he found himself in Bratislava... hunt for a Northwest Passage
Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 ~
hungry for sex
they are ~ (ad for porn site on Web) hunt for the hackers
women were assumed to be just as ~ as men (1700s) investigators continue the ~ behind the virus

hungry for new talent hunt for the sniper

Hollywood is constantly ~ a setback in their frustrating ~ (D.C. area)

hungry for attention or sympathy talent hunt

parents ~ abuse their kids the ~ (to fuel the new economy)

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 eliminated early from the ~ (NASCAR) hurdle (noun)
treasure hunt hurdle
most ~s are scams
it was a difficult ~ to overcome
Easter Egg Hunt she still has another ~ to overcome
~ on Sunday (sign)
procedural hurdles
frustrating hunt put ~ in the way of…
a setback in their ~ for the sniper (D.C. area)
technological hurdle
setback in their (frustrating) hunt there are a lot of ~s (medicine)
a ~ for the sniper (D.C. area)
hurdles remain
continue the hunt ~ in restarting power at the plant
investigators ~ for the hackers behind the virus
running into some hurdles
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting marine-energy developers are ~
hunt down (verb) clear the (first major) hurdle
they are sounding hopeful that they will ~
hunted down his critics
he ~ (Turkish President) cleared the first hurdle
she has ~ of her bid to serve again as speaker (vote)
hunt down jargon
~ mercilessly and kill it (science writer David Dobbs) cleared all of the hurdles
they had ~ (opposition candidates)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
obstacles & impedance: sports & games / walking, running
hunter (plants) & jumping
hunters for ginseng hurl (verb)
the first Chinese who appeared in the region were ~
hurling accusations (of racism) at anyone
ginseng hunter he has been ~ who dares criticize him (politician)
a~
hurling (rare) charges
mushroom hunter Egyptian media were ~ of negligence (against military)
thousands of species are collected by amateur ~s
~s all have their secret places (France); throwing, putting & planting: arm / verb
~s are wise to stay away from the Amanita species hurled
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / person
person: hunting hurled at him
insults and racial slurs were ~
hunter (other)
throwing, putting & planting: arm
bargain hunter hurrah (and hoorah, etc.)
the souk is a ~'s delight (Sharjah City)
job hunter great hurrah
~s are searching globally I wanted to wish you a ~ (John Major to Geo. HW Bush)

house hunter hoorahs for his discovery

some of these ~s were asked… before the ~ had entirely died away... (Fritz Schaudinn)

relic hunter huzzah for poetry

~s have dug and taken artifacts (Civil War battlefield) ~ and memorization
achievement, recognition & praise: sound
souvenir hunter
~s elbowing each other aside hurricane (noun)
treasure hunter hurricane of notes
ship's loot unearthed by ~s she’ll peel off a ~ (guitarist Sarah Louise Henson)
historical researchers and ~s
♦ “You could say that ‘Hurricane Impeachment’ remains a category four
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / person or five storm that is still well offshore and moving in an erratic direction
very very slowly.” (Ron Elving, NPR, Week in Politics, Weekend Edition,
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♦ “There are a lot of ways a hurricane can kill you.” (The storm surge, help or hurt
falling trees, electrocution from down power lines, carbon-monoxide
poisoning, vehicle crashes, etc.) trust can ~ you
♦ Major General Roy Urquhart: “Hancock, I’ve got lunatics laughing at
amount & effect: air / atmosphere / storm / wind me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the
activity: air / atmosphere / storm / wind jeeps haven’t arrived. My communications are completely broken down.
Do you really believe that any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?” /
hurt (feeling and emotion / verb) Hancock: “Couldn’t hurt, sir.” (From the great film A Bridge Too Far.
Urquhart was played by Sean Connery. The wise corporal was played by
Colin Farrell.)
hurt my feelings
she ~ ♦ “If you hurt a monkey, you will be cursed.” (Japan.)

hurt my daughter feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / sensation /
the New York Times used my words to ~ verb

hurt you hurt (other)

what’s her name, the woman who ~...
a whole lot of hurt
♦ See “‘Adjusting Appropriately’ To Words That Hurt,” NPR, Opinion, we’re in for ~ (coronavirus)
Language, August 8, 2018. See also the Wikipedia entry, “Scalping.”
♦ “Sticks and stones will hurt my bones / But words will never hurt me.” condition & status: health & medicine
(Said by schoolchildren.)
♦ “A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.” (Turkish.)
hurting
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / sensation / hurting
verb small businesses are clearly ~ (economy)

hurt (passive) condition & status: health & medicine

incredibly hurt husband (verb)

he spoke of being ~ by the comments (Azeem Rafiq) husbanded that character
stunned and hurt he ~ for five years (but finally killed off in TV show)
her teammates were ~ (racist chants at sport event) directing: animal / verb
get hurt hurtle (verb)
people are going to ~ (in California / high risk, reward)
people are going to ~ (migration to California) hurtled from project to project
♦ “We don’t need these emotional terms like people being hurt.” (The he has ~ at a rapid clip (a filmmaker)
beloved comic John Cleese, in a BBC interview with presenter Karishma
Vaswani. From “John Cleese walks out of BBC World News interview,” movement: force / verb
BBC, 16 December 2021.) force: movement / verb
♦ “You must not think of him as a man who had been broken... He had
been hurt, he was wounded, but he was still the same man in great husk (noun)
spirits. He thought the best spirit of resistance is joyfulness.” (An
acquaintance of Boris Pasternak in his last years.) husk of its former self
♦ “We could not leave him where he was, to the Turks, because we had the company is a ~ (General Electric)
seen them burn alive our hapless wounded. For this reason we were all
agreed, before action, to finish off one another, if badly hurt: but I had substance & lack of substance: plant
never realized that it might fall to me to kill Farraj.” (Seven Pillars of
Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, Book VIII, Chapter XCIII.) hyena (person)
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / sensation syrup-coated hyena
hurt (damage, injure) Giacometti Feltrinelli described him as a “~”
♦ Giangiacomo Feltrinelli described Alexei Surkov, chairman of the
hurt the (team) chemistry Soviet writers association, as a “syrup-coated hyena.” Surkov personally
visited Feltrinelli in Milan in a failed effort to try to prevent the publication
he ~ (an athlete) of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago.
hurt (domestic) demand ♦ “Hyenas have been known to nibble feet protruding from hut doors.”
a new clampdown by the authorities could ~ (Malawi.)

behavior / character & personality / insult / person: animal

hurt Bernie Sanders
“Black swan” events that ~ in his bid hymn (noun)
hurt free speech hymn to the beauty
Facebook can also ~ (to control hate speech, etc.) the film is a ~ of endless prairies (Lakota Indian country)
hurts the students hymn to the wild at heart
this is an addictive thing that ~ (laptops in class) the play is a ~

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hymns to drinking fate, fortune & chance: snow & ice
in one of his many ~... (Charles Bukowski)
ice (put on ice / constrained)
achievement, recognition & praise / reverence: music /
religion put on ice
he was ~ (a news executive)
hymnal (noun)
constraint & lack of constraint: snow & ice / temperature
2016 hymnal
his platform is chapter and verse from the ~ (politics) ice (put on ice / delayed)
script: religion put on ice during the war
it had been ~ (Churchill’s History)
hyperdrive (into hyperdrive)
action, inaction & delay: snow & ice / temperature
kicked into hyperdrive
at that point the investigation really ~ (cold case) ice (break the ice)
went into hyperdrive break the ice
the aggressive South Korean media ~ he uses humor to ~
once you ~, you got a new friend
functioning: engine / mechanism
break the ice with audiences
hyperventilation (noun) she used humor to ~
hyperventilation about threats break the ice with someone
despite his ~ to academia... (Critical Race Theory) dancing is a way to ~
feeling, emotion & effect: breathing / health & medicine break the ice by getting
hypnotize (verb) the game is meant to ~ party guests out of their shoes
(Twister)
hypnotized the world
helps break the ice
Israel has ~ (according to Ilhan Omar)
her friendly, confident demeanor ~ (female soldier)
control & lack of control: magic ♦ “You need a way to actually break the grass and start a conversation.”
(The wonderful Hafida Hdoubane, first female Moroccan mountain guide,
hysteria (noun) who leads groups of foreign women that meet Moroccan women, who
are historically famous for their shyness. It is possible there is more
hysteria and knee-jerk reactions grass than ice in Morocco, even in the Atlas Mountains.)

~ (election politics) amelioration & renewal / division & connection / feeling,

McCarthyite hysteria emotion & effect: snow & ice / temperature / verb
Democrats are sometimes prone to ~ (against Russia) iceberg (the tip of the iceberg)
accused the West of hysteria the tip of the iceberg
the Kremlin spokesman ~ (Ukraine) reported incidents may be only ~ (child abuse)
stoked hysteria all we know so far is ~ (investigation);
the media have ~ (public health) the disclosures so far are merely ~ (pedophiles)
what we’re seeing here may be just ~ (vaping deaths)
♦ “Until psychoanalysis came along, the accepted antidote to hysteria
was rest.” what we’re seeing is ~ (COVID-19 cases)

feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / mental the tip of the iceberg of potential
health we're just at ~ (wasps trained to detect things)
the tip of the iceberg of (secret) warfare
the affair is just ~ the US is waging in Pakistan
I the tip of the (pollination) iceberg
ice (on thin ice) bees are just ~
the tip of the (fiscal) iceberg
on thin ice
Wisconsin is just ~ (states facing deficits)
you're ~, buddy… (warning)
she had been ~ for more than a year (fired) just the tip of the iceberg
he was on ~ because... (Secretary of Labor resigns) this is ~
skating on thin ice merely the tip of the iceberg
I was ~ with my cholesterol (heart attack) the disclosures so far are ~ (pedophiles in education)

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only the tip of the iceberg icon status
reported incidents may be ~ (child abuse) Ali had achieved ~ by then (the boxer)
only the (small) tip of the iceberg Australian icon
what you see here is ~ (repository of poached animals) a virtually sacred ~, the Surf Life Saver
amount / appearance & reality: snow & ice Australia's (national) icon
substance & lack of substance: snow & ice ~ (the Koala)
ice-cold cartoon icons
~ like Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, the Roadrunner
ice-cold revenge
he dished out ~ on his enemies chess icon
Georgian ~ Nona Gaprindashvili
grew ice-cold
their relationship ~ film icon
large portraits of silent-movie ~s
feeling, emotion & effect: snow & ice / temperature
film “icon”
icon (graphic) he was an unforgettable actor and a ~ (Kirk Douglas)
icons on your camera pop icon
strange ~ America's biggest ~ (Michael Jackson)
sign, signal, symbol: picture
hip-hop icon
icon (symbol) Lee Iacocca did commercials with ~ Snoop Dogg

icon two icons

the cup of tea is a great ~ (for England) Kobe and Dwyane, ~ of American sport (NBA)

icons of America American icon

3 ~ are alive and well (buffalo / eagle / Native Americans) quotes from this ~ (Mark Twain)
the teenage rebel, the quintessential ~ (adolescence)
icons of the Isle of Wight
the Needles and lighthouse have become ~ cultural icon
taco trucks, ~s and social magnets in Mexico (and US)
icon of (American) popular culture
the Barbie doll has become an ~ gay icon
Madonna is widely considered to be a ~
icons of democracy
~ are targets for terrorists (Washington, D.C.) heroic icon
Nimitz was a ~ of W.W. II
icon of fall
the plump, round, orange ~ (the pumpkin) international icon
McDonald's is an ~
icon of imperialism
a massive ~ over 14 feet long (the Zam-Zammah Gun) mainstream icons
Net culture prides itself on scoffing at ~
icon of (American) mobility
Greyhound has long been an ~ (bus company) national icon
Australia's ~ (the Koala)
icon of the (body positivity) movement
she is an ~ (Lizzo) sacred (Australian) icon
a virtually ~, the Surf Life Saver
icon of broadcast news
Ted Koppel was an ~ career as an advertising icon
a reborn ~ (Hakman)
icon of the sport
Mike Tyson is an ~ of boxing, a legend (Eddie Hearn) quotes from this (American) icon
~ (Mark Twain)
icon of a failed state
anarchy has made Somalia an ~ become an icon
the Barbie doll has ~ of American popular culture
icon to black journalists
representation: picture / religion / sign, signal, symbol
he was an ~ (Ed Bradley / 60 Minutes)
icon in the pantheon
iconic (adjective)
Kirk Douglas will always be an ~ of Hollywood iconic doll

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 Raggedy Ann, the 86-year-old ~ idol (person)
iconic figure matinee idol
he was an ~, an old-school reporter
he lit up screens as a dashing ~ (Dirk Bogarde)
iconic image cites Taylor Swift as an idol
~s of the Holocaust
she ~ (Marie “girl in red” Ulven)
it has become an ~ of his lack of connection (Bush)
importance & significance / reverence: religion
iconic look
it just happened to become an ~ (Addicted to Love video) idolized
iconic (Trestles) surf break idolized by the media
the road project could ruin the ~ the same military that was ~ was now being pilloried
comparison & contrast: affix idolized and demonized
representation: picture / religion / sign, signal, symbol he has been alternately ~ by the press (a boxer)
iconoclasm (noun) importance & significance / reverence: religion
nurtured her iconoclasm ification (memeification, etc.)
her parents encouraged her ambitions and ~ (musician)
adultification
idea: religion the ~ of Black girls
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
memefication
iconoclast (person) the ~ of the force (the U.S. Space Force)
iconoclast ♦ Listen to “Young Black Girls Face ‘Adultification,’” at NPR, Weekend
Edition Sunday, July 9, 2017. The spell checker for Microsoft Word
he was an ~, willing to buck the tide (Bernard Rimland) underlines Adultification in red and suggests Dulcification (noun form of
dulcify); Merriam-Webster does not recognize it as a word. Wikipedia has
iconoclast of (American architecture an entry titled “Adultification bias” with the proviso, “The examples and
he was an ~ perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the
subject.”
iconoclast of the group
inclusion & exclusion: affix
he was the ~
iconoclast or maverick
ified (Princified, etc.)
I was more like an ~ when I was young (Felix Bast) datified
advertising iconoclast descriptors express a ~ digital community (wlw, etc.)
the ~ Ted Chin spoke at the conference greenified
political iconoclast Antarctica is getting ~ (science educator from India)
he has a history of being a ~ (eccentric governor) objectified
♦ An earnest bien pensant; their pieties; iconoclast; brought back into the othered, ~, exoticized, coerced (Asian women)
bucket by the other crabs; cultural Marxism; academic herdthink;
orthodoxy... (Language related to a cultural issue.) Princified
person / idea: religion they make it utterly ~ (cover of a Prince song)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person / religion ♦ see also ized (invisibilized, etc.)

iconoclastic (adjective) inclusion & exclusion: affix

irreverent, anti-authoritarian and iconoclastic ify (mainstreamify, etc.)

~ (Mad magazine)
broadcastify
idea: religion the website, ~.com
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
gamify
identity crisis Robinhood is trying to ~ share trading
Azerbaijan's (current) identity crisis mainstreamify
the issue reflects ~ everybody in America has to ~ their blend (racial roots)
Belgian identity crisis Shopify
the ~ hit new heights (rumor Flanders succeeded) ~ Inc.
identity & nature: mental illness Spotify
~ is built on the back of the music streaming business

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“Kazakhifying leaders and their economic advisors are ~
~ Kazakhstan” (The Economist / demographics)
historically illiterate
youthify his strategy is shallow, proud, and ~ (diplomacy)
we’re not trying to ~ the show (And Just Like That)
militarily illiterate
♦ Cynthia Nixon, about And Just Like That, the reboot of Sex and the
City, said, “I like that we’re not trying to youthify the show.”
people who were ~ but accustomed to power (civilians)

inclusion & exclusion: affix rhetorically illiterate

she is ~
ignite (verb)
scientifically illiterate
ignite a (larger) conflagration many students leave school ~
Somalia could ~ across the Horn of Africa
financially and economically illiterate
ignited a (robust) debate many Americans are ~ and pay the price
the conflict in Lebanon has ~ on jihadist Web sites ♦ “Beware, Monsieur, of the memory of the illiterate man!” (“The Bull That
Thought” by Rudyard Kipling.)
ignited fear
the attack ~ among its Muslim worshippers ability & lack of ability: books & reading

ignite a revolution illuminate (verb)

he tried to ~ in New York City's schools (education)
illuminates
ignite another war research info that sometimes mystifies as much as it ~
the clash showed how a small spark could ~
illuminated the lives
ignites competition and conflict for 14 centuries the Holy Qur'an has ~ of Muslims
the need for recognition and power ~ (schools)
illuminate their motives
ignited and fueled a biographical detail that may ~ but…
opposition was ~ by the church (innovation) ♦ “I had no idea there were bears in Japan.” (TexasVulcan on the ABC
comments section about a bad-tempered bear that caused havoc in
initiation: fire / verb Sapporo, on the island of Hokkaido.)
starting, going, continuing & ending: fire / verb
analysis, interpretation & explanation / comprehension &
Iliad (Japanese Iliad, etc.) incomprehension / consciousness & awareness /
knowledge & intelligence: light & dark / verb
Japanese Iliad
the classic Heike monogatari, sometimes called the ~ illuminating (adjective)
military: epithet illuminating insight
the new study provides an ~ into what's going on
ill (ills of society, etc.)
illuminating window
ills of (American) society the case is an ~ into the pitfalls of capital punishment
the candidates offered solutions for the ~ (debate)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark
affliction / corruption: health & medicine comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark
consciousness & awareness: light & dark
illegitimate (adjective) knowledge & intelligence: light & dark
denounce federal authority as illegitimate feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark
they ~ (militias) illustrate (verb)
worth & lack of worth: family illustrates a conundrum
illiteracy (noun) the story ~
evidence: picture / verb
historical illiteracy
this ~ would be hilarious if... (ethnic-studies curriculum) characterization: picture / verb
fictive communication: picture / verb
ability & lack of ability: books & reading
illustration (noun)
illiterate (adjective)
illustration of (tobacco's) consequences
illiterate in math and science a vivid ~
many students are ~
illustration of the gap
financially illiterate this is yet another ~ between the king and…

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classic illustration involvement: water
Sarajevo was a ~ of how an agreement can be reached immersion
vivid illustration
immersion in English
~s of tobacco's consequences
only ~ has proved successful (vs. bilingual ed)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture
immersion in the (stenographic) record
characterization / evidence: picture
his ~ of… (a historian)
imbalanced immersion techniques
imbalanced actors famous for their ~ (Day-Lewis, Hoffman, etc.)
if a relationship is ~, the door is open for toxic behaviors English immersion
equilibrium & stability: scale the most effective instruction is ~
flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability / scale Virginia, has chosen ~ (vs. bilingual ed)
disruption: equilibrium & stability / scale ~ is more effective than bilingual education

imbibe (verb) absorption & immersion / involvement: water

imbibed immortal (person)

all the things he ~ (various philosophies / Coleridge)
medical immortal
imbibed from my seniors Fritz Schaudinn, a ~
views of frontier policy I had ~ (military) person: religion
imbibe culture superlative: person / religion
there are new places to ~ (Harlem) importance & significance: person / religion
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person / religion
imbibe new ideas
they ~ from the locals
immovable (adjective)
imbibed his love immovable
I read about Thaddeus Kosciusko and ~ of liberty the negotiators won’t budge, they are ~

imbibe the author's views immovable bureaucracy

they will read this story and gradually ~ Egypt’s large and ~

absorption & immersion: food & drink / verb immovable forces

consumption: food & drink / verb the ~ in American politics (polarization, low trust, etc.)

immerse (verb) immovable support

she offered ~ (Thatcher to Reagan)
immersed himself in books
he ~ about the financial collapse nearly immovable
his voters are ~ (Trump)
immerse yourself in Indian culture
~ at the Fairmont, Jaipur, a five-star hotel ideological, doctrinaire and immovable
his views on race and religion are ~ (a judge)
immersed herself in each project
she ~ remained immovable
Hanoi ~ (the Vietnam / American War)
immersed himself in his work ♦ “What happens when an unstoppable force comes up against an
for more than a decade, he ~ immovable object?” (Politics.)

immersed myself in the (Eisenhower) papers resistance, opposition & defeat: movement
I ~ (a researcher) position, policy & negotiation: movement
commitment & determination: movement
immerse yourself in the culture survival, persistence & endurance: movement
you try to ~ (anthropology)
immune (adjective)
absorption & immersion: verb / water
involvement: verb / water immune to cold
the natives seemed ~
immersed
immune to it
immersed in Chinese I've had to deal with so much, I'm ~
the kids spend every other day ~ (charter school)
immune from terrorism
absorption & immersion: water

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 no country is ~ in today's world imploded (in recent weeks) with major losses
two businesses ~ (causing problems for Credit Suisse)
inoculated, if not immune
I was more or less ~, to criticism implode violently
the repressive regime might now ~ or lash out
remained (largely) immune
until this week the capital ~ to the violence (Syria) life imploded
and then my ~ (diplomat falsely accused of pedophilia)
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine
destruction: explosion / physics / verb
immunity (noun)
implosion (noun)
immunity
Iran has no ~ anywhere (Israel strikes Iran sites in Syria) implosion
this ~ will have devasting consequences (Tigray war)
immunity from prosecution
she requested ~ career implosion
the ~ of a Tory transport minister
diplomatic immunity
Mr. Qaddafi was not arrested because he has ~ economic implosion
Venezuela’s ~ exacerbates inequality
psychological immunity inside Syria’s ~
experience of painful feelings can help kids develop ~
verbal implosion
granted immunity Don Imus’ ~ (a racist, sexist insult)
he was ~ from prosecution in exchange for…
destruction: explosion / physics
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine
impossible (as noun)
impact (affect)
start your impossible
impacted New Mexico Toyota: ~ (an advertisement)
how COVID-19 has ~
wants, needs, hopes & goals: part of speech
effect: force / sensation / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: force / sensation / verb imposter (noun)
impact (effect) imposter
it’s not really cinnamon but an ~ (bark from cassia tree)
economic impact
the ~ of these latest tariffs appearance & reality / subterfuge: materials & substances
/ person
high-impact
it’s considered a ~ journal impotence (weakness)
what weather forecasters are calling a ~ event (storms)
political impotence
effect: force / sensation corporate greed, entertainment addiction and ~ (the US)
feeling, emotion & effect: force / sensation
functioning: health & medicine
impacted (affected) strength & weakness: health & medicine
financially impacted attenuation / force: health & medicine
half of all households have been ~ by coronavirus impotent (adjective)
effect: force / sensation impotent to stop
feeling, emotion & effect: force / sensation our leaders were ~ the series of crises
impasse (noun) functioning: health & medicine
moral impasse strength & weakness: health & medicine
psychiatry is stuck in a kind of ~ attenuation / force: health & medicine

obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips / movement

imprimatur
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement given its imprimatur
implode (verb) the UN has ~ to the policy
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
implode in a major tournament
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imprint (noun) in (all in)
imprint on the Japanese all in
deflation has left a deep ~ everybody’s ~, everyone wants everyone to be great (coach)
imprint of his (chief) speechwriter all in with the players
the words bore the strong ~ (presidential speech) he has gone ~ (a football coach)
impression: mark all in with President Trump
republican candidates are not ~
in (and in thing, etc.)
all-in on the outrage
in this year I was ~ (viral video, regrets later)
long skirts are ~
all in for this day
latest ‘in thing’ I was ~ (Charlotte Purdue on a personal best)
not long ago Osaka was the ~ to blow in (vs. Gauff)
all in for fight night
new IN thing Las Vegas is ~ (Fury vs. Wilder)
the ~ is “burnout" (a Times-Picayune columnist)
all-in kind of defense
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / he wanted a loud, clear ~ (Edward Snowden)
prep, adv, adj, particle
all-in moment
in (the cowboy in me, etc.) her ~ comes in 1989 (magazine editor)
in him all-in proposition
he had always had the cop ~ (a DEA agent) football is an ~, you must be committed (NFL)
in me action, inaction & delay / allegiance, support & betrayal /
the cowboy ~ just ain’t gonna die (ex-rodeo rider) commitment & determination: cards / gambling / prep,
the street ~ would surface and I’d say, “Fuck you!” adv, adj, particle
in you in (situation)
if you’ve got the quit ~, there will always be doubt (boxing)
in
in my people I empathize with the situation that he found himself ~
for singing is ~ as sight is in the eye (How Green Was My
Valley / the Welsh) situation: container / prep, adv, adj, particle

in Wrong in (involvement)
there is a bit of the pith helmet ~ (a historian of Africa)
in it
brought out the tiger in him everybody in town knew who was ~ (civil-rights murder)
attacks on his family or friends always ~ (Winston
Churchill) in (deep) with a gang
she is ~
♦ “Occasionally, the street in me would surface and I’d say: ‘Fuck you!’”
(The boxing trainer and manager Tunde Ajayi.)
in or (you’re) out
identity & nature: container / prep, adv, adj, particle you’re either ~, you can’t be both (Queen of England)

in (inclusion) want in
do you ~ (to join a cybercrime investigation)
in
they voted him ~ involvement: container / prep, adv, adj, particle

acceptance & rejection: container / prep, adv, adj, particle in (in it for me, etc.)
in (in pain, in anger, etc.) in it for me
what’s ~
in anguish
they were ~, but they listened to what the baker had to say worth & lack of worth: container / prep, adv, adj, particle

in pain incandescent (character)

if Aaron was ~, he took care not to show it (dad died) incandescent (18-year-old Barnard College) freshman
feeling, emotion & effect: container she was an ~ (Tessa Majors / murdered in park)

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character & personality / superlative: electricity / fire / light the scandal revealed an ~ of lobbyists and politicians
& dark / temperature the web of ~s is troubling (stock analysts, the media)

incarnation (character) super-incestuous

the Beltway is a ~ zone (Washington politics)
another incarnation
yet, in ~, he was wearing a leather jacket (a professor) ingrown, incestuous
she represented a very ~ culture in that institution
different incarnation ♦ “Sixty-eight percent of tweets between journalists who work at The
in a ~ he assists lovers (Pandarus) Washington Post, NPR, [and The] New York Times... are to each other.”
before she was a lesbian, she had a ~ (Christian, etc.) (“How Journalists Congregating Into ‘Microbubbles’ Affects Quality Of
News Reporting,” NPR, All Things Considered, August 12, 2020.)
latest incarnation ♦ “Officially, the groups are all independent. In practice, everyone seems
would the ~ of feminism accuse me of body shaming to be everyone else’s co-author, drinking buddy, former mentor, or
romantic partner.” (Groups like Justice Democrats, Sunrise, and Data for
the ~ of the character will be bisexual (Superman’s son) Progress. From “The Left Turn” by Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker,
May 31, 2021.)
woke incarnation
Teen Vogue, in its current ~... relationship: family / sex
♦ “In our next iteration we will absolutely fold in the voices of our critics.”
(Time’s Up reorganizes in response to criticism.) incestuousness (noun)
representation: religion social incestuousness
how much of this ~ exists in DC (media and government)
incendiary (speech)
relationship: family / sex
incendiary claim
it’s a circumstantial case but it’s an ~ (journalism) inclusion (groups)
incendiary comment inclusion, belonging, and respect
that’s an ~ build ~ for diversity (Georgetown Law)

incendiary invective greater inclusion

politics is filled with ~ positive momentum towards ~

incendiary post Beyond Inclusion

what triggered the uproar was an ~ at a Website ~ seeks more empowerment, more representation

incendiary (political) rhetoric diversity, equity, and inclusion

the shootings caused a backlash against ~ embed ~ (DEI) intentionally in TESOL activities

incendiary call to arms equity and inclusion

she made an ~ for people to resist Washington the culture of ~ at Georgetown Law

speech: fire / temperature inclusion & exclusion: society

feeling, emotion & effect: fire / temperature incoming (criticism)
initiation: fire / temperature
incendiary (other) incoming from both Republicans and Democrats
Facebook should expect ~ (Congressional hearing)
incendiary ♦ "I remember I went down into this hole for another scoop of dirt, and
the situation in the south is ~ (rebellion) then that's when the bomb hit. I looked at the man I was digging this
hole with; half his body was gone. And I looked up at the trees and I
could see body parts on the limbs on the trees, and I shook myself out of
incendiary issue it and I stood up, and it was so quiet." (Private Manuel Orona, Hill 875,
race can be an ~ in American politics Dak To, Vietnam War. The 500-pound bomb from a Marine plane
caused the worst friendly-fire incident of the Vietnam War.)
politically incendiary
the organization has made some ~ missteps accusation & criticism: explosion / military / weapon

initiation: fire / temperature incubator (noun)

incestuous (adjective) incubators of crime
prisons could not reform but were ~
incestuous
academia is ~ (peer review, smallness, etc.) incubators of despair
the refugee camps have become ~
incestuous alliance
the union is an ~ between public officials and labor incubator of espionage
the campus is an ~ (free flow of ideas)
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incubator of innovation made the rape and murder of women an industry
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an ~ TV culture has ~ unto itself
incubator for (left-wing) talent creation & transformation: manufacturing
his show was an ~ on the air (TV)
inebriate (verb)
incubator for France’s top talent
the elite Ecole Nationale d’Adminstration (ENA) is an ~ inebriated both parties
his political fantasy has ~ (that victory is total)
incubator for terrorists
restraint & lack of restraint: alcohol / verb
the religious school is an ~ (Indonesia)
behavior: alcohol / verb
business incubator
a ~ helps new and startup companies
inertia (noun)
meme incubator years of inertia
it’s a ~ (TikTok) environmentalists blame the government for ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement
talent incubator
the art gallery has emerged as a top ~ (Damascus) progress & lack of progress: movement
action, inaction & delay: movement
technology incubator infancy (in infancy)
the zone is one of three ~s in the state (New Jersey)
environment / growth & development: bird in its infancy
creation & transformation: bird the field is ~
ecosystem forecasting is ~
incurable (adjective) in late 1862 photography was ~ (Mathew Brady)
scientists point out the research is ~ (medicine)
incurable optimist motoring was still ~ (1908 motor sledge for snow, ice)
I used to be an ~, but... (an Iraqi) the investigation is still very much ~ (Esther Dingley)
character & personality: health & medicine if we think back to 1987, DNA was ~ (cold case solved)
identity & nature: health & medicine at an early stage, when a start-up is ~ (Silicon Valley)
in 1996, the internet was ~ (Communications Decency Act)
indebted
in Google’s infancy
indebted to them ~, its co-founders reviled Microsoft as a technological bully
my work is tremendously ~ (an author about other writers)
growth & development: baby / death & life
obligation: money
infancy (other)
indelible (adjective) infancy of our DNA testing
back in 2000, that was the ~ (wrongfully convicted)
indelible mark
he left an ~ on the world around him (Luke Howard) stock car racing’s infancy
she’s made an ~ on Morgan County (tragedy) those hellish days of ~
terrorism has left an ~ on his presidency (9/11)
his trip to Sri Lanka left an ~ on him (Chekhov) growth & development: baby / death & life

indelible stain infant (noun)

doping left an ~ on his record (sports)
infant colony
survival, persistence & endurance: mark merchantmen were drawn to the ~ (Australia)
industrialize (industrialize death, etc.) infant market
nurture the ~ (e-publishing)
industrialized death
modern warfare ~ (World War I) growth & development: baby / death & life

military: manufacturing infatuated (enthusiasm)

industry (noun) infatuated with social networking
young adults are ~
trauma industry
as the ~ was building steam and attracting clients... enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage

in the (concussion) industry infect (computers)

~, there are lots of opportunists out for the quick money
infected (industrial) computers

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 the Stuxnet worm ~ in Iran we will miss his ~ and love for football (murdered player)
computer: health & medicine / verb transmission: health & medicine
infect (corrupt) infest (verb)
infected every corner infested the country
criminality has ~ of the government bands of guerillas ~ (US Civil War)
infected our culture infest a careless mind
narcissism and exhibitionism have ~ cliches ~ (thinking, speaking writing)
infect the knowledge infest both sides
a misconception can ~ associated with it bandits ~ of the border
♦ “Clichés, like cockroaches in the cupboard, quickly infest a careless
infected the (educational) system mind.” (“Orwell on Writing: ‘Clarity is the Remedy’” by Lawrence Wright,
the disease of grade inflation has ~ NPR, All Things Considered, Sept. 22, 2006.)

infecting the (entire) system affliction: insect / verb

he is a symptom of a much wider pathology ~ (politics)
infested
infect many of these works
assumptions of automatic agreement ~ (“woke” art) infested by German U-boats
a North Atlantic ~ in February 1942 (film Greyhound)
♦ “[Gas gangrene] may cause discoloration and death of the skin alone,
or else the whole limb may swell enormously and be rapidly converted
into a gangrenous mass of putrefying material emitting the odour of a
bomb-infested
newly manured field... (From the 1915 Bradshaw Lecture on Wounds in the marines are trying to control a ~ stretch of road (Iraq)
War by Surgeon-General Sir Anthony Bowlby, K.C.M.G., A.M.S.,
Surgeon in Ordinary to H.M. the King; Consulting Surgeon to the British crime-infested
Expeditionary Force in France; Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.) the ~ streets of Baltimore
corruption: health & medicine / verb drug-infested
infected people who live in ~ neighborhoods

infected with (a succeed-at-all-costs) recklessness gang-infested

cycling is ~ (doping) the ~ neighborhood is riddled with lookouts

infected by a (false) doctrine mafia-infested

I became ~ (religion) a ~ industry…

infected computers mine-infested

the data came from 729 ~ (botnets) steaming through ~ waters

corruption: health & medicine pirate-infested

Indonesia's waters remained the world's most ~
infection (enthusiasm)
pirate-infested
infection of his thinking the ~ waters off Sumatra (Malacca Strait, etc.)
the ~ has mutated, gone pandemic (quantum computing)
drug- and guerrilla-infested
enthusiasm: health & medicine in the ~ jungle
infection (corruption) ♦ "Feed a Pigeon, Breed a Rat." (Slogan in a NYC public-education
campaign to reduce food for rats.)

one single infection ♦ "The rats, at times numbering in the hundreds, according to witnesses,
have drawn early evening crowds of curious spectators to the island that
amid that epidemic, ~ was fateful (NotPetya worm) divides the north and south roadways between 58th and 59th Streets."
(A New York Times article about an infestation of Park Avenue rats,
infection spreads perhaps attracted to tulip bulbs, quoted in Robert Sullivan's wonderful
amputate before ~ (bad players, coach at Man U) book, Rats.)
♦ James Clavell’s novel King Rat focuses on survival, competition and
affliction / corruption: health & medicine dominance in a World War II prisoner-of-war camp.

infectious (adjective) affliction: insect

infectious infidelity (noun)
his zest for life was ~ (Ernest Hemingway)
courage is ~, it really is (a Churchill biographer) financial infidelity
Ty’s personality and smile were ~ (football player) ~ is on the rise
~ is when people hide their accounts or debts from their
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allegiance, support & betrayal / behavior / concealment & inflated (numbers)
lack of concealment / subterfuge: love, courtship &
marriage inflated prices
items trickle in at ~ (Kisangani)
infiltrate (verb)
sharply inflated
infiltrate culture ~ wages
her song helped ~ to move acceptance along (group)
vastly inflated
infiltrated this nursing home the figures are ~
we still don’t know how the virus ~ (COVID-19)
figures are (vastly) inflated
infiltrated the White House that the ~ is an open secret (refugees)
COVID has ~ (pandemic)
increase & decrease: number
concealment & lack of concealment / transmission: military
/ verb inflated (expectations, etc.)
inflame (verb) inflated ego
he is known for his ~ (a banker)
inflamed the (national immigration) debate
his arrest ~ (a murderer) inflated expectations
many high-school graduates have ~
inflame (voters') fears
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon
the surest way to win elections is to ~
inflame people’s passions
inflation (noun)
this will ~ (politics) concept inflation
inflame the situation ~ of terms and memes (“Karen,” etc.)
the photos could ~ (of dead civilians) emotional inflation
inflame them your kids don’t really care about your ~ (war reporter)
good therapists usually work to resolve conflicts, not ~ grade inflation
increase & decrease: fire / verb the disease of ~ has infected the educational system
initiation: fire / verb increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / verb
inflection point
inflammatory (adjective)
inflection point
inflammatory comment Hello, Dolly! was an ~ (producer goes nuts)
this is a baseless, ~ (diplomacy)
inflection point in history
inflammatory quotes we’re living at an ~, both at home and abroad (politics)
the army report didn't say who was responsible for the ~
inflection point in a story
inflammatory language his appearance was an ~ that will continue...
let’s have a conversation without ~ (anti-Semitism)
inflection point and wakeup call
shocking and inflammatory this strike should be an ~ (collateral damage)
desecration of the Koran is a ~ act
♦ “But, look, the next shoe to drop is Tara Reid’s TV appearance, maybe
increase & decrease: fire on Fox, maybe this weekend. What kind of case will she present? So,
Friday’s Biden appearance was not an end point, but an inflection point
initiation / speech: fire in a story that’s probably going to be around for a while.” (Vague but
feeling, emotion & effect: fire important sounding lines on a graph. NPR’s Ron Elving talking to Scott
Simon, Week in Politics, Weekend Edition, Saturday, May 2, 2020.)
inflate (verb) ♦ “The word appears to be having its inflection point right now.” (The
word “bae” in 2014, in popularity. See the excellent Wikipedia entry, “Bae
inflate our grades (word).”
we are pushed to ~ (teachers) ♦ “Inflection point” has become a cliche and seems to have replaced the
old “turning point.” It provides a nice statistical sheen to pundits. The
inflated the pay Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in World War II, certainly on the
these schemes were designed to ~ of the C.E.O. Eastern Front. Nowadays it would be in inflection point!

inflates the (Latino dropout) rate development: direction

which ~... (education)
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere / balloon / verb

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inflexible (character) in Copenhagen he ~ of Aristotle (Tycho Brahe)
absorption & immersion: food & drink / verb
stubborn or inflexible
consumption: food & drink / verb
she has a lot of resolve, but sometimes can be ~
ability & lack of ability: materials & substances / movement
ingrained
character & personality: materials & substances / ingrained in the public consciousness
movement that photo became ~ (Charles Manson / Life Magazine)
in for (a ride, etc.) attachment / impression: cloth / color
in for (a whole lot of) hurt ingredient (noun)
we’re ~ (coronavirus)
ingredients for victory
in for a (bumpy) ride Democrats are not sure what the right ~ are (politics)
consumers are ~ this year (customer service)
mixture: food & drink
in for a (rough) ride
we’re ~ (new troops in Iraq) inhabit (verb)
in for a (wild) ride inhabit each other
it looks like we’re ~, so hang on (Wall Street bear market) how these cultures ~ (Vietnam / Paris)

in for a treat inhabit the part

you are ~ he knew how to ~ (Marlon Brando)
experience: prep, adv, adj, particle inhabited the role
he just kind of ~ (Biden, of Neil Kinnock)
inform (verb)
talk about and inhabit
inform your actions he can ~ loss in life (President Joe Biden)
hope and love should ~, not hate
fictive possession: house / verb
informs what the Battle Group does
intelligence ~ inhale (verb)
fictive communication: speech / verb inhaled this stuff
I ~ and couldn’t get enough of it (comedy)
infrastructure (noun)
absorption & immersion: breathing / verb
intellectual infrastructure consumption: breathing / verb
education initiatives aim at building the ~
the country's ~ is still eroding (research, funding, etc.) inherit (verb)
bases: infrastructure inherited his mantle
she ~ (politics)
infusion (noun)
inherited Ray’s mission
infusion of (new) jobs Linnaeus ~ (classification)
the recovery will suffocate without a rapid ~
inherited his father’s fiery temperament
infusion of (young) recruits the son ~
there was an ~, many of them women (CIA post 9/11)
giving, receiving, bringing & returning / transmission: family
cash infusion / history / money / verb
he has stepped in with a ~ for the company
inheritance (noun)
directing / throwing, putting & planting: water
railroading inheritance
ingenue (person) our national ~
relative ingenue economic inheritance
he is a ~ (politics) the government faces a terrible ~ (Britain's new coalition)
character & personality: person
national (railroading) inheritance
experience: film / love, courtship & marriage / person our ~
ingest (verb) giving, receiving, bringing & returning / transmission: family
ingested a heavy dose / history / money

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inhospitable (adjective) moral injury Olympics
the ~ (disparagement of term)
inhospitable to women ♦ According to the Wikipedia entry, the term “moral distress” originated in
the Defense Department has long been viewed as ~ the 1980s in reference to health-care workers. Through “concept
inflation” or “co-option,” the construct has since been applied to soldiers,
acceptance & rejection: society police, firefighters, EMTS, legal defenders and lawyers, people in child
and adult protective services, and even to veterinarians, leading
inhospitable (adjective) inevitably to the construct’s disparagement: “moral injury Olympics.”
♦ [A quiet card game in the rear was disturbed by the shots of a sniper in
inhospitable conditions a tree. A soldier from the West, a crack shot, dealt with the problem.]
“‘That gray squirrel is pretty frisky, and I must stop his fun to stop him
life flourishes in some of the most~ (Antarctica) spoiling ours.’ He drew a bead on the man in the tree and fired. As the
Confederate sharpshooter came crashing through the branches to the
inhospitable place ground, the Westerner sat down and asked: ‘What’s trumps?’ He
the Weddell Sea is a notoriously ~ seemed as unconcerned as if he had killed a mosquito that had been
annoying him. / ...[B]ehind all this was constantly present to our eyes and
come across as inhospitable mind the scene of a great stream, a procession, so to speak of human
souls on their way to eternity.” (Memoirs of Chaplain Life by W. Corby.)
a “no shirt, not vaccine, no service” policy may ~
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
feel inhospitable
gyms can ~ if your body doesn’t fit the norm injury (other)
welcome: house added insult to injury
he ~ by...
inject (fresh blood, etc.)
trauma and injury
inject fresh blood when people don’t validate you that’s another ~
the king might reshuffle his cabinet to ~
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
injected new life into the industry
suspended coasters ~ (roller coasters)
inkblot (Rorschach)
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine inkblot
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine we call this case an ~ (the murder of two girls)
♦ “We call this case an inkblot. I see what I see, Barb sees what she
inject (put) sees, and you see what you see.” (The podcast “Down The Hill: The
Delphi Murders,” Chapter 7: Madness.)
inject his personality into the offense ♦ A group of Kentucky teenagers, a Native American, and black Hebrew
he wants his quarterback to ~ (coach) Israelites all met by accident on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Read “Viral standoff between a tribal elder and a high schooler is more
injected the phrase "right to die" into the lexicon complicated than it first seemed” by Michael E. Miller, The Washington
she ~ (Quinlan) Post, Jan 22, 2019. Or “January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation”
(Wikipedia).
injected race into the drama perception, perspective & point of view: picture
her allegation ~ (a murder case)
inner circle (noun)
directing: health & medicine / verb
throwing, putting & planting: health & medicine / verb inner circle
you're in the ~, or you're in exile (politics)
injection (noun)
White House inner circle
injection of aid she has left the ~ (resigned)
only a massive ~ can help
part of his (inner) circle
throwing, putting & planting: health & medicine she was not ~ (politics)
directing: health & medicine
make their own inroads into Trump’s inner circle
injure (verb) the Emiratis helped the Russians ~
injure the BBC group, set & collection / power / society: center & periphery
this report will not just ~ but scar it (Lady Di)
inning (in the first inning)
failure, accident & impairment: health & medicine / verb
in the first inning of the game
injury (moral injury) we are still ~
moral injury time: sports & games
it’s a documentary about ~ and the American military development: baseball / sports & games
it’s ~ at the corporate level (equity firm closes hospital) timeliness & lack of timeliness: baseball / sports & games

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inning (ninth inning) plague shot burned like fire and was the worst.” (E.B. Sledge on Pavuvu,
after Peleliu, before Okinawa. From With the Old Breed.)
♦ "In those days, you could say, 'Shut up and take it, we're fighting the
bottom of the ninth inning Japanese.' The Japanese didn't have it, and they were devastated by
we are reaching the ~ (an election) malaria. You could make a case that atabrine won the war." (Col. Alan J.
Magill, speaking about World War II. The atabrine turned the skin
development: baseball / sports & games yellow.)
time: sports & games
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine
timeliness & lack of timeliness: baseball / sports & games
inning (extra innings) inquisition (noun)
went into extra innings Spanish Inquisition
the election ~ (decided by courts) I didn't expect the ~ (questioning)

starting, going, continuing & ending: baseball / sports & oppression: allusion / history / violence
games judgment: allusion / history / violence

innocence (noun) inroads (make inroads)

lost its innocence make their own inroads into Trump’s inner circle
overnight the community ~ (serial killer on loose) the Emiratis helped the Russians ~
♦ “In the Shark’s Domain,” Omnibus, BBC Sounds, 16 Jan 2003 ♦ Road comes from a word for a raid.
juxtaposes a serial killer’s spree, the killing of a swimmer by a great
white shark, and a loss of innocence in Perth, Australia. It is a fascinating
progress & lack of progress: horse / military
juxtaposition.
insatiable (adjective)
experience: love, courtship & marriage
growth & development: death & life insatiable
the appetite for pornography seems to be ~
inoculate (verb) the appetite of the European rich for porcelain was ~
inoculate themselves from the national mood insatiable appetite
politicians are trying to ~ (elections) India's seemingly ~ for gold (jewelry, dowries, temples)
the American public has an ~ for crime stories
inoculate us from these vanities
Vietnam did not ~ (US 'exceptionalism') consumption: food & drink
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: food & drink
inoculate it against (possible legal) consequences
they came up with a framework to ~ (a company) inscribed
inoculated the US against foreign wars inscribed in our DNA
the Vietnam War temporarily ~ some places are ~ (Lake Ohrid, the Balkans)
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine / verb impression: mark / tools & technology
inoculated inside (emotions)
inoculated against (empty) promises inside
the public was long ago ~ (from the government) how are you feeling ~
inoculated, if not immune feeling, emotion & effect: container / prep, adv, adj,
I was more or less ~, to criticism particle
protection & lack of protection: health & medicine insider (insider attack, etc.)
inoculation (noun) insider attacks
so-called ~ have risen dramatically (Afghanistan)
inoculation
but the ~ lasted less than a decade (Vietnam to Grenada) allegiance, support & betrayal: fortification
stress inoculation insider (person)
making a soldier stronger and better through ~
entrenched insiders
effects of the inoculation he is a Washington outsider facing down ~
the ~ are wearing off (memory of Holocaust / anti-Semitism)
power / society: center & periphery / person
♦ “Before the next campaign, we had to take the usual inoculations plus
some additional ones. Our arms were sore, and many men became person: society
feverish. The troops hated getting injections, and the large number
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instrument there is no ~
protection & lack of protection: money
instrument of terror
a burning cross is a particularly powerful ~ (KKK) insurrection
instrument of foreign policy insurrection among his staff
he believed war was an ~ the problems led to an ~
powerful instrument resistance, opposition & defeat: military
a burning cross is a particularly ~ of terror (KKK) allegiance, support & betrayal: military
help & assistance: tools & technology intention (noun)
insular (adjective) takes intention
willing a plot of land into a garden ~
insular (warrior) caste
Marine pilots are an ~ puts a lot of intention into her work
she ~ (“Hey Hey” Pride collection / NPR Shop)
insular sport
it’s a very ~ (horseracing and corruption) inclusion & exclusion: society
insular, intermarrying Brahmin intentional (adjective)
they have coalesced into an ~ elite (David Brooks’ Bobos)
intentional
siloed and insular we leave nothing to chance, art is ~ (fashion)
political journalists are even more ~ today (than in 2016) responsibility to create content that is ~ (Storm Reid)
♦ “Throughout the winter in Tokyo I went to the Kabuki theater a great is the timing just a coincidence, is there anything ~ about it
deal and gradually I came to know the actors themselves and their
families. It is an extraordinary society, rigid, insular, with a great tradition intentional to not try
and an equal consciousness of it.” (East of Home by Santha Rama Rau.)
he was ~ to make it about him (he came out as gay)
♦ “Sixty-eight percent of tweets between journalists who work at The
Washington Post, NPR, [and The] New York Times... are to each other.” intentional with your approach
(“How Journalists Congregating Into ‘Microbubbles’ Affects Quality Of be ~ (helping kids post-lockdown)
News Reporting,” NPR, All Things Considered, August 12, 2020.)
♦ Insula is “island” in Latin. intentional about making sure
he’s been pretty ~ that...
isolation & remoteness: island / sea
division & connection: island / sea intentional actions
insulate (verb) ~ taken to get people out of prison (states)
intentional conversations
insulate our kids from (the kind of) news ~ between partisans could be a catalyst for national healing
we try to ~ that frightens them
intentional moments
insulate their lives from modern life the Newport Folk Festival showcases ~ of change (music)
the Amish try to ~
protection & lack of protection: electricity / verb
intentional partnerships and decisions
we always lead with ~ (NPR sells PPW Pride merch)
isolation & remoteness: electricity / verb
insulated very intentional
I think it’s ~, the way they’ve made this announcement
insulated from violence conscious and intentional
they lived in a world where they were ~ (Amish)
personal branding is the ~ effort to create... (advertising)
avoidance & separation / division & connection / isolation
need to be intentional
& remoteness / protection & lack of protection: electricity
we ~ in building resilience into those decisions
insulation (noun) ♦ “He’s been pretty intentional about making sure that everything we do
has a racial equity component to it.” (Cedric Richmond, a senior advisor
community, acceptance and insulation to the president and Director of the Office of Public Engagement at the
White House, responding to Black criticism of President Biden.)
they feel a sense of ~ (lesbians)
♦ “They had been really intentional about their lifestyle.” (Until the
protection & lack of protection: electricity wedding, when they hired chariots. An article about Blacks and their
finances.)
isolation & remoteness: electricity
♦ “I didn’t see that ending with one intentional single shot.” (Steve Bunce,
insurance about Tyson “The Gypsy King’ Fury’s uppercut that dropped Dillian White
in front of 94,000 fight fans at Wembley Stadium.)
insurance against (unpleasant) surprises inclusion & exclusion: society

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intentionality (noun) (Abuse of detained citizens of Basra by the Queen's Lancashire
Regiment in 2003, from the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry, 2011.)

with intentionality fictive communication: military / speech / verb

handling finances ~ analysis, interpretation & explanation: military / speech /
verb
inclusion & exclusion: society
interrogated
intentionally
interrogated
very intentionally a word, when ~, will tell us about the people who used it
he ~ addressed some of those concerns
♦ Why not just waterboard that word?
embed (DEI more) intentionally analysis, interpretation & explanation: military
~ in TESOL activities (diversity, equity, and inclusion)
fictive communication: speech
inclusion & exclusion: society
interrogating (questioning)
intermission (noun)
interrogating race and racism
intermission in the continuing saga Critical Race Theory is the practice of ~ in society
his appearance this week could be just an ~ (trial) analysis, interpretation & explanation: military
development / starting, going, continuing & ending: theater fictive communication: speech
interrogate (verb) interrogation (questioning)
interrogate interrogation
this idea of migration as a crisis is what I’m trying to ~ political ads require discussion, conversation, ~

interrogate that deserves some interrogation

okay, let’s ~, NPR’s Brian Naylor is with us... the rise of the weird achiever ~ (Ann Powers)

interrogate who is privileged and who is marginalized analysis, interpretation & explanation: military
~ by the notion of “standard” English fictive communication: speech

interrogate what we know intersect (verb)

we have to ~, how we know... (NPR mea culpa)
intersects with (one’s daily) existence
interrogate the data how one’s faith ~
his tabulating machine made it easier to ~ (punched cards) division & connection: boundary / geometry / verb
interrogate (Black) history intersection (noun)
Johnson is able to ~ (the author of novel Loving Day)
intersection of religion and politics
interrogates the intersections
she writes about the ~ (a journalist)
her work ~ of... (a Black academic)
intersection of faith and politics, law, science & culture
interrogates masculinity
I switched to the religion beat and reported on the ~
there are ways to make a show that ~ (crime entertainment)
intersections of gender, race, immigration, pop culture
interrogates the notion
she writes most often about the ~ (Hannah Giorgis)
next, the author ~ of academic language (Black English)
intersection of crime, politics and law and order
interrogates tragedy and trauma
the show was a look at the ~ (The Wire)
Paula Hawkins in new thriller (a book)
♦ “It’s both a pleasure and an education to look over Barnes’s shoulder intersection of law, policy, and advocacy
as he interrogates, wonders at, and relishes works of art.” (A blurb in an she is pursuing a career at the ~ (Amie Rodriguez)
advertisement for a book.)
♦ BEING abused (physically, psychologically or casually); assaulted; intersection of national security and technology
battered; batoned; beaten; beat(en) up; conditioned; deprived of water / she focuses on the ~ (NPR cybersecurity correspondent)
food / sleep; forced to run around and dance / forced to kneel over a
toilet in the floor / forced to submit for trophy photographs and videos / intersection between creativity and commerce
forced into stress positions; head butted; hit; hooded; humiliated; ill-
treated; karate chopped; kicked; manhandled; mistreated; played like he explores the ~
musical instruments ("the choir"); pulled up from the floor by the eye
sockets; punched; roughed up; shouted at; slapped; struck (with a metal intersection between entertainment, culture and politics
bar / rifle butt); subjected to suffocating holds / subjected to loud noise / we do the hard work of ~ (yet another podcast)
subjected to white noise / subjected to the "harsh approach
(interrogation)"; threatened; treated roughly… HAVING the eyes gouged interrogates the intersections
/ fingers inserted into the mouth / fingers pushed into the eye socket /
liquid poured over a detainee in a staged immolation by gasoline…
her work ~ of... (a Black academic)

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division & connection: boundary / geometry into (involvement)
intersectional (groups, etc.) into it
intersectional approach once you get that far ~... (extremism)
SCA privileges scholarly work that takes an ~ (university) involvement: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
intersectional band intoxicate (verb)
they never seen an ~ (white drummer, female trumpet)
intoxicated us
intersectional oppression the ability to wield force has ~
those who face ~
feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol / verb
gets even more intersectional
as you move into the genres it ~ (women / electronic music) intoxicated
♦ “I, as a Black trans woman, I’m facing oppression due to being a
woman, I face oppression due to being black, I face oppression due to intoxicated with power
being trans, I face oppression due to being queer...” (The comedian Mx he was ~ (a politician)
Dahlia Belle, a Black trans woman.)
♦ “As the medalists posed for photos, Sunders raised her arms and intoxicated by a desire
crossed them into an X shape. She said it represented ‘the intersection he was ~ to run in a marathon
of where all people who are oppressed meet.’” / The 25-year-old, who is
black, gay, and has spoken frankly about her struggles with depression, intoxicated by having
said she wanted ‘to be me, to not apologise’. / After competing, she said liberals are ~ a majority (politics)
she aimed to give light to ‘people all around the world who are fighting
and don’t have the platform to speak up for themselves’.” (“Raven feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol
Saunders: What the Olympian’s X protest means to her,” BBC, 1 August,
2021.)
intoxicating (adjective)
♦ Good Morning America, recapping “Olympic Games Day 10,” wrote
that “U.S. shot putter Raven Saunders raised her hands above her head entrepreneurship is intoxicating
in an “X” after receiving her silver medal to support intersectional
oppression.” Surely it was to protest intersectional oppression! she said ~

inclusion & exclusion: society game is intoxicating

the ~
intertwined
music was intoxicating
intertwined the ~
the economies of the US and Mexico have become ~
night was intoxicating
division & connection: cloth the warm spring ~
intervening (adjective) opera is intoxicating
intervening years Italian ~
in the ~, the university had announced a partnership... passion is intoxicating
♦ From the Latin “to come between.” their ~ (performers)
future / time: direction / movement / position scene was intoxicating
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: direction / the ~ (nature)
movement
scent was intoxicating
interwoven the ~ (flowers)
interwoven into the (social) fabric sound (of drums) was intoxicating
aggression is ~ of schools (bullying, status, etc.) the ~ (at an African soccer game)
interwoven stories found freedom intoxicating
it’s a collection of ~ (a film) he ~ (immigrant)
division & connection: cloth ♦ “Watching red-tailed hawks and sharp-shinned hawks and golden
eagles passing by was intoxicating.” (A 12-year-old Scott Weidensaul
into (be into something) sitting on Hawk Mountain with a strong northwest wind blowing on “one
of the best migration days of the fall.”)

into hang gliding enthusiasm / feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol

he's really ~
introduce (verb)
deep into books
a lot of prisoners were ~ (reading) introduced the word in the usual, literal way
I ~ (an English teacher)
enthusiasm: container / prep, adv, adj, particle

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introduced the word to the English language tourist invasion
Captain James Cook may have ~ (taboo) the economic benefits that will accompany the ~
introduce new perspectives into curriculums British invasion
trying to ~ (schools) the ~ of the 1960s (music)
introduce new technology into the mail stream aquatic invasion
~ (post office) the Great Lakes is a hot spot for ~s (non-native species)
introduce recreational divers to the rewards furry invasion
trying to ~ of fish watching blame this ~ on climate change (polar bears in Churchill)
introduced me to the best pizza invisible invasion
my brother ~ I have ever eaten people see immigration as an ~ (Europe)
introduced us to the music, the culture see immigration as an (invisible) invasion
“Sweet Jamaica” ~ (England) people ~ (Europe)
fictive communication: speech / verb amount & effect: military
inundate (verb) invest (verb)
inundated the help line with calls invest my heart in someone
the public ~ I can't ~ who might not stick around
amount & effect: flood / verb / water invested years in toiling
she ~ over a nonfiction account (an author)
inundated
commitment & determination: money / verb
inundated by a flood
the public is being ~ of conflicting information investment (noun)
inundated with email emotional investment
you probably feel like you're ~, don't you there's a great deal of ~ on the part of all the players
inundated with phone calls commitment & determination: money
the hospital was ~
invigorate (verb)
amount & effect: flood / water
invigorated the party
invade (verb) he ran a campaign that ~ nationwide
invades the area amelioration & renewal: death & life / health & medicine /
as cold air ~… (weather) verb
invading her dreams invisibility (groups)
she said her brother's ghost was ~ (Chinese)
invisibility
invaded (1.5 million acres of) the ecosystem the ~ AAPI people feel (as people, crime data, etc.)
exotic plant species have ~
challenges invisibility
invade US she ~ (Lola Flash, a queer gender-fluid Black woman)
snow and ice move South as temperatures below zero ~
inclusion & exclusion: society
amount & effect: military / verb
invisible (groups)
invasion (noun)
invisible in this society
invasion of (Asian) carp you’re not present, so you’re like ~ (Roma)
the ~ into the waters of the South and the Midwest…
invisible people
invasion of immigrants at times, we’re an ~, lumped in to other ethnic groups
what European countries perceive as an ~
felt invisible
invasion of privacy my AAPI friends used words like they ~ (Mazie Hirono)
they were furious at the ~ they ~, not seen (President Biden about AAPIs)
invasion (of the Antarctic) by men of science made to ‘feel invisible’
this was the first ~ (De Gerlache and the Belgica) Asian women are ~ in America

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rendered invisible invite (verb)
they have been ~ and not received their due (Sherpas)
♦ “Those ‘invisibilized’ by the justice system.” “They are invisibilized to invite kids to rebel
middle-class society.” (The incarcerated.) such limits may ~ (parents are too strict)
♦ Native Americans speak of “Native invisibility.” Colleen Medicine,
program director at the Association on American Indian Affairs, explains invites abuse
how “Our people go missing three times over:” (1) Abducted, taken, open editing ~ (Wikipedia)
murdered. (2) Missing in the data. (3) Not at home or in their
communities. invites aggression
♦ An ultra-orthodox Satmar woman speaks about having to be appeasement ~ (diplomacy)
inconspicuous, the problematic nature of her female presence, having to
cover it up and negate it. invites (both direct and indirect) fires
♦ Says Cindy Tran, a poet, “Ever since I was little, I was made invisible in detection of a unit's location ~
physical and emotional ways.” Says Diane He, a student, “They see us
as quiet, not very outspoken, almost as if we fade into the background.” invites neglect
♦ An actor said, “We are literally demanding to be seen,” talking about quarantining inmates with H.I.V. and AIDS ~ (US)
the Oscars, nominations, awards, and people of color.
♦ “They have often been rendered invisible by the global lens and have invite (nuclear) retaliation
seldom received their due.” (“How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 use of chemical or biological agents will ~
in Winter for the First Time” by Adam Skolnick and Bhadra Sharma, The
New York Times, Jan. 19, 2021. Most would dispute the writers’ claim as invited (a lot more) scrutiny
ludicrous and stupid, but it sounds good.) he's ~ because there's more media (politics)
♦ “You’re not present in the curriculum or textbooks, so you’re like
invisible in this society.” (Lana Jurko, Network of Education Policy invite trouble
Centres, about Roma education in the Balkans.) certain songs in certain parts of town ~ (gangs)
♦ “At times, we’re an invisible people, lumped in to other ethnic groups.”
(Native Hawaiians.) invite hand and finger movement
♦ “I had to be nonexistent, invisible.” (The 11-year-old Amos Oz, the only silly putty, play dough, and clay all ~
child at a tableful of adults discussing literature, politics, etc.)
♦ “I am Puerto Rican, from the Bronx, and I was raised in the 50s, loved
invite retaliation and counter expulsions
television, never saw anybody who looked like me, I began to feel on this action will ~ (spying)
some level that I was invisible. I didn’t know what I would contribute to a
society that was determined not to see me...” (Sonia Manzano, actor, attraction & repulsion / welcome: speech / verb
screenwriter, author, speaker, TV series creator, producer, etc., who fictive communication: speech / verb
played Maria on Sesame Street for 44 years. According to her Wikipedia
entry, which is extensive, she attended the High School of Performing inviting
Arts, then Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on scholarship. She
currently lives on the Upper West Side in New York City.)
inviting
♦ “I know what it’s like to be a woman who is essentially invisible to most the people and the water are ~ (Jamaica)
people because of not being seen as traditionally beautiful or whatever.”
(Rebel Wilson, on BBC. She has been in films, is a producer and
director, and is on the BBC’s 100 Women of 2021.)
inviting coffeehouse
a lively arts scene, an ~ on every corner (Seattle)
♦ “I guess I was invisible for so long that it felt good to be noticed.” (The
film John Tucker Must Die.) warm, welcoming and inviting
♦ The Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison is at least partly about social schools should be ~ (gay harassment)
invisibility.
♦ “I can disappear when I get that scared.” (Thandie Newton’s character attraction & repulsion / welcome: speech
from the great film The Journey of August King, based on the book by
John Ehle and with Sam Waterston.) inward (turn inward, etc.)
♦ see also presence, representation, space, voice, etc.
turning inward
inclusion & exclusion: society we are ~ (US foreign policy)
invitation (noun) avoidance & separation: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle

invitation to frostbite or edema IQ (ability)

it seemed an ~ (high-altitude bivouac)
opponent’s (boxing) IQ
invitation for ridicule can he match his ~ (AJ vs. Usyk / boxing)
being a rookie is an engraved ~
boxing IQ
open invitation he had terrific ~ (Marvin “Marvelous” Hagler)
an e-mail address in a chat room is an ~ to spammers
ring IQ
attraction & repulsion / welcome: speech his ~ isn’t good enough (a boxer)
fictive communication: speech he used his ~ to keep Joshua off-balance (Usyk)
high (basketball) IQ
he earned a reputation as a defender with a ~

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ability & lack of ability: school & education new Iron Curtain
knowledge & intelligence: school & education we are seeing the ~ (a Swede, after Ukraine invasion)
iron (Iron Lady, etc.) ♦ “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has
descended across the Continent.” (Winston Churchill at Westminster
College in Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946.)
Iron Brigade
the ~ (the U.S. Civil War) division & connection: allusion / epithet / history

“iron brother” ironfisted

Chinese diplomats refer to Pakistan as their ~
iron-fisted
Iron Chancellor he's ~ (a dictator)
German unification and the ~, Otto von Bismarck
iron-fisted dictator
Iron Dome ~s have ruled the country since its birth
many rockets were intercepted by its ~ air-defense system
iron-fisted empire
Iron Duke the US State Department is the gloved hand of an ~
Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, the ~
oppression: fist / materials & substances
“Iron Erna”
she earned the nickname ~ (Erna Solberg of Norway)
iron out (verb)
Iron Lady iron out
Margaret Thatcher, the ~ (unions, Falklands, Ireland, etc.) there are still a few wrinkles to ~
♦ “The tough ‘Iron Lady’ may have been to the Falkland Islands, what iron out any kinks
she didn’t realize was that she would be met with stronger steel.”
(Margaret Thatcher visited Beijing...and slipped and fell to her knees on
they are having a test run to ~ (restaurant opening)
the steps of the Great Hall of the People.)
iron out the problems
♦ “The Iron Brigade embodied the resolve of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Indiana during the Civil War.”
I can ~

epithet: materials & substances iron out wrinkles

character & personality / commitment & determination / they still need to ~ in their new contract
strength & weakness: epithet ♦ "A faint smell of charcoal in the room. A smell of ironing. Tonia is
ironing, every now and then she gets a coal out of the stove and puts it in
iron (strength) the iron, and the lid of the iron snaps over it like a set of teeth. It reminds
me of something, but I can't think of what… As soon as I feel better I
iron will must go to the town library and read up on the ethnography and history
of the region." (Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. The sight and smells
those close to Fury speak of his ~ (the boxer Tyson Fury) of Tonia ironing at Varykino have subconsciously reminded him of Lara
ironing linen in Meliuzeievo, and when he goes to the library he sees her
strength & weakness: materials & substances and they start their affair.)
ironclad (adjective) amelioration & renewal: cloth / verb
ironclad irreverent (adjective)
you can’t report on those settlements, they are ~ (NDAs)
irreverent attitude
ironclad accounts contributors take an ~ toward the highbrow (a podcast)
there are ~ of him ordering a destruction of documents
irreverent and unshocked
ironclad, waterproof, bulletproof, (legally) binding he was ~ by taboos (Dirk Bogarde)
we need ~ guarantees (Sergey Ryabkov / diplomacy)
irreverent, anti-authoritarian and iconoclastic
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances ~ (Mad magazine)
strength & weakness: materials & substances
reverence: religion
iron curtain
irritant (noun)
Bamboo Curtain
the ~ in Southeast Asia lingering irritant
his decision was a ~ to Republicans
Iron Curtain of the late Middle Ages
this was the ~ (Turks block routes to the east) affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: sensation

economic iron curtain irritated

an ~ falling on Russia (McDonald’s closes its restaurants)
surprised, dismayed, irritated and outraged
information iron curtain the French have been ~ by...
China is no longer shrouded by an ~ (Internet)

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affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: sensation ♦ “Paraguay is an island surrounded on all sides by land.”

irritating division & connection: island / sea

environment: island / sea
irritating
she is really ~
island (beech island, etc.)
character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect: beech island
sensation no one knows why these ~ exist (stands of beech)

irritation (emotion) coffee island

he tends the dozen dispensers at the ~ (at a mini-mart)
irritation and anxiety
heat island
students express ~ (rising tuition, fewer classes)
Tokyo is becoming a vast ~ (thermal pollution)
anger or irritation an urban ~ (UHI) is warmer than its surroundings
he never displays ~ in public (a Shia cleric) urban ~s and lack of access to cool spaces (heatwave)

disagreement or irritation pump island

"Gimme a break" expresses ~ see a car pull up to a ~ (gas station)
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation Self Serve Island
~ (a sign at a gas station)
island (society)
traffic island
island public bathroom on a ~ in the city center
no man is an ~
schools are not ~s, they are connected to communities glacial islands
nunataks are also called ~
island on my own
politically, I’ve felt a little bit of an ~ (Maxine Peake) resemblance: sea / island

island among his men ism (groups)

he was sullen and morose, an ~... (a troubled leader)
ableism
♦ “I don’t know why we have you know made it this separate thing, as if factors like ~ and racial and socioeconomic bias (justice)
it’s an island nation in which you need a visa and passport.” (Ken Burns
talking about his series on country music.)
ageism
♦ “And I thought, if I was doomed to be sent to this island of punishment, I find ~ so old-fashioned (Vera Wang, looking good)
of grief, at least I will try to make it with my own words...” (The Israeli
writer David Grossman about his novel Falling Out of Time.)
otherism
♦ No man is an island entire of itself; every man / is a piece of the see otherism (noun)
continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe / is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as / well as any
manner of thy friends or of thine / own were; any man’s death diminishes
racism
me, / because I am involved in mankind. / And therefore never send to see racism (groups)
know for whom / the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (John Donne.)
♦ The Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky is a wonderfully
transgender-ism
short, impressionistic, and graphically distinguished book about actual polls show the public is increasingly rejecting ~ (anti)
islands that should be on the bookshelf of every household with children.
♦ Islands can be remote, and they are often the source of endemic
wokeism
species. On the other hand, if the island has a port, than it might be a they clashed over alleged “~” in the military
place where people from all parts of the world mingle and mix.
inclusion & exclusion: affix
division & connection: island / sea
society: island / sea
itch (verb)
island (island of affluence, etc.) itching to incite
the moderators were ~ conflict (a political debate)
islands of affluence
there were isolated ~ (the Great Depression) eagerness & reluctance: sensation / verb

island of stability itch (enthusiasm)

Somaliland is an ~ in a sea of armed chaos itch to ride
islands of convenience and prosperity once you get the ~ motorcycles, you can't help but scratch it
there are ~ within seas of squalor (Lagos, Bombay, etc.) scratched this itch
cultural island Bitcoin ~ (for idealistic nonconformist Vitalik Buterin)
Tunisia is a ~ bordered by sea and desert enthusiasm: insect / sensation

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itchy (adjective) when you ~ an issue... (education)
itchy to leave soldierize
he was ~ every drill sergeant trying to ~, to build a soldier
itchy to get back spatialize
he is ~ in the ring (a boxer) the MASS Design Group seeks to ~
eagerness & reluctance: insect / sensation traumatize
see traumatize (verb)
it girl (and it drug, etc.)
♦ A self-identified Black educator, writing about middle and high-school
It Boy education in a short article, used the following: Africanize; contextualize;
dehumanize; historicize; internalize; legitimize; marginalize; narrativize;
~ is a French romantic comedy film (2013) organize (social protest); racialize; realize; signify; socialize; theorize;
testify; and vernacularize.
‘It’ drug
♦ see also ify (mainstreamify, etc.)
it has emerged as the ~ on the Australian party scene
♦ From -ize it is a very short leap indeed to -ization / -ification.
“it” girl
her attitude has turned her into the new political ~ inclusion & exclusion: affix
meet Broadway’s newest ~ ized (invisibilized, etc.)
fashion’s new ~... and boy
bubble-ized
‘it’ girl Beijing will be ~ (Christine Brennan, sports columnist)
she became known as the fashionable ~ (Korea) there will be ~ flights to get to the Olympics
it girls minoritized
don’t let the bouncy, cheery ~ make you feel bad about see minoritized (groups)
yourself
traumatized
It Plant Amy Schumer says she’s triggered and ~ by...
the Powdery Liveforever has become the ~ for thieves
(California) corporatized
♦ The 1927 film It starred Clara Bow. F9 seems less ~ than other blockbusters (the film)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / primacy, currency, decline exoticized
& obsolescence: allusion / film / object othered, objectified, ~, coerced (Asian women)
ization (marginalization, etc.) intelligentized
fetishization China is focused on ~ technology (vs. old IT)
this ~ of (Black) trauma is an industry (entertainment) invisibilized
convicts have been ~
marginalization
their ~ is due to naked discrimination marginalized
see marginalized (groups)
Southerization
The ~ of America (by Cynthia Tucker, Frye Galliard) Racialized
My Grandmother’s Hands: ~ Trauma (Resmaa Menakem)
victimization
see victimization (noun) ♦ see also ified (Princified, etc.)

inclusion & exclusion: affix inclusion & exclusion: affix

ize (racialize, etc.)
criminalize
we ~ poverty and mental illness
J
dehumanize jab (noun)
it ~s the entire collective (Muslim women)
took a jab at Biden
minoritize Trump ~ (politics)
forms of power that ~ subjects (post-queer politics)
traded jabs with his opponents
otherize he ~ (politics)
CRT causes members of the military to ~ one another
we tend to really ~ the person (shame her for ethical slip) accusation & criticism / conflict / speech: boxing

racialize

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jackal (noun) she found herself ~

“jackal diplomacy” get in a jam

and if you ~ and need to raise cash...
he practiced ~
♦ “He practiced “jackal diplomacy” to the extent that he requested for his got in a jam
nation a share of the spoils won by the British lion in combat; had Britain and that’s how the company ~
or China opposed his request, he was powerless to do more.”
(Commodore Lawrence Kearny in China, from Far China Station: The
U.S Navy in Asian Waters 1800-1898 by Robert Erwin Johnson.)
put us in a jam
what he did ~
♦ The jackal is a lion in his own country. (An insult.)

character & personality / insult: animal get him out of this jam
perhaps a lawyer could ~
jackass (noun) maybe the lawyers could ~
♦ On the 6th of May the Yukon began to rise rapidly, lifting the ice, which,
jackass however, remained fast in front of the town... The sight was one to
he's a foolish ~ inspire respect. When a big floe, forty feet across, struck the front of the
barrier, it half rose out of the water, then dived under, or turned on edge,
character & personality / insult: animal crunched into the front with a dull roar, and remained there... At four
o’clock on the morning of the 8th the cry was raised, ‘The ice is going
jackpot (hit the jackpot) out!’ and everybody rushed out in time to see the bridge of ice crack,
groan, then slowly push together and stop; then slowly, slowly the whole
mass began to move, and in a few minutes there was nothing but a swift
political jackpot river, with cakes of ice as big as cabins strewn along the banks...” (The
that would be a ~ for the president Klondike Stampede by Tappan Adney, Special Correspondent of
Harper’s Weekly in the Klondike, 1900.)
hit the jackpot
you ~ situation: container / tools & technology
obstacles & impedance: river
hit the (intelligence) jackpot
they were hoping to ~ (Russian spies in US)
jaw (Dragon’s Jaw, etc.)
success & failure: gambling / money / verb “The Jaw”
~, a peak overlooking Hanging Canyon (Wyoming)
Jacobin
Dragon's Jaw
Jacobin publication the North Vietnamese called it the ~ (US bombing target)
he has written for The Nation, a ~ (culture wars)
Hogjaw
school reform’s new Jacobins the ~ Up In Flames Tour, Europe, May / June 2019
~ have opted for a hard left turn into identity politics
Moose Jaw
disruption: allusion / history / violence ~, Canada, a deeply disturbing city (Saskatchewan)
jack up (verb) proper name: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
jack up the cost jaw (jaws of defeat, etc.)
green technology will ~ of power (opinion)
jaws of defeat
jack up earnings if anyone knows how to grab a victory from the ~, it is
Wall Street will always find ways to ~ Serena Williams
jacked up (used book) prices jaws of disaster
the company has ~ the Israeli tankers charged into the ~ (1973)
jacked up (interest) rates Hell’s jaws
credit-card companies have ~ again the killings began, as ~ opened... (ethnic cleansing)
jack up (defense) spending fate, fortune & chance: animal / hunting / predation
the government seeks to ~ pursuit, capture & escape: animal / hunting / predation
jacking up tuitions jaw (jaws of life, etc.)
colleges are ~ like never before
‘jaws of life’
increase & decrease: direction / number / tools & he was extracted from the wreck with the ~
technology / verb
resemblance / shape: mouth
jam (situation)
jawbone (Jawbone Canyon, etc.)
in a jam
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 Europeans named it ~ for its shape (Mohave Desert) jeremiad (bitter lament)
Jawbone Falls jeremiads of a Southern apologist
the big pool below ~ (Panthertown, North Carolina)
the nation didn’t pay heed to the ~
proper name: skin, muscle, nerves & bone ♦ A jeremiad often has two elements: a bitter criticism of society and a
prophecy of doom.
jaw-dropper
message: allusion / Bible / religion
real jaw-dropper accusation & criticism: allusion / Bible / religion
that was a ~ for me
Jerusalem (Jerusalem of the North, etc.)
jaw dropped
the verdict was a stunner, and my ~ Jerusalem of the North
the Jews called it the ~ (Vilna / Vilnius)
♦ “I was just sent this letter that has my jaw on the floor...”

feeling, emotion & effect: mouth / gesture Balkan Jerusalem

Lake Ohrid, known as the ~
jaw-dropping
comparison & contrast: epithet
jaw-dropping moment jettison (verb)
this is the ~ when a sea lion attacked a girl (video)
♦ “This has been the most dizzying, jaw-dropping, eyeball-popping, jettisoned the case law
head-spinning news conference I have ever attended. And I was at Bill the court has ~ (lawyers will appeal)
Clinton’s news conference in 1998 when he faced the press for the first
time over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.” (John Sopel for the
BBC, following a press conference with President Trump on Monday,
jettison (the under-performing) ministers
April 13, 2020.) many people wonder why he doesn't ~
feeling, emotion & effect: mouth / gesture jettisoned the (Obama) playbook
the Trump Administration ~
Jekyll (Jekyll and Hyde)
dismissal, removal & resignation: boat / verb
Jekyll-and-Hyde character
for some, he was a ~, a decorated chief who... (SEAL) jettisoned
Jekyll and Hyde existence jettisoned
he was rumored to have lived a ~ (government official) he was ~ (an athlete who was traded)

Jekyll-and-Hyde existence jettison its pariah status

he was rumored to have lived a ~ (high official / low places) Zimbabwe seeks to ~

“Jekyll and Hyde” figure dismissal, removal & resignation: boat

he was a ~ who could be charming but had a dark side Jew (Jews of the Caribbean, etc.)
Doctor Jekyll – Mister Hyde moment
it was a very strange ~ (holding job and eating disorder)
Jews of the Caribbean
Indo-Caribbean immigrants have been called the ~
Dr. Jekyll and Hyde
there’s a little ~ in Mike (the great boxer Mike Tyson)
Jews of the Arab world
the Palestinians are sometimes said to be the ~
Jekyll and Hyde portrait
a ~ emerges of SEAL accused of murder
Jews of the Far East
the Chinese have been called the ~ (business, diaspora)
Jekyll and Hyde role
there is a bit of a ~ for the agency (helps but also arrests)
Jews of the 21st century
a sign said, "Latinos are the ~" (immigration protest)
Jekyll and Hyde transformation migration: epithet / person
every now and then, desert locusts undergo a ~ (swarms)
person: journeys & trips
absolutely Jekyll and Hyde jewel (noun)
the team has been ~ (up and down, good and bad)
♦ Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Robert Louis jewel
Stevenson and published in 1886. Sikkim is a ~ nestled between Bhutan and Nepal
allusion: books & reading jewel of these mountains
character & personality: allusion / mental health / person she was a ~ (bookmobile lady in Western North Carolina)
jewels in the crown
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real jewel competition: animal / horse / sports & games
it's a ~ (a kayaker speaking of a river near Vancouver)
Johnny Appleseed
hidden jewel
it's a ~ (a park) Johnny Appleseed
we must drop the idea the US is ~ spreading democracy
national jewel
the Okavango Delta is the ~ (tourism / Botswana) Johnny Appleseed of Agriculture 2.0
she is the ~ (brings together entrepreneurs, investors)
superlative: materials & substances / mining
flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances Johnny Appleseed of near Earth object deflection
worth & lack of worth: materials & substances / mining his work as the ~ has begun to bear fruit (astronomy)

jewel (jewel of Syria, etc.) Johnny Appleseed of protest music

a self-styled “~” (the blacklisted Pete Seeger)
jewel of Syria
this city once known as “the~” (Aleppo) served as a Johnny Appleseed
he ~ for electric cars (made long trip in one, blogging)
superlative: epithet ♦ “Go forth and be the Johnny Appleseed of books and reading!” (A
epithet: materials & substances North Carolina teacher-trainer. Good advice, never forgotten.)

jibe (verb) ♦ Bookmobile Schedule: Tuesday: Hanging Dog community, Boiling

Springs, Grape Creek, Highway 294 and Upper Bear Paw Road, Oak
Park Guest Home, Andrews Elementary School... (Cherokee County,
jibe with his record North Carolina, U.S.A.)
his statement doesn’t ~ ♦ Camels serve as bookmobiles in Kenya.
direction: boat / verb transmission: allusion / apple / epithet
jigsaw puzzle (noun) joke (you must be joking, etc.)
jigsaw puzzle of (smaller) languages joking
Europe was once a ~ like Ladin (Italian Dolomites) you must be ~
configuration / complexity: sports & games comprehension & incomprehension: speech
job (hit job, etc.) joke (it’s a joke, etc.)
hatchet job joke
the New York Times did a complete ~ on him this university is a ~
hit job insult / worth & lack of worth: speech
the Bloomberg article was a ~ (against a company)
this is a partisan ~ (a political kerfuffle) jolt (noun)
how a political ~ backfired...
jolt of anxiety
he appeared to be the victim of a ~, orchestrated to...
the murder sent a ~ around the city
♦ A hatchet job, a hit job / piece, a drive-by...
jolt to some
accusation & criticism / conflict / punishment &
it was quite a ~ (Trump wins election)
recrimination: crime / death & life / violence
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force / sensation
jockey (verb)
journey (in one's journey)
jockey for advantage
partisans ~ (politics) in his journey from boy to man
it was an important moment ~
jockeying for position
he has been ~ in the department for years in our journey towards the promise
this is a significant milestone ~ of stem-cell-based medicines
jockey for power
Ukrainians, Tatars, and ethnic Russians ~ (Crimea) course: journeys & trips

jockey for leaks and scoops journey (on a journey)

reporters ~
on the journey of life
jockeyed for face time how a person behaves ~ is directly related...
guests ~ with the newly minted star (party)
behaves on the journey
fiercely jockey how a person ~ of life is directly related to…
reporters ~ for leaks and scoops

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course: journeys & trips ♦ “Everybody who I speak to who’s been studying coronavirus tells me
that Omicron is a step on the journey towards humanity being able to
journey (noun) coexist with this virus. And that in the end, the COVID should become
not more serious than the common cold. And so there’s a journey to get
there, and we’re on that journey.” (David Nabarro of the WHO.)
journey
♦ "It's sometimes necessary during a journey to repack and remount a
this whole ~ has been really amazing (actress does film) horse." (Chinese proverb relating to a change in the middle of a plan.)
journey towards modernity ♦ No trip is long with good company!
Bhutan's carefully ordered ~ (elections of 2007) ♦ “Sometimes life takes you to places you never imagined.”
♦ “I left Tangier, my birthplace, on Thursday, 2nd Rajab 725 [June 14,
journey from boy to man 1325], being at that time twenty-two years of age [22 lunar years; 21 and
in his ~ 4 months by solar reckoning], with the intention of making the Pilgrimage
to the Holy House [at Makkah] and the Tomb of the Prophet [at
journey from complacency to (political) power Madinah]. (The great traveler Ibn Battuta.)
her ~ (Wilma Mankiller)
course / development / experience: journeys & trips /
Bhutan's (carefully ordered) journey movement
~ towards modernity (elections of 2007)
joust (verb)
Farmer’s Journey
Pastoral Song: A ~ by James Rebanks, Custom House joust among themselves for ownership
corporations ~ of…
A Martinez’s (public radio) journey
~ (NPR) jousting over (sensationalist) ads
the two campaigns are ~ (politics)
life's journey
my ~ jousts with (more left-leaning) partisans
she is a close Clinton ally who frequently ~ online
never-ending journey
growth and development are a ~ competition / conflict: history / Middle Ages / verb

mental health journey jousting (conflict)

she has always been so open about her ~ courtroom jousting with (federal) lawyers
medical journey the ~ was otherworldly (secrecy)
work was difficult, starting a long ~ (Havana syndrome) geopolitical jousting in the South China Sea
spiritual journey he covered stories such as ~ (a correspondent)
it is the story of a ~ social jousting
total journey a lot of ~ goes on (teenagers)
my ~ is two hundred ten point one (pounds lost / diet) ♦ In Don Quixote, Cervantes refers to Suero de Quinones and the Jousts
of the Honourable Pass at the Bridge of Orbigo in 1434.
story of a (spiritual) journey
competition / conflict: history / Middle Ages
it is the ~
journey is ongoing
Judas (betrayal)
this ~ (the composition of music) call me Judas
completed his journey they will attack me in the press, ~, accuse me of...
he ~ from personal despair to sporting glory allegiance, support & betrayal: Bible / religion
♦ Life's a journey, not a destination. (Bumper sticker.)
♦ “My total journey is two hundred ten point one.” (A YouTube diet
judge (role)
advertisement, referring to pounds lost.)
judge
♦ A Season For Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris
Dees (1991) was updated and reissued in 2003 as A Lawyer’s Journey:
you be the ~ (preference contest)
The Morris Dees Story. history will be the ~ (proper response to pandemic)
♦ Glennon Doyle said, “If you’ve come this far with me in my—I hate the post judge
word—journey...” (“Glennon Doyle’s Honesty Gospel” by Ariel Levy, The
New Yorker, February 8, 2021.) are you the ~ (response to critic)
♦ “To keep class discussion buoyant, lecturers are told to ‘encourage judgment: justice / person
students to practise the verbalisation aspect of knowledge’. Multiple
‘learning outcomes’, sacred buzzwords before the pandemic, have been person: justice
supplemented with ‘learner journeys’, promising against the odds a
positive experience as well as a realistic hope of achieving something.” judged
(“Diary: On Quitting Academia” by Malcolm Gaskill, London Review of
Books, 24 September 2020. “In May, I gave up my academic career after judged by wins and loses
27 years...”) as a coach, he will be ~

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judgment: justice juggle a full load of classes and a job
it may be hard to ~
juggernaut (noun)
juggles those objectives
juggernaut of coastal destruction he ~ with an unusual style
you have this ~ (land for industry, shrimp farms)
juggles (several) roles
juggernaut of optimism he ~ (community activist)
a ~ vaulted him to the White House (Obama)
juggle (multiple) tasks
juggernauts of global trade employees who can handle the stress and ~
container ships are the ~
ability / difficulty, easiness & effort: circus / sports &
Fury juggernaut games / verb
Paris is key in keeping the ~ moving (the boxer’s wife)
juggling
Russian juggernaut
the ~ in the east had moved steadily westwards (1813) juggling the (conflicting) demands
~ of politics and governing
self-help juggernaut
the ~ was published in 1936 (How to Win Friends...) juggling act
trying to build a team is a hard ~ (basketball)
new-school juggernaut
Tagovailloa turned old-school Alabama into a ~ (football) ability / difficulty, easiness & effort: circus / sports &
games
ratings juggernaut
it was a ~ (The Cosby Show) jugular (go for the jugular, etc.)
bureaucratic juggernaut jugular of the island
I'm up against a ~ that won't stop (immigration status) he determined Syracuse was the ~ (Sicily / WWII)
cultural juggernaut going for the jugular
K-pop has become a ~ they are ~ (team in tournament)
literary juggernaut go for the jugular
he has been a ~ (great American writer Stephen King) they didn’t ~ (debate for political candidates)
publicity juggernaut she has to ~ tonight (Democratic debate)
she is a shill for the family's ~ (a legal case) conflict: animal / blood / predation / throat / verb
unstoppable juggernaut behavior: animal / blood / predation / throat / verb
his war chest and grassroots army make him an ~ (election) juicy (adjective)
up against a juggernaut juicy bonuses
he is ~ (a politician contending for nomination) successful guides get ~ (Mt. Everest)
juggernaut rolls on juicy elements
and the Anfield ~ (winning Liverpool soccer club) all the ~ (scandal at CNN sees president resign)
transformed Apple into a juggernaut juicy gossip
he ~ (Steve Jobs) you hear some ~ that…
♦ A juggernaut is associated with the Hindu deity Jagannath. It was a the book contains nearly 400 pages of ~ (on politicians)
huge wooden chariot carrying idols in a multistory construction. The idea
that devotees threw themselves under it is a misconception. juicy information
♦ “They will also know that once the juggernaut starts to gather in the hope of obtaining ~ (journalists)
momentum it takes some stopping—and if allowed to roll unchecked can
take a football generation to halt.” (‘Liverpool celebrations after beating juicy reveals
Man Utd symbolic & moment of release’ by Phil McNulty, BBC, January
19, 2020.)
candid confessions, ~ (on reality TV hot mics)

amount & effect / force: religion juicy revelation

there was no ~ (press conference)
juggle (verb)
consumption: food & drink / taste
juggle careers and children attraction & repulsion: food & drink / taste
women who ~ eagerness & reluctance / feeling, emotion & effect: food &
drink / taste
juggle work and school
it can be hard to ~

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jumbo (large) jump (progress)
jumbo jet jumped from ninth place to fourth
lightning strikes ~ the carrier ~ in on-time arrivals (air)

jumbo squid jumped six spots

~, also known as Humboldt squid Lance Armstrong ~ to second overall (Tour de France)
♦ This word comes from the name of an Ethiopian elephant who was progress & lack of progress: walking, running & jumping /
brought to the US in 1882 by P. T. Barnum and displayed in Barnum’s
circus. The poet and etymologist John Ciardi tells Jumbo’s story on NPR, verb
“Jumbo’s Big Adventure Popularizes a New Word,” April 20, 2006.
jump (increase / verb)
size: allusion / animal
jumps by 10,000
jump (jump at the chance, etc.) during the summer, the county's population ~ (tourists)
jump to conclusions demand (for electric power) will jump
let's not ~ the ~
we don't know all the facts and no one should ~
it is important not to ~ based on the case of one patient increase & decrease: number
increase & decrease: direction / walking, running &
jumps to conclusions jumping / verb
he ~, makes up his mind, and is stubborn
jump (rivers can jump their banks, etc.)
jumped at the chance
I~ breaking their banks
he ~, here was the opportunity to... we have seen flooding with rivers ~ (New South Wales)

jumped at the opportunity burst its banks

he ~ (a filmmaker) melting snowpack might cause it to ~

jump (all) over this jumped its banks

we knew the students would just ~ (robot fast-food the Medina River ~ today near Bandera (flooding)
deliveries in dorms) constraint & lack of constraint: movement / verb / walking,
eagerness & reluctance / haste: movement / verb / running & jumping
walking, running & jumping
jump (jump a curb, etc.)
jump (leave)
jumped a curb
jump to another company the van ~ and plowed into three people
employers worry you'll ~ (overqualified)
jumped the sidewalk
allegiance, support & betrayal / coming, arriving, staying, the car ~ and drove through a number of tents
leaving & returning / movement: verb / walking, running &
jumped the tracks
jumping the train ~ near Crescent City, Florida
jump (the place was jumping, etc.) ♦ [Mr. Webb]: Well, she's late. Reckon she might've jumped the tracks.
/ [Loretta Lynn]: Oh, Daddy, them things [trains] don't do that. Do they?
jumping / [Mr. Webb, grimly]: They've been known to. (From the great film, Coal
on Saturday night the venue was ~ (boxing / Ally Pally) Miner's Daughter.)

activity: movement / verb / walking, running & jumping failure, accident & impairment: walking, running & jumping
/ verb
jump (movement)
jump (lines)
needle jumped
the VU meter ~ (recording sounds) jumped the line
she ~ to get water for her infant (Kenyan drought)
movement: walking, running & jumping / verb
jumped a fire line
jump (speech) the flames ~ crews were building (Show Low)
jumps from subject to subject constraint & lack of constraint / obstacles & impedance:
she ~ walking, running & jumping / verb
speech: walking, running & jumping / verb jump (transmission)
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 a strain of the virus may have ~ (flu) jump out (verb)
constraint & lack of constraint / transmission: movement /
jumps out at me
verb / walking, running & jumping
it you look at the data, something that really ~ is...
jump (jump ahead) attention, scrutiny & promotion: verb / walking, running &
jump ahead to the last chapter jumping
let's ~ jump-start (verb)
sequence: walking, running & jumping / verb
jump-start the economy
jump (jump in) the government is trying to ~

jump in jump-start (supported) housing

please feel free to ~ (a discussion) his mandate is to ~ (politician)

involvement: walking, running & jumping / verb jump-start the process

local governments have to ~
jump (get the jump)
initiation: engine / verb
gotten the jump on all of them starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / verb
he had ~ (a competition)
jump-start (noun)
get a jump on the coming season
and so you ~ (high-school athletes graduate early) jumpstart on the (holiday shopping) season
get a ~ (TV ad)
competition / starting, going, continuing & ending /
timeliness & lack of timeliness: walking, running & jumping initiation: engine
starting, going, continuing & ending: engine
jump (in jumps)
jungle (competition)
advanced in jumps
his career ~ jungle
it's a ~ out there (survival of the fittest)
progress & lack of progress: movement / walking, running the fashion world can be a ~ (greed, etc.)
& jumping
competition / danger: ground, terrain & land / jungle
jump (noun) jungle (environment)
jump in (suspicious) chatter
hobo jungle
there has been a ~
he lives in a ~ near the train tracks
jump in the number environment: ground, terrain & land / jungle
contributing to growth is a ~ of online shoppers
junk (worth)
jump in traffic
news sites saw a ~ (Internet / Operation Iraqi Freedom) junk
increase & decrease: number his experiments were ~ (expert witness at trial)
television is no longer ~ (an opinion)
increase & decrease: direction / movement / walking,
running & jumping junk science
jump ball (noun) handwriting, fire, fiber, blood splatter analysis are all ~
junk status
jump ball
their stock has been reduced to ~
the race is tight, it’s a ~ (mayoral election)
worth & lack of worth: waste
certainty & uncertainty: basketball / sports & games
jumping-off place / point junkie (game junkie, etc.)
adrenaline junkie
jumping-off place
~s who risk life and limb (sports)
this is just a ~, you still have to register (vaccine website)
it's bound to appeal to ~s (skeleton racing)
jumping-off point ~s get a thrill out of riding wood roller coasters
he used Heidegger as a ~
fitness junkie
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips / I'm a ~ who works out every day
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gadget junkie
holiday gifts for ~s (computer peripherals, etc.) K
game junkie Kafkaesque (adjective)
a 16-year-old ~ with a PlayStation 2
information junkie Kafkaesque grounds
lawyers forced him to reopen the case on the ~ that...
if you're an ~ (technology)
news junkies Kafka-esque journey
a truly ~ through the bureaucracy (France)
day traders, ~, and the Web
~ can get a daily fix (Web site) Kafkaesque nightmare
my ~ is to be...
pain junkie
he described the conservatorship as a ~ (#FreeBritney)
a bizarre band of ~s (ultrarunners)
my client is begging the court to end this ~ (#FreeBritney)
space junkies
Kafkaesque outcome
~ hoping to book a flight (to the space station)
that ~ demonstrates the way the system is run (education)
vinyl junkie ♦ “Then he stopped talking. There came a long, awesome silence from
I was such a ~, the labels, the grooves, the blackness, the my father, a sort of Gregor Samsa silence, as though I had turned into a
artwork on the covers... cockroach before his eyes. From my side too there was a guilty silence,
as though I really had been some kind of wretched insect all along, and
waterfall junkie now my secret was out and everything was lost. / At the end of the
silence Father began talking...He initiated me into the deepest secrets of
hardcore ~s (those who love to find, visit falls) the librarian’s lore...” (A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz.)

college basketball junkies fantasy & reality: allusion / person

~ and the NCAA tournament allusion: books & reading
comparison & contrast: affix
junk-food junkie
a notorious slacker and ~ kangaroo court
Internet junkie kangaroo court
living with an ~ ("Come to bed!) the term “~” came to mind (Title IX investigation)
the hearing took place in a ~ (English Football)
bona fide junkie
is this a ~, get a rope and do it right (the film Stalag 17)
the average weather watcher and the ~ (storm chasers)
I urge my colleagues to reconsider this ~ (impeachment)
political junkies campus kangaroo courts
~ will obsess endlessly about…
~ deny the accused rights (US universities)
enthusiasm: addiction / health & medicine / person
run this kangaroo court
person: addiction
who appointed these people to ~ (a sports problem)
jury (the jury is out)
found guilty by a kangaroo court
jury is (still) out we have been ~ (Manchester City soccer club)
the ~, we don’t know about next year (pandemic) ♦ An older phrase for this is a drumhead court, or drumhead court-
martial, which often led to a firing squad.
jury is still out on whether
the ~ this approach will be successful (medicine) judgment / oppression: animal / justice
the ~ active-shooter drills do more harm than good Kansas (Kansas of China, etc.)
certainty & uncertainty / judgment: justice
Kansas of China
fate, fortune & chance: justice the basin is the ~, fertile and rich (Red Basin / China)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: justice
comparison & contrast / farming & agriculture: epithet
justice (groups)
karat (24-karat)
climate justice
Tazo, a tea company is deeply invested in ~ 24-karat gold
inclusion & exclusion: society he has a heart of ~
24-karat gold (m)
he is a ~ personality (a restaurant owner)
24-karat moment
Brooklyn's championship was a ~ (baseball)

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24-karat nugget amount: plant / size
his Short Symphony is a ~ (Copeland)
key (important)
24 karat product
the products I've sold are ~ in every way (fund-raiser) key
the ~ is to notice when and where he does it (toddler)
24 karat or fool's gold this could be the ~ that unlocks the mystery
it's hard to say if he is ~ (an athlete bought by a team)
key to (successful) marriage
worth & lack of worth: materials & substances / mining the ~ is...
karma (fate) key to his (business) strategy
the ~
artistic good karma
the musical has had ~ to... (topicality) key to (mission) success
♦ [T]his is what is known as Karma! (A Manchester United hater, after coordination and flexibility are ~ (military)
Man U lost to Liverpool 0-4.)
key to (the school's) success
fate, fortune & chance: religion teamwork is the ~
keel (even keel) key to survival
hard work was the ~ (the Great Depression)
keep things on an even keel
let's ~ key to investing
the ~ is…
keep an even keel
I need to ~ for my kids (while Dad is on trial) key accomplishments
♦ “Certainly my life was [a ‘bloomin’ kick-up]; but, to some extent, my write down your ~ and use specific examples (job)
Indian training served to ballast me.” (Something of Myself by Rudyard
Kipling.) key advantage
Vodaphone has ~s over the competition
equilibrium & stability: boat
key aides
keep up (awareness) kill the terrorist bin Laden and his ~
keep up with the issues key alloy
I try to ~ nickel is a ~ in stainless steel
consciousness & awareness: walking, running & jumping /
key (regime) assets
verb targeting ~ (military)
keep up (progress) key bridges
~, road intersections, and mountain passes (war)
keep up
we want to ~ and not fall behind (government official) key courses
technology is outpacing the ability of governments to ~ avoid crowding in ~
keeping up key decision
working-class families aren't ~ (educating kids) when it comes to ~s
keeping up with the rest of the world key detail
in education, the US is not ~ it overlooked one ~
competition / progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips key difference
/ movement / sports & games / verb / walking, running & he points out a ~ between the men
jumping
key emotion
kernel (noun) empathy, the ~, emerges early
kernel of a (future) threat key evidence
the far-sighted saw a ~ his dying declaration was the ~ (murder case)
creation & transformation: plant key fact
growth & development: plant the ~ was that…
kernel (amount) key factor
communications is the ~
kernel of truth three ~s contribute to burnout...
the story has, at most, a ~ at its core (David and Goliath)

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key (terrain) features the ~ for the prosecution
~ and landmarks (military)
key transit point
key figure Kandahar is a ~ for raw opium
he is the ~ in the group
key staging area
key infrastructure Peshawar served as the ~
every other ~ depends on it (electricity) (terrorism)
key finding
key meetings a ~ was lax security (prison escape)
~ held privately by the rich counties
importance & significance: key
key message key (throw away the key)
I think one of the ~s is…
key moment throw away the key
he failed to maintain his situation awareness at ~s (war) they should put him in jail and ~
~ this time (arrested again)
key objective punishment & recrimination: key / verb
the airfield would be a ~
key (access)
key organizer
Beck was a ~ of the Seattle protests have the key
key partner you’ll ~, you can open the door (NYC vaccine pass)
Ethiopia is a ~ in US counterterrorism efforts (in region) turn the key
key (leadership) positions we are unlocking, but we must ~ slowly (pandemic travel)
troops in ~ access & lack of access: doors & thresholds / key
key post keyhole (the Keyhole, etc.)
he went to work filling the ~s (government)
Keyhole
key principle the ~ in Larimer County, Colorado (an arch)
the ~ in the court case
Keyhole Falls
key requirement ~ on the Lillooet River...
the ~ during a retrograde is to maintain positive control
Keyhole nebula
key rules the Carina Nebula, the ~, brighter than the Orion Nebula
teach your swimmers these four ~ (drownings)
epithet / proper name: shape
key species geography: epithet
the caribou is a ~ in the refuge
keynote (noun)
key technique
mastered the ~ to create a nuclear bomb keynote speaker
the ~ was…
key term
define the ~s listed in this chapter (nursing) importance & significance: sound

key terrain keystone

the target may be ~, a farm, a ridgeline
seize or hold ~ and counterattack the enemy keystone members
the high ground in desert terrain is usually ~ vultures are ~ of the scavenging community
~ or landmarks are used to … (minefield) keystone species
key test a ~ helps determine the types of other species
the ~ will involve…(gene therapy) as the ~ disappears, so do others (oaks)
the walrus is considered a ~ in Arctic marine ecosystems
key time ♦ A keystone is the stone at the apex of an arch (or vault) that helps to
their parents are home at ~s of the day lock the structure in place and prevents it from collapsing, in many
cases.
key (rebel-held) town
bases: infrastructure
a~
key witness
kick (kick one’s butt, etc.)
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 asthma ~ (the great boxer Shannon Briggs) the Italian mix of quality and durability ~ (soccer)
feeling, emotion & effect: leg / sensation / verb instinct kicked in
a stubborn playground ~ (not backing down in combat)
kick (kick oneself)
training kicks in
kicked myself and then your ~ (combat)
I ~ for not doing a better job of…
wealth and connections kicked in
punishment & recrimination: foot / verb
when he returned to Mexico, his ~ (extradited politician)
kick (kick in the teeth, etc.) time to kick in
kick in the teeth give your new diet ~ (weight loss)
it's been a real ~ initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: engine /
feeling, emotion & effect: leg / foot / sensation / verb foot / leg / mechanism / verb

kickback (corruption) kicking and screaming

bribery and kickback (m) kicking and screaming
taken him to court on ~ charges (politician) the president, ~, was bought into that (to agree a bill)

bribery, kickbacks, theft and conspiracy drag some along kicking and screaming
a web of ~ (military contracts / Iraq) he may have to ~ (a reform police chief)

social interaction: foot eagerness & reluctance: foot / leg / sound

giving, receiving, bringing & returning: foot resistance, opposition & defeat: foot / leg / sound
kicked off kick off (verb)
kicked off the (soccer) team kicking off
he was almost ~ for missing practices… Memoria Day sales are ~

kicked off her team kicked off here

she may now be ~... (kid) an international Islamic conference ~ yesterday (Riyadh)

dismissal, removal & resignation: foot / leg kicks off in Tampa

as the convention ~ (politics)
kicked out
kick off this afternoon
kicked out of Harvard the trial will ~ (impeachment)
he was ~ for… (William Randolph Hearst)
kicked off the celebrations
kicked out of her dorm bands and parades ~ at noon... (New Year)
her daughter was getting ~ for not paying rent
kicked off a (nationwide) crackdown
kicked out of their families authorities ~ against unlicensed Internet Cafes (China)
elderly women ~ (witchcraft / Mozambique)
kick off the fiesta
kicked out of a (UW master's) program revelers packed the streets to ~ (Pamplona)
he was ~ because... (student)
kick off the (shortboard) revolution
kicked out of the stadium his board designs helped ~ (surfing)
if a fan chants racist abuse now, he is ~ (soccer)
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: foot /
get kicked out football / leg / sports & games / verb
if they tell their parents, they ~... (gay students);
I'd rather leave than ~ (a bad school) kickoff (noun)
got kicked out kickoff breakfast
I wanted to be a priest, but I ~ of seminary she attended the Democratic Convention ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: foot / leg tomorrow’s kickoff
both sides have filed arguments ahead of ~ (trial)
kick in (start)
Wednesday’s kickoff
kick in ~ is the culmination of a process (a trade treaty)
the link between recession and crime may ~
campaign kickoff
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 her ~ will draw inspiration from her late mother (Clinton) kill (verb)
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: foot /
football / leg / sports & games
killed the idea
a backlash from parents and school counselors ~
kick out (verb)
kills innovation
kicked her out of the house regulation ~ (tech industry)
I ~ (live-in girlfriend)
kill the legislation
kick me out of school liberals helped to ~
they threatened to ~
killing (more and more) people
kick her out methamphetamines are ~ in the US (Blacks, Indians)
I was afraid they would ~ (toddler who bites / daycare)
killed (1,800) people
she kicked him out Hurricane Katrina ~ in 2005
~ (grandmother found out he was gay)
kill (large) ships
threatened to kick me out the Antey-class subs were designed to ~ (aircraft carriers)
they ~ of school
killed the story
dismissal, removal & resignation: foot / leg / prep, adv, adj, Esquire ~ (by Nelson Algren about Rubin Carter)
particle / verb kills them
kick-start (verb) your immune system identifies those rogue cells and ~

kick-started this whole investigation hard to kill

Comey’s firing ~ (politics) though hope is frail, it’s ~ (Whitney, Mariah)
♦ “I worry very little about change killing us.” (Social media advertising,
kick-start weight loss monetizing, commodification, etc.)
Atkins saw ketosis as the obvious way to ~ ♦ “They’ve been trying to murder memory.” (Politics.)

kick-started the process curtailment / destruction: death & life / verb

he ~ to have the relics returned to Libya
kill (verb / accomplishment)
♦ The pundit who wrote about the need for a candidate to “kickstart a
moribund campaign” made me laugh out loud. I would try to revive,
reinvigorate, resuscitate, or breathe life into that poor campaign, not
kill it
stomp on its chest with what I am wearing on my feet! I would only try to oh, she would ~, she would be so great on this show
kickstart or jump-start it if it had stalled. Warning: you can point out
people’s mixed metaphors, or you can have friends. killed it
he ~ (an excellent performance)
initiation / starting, going, continuing & ending: engine / leg
/ verb killing it
they are ~ (a company doing well)
kick up (verb)
digs, kills, assists, blocks, aces
gale kicked up ~ (volleyball)
a ~, causing a choking dust storm (Kansas)
♦ “They are killing it, they are crushing KFC.” (Chick-fil-A versus
Kentucky Fried Chicken, according to a professor of marketing at the
waves kicked up Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, also known as
had the ~... (open canoe in Glacier Bay) Wharton Business School. The University of Pennsylvania is a private
Ivy League university in Philadelphia, established in 1881.)
wind kicked up ♦ “7-year-old girl who slayed the makeup game is back.” (An online ad
the ~ and the ridgetop turned frigid (Afghan combat) from Brightly Creative.)

wind was kicking up success & failure: death & life / verb
but the ~, there was no moon and they need to hurry
killed (by disease, etc.)
initiation: foot / leg / verb
killed in Italy
kid (big kid on the block) Beradelli is among 50 priests ~ (died from coronavirus)
big kid on the (geopolitical) block killed as of April 10
we’re no longer the only ~ (the US in Asia) with 1,185 ~ (Bronx coronavirus deaths)
strength & weakness: size killed by coronavirus
at least 50 priests have reportedly been ~ in Italy

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♦ “Kostis was executed at close range with a spear gun.” (A kindle violent behavior
Mediterranean monk seal, according to the Hellenic Society for the Study
and Protection of the Monk Seal, or MOm, charity.) its ability to ~ (alcohol and cocaine)

death & life: verb increase & decrease / initiation: fire / verb

killer (silent killer, etc.) kindred (kindred spirits, etc.)

Silent Killer kindred spirits
carbon monoxide, the ~ she was able to find other ~

“carrier killer” feeling, emotion & effect / relationship: family

the ~ has speeds higher than Mach 5 (ASBM / DF-21D) division & connection: family
♦ “Shame. You know, shame is a silencer. Shame is a killer. Shame is a king (king cobra, etc.)
murderer... I had nothing but shame in my entire life.” (The actor Billy
Porter.)
king of beasts
death & life: epithet this ~ (a lion)

killer (killer story, etc.) king of fishes

on the white sand at the bottom lay the sturgeon, ~
killer story
if it’s truly a ~, eyeballs will find it (young journalist) king cobra
just a glimpse of a ~ can spread panic on a tea plantation
success & failure / superlative: death & life the ~ reaches up to 8 feet in length (India)
the ~ can growl (India)
kill off (verb)
king salmon
kill off old habits ~ is the largest of Alaska's five salmon species
it's difficult to ~ ~ can weigh 30 pounds or more (Yukon River)
curtailment / destruction: death & life / verb ~, also called Chinook salmon…

killjoy (person) epithet / proper name / superlative: royalty

size: epithet
killjoy
she was trying to be realistic and not a ~ (an educator)
king (products)
♦ “There are no votes or money to be gained from being a killjoy.” king
(Politics in the age of the COVID pandemic.)
in this seafood-crazed country, tuna is ~ (Japan / sushi)
feeling, emotion & effect: death & life / person the automobile is ~ (issue of walkability of cities)
character & personality: person colleges where football is ~
in the old days the broadcast networks were ~
kin (noun) they came from the Deep South, where cotton was ~
kin to (mountain) country King of Beers
when the sea is ~... (resemblance) Budweiser, the ~
kin to the dulcimer king of fruit
the bowed Psaltery, a stringed instrument ~ Xiyuangualu lychees were dubbed "the ~" (China)
closer kin King of Steaks
laughter that’s ~ to rage than joy Pat's ~ (Harry and Pat Olivieri / Philly cheese steak)
relationship: family king of wool
shahtoosh wool, the "~" in Persian (Tibetan antelope)
kindhearted (and kind-hearted)
superlative: epithet / royalty
kindhearted (m) epithet: royalty
a ~ woman gave him some food
king (person)
empathy & lack of empathy / character & personality: heart
king
kindle (verb) the customer is ~ (said by a Sony Corporation exec)
kindles fears king of the carnival
release of bombing figure ~ King Momo, ~ (Rio)
kindled an (environmental) movement king of Russian chanson
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King of the city kingdom (control)
he was the unofficial ~ (Pablo Escobar / Medellin)
their own little kingdom
“king” of coupe-decale to an extent it’s like ~ (prison / correctional officers)
he had been referred to as the ~ (DJ Arafat)
operated as a kingdom
“King of the Wild Frontier” it essentially ~ rather than a corporation (advocacy group)
David Crockett, the ~
area / control & lack of control: royalty
king of the hill
kids like to play ~ kingpin (person)
King of Instagram drug kingpin
he is often referred to as the ~ (Dan Bilzerian) the ~ was executed…(Federal execution)
~s continue to run their cartels from prison (Mexico)
king of the mountains
points in the ~ competition (Tour de France) powerful kingpin
police have captured many of the most ~s (drug cartels)
King of Pop
Michael Jackson, the ~, was also the king of shyness bandits and kingpins
ballads about ~s (grupero music)
King of Soul
200,000 fans viewed the body of the ~ (Sam Cooke) ♦ A kingpin was the main pivot in cars for steering

bases / importance & significance / person: mechanism

carnival king
a representation of the ~ is set ablaze (Martinique) power: person

cocaine kings
kink (noun)
all of the ~ had mansions, limos, helicopter (Colombia) kinks
“Gypsy King” the ~ have been worked out (interagency coordination)
Tyson the ~ Fury... (Nuff said) there are still some ~ to be worked out

Sausage King kinks in the process

Vladimir Marugov, the ~ (owned meat-processing plants) there are still some ~

Taxi King kinks in the service

Gene Freidman, known as “the ~” (NYC) there are some ~

kings and queens kinks in the system

homecoming, the American tradition featuring ~ (school) perhaps the Mayor can work out the ~

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty annoying kink

superlative: epithet / person / royalty the system still has ~s (gesture technology)
epithet / person: royalty iron out any kinks
King Canute they are having a test run to ~ (restaurant opening)

King Canute work out the kinks

eliminating abuse is like ~ trying to hold back the tide US officials are trying to ~ (border security)
♦ Canute was a very good Christian, and the whole story has been flaws & lack of flaws: rope
misinterpreted.
kinship (noun)
control & lack of control: allusion / sea / tide
kingdom (animal kingdom) kinship with the painter
he felt an immediate ~
animal kingdom felt an (immediate) kinship
Darwin linked humans to the rest of the ~ (evolution) he ~ with the painter
taxonomy & classification: royalty feeling, emotion & effect / relationship: family
kingdom (Magic Kingdom, etc.) division & connection: family
Magic Kingdom Kipling (the Canadian Kipling, etc.)
smiling faces at the ~ (Disney)
Canadian Kipling
proper name: royalty he earned the nickname, the ~ (Robert W. Service)
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comparison & contrast: epithet so 2010 ~ (South African World Cup)
kiss of death oppression: knee

kiss of death knee (take a knee)

asking for a term paper in four weeks is the ~ (cheating)
if he does endorse someone, it turns out to be a ~ take a knee
once you lose credibility, that's the ~ (crisis management) George Floyd’s family and lawyers ~, call for justice
trying to ban handguns would be the ~ (US) public hostility towards athletes who ~
to be known as gay then was a ~ (job / 1960s) take a knee against racism
kiss of death to a teen girl's reputation Olympians ~, under new policy (Tokyo)
teenage pregnancy used to be the ~ “take a knee” protests
kiss of death politically school district threatens to remove athletes for ~
to be seen as a US supporter is a ~ Raise a Fist, Take a Knee
♦ This refers to the kiss that Judas gave Jesus after the last supper, ~: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports
which identified Jesus to the soldiers.
♦ “That issue [prejudice] is now full and centre and top of the mind in the
destruction / fate, fortune & chance: allusion / Bible / world and I think this movement of Black Lives Matter and taking the
knee campaign made the world sit back and look at the issue. So 2010
death & life / religion took world football’s knee off Africa’s neck, I don’t think it will be allowed
to put that knee on Africa’s neck again.” (Danny Jordaan, organising
kitchen (creation) chief for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, won by Spain. From "2010
took world football's knee off Africa’s neck,” BBC, July 11, 2020.)
“kitchen” for weather
♦ “I don’t believe in gestures, I believe in substance, I believe in doing
the Arctic is the ~ in the northern hemisphere things that make a practical difference.” (Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
♦ Education and Sociology are the “kitchens” for much of the “contempo- asked if he would “take the knee.”)
speak” we all hear nowadays.
inclusion & exclusion: society
creation & transformation: cooking
knee (risen from its knees, etc.)
knee (bring to one’s knees)
risen from its knees
brought the entire world economy to its knees the country has ~, from humiliation...
it suddenly ~ (COVID pandemic)
dominancy & submission / superiority & inferiority /
brought the pirates to their knees resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / knee /
the war ~ (Barbary States) standing, sitting & lying
bring the rebels to their knees kneecap (verb)
their efforts to ~
kneecap an (American) ambassador
brought this (once-mighty) bank to its knees nobody should be able to ~ (politics)
he ~
kneecap the Postal Service
condition & status / dominance & submission / resistance, he is trying to ~ to discourage voting
opposition & defeat: direction / knee / standing, sitting &
lying / verb politically kneecap
he tried to ~ Bill Clinton (George HW Bush)
knee (on knees) ♦ “He’s basically hitting at the kneecaps of the process we all depend
on.” (A political kerfuffle.)
on its knees
the economy was ~, now it's on its feet (politics) coercion & motivation: crime / knee / verb / violence
condition & status / decline: direction / knee / standing, kneecapped
sitting & lying
kneecapped through a smear campaign
knee (oppression) she was ~ (a US ambassador)

knee of injustice coercion & motivation: crime / knee / verb / violence

we have all seen the ~ on the neck of black Americans knee-jerk (adjective)
knee on the neck
knee-jerk reaction
he has his ~ of the public-health community (politics)
the gun law was a ~ to the Parkland school shooting
Get Your Knee Off Our Necks hysteria and ~s (election politics)
the event included a ~ protest this law is a ~ to a tragic event

took world football’s knee off Africa’s neck knee-jerk solutions

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 many companies have come up with ~ (training) Golden Knights
♦ “[T]he simple, elegant, inexpensive almost plebeian swing of the reflex the ~ Army Parachute Team
hammer has a cost/benefit ratio that I think no advanced technology will
likely ever match.” (Dr. Stephen Krieger, an expert on multiple sclerosis.) Scarlet Knights
the ~ are off to a slow start (Rutgers football)
control & lack of control: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
proper name: Middle Ages
kneel (and kneel down, etc.)
knight (knight in shining armor)
kneel down before North American imperialism
we will never ~ (Venezuela) knight in shining armor
I' m the ~ (Lenox Lewis, out to save boxing)
dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
direction / knee / religion / standing, sitting & lying / verb help & assistance: Middle Ages / person
knell (death knell / obsolescence) knit (knit together)
sounded the death knell for VHS knits together many threads
DVD ~ the story ~ of Muslim grievances (suicide bomber)
sounded the death knell for these landmarks knit the plays together
the mobile phone may have ~ (London’s red phone boxes) he ~ through overlapping themes (August Wilson)
♦ The tolling of a bell to mark someone’s death.
knits this country together
curtailment / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: the flood ruined every thread that ~
bell / burial / death & life / sound
sound: bell knit this enormous planet together
migratory birds ~
knell (death knell / destruction)
knit together as a unit
death knell for his career it has taken the team a while to ~
the documentary will sound the ~ (a filmmaker)
division & connection: cloth / verb
sound death knell for youth
drugs ~ (Kachin State in northern Burma)
knit (tightly knit)
♦ The tolling of a bell to mark someone’s death. tightly knit community
destruction: bell / burial / death & life / sound it’s a very ~ (Neptune City, Jersey Shore)
sound: bell division & connection: cloth
knife (knife in the heart) knock-on (effect, etc.)
knife in the heart knock-on consequences
the date Feb. 6, 1958, is still a ~ (Man. U fan) it will have ~
destruction: blade / creature / death & life / knife / heart relationship: crashes & collisions
feeling, emotion & effect: blade / death & life / heart /
knife knock out (verb)
knife (sharpen one’s knife) knocked out power
winds ~ (hurricane)
sharpened their knives the storm ~ to thousands
Madrid’s media ~ (over a soccer controversy) the storm ~ to about 1.2 million people (California)
♦ “Chris dropped a knife that was used by Zucker’s enemies.” (CNN
president forced to resign.) knocked out (several major power) utilities
the failure ~ (huge blackout)
punishment & recrimination / destruction: blade / knife
knife-edged knocked out 280 feet
the flood ~ of the 36-inch steel pipe (water line)
knife-edged ridge flood knocked out 280 feet
the headwalls of back-to-back cirques form ~s the ~ of the 36-inch steel pipe (water line)
shape: blade / knife
storm knocked out power
knight (Black Knights, etc.) the ~ to thousands

Black Knights curtailment: boxing / fist / verb

the Robbinsville ~ (high-school football team) force: storm

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knockout (knockout blow, etc.) ♦ “Already you have a little bit of hater-ade against you, people are
drinking it about you.” (From a woman on CBS This Morning to Jeanine
Cummins on the publication of her book American Dirt.)
knockout blow ♦ This refers to the mass suicide of over 900 members of the People
the air campaign failed to deliver a ~ (Iraqi Freedom) Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. Many of them drank a powdered
the ~ was delivered when… (investigation / indictments) drink laced with cyanide. See the Wikipedia entry for “Drinking the Kool-
Aid.”
knock-out blow
acceptance & rejection: food & drink
he was unable to land a ~ on Amy Klobuchar (politics)
allegiance, support & betrayal: food & drink
knock-out phases commitment & determination / consumption: food & drink
time will tell if Italy can advance to the ~ (soccer)
kowtow (verb)
force: boxing / fist
kowtow to the NCAA
knockout (knockout voice, etc.) the sovereign state of Montana will not ~ (sports)
knockout figure kowtow to anyone
she had a ~ and dressed provocatively he did not feel like he had to ~
knockout voice kowtow to the (religious) establishment
she has a ~ and terrific timing (a singer) there is no need to ~ (broadcasting)
feeling, emotion & effect: boxing / fist kowtow to the (very) rich
he will not ~ (Barak)
knot (the Pamir Knot, etc.)
dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
Pamir Knot direction / knee / religion / standing, sitting & lying / verb
the ~ (Pamirs, Hindu Kush and Karakoram meet)
Krakatoa (Krakatoa of the Middle Ages,
proper name: rope
etc.)
knot (noun)
Krakatoa of the Middle Ages
tie the city in knots it was the ~ (Kuwae eruption in 1453)
one million tourists will ~ (Olympics) ♦ Roger Crowley in 1453 writes about a possible link between the Kuwae
eruption and weather and atmospheric effects during the siege of
obstacles & impedance: rope Constantinople.
know (in the know) ♦ “For many, such as the young Luke Howard and his schoolmates at the
Hillside Academy in Burford, the great cinema of light proved a
magnificent compensation for all that was strange in the air. They gazed
in the know about what enraptured from the windows of the schoolhouse, while Howard, the sky
was he ~ was unfolding in Ukraine watcher, wrote descriptions in his journal.” (The strange weather of 1783
included in England appearances of the aurora borealis. From The
consciousness & awareness: part of speech Inventions of Clouds by Richard Hamblyn.)

know-how (noun) ♦ Another eruption often cited for its effects on sunsets and climate was
the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora that caused the “Year Without a
Summer” in 1816 and may have inspired J.M.W. Turner’s vivid red
technological know-how sunsets.
we have the ~ to solve the problem ♦ Simon Winchester writes about the atmospheric effects of the 1883
eruption of Krakatoa in his wonderful book Krakatoa.
knowledge & intelligence: part of speech
comparison & contrast / geography: epithet
knuckle under (verb)
Krakatoan (adjective)
knuckle under to these demands
Facebook could ~ or get knocked offline (Vietnam) Krakatoan proportions
it was a car crash of an interview of ~
dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
♦ The awful explosion of August 4, 2020 in Beirut was of Krakatoan
fist / position / verb / violence proportions.

Kool-Aid (drink the Kool-Aid, etc.) ♦ The “2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami” (Wikipedia) was an
event of Krakatoan proportions.
drinking the coolaid amount & effect: explosion / sound / volcano
you haven’t seen the video or you’re just ~ (comment) size: allusion / volcano
drank the Kool-Aid comparison & contrast: affix
attention, scrutiny & promotion: explosion / sound /
wow, you really ~, no, I don’t feel that at all (culture wars)
volcano
drunk the Kool-Aid
kids who have ~ (only one path to good life / school)

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kryptonite (noun) inside the ~ (aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth)

kryptonite for syphilis bureaucratic labyrinth

working his way through the ~
penicillin has remained the ~
waiting for years in the ~s of the immigration system
his kryptonite
giant labyrinth
I truly am ~ (Yang versus Trump / politics)
the ~ of this building (the United Nations)
their kryptonite ♦ Gardens are associated with mazes, knot gardens and labyrinths.
the 49ers have been ~ in recent years (for the LA Rams) People also enjoy corn and mirror mazes. Labyrinth is of Minoan origin
and is associated with the Minotaur.
Black Man’s Kryptonite complexity: allusion / infrastructure
“The ~” (article by Michael Eric Dyson in Savoy)
lace (verb)
political kryptonite
immigration is basically ~ (politics) laced cannabis with heroin
Republicans consider the ACT to be ~ (Obamacare) he ~ to get women addicted to drugs
ratings kryptonite mixture: cloth / verb
religion can be ~
laced (adjective)
bring kryptonite
I am bulletproof, next time you best ~ (boast) laced with drugs
sausage rolls found ~ in Prestatyn
danger / destruction: allusion / weapon
laced with broken glass
peanut butter ~ found in Aberdeen
L profanity-laced
he delivered a ~ speech to the seamen
label (noun)
configuration: cloth
"one-percenter label
the ~ became a badge of honor (bikers) lacerate (verb)
“Progressive” label lacerated Trump’s calls
more and more democrats embrace the ~ he ~ for the FBI to investigate political enemies

taxonomy & classification: object accusation & criticism / destruction / speech: health &
medicine / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
labeled
lacerating (adjective)
labeled a troublemaker
he was ~ in school lacerating in his humor
Obama was often ~ at such dinners, ribbing his rivals...
taxonomy & classification: object
lacerating (social) drama
laboratory a ~ (Sorry We Missed You)
laboratory for warfighting doctrines lacerating insults
Kandahar will be the ~ forged from… ~ and dialogue that sizzles with withering wit
experimentation: place self-lacerating
labor pains the song’s ~ lyrics address her guilt (Adele)
there is also a soul-searching quality and a ~ humor
labor pains
how to let peace be born despite the difficult ~
emotionally lacerating
in perhaps the movie’s most ~ scene, he...
creation & transformation: birth
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / knife /
labyrinth (noun) sensation / skin, muscle, nerves & bone

labyrinth of coral ladder (hierarchy)

the Great Barrier Reef, the marvelous ~ (Australia)
ladder
labyrinth of (feuding) clans and subclans they failed right on up the ~ (politics)
a ~ (Somalia)
ladder of prestige
labyrinth of passageways it was the pioneers who occupied the highest rung on the ~

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ladder's (lowest) rung ladder (ladders of opportunity, etc.)
the socioeconomic ~
ladders of opportunity
career ladder we have created ~ (education)
he is moving up the ~ (military)
ladders of economic and social opportunity
corporate ladder they are pulling up the ~ to defend their place at the top
women who climb the ~
ladder to the middle class
immigrant ladder the school is a ~
Chaudri climbed a well-worn ~ (washed dishes, cab)
ladder to prosperity
income ladder they want to make education a ~
for her and others up and down the ~
accession ladder
leadership ladder Western Balkans states have tried to climb the ~ (EU)
she ascended the ~ in Congress (Pelosi)
pull up the ladders
political ladder we were naïve to think the privileged wouldn’t ~ of
by the mid-seventies he had climbed the ~ even higher opportunity behind them
promotion ladder pulling up the ladders
the Army should break down its rigid ~ (reform) they are ~ of opportunity to defend their place at the top
tenure ladder ♦ “Boxing has long been a social staircase for those on the margins.”
once you’ve fought and clawed your way up the ~ help & assistance: direction / ladder
beauty-pageant ladder ladder (increase)
she began to move up the ~
escalation ladder
corporate ladder
the posturing and the ~ that we’re seeing with Iran
their rung on the ~
arrogance and ego at the top of the ~ increase & decrease: direction / ladder
economic ladder Lady Macbeth (epithet)
anyone who works hard enough can climb the ~ (US)
Lady Macbeth of Arkansas
educational ladder the yuppie wife from hell, the ~ (wife of politician)
as women started climbing the ~ (effects on marriage)
Lady Macbeth of the Balkans
socioeconomic ladder she was known as the “~”
the ~'s lowest rung
Lady McBeth figure
supervisory ladder you have described him as a ~ (Sunny Balwani)
I never tried to go up the ~ Asaji, the ~... (in Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood)
rung on the ladder Wallis Simpson, Lady Macbeth, evil character
it was the pioneers who occupied the highest ~ of prestige this ~ who led this man astray (a royal socialite)
♦ The play Macbeth is usually thought of in terms of manipulation,
rung on the (corporate) ladder ambition, hate and revenge. On the other hand, the 2015 film Macbeth,
their ~ directed by Justin Kurzel, portrays a love story. (See “Macbeth Without
Evil” by Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review, December 17, 2015.)
at the top of the (income) ladder And more recently, Naveen Andrews, who plays Sunny Balwani in the
the majority of stocks are held by those ~ Hulu series The Dropout, compared his character to Lady Macbeth, and
suggested that the story was about how far his character would go for
love! (See ”The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews Saw Sunny Balwani as Lady
climbed the (corporate) ladder Macbeth” by Roxana Hadadi, Vulture. In other words, what the epithet
he ~ suggests can change as the work is interpreted though the generations.)

move up the (economic) ladder allusion: books & reading

the play chronicles the struggles of a family to ~ behavior / character & personality / control & lack of
control: allusion / epithet
moving up the (career) ladder
he is ~ (military) lag (progress)
promoted up the (developmental) ladder lagging
he was ~ (a baseball player) their kids' grades and test scores are ~
hierarchy: direction / ladder lag behind
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competition / growth & development / progress & lack of feeling, emotion & effect: burial / music / sound / verb
progress: journeys & trips / movement / verb / walking,
lance (verb)
running & jumping
lagoon (noun) lance this (perpetual) boil
we need to ~ (diplomacy)
lagoon two boils
~s where hog manure is stored ~ were lanced today (fired from The New York Times)
hog-waste lagoon amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / verb
North Carolina's 4,000 ~s
lanced
pumped into lagoons
sewage is ~ and left to evaporate or leach into the ground lanced (today) from The New York Times
two boils were ~ (two men resign)
resemblance: sea
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
lake (noun)
land (place)
lake of fire
eternal damnation in the ~ fantasyland
what kind of land have we strolled into, we’re in ~ (boxing)
resemblance: water
lamb (noun) foreign land
school helps autistic kids navigate ~
lambs strange land
death devours sheep as well as ~ in the ~ of gamer lingo (grokking, greebling, etc.)
♦ Death devours lambs as well as sheep.
area: ground, terrain & land
growth & development: animal / sheep
land (land a job, etc.)
lamb (sacrificial lamb)
landed a (bottom-rung) job
sacrificial lamb she ~ there (at a TV station)
the computers served them up as a ~ (BCS football)
♦ They refused to be taken like lambs to the slaughter (hijacked
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / fish
passengers).
land (landed him in jail, etc.)
sacrifice: animal / religion / sheep
landed him in hot water
lambast (verb) his unapologetic remarks on issues have frequently ~
lambast the president relationship: journeys & trips
the press conference saw him repeatedly ~
land (arrive, affect, decide)
♦ Lambast (or lambaste) means to beat or whip severely.

accusation & criticism: whip / verb land

you don’t always know how your words are going to ~
speech: whip / verb
(texting / no facial cues)
lame (lame excuse, etc.)
landed
lame excuse there was controversy after the article ~
she refused to listen to my ~s
~s for dumping partners
landed at this day
we would have ~ sooner or later (“it’s here now” /
what kind of ~ is that
SolarWinds Hack)
attenuation: walking, running & jumping
land on that
flaws & lack of flaws: walking, running & jumping
it’s a good question, where did you ~ (=decide)
worth & lack of worth: walking, running & jumping
lament (verb) land there
so, I don’t think it’s a good idea, and I’m gonna ~
laments the killing I think it’s difficult, I will ~ (conclude my remarks)
Trump ~
landing anywhere else
lamented the nation’s systemic racism lots of teams could use him, do you see him ~ (cut)
Biden ~
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 those checks could have ~ (arrived in bank accounts) the US Supreme Court, in a ~ in 2000, rejected…
land any minute landmark climb
they’re waiting for information that could ~ (politicians) he made a number of ~s in the Alps
place to land landmark discovery
that is not a very reasonable ~ (a political decision) the ~ could pave the way for new medicines
the data tells me this is the right ~ (a COVID decision)
landmark moment
how did it land it was a ~ in the evolution of artificial intelligence
when you read his remarks, ~ with you
landmark project
how this plane lands one of his ~s was a shrine… (King Tut)
it’s unclear ~ (budget talks)
landmark step
how those claims are landing the ruling was a ~ (rape within marriage / Mexico)
can we tell ~ (of voter fraud / how many believe, effect)
landmark study
where did your school land his ~ compared students… (single-sex schools)
so, ~ (which option did it choose in response to pandemic)
landmark work
wherever we land "Desert of the Heart" is considered a ~ of lesbian fiction
~ on that question scientifically (COVID / = decide)
stand as a landmark
♦ This is often used with wh-question words: how did it land; where will it
land; when will it land... It seems to be connected with the idea of his plays ~ in the history of black culture
something being “up in the air.” It is a natural metaphor for people who
are accustomed to flying and airports. In Bhutan, I suspect the equivalent direction / importance & significance: ground, terrain &
expression is, “So, where does this yak stop?” land / journeys & trips
♦ One meaning of land means arrive. Another means “to affect you.” Yet
another meaning seems to be “decide.” landmine (and land mine)
♦ “It’s become, how do I say customary to say, to thank service members
like yourself, for your service. I think that’s an acknowledgement that a
landmines
lot of people who came back from Vietnam in particular that the country she worries about what she sees as ~ planted by Alito
did them dirty, you know, did not respect what they had personally
sacrificed even if people did not like or agree with the overall mission, landmine for prosecution
right, or the overall conflict, okay, so, I think people want to do better, this is a ~ (new evidence)
and, it has been, you know, one thanks people who served like yourself
for your service, how does that land with you.” (NPR’s Michel Martin
interviewing Laura Jedeed, author of “Afghanistan Meant Nothing.”
potential landmine
Jedeed was gentle in her answer.) social media is a ~ (news coverage and privacy, etc.)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: plane / verb step on that landmine
feeling, emotion & effect: plane / verb no nominee would ~ (contentious issue)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane / verb ♦ “There are always land mines and hiccups that come along.” (Doctor
landing (stick the landing) Anthony Fauci on vaccine production during the 2019-2020 pandemic.)
♦ “I can’t run any more. I can’t play with the other children and I can’t go
to school at the moment because of the infection.” (Eleven-year-old
stick the landing Mawa, in Egypt. She kicked what she though was a tin can and it blew
though ambitious, the film doesn’t always ~ (Late Night) off her foot. The UXO was a leftover from World War II.)
the book moves quickly, and she manages to ~
danger: explosion / military / walking, running & jumping /
sticks the landing weapon
it rarely ~ on any of them (interesting songs, but...)
landscape (noun)
stick the landing on the quid pro quo
you have to ~, I don’t see proof (impeachment trial) landscape
her patience for this ~ varies (NYC magazine publishing)
stick the landing on a small pad in Florida
it used rockets to stabilize itself and ~ (SpaceX / 2015) landscape of journalism
♦ This refers to gymnastics. the Internet transformed the ~

starting, going, continuing & ending / success & failure: landscape of our lives
sports & games / verb some journeys are etched into the ~ (Lake Ohrid)

landmark (noun) landscape of Stevenson’s great life

and going through the ~ will be Claire Harman (BBC)
landmark act
a ~ passed by the Senate (victims of human trafficking) heavyweight landscape
Andy Ruiz Jr has just thrown a grenade into the ~
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media landscape landscape may (well) change
the ~ was very different in the 1980s the heavyweight ~ once more (coming fights)
concern about the dominance of tech firms in the ~
landscape shifted
sport landscape then, in the late ‘90s, the football ~ (US)
the ~
adapt to this (ever changing media) landscape
technology landscape trying to ~
a clearer picture of our future ~ (airline)
altered the landscape
nanoscale landscape pandemics ~ of public health forever
viruses, microchips operate in a ~
changes the landscape
culinary landscape the new rule ~ (college admissions)
she is a sharp observer of the ~ (Charlotte Druckman)
changed the landscape
dire landscape it ~ (grants for Duchenne research)
in 1969, what was on TV for kids was a very ~ Obama has ~ for all America (race)
diverse landscape dominate the landscape
pushing to create a ~ with mixed results (films / minorities) health-maintenance organizations came to ~
economic landscape fit in this landscape
changes in the ~ help me understand, where does he ~ (politics)
educational landscape left a (very fragmented political) landscape
positive changes across the American ~ Merkel has ~ in Germany (new government)
ethnic landscape navigate the (cyber) landscape
the brutal violence has reshaped the ~ so how are kids supposed to ~ (misinformation)
political landscape redefined (boxing’s heavyweight) landscape
and here to talk about the ~ is… (radio show) his defeat by Usyk has ~
the ~ was dramatically altered by the attack
the democrats dominated the ~ for more than a generation reshaped the (political) landscape
Merkel has left a very fragmented ~ in Germany (election) in 2016 he ~ but lost (Bernie Sanders)
♦ (Costello) Thanks for joining us on 5 Live Boxing with Costello and
promotional landscape Bunce. And now, with less than a month to go until the rematch between
Christchurch’s ~ is changing (city’s wizard is let go) Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas, it’s a chance to assess
the heavyweight landscape as it stands and shapes up at the moment,
Steve. / (Bunce) And what a glorious landscape it is, Mike!
religious landscape
part of the ~ ♦ An opening article of The New Yorker’s “The Talk of the Town” begins,
“The legal landscape of the past weeks and months has prompted
social landscape questions of...” The cliché is pervasive and sanctioned, even when dully
used.
the ~
♦ The landscape can change if you move through it, in a car or a bus or
technological landscape on a train, for example. Otherwise, only great periods of time or
catastrophic events like volcanic eruptions can alter the landscape. For
adapted to the new ~ example, the site of the great battle of Thermopylae between the
Spartans and Persians is gone.
American political landscape
he left the ~ much the same way it was (Mueller hearings) area / environment: ground, terrain & land
fragmented political landscape
Merkel has left a very ~ in Germany (election)
landslide (in a landslide)
new financial landscape lost in a landslide
electronic trading has created a ~ Carter ~ to Republican Ronald Reagan

post-Title IX landscape win in a landslide

in the ~, sexual panic rules (universities) if people voted today, he would ~
amount & effect: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills
changes in the (economic) landscape
there have been vast ~ since the fall of Communism landslide (by a landslide)
part of the (public-school) landscape won by a landslide
charter schools are a significant ~ he ~ on the scorecards (boxer)
landscape can change amount & effect: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills
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landslide (other) constraint & lack of constraint / experience / responsibility:
infrastructure
landslide of evidence
there was a ~ that fell around this defendant language (of sports, cars, etc.)
landslide in favor of Democrats language of boxing
there was no ~ (2020 US election) he understood the universal ~ (ref's gestures, etc.)

landslide vote language of pop feminism

Proposition 187 was approved in a ~ (California) the book was marketed with the ~

landslide victory language of hope

the opposition won a ~ in Kenyan elections the ~—whether, when and how to invoke it (hospitals)
he was appointed principal chief in a ~ (Cherokee)
language of science
♦ In 1841, an earthquake caused a rockslide that blocked the Indus
River. A huge lake formed behind the natural dam. Later in the year it
the abstract, technical ~ (environmental issues)
failed, causing perhaps the largest flood in recorded history. Far
downriver and across a plain, 500 Sikh soldiers drowned at Attock. language of "sport"
the international ~ (soccer)
♦ In 1999, mudslides in Venezuela killed 10- to 30,000 people in Vargas
State. They are referred to as “El Desastre de Vargas.”
language of the string
amount & effect: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills they have the ~ (international yo-yo contest)
lane (experience) language of white supremacy
Southern elected leaders spoke the ~ (after reconstruction)
lane
this isn’t just my ~, it’s my highway (doctor / gun control) language of war
he has had his ~ pretty much all to himself (politics) its language is the ~ (US football)

lane is language of understanding, peace and harmony

so what our ~, is we wanna work with creators... a smile is the universal ~

fast lane language of acronyms and weapons systems

she was in the ~ of the fast group (alcohol, sex, music...) she fluently speaks the military ~ (a young soldier)

progressive lane language of football

they are fighting for the same ~ in the party (candidates) Bora Milutinovic speaks the ~ (soccer)

healing and love lane hoaxers’ language

ya’ll know me, I have one lane, the ~ (activist at demo) Lenny Pozner figured he could talk the ~ (Sandy Hook)

out of their lanes body language

cops are ~, playing judge, jury, and executioner (shooting) people send messages through their ~
mismatches between words and ~ (liars)
carve out her own lane the worst sort of ~ to show a gorilla
she has managed to ~ (singing, fashion, etc.)
computer language
played his lane Java, a ~ created by Sun Microsystems
if he would’ve ~ and kept his mouth shut (gang member) FORTRAN was the first widely used ~
stay in their lane programming language
anti-gun doctors should ~ (fix wounded, not protest guns) write applications in the Java ~
stepped out of its lane aspirational language
OSHA ~, it went beyond its authority (a law case) the ~ of democracy (women’s rights, etc.)
veered into the pop lane different language
a lot of people have ~ (from country music) it’s a ~ (military acronyms)
physicists are often speaking a ~ than biologists (math)
keeps the judiciary in its appropriate lane
the idea of standing ~ (Supreme Court) international "language"
♦ This word is often preceded by a possessive adjective: my lane, their the ~ of sport (soccer)
lane, your lane, etc.
♦ “That’s not their lane to teach my children about sexuality, that’s my universal language
job.” (An upset parent protesting school-library books like The Bluest a smile is the ~ of understanding, peace and harmony
Eye, All Boys Aren’t Blue, and Fun Home.) he understood the ~ of boxing (ref's gestures, etc.)
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 exploding cars are a ~ (the Fast and Furious franchise) more that happens, the less likely people feel uncomfortable hearing
about it.” (Culture journalist Brennan Carley on BBC Culture.)
fluent in the language ♦ “The book was marketed with the language of pop feminism.” (Jill
Jake Paul was ~ of YouTube Lepore.)
♦ Bill’s Weekly Column. “How to Speak Progressive.” (Bill O’Reilly.)
speaks the language
♦ “He lacks the TED-talk affect of some of his peers.” (Extracurricular
Bora Milutinovic ~ of football (soccer) Kids In High Places,” The New Yorker, Jan. 4 & 11, 2021.)

understood the (universal) language ♦ “Wokeness is not just a social philosophy, but an elite status marker, a
strategy for personal advancement. You have to possess copious
he ~ of boxing (ref's gestures, etc.) amounts of cultural capital to feel comfortable using words like
♦ Cars have their own language—clunks, clanks, squeals, squeaks, and intersectionality, heteronormativity, cisgender, problematize, triggering,
rattles—which can say a lot about a vehicle’s health.” and Latinx...” (“How The Bobos Broke America” by David Brooks, The
Atlantic, September 2021.)
♦ “If you grew up in a black household, Ebonies [copies of Ebony
Magazine] were everywhere... It’s one of our languages.” (Rosa Duffy, ♦ “PEN15, write out the title, you’ll get it, has begun its second season on
bookstore owner and Ebony Magazine collector, about the Hulu...” (A well-briefed Scott Simon of NPR. This is an example of
transformational magazine that was intended to be Life Magazine for leetspeak.)
Blacks. Once a pillar of the Black community, this great magazine has ♦ “The elk whisperer speaks English, Spanish and elk.” (Mark Casillas.)
fallen on hard times, and is now only available online. You would think
some US philanthropist would endow a monthly hard-copy version of it in ♦ “Those instructions [from the judge], I’m a lawyer and I couldn’t
perpetuity. Sadly, not yet.) understand them... They’ve gotten to be too much. They’re legalese. And
jurors tend to go by the smell test. Does it seem right? Does it seem
♦ “[Jake] Paul was fluent in the language of YouTube, where he came wrong. And that’s what we wanted the jury to do.” (Mark Richards, Kyle
across as a familiar type: the high-school jock, popular and gregarious... Rittenhouse’s attorney, speaking to Ailsa Chang. From “Kyle
/ His body of work is filled with dubious stunts...and with mind-numbing Rittenhouse’s defense attorney discusses the trial and acquittal,” NPR,
repetition of the word, ‘bro.’ / [His videos] have drawn more than seven All Things Considered, Nov. 19, 2021.)
billion views; that figure, which approaches the population of this planet,
does not account for the innumerable videos that summarize or criticize ♦ "The language a writer uses to create a world is that world, and
the ones that Paul has posted...” (“Punching Down” by Kelefa Sanneh, Franzen's strenuously contemporary and therefore juvenile language is a
The New Yorker, November 8, 2021.) world in which nothing important can happen. Madame Bovary's
marriage sucked, Heathcliff was into Catherine: these words fail the
♦ “And from being trained, I think it’s easier for me to speak a language context not just because they are of our own time. There is no import in
to producers, and I can speak engineer to the engineers.” (The things that 'suck,' no drama in someone's being 'into' someone else. A
remarkable Lizzo, who is classically trained in music theory and writer like Franzen, who describes two lovers as 'fucking,' trivializes their
performance, among other things...) relationship. The result is boredom." ("Smaller Than Life," by B. R.
♦ “Crossword puzzles are a way of documenting the language that we Myers, The Atlantic Magazine, October, 2010.)
share.” (Anna Shechtman, crossword constructor.) ♦ David Mendelsohn, in his review of Pat Barker’s novel, The Silence of
♦ "There's no 'I' in 'team.'" (An NFL coach.) the Girls, wrote, “The prose yo-yoed between Academia.edu and a
strained casualness that could inadvertently veer into the Borscht
♦ "There's an 'I' in 'win.'" (An NFL player.) Belt...Too often, Briseis sounds like the voice-over from a History
♦ “EOD handled the bombs. SSTP treated the wounds. PRP processed Channel special: ‘As a woman living in this camp, I was navigating a
the bodies. The 08s fired DPICM. The MAW provided CAS. The 03s complex and dangerous world.’” (“The Many Wars of Pat Barker,” The
patrolled the MSRs. Me and PFC handled the money... / I will remember New Yorker, October 18, 2021.)
that our HMMWV had 5 PX. That the SITREP was 2 KIA, 3 WIA. That ♦ “Yeah, they have these belts on with like all these extra bullets and
KIA means they gave everything. That WIA means I didn’t.” (From the they’re like dressed for war.” (Leah like talking to her Brit producer,
short story “OIF” in Redeployment by the brilliant Marine writer Phil Klay. Georgia, for their podcast about the militia movement.)
OIF stands for Operation Iraqi Freedom.)
♦ “In the language of the show, this is a very ‘Who-y’ thing for a Them to
♦ “There is jargon, and then there is jargon.” (Academic writing.) have done.” (“Guiding Stars: How “Who Weekly” explains the new
♦ “Such language risks destabilizing an already complicated situation.” (A celebrity” by Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, June 7, 2021.)
Russian diplomat.) ♦ “I call disabled viewing platforms the “cripple pen.” (A comment about
♦ Independent scrutineers (UK); violence interrupters (Baltimore); “After the N-word, the P-word” by Rajni Bhatia, BBC, 11 June 2007.)
(seasoned) gallerists (NYC); disinformation researchers; narrative ♦ "A pidgin English field guide would list buk-buks, pakes, buddaheads,
consultants; social theorists; bitcoin miners; thought leaders; creatives; katonks, mokes, titas, popolos, yobos, blalahs, haoles and portagees."
influencers; chief experience officers (CXOs); lifestyle impresarios; (Ethnic and racial labels used in Hawaii.)
drama therapists; online journalists; social justice reporters; data
wranglers; documentarians; directors of equity and inclusion; diversity ♦ “There was a lot of language I was unfamiliar with.” (A parent about
consultants; professional online gamers; crossword constructors; voter messages he began receiving from his children’s elite private school
navigators; political spin doctors; youth climate ambassadors... (Newer concerning antiracism. He ended removing his children from the school.)
types of workers, as opposed to more traditional workers like sawbones; ♦ “It occurred to me that, because the world media establishment had
railway bulls; rail-splitters; spitjacks; sutlers; pure-finders; mud larks; ignored the Balkans for so long..., these people never had to learn, as
draymen; spinners; doffers; sweepers; carders; fullers; dressers; the Israelis and Arabs did, how to talk in code, so as not to offend
Sekgees; ostlers (hostlers); wind-millers; water-clerks; Pony Express Western sensibilities with their racial hatred. In the Balkans, people
riders; beaters; catchers; drivers; mahouts; trackers; printer’s devils; spoke more honestly than in the Middle East, and therefore more
typewriters; computers; miners; muckers; swampers; nippers; drymen (to brutally.” (Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by the superb
take care of the Dry); gandy dancers; muleteers (military); powder writer and correspondent Robert D. Kaplan.)
monkeys, etc.
♦ “Collaborating with these gentry was a mixed crowd of wide-minded,
♦ “If we could claim marriage, we would be claiming an engine of wide-mouthed Liberals, who darkened council with pious but
transformation, a vocabulary of shared values—love, commitment, disintegrating catch-words, and took care to live very well indeed.”
family, inclusion, dignity, respect—that would help non-gay people better (Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling.)
understand who gay people really are, and allow us to share equally, not
only in marriage, but in everything.” (“Radically Normal: How Gay Rights ♦ see also boilerplate (noun), buzzword (noun), ese (legalese, etc.),
Activists Changed The Minds Of Their Opponents,” NPR, Hidden Brain funny language, lip service (pay lip service, etc.), speak (NASA-speak,
(with Shankar Vedantam), April 8, 2019. Many gays at the time etc.), supersizing (linguistic supersizing), talk (mediator talk, etc.)
denigrated the tradition of marriage.)
fictive communication: speech
♦ “Gay pop stars can be—and have been—subversive about slipping in
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lap (lap of luxury) lapidary (adjective)
lived in the lap of luxury lapidary
for a time we ~ The Essays in Idleness are ~ (Kenko)
situation: container / lap lapidary chapters
Rady’s fascinating ~ (London Review of Books)
lap (responsibility)
lapidary poems
in the lap of the administration his most ~ (Philip Larkin)
it puts the issue ~ (politics)
lapidary polish
falls in the lap the high ~ of his witty prose (Waugh)
the issue now ~ of the head of food safety
lapidary precision
landed in the lap he is a realist painter of ~ (Caleb Considine)
the case ~ of a federal judge
♦ This word often appears in the New Yorker Magazine, in reviews of
artists. It refers to the work involved in cutting, polishing and engraving
puts the issue in the lap precious stones. The opposite would be unpolished.
it ~ of the administration (politics)
superlative: materials & substances / mining
responsibility: container / lap flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances / mining
lap (fall into one’s lap / a windfall) lap up (verb)
company's lap lapped up such complaints
consumer data falls into the ~ he ~ (an editorial cartoonist)
falls into your lap lap it up
occasionally an opening line ~ (via an interview / writing) audiences ~ (rape and murder of females / entertainment)
possession: container / lap / verb consumption: animal / food & drink / tongue / verb
fate, fortune & chance: container / lap / verb absorption & immersion: animal / food & drink / tongue /
worth & lack of worth: container / lap / verb verb
lap (victory lap) lash (a storm lashed the Philippines)
on the victory lap lash the Philippines
Liverpool are now ~ (with win over Man U) about 20 major storms ~ each year
took a victory lap lashed the islands with wind and rain
President Trump ~ at the Michigan rally (politics) the hurricane ~
taking a victory lap force: storm
this morning the president is ~ (peace deal)
no one is ~ here (US kills ISIS leader) lash out (verb)
achievement, recognition & praise: sports & games lashed out at (Obama's) campaign
success & failure: sports & games the GOP nominee ~
lapdog (noun) lashed out at the (US) military
he ~
lapdogs of Bush and Cheney
The New York Times reporters were ~ (Iraq War) lashed out at Army officials
Barton ~ (the Angel of the Battlefield)
lapdog for the president
he is a ~ (the Senate leader) lashed out over (questionable) reporting
he ~ (a bereaved father)
lap-dog court system
a ~ that is beholden to the military (Myanmar) implode (violently) or lash out
the repressive regime might now ~
American lapdogs
you are ~ (Lukashenko, about British sanctions) speech: verb / violence / whip
accusation & criticism: verb / violence / whip
self-serving political lap dog
he’s a ~ (criticism of a US general) last (last night, etc. / at an earlier time)
dominance & submission: animal / dog / lap last Sunday night
I was talking to him ~

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sequence: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle late (late Stone Age, etc.)
past & present / time: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle
last (time / verb) late Stone Age
by this time, in the ~...
last forever time: prep, adv, adj, particle
summer would not ~ sequence: prep, adv, adj, particle
time: verb latest (the latest / most recent)
last-ditch (adjective) latest on that case
last-ditch appeal what is the ~
his lawyers filed a ~ (capital case) the latest (teen) craze
last-ditch effort ~ in clothes, music, illegal drugs
a hiring freeze is often a ~ to reduce staff the latest effort
this was a ~ to help him (a troubled athlete) in ~ to restore stability after a military coup...
last-ditch measure the latest flare-up
operators used seawater as a ~ to cool the reactors ~ of their long-running feud (2 NASCAR drivers)
conflict / commitment & determination / difficulty,
the latest ‘in thing’
easiness & effort / fate, fortune & chance / resistance,
not long ago Osaka was ~ to blow in (vs. Gauff)
opposition & defeat / survival, persistence & endurance:
ground, terrain & land / military the latest twist
last hurrah EFPs are ~ in a lethal game of measure, countermeasure
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
last hurrah
WW II veterans gathered for a ~ (memorial) Latin (Latin of Korea, etc.)
last hurrah for the (landmark) restaurant Latin of Korea
it was a ~ (New Year's Eve celebration / bankrupt) ideographic Chinese—the ~—was isolated from everyday
girls' last hurrah speech
this is these ~ (bachelorette party) comprehension & incomprehension: history
beginning or a last hurrah latitude (wide latitude, etc.)
it may be a new ~ (US health-care legislation)
♦ The 1913 Gettysburg Reunion marked the 50th anniversary of the latitude for interpretation
battle and was considered a great success. President Woodrow Wilson a rule leaves very little if any ~
addressed the reunion and gave a conciliatory speech on July 4th.
latitude to intervene
starting, going, continuing & ending: military / sound that would give him more ~ (a national emergency)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: military /
sound creative latitude
he had wide ~ (a filmmaker)
last rites (noun)
maximum latitude
last rites he takes speculation to its ~
don't administer ~ to Irish Catholicism yet (scandals)
allow you some latitude
condition & status: death & life / health & medicine / I'll ~ (judge at jury trial)
religion
have (enormous) latitude
late (timeliness) when it comes to foreign policy, presidents ~ (US)
♦ In Latin, latus means wide and longus means long.
late
the hour was ~ (need for a policy) ♦ “Discretion” is a synonym...sometimes! Or “extent.” Or “room,” which
nowadays would be expressed as “space.”
not too late constraint & lack of constraint / extent & scope: map
it's ~ to turn things around (politics)
laugh (last laugh)
getting late
the hour is ~ have the last laugh
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day he may ~ here (congressional hearing)
Freud may posthumously ~ (analysis of mass hysteria)

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have a kind of last laugh launched an (all-out) war
though the A380 killed off the 747, Boeing will ~ in 2003 Thailand ~ on meth (Yaba)
revenge: bodily reaction / sound launch a (trade) war
fate, fortune & chance: bodily reaction / sound he wants to ~
laughed out ( of court, etc.) launched his business
he ~ this spring
laughed out of the (educational) community
if somebody suggested that model, they would be ~ inauguration / initiation: verb

laughed out of court launch (noun)

the case will be ~
soft launch
laughed out of my profession NBC introduced the website with a ~ (NBCBLK)
if I’d talked like this early in my career, I’d’ve been ~
inauguration / initiation: flying & falling
laughed out of the studio
he was ~ (Dick Clark pitching American Bandstand) launching pad
literally laughed out of office launch pads for emotions
he was ~ (Republican arrested in a men’s room) murder trials can be ~, which can be sky-high

virtually laughed out of the room launching pad for the invasion
when he suggested the idea, he was ~, but... Kuwait will be the main ~

got laughed out of a couple of professor’s offices launching pad for gay marriage
I actually ~ (a student with a novel good idea) Hawaii seemed the likely ~

admiration & contempt: bodily reaction / sound launching pad for the embassy bombings
Somalia was a ~ (1998)
launch (verb)
used that win as the launchpad
launched the age Liverpool ~ to a golden future (Champions League)
he ~ of chemical warfare (Fritz Haber / 1915)
initiation: mechanism / rocket
launched an (international appeal
the Red Cross has ~ for aid (Haiti earthquake) launder (verb)
launched a (court) challenge launder their image
he has ~ against the King (Swaziland) they are using sports to ~ (sportswashing)

launched a campaign laundered (the warden’s) money

they ~ of civil disobedience (Birmingham) Andy Dufresne ~

launched a crackdown concealment & lack of concealment / subterfuge: clothing

the government has ~ on corruption & accessories / hygiene / verb

launched a (hugely popular) franchise laundry (laundry list)

the blockbuster film ~ (X-Men)
laundry list of (unacceptable) behaviors
launched a movement a~
they ~ that has been both applauded and denounced
laundry list of challenges
launched a (quiet charm) offensive the city is choosing a mayor to solve a ~
sensing he might welcome allies, she ~
laundry list of illnesses
launched a project he’s a 67-year-old man with a ~
the department ~ to install lights at crossings (safety)
amount: clothing & accessories / hygiene
launched a review laurels (praise)
the UKA ~ (sports doping)
launched a revolution won more laurels
he ~ (astronomer looking at X-ray emitters) he ~ leading world-renowned ensembles (Andre Previn)
♦ “Better deserve honor and not have it, than have it and not deserve it.”
launched a (massive) search
officials ~ for the missing sailor achievement, recognition & praise: allusion / history / sign,
signal, symbol / tree

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law (law of the jungle, etc.) layer (analysis)
law of the jungle layer of the onion
for such is the ~, death to the weaker, food to the stronger you notice that for every ~ there’s another underneath it
law of claw, horn and fang layer deeper
the leopard lives by the ~ we need to dig a ~
competition: animal / jungle / predation peels back yet another layer
a revealing new interview ~ (a politician)
Lawrence (T. E.)
♦ “So many layers, Diane, to this story, a lot of moving parts, and it will of
course be very interesting to see how it all plays out...” (Marcus Moore of
“Lawrence of Afghanistan” ABC reporting on a sensational murder case.)
Army Maj Jim Gant, known as ~
♦ “It’s surprising, and shocking, what you learn when you begin to peel
back the onion.” (Dateline NBC, “Horror at the Lake.”)
Lawrence of Iraq
Travis Patriquin has been dubbed the T. E. ~ analysis, interpretation & explanation: fruits & vegetables /
America’s “Lawrence of Arabia” mining
Captain Travis Patriquin, ~ in Ramadi lay of the land
♦ “The Fall of the Green Berets’ Lawrence of Afghanistan” by Mark
Thompson, Time, June 25, 2014.) lay of the land
♦ “We could not leave him where he was, to the Turks, because we had he knew the ~ (Congress)
seen them burn alive our hapless wounded. For this reason we were all can you give us the ~ (explain something)
agreed, before action, to finish off one another, if badly hurt: but I had
never realized that it might fall to me to kill Farraj.” (Seven Pillars of area / environment: ground, terrain & land
Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, Book VIII, Chapter XCIII.)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: ground, terrain &
♦ According to his Wikipedia entry, the great Vietnamese general Vo
Nguyen Giap “had no direct military training and was a history teacher at
land
a French-speaking academy, citing T.E. Lawrence and Napoleon as his
two greatest influences.”
layup (noun)
military: epithet layup
allusion: books & reading it won’t be a ~, but it’s a shot we need to take (prosecution)
Lawrence of Arabia-esque layup for the prosecution
the case looked like a ~, but...
Lawrence of Arabia-esque
James was kind of ~, and he probably cultivated that image certainty & uncertainty: basketball / sports & games
(Alistair Harris about James Le Mesurier) difficulty, easiness & effort: basketball / sports & games
comparison & contrast: affix Lazarus (Emma Lazarus)
lay (put) Emma Lazarus
somewhere, ~ is weeping (US immigration politics)
lay the blame elsewhere
many fans ~ (struggling soccer club) migration: allusion / history / person

laying the blame on China Lazarus (Bible)

the US is ~ (politics) Lazarus
throwing, putting & planting: pile / verb he’s not the comeback kid, he’s ~ (a politician)

lay (lay bare) amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence &

endurance: allusion / Bible / death & life / religion
lays bare the fault lines
the report ~ that divide this group (Amish) leach (verb)
concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories leached badass of its badassery
/ verb overuse has ~

lay (lay into) leached into every aspect of our lives

race has ~
laid into President Trump’s policies
he ~ leached out of the Democratic ranks
the intensity seems to have ~ (politics)
accusation & criticism: force / verb
speech: force / verb / violence life-leached
the ~ margins of the Great Salt Lake

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dismissal, removal & resignation / taking & removing: verb led to (rapid) innovation
/ water his modern version of a wing suit has ~ (de Gayardon)
lead (restraint) led to this moment
what ~
give him a long lead
you had to ~ (the inimitable Dennis Keith Rodman) lead to reductions
price controls ~ in supply and investment
control & lack of control: animal / horse
led (up) to this ruling
lead (one thing leads to another) what ~ (by a Florida court)
leads his colleagues to "blow up" led (up) to the shooting
the pressure ~ from time to time we know little about what ~
led scientists to document lead to success
his discovery ~ earlier outbreaks (epidemic) factors that will ~
lead you to your best achievements led to trouble
the truth is, fear of failure can ~ how my nighttime walk ~
led me to a different conclusion situation could lead
my analysis ~ the ~ to the collapse of the Iraqi government
led women to desperate acts development / direction / relationship: journeys & trips /
a decade of war has ~ (Chechnya) movement / verb
led him down a dangerous path leading light (person)
his unswerving belief in himself ~
leading lights of the conservative cause
lead to (intraabdominal) abscess the ~ climbed the stage to rally their faithful (politics)
intestinal leaks may ~
liberal leading light
leads to abuses the ~ caused a political earthquake (Ocasio-Cortez)
secrecy ~ of power (terrorism investigations)
knew its leading lights
lead to blindness Pasternak ~ (members of symbolist movement)
trachoma can ~ as eyelashes turn in on the eyeball
achievement, recognition & praise / importance &
led to the breakup significance / superlative: light & dark / person
the issue ~ of their marriage (attending sex clubs)
leak (verb)
lead to the collapse
the situation could ~ of the Iraqi government word leaked
but on Thursday, ~ that the visa would not be granted
led to a confrontation
a feud between next-door neighbors ~ leaking: water / verb
lead to death leak (noun)
even drops of spittle or beads of sweat can ~ (Marburg)
leaks of information
led to death he condemned ~ (FBI investigation)
pregnancy often ~ in childbirth (19th century US)
leak of (classified) information
led to the death the possible ~
what ~ of George Floyd
leaks to the press
lead to dissention there had been ~ about… (jetliner crash)
bonus disparities can ~ in the ranks (military)
leaks and scoops
leads to doom reporters fiercely jockeying for ~
in social-hygiene films, transgressions ~
leaks, supposition, speculation, and spin
lead to menstrual dysfunction there's been ~ (investigation)
an eating disorder can ~, osteoporosis (athletes)
leaking: water
lead to an ileus
pneumonia can ~, abdominal distention and fever

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leaked ~ and embrace ambition

leaked voice mail leaned in to her heritage

in recent years Beyoncé has ~, celebrating race...
on his ~, he called his daughter a rude little pig
♦ “And lean in always understood that. Lean in was always about being
leaking: water able to go for leadership positions, always about men leaning in at
home... Well, that’s right, and that’s why again lean in was always for
leak out (verb) this, lean in was always about men doing their share... So this report is
not telling women to lean in, it’s telling companies to lean in...” (“Sheryl
Sandberg: Companies Need To ‘Lean In’ As Pandemic Threatens
leak out Women’s Progress,” NPR, All Things Considered, Oct. 1, 2020.
what you tell them would ~ (school counselors) Sandberg is head of the Lean In Foundation. Her 2013 book Lean In
called on women to be more assertive in the workplace, but has been
leaked out in bits and pieces criticized as an unrealistic panacea for most women. Michele Obama
the truth ~ (politician) famously said, “It’s not always enough to lean in because that s***
doesn’t work.” That criticism itself has been criticized.)
leaks out in debt repayments confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: gesture /
aid to Africa ~ ("leaking bucket syndrome")
standing, sitting & lying / verb
prevent details from leaking out lean into (verb)
they want to ~ (explosion in North Korea)
news leaked out lean into being
the ~ about… he taught me to ~ weird instead of hiding it

word leaked out leaning into his branding

~ and... (Iraq) he was ~ as an educator (Dr. William H. Cosby)

leaking: water / verb leaning into the campaign

this hype house is ~ in a big way (politics 2020)
lean (size)
leaned into this characterization
lean and agile prosecutors ~ during her trial (manipulative)
the company is ~
lean into it
lean and mean the women pulled no punches, they would just ~
it’s a ~ team (Blue Origin) (scriptwriters for SVU)
lean and nimble leaning (completely) into it
the company must become more ~ for years I shied away from it, now I’m ~
ability & lack of ability / flaws & lack of flaws / size / leans into his reputation
strength & weakness / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: he ~ for pushing boundaries (the comic Dave Chappelle)
fatness & thinness / health & medicine
leaned into her status
lean (lean times, etc.) she has ~ as one of the only female candidates

lean times leaned into (fear) tactics

voters are sick and tired of ~ he ~ as he accused the left of... (politics)
the newspaper has had to shut its doors in these ~ ♦ “Maybe I’ll lean into the pain narrative, write that and get a good
advance, ya’ll pay me for that, right.” (Fantasy author L.L. McKinney.)
lean years ♦ Step in / lean in and embrace it...
she had some ~ (a professional golfer)
commitment & determination: gesture / standing, sitting &
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: fatness & thinness / lying / verb
food & drink
lean on (coercion)
lean in (verb)
lean on his lawyer, Jeff Sessions and other aides
leaning in the report details his efforts to ~ (obstruction of justice)
he has not been trying to hide, he has been ~, begging to tell
his story lean on and even pressure
many companies ~ workers to volunteer
leaning in on (thorny) issues
even Obama praised him for ~ (a popular young politician) coercion & motivation: verb / weight

leaning in as hard as (humanly) possible lean on (support)

he is ~ to his position as a Trump backer (politics)
lean on
lean in to your career after your loss, who did you ~, family, friends... (a boxer)

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lean on the crutch leap (the leap of a waterfall, etc.)
people ~ of metaphor (technology)
leap, splash and spray
leaned (hard) on his experience the ~ of waterfalls
he ~ as vice president (election debate)
resemblance: walking, running & jumping
lean on scotch
he began to ~ to relax (an alcoholic) leap (noun)
leaned on Wilson leaps in (bike) design
he ~ as his spiritual prop (Robert Falcon Scott) significant ~
leaned heavily on leaps in (math) proficiency
I have also ~ the knowledge of a number of scholars... students have made great ~
help & assistance: standing, sitting & lying / verb leap in (weapons) technology
dependency: standing, sitting & lying / verb this ~
lean towards (verb) leap to stardom
she reflects on her ~ (film actor)
leaning towards Biden
he is ~ (a voter) leap to television
they made the ~ (from the early days of film)
leaning towards voting
she is ~ for disapproval (declaration of emergency) leap from booby to boo-boo
it is a short linguistic ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: direction / verb
leap from mediocrity to greatness
leap (leap into action, etc.) 11 companies that made the ~
leapt at the opportunity leaps and bounds
my father ~ (to help humanity / a doctor) see leaps and bounds
leaped to defend him technology leap
Churchill ~ (Stalin / World War II) every new ~—the longbow, the tank, the atom bomb…
leapt into action great leap
the police ~ students have made ~s in math proficiency
leapt into the fray mental leap
eminent academics and writers ~ (literary controversy) if one can make the ~ to imagine Go in heaven…
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping short (linguistic) leap
commitment & determination / eagerness & reluctance: it is a ~ from booby to boo-boo
movement / verb / walking, running & jumping
significant leap
leap (leap of faith, etc.) ~ in bike design
leap of faith made the leap
you've just got to make a ~, and I'm here to catch you they ~ to television (from the early days of film)
take a ~ and trust again or get out (unfaithful spouse)
progress & lack of progress: walking, running & jumping
leap of the imagination
America is a ~ (history) leapfrog (verb)
leap in faith leapfrogged (traditional) technology
marriage is a ~ China has ~ (cellphone usage)
♦ “When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.”
(Chinese.)
leapfrogs from histories to key games
the series jumps around, it ~ (sports documentary)
commitment & determination / fate, fortune & chance:
walking, running & jumping leapfrogged into the internet era
China ~ (smartphones and apps)
leap (transmission)
progress & lack of progress: animal / verb / walking,
leap from animals to humans running & jumping
some viruses can ~ movement: animal / verb / walking, running & jumping
transmission: walking, running & jumping / verb

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leaps and bounds left pockmarks
a grenade exploded and ~ on the side of his house
by leaps and bounds
giving, receiving, bringing & returning / relationship: verb
the organization was growing ~
the intelligence community has grown by ~ leave (death)
in leaps and bounds left us
technology has advanced ~ I gather he ~ last year (died)
increase & decrease: walking, running & jumping death & life: euphemism / movement / presence &
speed: movement / walking, running & jumping absence
learn (verb) leave it somewhere (commitment)
learned from his losses left it all out there on the floor
he has ~
I ~ along with my guys (NBA win)
knowledge & intelligence: school & education / verb
commitment & determination: giving, receiving, bringing &
lease (lease on life) returning / verb

new lease on life lecture (verb)

the medication gave him a ~
the new term feels like a ~ (a teacher) lecture about race
technology has given publishing a ~ the film doesn’t ~, but you can feel the enmity...
message: school & education / speech / verb
getting a (new) lease on life
they were ~ (1972 moratorium on death penalty) leech (person)
gave him a (new) lease on life leeches
the medication ~ ~ come with the sudden wealth (pro athletes)
amelioration & renewal: document those ~ take it all (Christian aid groups vs. refugees)

leash (on a leash / off a leash, etc.) leech, the busy bee, the whiner
the ~ (types of bad friends)
on a constitutional leash
she believes in a government ~ parasite, a leech
she’s a ~ (charges soldiers for water from a river)
on a (very) short (constitutional) leash
she believes in a government ~ despised the poor as leeches
he ~ who weakened society (Atlas Shrugged)
keeps him on a short leash ♦ “Every step I’ve taken has gaslighted those whom I love... I am not a
the company ~ (an actor who is also a pitchman) culture vulture. I am a culture leech. You should absolutely cancel me,
and I absolutely cancel myself.” (An academic who claimed “identities of
let his team off the leash color,” including Black Caribbean, North African Blackness, US rooted
Blackness, Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness, Boricua...)
he ~ to go and create (soccer)
♦ “Correct; well said. Glazers = leeches” (A disgruntled Man U fan on a
tightened the leash BBC HYS after the latest loss to Liverpool. 282 upvotes. 30 downvotes.)
the court ~ on unions and their ability to organize ♦ “During our excursions we found masses of wild strawberries but
where we found the best we also found the most leeches. I knew from
control & lack of control: animal / dog my reading that these creatures are the plague of many Himalayan
valleys, and now learned from personal experience how helpless one is
constraint & lack of constraint: animal / dog against them. They drop from trees on men and animals and creep
leave (leave something alone) through all the openings in one’s clothes, even the eyelets in one’s
shoes. If one tears them off one loses more blood than if one lets them
drink their fill, when they fall off by themselves. Some of the valleys are
leave it alone infested to such a degree by leeches that one simply cannot protect
people told me to ~ (don’t speak out or get involved) oneself against them. The best way of keeping them out is by wearing
socks and trousers steeped in salt.” (Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich
involvement: direction / verb Harrer, from the chapter, “The Village of Happiness.”)
♦ “Our first day’s march lay through patches of forest, clearings, and
leave (leave a mark, etc.) Malay villages, and was pleasant enough... The next day, the country got
wilder... We passed through extensive forests, along paths often up to
leaves a (computer) fingerprint our knees in mud, and were much annoyed by the leeches for which this
every visit ~ district is famous. These little creatures infest the leaves and herbage by
the side of the paths, and when a passenger comes along they stretch
themselves out at full length, and if they touch any part of his dress or
leaves a mark body, quit their leaf and adhere to it. They then creep on to his feet, legs,
Afghanistan ~ on soldiers or other part of his body and suck their fill, the first puncture being rarely
felt during the excitement of walking. On bathing in the evening we
generally found half a dozen or a dozen on each of us, most frequently

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on our legs, but sometimes on our bodies, and I had one who sucked his conditions on the ~ of the journey were worse
fill from the side of my neck, but who luckily missed the jugular vein.
There are many species of these forest leeches. All are small, but some first leg
are beautifully marked with stripes of bright yellow. They probably attach
themselves to deer or other animals which frequent the forest paths, and the ~ of his journey
have thus acquired the singular habit of stretching themselves out at the
sound of a footstep or of rustling foliage...” (The Malay Archipelago by second leg
Alfred Russel Wallace, Chapter 3, Malacca and Mount Ophir.) the plane left for the ~ of the trip to Dover AFB
affliction: animal / person final leg
character & personality: animal / person the ~ of training (soldiers trying to become Green Berets)
insult / person: animal
sequence: leg
leeway (noun)
leg (grow legs)
leeway
she doesn't allow me any ~ grew legs
my website ~ (became successful)
constraint & lack of constraint / extent & scope: boat
growth & development / success & failure: leg / verb
left (left behind)
leg (leg to stand on)
left behind
the poor are ~ (services go to wealthy) have a (firm) leg to stand on
he didn’t ~ (Secretary of Labor resigns)
progress & lack of progress: direction / prep, adv, adj,
particle bases: leg / standing, sitting & lying

left field (out of left field, etc.) legacy (obsolescence)

left-field surprises legacy costs
the thriller is full of ~ (No Sudden Move) the "~" of retiree health care and pensions (industry)

completely out of left field legacy equipment

you make absurd comments that are ~ and make no sense adding high-tech sensors to ~ is expensive and challenging

come from left field legacy issues

we were stunned, this had ~ (diplomacy) there are many companies that need to confront ~

come out of left field legacy newsroom

the announcement ~ (unexpected) change is difficult and slow in a ~ (Capital B media)
♦ “This thing was not only from left field, it was from the planet Mars, legacy system
because it didn’t happen...” (A politician dismissing an old accusation of
sexual abuse.) drivers are available for ~s such as Windows 98
♦ This refers to a throw from the left fielder (or center or right fielder) to "legacy" technology
any of the bases, particularly home plate, surprising the runner.
Ordinarily, a throw from the outfield is cut off by the second-baseman. It
~—an industry euphemism for obsolete hardware
takes an outfielder with a strong arm to make such a long throw, and it is
always a dramatic moment.) legacy thinking
generals are locked in a cold-war mindset—~
appearance & disappearance: baseball / sports & games
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: family / history
left out (excluded) / money
left out of the Paris Olympics transmission: family
baseball and softball will be ~ legacy (history)
acceptance & rejection: container / prep, adv, adj, particle legacy
leg (first leg, etc.) she talked about her ~, the things she has achieved

leg of the journey legacy of the past

conditions on the return ~ were worse the ~ (history)

leg of the trip legacy of its (Soviet) past

the plane left for the second ~ to Dover Air Force Base Estonia's effort to sever the ~ (monuments, etc.)

leg of training legacy of (vanishing) plants

the final ~ for soldiers trying to become Green Berets the seed vault seeks to save the genetic ~ (on Svalbard)

return leg legacy of war

landmines are an insidious ~

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legacy of discrimination and lived experiences Michigan's (proud shipbuilding) legacy
they seek to erase the ~ (critical race theory) ~ (Lake Michigan)
legacy of slavery and colonialism shipbuilding legacy
how to deal with the ~ Michigan's proud ~ (Lake Michigan)
legacy of pain and prejudice troubled (racial) legacy
the romance of the West versus its ~ (US) a stark reminder of this city's ~ (St. Louis)
legacy of the cold war Jewish legacy
this terrible ~ (Russian stockpiles of chemical weapons) there is a rich ~ associated with boxing
war's legacy industrial legacy
the ~ continues to divide Americans (Civil War) Manchester's ~ (England)
family legacy proud (shipbuilding) legacy
~s and obligations Michigan's ~ (Lake Michigan)
colonial legacy racial legacy
France's ~ has deepened that alienation (immigrants) a stark reminder of this city's troubled ~ (St. Louis)
boxing in India is a ~ (sports)
rich (Jewish) legacy
complicated legacy there is a ~ associated with boxing
the ~ of this American classic (Shaft / Blaxploitation)
carry on his (great) legacy
genetic legacy a replacement will ~ (Supreme Court justice)
the seed vault seeks to save the ~ of vanishing plants
embraced (for itself) the legacy
insidious legacy Gazprom has ~ of Peter the Great (new skyscraper)
landmines are an ~ of war
leaves his legacy in ruins
multigenerational legacy the loss ~ (Joshua defeated by Usyk / boxing)
families with ~s of college education (vs. poor)
reputation: family / history / money
radioactive legacy transmission: family
using the world’s ~ (to determine age of whale sharks)
legend (noun)
guardian of a (150 year) legacy
the Mariinsky Theater is a ~ (ballet and opera) legend
Mike Tyson is an icon of the sport of boxing, a ~
carrying on the legacy
they are ~ of George Plimpton (Paris Review) both legends
it was a great performance from ~ (Jones v. Tyson boxing)
deal with the legacy
survival, persistence & endurance / time: allusion
how to ~ of slavery and colonialism
pass the legacy along to their children's children
legion (noun)
~ (Shoshone) legion of fans
sever the legacy Mr. Musk told his ~ that...
Estonia's effort to ~ of its Soviet past (monuments, etc.) legions of others
transmission: family / history / money she is joining ~, many of them women, who are frustrated
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: family / history / legions of poor
money Karachi is a magnet for its ~
legacy (reputation) legions of other women
legacy and so are ~ (“me too” movement)
his ~ is tarnished by allegations he… (a boxer) amount: military
legacy of failure lemming (consciousness)
given the long ~ at schools like Thomas Jefferson
lemming
legacy of love what are you, a ~ (taking government advice / COVID)
they left a ~ wherever they went (eulogy)
lemmings for every tweet
Manchester's (industrial) legacy people aren’t ~ they happen to see (conspiracy theories)
~ (England)

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consciousness & awareness / behavior / unanimity & lens (other)
consensus / society: animal
lens onto the (shadowy) world
lemon (noun) his arrest provides a ~ of computer hackers
lemon narrow lens
my car is a ~ presenting poetry through a ~ of immigration
failure, accident & impairment: fruits & vegetables novel and interesting lens
flaws & lack of flaws: fruits & vegetables he has found a ~ through which to view the conflict
lend (lend a hand, etc.) viewed from the 20-20 lens
lent an ear use of force should not be ~ of hindsight (policing standard)
Michael unselfishly ~ to friends in need widen the lens
lend a hand okay, so let’s ~ a little bit here, Scott (Steve Inskeep)
can I ~ (help) attention, scrutiny & promotion / perception, perspective &
help & assistance: money / verb point of view: eye / tools & technology
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: money / verb Leonardo da Vinci
length (go to any lengths, etc.) England’s Leonardo
go to any lengths Robert Hooke, ~ (according to Allan Chapman)
the corporation will ~ to preserve the system (oil) “England’s Leonardo”
political rivals will ~ to achieve their aims he was described as ~ (Robert Hooke)
gone to unusual lengths comparison & contrast / knowledge & intelligence: epithet
police had ~ in their investigation
leper (person)
behavior / extent & scope: distance
restraint & lack of restraint: distance modern-day lepers
difficulty, easiness & effort: distance we treat them like ~ (fat people)
lens (through a lens) ♦ In 2009, Egypt sought to close its last leper colony, the Abou Zaabal
Leprosarium. The inhabitants of the colony protested, however. Many of
them preferred to live in the colony rather than return home to their
through many lenses villages.
immigration, ~
society: health & medicine / person
through that lens person: society
I see the world ~ (being biracial) acceptance & rejection: health & medicine / person /
society
through the new lens of the memes
looked at ~, human beings… lesson (noun)
through the lens of a reasonable office got a (total boxing) lesson
use of force is viewed ~ (the Supreme Court standard) AJ ~ from Usyk tonight

through the lens of science learned my lesson

experiences now better seen ~ (hearing "voices") I~

through the lens of a (negative) stereotype learned his lesson

the threat of being viewed ~ he has probably ~ (a politician who made a serious gaffe)

through an ethnic lens teach the kid a lesson

he refused to view things ~ (Afghan military man) maybe I want to ~

through an objective lens behavior / knowledge & intelligence: school & education
we have to look at it ~ reasonable officer standard) let down (fail)
through a strictly racial lens
the project look at American history ~ (1619 Project) let me down
don't ~
through a "theological" lens
he does not view the conflict ~ (Middle East) let the team down
in the most critical situation, I ~ (sports)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / perception, perspective &
point of view: eye / tools & technology let us down

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 don't ~ Summer of Love love letter
Leslie did not ~ (a basketball player) “Chelsea Morning” is a ~ (Joni Mitchell / Girls Like Us)
let you down cinematic love letter
a book would never ~ (Amos Oz) for Kirsten Dunst, the film is a ~ to her children
let a child down rapped a love letter
every case, an adult has ~ (under-age drinking) she ~ to her immigrant mother (Ruby Ibarra of Balikbayans)
let myself down sends a love letter
if I lose this fight, I'll feel like I ~ Los Lobos ~ to Los Angeles (Native Sons album)
♦ “D C-T! is an ILU to NYC.” (The book by Joana Avillez and Molly
let my family down Young.)
if I lose this fight, I'll feel like I ~
♦ The BBC published “A love letter to Kabul” by Lyse Doucet, with
let my team down Mahfouz Zubaide and Esmatullah Kohsar, photography by Paula
Bronstein, in Nov 2021, not long after the US fled that country. It is a
if I lose this fight, I'll feel like I ~ wonderful and uplifting presentation, showing life as it goes on. It shows
nine wonderful places: (1) Zarghuna Girls’ High School (2) Streets of
let my country down Spandi (3) Sarai Shahzada money exchange market (4) Kah Faroshi bird
if I lose this fight, I'll feel like I ~ market (5) Musicians’ lane (6) Café culture (7) Babur Gardens (8) Nadir
Khan Hill (9) Bibi Mahru Hill. I’d love to visit sometime!
adult has let a child down
achievement, recognition & praise: writing & spelling
in every case, an ~ (under-age drinking)
dogs let him down
level (take something to a higher level)
each time, the ~ (fighting pit bulls) took it to a whole new level
step up or let down yesterday he ~ (criticism of enemies)
you can ~ your colleagues increase & decrease: direction
supported their customers or let them down level (ground level, etc.)
have the energy companies ~ (Storm Arwen)
from the ten-thousand-foot level
success & failure: direction / verb unnecessary, seen ~, but here on the ground... (conflict)
failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb
at a 30,000-foot level
lethargic (adjective) that’s the whole point of vaccine etiquette ~
lethargic on a 30,000-foot level
the government’s response has been ~ (earthquake relief) so, ~, what has emerged is that... (analysis)
lethargic display at a granular level
that was a ~ (a soccer game) she learned about cops at a ~ (became a reserve cop)
activity / flaws & lack of flaws: health & medicine at a microscopic level
speed / timeliness & lack of timeliness: movement ~, children’s use of language is... (words, images)
letter (love letter) at a molecular level
love letter to South Los Angeles suggestion is built into cinema ~ (sex)
the show is a ~ (HBO’s Insecure) at the molecular level
love letter to Black boys but the closer you look at it, if you see it ~...
this is kind of a ~ (Punch Me Up to the Gods) from the ground level
love letter to your childhood we want to show the conflict as it looks ~
what a ~ (the film Belfast by Kenneth Branagh) grass roots level
love letter to New York City go back home to the ~
Deacon King Kong is a ~ (by the great James McBride) ♦ Heard on NPR: “Carrie, let me get your 3,000-foot perspective on
something. Do you think that...” / “Let me ask you to pull back 3,000 feet
love letter to Kabul and get the larger view here.” / “Let’s back up and just get big picture for
a second...”
a ~ by Lyse Doucet (BBC)
♦ “It’s really up to us to adopt and accept behaviors that take care of
love letter to (classic) Hollywood those we care about. So, that’s the whole point of vaccine etiquette and
what we’re talking about today, I think, at a 30,000-foot level.” (Steven
Mank is a ~ (the film) Petrow, aka “Mr. Manners.” From “As More Americans Get Coronavirus
Vaccines, A New Etiquette Emerges,” NPR, Weekend edition Sunday,
love letter to his (soaring) spirit March 14, 2021.)
Tik, Tik...Boom! is a ~ (Jonathan Larson)

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♦ “We are looking at it from the 30,000 foot level.” (California Democrat pulls the levers
Congressman Adam Schiff on NPR.)
she ~ of power in Congress and moves legislation
♦ “If you look at it from 30,000 feet, you know that some of those people
are going to go on to commit violent crime or are going to be victims of control & lack of control: mechanism
crime.” (District Attorney Chesa Boudin in San Francisco.)
♦ “[Their goals] are not that different, from a forty-thousand-foot level.” leverage (noun)
(Barak Obama, speaking about two politicians.)
♦ “Yuh know, on the one hand, this is kind of nutty (huh-huh), on the leverage over North Korea
other hand, hey, ya know what, uh, [Reagan’s] got a point, maybe you China has the most ~
have to look at things from uh 20 billion miles up to get this kind of
perspective.” (Fred Kaplan (journalist). From “The ‘Secret History’ Of diplomatic leverage
Nuclear War,” NPR, Fresh Air, September 28, 2020.) Sadat gained ~ using oil as a political weapon (1973)
♦ Winston Churchill, in 1927, compared his position of Minister of
♦ “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth.” (Attributed to
Munitions of War in 1917 to riding “comfortably on an elephant... from
Archimedes. This attests to the power of a lever and a fulcrum.)
whose back a wide scene lay open.”

perception, perspective & point of view: ground, terrain & power / force: tools & technology
land / height leverage (verb)
level (fairness) leverage its support
Israel should ~ in decisive talks with the Palestinians
on the level
this is not ~ (criminal case thrown out of court) power / force: tools & technology / verb
level of accountability leviathan (noun)
there needs to be a ~ throughout the system (justice)
leviathans
level playing field Britain’s two new aircraft carriers are ~
all we ask for is a ~ (tariffs)
leviathan government
flaws & lack of flaws : sports & games he wants to shrink our ~ (a politician)
levelheaded (adj) leviathan state
they protested against the encroachments of a ~ (health)
levelheaded girl
Olga Zvirkovskaya, a ~ who will do well and go far... intelligence leviathan
character & personality: equilibrium & stability 9/11 helped to create a sprawling ~

level off (verb) new leviathan

the intelligence services are the ~
leveling off become a leviathan
the epidemic may be ~ (opioid abuse)
what started as a little startup has ~ (Facebook)
increase & decrease : direction / number / verb ♦ The Behemoth was a huge land monster mentioned in the Book of Job.
progress & lack of progress: mountains & hills / verb Its aquatic counterpart was the Leviathan. Both creatures were controlled
by God, symbolizing God's power.
starting, going, continuing & ending: direction / verb
level up (as verb) size: allusion / Bible / creature / religion
Lexington (of China, etc.)
“level up” Britain’s poor regions
ideas to ~ are sparse Lexington, if you will, of the Republic of China
Hankou is the ~ (the “double ten,” 1911)
skill up, level up
~ (advertisement for the University of Montreal) ♦ The Wuchang Uprising of 10 October 1911 (the “double ten”) was the
beginning of the end of the Qing Dynasty in China.
♦ “Level up your grooming game, your balls will thank you.” (A
Manscaped ad.) ♦ “Double Ten” is recognized by Merriam-Webster.
♦ “By the rude bridge that arched the flood, / Their flag to April’s breeze
increase & decrease: direction / part of speech / verb unfurled, / Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot
heard round the world.” (“The Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo
lever (levers of power, etc.) Emerson.)

levers of power history / military: epithet

he holds the ~ library (amount)
diplomatic lever
libraries of sentiment
we need to find the right ~ (encouraging democracy)
the line says little but conveys whole ~ (in a poem)
Russia’s (diplomatic) levers amount: books & reading
Kim’s visit to Moscow is a reminder to Washington of ~

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license (noun) activity / attention, scrutiny & promotion: animal /
standing, sitting & lying / verb
license to publish
this is not a ~ anti-government stories life (give life)
license to kill given new life to grievances
fear or hatred are not a ~ (vigilante action) the uranium boom has ~ over land and power (Niger)

interpret this as a license given new life to an old myth

editors should not ~ to publish anti-government stories the controversy has ~

takes (dramatic) license amelioration & renewal: death & life / verb
the series ~ with a lot of events (HBO) survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: document / life (lose one’s life)
government
lost his life
lid (keep the lid on something) he ~ in a kayaking accident

keep a lid on such information death & life: euphemism / verb

it’s next to impossible to ~ (mass shooters’ names) life (take one’s life)
access & lack of access: bottle / container / verb
take his life
lie (position) his last-minute decision would ~ (climbing)

lay devastated death & life: euphemism / verb

the city ~ by typhus (Belgrade) life (give one’s life, etc.)
lay open gave his life for peace
this was the American landscape that ~ to the virus he gave ~ (Yitzhak Rabin)
lay spread out laid down their lives
finally the mountain gateway opened, and the plain ~ below the 457 service personnel who ~ (Brits in Afghanistan)
fictive position: standing, sitting & lying / verb death & life: euphemism / verb
lie (lie ahead) life (begin life)
lies ahead began life as a monastery
the work that ~ will be difficult St Mark’s Church ~
we are ready for the struggle that ~ (war)
growth & development: death & life / verb
lie ahead starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / verb
as we prepare for the elections that ~…
her biggest challenges ~ life (bring to life)
future / time: direction / journeys & trips / verb brings to life
lie down (and lay down) the exhibit ~ the personalities behind the inventions
brings Copernicus to life
lay down his new biography ~
I ~ so she wouldn’t go (pled guilty to drugs)
to ~ for your biggest rivals is unforgivable (Man U fan) bring (educational) exhibits to life
sound can ~ (natural-sound recordings)
resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / standing, sitting
& lying / verb brings the geography to life
"America from the Air" ~ (picture book)
lie low (and lay low)
brings history (really back) to life
lay low it ~ (illuminating Hadrian's Wall with 500 beacons)
just ~ and cool it (Anthony Fauci / Super Bowl parties)
brings him (back) to life
laying low she ~ sexually (character in film)
he and his family have been ~ since the fatal incident
substance & lack of substance: death & life / verb
lying low amelioration & renewal: death & life / verb
the gangs are ~

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life (breathe life) life (in all walks of life)
breathed life into Germany’s campaign in all walks of life
Reus ~ (important world-cup goal) Azerbaijanis ~ tend to… (opinions)
breathe life into a career active in all walks of life
he continues to ~ that looked finished (a boxer) Muslims are ~ (US)
breathes life into the image society: walking, running & jumping
you upload a picture and AI ~ (blinks, smiles, moves head)
life (walks of life)
breathe life into the (Arab peace) initiative
the king's effort to ~ different walks of life
you've got five people from completely ~ (D. C. Metro)
breathe life into the sport
he is trying to find novel ways to ~ (Indy car racing) spreading into all walks of life
an epidemic of violence is ~
♦ “What it does is it really brings your ancestors to life in a kind of really
wow moment.” (Rafi Mendelsohn, about “Deep Nostalgia” at the society: walking, running & jumping
MyHeritage website. The photo will blink, smile, and move its head. From
“Genealogy Website Uses AI Software To Bring Old Photos To Life,”
NPR, Morning Edition, March 2, 2021.)
life (container)
amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence & life
endurance: breathing / death & life / health & medicine / life is full of surprises
verb my ~ is empty

life (life of its own) full life

she led a ~
taken on a life of its own death & life: container
his death has ~ (conspiracy theory)
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life
life (life is a building)
life (spring to life) life
my ~ is in ruins
sprang to life
life crumbled
Mount Marapi ~ early this week (volcano)
my ~
the town ~ from nothing (oil)
sprang (vividly) to life built a good life
we ~ together
the issues ~ (heated discussion)
activity / initiation: death & life / verb put my life back together
I'm trying to ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life / verb
life (from walks of life) death & life: infrastructure
life (things)
from all walks of life
we are ~, but we all love the same thing (hobbyists) life of the product
people ~ gathered (Tunisian protests) this product is fully warranted for the ~
his funeral was attended by people ~ (Pasternak, 1960)
people ~ were encouraged to do volunteer work (China) life of the (ReadNet) school
the brief ~ offers a stark lesson... (charter)
friends from all walks of life
I have ~ life of four hours
the active battery pack has an estimated ~
people from all walks of life
he thinks ~ can relate to his cause life stories
the ~ of thousands of words (Word Origins by W. Funk)
students from all walks of life
universities should reach out to ~ hailstone's life
in a ~ a long time is 10 to 20 minutes
come from all walks of life
they ~ (to a funeral) battery life
laptop users list ~ as their No. 1 complaint
society: walking, running & jumping
design life
many bridges are at the end of their ~ (collapses)

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shelf life lifeblood of the country
see shelf life the Congo River is the ~
toy life lifeblood of the community
read the directions for safer play and longer ~ the river is the ~
half-life lifeblood of our communities
the elimination ~ is 27 minutes (GHB) small businesses are the ~ (commerce)
the drug has a short onset of effect and a short ~
lifeblood of the (modern) economy
working life energy is the ~ (California)
equipment has outlived its predicted ~ (electric utility)
lifeblood of racing
estimated life short tracks are the ~ (steppingstones to NASCAR)
the active battery pack has an ~ of four hours
lifeblood of the region
extended-life (m) the economic ~ is the river
~ batteries
lifeblood of Saudi Arabia
Hidden Life this company is the ~ (Aramco)
Gone Tomorrow: the ~ of Garbage (a book)
lifeblood of the town
hidden life the sea was the ~ (fishing, etc.)
the ~ of garbage and where old PCs go to die
lifeblood of (so many) colleges and schools
predicted (working) life federal financial aid is the ~
equipment has outlived its ~ (electric utility)
Iraq's (economic) lifeblood
brief life pipelines funnel ~ (oil)
the ~ of the ReadNet school offers a stark lesson
Zambia's (commercial) lifeblood
useful lives mining and sales businesses are ~
downtown freeways have reached the end of their ~
Sahel's lifeblood
at the end of their (design) life the ~ has always been a seasonal monsoon
many bridges are ~ (collapses)
Mallory's lifeblood
end of their (useful) lives mystery and danger were ~ (the climber)
downtown freeways have reached the ~
commercial lifeblood
began life mining and sales businesses are Zambia's ~
the magnetic strip ~ in the 1960s as an IBM project
economic lifeblood
draw new life from old wells the ~ of the region is the river
as the industry improves its ability to ~ (oil) pipelines funnel Iraq's ~ (oil)
take on a life of its own bases: blood / death & life
an injustice can ~ (the law is an ass)
lifeline (noun)
♦ "Every rock face breathes life with its lungs and emanates an energy
that is proper only to itself." (The great Slovenian climber Tomaz Humar
in No Impossible Ways.)
lifeline
songwriting has been a ~ (Todd Snider / bipolar, etc.)
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life in Somalia, piracy isn't just a business, it's a ~
life (survival) lifeline for Egypt
the waters of the River Nile are a ~
political life
he is fighting for his ~ (a politician) lifeline for the (entire) Southwest
the Colorado River drainage basin, a ~
coming back to life
the economy is ~ lifeline for (countless) villages
the Congo River is the ~ (Congo)
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life
financial lifeline
lifeblood (noun) Jet Airways is seeking a ~ to avoid collapse (debt)
lifeblood of the Gulf provided a lifeline
the estuaries are the ~ (oil spill) but Congress ~ when it mandated that... (radio telescope)

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♦ “Not only did they throw you a life preserver, they drove the boat and
picked you up!” (Shannon Sharpe, speaking to Skip Bayless about lift (heavy lift)
Antonio Brown, on the sports show “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed.”
“They” refer to Tom Brady, Bruce Arians, and the Miami Dolphins football heavy lift
team, who hired Antonio Brown after he had been cut from 3 teams. it’s a ~ (gaining support for a bill / politics)
Brown ended up walking off the field in the middle of a game.)

survival, persistence & endurance: boat / death & life / heavy lift for them
all that testing will be a ~ (COVID / a company)
water
heavy lift (for Biden) to prevent violence
life raft (and life boat, lifeboat) it’s going to be a ~ (protests)
life raft for his floundering campaign difficulty, easiness & effort: weight
South Carolina is a ~ (primary elections)
lifting (heavy lifting)
life raft for the caregivers
Patti Davis provides a ~ of Alzheimer’s patients heavy lifting
let us do the ~ (ad)
jumped while there was still a lifeboat in the water
I ~ (voluntary redundancy vs compulsory / academia) heavy research lifting
Oxford University had done a lot of the ~ (vaccine)
took refuge in their (Dragon and Soyuz) lifeboats
they ~ (the International Space Station) did the heavy lifting
we ~, and they got the credit (disgusted)
survival, persistence & endurance: boat / death & life /
water work & duty: burden / weight
life span (noun) light (in light of)
life span of 198 days in light of the difficulties
the annual Great Whirl has an average ~ (Arabian Sea) ~ facing the Dukha and other traditional peoples
growth & development: death & life in light of the (uncovered) documents
an appeal ~ (trial)
life support (on life support)
in light of (yesterday's) incident
on life support ~, nobody will be allowed to...
Detroit is ~
the team is ~ (losing) in light of the revelation
how they would pursue the case ~
condition & status: death & life / health & medicine
decline: death & life / health & medicine in light of (last week's) tragedy
the game has been cancelled ~
lift (feeling)
♦ This is a 3-word preposition, and it seems to mean the same as ‘in
temporary lift view of” or “because of” or “considering.”
caffeine may give you a ~, but it won't sustain you relationship: light & dark / prep, adv, adj, particle
feeling, emotion & effect: direction light (shining light)
lift (verb) shining light
lift the (country’s) mood co-workers described Nina as a ~ (died)
it’s a great way to ~ (Euro 2020 in England) superlative: light & dark
lifted our spirits character & personality: light & dark
Sara ~ light (guiding light)
depression had lifted guiding lights of the continent
her ~, and she felt buoyant and hopeful the ~ are dull indeed (leaders)
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / verb direction: journeys & trips / light & dark
lift (amelioration) light (in a same / different light, etc.)
lift the sanctions in a different light
they want to ~ he saw the world ~
amelioration & renewal: verb / weight they began to view him ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: verb / weight in different lights

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 different men often see the same subject in ~ shining a light (of hope) to all those...
tonight is all about ~
in a negative light
tenants see him ~ (landlord) attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark / verb
in the same light light (make light of something)
only in China are teachers seen ~ as doctors (status)
he wants to put himself ~ as Donald Trump (politics) made light of the (whole) situation
he ~ (pressure)
in the same (sort of) light
we are looking at vaccine ~ (as body armor / military) substance & lack of substance: weight / verb

perception, perspective & point of view: light & dark lighten (lighten things up, etc.)
light (come to light) lightened the mood
the good news ~
came to light
the scope of medical errors ~ when… lighten things up
things are getting a little heavy, let's ~
come to light
new evidence has ~ amelioration & renewal: verb / weight
feeling, emotion & effect: verb / weight
come to light earlier
these misdeeds should have ~ (sex abuse) light bulb (and lightbulb, bulb)
came to light two years ago light bulb
the problem ~ a ~ went off in his head and he… (good idea)

evidence has come to light light bulb in kids' heads

new ~ we hope to turn on a ~ about science

problem came to light light-bulb moment

the ~ two years ago you've heard of a ~, this was a spotlight moment
these ~s feel as if they happen in a flash but...
appearance & disappearance: light & dark / verb will UK provide a ~ for US Democrats (Labor defeat)
searching & discovery: light & dark / verb
consciousness & awareness: light & dark / verb lightbulb moment
Steve Bartlett’s ~ was when he realized... (Social Chain)
light (bring something to light)
brightest bulb
brought to light he is not the ~, his IQ is in the seventies...
new findings have been ~ from the old data
light bulb went off
appearance & disappearance: light & dark / verb a ~ in his head and he… (good idea)
searching & discovery: light & dark / verb
consciousness & awareness: light & dark / verb turn on a light bulb
we hope to ~ in kids' heads about science
light (see the light)
idea / knowledge & intelligence: light & dark
see the light comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark
it ought to ~ (an unpublished manuscript) consciousness & awareness: light & dark
appearance & disappearance: light & dark light-hearted (adjective)
light (shed light) seemed light-hearted
she ~ during the re-enactment (of a crime)
shed (no immediate) light on the (June 5) abduction
his arrest ~ feeling, emotion & effect: heart / weight
analysis, interpretation & explanation / concealment & lack heart: weight
of concealment: light & dark / verb lighthouse (protection)
light (shine a light) lighthouses in the storm
at times like that, people are looking for ~ (downturn)
shine a light on the abuse
what he did was ~ (prison guard) direction: boat / infrastructure / light & dark / sea
danger: boat / sea
shine a light on the women protection & lack of protection: boat / sign, signal, symbol
we must ~ who have brought knowledge into the world

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lighthouse (illumination) fate, fortune & chance: electricity / lightning / sky / storm

lighthouse of civilization, conviviality, and philosophy

lightning bolt (and bolt of lightning, etc.)
Cordova was the ~ in West Europe (Muslim Spain) hip-swinging bolt of lightning
analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark he was a ~ (Johnny Hallyday)
comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / lightning / storm
lightly (take something lightly, etc.) lightning bolt (comprehension)
take this issue lightly lightning-bolt moment
nobody should ~ it was a ~ when I knew what I wanted to do (be a singer)
taken lightly I had a ~ on a trip to Fire Island (about his gayness)
the decision was difficult and not ~ comprehension & incomprehension: electricity / lightning /
use these words lightly storm
and I do not ~ (terror to describe a mass murder) lightning rod
substance & lack of substance: weight
lightning rod
lightning (adjective) the university is a ~ for people with political statements
Al Jazeera has always been a ~ (politics)
lightning fast
Khan still looks to have ~ fists (vs. Brook / boxing) lightning rod for (public) anger
he became the ~ over the disaster (replaced)
lightning-quick
he had created the mobile, ~ army (General Grant) lightning rod for controversy
ever the ~, Soulja Boy made headlines when...
lightning advance
the ~ northward continues (Operation Iraqi Freedom) lightning rod for criticism
he became a ~ (a baseball manager)
lightning drive
the ~ to reach Baghdad (Operation Iraqi Freedom) lightning rod for a (bitter political) debate
the issue became a ~ over whether…
lightning (offensive) operation
one key to a ~ was making sure…(military) became a lightning rod
the case ~ for outrage in the community (bullying)
lightning speed ♦ Many clerics opposed the use of lightning rods on church steeples, in
the catastrophe developed at ~ (submarine) spite of the fact that the steeples attracted lighting that caused fires. In
color graphics downloaded at ~ 1767, the church of San Nazaro in Brescia (Brecia) was hit by lightning
17 years after Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod. Inside were
the US broke again with ~ (soccer team) several thousand pounds of gunpowder. The blast destroyed not only the
the risks of a war that began with ~ church but one-sixth of the city and killed over 3,000 people.
the ~ of modern technology
Omicron is spreading at ~ attraction & repulsion: electricity / lightning

lightning war light show

this ~ on public education (billionaires support charters)
celestial light show
speed: lightning / storm the Leonid meteor shower, that November ~…
lightning (fate) resemblance: theater

lightning light up (a room, etc.)

~ can strike twice
lights up the stage
lightning struck she ~
everything was going good, and then ~ superlative: light & dark / verb
♦ “The boy directly in front of me... In other words, his feet were about character & personality: light & dark / verb
that far from my head, as he was halfway through the fence, lightning
struck the barbed wire, electrocuted him on the spot. I didn’t know he
was dead, I had never seen a dead person, so I crawled beside him and
light up (activity)
I pulled him into the meadow and I stayed with him for an hour trying to
warm him up. And that was the moment when I understood that anything lights up social media
can happen to anybody at any time. And it’s an experience that has Warren’s fiery performance ~ (Democratic debate)
haunted me all my life, I’ve thought about it probably every day. It was
the single-most important thing that ever happened to me.” (US novelist lit up with (anti-aircraft) fire
Paul Auster. From “Paul Auster on his ‘single most important’ moment,”
BBC, Thursday, 14 March 2017. Paul was 14 years old when the tragedy
the sky ~
occurred.)

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activity: light & dark / verb ♦The allusion is to the satire Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, which
also contributed Brobdingnagian to the language.
lightweight (noun) size: allusion
intellectual lightweight allusion: books & reading
she's an ~ lily (gild the lily)
substance & lack of substance: boxing / weight
gilding the lily
light year (a long time) the chips are ~, but why not (lobster thermidor with chips)
♦ Salisbury: Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp, / To guard a
seems like light years title that was rich before, / To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw
it ~ since... a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto
the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to
time: amount / astronomy garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. (Shakespeare’s The Life and
Death of King John, Act, Scene 2.)
light year (light years ahead) allusion: books & reading
light years ahead of her peers sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: allusion
she was ~ flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances

light years ahead of the techniques limb (go out on a limb)

today’s tech is ~ available in the 1940s (forensics) go out on a limb
competition: distance / proximity French climbers are notorious for being willing to ~

light year (light years away, etc.) go out on a limb to hide

they are willing to ~ him (a terrorist)
light years away
he is ~ from the keeper he used to be (decline) willing to go out on a limb
Man U is still ~ from the glory days of old, but... they are ~ to hide him (a terrorist)

proximity: astronomy / distance / star fate, fortune & chance: tree / verb

like (Svengali-like, etc.) limb (phantom limb)

Svengali-like Lermontov “phantom limbs” of the German body politic
Vicky Page seemed to be the victim of the ~ what MacGregor calls the ~ (Prague, Strasbourg, etc.)

comparison & contrast: affix division & connection / presence & absence: sensation /
skin, muscle, nerves & bone
like (people like us / groups)
limbo (in limbo)
like me
and for readers ~ (a non-binary gestational parent) in limbo
plans are ~
like us the children are ~ (schools destroyed by earthquake)
you want to be ~, you gotta do like we do his fate is ~ (general in trouble with president)
people ~ don’t do things like that (go into acting) the British Government is ~ (hung Parliament)
♦ “[My father said to me] ‘Listen son, people like us don’t do things like he has been ~ waiting for his case to be resolved
that (go into acting)...son, I just don’t want you to talk about it anymore...” we are always ~ and we just don’t know...
(“British Actor Terence Stamp Reflects on London in the Swinging ‘60s,”
NPR, Fresh Air, Nov 5, 2021. Originally broadcast in 2002. About what in health-care limbo
his father had said, Stamp said, “In fact, it didn’t deter me at all.”)
certain of the sick find themselves ~
♦ “Well,” [Mr. Motshill] said when he saw me, “what is it?” / “I have come
to join school,” I said. / “Speak English,” he said. “What is it you want?” / in legal limbo
“To join school,” I said, in English. / “Much better,” said Mr. Motshill...
(How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn.) they are in ~ (spouses of terrorists in Syria)

inclusion & exclusion: society in an uncomfortable cultural limbo

Yoji found himself ~ (Japanese American back in Japan)
Lilliputian (adjective)
lost in limbo
Lilliputian dystopia the bills die, hang fire, or are ~ (in the US Senate)
I’m imagining this ~ (miniature candy bars, tiny drinks)
stuck in limbo
Lilliputian scale the results of the first vote were ~ (votes stolen)
photographing life on a ~ (insects)
remain in limbo
land of Lilliputians the results ~ (election)
Tiger Woods has been a giant in a ~ (golf star)

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remains in limbo progress & lack of progress: movement / walking, running
Boeing ~ as it figures out its next steps & jumping
left people in limbo linchpin (noun)
failure to agree on regulations has ~
linchpin of medicine
left the (British) people in limbo nursing's roles as a ~ goes largely unreported
the endless negotiations have ~ (Brexit)
linchpins of the (US) strategy
found himself in (an uncomfortable cultural) limbo a strong national army and police force are the ~ (war)
Yoji ~ (Japanese American back in Japan) ♦ A linchpin is a fastener used on hitches and axels. In the case of axels,
it prevents the wheels from falling off.
situation: container / religion
♦ “Nurses are the linchpins of hospitals, and when we lose them the
action, inaction & delay / certainty & uncertainty / wheels of medicine fall off.”
environment / progress & lack of progress: religion
attachment / bases / importance & significance:
limelight (in the limelight) mechanism
in the limelight line (at the front / back of the line)
it takes a special ability to be ~ and then be invisible
moment in the limelight at the front of the line
he had a ~, 30 years later minority businesses are not ~ but the end of the line (aid)
he had his most significant ~ a dozen years ago put teachers towards the front of the line
back in the limelight states are working to ~
he is ~ (fashion) priority: direction / line / position
basked in the limelight line (end of the line, etc.)
they ~ (officials)
end of the line
stay in the limelight it's not the ~, it's the beginning of the line (rehab)
he would do anything to ~ legally, it was the ~ (man escapes conviction)
spend three weeks in the limelight end of the line for him
after vanishing for 30 years, he has ~ this is the ~ (arrested for murder)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / light & dark starting, going, continuing & ending: line / train
limit (push the limits, etc.) line (a hard line, etc.)
pushed the limits tough line
she has ~ too far (nudity) taking a ~ on enforcement
behavior: boundary / verb conservative line
restraint & lack of restraint: boundary / verb the ~ that gay civil unions threaten…
limits (push something to its limits) hard-line
pushed to its limits China's ~ policy
the agency has been ~ Trump’s ~ rhetoric

survival, persistence & endurance: boundary / verb position, policy & negotiation: line
difficulty, easiness & effort: boundary / verb line (division)
restraint & lack of restraint: boundary / verb
constraint & lack of constraint: boundary / verb lines of class, race and education
domestic violence crosses all ~
limp (verb)
caste lines
limping along the public taps are divided along ~ (India)
the US economy is ~
color line
condition & status / progress & lack of progress: movement
the ~ is a fundamental U.S. problem
/ walking, running & jumping / verb
company lines
limp (noun) collaboration is occurring across ~
limp gender lines
if there is a trend afoot, it has a distinct ~ when issues divide along ~

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poverty line line between abled and disabled
the minimum wage is below the ~ he has erased the ~ (Oscar Pistorius)
living below the ~
line between news and entertainment
sex line he straddles the ~ (TV personality)
the class divided along ~s (like or dislike of author)
line between video games and movies
ethnic lines realism blurs the ~…
groups divided along ~
line between observer and participant
ideological lines the ~ (bombings / Iraq)
the court's ruling broke along ~ (Supreme Court)
line between saint and sinner
racial lines there is sometimes a fine or blurry ~
threatened to divide our nation along ~ (hate crime)
there's a distinct blurring of the ~ here (South Africa) line between martyrdom and suicide
she explores the ~ (author)
thin blue line
the ~ (policemen) line between the real and the unreal
the ~ in popular culture seems ever more blurred
blurring of the (racial) lines
there's a distinct ~ here (South Africa) line between teaching and criticizing
the delicate ~ (coaching)
variations across (geographic or demographic) lines
~ (a survey) line between making a point and belaboring it
there is a fine ~
economic and educational lines
typically breaks down among ~ line between reality and play-acting
the ~ is not clear in both movies and wrestling
ethnic and class lines
the drug is crossing ~ (Ecstasy) line between normal and abnormal
the ~ (psychiatry)
gender and cultural lines
when applied across ~ delicate line
the ~ between teaching and criticizing (coaching)
geographic or demographic lines
variations across ~ (a survey) fine line
there is a ~ between making a point and belaboring it
lines are drawn
the ~ (nomination fight / politics) fine or blurry line
there is sometimes a ~ between saint and sinner
crossing (ethnic and class) lines
the drug is ~ (Ecstasy) line has (gradually) blurred
but the ~ as…
crosses all lines
domestic violence ~ of class, race and education lines are blurring
the ~ (between hotels and Airbnb)
crossed (party) lines
Democrats ~ blur the line
some writers ~ (between genre and literature)
cuts across (ideological) lines
the movement now ~ (animal welfare) blurs the line
realism ~ between video games and movies…
broke along (ideological) lines
the court's ruling ~ (Supreme Court) erased the line
he has ~ between abled and disabled (Oscar Pistorius)
divided along (racial) lines
a Southern society that was still sharply ~ straddles the line
he ~ between news and entertainment (TV personality)
divided along (ethnic) lines
division & connection: boundary / line
groups ~
♦ Actual lines include such things as picket lines and security lines. line (out of line)
division & connection: boundary / line a little out of line
line (categories) I think you are ~ here…
behavior: boundary / line
line between life and death
the ~ proved a thin one (victims of terror attack)

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line (finish line) it is a third ~ against the coronavirus (a third vaccine)

finish line battle lines

the ~ are hardening as the rulers dig in (protests)
getting vaccinated felt like the ~, but... (pandemic)
finish line of retirement last line
habeus corpus is the ~ of defense, a Hail Mary (law)
deep into the rat race, far from the ~
at the finish line battle lines are formed
these ~, solid, and unmoving (impeachment)
I will be there ~ (lengthy lawsuit against corporation)
yards from the finish line battle lines are forming
the ~ in the dispute
they are at risk of stumbling just ~ (COP26)
get across the finish line battle lines are hardening
the ~ over the issue (abortion)
she is looking for women we can help ~ (politics)
get this plan across the finish line battle lines are being drawn
the ~ (politics)
we are going to keep working to ~ (legislature)
push the bill across the finish line battle lines have been drawn
the ~ (liberals versus conservative)
they are hoping to ~ (politics)
♦ “I will be there at the finish line. I don’t want to run halfway and decide, conflict: military
‘Nah, I’m too tired now.’” (One of a number of woman suing a major
corporation for unequal pay.) line (tread a line, etc.)
attainment: line / sports & games treading a (delicate) line
starting, going, continuing & ending: line / sports & games the government is ~ between…
line (over the line / finishing) walk a (really) fine line
over the line the government has to ~ (indictment)
we should have kept quiet until it was signed and ~ walks a (very) fine line
attainment: line / sports & games the indictment ~ here (case against Assange)
starting, going, continuing & ending: line / sports & games fate, fortune & chance: boundary / line / verb / walking,
line (over the line / behavior) running & jumping

go over the line line (on the line)

"Anything goes… As long as you don't ~ (Las Vegas)
on the line
stepped over the line the season is ~ on Sunday (a sports team)
some people believe the group has ~ (ELF) fate, fortune & chance: line
behavior: boundary / line / prep, adv, adj, particle
line (in line)
line (cross the line)
in line with (embassies’) advisories
crossed the line Westerners keep a low profile ~
her comments ~ (racer complains about pit crew)
falling in line
crossed a (constitutional) line they are rallying around their nominee, ~ (Trump)
the suit argues the law ~
fell in line
♦ “There will be consequences for those who cross the line.” (Pam when Trump won the nomination, Burkman ~
Shriver, about her sexual relationship with her much older coach Don
Candy.) unanimity & consensus: line
behavior: boundary / line / verb line (toe a line, etc.)
line (behavior)
treading a (delicate) line
blurred lines the government is ~ between…
what is consent, such ~, that terrible song... (sex)
follow the (I.M.F.'s) line
behavior: boundary / line countries that ~ but still fail to grow…
line (battle lines, etc.) parroted the (official) line
he ~ about enemy losses
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toes the line Republicans have ~ on him to quit (politics)
not everyone ~
lining up behind him
toe the line they are ~ (supporting a politician)
the judges refused to ~ (dispute with president)
unanimity & consensus: line / verb
Republicans have been asked to ~ (politics)
linger (verb)
toe the (ideological) line
you are protected only if you ~ (academia) lingers in our minds
toed the (Republican) line each of us has a single meal that ~
he has ~ (a politician) linger for 20 hours
♦ “This is sometimes misspelled as “tow” the line. See the interesting the Predator can ~ over a battlefield (military)
article, “Death nails and foul swoops,” The Economist, July 17th 2021.
That article references a George Orwell article, “Politics and the English lingered for days
Language,” Horizon, April 1946, which is freely available online
everywhere, thanks to the Orwell Foundation. Orwell’s article is as true
the cold weather ~
today as it was then.)
anxiety lingered
unanimity & consensus: line / verb ~ long after the threat had passed
line (government line, etc.) effects will linger
the psychological ~...
company line
researchers toe the ~ hope lingers
~ for youngster's return (missing)
government line
the ~ about Waco is being challenged questions linger
he was released from prison, but ~...
party line
he is not touting a ~ storm lingers
the longer the ~, the longer we will see impacts
official line
he parroted the ~ about enemy losses coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement /
verb
sanctioning, authority & nonconformity: line
lingering
line (red line)
lingering doubts
red line put to rest any ~ about…
this is a ~ that should not be crossed (national defense) jurors who may hold ~ about their guilty verdict...
a ~ for us is if we see chemical weapons (diplomacy)
the use of chemical weapons would be a "~" that… lingering fears
~ over safety (terrorism)
crossed a red line
Hamas ~ by firing rockets towards Jerusalem lingering irritant
his decision was a ~ to Republicans
behavior: boundary / line
lingering smell
line (line in the sand) the ~ of smoke (restaurant fire)
line in the sand lingering stereotype
that ~ is long gone (stars don’t do streaming films) the ~ of depression being a female condition
those are the people who decided that this was the ~
lingering tensions
constraint & lack of constraint / behavior: boundary / line
~ burst into violence
line of fire lingering threat
viral line of fire software can prevent much of the ~ of known viruses
they are sending their workers into the ~ (Amazon, etc.) lingering fears or concerns
walk (directly) into the line of fire try to address any ~ he may have (toddler)
it may seem crazy to ~ (Jessi Combs / speed record) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement
danger: military / weapon link (weak link)
line up (verb) weakest link
lined up to call we’re as good as the ~ (fighting worldwide pandemic)

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weakest link in the (global) chain we won’t be sheep, we’re going to be ~ (self-defense)
you're only as secure as the ~ of information (Internet)
lion's heart
weak link on the team I have a ~ (winning boxer after hard match)
he's a ~
courage of a lion
strength & weakness: chain she had the ~ (Sicilian journalist slain in Afghanistan)
lion (the Lion of Panjshir, etc.) ♦ “I would liken us a little bit to a bit of a wounded lion, if you like. We’ll
go away, we’ll lick our wounds, we’ll work out what needs to be different,
and we’ll come back fighting and roaring.” (Sally Munday, the chief
“Lion of the Desert” executive of the funding agency UK Sport, who oversaw 27 million
the Italians hanged the ~ in 1931 (Omar Mukhtar / Libya) pounds of investment on Olympic teams and individuals in the hope of
winning 3 to 7 medals at the Beijing Olympics. They only won two, both
Lion of Panjshir in curling.)
the great Ahmad Shah Massoud, the ~ ♦ “[I] showed heart and balls like a lion again.” (Tyson Fury after his third
fight with Deontay Wilder.)
defending the valley, Massoud became known as the ~
♦ The jackal is a lion in his own country.
Lion of the Punjab ♦ It is better to die like a lion than live like a dog.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the ~ (Sher-e-Punjab)
♦ It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion.
Lion of Verdun ♦ “I fought the lions, I fed the fleas, What got me at last? Mediocrities.”
he became known as the ~ (Philippe Petain) (Bertolt Brecht.)

♦ The last lions in the Sahara survived on the Ennedi Plateau until the courage & lack of courage: animal / lion / person
1940s (Chad).
person: animal / lion
♦ “He was the lion killed by a flea.” (Richard the Lionheart.)
lion (throw somebody to the lions, etc.)
epithet: animal / lion
courage & lack of courage / military: epithet throw innocent people to the lions
the French think we ~ (over allegations of sexual abuse)
lion (the Bronze Lion, etc.)
thrown to the lions
Lion and the Unicorn we’re kinda being ~ here (Afghan government)
the ~ appear on the UK royal coat of arms
allegiance, support & betrayal: violence / verb
Bronze Lion
Queen Beatrix awarded to the ~ to... lioness (Lioness.co, etc.)
Golden Lion Lioness
Orson Wells received the ~ (1970 Cannes) the letter was published on the whistleblowing website, ~
♦ “On Wednesday 31 May 2006, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
posthumously awarded the late Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski,
proper name: animal / lion
commander of the 1st (Polish) Independent Parachute Brigade, the courage & lack of courage: proper name
Bronze Lion for his services in Operation Market Garden in 1944. / On
Wednesday 7 October 2009, two Dutch soldiers were awarded the lionized
medal: commando Bjorn Peterse (posthumously awarded) and Kaptain
Gijs, for their actions in Afghanistan.” lionized
proper name: animal / lion her aggressiveness would be ~ if she were a man (politics)
achievement, recognition & praise: proper name / sign, lionized by the literary establishment
signal, symbol marquee names traditionally ~
lion (liberal lion, etc.) lionized by journalists
lioness of the left ~, the sniper became a heroic symbol (WWII USSR)
she is a ~ lionized for his disastrous service
liberal lions there is no accountability when Summers is ~ (economics)
they were ~ of a past generation (Supreme Court) lionized for refusing
~ like Birch Bayh and George McGovern athletes are ~ to stand for our national anthem (protests)
old lion lionized as a giant
the kid is getting his shot against the ~ (boxing) he has been ~ of the environmental movement
hierarchy: animal / lion / person lionized as a hero and a whistleblower
achievement, recognition & praise: animal / lion / person he was ~ (Li Wenliang)
lion (courage) achievement, recognition & praise: animal / lion
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lion's share they ~ (war against terrorism)

lion's share of the attention paying lip service

can you really address the issues rather than ~ (a judge)
a few books get the ~
lion's share of the burden pays lip service to its commitment
Europe only ~ to the nuclear deal (Iran)
the US is willing to do the ~, but we can't do it alone
lion's share of the credit pay lip service to mental health concerns
the tabloids ~and the right to a private life
he deserves the ~ (coach)
lion's share of the rewards paid lip service to it
every supervisor at least ~ (change)
they reap the ~
lion’s share of revenue and profits pay lip service to (fiscal) responsibility
politicians ~
tech giants collect the ~ in the media space
deserves the lion's share pay lip service to the rules
most at least ~ (politics)
he ~ of the credit (coach)
earn the lion’s share symbolic, lip service, or pandering
is it ~ to get the black vote (reparations)
affiliates ~ of ransoms (ransomware)
♦ “I want her and other actresses to walk the walk.” (The MeToo
get the lion's share movement and lip service.)
a few books ~ of the attention ♦ "I'll try…," "I'll get back to you…," "We'll see…," "I guess...," "Your
guess is as good as mine…," “I’ll bear it in mind,” “I hear what you say...”
amount: animal / food & drink / lion (Paying lip service.)
♦ “They felt betrayed, which I totally get...”
lip (speech) ♦ “I am sorry you were treated so badly and I understand. Thank you for
your service.”
lip
♦ "We want to reassure customers that our restaurants are clean and
their ~s are sealed down at City Hall (trying to get info) safe." (A statement by Yum Brands Inc. after TV cameras showed a
his ~s are not sealed swarm of rats scurrying about a KFC / Taco Bell in New York City.)

loose lips ♦ “I think it’s absolutely fine, I do.” “I think it’s great.” “I have no problem
with it whatsoever.” (Comments about a gay marriage by a politician
~ sink ships (wartime) many consider to be paying lip service.)

speech: mouth ♦ “We should have that conversation; We need to have that
conversation; What an interesting idea, I think we should have that
lip (stiff upper lip) conversation...” (Excellent ways not to say yes or no, to make no
commitment, while at the same time sounding sympathetic.)
have a stiff upper lip ♦ “Oh, I’m sorry about that. These things happen.”
how helpful is it to ~ and just get on with it (crisis) ♦ “Good luck with that!”
♦ "Oh for goodness sake. Anyone would think you were dying. You've ♦ “This makes for interesting reading.” (The non-committal written
only got suspected leprosy." (A British nurse to a terrified English patient response to a report by the State Department’s medical team about the
just returned from Afghanistan who is howling in pain, delirious with health effects of microwaves.)
fever, and covered in enormous black lumps.) ♦ “She said, ‘I just want to check in with you and let you know your
♦ Keep calm and carry on. (Great Britain, World War II.) mother’s doing fine, that she doesn’t have a temperature.’ I said, ‘That’s
*. My mom died at 3:30 this morning.’ And she was like, ‘Oh my God.
♦ Keep calm and wear a mask. (The COVID-19 pandemic.)
That wasn’t in the chart.’” (Pat Herrick, daughter of a Life Care Resident
♦ Keep Calm and Call Drew! (An advertisement for Drew Cochran, in Kirkland, Washington. Her mom died of COVID-19.)
criminal defense, Maryland State Bar. The exclamation mark seems to
♦ “We agree we must do better and we are working inside to do so.”
contradict the message.)
(Twitter.)
feeling, emotion & effect / resiliency / survival, persistence ♦ “Lauren’s death was a tragedy that affected all of us in very, very
difficult ways and we know that mistakes were made, we own the fact
& endurance: mouth that mistakes were made...” (The Vice President of Student Affairs at the
lips (lick one’s lips) University of Utah, speaking on Dateline NBC for the episode “Lauren’s
Promise.”)
♦ “That would be like obviously very extremely interesting for like a future
licking their lips direction. (An academic presentation.)
I feel his future opponents will be ~ (boxing)
♦ “Well, so fur to answer her question...we’ve created a [inaudible] post
eagerness & reluctance: animal / bodily reaction / mouth on our Website... (An ABC “voting help” segment.)
♦ “That’s a great question. We don’t yet know...”
lip service (pay lip service, etc.) ♦ “A spokesman for the company said the safety of its residents was
paramount and it was helping them find temporary alternative
give lip service to the victims accommodation.” (The company, according to the government, had
officials ~ (school shooting in Michigan) consistently failed to take action against the risk of fire.)

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♦ “I apologize to the world, to my family, and to the Nevada State Athletic death & life / oppression: euphemism
Commission... and to Judge Patricia Clifford, who knows that I am proud
to be living up to the terms of my probation...” (The boxer Mike Tyson.) list (amount)
♦ “The club have said they will work to educate fans on the issue.” (BBC,
“Manchester United condemn fans’ ‘completely unacceptable’ chants Christmas list
about Hillsborough tragedy,” 20 April, 2022.)
see Christmas (Christmas list)
♦ “We have secured the armaments package, which will be properly
disposed of. Safety is our utmost priority.” (A military official, after a plane laundry list
full of rounds and live missiles crashed into a warehouse near an airport
and burned. Thankfully, the live munitions did not go off.)
see laundry (laundry list)
♦ “The worst part is behind us, we are seeing a new dawn, hold on, have listen (listen to something)
faith, because good days are coming, glorious days are coming, keep on
praying, and we are with you, we are praying along with you, good days listen to my body
are coming.” (Samson Shekhar Chauhan of the Lutheran Maritime
Ministry, to sailors stranded on ships by COVID.)
it’s important that I ~ and don’t push too hard (tennis)
♦ “’Have a blessed day,’ that means get lost!” (The great writer James listened to my instincts
McBride.)
I ~ and didn’t...
♦ “The Grand Slam organisers wrote to [Naomi Osaka] to offer support,
as well as to ‘remind her of her obligations’.” listen to the science
♦ “The safety of our cast and crew is the top priority of Rust Productions ~ and act now, before it’s too late (Greta Thunberg)
and everyone associated with the company.” (A statement after I want people to ~, not to me (Greta Thunberg)
cinematographer and rising star Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on
set.)
my message has always been, ~ (Greta Thunberg)
♦ “You’re not gonna die, you’re gonna be fine.” (Reservoir Dogs.) fictive communication: speech
♦ “Editor’s Note: This podcast extra contains explicit details of domestic
abuse. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, use listen (as noun)
a safe computer and contact help. Call the National Domestic Violence
Hotline at xxx.xxx.SAFE (xxx), or visit https://www.xxxxxxxxx. org.” give a listen
♦ “So, we should warn that our conversation will include descriptions of he doesn’t say Biden won, but listen to this, ~
execution.”
attention, scrutiny & promotion: ear / part of speech
♦ A FUNNY STORY. Nasreddin decided to become a judge and make
some money. Ali came to him one day to complain about Saleh.
Nasreddin listened and said, "You're right, you're right, you're right." Ali
litany (noun)
gave money to Nasreddin and left happy. Then Saleh came in to
complain about Ali. Nasreddin listened and said, "You're right, you're litany of charges
right, you're right." Saleh gave money to Nasreddin and left happy. he is facing a ~
Nasreddin's wife, who had been listening behind the curtain, was not
happy. "How can you say Ali is right, and then say Saleh is right," she litany of errors
exclaimed indignantly. "You're right, you're right, you're right," replied
Nasreddin. let’s go through the ~ (poor crisis management)

speech: mouth litany of ills

sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: mouth / speech he presents a ~ plaguing the body politic
language: speech litany of (medical) issues
lipstick (appearance) his death was due to natural causes associated with a ~

lipstick litany of (personal) problems

no matter how much ~ you put on a pig, it's still a pig he has battled a ~ (the boxer Tyson Fury)

putting bright red lipstick on capitalism amount: religion

it’s hustle culture, it’s ~ (girl boss culture) lite (substance)
♦ “You cannot beautify an ugly face, even if you use a lot of makeup.” (A
Palestinian political activist about an Israeli measure.) backcountry-lite
appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment Bluebird’s founders call this ~ (a ski resort in Colorado)
/ subterfuge: materials & substances democracy-lite
~ won’t do for Egypt
liquidate (kill)
Facebook Lite
“liquidate” defectors ~ appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook
his death is part of a deliberate policy to ~
impeachment lite
death & life: euphemism / verb
he has dubbed this “~” (President Trump)
oppression: euphemism / verb
liquidated (killed) independence-lite
Scotland can choose devolution-max or ~
liquidated Jewish-lite
dozens of attackers were ~ (Kazakhstan) prosperous ~ families of the time on both coasts (1950s)

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lockdown-lite Twitter users took screengrabs that will now ~
most in the Netherlands support a new ~
live here
narco-state lite your stories ~ (ad to create an account for newspaper)
Holland is becoming a ~
live (out) here
NPR Lite luck don’t ~ (the film Wind River)
I disagree that BPP is “~” (Bryant Park Project)
lives here
philosophy lite the Sugar Bowl ~ (ad for TV network)
this is ~ (self-help book based on philosophy) the pride, passion and pageantry ~ (Paul Finebaum Show)
the language still ~, in our valley (Aranese / Val d’Aran)
Tory lite
there will be no return to a “~” agenda lives in his archive
♦ “This is Plan B-Lite, what we should have is Plan B-Plus.” (Fear of he wrote a memo to file that ~ in which he...
virus.)
lives in the indictments
substance & lack of substance: weight that information ~
literacy (noun) live (down) in labs
most instruments ~ on E-deck (Polarstern)
“cyberspace literacy”
how to negotiate this space and develop a ~ (internet) lives in different language
the subjunctive still ~ in quite strong ways (not in English)
emotional literacy
how to develop ~ (Daniel Goleman) live at the top
banners that ~ of YouTube’s homepage (expensive ads)
ability & lack of ability: books & reading
lived on a hard drive in his home in Florida
literate (adjective) until recently, his 55,000 field recordings all ~ (Martyn
“politically literate” Stewart)
~ young Bolsheviks fanned out from Moscow (1929) lived on Facebook
♦ “Beware, Monsieur, of the memory of the illiterate man!” (“The Bull That this stuff ~ for 3 months (disinformation / taken down)
Thought” by Rudyard Kipling.)
living on YouTube
ability & lack of ability: books & reading
some of the clips were ~ months ago
litmus test lives on the internet
litmus test for (Russia's) democracy an NFT is a collector’s item that ~ (non-fungible token)
the West sees the trial as a ~ live beneath Western Front
litmus test for (EU) membership World War I munitions still ~ (NPR)
they insist on cooperation as a ~ live under the same roof
diplomatic litmus tests she brings together dishes that don’t ordinarily ~ (a chef)
officials caution against turning issues into ~ avalanche lives
evidence / experimentation: chemistry we climb where the ~

littered heat lives

that’s where the ~ (the seeds in chilies)
littered with companies ♦ “One got to know that ambulance (it lived somewhere at the back of St.
the history of the sector is ~ that went bankrupt Clement Danes) as well as the Police of the E. Division...” (Something of
Myself by Rudyard Kipling.)
littered with failed distribution companies ♦ see also reside (verb)
the road is ~ (films)
location: house / verb
littered with (environmental) time bombs place: house / death & life / verb
Central and Eastern Europe are ~ presence & absence: death & life / verb
configuration: waste live (alive / non-human)
live (location) live by the end of the year
Windows 11 should be ~ (ABC Tech Bytes)
living
so where did you find this comet, where is it ~ live (single) round
a ~ was accidentally fired on set (the film Rust)
live forever

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live wire we’ve learned from those with ~ (NYC DA / prostitutes)
he touched a ~ and his left arm had to be amputated their actual experience, their ~, right...

live and ongoing lived experiences of Americans

it’s still ~ in the field (Extreme Ice Survey) foreign policy has become detached from the ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: death & life lived experience of being Black in America
condition & status: death & life the ~ weathers the body (public health)
live (live with something) lived experiences of real people
how the law impacts the ~
live with
I dropped an easy pass, it’s one I’ll have to ~ (sports) lived experience of those
it is wrong to dispute the ~ suffering from Long COVID
live with it
so I learned to ~ lived experiences of women of color
the ~
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life
lived experience of Black women
live (live and die / commitment) her poetry spoke to the ~ (Maya Angelou)
live and die for each other lived experience of social workers
we’re family, these guys will ~ (rugby team) it’s important we try to understand the ~ (Arthur Labinjo-
commitment & determination: death & life Hughes case)

live (live and die / fate) lived experience voice

he had that ~ (Miriam Krinsky about Chesa Boudin)
live and die by where
our campaign doesn’t ~ his approval rating is (politics)
my lived experience
this violence is not new in my life, ~ (VP Kamala Harris)
live and die by your decisions
as a manager, you ~ (sports)
discrimination and lived experiences
they seek to erase the legacy of ~ (a critical race theorist)
live and die by intelligence
we ~ (Salt Lake City police gang unit)
comes from lived experience
knowledge and expertise that comes from ~
live and die by their holiday sales
they ~ (bakeries that make hot cross buns)
dispute the lived experience
it is wrong to ~ of those suffering from Long COVID
live or die, survive or go dark
they can decide which Web sites ~ (Web hosts)
emphasize lived experience
the pilot program will ~ over formal education (Oakland)
♦ This is like, “stand or fall.”
known from lived experience
fate, fortune & chance: death & life
what Black organizers have long ~
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life
live (live and breathe, live to) puts her lived experience to good use
she ~ (a child of immigrants / YAL Skin of the Sea)
lives to track speak to their lived experiences
he ~ the scent of malfeasance (a journalist) things that are not verifiably true but ~
lived and breathed for the Olympics spoke to the lived experience
Daley has always ~ her poetry ~ of Black women (Maya Angelou)
lives and breathes boxing question or debate (Black colleagues’) lived experience
he ~ (promoter Frank Warren) don’t ~ (Disney World employee training)
lives and breathes sport ♦ “Don’t question or debate Black colleagues’ lived experience.” (Disney
Australia is a country that ~ World employee training.)
♦ “To question the role of trauma, we are warned, is to oppress: it is
absorption & immersion / consumption / enthusiasm / ‘often nothing but a resistance to movements for social justice,’ Melissa
identity & nature: breathing / death & life / verb Febos writes in her forthcoming book, “Body Work: The Radical Power of
Personal Narrative.” Those who look askance at trauma memoirs, she
lived experience (groups, etc.) says, are replicating the ‘classic role of perpetrator: to deny, discredit and
dismiss victims in order to avoid being implicated or losing power.’” (“The
Key To Me” by Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, January 3 & 10, 2022.)
lived experience
♦ “For all of you that want to slap narratives on my words and my
people with ~ are valued (recovery coaches / addiction) experience—one in which I lived for 17 years—you can’t do that because
I always knew my race was relevant to my ~ (Asian) you have no clue.” (Carli Lloyd, soccer player.)

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♦ “Listen to your kids. They know what’s best for them because they’re housing discrimination is the ~ in our country
living their experience every single day.” (JR Ford. From “Children’s book
‘Calvin’ shows how a community can embrace a trans child’s identity,” people’s lived reality
NPR, All Things Considered, Nov 9, 2021.)
legislative decisions take place at a great distance from ~
♦ “He is versed in a certain kind of performativity, a conspiratorial
brandishing of one’s Blackness as automatic expertise.” (“All Talk: The face discrimination as a lived reality
news, according to Charlamagne tha God and Jon Stewart” by Doreen
St. Felix, The New Yorker, October 25, 2021.) black and racialized Canadians ~ every single day (Trudeau)
♦ “Her poetry spoke to the lived experience of Black women.” (Maya ♦ see also lived experience (groups, etc.)
Angelou. According to Wikipedia, some of her work may be considered
autobiographical fiction. She certainly made the most of her inclusion & exclusion: society
extraordinary life.)
live up to (something)
♦ Mr. Head: What was that? / Nelson: A man. / Mr. Head: What kind of
a man? / Nelson: A fat man. / Mr. Head: You don’t know what kind? /
Nelson: An old man. / Mr. Head: That was a black man. / Nelson: You
live up to the commitments
said they were black. You never said they were tan. How do you expect we expect the Japanese to ~ they have made
me to know anything when you don’t tell me right? (From a short story by
Flannery O’Connor, published in 1955. Nelson, a rural boy, had never live up to expectations
seen a Black person before.) many athletes do not ~ (behavior problems)
♦ [Scientist] “It is quite clear to me that the legend of the mapinguary
(pronounced ma-ping-wahr-EE) is based on human contact with the last live up to those expectations
of the ground sloths. We know that extinct species can survive as the training they go through to in order to ~
legends for hundreds of years. But whether such animal still exists or not
is another question, one we can’t answer yet.” (Dr. David Oren, a former lived up to (family) expectations
director of research at the Goeldi Institute in Belem, at the mouth of the
Amazon River.) [Indigenous person] “The only way you can kill a he never ~ (a drifter)
mapinguary is by shooting at its head. But that is hard to do because it
has the power to make you dizzy and turn day into night. So the best live up to (fans') expectations
way to do if you see one is climb a tree and hide.” (Domingos Parintintin, he may never ~ but... (player with big salary)
a tribal leader in Amazonas State, on the mapinguary, a legendary
Amazonian beast. From “A Huge Amazon Monster Is Only a Myth. Or Is lived up to the hopes
It?” by Larry Rohter, The New York Times International Sunday, July 8,
2007.)
the claims for brain imaging have not ~ (psychiatry)
♦ “We kinda really tried to focus on that lived experience that people live up to the hype
have.” (Colorado Democratic Governor Jared Polis, explaining his
laissez-faire Covid strategy. It is interesting usage by a relatively older,
the fight did not ~ that it received (boxing)
white politician.)
live up to its (professed) ideals
♦ “Whether it’s journalism, fiction or poetry, writing about war is routinely
prized for ‘combat gnosticism,’ which is the notion that the ability to
an American failure to ~ (New Orleans hurricane)
comprehend war requires a special knowledge possessed only by a
battle-hardened elite.” (“The War of Words” by John Palattella, The live up to the image
Nation, January 2, 2004 issue.) it's harder for him to ~ the public has of him (a poet)
♦ “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep
under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. This live up to the (gangsta) image
equality is one of the benefits of the Revolution.” (Anatole France, The there are those who work to ~
Red Lilly.)
♦ “It is disingenuous, absurd and historically false to argue that a hellish
live up to their obligations
system such as National Socialism sanctifies its victims.” (Primo Levi. both countries should ~ under the agreement
Quoted in “How Did He Die?: An Exchange” by Tim Parks, The New
York Review, December 17, 2015.) lived up to its promise
♦ A FUNNY STORY. Question: How many Vietnam veterans does it take if Pakistan ~ on infiltration, New Delhi would…
to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: How would you know, man? You weren’t
there! live up to you (campaign) promise
♦ A FUNNY STORY. A college-student “reporter” in the 1970s do you think it's so difficult to ~
interviewed the owner of a porn shop when such things were new and
unusual. While interviewing the owner, the youth was startled by a lived up to (longstanding) promises
contraption that looked like an octopus, and heard himself blurting out, he has not ~ to tribal groups (Brazil)
“What’s that for?” The porn-shop owner narrowed his eyes and growled,
“The clientele knows." lived up to their reputation
♦ “There’s no fool like an old fool.” Bayer Leverkusen, who ~ (soccer team)
♦ see also lived reality (groups, etc.)
lived up to his responsibilities
inclusion & exclusion: society he has not always ~
lived reality (groups, etc.) live up to the rhetoric
will reality ~
lived reality of racism
the ~ persists in the black community live up to my own standards
I have failed to ~ (an abusive coach)
lived reality of their students
many white educators have a hard time addressing the ~ live up to his own standards
he failed to ~
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live up to its (own stated) values course load
the US has failed to ~ (secret prisons, etc.) I adjusted to the new ~
live up to their vows workload
a majority who took the pledge did not ~ (virginity) teachers complained about the increased ~
live up to its words teaching and research load
we are simply asking BP/Amoco to ~ (environment) faculty members can reduce the ~ by half
lived up to its expectations or talent parenting load
the team never ~ she has been carrying the full ~
live up to the conditions of the agreement extra load
local officials would not ~ (Red Cross program) the types of ~ that we are placing on teachers
failed to live up to full load
the US has ~ its own stated values (secret prisons, etc.) it may be hard to juggle a ~ of classes and a job
commitment & determination: direction / verb full (parenting) load
responsibility: direction / verb she has been carrying the ~
live on (verb) normal load
he's teaching double the ~ of a college professor (adjunct)
live on
there is no doubt that his books will ~ (VS Naipaul) bear (some of) the load
build a new airport to ~ (Chicago)
lives on
the filibuster ~, in its 3rd century, more powerful than ever carrying the (full parenting) load
she has been ~
lived on
the bomber was dead, but the threat ~ (unexploded bombs) handle the load
the system can barely ~ (airline travel)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / starting, going,
♦ “A woman without a donkey is a donkey herself.” (Debre Zeit, Ethiopia.)
continuing & ending / survival, persistence & endurance:
death & life / verb work & duty: burden / weight
live wire (person) loaded
live wire loaded term
she was a ~ (outspoken, passionate, talented, dedicated) experts say temptation is a ~ (a crime against women)

live-wire ex-soldier loaded, loaded word

the stereotype of the ~ (the Gulf War) the word “victim” is a ~ (Judge Bruce Schroeder)

one-time live-wire racially loaded

Martin, a ~ who is now a boring teacher... (a film) he tweeted the ~ term on Tuesday (“lynching”)
♦ “Last week, there was widespread outrage when Judge Schroeder set
character & personality: electricity / person ground rules forbidding prosecutors from referring to the men
person: electricity Rittenhouse shot as victims.” (“A look at Bruce Schroeder, the judge in
the Kyle Rittenhouse trial,” NPR, All Things Considered, Nov. 4, 2021.)
livid (adjective) ♦ “The word ‘victim’ is a loaded, loaded word that can prejudice the jury.”
(Judge Bruce Schroeder of Wisconsin.)
livid that
she is ~ her husband is dating… history: burden / journeys & trips / weight
oppression: burden / journeys & trips / weight
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / color speech: burden / journeys & trips / weight
living (adjective) loan shark
living document loan shark
the Constitution is a ~ he borrowed the money from a ~
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: death & life money: person / predation
load (work) person: money
lock (lock something away)
load of a (college) professor
he's teaching double the normal ~ (adjunct) locked it away
it was embarrassing, so I ~ (sexually assaulted)

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concealment & lack of concealment: key / verb (Skip Bayless, speaking with Shannon Sharpe about the great
quarterback Tom Brady, on “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed.” “Lombardi
feeling, emotion & effect: key / verb number eight” refers to Brady’s quest to win his eighth Super Bowl, in
lock (under lock and key) 2022.)

commitment & determination: military / target / weapon

kept under lock and key
the report was meant to be ~ (Catholic Church) locker (noun)
concealment & lack of concealment: key Web locker
he is a prominent ~ operator (file sharing)
lockdown (noun)
computer: container
lockdown
our ~ is a giant garden party (vs. China, Italy) locker (sports)
lockdown measures in his locker
a number of countries are set to relax their ~ (COVID) it’s always something he’s had ~ (ability to assist, score)

lockdowns and death counts help & assistance: sports & games
before life turned into this slog of ~ (pandemic) lockstep (in lockstep)
coronavirus lockdowns in lockstep
sports fans are going through withdrawal because of ~ they were all ~, working together (Boeing, FAA)
lockdown is getting looser in lockstep with the White House
the ~ (pandemic) Senate Republicans will be ~
♦ “Last night we got out of strict Level Four lockdown, which hasn’t
allowed us to surf for five weeks. We’re in Level Three now and we can act in lockstep
finally surf. I’m so pumped to get out there.” (A video showing a female he will ~ with the White House
teen surfer in New Zealand on the shore in a wetsuit with her surfboard.
She turns and runs to the water.) march in lockstep
curtailment: doors & thresholds / key climate and carbon dioxide clearly ~ (Antarctic ice)
constraint & lack of constraint: doors & thresholds / key work in "lockstep"
locked (locked in a battle, etc.) Obama said the US would ~ with Israel to prevent…

locked in a (custody) battle working in lockstep

they are ~ Obama is ~ with the Israelis
♦ “Go to Cam Ranh Bay / Go to Cam Ranh Bay! / Chasing Charley all
locked in a (seesaw) battle the way / Chasing Charley all the way! / Wiiiiide River / Wiiiiide River! /
they are ~ for the strategic city Oh! One more river to cross / Oh! One more river to cross.” (Marching
cadence, Vietnam War training at Fort Knox. In Vietnam, the Vietnam
locked in a (fierce and noisy) debate War is called the American War.)
Tunisians are ~ about the role of Islam in politics unanimity & consensus: line / military / walking, running &
locked in a (bitter) dispute jumping
they are ~ over Kashmir lodestar (noun)
attachment / configuration / division & connection: doors &
lodestar of my life
thresholds / key Mother Teresa was the ~
locked and loaded (adjective) Taliban’s spiritual lodestar
locked and loaded his involvement was minimal, yet he remained the ~
the US is ~ (diplomatic crisis) (Mullah Omar)
the US is ~, ready to retaliate over the attack legal lodestar
locked and loaded for a retaliatory strike Thurgood Marshall was his ~ (lawyer Ben Crump)
the military was ~ political lodestar
readiness & preparedness: military / weapon cutting taxes is a ~ for many Tories (UK)

locked in (target) one of our lodestars

the spirit of that imperative is ~ (“believe women”)
driven, locked in, damn the torpedoes ♦ A lodestar refers to the North Star, or to stars that help people to find
he is ~ (the NFL quarterback Tom Brady on winning) the North Star. As such, it relates to direction and following.
♦ “In the end, cold-blooded killer, in the end all that matters is, Lombardi ♦ Somebody sent an anonymous op-ed article to The New York Times.
number eight. He is driven, he is locked in, he is damn the torpedoes.” The writer included the word “lodestar.” People interested in “outing” the

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anonymous author focused on that “rarely used word” to try to determine logjam (holding up the bill) broke
who sent it. (“Does ‘lodestar’ guide us to anti-Trump op-ed author?” BBC,
6 September 2018.) the ~ on Saturday (politics)

direction: astronomy / journeys & trips logjam (on extradition) was broken
in 2012, a ~ when...
lodestone (noun)
break the logjam
lodestone for migrants we must ~ (politics)
Angola has become a ~ (2009 / from Congo) Islamic leaders are working to ~ (immunizations)
♦ A lodestone is a piece of naturally magnetic rock, once used in
primitive compasses for roughly indicating the direction of north. broke that logjam
it was that demonstration that ~ (AIDS protest)
direction: astronomy / journeys & trips / tools & technology
clear the logjam
lofty (adjective) I sought a way to ~ (a diplomat)
lofty rhetoric ♦ “All I carried away from the magic town of Auckland was the face and
voice of a woman who sold me beer at a little hotel there. They stayed at
he is known for his ~ (a politician) the back of my head till ten years later when, in a local train of the Cape
Town suburbs, I heard a petty officer from Simon’s Town telling a
achievement, recognition & praise: height companion about a woman in New Zealand who ‘never scrupled to help
speech: height a lame duck or put her foot on a scorpion.’ Then, precisely as the
removal of the key-log in a timber-jam starts the whole pile—those words
logjam (noun) gave me the key to the face and voice at Auckland, and a tale called
‘Mrs. Bathurst’ slid into my mind, smoothly and orderly as floating timber
on a bank-high river.” (Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling.)
logjam
coat checks and valet parking can become ~s (malls) ♦ “Old man Jinby rode frantically into Grand Rapids, like a second Paul
Revere, screaming out that the flood had broken loose. It is impossible to
logjam of traffic describe the excitement and consternation that reigned in Grand Rapids
as the rushing timbers shot down the current past the city. The heavy
he looks out onto an endless ~ iron bridges one after the other crumpled up like matchwood and were
borne out of sight down stream on the very top of the jam… Five hours
logjam on death row later about half of the logs boiled into sight at Grand Haven, fifty miles
the execution does not signal a break in the ~ away… Now [at Grand Haven] for four days and nights ensued a grim
struggle for supremacy [to secure its own booms and to keep the logs
logjam in Washington from floating out into Lake Michigan] that has probably never been
equaled in industrial history.” ("The Great Log Jam" by Stewart Edward
there is such a ~ (politics) White is a terrific account of an actual log jam. It appeared in Frank
Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol. LII No. 3 in July, 1901, and it is an account
log jam in the Suez canal of the Great Log Jam of 1883 on the Grand River in Michigan, perhaps
the ~ forced 350 ships to park (Ever Given) the largest logjam in the history of logging.)

logjam (with Congress) over the president's plan obstacles & impedance: river
he seeks a way to break the ~ logroll (verb)
data logjam
limited storage media has created a scientific ~
logroll to get
politicians ~ their share of pork
bureaucratic logjam help & assistance: history / tree / verb
despite the ~s the Army faced in stepping up…
social interaction: history / tree / verb
ideological logjam logrolling (noun)
progress has been stuck in an ~ (warming)
legislative logjam political logrolling
they practice ~ (politicians)
squabbling could lead to a ~ (politics)
♦ In the past, on the frontier, neighbors would help one another to roll
partisan logjam logs to construct buildings.
the White House seeks to break the ~ (politics) help & assistance / social interaction: history / tree
political logjam loiter (verb)
the ~ must be dislodged
loiter in the sky
break in the logjam
drones can ~ for several hours and spy… (warfare)
the execution does not signal a ~ on death row
not everyone is happy about the ~ (politics) loiter (in the sky) for several hours
drones can ~ and spy (warfare)
polarization and logjam
they talked about the ~ in Congress movement: verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement /
log jam broke
verb
the ~ (writer’s block)

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lone wolf (person) speech: air / atmosphere

lone-wolf attack look (a bad look, etc.)

it's difficult to protect against ~s (terrorism) good look
lone wolf individual it’s not a ~
a dozen ~s with ties to the group have been caught appearance & reality: part of speech
racist "lone wolves" look (look the other way / look away)
Obama has enraged ~
society: animal / predation / wolf
look away
we can no longer ~ (justice)
behavior: animal / predation / wolf
character & personality: animal / predation / wolf look away from election interference
long (a long time, etc.) we not going to ~
looked the other way
long ago
corrupt officials ~ (contract)
in the ~, when I was a girl
looking the other way
long day
even the Supreme Court is shrugging its shoulders and ~
let’s get some sleep, it’s been a ~
♦ “98% of Wikipedia’s readers don’t give, they simply look away.” (Fund
long nights raising.)
I’ve had some ~ in the stir... (Shawshank Redemption) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: eye / verb
long behind look at (analysis)
his best writing days were ~ him
look at Chernobyl
long time if you ~ you will find…
this has been a ~ coming (trans representation / Olympics)
♦ see also time (long time / short time) look at the data
if you ~, one thing that really jumps out is...
time: amount / distance
look (more closely) at these (reluctant) pioneers
long-run (adjective) we must now ~
long-run impact look at Poland
the ~ on the world economy so let’s ~ (talk show)
time: distance / movement / walking, running & jumping analysis, interpretation & explanation: eye / verb
long shot attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / verb
look back (verb)
long shot
the horse is a ~ to win look back
fate, fortune & chance: weapon was there a low point when you ~ (addiction)
when I had a chance to ~ and go through all the what-ifs...
longtime (adjective) I don’t ~ and think, “Those were the days”
as I ~ now, I can see so clearly that...
longtime alliance
their ~ has been frayed by his rejection of the bill look back on her accomplishments
we ~ (tribute to woman who died)
long-time (NATO) ally
the US is turning the heat up on its ~ looks back on Houston’s life
John Donaldson ~ (died)
long-time (Trump) ally
~ and conservative media mogul look back on your life
sometimes you ~ and wonder..
time: distance
looked back on my old life
long-winded (speech) I haven’t ~ once... (travel abroad)
a little long winded look back through rose-tinted glasses
this guy’s ~ (vice-president) it is easy to ~ and miss problematic details (history)
thoughtful, reflective, (occasionally) long-winded never looked back
he was ~ (a politician) I switched girlfriends and ~

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 after cutting his rival in the first round he ~ (boxing) look forward to hearing
I ~ if he made it to Katahdin (AT)
past & present / time: direction / eye / verb
look down on (something) look forward to seeing
I ~ you in Detroit
look down on me looking forward to seeing
I am suffering every day when people ~ (immigrant) he was ~ his wife and children
some people ~, but I don’t give a rip (“Redneck Woman”)
admiration & contempt: direction / eye / gesture / height /
looking forward to spending
he was ~ time with his grandchildren
verb
looked forward to watching
look for (verb) she ~ the World Cup (marine in Iraq)
looking for how look forward to the class
we're really ~ we can improve... students should ~ (teacher training)
looking for answers look forward to and accept
we are ~ some people ~ death (nursing)
looking for excuses future / time: direction / eye / verb
I think you're ~ eagerness & reluctance: direction / eye / verb
looking for love Looking Glass
Don was online ~, like millions of other men...
Looking-Glass world
look for opportunities the Poles are ~ (every direction north or south, sun, etc.)
~ to develop new skills...
looking-glass world
look for patterns its ~ (The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington)
~ in your preferences (job hunt)
♦ Lenora Carrington (OBE) was a devoted reader of Lewis Carroll
(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) and Jonathan Swift.
looking for (better) opportunities
they are always ~ (jobs) allusion / fantasy & reality: books & reading
looking for sympathy look into (verb)
the amputee is not ~ (an amputee)
looking into what
looking for trouble is anybody ~ happened or...
if you ask me, he was ~
looking into whether
look for (new) ways they are ~ foam produced... (Columbia disaster)
~ to apply knowledge management investigators are ~ the attack was...
federal agents are ~ he violated...
looking for something
they meander about, ~ to do (kids) looking into (food) allergies
my son has become a biter and we are ~
looking for something new
women are always ~ in cosmetics look into the case
they agreed to ~ of Amy Wroe Bechtel (Vidocq Society)
started looking
the four partners ~ for help looking into the complaint
searching & discovery: eye / verb authorities are ~ of a Saudi camel owner who...

look forward to (verb) look into a (horrible) crime

the soldiers were asked to ~ (Iraq atrocity)
looking towards his future
look into ecoterrorism
the boy, ~ (“Ike” memorial in D.C.)
the FBI said it would ~ as a possible motive
look towards smaller parties
looking into evidence
he can now ~ to build a government (election winner)
is the White House ~ that American POWs may...
look forward to going
look into (Baluch) grievances
I don't ~ to work tomorrow...
committees set up last year to ~ (Pakistan)
looking forward to going
look into it
Andrea was ~ on holiday...
this is the first I've heard of it, I'll ~

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 we'll ~, thanks for bring it to my attention... looked like in your view
what would justice have ~, what should have happened
look into the matter
he'll ~ look like for Cuomo
so what does the future ~ (politics)
looking into the possibility
officials were ~ that tribal leaders had... is going to look like
we don’t know what 2021 ~
looking into the (various) theories
engineers ~ (plane crash) might look like
police reform and what it ~
look into ways
or you could ~ of covering it up with destroying it ought to look like
what safety measures ~ in the movie industry
look into transferring
maybe you should ~ to another school supposed to look like
what the right relationship with a male figure is ~
investigators are looking into
~ who received traffic tickets in... (murder) will look like
we will talk about what voting ~ during the pandemic
searching & discovery: eye / verb
analysis, interpretation & explanation: eye / verb would look like
attention, scrutiny & promotion: eye / verb tell me what an ideal system ~
look like (resemble) ♦ “So like what do you think this should be, like what does it look like?”
♦ The future is less and less a time, and more and more a place that we
look like can see!
what does genius ~ (NPR) future / time: eye / place
looks like look like (look like me, etc.)
we know what fake ~ (commitment vs. opposite)
look like people look like the country
the Supreme Court should ~ (Joe Biden)
harassment can ~ looking at you in a sort of odd way...
what a hero looks like looked like him
few people ~ in the lecture hall, he felt isolated
films condition us to think this is ~ (physicality, danger)
♦ “I know dead when I see dead.” look like me
space for people who ~ (the online Black Opry)
appearance: eye
look like (analysis) looked like me
I never saw anyone who ~
look like look like them
what does that tension ~ (Anya Kamenetz) a more welcoming place for others who ~ (music industry)
mean or look like look like us
so what does a pivot to China ~ in practical terms (NPR) there aren’t a lot of people that ~ that are on the air
♦ “What does too far look like and what does too young look like.” (An
♦ “I was exhausted with the culture of country music not creating space
advocate for antiracism in public schools.)
for people who look like me.” (This sentence combines three tropes:
physical malaise; the idea of spaces; and “look like me.”)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: eye
♦ “It does open up a conversation because it’s her using her voice and
look like (future) her platform to really call out systemic change, which she has done
before. I think she can show other girls and women who look like her
what that looks like how to empower them to stand up for themselves in ways that I think we
haven’t always been able to see.” (C. Vaile Wright, PhD, a clinical
we’re just going to have to wait to see ~ (regime change) psychologist and the American Psychological Association’s Senior
Director of Health Care Innovation, about Naomi Osaka and her
look like struggles with mental health.)
what will the new normal ~ (post-COVID-19) ♦ “I am Puerto Rican, from the Bronx, and I was raised in the 50s, loved
television, never saw anybody who looked like me, I began to feel on
look like in the fall some level that I was invisible. I didn’t know what I would contribute to a
what might campus life ~ (during pandemic) society that was determined not to see me...” (Sonia Manzano, actor,
screenwriter, author, speaker, TV series creator, producer, etc., who
look like when played Maria on Sesame Street for 44 years. According to her Wikipedia
entry, she attended the High School of Performing Arts, then Carnegie
what life might ~ normal returns Mellon University in Pittsburgh on scholarship.)

look like if ♦ “If you’ve not seen yourself on screen before, why would you ever want
to go for that role? You’ve suddenly got representation from not one, but
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only see white cast members in.” (Laraib Waheed, an actor, about on-
screen representation of people of South Asian heritage in the hit period loom (loom large, etc.)
drama Bridgerton. From “Bridgerton: South Asian faces on TV ‘makes
me happy’” by Paige Neal-Holder and Steffan Powell, BBC, March 22, looms large over Wisconsin
2022.) the president still ~ (elections)
♦ “Solving a crossword puzzle, there’s a lot of joy in that moment when
you see something you know reflected back to you in the newspaper loom over the game
grid. And so for me, it became a project of bringing that moment of those larger issues ~ (football and CTE)
recognition to more and more people who look and sound like me and
consume the same sort of cultural artefacts that I do.” (Anna Shectman, ♦ “Boy, this really is looming. It looms large.” (An ABC investigative
crossword constructor. A clue that she constructed that she likes best is: producer visiting the Ohio State Reformatory, the setting for the great
Grande Dame of music. (Answer: Ariana.) From “The ‘real outlier’ in the film The Shawshank Redemption.)
crossword puzzle-making community” by Lucy Wallis, BBC News, April
3, 2022.) presence & absence: height / verb
♦ Ron Clark: “You see this? [Pointing to a poster that says, “We Are attention, scrutiny & promotion: height / verb
Family.”] This means that this year is going to be different. This year is superiority & inferiority: height / verb
going to be about more than school. This year, we are going to be a
family.” / A student: “But you don’t look nothin’ like me.” (The film, The loop (in the loop)
Ron Clark Story.)
♦ “The Cosby Show, the Huxtables, were meant to inspire us. Be like in the loop
them, everyone seemed to be saying...” (A discussion on Bill Cosby’s we make sure you are ~ at every step (financial planning)
legacy.)
♦ “It’s time to face the music, / it’s time to make you see / the root of all involvement: shape
your problems is / that you don’t look like me.” (Candy Pink (Julie Brown)
organizing a make-over for Valerie Gail (Geena Davis) to make her loop (other)
brand new and more appealing to Ted Gallagher (Charles Rocket). From
the film Earth Girls Are Easy.) doom-loop
we’re trapped in something of a ~ (social media)
inclusion & exclusion: society
look up (verb) doom loop
a ~, a cycle of negative economic feedback
looking up involvement: shape
Rhyl's image is ~ (English town)
New York's economy is ~ (post 9/11) loophole (noun)
things are ~, progress is being made
so things are not ~ (a political problem) loophole
until the ~ is closed…
looking up for the president
things are ~ (Iran) legal loophole
many believe he wriggled through a ~ (Rubin Carter case)
progress & lack of progress: direction / eye / verb ~s are still open to abusers (France)
look up to (somebody) exploiting that loophole
unions are exploiting ~ (politics and money)
look up to
she is someone young people can ~ (an athlete) find a loophole
it’s good for the country to have heroes to ~ we were able to ~, but that loophole has been closed (law)
look up to me used a loophole
there are kids out there who ~ (an athlete) he ~ to keep practicing (a bad doctor)
♦ Defenders fire weapons through loopholes from inside a fortification.
look up to my father as a role model
I've always been able to ~ protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
looked up to Bruce Lee as a role model loose (get looser, etc.)
he ~ (the martial arts star)
getting looser
looked up to him in high school the lockdown is ~ (pandemic)
I~
constraint & lack of constraint: rope
looked up to them all my life
I've ~ (Native Americans) loose (let loose)
looked up to him ever since let loose
he flew in space, and the US has ~ (John Glenn) he has largely held his tongue, but on Friday he ~
he ~ in attacks on his enemies (politics)
admiration & contempt: direction / eye / gesture / height /
verb restraint & lack of restraint: hand / speech / verb

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loose ends lose (extinction)
tied up loose ends lose the big apes
I put my affairs in order, ~ in 30 years we could ~ from central Africa
tie up some loose ends losing their cultural heritage
in this last episode, I’ll try to ~ (podcast) Nigerians are ~ (indigenous languages versus English)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: rope lose Lake Baikal
the warnings of scientists who say "we will ~"
loose (loose woman)
lost about a third of North America’s birds
loose woman since 1970, we’ve ~
she might be labeled a ~, a prostitute (for bike riding)
appearance & disappearance: death & life / verb
sex: euphemism / rope
lose (through death)
loosen (loosen control, etc.)
lost him
loosening my dad loved this place and then I ~ (father died)
a sign that the government’s grip was ~ I ~ when I was four years old (died)
loosened their grip when we ~ (to suicide)
tradition, ideology, and religion have ~ in the West lost his wife
loosen (Germany’s) manacles he ~ (died)
Hollande wants to ~ of austerity (economics) lost one of its own
increase & decrease: pressure / verb the police force has ~ (killed in the line of duty)

loosen up (feelings) lost last year

singers we ~ (died)
need to loosen up ♦ He is no longer with us.
they are grumpy people who need to ~
death & life: euphemism / verb
laugh and loosen up
this would make them ~ (a joke) lose out (verb)
amelioration & renewal / feeling, emotion & effect: rope / lost out to home refrigerators
skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb block ice ~

loot (verb) competition: sports & games / verb

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: sports & games
loot the assets / verb
they could no longer ~ of the Venezuelan people
loser (noun)
taking & removing: crime / verb
possession: crime / verb winners and losers
there will be ~ (the economy)
Lord of the Flies
success & failure: sports & games
Lord of the Flies
you’ve got ~ if you take a small group of young men...
loss (death)
(Lords of Chaos) awful loss
behavior / oppression / violence: allusion her little brother and sister can hardly process this ~ (selfie
allusion: books & reading accident)

lord over (verb) death & life: euphemism

lorded over his (C.E.O.) son lost (direction)

the father still ~ (corporation)
lost in illusions
lorded over their slaves the expectation leaves us ~ (that history progresses)
the plantation owners ~
easy to get lost
oppression / power: royalty / verb it's ~ in the music
got lost in the murk
I ~ of the situation

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get lost in the music love (fall in love)
it's easy to ~
fell in love with
get lost in a (large) school they found someone that they ~ in Mac Jones (sports)
a lot of kids ~ (immigrants, etc.)
fall in love with a walrus
got lost in a bureaucratic maze to meet a walrus is to ~ (a walrus researcher)
when her scholarship money ~…
fell in love with (big-wave) surfing
leaves us lost she ~ (Maya Gabeira)
the expectation ~ in illusions (that history progresses)
enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage
direction: journeys & trips
love (enthusiasm / noun)
lost (extinction)
love of baseball
lost with her generation her ~ continues to this day (Wanda Fischer)
the Blues will be ~ (the great blues singer Mary Lane)
in love with birds
appearance & disappearance: death & life
what can I say, I’m ~ (a birder)
lost (death) in love with this city
lost here I’m ~ as I guess most people are (Rome)
so many lives were ~ (at a concentration camp) ♦ “What can I say, I’m in love with birds.” (A birder.)
♦ “To meet a walrus is to fall in love with a walrus.” (A walrus
lost to COVID-19 researcher.)
members of the community ~ ♦ “Some people say they are awfully homely, awful bad looking, but to
me... they are beautiful fish, just like a beautiful blonde.” (Pat Wudtke,
lost to gun violence 73, in Wisconsin. He has speared sturgeon—living fossils—for 50 years
he was ~ on April 3, 2021 (murdered) during the state’s annual season.)

death & life: euphemism enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage

lot (lot in life, etc.) love (enthusiasm / verb)

accepted their lot love to see people crash
they made no excuses and just ~ and moved on (2 boxers) people ~ (the great Mike Metzger, freestyle motocross)
fate, fortune & chance: gambling love the freedom
I ~ (a re-enactor)
lottery (win the lottery, etc.)
love maps
lottery I ~, and when you get hooked... (W. Graham Arader III)
it was not the ~ I wanted to win (bad luck)
loved the railways
lottery winner Ian has ~ since he was a child in the fifties (train spotting)
he is a genetic ~ (an athlete)
love sundials
academic lottery getting people to ~ is an uphill battle (sundial enthusiast)
getting into his class is winning the ~ ♦ “When I am a medieval plunderer, I can do what I want, and I love the
freedom.” (Pol Malfait, a 53-year-old postal clerk from Ghent, Belgium.
fate, fortune & chance / success & failure: gambling As a medieval re-enactor, he spends the weekends pretending to be a
loud (attention) 14th-century Flemish soldier.)
♦ “I probably loved atlases so much because the lines, the colours and
the names replaced the real places that I could not visit. When I was
loudest and (most) engaged eight... (From the wonderful little book Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith
Kenya has one of Africa’s ~ internet communities (#KoT) Schalansky.)

attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound ♦ “People love to see people crash.” (The great Mike Metzger, a pioneer
of freestyle motocross. He once sustained 4 concussions in two months,
loudmouth (person) has broken his back 3 times, has broken his arms and legs, and lost a
testicle after crashing.)

bombastic loudmouths enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage / verb

stop listening to the ~ on the radio, TV and internet
love (love that dare not speak its name)
character & personality: mouth / speech
speech: mouth / person dared not speak its name
a project that ~ (nation-building in Afghanistan)

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♦ “[W]hen the then US head of Central Command David Petraeus was feeling, emotion & effect: direction / height
asked whether the US was engaged in nation building, he replied, ‘We
are indeed.’ He added that ‘I’m just not going to evade [the question] and
play rhetorical games.’ This was an implicit acknowledgment that
low (base, bad / adjective)
rhetorical games had become almost compulsory in official parlance. The
US was spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a project that dared low art
not speak its name.” (“The Lie of Nation Building” by Fintan O’Toole, The I walked past high art and ~ (New York City)
New York Review of Books, October 7, 2021.)
lowest form
allusion: books & reading the story is the ~ of journalism (a Sun article)
concealment & lack of concealment: allusion / books &
reading low life
he lived the ~ with tramps and gypsies in barns
lover (enthusiasm / person)
♦ “He lived the low life with tramps and gypsies in barns and the high life
with barons in castles.” (Patrick Leigh Fermor on his rambles in 1933.)
lover of Greece and Greek culture
a Philhellene is a ~ ♦ “I walked past high art and low art, past the theaters where famous
people played to packed houses, past theaters where anonymous
people played with themselves.” (“In the Temple,” a chapter from All
lover of knowledge Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg.)
he was a voracious reader and autodidact, a ~
behavior: direction / height
lover of things English admiration & contempt: direction / height
an Anglophile is a ~ superiority & inferiority: direction / height
lover of film low (base, bad / noun)
a cineaste is a ~
new low
woodie lover this is a ~, a blatant political ploy
one ~ explains his passion (wooden roller coasters)
behavior: direction / height
yarn lovers admiration & contempt: direction / height
an event for ~ (Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival)
♦ Anglophile (lover of things English); audiophile (lover of high-fidelity
low (lie low)
sound); bibliophile (lover of books); cineaste / cinephile (lover of films);
Philhellene (lover of Greece and Greek culture); herpetophile (lover of lying low
reptiles); lexophile (lover of words); oenophile (lover of wine); pagophile he is ~ over fears for his safety
(an ice-dwelling organism); philosophy (lover of wisdom)... (Names of
enthusiasts that incorporate various suffixes.) attention, scrutiny & promotion / pursuit, capture & escape:
enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage / person animal / height / hunting / standing, sitting & lying / verb
person: love, courtship & marriage lower (river, etc.)
love on (something)
Lower Yangtze
loving on my coworkers this is what one might call the upper reach of the ~
just here ~ at @WHYYunion rally! (a tweet with picture) orientation: direction / height
feeling, emotion & effect: prep, adv, adj, particle lubricant (social lubricant, etc.)
low (low on food, etc.)
social lubricant
low on food alcohol is a crucial ~ (Great Britain)
I was ~ due to the curfew amelioration & renewal: mechanism
amount: direction / height Lucullan (adjective)
low (decline)
Lucullan feast
brought low at the celebration of the birth we were entertained to a ~
he has been ~ amount / money: allusion
decline: direction Lucullus (epithet)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
low (emotion) Scottish Lucullus
Cpt John Piper, a very unthrifty ~ (d. 1851)
low money: allusion / epithet
I was unhappy, as ~ as any man could go (a boxer)
lukewarm (feeling)
feeling (pretty) low
I was ~ lukewarm about the (coronavirus) vaccines

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 they were ~ (vaccine reluctance) control & lack of control: equilibrium & stability / verb /
walking, running & jumping
lukewarm to the idea
but back in America, the NBA was ~ (pros in Olympics) lure (verb)
lukewarm to Trump lured him out of the bar
the state was ~ but has since converted they ~ and robbed him
allegiance, support & betrayal: temperature lure listeners down (dark sonic) avenues
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature her songs ~ (Billie Eilish)
eagerness & reluctance: temperature
lured him (back) to Memphis
lukewarm (activity) she ~ with sexually explicit texts and he took the bait
barely above lukewarm lured the Persian fleet into a trap
the economy is really ~ the Greeks ~ (at Salamis)
activity: temperature lure Diana into doing
he used deceit to ~ the interview
luminary (person)
attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting / verb
luminaries pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting / verb
where the president and other ~ sat… (graduation)
lure (noun)
establishment luminaries
she attracted ~ to the board (Kissinger, Shultz, Mattis, etc.) lure of the Himalayas
the ~ is still with Tomaz Humar (the great climber)
conservative luminaries
~ are rallying their troops against Obama (politics) lure of (modern) conveniences
the ~, steady jobs and a cash economy (to the Inuit)
person: light & dark
superlative: light & dark / person lure of the north
importance & significance: light & dark / person the ~ is hard to overcome (migrants)
achievement, recognition & praise: light & dark / person
lure of the (majestic) peaks
lung (atmosphere) the ~ pulled him back (Montana Blackfoot)
“Lungs of the Planet” lure of sex
the Amazon Rain Forest is sometimes called the ~ he used the ~ to get athletes to his club
lungs of Southeast Asia lure of the summit
it is sometimes called the ~ (Borneo and its forests) the ~ proved stronger than a fear of death (climbing)
planet's "lungs" lure of the water
the Amazon is considered to be part of the ~ the ~ was too much (drowning incident)
Mumbai’s last green lung lure of wealth
the Aarey forest is often referred to as ~ the ~ provides powerful incentives (capitalism)
green lungs lure of easy money
the Gorski Kotar region, referred to as “the ~ of Croatia” the ~ sparked a land boom (Everglades)
♦ In 2019, forest fires in the Amazon caused leaders and the media to
repeat the old canard that the Amazon creates 20 percent of the world’s lure of multiple majors
oxygen. This figure is grossly inflated, and reflects a total at many universities, the ~ has become so strong
misunderstanding of the science involved. That’s because plants not only
create oxygen but use it. “The net contribution of the Amazonian lure of cheap homesteads and easy money
ecosystem to the world’s oxygen level is effectively zero.” the ~ sparked a land boom
(FasctCheck.org and many other sources.)

biodiversity: atmosphere / breathing / epithet lure of investing

for many, the ~ is the thrill of uncertain reward (stocks)
lurch (verb) ♦ What do you have if you have a Damsel Dredger, a Braided Bitch, a
Crystal Rubber Bugger, a Pulsating Caddis, or a Gold Beaded Poopah?
lurched from scandal to scandal (Trout flies for fly fishing.)
Facebook has ~ over the past months ♦ In the southern Appalachians, hunters will hang a ham from a tree on
the crest of the ridge to lure bears to the scent. They will return to the
lurch (too far) to the left bait with dogs, which will follow the scent of the bear. Such baiting is
the party should not ~ (politics) illegal.

movement: verb / walking, running & jumping attraction & repulsion: fish / hunting

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pursuit, capture & escape: fish / hunting lynch (lynch mob, etc.)
lurk (verb)
see lynch mob
lurking lynched
if you've had a heart attack, another could be ~
how many quakes are ~ in unknown faults lynched
Luan is always ~ now (Rio 2016 football final) I give you hope that can’t be ~ (Rochester demonstration)
lurks in every direction judgment / oppression: history / violence
danger ~
lynching (media lynching, etc.)
lurk in every shadow
for some people, dangers ~ (anxiety) partisan lynching
this was just a ~ (impeachment)
lurking on the margins
Manchester United is ~ of the Premier League’s top four victim of a (media) lynching
his lawyer claims he is the ~
terrorism lurks
~ in small towns and rural areas (as well as cities) judgment / oppression: history / violence

movement / presence & absence: animal / hunting / lynch mob

predation / verb / walking, running & jumping
lynch mobs
lurking (lurking danger, etc.) Bill Cosby’s wife says he was the victim of “~”

lurking danger partisan lynch mob

he was seized by a gut feeling of ~ informed voices were drowned out by the thunder of the ~
♦ “[T]wo [girls]—one white, one black—who were almost exactly the
danger / presence & absence: animal / predation same age and had both witnessed the same lynching. A real lynching,
not someone’s cheap metaphor... I don’t know what image people have
lust (noun) of these things to the degree that they think of them at all...” (NPR, “From
Martin Luther King Jr., A Burden and Gift,” Tell Me More, Michel Martin,
lust for gold January 13, 2012.)
the word lust has wider application: ~, lust for power ♦ “The community is well convinced he was disloyal. The city does not
miss him. The lesson of his death has had a wholesome effect on the
Lust for Life Germanists of Collinsville [Illinois] and the rest of the nation.” (The report
in a local paper on the murder of Robert Prager, a German immigrant,
~, the film about van Gough with Kirk Douglas who was lynched in Collinsville, Illinois, now a suburb of St. Louis, on
April 4, 1918. He was stripped naked and made to walk down Main
lust for power Street singing patriotic songs. The drunken mob broke beer bottles at his
he has been described as having a ~ and money feet, so that he walked barefoot on glass shards to the tree from which
the word lust has wider application: lust for gold, ~ he was hanged. The mob believed him to be a German spy. Eleven men
were put on trial for his murder, and all were acquitted. From “During
World War I, U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture,”
lust for travel NPR, All Things Considered, April 7, 2017.)
his restlessness, his ~ (Bruce Chatwin)
♦ “Hey, Mr. Cunningham. I said, ‘Hey, Mr. Cunningham’... Don’t you
lust for war remember me, Mr. Cunningham? I’m Jean Louise Finch. You brought us
some hickory nuts one early morning. Remember? We had a talk... I go
his brutality and ~ (a Marine) to school with your boy... He’s a nice boy, tell him hey for me, won’t
you?” (A small girl shames a lynch mob and affects an entire generation.
lust for power and money From the beloved novel and film To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.)
he has been described as having a ~
judgment / oppression: history / violence
curb their lust
politicians need to ~ for contributions
attraction & repulsion / enthusiasm / wants, needs, hopes M
& goals: sex
Machiavelli (Trump’s Machiavelli,
luster (noun)
etc.)
luster of (unlimited) promise
he arrived in Washington with the ~ (a politician) Machiavelli for Women
~: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition...
lost its luster
but in the 1960s, Detroit ~ Trump’s Machiavelli
he essentially became ~, plotting and planning...
superlative: light & dark ♦ “I mean, his life basically vanished like an Alka-Seltzer tablet.” (Guy
Raz and Stacey Vanek Smith dishing about Machiavelli on NPR to
promote Stacey’s book, Machiavelli for Women: Defend your Worth,
Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace.)

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♦ “’Italy,’ declared Metternich, ‘is a geographical expression.’ He spoke that’s when the ~ starts, you can’t do anything about it
no more than the truth. Never in all its history had the Italian peninsula
constituted a single nation; even in the days of imperial Rome it had
(racist abuse of soccer player)
been merely a part—and usually quite a small part—of the Roman state.
Since the early Middle Ages, however—and perhaps even earlier—the goal machine
concept of Italian nationhood had existed as a distant ideal: Dante and Lewandowski, their Polish ~ (Bayern Munich)
Petrarch had both dreamed of it, as later had Machiavelli.” (The Middle
Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by the historian John Julius intelligence machine
Norwich.) we need to have a robust ~ to keep us safe
allusion: books & reading
meat machines
behavior / character & personality / history / subterfuge:
stop treating animals like ~ (factory farms)
allusion / epithet
Machiavellian (adjective) money machine
it’s a ~ for the owners, not the fans (Man U)
Machiavellian
his rags-to-riches story is amazing, but his practices are ~
policy machine
she’s the ~ who can fix it (candidate Elizabeth Warren)
Machiavellian machinations
we are deep in the weeds of ~ (politics)
propaganda machine
the ~ of Washington politics the ~ has helped keep in in power (state media)

Machiavellian manservant publicity machine

the power struggle between Tony and his ~ Hugo (a film) as the ~ rolled forward (for a film)
generally, she played her part in the ~ (Hollywood gossip)
Machiavellian sociopaths the ~ that is Kim Kardashian
challenge his notion that powerful people are all ~
Scream Machine
Machiavellian tool we kayaked ~ (Green River Gorge North Carolina)
his anti-corruption campaign is a ~ to eliminate rivals
war machine
Machiavellian and ruthless factory workers for the ~
he had to be ~ (a leader) the diamond trade fuels the ~ (Angola)

at his most Machiavellian stolen-base machine

Billy Bob Thornton plays a political consultant ~ he was a ~ (Lou “the Base Burglar” Brock)
♦ “‘Machiavellian’ should be a compliment and The Prince has in fact
been an infallible guidebook followed closely by all successful leaders.”
well-oiled machine
(A BBC blurb for “Niccolo Machiavelli—the Prince,” produced and the team is a ~ (sports)
directed by Clive Brill. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.) his administration is not a ~ (politics)
♦ Many historical personages—such as Hector, Charles A. Lindbergh,
and Joe McCarthy—have been mischaracterized in the language. well-oiled (propaganda) machine
Isis has a ~
character & personality / subterfuge: allusion
comparison & contrast: affix well-run machine
it was a ~ (the TV series Law & Order)
machine (the Swiss Machine, etc.)
killing machine
“Swiss Machine” the hydraulic below a dam is a ~ (kayaking, swimmers)
Ueli Steck, who was known as the ~, died in an accident the crocodile is an efficient ~
nicknamed the ~ for his ruthlessly methodical approach when let outside, the typical house cat turns into a ~
functioning: epithet marketing machine
machine (publicity machine, etc.) the league's ~ (N.B.A)
they are a ~ (the Dallas Cowboys, to include boxing)
machine winning machine
he’s a ~ (Ronaldo starts for Man U vs. Newcastle)
they were a brilliantly managed half-season ~ (Chelsea)
the pandemic reminded us that people are not ~s (jobs)
they are a ~ (the Azzurri / Italian national soccer team)
machine of state resentment-generating machine
the great ~ always wound up mired (Colombia)
the modern meritocracy is a ~ (David Brooks)
anthem machine fantasy-making machine
George M. Cohan was an ~ (songwriting)
Hollywood, the greatest ~ the world has ever known
entertainment machine money-making machine
Hollywood is an ~ constantly hungry for new talent
he was once a ~ worth $400 million (a boxer)
social-media machine the big teams are enormous ~s (soccer / EPL 2021)

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 Disney is a ~ that follows formulas based on past success I relish being a tiny cog in the massive ~ (Swiss voter)
great machine cog in the machinery
imagine the US military and its diplomatic corps as a ~ he was a fossilized bureaucrat, a ~ for decades
political machine machinery is set in motion
a powerful black ~ based in Harlem the infernal plot ~ when they receive a letter (Is God Is)
robust (intelligence) machine set the (state’s) machinery in motion
we need to have a ~ to keep us safe she was able to ~ but couldn’t stop or direct it (rights)
ruthless machine set its machinery going
Liverpool are a ~ (Liverpool 5 Manchester United 0) we hit upon a scheme that promised well, and ~ (subterfuge)
cogs of a (bloodthirsty) war machine functioning / operation: government / mechanism
making soldiers into the interchangeable ~
mad (crazy)
part of a (Democratic) machine
he was ~ that won year after year (a political figure) mad scramble
organizers start the ~ to…(international festival)
cog in the machine
see cog (cog in the machine, etc.) baseball-mad
the crowd of ~ Habaneros (Cuba)
machine hums along
that ~ despite a record of failure (US military) business-mad
Hanoi is brash and ~
became a (recording) machine
I started just taking notes, I ~ (Hamill at RFK assassination) celebrity-mad
a ~ world
creates a machine
he ~ and the players are just cogs (soccer manager) football-mad
~ F.S.U.
keep the machine running
they ~ no matter who’s in charge (national-security) hockey-mad
in ~ Canada
♦ “I’m part of a machine that always wins.” (A Marine captain in Marjah,
Afghanistan, 2010.)
soccer mad
♦ “Really the most depressing thing to me is if you imagine the US Turks are ~
military and its diplomatic corps as kind of a great machine that is
supposed to be kind of dynamic and alive and processing information
and correcting course and changing course when it needs to, the thing
status-mad
could never change...” (“Dexter Filkins on the Fall of Afghanistan,” The ~ consumers
New Yorker Radio Hour.)
♦ see also cog (cog in the machine, etc.)
totally mad
it’s mad, ~ (running with bulls at Pamplona)
creation & transformation / functioning / operation:
enthusiasm: health & medicine / mental health
mechanism
machine (sex machine) made of (character)
what AJ is made of
sex machine we now need to find out ~ (the boxer after upset loss)
I told them he was a ~ (my boyfriend)
character & personality: materials & substances
sex: mechanism
machinery (government, etc.) madhouse (place)
madhouse
machinery of law enforcement it’s a ~ there (a crisis situation)
the ~
environment: mental health
machinery of government
the Party, the ~, and the nation are one (China) madness (enthusiasm)
machinery around her March Madness
the ~ only grew (Britney Spears) college basketball fans look forward to ~
machinery of the state enthusiasm: health & medicine / mental health
the ~ is engaged in the suppression of...
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maelstrom (in a maelstrom) magic (Magic Kingdom, etc.)
in a maelstrom of (negative) attention Magic Dragon
he has found himself ~ (an athlete) their classic hit, "Puff, the ~"
amount & effect: sea Magic Kingdom
smiling faces at the ~ (Disney)
maelstrom (other)
Magic Slate
swept up in this maelstrom paper and pencils, ~s, communication boards
savings are ~ (electronic stock exchanges)
proper name: magic
amount & effect: sea
magic (magic moment, etc.)
maestro (person)
magic moment
living legends, phenoms, maestros that ~ when you feel the team spirit coming together
they are ~ (DeNiro and Scorsese)
feeling, emotion & effect: magic
ability & lack of ability: music / person
person: music magic (trail magic, etc.)
mafia (group) trail magic
we experienced a lot of ~ (on AT Trail / trail angels)
Stanford mafia
there’s a bit of a ~ within the organization (NFL 49ers) fate, fortune & chance: magic
♦ “When I say Mafia, I mean what most people see in the word: people help & assistance: magic
who take over control but never let anyone have an inside look at what
they are doing.” (The great Terje Haakonsen, after comparing the magic (effect)
International Olympic Committee to the Mafia.)
magic spell
group, set & collection: crime 80 types of weapons and a dozen ~s (computer game)
magic (versus reality) magic mushrooms
amphetamines, LSD, ~, amyl nitrate and Ecstasy
magic
decisions must be based on science, not ~ feeling, emotion & effect: magic
magic versus science, evidence and data magical (effect)
his policy is ~ (public-health crisis)
magical
fantasy & reality: magic the effect was ~ (a new drug)
magic (magic bullet, etc.) it’s absolutely magical (data from migrating birds)
magical part
magic bullet
the ~ of backcountry skiing is getting away from people
nothing yet has proved a ~ (against oak-killing spore)
feeling, emotion & effect: magic
magic cure
there is no ~ (for kid fire-setting behavior) magical (versus reality)
magic formula magical
there is no ~, but try… (predicting NCAA winner) this isn’t ~, this is scientific (public-health debate)
we don't have a ~ for predicting wildfires
magical shortcut
magic wand joining the military should not be a ~ to hero status
I wish I could wave a ~ and make it all better
there's no ~ (to fix aging Chicago El system) fantasy & reality: magic
you can’t just wave a ~ and reopen the economy (pandemic) Maginot Line
magic word
the ~s are "please," "thank you" (adult to 3-year-old)
Maginot Line between two (warring) worlds
14th Street was the ~ (Manhattan theater world)
there are no ~s to motivate every student (a teacher)
"I want to speak to a supervisor" can be ~s (disputes) allusion: military
works its magic division & connection: allusion / history / military
the digital effects team ~ (on a commercial) magisterial (adjective)
amelioration & renewal: magic magisterial

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 a biography, even one as ~ as this one... it's a ~ seeking large tax-free salaries (Saudi Arabia)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: government magnet for artists and tourists
Santa Fe is a ~
magnet (attraction)
magnets for the drunk and the unruly
magnet for Muslims they are ~ (urban liquor markets)
Makkah is a ~ (Hajj)
magnets for pickpockets, shoplifters, and muggers
magnets for beggars shopping districts are ~
mosques are ~ (Harar / end of Hajj)
magnet for (avid) rock climbers
magnet for business Looking Glass Rock is a ~ (NC)
they want to make it once again a ~ (lower Manhattan)
magnet for music lovers
magnet for (political) candidates Nashville is a ~ (live music, museums, etc.)
state fairs are a ~
magnet for sex offenders
magnet for controversy the area has become a ~ upon their release from prison
a ~, he riled people up… (an artist)
magnet for gold prospectors
magnet for (illegal) immigrants the area was a ~
Fairfax County is a ~
magnet for sexual predators
magnet for immigration Web cams are a ~
New York is a ~
magnet for the eating-disordered
magnet for (foreign) investment running is a ~
tourism has been a ~ (Burma)
magnet for its legions of poor
magnet for (music) lovers Karachi is a ~ (Pakistan)
Nashville is a ~ (live music, museums, etc.)
magnet school
magnet for (illegal) migrants ~s induce kids to schools outside their neighborhoods
the border village is a ~ (Las Chepas)
magnet and amenity
magnet for (committed) militants waterfronts are a ~ for downtown development
Karachi is a ~
immigrant magnet
magnet for Muslims ~s like California
Makkah is a ~ (Islam and Saudi Arabia)
job magnet
magnet for people the bad economy took away the ~ pulling people here
it isn't much of a ~ who want to meet people (a town)
media magnet
magnet for politicians the case has become a ~
the convention is a ~ and businessmen (Davos)
suicide magnet
magnet for (sexual) predators the viaduct has a morbid reputation as a ~ (Toronto)
Webcams are a ~ The Gap has a reputation as a ~ (Sydney)
magnet for (slave) raiders the Fall Creek Gorge is a ~ (Cornell University)
the area is a ~ (Sudan) tourist magnet
magnet for retirees Bali has been a ~
Western North Carolina is a ~ bad luck magnet
magnet for sharks he is a ~
the seals are a ~ social magnets
magnet for students taco trucks, cultural icons and ~ in Mexico (and US)
Dr. Chamberlain was a ~ (approachable, etc.) become a magnet
magnet for tourists South Beach has ~ for crime and disorder (Miami)
St Mark’s Square is a ~ (Venice) attraction & repulsion: tools & technology
magnet for transients magnetic (adjective)
the city has become a ~ from around the West
emotionally magnetic
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 the idea of our decline is ~ main course
extraordinarily magnetic main course
he is an ~ camera subject
this is just the appetizer, the ~ will come (battle)
attraction & repulsion: tools & technology
development: food & drink
comparison & contrast: affix
magnetism (noun) mainstay (noun)
mainstay of (gossip) columns
personal magnetism
sex is a ~
Amundsen had the ~ that is the hallmark of great leaders
mainstay of the (bear's) diet
share a deep magnetism
acorns and other mast is the ~
Bogarde and Rampling ~ (The Night Porter)
attraction & repulsion: tools & technology mainstay of the economy
agriculture is the ~ (Pakistan)
magnifying glass (under…)
mainstay of (Uzbekistan's) economy
under the magnifying glass cotton is the ~
Amazon is ~ in several probes in the U.S. and Europe
mainstay of (burn) management
under the magnifying glass right now antibiotics are a ~
the social problems that are ~
mainstay for the national side
put us under the magnifying glass Raheem Sterling has been a ~ since his debut (soccer)
another death would ~ (NASCAR)
economic mainstay
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology trafficking of opium and heroin is Afghanistan's ~
♦ A mainstay is an important rope on a sailing ship that serves to support
magnifying glass (search) and stabilize.

holding a magnifying glass to those gaps bases: boat

the economic crisis is ~ (job losses / people of color)
mainstream (society)
♦ “Well, to be fair—12-year-old Cayden Parson of McKinney, Texas said
he was technically trying to use his new Christmas present to set the
newspaper on fire. The lawn was just an innocent bystander.” (“Texas
mainstream
Kid Immediately Uses Christmas Present To Set Fire To His Family’s his ideas about diet and health have entered the ~
Lawn,” Tara Holley, KNUE 101.5, December 28, 2021.)
mainstream of (city) life
searching & discovery: sign, signal, symbol / tools & remote from the ~
technology
mainstream artists
magpie (bird) such ~ as the Chieftains
magpie’s curiosity mainstream audiences
his ~... (the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor) getting short films to ~
magpie’s nest mainstream conventions
her mind was a ~ of knowledge Ismailis ignore some of the ~ of Islam
♦ “Murphy...was a brilliant talker... [H]er mind, a magpie’s nest of
knowledge, connected people to ideas and ideas to sweeping mainstream culture
philosophies.” (Esther Murphy. From “Clock’s Ticking” by Rachel Syme, ~ and drug culture
The New Yorker, July 5, 2021.)
mainstream icons
behavior: animal / bird Net culture prides itself on scoffing at ~
person: animal / bird
mainstream media
maiden (adjective) the ~ is often accused of liberal bias
maiden venture nobody in the ~ will touch this
it was not the group's ~ into Pakistan mainstream medicine
maiden voyage a religious sect that rejects ~
HMS Queen Elizabeth set sail for the US on its ~ mainstream popularity
maiden win the brief ~ of folk music
his solo break paved the way for his ~ (Tour de France) mainstream (Saudi) view
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mainstream thinking make-believe (adjective)
it seeped into ~
make-believe world
mainstream and alternative I lived in a ~ that afforded me great comfort (abused)
he straddled the worlds of ~ medicine
fantasy & reality: magic
underground and the mainstream
he is stuck between the ~ (a snowboarder) make it (didn’t make it)
outside the (medical) mainstream did not make it
his approach lies ~ (controversial treatment) unfortunately, she ~ (girl died after being stabbed)
from the fringes into the mainstream death & life: euphemism
social media can push conspiracies ~
make up (verb)
entered the mainstream
his ideas about diet and health have ~ made the whole story up
police are investigating whether he ~ (hate crime allegation)
join the mainstream
children of immigrants will ~ creation & transformation: prep, adv, adj, particle / verb

society: center & periphery / river

making (creation)
center & periphery: river / society making and unmaking
maintenance (high maintenance, etc.) the book describes her ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
creation & transformation: manufacturing
high-maintenance
Carly is ~, a very complicated person (relationships) malaise (decline)
difficulty, easiness & effort: mechanism malaise speech
it became known as the ~ (Jimmy Carter / 1979)
major league (success)
capitalism’s malaise
major league remedies for ~
his journey from the streets to the ~ (a rapper)
American malaise
success & failure: baseball / sports & games
American exceptionalism in a time of ~
make (create) current malaise
make Marines United’s ~ will not continue indefinitely (soccer team)
it’s essential to ~ (recruitment and training) economic malaise
makes me the country’s ~
I don’t make music, music ~ (Skilyr Hicks) state of malaise
creation & transformation: manufacturing across the globe, democracy is in a ~

make (make of something) condition & status: health & medicine

malfunction (verb)
make of the (Trump administration’s) decision
what do you ~ malfunctioned and look muddled
he picked a team that ~ (Champions League final)
make of it
so what did you ~ failure, accident & impairment / functioning: mechanism /
verb
make of this
what do you ~ malignant (adjective)
make of (all) this malignant (management) style
so what do Americans ~ (NPR analysis) nobody can refine his ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: verb affliction / corruption / growth & development: health &
medicine
make-believe (noun)
malpractice (noun)
air of make-believe
diplomacy can have an ~ (protocol, etc.) malpractice
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foreign-policy malpractice maneater (female)
this qualifies as ~ (politics)
flirter or maneater
failure, accident & impairment: health & medicine
I’m not a ~ (single girl after married husbands of friends)
mammoth (size) ♦ “The call of a tigress in search of a mate cannot be described in
words.” (Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett, Introduction by Sir
mammoth job Maurice Hallett, Preface by Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India 1936-1943).
the heavy burden of this ~ (Man U manager) person: animal / predation
mammoth task sex: animal / person / predation
the researchers gave them a ~ (students) character & personality: animal / person / predation
size: animal maneuvering (strategy)
man (big man, little man, etc.) backstage maneuvering
there has been a lot of ~ (diplomacy)
big man
he was a ~ in the mob (Boston) political maneuvering
the ~ started immediately
great men
~ get great praise, little men nothing (military history) position, policy & negotiation / strategy: movement

hard man Manhattan Project

see hard man (character)
Manhattan Project for autism
little man Gardner has dreamed of a sort of ~
it’s the ~ who does the courageous thing
company’s Manhattan Project
Homer Stokes, servant of the ~ (a politician)
he called it the ~ (Monsanto’s roundup-resistant plants)
little men
new Manhattan Project
great men get great praise, ~ nothing (military history)
he’s calling it a ~ for clean energy
“little people” allusion: military
what utter contempt they have for us ~ (a school board)
difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion / history / military
strong men mania (noun)
~ like Trump, Duterte, Chavez, Fujimori (leaders)
~ use popularism and charisma to rule with an iron fist mania for quantification
this ~ was in Bezos’ heart (Amazon)
angry black man
I am not an ~ trying to argue with America about... “Automania”
his suit alleges he was cast as the “~” (NFL) MOMA opens ~, a show about the legacy of the auto
quiet little man self-improvement mania
the ~ has more guts and courage... the ~ is sweeping the country
♦ “I’ve always found out the quiet little man that nobody pays any
attention to usually has more guts and courage than the big blowhard, Internet retail mania
the big outspoken fellow... It’s the little man who does the courageous the rising tide of the ~
thing.” (The filmmaker John Ford.)
♦ “For every mania there comes a payback time.” (Booms and bubbles.)
♦ see also boy, guy (character), Mister (and Mr., Missus, Mrs.)
behavior: health & medicine / mental health
importance & significance: person / size
maniac (Hulkamaniac, etc.)
manacle (noun)
maniac observer
loosen (Germany's) manacles Leeuwenhoek was a ~ (the microscopist)
Hollande wants to ~ of austerity (economics)
Beatlemaniacs
puts manacles on the media ~ besieged the hotel
this judgment, in its widest context, ~ (the Mail)
Broadway maniacs
constraint & lack of constraint: crime
for ~, this show is a must-see (TV)
mandible (noun) Hulkamaniac
upper mandible ~s loved the show
North Head, the ~ of the harbor (Sydney) ♦ “Are these motherfuckers what all the people are screaming about? My
dog plays drums better than that kid with the big nose.” (The great boxer
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Sonny Liston at a Beatles’ concert. From King of the World by David women have ~ of being defined by their husbands
Remnick.)
♦ Fans of Mariah Carey are “lambs,” part of the “Lambily,” or “Lamb inherited his mantle
family.” she ~ (politics)
person: health & medicine / mental health invoke the (respectable) mantle
enthusiasm: affix / health & medicine / mental health / they ~ of originalism, but… (constitutional law)
person
Manichean (adjective) cast off the mantle
Klopp can now ~ (of a loser in soccer finals)
Manichean struggle laid claim to the feminist mantle
a ~ between democracy and autocracy (vs. co-existence) she has ~
conflict: light & dark / religion picked up the mantle
comparison & contrast: affix the group ~ (fan club for dead celebrity)
manicured shake off the mantle
manicured view they want to ~ of tradition (artists)
his show presents a ~ of a controversial man taken up their mantle
appearance & reality: finger he has ~ (politician and an issue)

manifesto (noun) wrapped itself in the mantle

the group has ~ of the civil rights struggle (SPLC)
manifesto for targeting violence ♦ A mantle was a cloak.
his book is a ~ (Bleeding Out)
representation / role: clothing & accessories
message: books & reading sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: clothing &
accessories
mantle (noun)
mantra (message)
mantle
its ~ was taken away (a champion tree) mantra
the ~ was trade not conquest (British East India Company)
mantle of religion
blasphemy laws are cloaked in the ~ mantra of American rage
the ~ (I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore)
mantle of his office
he still seems to be adjusting to the ~ (district attorney) mantra in the computer world
"innovate or die," long the ~
mantle of the presidency
he is set to ~ (leader) mantra (we all learn) in nursing school
the ~ is, "If it isn't charted, it isn't done"
mantle of a prophet
he increasingly adopted the ~ Toyota mantra
in the ~, quality was always first
antiimmigration mantle
he has taken on the ~ (a political leader) cherished mantras
"We must fix poverty" is one of the most ~ in education
feminist mantle
she has laid claim to the ~ familiar mantra
“16 shots and a cover-up” became a ~ (Chicago police)
maverick mantle
she wears the ~ (a politician) “hope and change” mantra
the ~ that propelled Obama to the presidency
progressive mantle
he took up the ~ in the nominating process (Bernie Sanders) message / repetition: religion

mantle fell on him manufacture (verb)

the ~ (job responsibility)
manufactures good news
assume the mantle the Public Information Office mainly ~ (military)
now that Pavarotti is dead, who will ~ (opera)
manufacture outrage
claimed his mantle they ~ and scream and holler like it’s the end of the world
the new party has ~ (politics) ♦ “People feel if somebody makes a mistake anymore on an elected
body that you need to manufacture outrage and scream and holler and
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carry on like it’s the end of the world.” (“Gun provocation reveals tensions marathon, not a sprint
in Michigan tourist haven” by John Flesher, AP, Feb 22, 2021.)
tackling the virus is a ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb
emotional marathon
manufactured we have been running an ~ this past year (COVID)

manufactured difficulty, easiness & effort / time: distance / sports &

they argue that the controversy is ~ (Critical Race Theory) games / walking, running & jumping

manufactured or exaggerated marble (marbles)

their stories were ~ (sex-abuse accusers)
got all his marbles
creation & transformation: manufacturing he’s still ~ (a 100-year-old man in Khabarovsk)
man up (verb) ♦ Language from the game of marbles includes: all the marbles; lose
one’s marbles; knuckle down; and play for keeps.

man up functioning: sports & games

it was time for me to ~
marbled
responsibility: direction / verb
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction / verb marbled with orchards
the community is ~
map (on the map)
marbled polecat
on the map the Arabic name for the ~ means “stinky”
the village is ~ again (presidential visit) ♦ Animals might be banded, dappled, marbled, mottled, ringed, speckled,
spotted, stippled, striped, and even spectacled!
on the streetfood map
the Philly cheese steak put the city ~ configuration: materials & substances
on the financial map march (together, etc.)
he put Bank of America and Charlotte ~
march in lockstep
on the literary map climate and carbon dioxide clearly ~ (ice cores)
he helped put the review ~
relationship / unanimity & consensus: military / verb /
put Los Angeles on the (art) map walking, running & jumping
he helped ~ (a sculptor)
march (move)
put Chicago on the map
he ~ (Michael Jordan according to Barack Obama) marching east
and in the West, a new storm system is ~
put this issue on the map
New York City has ~ (voting rights for immigrants) marching through the world’s banana-growing countries
TR4 is ~ (a fungus)
consciousness & awareness: map
location / place / presence & absence: map marched (through the season) undefeated
attention, scrutiny & promotion: map the team ~ (but lost the championship game)
map (drop off the map, etc.) movement: military / verb / walking, running & jumping

drop off the map march (march ahead, etc.)

the Grenadines are an ideal place to ~
marching ahead
fall off the map the science is ~ (genetic tests)
you see teams that ~ after losing (NBA)
marching forward
consciousness & awareness: map / verb the bill is ~ (politics)
appearance & disappearance: map / verb ♦ Mara Liasson, national political correspondent for NPR: “The bill is
location / place / presence & absence: map / verb marching forward, or stumbling forward, depending on your favorite
attention, scrutiny & promotion: map / verb metaphor, and it has bipartisan...” / Lulu Garcia-Navarro (interrupting
suddenly): “Dancing forward.” / Mara Liasson: “Dancing forward, right,
marathon (effort and time) cha-cha-cha, it has bipartisan support but...” (Odd repartee on NPR.)
♦ Dallas Cow: Fantastic result for Villareal, simply incredible. Hard to
marathon meeting believe that they just knocked out Bayern Munich. The yellow submarine
goes marching on. / Chris: Sailing on? / Shaid: Submarines don’t have
gearing up for a ~ next week (city government) sails. / The Spin Doctor: “Sailing” is something submarines do whether or
not they are on the surface. / Rellis: being pedantic but the US navy calls
marathon (public) speeches the conning tower a “sail” / Liverpallblackcaps: Propelling along? (A BBC
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HYS thread that went on far too long. Villareal is nicknamed the Yellow his popular chronicle made him a kind of ~ (Ibn Battuta)
Submarine, for their all yellow uniforms.)
history: epithet
force / progress & lack of progress / starting, going,
continuing & ending: direction / movement / verb / margin (on the margins)
walking, running & jumping
on the margins
march (March of Time, etc.) boxing has long been a social staircase for those ~

March of Time live on the margins

the ~ was a series of short films (1935-1951) they ~, where things often go wrong (justice system)
time: movement / walking, running & jumping society: center & periphery

march (on the march) marginalized (groups)

on the march marginalized
Bolshevism was ~, Lenin was in Moscow (revolution) the Pope said religion was being ~
driving force / progress & lack of progress: military / marginalized backgrounds
movement / walking, running & jumping NPR is hemorrhaging hosts from ~

march (noun) marginalized communities

~ are in competition for the tiny allotment of space...
march of civilization
the ~ cannot be stopped (British in Afghanistan) marginalised voices
he started the ~ (Kamehameha) ~ are telling stories that need to be heard
she became a music journalist to platform ~
march of globalization
the inexorable ~ politically marginalized
the far right in Germany is small and ~
march of COVID-19
the lethal ~ has passed 100,000 deaths in the US privileged and (who is) marginalized
interrogate who is ~ by the notion of “standard” English
march towards majority rule
rugby's starring role in the ~ (South Africa) low income and marginalized
~ students will suffer the most academically
inexorable march
the ~ of globalization claim they are marginalised
many Israeli Arabs ~
slow Biden’s march ♦ “Are all people of color at NPR ‘from marginalized backgrounds’? What
the debate was his last chance to ~ (election) if they went to elite universities?” (A comment by Earthrise, one comment
of 2,371 comments, about the article “NPR is losing some of its Black
driving force / progress & lack of progress: military / and Latino hosts. Colleagues see a larger crisis” by Paul Farhi and Elahe
movement / walking, running & jumping Izadi, Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2022.)

inclusion & exclusion: society

marching orders
marinate (verb)
marching orders
his ~ were to bring discipline to the staff marinating in this
we have been ~ for the last 6 months (a political scandal)
marching orders for the black electorate
the ~ were now clear (vote for Grant) absorption & immersion: verb / water

marching orders from the White House mark (black mark)

they are getting their ~ (NSA / CIA)
black mark on the city
takes his marching orders the case put a ~ (a murder)
he ~ from liberal hypocrites (politics)
black marks on their credit
♦ “Even though winter doesn’t slip away until next weekend, time has its
marching orders.” (The US adjusts its clocks. “Spring ahead, fall back.”) ~ that can last for year (credit cards)
♦ “While the chops were being cooked, Fleete opened his shirt and
work & duty: military showed us, just over his left breast, a mark, the perfect double of the
black rosettes—the five or six irregular blotches arranged in a circle—on
Marco Polo (Muslim Marco Polo, etc.) a leopard’s hide... / Here the chops came in, all red and juicy, and Fleete
bolted three in a most offensive manner. He ate on his right grinders
Marco Polo of the Arab world only, and threw his head over his right shoulder as he snapped the
meat...” (The creepy story “The Mark of the Beast” by Rudyard Kipling.)
Ibn Battuta, the ~
characterization / reputation: color / mark
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mark (effect) the ~ (Sholem Aleichem / Sholem Rabinovich)
♦ “Please tell him that I am the American Sholem Aleichem.” (Mark
mark on Morgan County Twain, about ‘the Jewish Mark Twain.’ From “The Jewish Mark Twain” by
William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, January / February 2014 issue.)
she's made an indelible ~ (tragedy)
allusion: books & reading
mark on the region
the waves of Germans who made their ~ (Wisconsin) comparison & contrast: epithet
marmite (noun)
mark on soldiers
Afghanistan leaves a ~ marmite character
Jake Paul is a ~, a love-hate character (boxing)
profound marks
immigration left ~ on the region marmite fighters
they are ~ if you like (2 boxers with unpleasant sides)
high-water mark
it was the ~ of his career (athlete) marmite person
he was a ~, people either hate him or love him
indelible mark
she's made an ~ on Morgan County (drunk-driving) marmite thing
terrorism has left an ~ on his presidency (9/11) it’s a real ~, you find it repugnant or you love it (mullet
his trip to Sri Lanka left an ~ on him (Chekhov) hairstyle)
leave your mark ♦ “Love it or hate it.” (Uniliver’s slogan for Marmite, a
“delicious/disgusting” yeast extract spread produced in the UK. Vegemite
you gotta ~ on the world (tree planted for murder victim) is a similar product. The “Marmite Test” has come to mean when people
have extreme experiences in the same context.)
left a mark
♦ A similar food is the durian, which has been described as smelling like
she ~ on all of us who crossed her path (an actor) garbage, moldy cheese, rotting fish, a dead cat, last season's unwashed
gym socks, and a mixture of cheese, onions, sherry, rotting meat and
left (profound) marks drains.
immigration ~ on the region ♦ "Most lutefisk is not edible by normal people. It is reminiscent of the
afterbirth of a dog or the world's largest chunk of phlegm." (The beloved
made their mark American humorist Garrison Keillor.)
the waves of Germans who ~ on the region (Wisconsin) ♦ “The staple food in this region is tsampa. This is how they prepare it.
You heat sand to a high temperature in an iron pan and then pour barley
make his mark corns onto it. They burst with a slight pop, whereupon you put the corns
he’s training in an ER, where he wants to ~ (new nurse) and the sand in a fine meshed sieve through which the sand runs: after
this you grind the corn very small. The resulting meal is stirred up into a
effect / impression: mark paste with butter tea or milk or beer and then eaten. The Tibetans make
feeling, emotion & effect: mark a special cult of tsampa and have many ways of preparing it. We soon
got accustomed to it, but never cared much for butter tea, which is
mark (off the mark) usually made with rancid butter and is generally repugnant to Europeans.
It is, however, universally drunk and appreciated by the Tibetans, who
often drink as many as sixty cups in a day.” (Seven Years in Tibet by
way off the mark Heinrich Harrer, from the chapter, “The Village of Happiness.”)
you are ~ (argument) ♦ “Kangding is a crossroads town, once a terminus for the brick tea trade,
now an important rest stop for anyone bound into or out of Tibet—it is the
target: weapon true beginning of ethnic Tibet or, for someone coming from the far side,
mark (high mark) the true beginning of the real China. The little cafes here serve Tibetan
tea—a powerful decoction brewed from tea dust and twigs, with copious
amounts of salt added to impart extra flavor and with large globules of
high marks for his courage rancid, hairy yak-butter floating on top. It is an acquired taste that I was
I give him ~ and commitment (anti-terrorism) not to acquire—finding it even less attractive a comestible than tsampa,
the principal food of the Tibetan peasantry, which consists merely of flour
judgment: school & education worked with water and yak-butter, and which is eaten raw and has a
taste like rotten dough.” (The River at the Center of the World: A Journey
marketplace (noun) Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by the wonderful writer
Simon Winchester.)

marketplace of ideas ♦ "Walrus flippers with sea cabbage. It's delicious food." (Ludmilla
Ainana, a 66-year-old woman, reminiscing about the food she ate at
New York City is a cacophony of voices and a ~ coastal camps as a child.)

sexual marketplace ♦ "Squirrel soup with a lot of hot peppers is very popular." (A Hmong in
the US who maintains the Hmong hunting tradition.)
our ~ is explicitly and brutally judgmental
♦ “We don’t call him Marmite for nothing.” (A colleague of the
competition: money irrepressible Piers Morgan of ITV.)
society: infrastructure attraction & repulsion / character & personality: food &
Mark Twain (the Yiddish Mark Twain, drink
etc.) marooned
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 they were ~ out of kilter with their era (leaders) marriage (relationship)
marooned on a (lonesome) block marriage of convenience
the restaurant is ~
they appear to have made a ~ (terrorist groups)
marooned on a traffic island their alliance was a ~, not deep ideological affinity
hundreds of protestors were ~ (by police)
marriage of Java and VRML
marooned in camps the ~ (computing)
people are ~ (refugees from fighting)
marriage of mobile phones and the Internet
marooned in a traffic jam the ~
truckers have been ~ for a week (China)
marriage of new media and old media
marooned in a sea the ~ (AOL and Time Warner)
I was ~ of premeds (an arts major)
marriage of science and government
marooned overnight the ~ in the US
several subway trains were ~ after losing power (snow)
marriage of technology and opera
marooned hopelessness the ~
in that isolation, in the ~ of the protagonists… (a film)
marriage of turquoise and gold
marooned travelers the ~ is an ideal one (the Mariinsky Theater)
at JFK, ~ slept on cots (blizzard)
marriage of the Web and the classroom
feel marooned the ~ ("education")
people ~ (survivors of earthquake)
marriage between Islam and modernity
isolation & remoteness: island / sea some Arabs want a ~
society: island / sea ♦ “Treat her like a Queen, and she’ll treat you like a King.” (Said in Saudi
Arabia.)
marquee (attention) ♦ “I have studied this matter. Most of the couples who visit a big
shopping center start quarreling with each other within an hour and a
marquee defendant half.” (Sergei Y. Klyuchnikov, a psychologist in Moscow, on Russia’s long
while others face more serious charges, he is the ~ New Year’s holiday.)
♦ Men who do housework may get more sex...
marquee fight
♦ First man: “How’s your wife?” / Second man: “Still in charge...”
we want a big fight, a ~ (Eddie “Who Else? ” Hearns)
♦ “My wife ran off with my best friend... and I miss him!” (A bumper
marquee game sticker.)
he will miss Sunday’s ~ against the Kansas City Chiefs ♦ “Why women seek conflict,” Health & Science, The Week, March 23,
2012.)
marquee hearing ♦ “Grow your own dope—plant a man.” (A bumper sticker for a female
this is the first big ~ for the Democratic-controlled house landscaping company, seen at the Ingles parking lot in East Oteen,
Asheville, North Carolina, USA.)
marquee issue ♦ A FUNNY STORY. One day Abu Nuas and the Caliph Haroon Rashid
immigration is his ~ (politics) were talking about marriage. “Who has the upper hand in the
relationship, the man or the woman?” Abu Nuas asked innocently. The
marquee names Caliph snorted at such a stupid question, and Abu Nuas made his
~ traditionally lionized by the literary establishment proposal...”
~ such as Nigella Lawson and Rachael Ray (food) relationship: love, courtship & marriage
marquee players division & connection: love, courtship & marriage
both were ~ in the national-security establishment marriage (shotgun marriage)
marquee things shotgun marriage of S4C and the BBC
the ~ that make headlines (better pay and benefits, etc.) the ~ is an awkward match
marquee title shotgun marriage between the two parties
Sunisa Lee claimed the sport’s ~ (Olympics / gymnastics) the ~ will not last (politics)
marquee witness ♦ Cartersville, Ga., May 13.—William V. Jones, a young man of
Taylorsville, was violently taken from his home on Tuesday night to the
he could be the ~ in this impeachment probe residence of Miss Ida Gaston, whom he was accused of betraying, and
compelled under pressure of shotguns to marry her. He came here to-
attention, scrutiny & promotion: film / theater day and entered suit for divorce." ("Married Under Threats, of Death,"
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coercion & motivation / division & connection / eagerness dropped the mask on his nativist sentiments
& reluctance / relationship: love, courtship & marriage he has ~ (a politician)
married let the mask slip
frequently anti-Zionists ~ (anti-Semitism)
married to her job
the kind of woman people describe as ~ concealment & lack of concealment: face / verb
appearance & reality: face / verb
married with cyber activity subterfuge: face / verb
conventional ground operations ~ (Georgia / S. Ossetia)
mask (hide)
attachment / division & connection / relationship: love,
courtship & marriage mask your intentions
in war, you try to ~ (intelligence)
Marshall Plan
mask the location
Marshall Plan to fight Moscow’s ability to ~ of Russian forces
we need a ~ climate change
concealment & lack of concealment: face / verb
Marshall Plan for racial equity subterfuge: face / verb
calls for a ~ appearance & reality: face / verb

“Marshall Plan” for the US healthcare industry masquerade (verb)

Democrats argued for a ~
masquerading as “history”
21st-century Marshall Plan the film is right-wing character assassination ~
we need to invest in a ~ for Honduras... (immigration)
masquerade as local news organizations
♦ “If we were to launch a Marshall Plan of equivalent size today, as a
over 300 accounts and pages ~ (internet misinformation)
percentage of our GDP we would be talking about 800 billion dollars.”
(Benn Steil, author of Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War. More to the
point, he talks about the context and purpose of the real Marshall Plan.) masquerading as a US merchant ship
the Odenwald was captured while ~ (S. Atlantic / WW2)
allusion: military
help & assistance: allusion / history / military masqueraded as a Christian and English teacher
difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion / military / history he ~ (a pedophile)

Martian (adjective) concealment & lack of concealment: face / verb

subterfuge: face / verb
Martian landscape appearance & reality: face / verb
the road takes us through a dusty, reddish ~ (Chile)
masterclass (noun)
resemblance: astronomy
comparison & contrast: affix masterclass
it was a ~, the best I’ve ever seen in my life (boxing)
Martian’s-eye
masterclass from Conlan
Martian’s-eye view it looked a ~ (until he was knocked out in the 12th)
he takes a ~ of the habits and customs of Homo sapiens
masterclass in (modern) marketing
perception, perspective & point of view: eye the way they generated hype was a ~ (Epic Games)
martyr (person) masterclass in showmanship
it was a ~ (historic Kim-Trump meeting at DMZ 2019)
free speech martyrs
don’t turn loudmouths and thugs into ~ masterclass lesson
Joshua was given a boxing ~ tonight (by Usyk)
resistance, opposition & defeat: person / religion
person: religion managerial master-class
martyrdom (noun) Ole was given a ~ by Brendon (Leicester beats Man U)
gives a masterclass
political martyrdom De Gea ~ (excellent performance in goal)
he had no desire for ~ (going against his party)
destruction: death & life / religion
produced a masterclass
Tottenham ~ at Everton (English football)
mask (drop the mask, etc.) put on a masterclass
mask the Ukrainian ~ (Usyk beats Joshua / boxing)
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knowledge & intelligence: school & education Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: ~ (Thomas Cahill / 2003)
superlative: school & education
Art Matters
masterpiece (engineering masterpiece, ~ (Baltimore Museum of Art)
etc.) Black lives matter
Phoenix said “no” to a ~ mural
masterpiece of spins
a technical ~, spirals and footwork (Michele Kwan) Blue Lives Matter
the ~ movement advocates for the police
engineering masterpiece
these race cars are ~s China matters
the Taif escarpment road is an ~ (Saudi Arabia) why an aging ~ (NPR’s Emily Feng)
technical masterpiece confidentiality matters
a ~ of spins, spirals and footwork (Michele Kwan) information where ~ (privacy-enhancing technologies)
three-hit masterpiece context matters
he threw a ~ (baseball) when it comes to terms, ~ (“C.P. Time”)
work of art, a masterpiece Design Matters
the winning of the South Pole had been a ~ (Amundsen) ~ (a podcast)
achievement, recognition & praise: picture every death matters
creation & transformation / superlative: picture ~ (Fentanyl overdoses of groups of people)
mat (welcome mat) faith matters
~ promises to spark thought and conversation...
welcome mat
Australia is yanking the ~ (for refugees) February matters
Black History is more than one month, but ~
yanking the welcome mat
Australia is ~ (for refugees) His life mattered
welcome: carpets & rugs ~. Period (shot and killed by police)

match (light / strike a match, etc.) History Matters

~ (Drew Gilpin Faust)
struck a match Parents matter
before a crowd poised for violence at his signal, he ~
~ (Parents’ Bill of Rights in Texas / education)
initiation: explosion / fire
representation matters
match (chess match) for Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, ~

see chess match (noun) teaching matters

~ is an audio series exploring...
match (death match)
White Lives Matter
in a death match poor turnout at ~ rallies (NPR)
the two men are engaged ~
words (of every world leader) matter
in a death match with enemies the ~ right now...
American democracy was ~ within (McCarthy, etc.) ♦ The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker, Edited by
Jelani Cobb and David Remnick, with a foreword by Jelani Cobb.
conflict: film / history / sports & games
♦ “Black Lives Matter. History Matters. John Hope Franklin showed us
matchmaker (person) how much they matter to each other.” (“John Hope Franklin: Race and
the Meaning of America” by the great historian Drew Gilpin Faust, The
New York Review, December 17, 2015.)
matchmaker between investors and landowners
he began acting as ~ (marijuana / hemp farming) ♦ “If we truly believe that all lives matter, and Black lives matter and
brown lives matter and the lives of poor people matter, it’s time for us to
division & connection / person / relationship: love, make sure...” (US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who is seeking to end
federal capital punishment.)
courtship & marriage
♦ “If we believe that the lives of incarcerated people matter, she
matter (Black lives matter, etc.) maintains, we have a legal and moral obligation to make these
conditions less inhumane.” (“Dying Behind Bars” by Eyal Press, The New
Yorker, August 23, 2021.)
what matters
♦ “Institutions matter...” (From the live broadcast of the Marsh Chapel
Anjelah Johnson on ~ (Black and Latina women) Service at Boston University on May 1, 2022. One of several variations
on “ X matter(s),” explicitly echoing “Black Lives Matter.” When we think
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about phrases, memes and tropes, we tend to think of them spreading
via the internet and through entertainment, advertising, politics, and maze (terrain)
educational institutions, but they can also be sanctioned and spread from
the pulpit. maze of canyons
wild horses—both mustangs and runaways— roam the ~
inclusion & exclusion: society
maze of (decaying) seracs
mature (verb) one last trip through the ~ (Icefall / Everest)
matured maze of (tire) tracks
our relationship has ~ (between India and US) the only roads are a ~ in the sand (Dadaab)
growth & development: death & life / verb
maze of trails
maturity a ~ that leads to a construction site and a series of roads

democratic maturity maze of (deer) trails

a key measure of the ~ of Turkey a~

growth & development: death & life maze of ice and rocks
alone, lost in a ~ (Nuptse)
maul (a storm mauled the Bahamas, etc.)
maze of mangrove, canals and swamps
maul the Bahamas the forest was a dark ~ (U Minh)
Hurricane Dorian continues to ~ (slow moving)
complexity: infrastructure
force: storm
maze (structures)
maven (person)
maze of (hillside) slums
maven of taste people crammed into the ~ (Kabul)
the Baron de Gunzburg and another ~, Frances Stein
maze of (vertical) slums
apartment mavens squeezed into a ~ without bathrooms (Kabul)
he took them with him as ~ (looking for an apartment)
maze of (narrow) streets
knowledge & intelligence: person crowds of shoppers in the ~ (Nanning)
maverick (noun) maze of tunnels
they got lost in a ~ (Canary Islands)
maverick
I like being a little bit of a ~ maze of bars, restaurants and nightclubs
being the ~ that I was, I decided to challenge those rules a ~ (Kuta Beach, Bali)
Shackleton was too much of a ~ for a desk job
maze of dikes and dams and ditches
maverick mantle the Tulare Lake Basin, with its ~
she wears the ~ (a politician)
maze of shanties and shacks
maverick mindset fought their way through a dense ~ (Mogadishu)
she has soured on the politician’s ~
maze of (refuse-strewn) back streets and alleyways
hard-charging maverick the ~ (Sadr City)
he was a ~ who shook up football (a coach) ♦ "Oh, wait, it's upside-down." (A member of a group of people lost in a
corn maze, referring to their map of the maze.)
iconoclast or maverick
I was more like an ~ when I was young (Felix Bast) complexity: infrastructure
♦ This word relates to Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870). It refers to an
unbranded range animal.
maze (bureaucracy, etc.)
person: animal maze of (bureaucratic) rules
character & personality / sanctioning, authority & non- a civil-service culture, with a ~ (NASA)
conformity: animal / cows & cattle / horse / person heath care maze
Mayflower (Mayflower of the Third an immigrant’s tale of navigating the tangled ~
Aliyah, etc.) bureaucratic maze
her scholarship money got lost in a ~
Zionist Mayflower workers whose only job is to navigate the ~ (Sudan)
the Ruslan, which was the ~ of the Third Aliyah
navigate the (bureaucratic) maze
comparison & contrast / migration: epithet workers whose only job is to ~ (Sudan)

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got lost in a bureaucratic maze fictive motion: river / verb
when her scholarship money ~… direction: movement / river / verb
♦ Gardens are associated with mazes, knot gardens and labyrinths.
People also enjoy corn and mirror mazes. Labyrinth is of Minoan origin
measure (measure up, etc.)
and is associated with the Minotaur.
measure myself by their standards
complexity / situation: infrastructure I don’t ~ (manosphere versus feminism)
McCarthy measure up to the film
does the sound track ~
McCarthy moment
this cancellation culture is the SJW ~ (of Walt Whitman) measure up to the standard she sets
♦ According to Larry Tye, author of Demagogue, “Those records I certainly can’t ~
document in detail every flight [Joe McCarthy] went up in as a tail
gunner. He volunteered for those flights, he came under fire... McCarthy measure up against other films
at great risk to himself when he could have stayed safely on the ground how does it ~ set in Boston
was up there as a tail gunner under enemy fire.” Charles Lindberg, also a
demon of the left, was another American who managed to get himself measure up favorably
into the fight in a real way at the risk of his life.
when we feel we don’t ~...
oppression: allusion / history
fails to measure up
McCarthyism their new burger ~

kind of McCarthyism judgement: tools & technology

the group’s campaign is a ~ that bashes us (says NPR) meat (substance)
oppression: allusion / history
meat of the story
McCarthyite and now it’s time to get into the ~ (Crime in Sports)

McCarthyite hysteria meat of the subject

Democrats are sometimes prone to ~ (against Russia) and then go on to the real ~

oppression: allusion / history meat on the bone

there isn’t any ~ (nothing to investigate)
meal ticket (noun)
substance & lack of substance: food & drink / meat
meal ticket
she was the ~, but he was afraid he could lose her meat (fresh meat)
Warren’s (last) meal ticket fresh meat
Fury is ~ (the boxer and promoter) they knew we were ~ (prison-guard trainees)

lose their meal ticket consumption: animal / meat / predation

NFL players don’t want to ~ (protest and get fired) meat (piece of meat)
saw him as a meal ticket
piece of meat
she ~ (source of support and money)
they get another fresh ~ to fill the slot (adjunct PhDs)
cost & benefit: food & drink / ticket
pieces of meat
worth & lack of worth: food & drink / ticket
football players are ~ sold to the highest bidder
money: sign, signal, symbol
meander (verb) consumption / product / worth & lack of worth: meat
meaty (substance)
meander in new and different directions
as the two states ~ (Ireland and UK) meaty book
people will be talking about this ~ (by Patricia Lockwood)
meander in unexpected ways
conversations ~ substance & lack of substance: food & drink / meat
meanders from action to satire to romance mecca (mecca of bluegrass, etc.)
the film ~
Mecca
highways meander Howard University was the ~ (NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe)
~ in the South
♦ According to Merriam-Webster, this word comes from the name of a mecca of basketball
river in Asia Minor that was known for its turning and winding. It’s a very a ~ (the Christian Street YMCA in Philadelphia)
nice way to think of the word.

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mecca of bluegrass attraction & repulsion / enthusiasm / reverence: place /
the ~ (Bean Blossom, Indiana) religion
mecca of American rock climbing medal (noun)
Yosemite, the ~ (El Cap, Half Dome, etc.)
take it as a medal
mecca of Manolos and Miuccia Pradas I ~ (the label 'bleeding heart')
Manhattan's ~ (Bergdorf Goodman)
achievement, recognition & praise: sign, signal, symbol /
mecca for (500,000) bikers military
a motorcycle ~ (Sturgis, S.D.)
medicine (a taste of one’s own medicine)
Mecca for climbers
Hueco Tanks State Historical Park, a ~ got a taste of her own medicine
she ~ (therapist goes to therapy)
mecca for (Arizona) tourists
♦ “...and the chickens came home to roost.”
a ~ (Kartchner Caverns)
experience: food & drink / health & medicine / taste
mecca for glider pilots
reversal: food & drink / health & medicine / taste
Marfa, Texas, is a ~
fate, fortune & chance: food & drink / health & medicine /
mecca for kite lovers taste
the Washington (D.C.) area is a ~ medieval (adjective)
Mecca for train buffs
medieval
the town is a ~ (Folkston, GA / USA)
to the outside eye, the system appears ~ (Afghanistan)
mecca to (whitewater) paddlers
medieval mindset
the Altays are a ~ (Russia)
Portnikov argued that some officials have a ~ (Ukraine)
New Zealand’s canyoning Mecca
dark, sadistic and medieval
the Mount Aspiring region is ~
his ~ vision of the future (al-Zarqawi)
arts mecca
criticised the measure as “medieval”
the city wants to be an ~
opponents ~ (option of execution by firing squad)
drug mecca past & present / time: history
Spain has replaced Amsterdam as the new European ~
growth & development / knowledge & intelligence /
tourist mecca primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
the ~ of Waikiki (Hawaii) meet (connect)
motorcycle mecca meet at the Strait of Messina
a ~ for 500,000 bikers (Sturgis, S.D.)
the waters of the Eastern and Western Mediterranean ~
spring break meccas division & connection: society
~ like Pensacola and Panama City Beach
meet (attain)
boxing Mecca
he settled in Philadelphia, a ~ (Joe Frazier) met with (limited) success
traditional methods have ~ (problem bears)
gambling meccas
~ like Atlantic City and Las Vegas meet (strict academic) criteria
to get in, girls must ~ (high school)
skateboarding mecca
he moved to the ~, California meet their goals
students should record whether or not they ~
homophile mecca
this ~ (San Francisco) met the objectives
how well the group had ~ of the lesson (schools)
becoming a (tourist) mecca
Maun is ~ (Okavango Delta / Botswana) on track to meet
♦ Over a billion Muslims around the world pray five times a day towards the services are ~ reserve manpower goals (military)
the Saudi city of Makkah, and over two million Muslim pilgrims a year
visit that city for the annual Hajj. attainment: verb
♦ “It’s like you’re praying closer to God’s ear.” (A pilgrim performing Hajj,
on praying in Makkah near the Grand Mosque.)
meet (meet the moment, etc.)
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 Biden has plainly struggled to ~ (2019 campaign) melt away (verb)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: verb
militias have melted away
meet (something can meet you) Shiite ~

met our eyes tension melted away

an unusual sight ~ (on a wilderness trip) all my tension ~

meets the eye appearance & disappearance: snow & ice / verb
there is more to the case than ~ (a murder) meltdown (failure)
fictive meeting & seeing: verb
in meltdown
perception, perspective & point of view: verb
the country is ~ (Yemen)
megaphone (noun)
market meltdown
megaphone for rants a bill to prevent a repeat of the ~ of 2008
the Internet gives anyone a free ~
dot-com meltdown
media megaphone the ~ and poor economy
his voice is amplified by the ~ (a Wall Street analyst)
internet meltdown
social justice megaphones a software bug triggered the ~
~ such as The New York Times and The Washington Post
NotPetya meltdown
digital megaphone Maersk’s global network in the wake of its ~ (worm)
he has been communicating through his ~, Twitter
social-media meltdown
huge megaphone it was a major ~ (Facebook goes down for 14 hours)
I work at The New York Times, I have a ~ and platform
economic meltdown
pulpit and the megaphone the landmark restaurant was a victim of the ~
use the ~ of the office to highlight human rights the economy is in free-fall, ~ (Zimbabwe)

lost his megaphone financial meltdown

I’m happy that Jones has ~ (deplatformed by Twitter, etc.) the IMF tries to avert ~s
♦ “Farm labourers harvesting in the fields recalled [the 25-year-old Italian
we are still paying for the ~ (2010)
Vincent Lunardi] shouting through his silver speaking-trumpet.” (From a
hot-air balloon, 15 September, 1784. From The Age of Wonder by meltdown dealt a deathblow to both ideas
Richard Holmes.) the financial ~ (foreign policy)
♦ “Sullivan stood in the dock [of the Old Bailey] directly facing the witness
box. Above him was a sounding board to amplify his voice.” (1851.) avert (financial) meltdowns
the IMF tries to ~
message / transmission: tools & technology
paying for the (financial) meltdown
melodrama (noun) we are still ~ (2010)
legal melodrama triggered (economic) meltdown
a ~ erupted, dismaying and demoralizing patients sanctions have ~
feeling, emotion & effect: theater went into meltdown
Madrid’s media ~ (over a soccer controversy)
melodramatic (adjective)
destruction / failure, accident & impairment: materials &
melodramatic substances / nuclear energy
don't be so ~
melt down (emotions)
feeling, emotion & effect: theater
melt down in my office
melt (verb) he would ~, start sobbing about his dad (death of dad)
melted (silently) into the trees feeling, emotion & effect: nuclear energy / verb
the platoon ~
melting pot (noun)
melted under the onslaught
Saudi Arabia ~, as Germany… (soccer) melting pot
the ~ was being reimagined as a salad bowl (ethnic identity,
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melting pot, a (beautiful) tapestry, or a salad bowl menu (computer)
is the United States a ~
Search Menu
cultural melting pot Back to ~ (computer)
a foundational element of US society is that we are a ~
start menu
religious melting pot each user has a customized desktop and ~ (computers)
Sarajevo, a ~ throughout its history...
♦ “Macedonia [was] the inspiration for the French word for ‘mixed salad’ tools menu
(macedoine).” (Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. on the ~, click mail merge (computers)
Kaplan.)
♦ Argentina was once describe by a Polish émigré as “batter that has not View menu
yet become cake.” (“Another New World” by Larry Rohter, The New York click on the following items on the ~ (computers)
Review, June 10, 2021.)
♦ “This points to a unique understanding of plurality of Indian society—it items on the View menu
is more like a thali (an Indian meal comprising a selection of separate click on the following ~ (computers)
dishes served on a platter), rather than a melting pot.” (Neha Sahgal, a
lead author of a Pew study that found Indians support religious tolerance alternatives & choices / computer: food & drink
and religious segregation.)
menu (other)
mixture: container / fire / mining / temperature
identity & nature: container / fire / mining / temperature menu of drugs
memory lane (down memory lane) we have a ~ that... (treating virus)
menu of (vaccine) opportunities
trip down memory lane we want to have a whole ~ (COVID-19)
a ~ (old photos)
alternatives & choices / amount: food & drink
walk down memory lane group, set & collection: food & drink
a~
past & present / time : journeys & trips / infrastructure
mercenary (person)
menagerie (group) mercenaries
they are ~ who sell to anyone willing to pay (spying)
menagerie of drones
mercenaries for hire
a veritable ~ circles the skies (Raven, Wasp, Hawk, etc.)
he was ashamed to see his former colleagues ~
menagerie of (fundamental) particles
mercenary approach
the ~ that has been collected since the 1890s (physics)
some of his former colleagues took a more ~
menagerie of (unruly and curiously assorted) ships
mercenary model
an admiral called it a ~ (British Navy in the 1880s)
locals renting rooms has been supplanted by a more ~
zoo of (subatomic) particles
just a mercenary
the Standard Model includes a ~ (physics)
he was ~ brought in to win a championship (baseball)
♦ “Some nights at the bar I would descend into discussions with
cosmologists and other[s]... and discover that Doctor Seuss meant more character & personality: money / person
to them than a menagerie of imagined animals and a vivid and
troublesome cat.” (“The Science of Dr Seuss,” BBC, Sounds, with Robin person: money
Ince. Seven Doctor Seuss books were cancelled in 2021.)
mercurial (adjective)
group, set & collection: animal / zoo
mercurial insight
mend (on the mend) he is a visionary with a capacity for ~ (scientist)

on the mend mercurial manager

but now his life is ~ she has chosen to be a ~ (passionate but challenging)
the presidents says he and the country are ~ (pandemic)
mercurial personality
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / mechanism his ~ caused headaches (an employee)
mend (verb) mercurial producer
the ~ threw a baked potato at his head in 2018
mend the divisions
~ in East Timorese society (elections) mercurial trickster
Brando was a ~, he could be very selfish (the actor)
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb
mercurial and uncertain
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brash and mercurial get into this mess
Somalia's pirates are ~ so how did we ~ (computers)
♦ Anxiety; irritability; insomnia; emotional instability; depression; suicidal
thoughts; racing thoughts; fearful feelings; feelings of persecution; walking into a mess
feelings of worthlessness; anhedonia (an inability to feel pleasure); loss he was ~, a complete rebuild (a sports franchise)
of self-control; loss of joy in life; a vexing inner restlessness; restless
sleep; moodiness; withdrawal from society; fear of further deterioration; flaws & lack of flaws / situation: hygiene
vomiting; enlarged brain; congestion in lungs; gingivitis; tremors...
(Symptoms of mercury poisoning, known as Mad Hatter’s Disease. message (send a message, etc.)
Suffered by those who did fire-gilding in the past.)

character & personality: materials & substances

message of hate
bin Laden’s ~ (terrorism)
merry-go-round
message of hope
merry-go-round of foster care a ~ versus false hope (schizophrenia)
the ~ the film offers a ~

coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / movement: message of unity and equality
sports & games his ~ (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

mesmerizing (adjective) messages about cheating

schools send mixed ~
mesmerizing
he is ~, you can’t take your eyes off him (Ronaldo) play's message
some have questioned the ~ (controversial, political)
mesmerizing performance
she bewitched all with a ~ song's message
the ~
makes the film mesmerizing
strangeness and emotion ~ core message
his ~ is…
♦ This word comes from Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). As such, it is
a eponym. Like Kung Pao chicken, or General Tso’s chicken. Roy Allen key message
and Frank Wright (A & W Root Beer). Hans Asperger. Robert Wilhelm
Bunsen (the Bunsen burner). Samuel Colt (the Colt revolver). Gabriel I think one of the ~s is…
Fallopian. Dr. Richard J. Gatling (the Gatling gun). Joseph Guillotin. The
Greek God Hymen. Mikhail Kalashnikov. Jules Leotard. Joseph Lister public health message
(Listerine). John Landis Mason (the Mason jar). Claude-Etienne Minie Angolans have resisted the ~ (Marburg virus)
(the Minie bullet). Jean Nicot de Villemain (nicotine). Louis Pasteur
(pasteurization). Julius Petri (petri dish). Henry Shrapnel (the shrapnel underlying message
shell). Etienne de Silhouette. Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson
(Smith & Wesson). Frederick Wilfred Stokes (the Stokes mortar). John understand their ~ (autistic behaviors)
Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. James Syme (the Syme’s / Syme
amputation). Uziel Gel (the Uzi). Germany’s Count Ferdinand von inspiring message
Zeppelin. not exactly an ~
leaders issued ~s
feeling, emotion & effect: magic
mess (person) mixed message
schools send ~s about cheating
mess subliminal message
he’s a ~ (not in control of his life)
logos can be powerful, and they are all about ~s
hot mess wrong message
see hot mess (person)
sending the ~ to kids (that thin is good)
character & personality: hygiene
important psychological message
mess (noun) this would send an ~ to Noriega

hot mess message is getting through

see hot mess our message is ~

becoming a mess get the message across

our generation is ~ (social media) we need to ~ to every fan that racist abuse is wrong

clean up the mess send messages

grownups must ~ (finances) people ~ through their body language
♦ “[In the hill and mountain country of northern India]... inter-village
cleaning up this mess communication is carried on by shouting. Standing on a commanding
we're ~ (diplomacy) point, maybe a big rock or the roof of a house, a man cooees to attract
the attention of the people in a neighboring village, and when the cooee

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is answered the message is shouted across in a high-pitched voice. metastasized into a (global) crisis
From village to village the message is tossed, and is broadcast
throughout large areas in an incredibly short space of time.” (The cooee recklessness ~ (financial collapse)
method of communication. From Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett.)
metastasized into a Great Depression
message: tools & technology the great slump could have ~ (2010)
messenger (shoot the messenger) metastasized from a controversy to an indication
shoots the messenger the situation has ~ of a larger problem (blackface)
if he doesn’t like the intelligence he gets, he ~ (a leader) grown and metastasized
message: allusion / person extremism has ~ in the country

messiah (noun) allow the (underlying) problem to metastasize

treating the symptoms of the problem can ~ (politics)
messiah of the (global warming) movement
she has been described as the ~ (Greta Thunberg) affliction: health & medicine / verb
growth & development: health & medicine / verb
political messiah
Bobby Kennedy was being transformed into a ~ (1968)
metastasizing (adjective)
♦ “He said there was gold here. He lied. He is not perfect!” (The metastasizing (coronavirus) outbreak
character of Auda Abu Tayi, played by Anthony Quinn, to the character the ~ in the US...
of Sherif Ali, played by Omar Sharif, about the character T.E. Lawrence,
played by Peter O’Toole, from the great film Lawrence of Arabia, directed affliction: health & medicine
by David Lean.)
growth & development: health & medicine
message: Bible / person / religion
metaverse (noun)
messianic (adjective)
Metaverse
messianic terms the ~ is the next frontier (Mark Zuckerberg)
he saw the mission in almost ~ (WeWork)
Metaverse app
messianic zeal ~ allows kids into virtual strip clubs
he has a ~ (Adam Neumann of WeWork)
metaverse landscape
message: Bible / religion the much-hyped ~
messy (adjective) described the metaverse
messy Zuckerberg has ~ as the company’s new “North Star”
the world is ~ (Barack Obama on being “woke”) computer: astronomy
messy situation area / environment: astronomy
it’s a ~ meteoric (adjective)
described as messy meteoric
we separated under circumstances best ~ (relationship) her academic progress was less than ~
flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene
meteoric rise
met (met by anger, etc.) his ~ was the stuff of New York dreams (literary agent)
she had a ~ and a heartbreaking fall (Whitney Houston)
met by violence the podcast chronicles her ~ and fall from grace
somewhere along the way they were ~ (murdered couple) she enjoyed a ~ through Washington’s journalism ranks
his resignation cuts short a ~ through Scottish politics
fictive meeting & seeing: verb
a racial slur has stopped his ~ in its tracks (singer)
metastasize (verb) the ~ in popularity of the word “bae” (2014)

metastasize meteoric success

this is a cancer that has been allowed to ~ (an issue) he achieved ~ (owner of Israeli winery)
speed: astronomy
metastasized
the mission has ~ (a military operation) comparison & contrast: affix

metastasized to (over) $20,000

meteorically (adverb)
that debt ~ (credit-card debt) risen meteorically
metastasized into a (regional) crisis the money made by social-media influencers has ~
the cancer has ~ (terrorism) speed: astronomy

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Methuselah ♦ “Dancers who accused a leading choreographer of transphobia have
claimed she has jeopardised their safety by publicising her resignation. /
Rosie Kay resigned this week from the dance company she founded in
comic-book Methuselah 2004... / Kay believes what ensued at the dinner illustrates how women
a ~, Stan Lee died aged 95... who stand up for women’s rights are deliberately smeared with
accusations of transphobia and more. Others there that night describe it
differently. They claim, as alcohol was consumed, she crossed a line by
Methuselah Foundation airing her views in a hostile way... / One of the company members told
the Immortality institute, the ~ (longevity science) the BBC: ‘Initially, I was OK with her asking about why we identify as
non-binary. It’s OK to be a bit curious. But her repeated questions
“Methuselah Trusts” stepped into micro-aggression territory...’” (“Rosie Kay: Dancers write
~ can build massive wealth open letter to choreographer after gender row” by Katie Razzall, Culture
editor, BBC, December 10, 2021.)
♦ Long living things from turtles to trees have been named Methuselah.
Methuselah is the name given to the bristlecone pine in California’s ♦ "A scientific gang fight; furor; fierce outcry; fierce criticism; objections;
White Mountains, thought to be the oldest living thing at 4,600 years old. personal attacks; leading the charge against someone (and his theory);
savage mockery; allegations of hubris; condemnation of a scholarly
past & present / time: Bible / religion paper as dreck (trash, rubbish); bearing a grudge; resentment; tarring
someone as being a charlatan; claims of distorting what others scientists
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / survival, are saying; claims of willful misrepresentation…" (A scientific dispute
persistence & endurance: allusion / Bible / religion involving academics. From "E. O. Wilson's Theory of Everything" by
Howard French, The Atlantic Magazine, November, 2011.)
metronomic (operation) ♦ "Albert Sabin... turned to me and said, 'Now Dr. Salk, you should know
better than to ask a question like that.' It was like being kicked in the
metronomic teeth. I could feel the resistance and the hostility and the disapproval. I
she is not ~, she’s not a machine, she’s very human (athlete) never attended a single one of those meetings afterward without that
same feeling." (Dr. Jonas Salk on being put in his place by Albert Sabin
consciousness & awareness / feeling, emotion & effect / at a meeting.)
operation: mechanism inclusion & exclusion: society
miasma (noun) microclimate
miasma of sleaze and corruption microclimate of white literary bourgeois Cape Town
the administration is mired in a ~ (politics) her novel is an evocation of the ~
corruption: air / atmosphere / smell environment: weather & climate
Michael Jordan (Michael Jordan of the microscope (under a microscope)
dog-show world, etc.) under the microscope
Michael Jordan of the dog-show world cycling is ~ (Lance Armstrong, on doping)
Mick is the ~ (a blue terrier) every aspect of their relationship is ~ (celebrities)
now her own behavior is ~ (sex scandal)
achievement, recognition & praise: epithet now it’s Trump’s turn ~ (a book by Bob Woodward)
microaggression (groups) get put under a microscope
the first time a family gets a foster kid they ~
microaggression
~s are nothing compared to... (life / hunger, etc.) analysis, interpretation & explanation / attention, scrutiny
& promotion: tools & technology / eye
micro-aggression territory
her repeated questions stepped into ~ microscope (through a microscope)
microaggression trauma look at things through a microscope
most of the world doesn’t care about your ~ my job is to ~, not the binoculars (reporter)
microaggression websites perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology
~ where students document microaggressions...
Midas (Midas touch)
microaggressions, discrimination or macroaggressions
the difference between ~ is that... Midas touch
he had the ~ (Steve Jobs)
collection of microaggressions
Morris showcases a ~ (All Her Little Secrets) man with the Midas touch
Jack Dorsey was the ~
treat every minor insult as a microaggression
money: allusion
they treat ~ (an Indian foreign student in the U.S.)
♦ In academia, eye-rolling can be considered a sign of patriarchy and a middle (in the middle)
micro-aggression.
♦ “Microaggressions: Be Careful What You Say,” NPR, Tell Me More, caught in the middle
April 3, 2014. civilians are ~ (war)

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situation: center & periphery / position what we’ve got coming this weekend is a ~ (winter storm)
Middle Ages (history) affliction: health & medicine

medical Middle Ages migrate (verb)

the Civil War was fought at the end of the ~ (US)
swimsuits migrate
marching backward to the Middle Ages ~ (suit “wedgie” disqualifies swimmer)
it feels like this country is ~ (religion)
movement: verb
growth & development: history
migration (the Great Migration, etc.)
past & present / time: history
middle-of-the-road “Great Mining Migration”
the ~ may lead to serious repercussions (bitcoin)
middle-of-the-road approach
we are taking a ~ “great mining migration”
what crypto enthusiasts call the ~
middle-of-the-road Democrat ♦ Before 1910, more than 90 percent of blacks lived in the South. In
he’s been a ~ his entire career (a politician) 1940, 77 percent of black Americans still lived in the South—40 percent
in the rural South. By the end of the migration, black America was only
position, policy & negotiation: position half Southern, and less than a quarter rural; “urban” had become a
euphemism for “black.” The black migration was one of the largest and
center & periphery: position most rapid mass internal movements of people in history—perhaps the
middle-of-the-roader greatest not caused by the immediate threat of execution or starvation. In
sheer numbers it outranks the migration of any other ethnic group—
Italians or Irish or Jews or Poles—to this country.” (The Promised Land:
middle-of-the-roaders The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas
they are ~ Lemann.)
♦ 1947. August 15, 1947. “Months of violence sharpened the divisions,
position, policy & negotiation: person / position highlighted Jinnah’s arguments, achieved partition. On August 15,
center & periphery: position 1947... a bleeding Pakistan was carved out of the body of a bleeding
India.” (Halfway to Freedom by Margaret Bourke-White.)
midnight (two minutes to midnight, etc.) ♦ 1939-1946. “Between 1939 and 1946 an unprecedented number of
people living between the Baltic and the Black Sea were uprooted from
one more stroke closer to midnight their homes. Over 20 million people were forced by fear, or by
for him, the campaign clock took ~ (failing) compulsion, to leave their homes, and to seek new, and mostly
permanent sanctuary elsewhere.” (Atlas of Russian History by Martin
two minutes before midnight Gilbert.)
it’s ~ but I’m not desperate (genetic / tech safeguards) migration: allusion / history
♦ This is a reference to the Doomsday Clock.
mile (go the extra mile)
fate, fortune & chance: allusion / clock / day
timeliness & lack of timeliness: allusion / clock / day go the extra mile
we will have to ~ (negotiations)
midwife (person)
gone the extra mile to make
midwife of a flourishing English literature we have ~ the fair safe
Caxton was the ~ (the printer)
go the extra mile to ensure
midwives of success we will ~ his safety (a famous inmate)
blunders are the ~ (the Museum of Failure)
extent & scope: distance / journeys & trips
played midwife to (new) democracies difficulty, easiness & effort: distance / journeys & trips
the US ~ in Germany and Japan after World War II
mile (the last mile)
served as midwife
Stanford has ~ to many disruptive technologies last mile
more attention paid to the ~ (COVID vaccine into arms)
creation & transformation: birth / person
attainment: distance / journeys & trips
midwife (as verb)
mile (by a mile)
midwife the birth
dispatched home in order to ~ of a Communist state won by a mile
the better fighter ~ (Usyk beats Joshua)
creation & transformation: birth / part of speech / verb
extent & scope: distance
migraine (noun)
full-on migraine

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mileage achievement, recognition & praise / attainment /
importance & significance / progress & lack of progress:
political mileage infrastructure / journeys & trips / sign, signal, symbol
~ to be gotten from historic grievances (blacks)
milk (verb)
given the series (all sorts of) mileage
the pandemic has ~ (lockdown entertainment) milked the moment
the Israelis really ~ (a diplomatic success)
cost & benefit: distance
milk this issue for all it's worth
milestone (noun) he will ~ (a politician)
milestone milked them for all they were worth
the groups applauded Bush's signing of the bill as a ~ he seized the opportunities and ~ (Napoleon)
it was a ~, it held a lot of symbolic meaning (diplomacy)
milk money out of the public
milestone in (modern Holocaust) awareness it has always sought to ~ (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Eichmann's trial was a ~
milk (as much) money (as possible) out of the public
milestone in the development they try to ~ (disgruntled boxing fan)
a ~ of Africa (emergency-med conference)
taking & removing: cows & cattle / verb
milestone in our journey
this is a significant ~ towards the promise of… (medicine) milk run (noun)
milk run
milestone for a kindergartner
it was a ~, like a neighborhood delivery (firebombing)
tying his shoes can be quite a ~
danger / difficulty, easiness & effort: military
milestone payments
the companies get ~ to encourage development (space) mill (gossip / rumor mill)
another milestone gossip mill
this is ~ in Georgia's democratic development (election) the ~ at the office
developmental milestones rumor mill
~ occur (babies) we all know the ~ churns out misinformation
getting involved in the ~ at work can get sticky
grim milestone
a ~ is passed (US death toll passes 50,000 / pandemic) rumor mill says
the ~ he may have plans that do include Fury (boxing)
major milestone
the extraditions are a ~ in our effort… (law) rumour mill spun out of control
the ~, creating fear in the high school
next milestone
the ~ in neural prosthetics (for quadriplegics) rumor mills whirred
in the soldiers’ camps, ~
sad milestone
this is a ~ on our descent into intolerance (shooting) ♦ Viva voce is Medieval Latin for “with a living mouth.” If you hear
something viva voce it means somebody told you. It has come to mean
“word of mouth.”
22 milestones
we laid out a series of ~ (contract) ♦ Hawaii has the "coconut wireless" or the Coconut Wire. The Philippines
have the Bamboo Telegraph. Ghanaians can hear things via "the talking
drum." From time immemorial, as Ibrahim al-Koni tells us, the desert
milestone was reached winds have brought rumors and reports to the Sahrawis: “I heard it on
today a ~ (Stock Market hits 40,000) the wind.” Americans can "hear it through the grapevine," or hear a
report or account through the rumor mill. Italians say "per sentito dire"
passed a milestone which basically means, "heard it said," and they hear gossip "voci di
the country appears to have ~ (Iran / nuclear weapons) corridoio" which means "hall voice" or "voices in the hall." These systems
operate by word-of-mouth, or, nowadays, the Internet.
passed a milestone ♦ “They’ve got a gallows-bad reputation, but, you know what a place the
the country appears to have ~ (Iran / nuclear weapons) beach is for talking.” / “The beach, if you don’t know is the name of the
gossip mill of white derelicts and rough customers that hang around your
♦ “The Appian Way began, as would all Roman Roads, from the Golden South Sea island ports. You’ll find captains and traders too fond of their
Milestone (milarium aureum) at the Forum in Rome, the point from which grog and properly down on their luck. I’ll admit, I was fond of the gin
all distances in the empire were measured... Milestones every 1,000 myself back then...” (The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson.)
paces gave the distances between cities...” (To the Ends of the Earth:
The Great Travel and Trade Routes of Human History by Irene M. ♦ “You may take it for a fact that anything of this kind is not only noticed
Franck and David M. Brownstone.) and discussed by a man’s own race but by some hundred and fifty
natives as well... [T]he news flew, in the usual mysterious fashion, from
♦ Traditional sociologists listed five milestones of adulthood: finishing mouth to mouth, till Bisesa’s duenna heard of it and told Bisesa.” (The
school; leaving home, getting a job; marrying; and having a child. affecting and horrible “Beyond the Pale” by Rudyard Kipling.)

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♦ “’You’re sure you’ve took no ‘arm?” cried Mrs. Cloke, who had heard
the news by farm-telegraphy, which is older but swifter than Marconi’s. / million-dollar
‘No. I’m perfectly well,’ Sophie protested.” (“An Habitation Enforced” by
Rudyard Kipling.) million-dollar question
♦ “Word around the campfire for me was...that there was at least that's the ~
speculation, maybe informed speculation, that...” (A sports analyst.)
importance & significance: money
♦ “‘Gossip is a fearful thing’—this phrase was found in the note left by the
film star Ruan Langyu after she took her own life.” (“On ‘Gossip Is a
Fearful Thing’ by Lu Xun, from Jottings under Lamplight, edited by Eileen
millstone (noun)
J. Cheng and Kirk A. Denton.)
millstone of debt
♦ He who gossips to you will gossip about you!
if students suddenly had this ~ lifted from their necks
content / gossip: manufacturing
millstone around the neck
mill (grist for the mill) the nuclear weapons became a ~ (South Africa)

grist for their (propaganda) mill millstone around the president’s neck
the leaks will be more ~ (war) Republicans see the scandal as yet another ~ (election)

grist for the tabloid mill millstone for the Republicans

his attention-grabbing antics are ~ opposition to Obamacare was expected to be a ~ (politics)

provided the grist debt millstone

the report ~ for a lot of conspiracy theories the board has worked to reduce the ~ around the club’s neck
♦ Grist is grain that is ground to make flour. permanent millstone
content / gossip: manufacturing his critics will consider this a ~ that could weigh Biden
down (Afghan withdrawal)
mill (through the mill)
millstone will be removed
through the mill the ~ from the neck of both white and black people
I’ve been ~ already (a boxer)
become a millstone
♦ This is similar to wringer (through the wringer)
his passion project that he saw as a public service has ~
experience: mechanism / manufacturing ♦ “So I walked in circles for days like a blind horse / Harnessed to an
affliction: mechanism oaken pole that turns a millstone, / A sight we might have seen so many
years ago-- / Barley being ground near a swift and silent millrace--” (The
mill (other) great poet and former US poet laureate Billy Collins. From “Collins
Values Approachable Poetry, Not Pretension,” NPR, Talk of the Nation,
April 6, 2011.)
"mills of citizenship"
the role of French schools as ~ (and Frenchness) ♦ Millstones come in pairs.

oppression: weight
diploma mill
he received his degree from a ~ (coach) mince (verb)
the NCAA is trying to clean up the high school ~s
~s are only one troubling part of youth basketball minced no words
Putin ~
essay mills
students turn to ‘~’ to help them cheat speech: cooking / verb

propaganda mill mind (wrap / get one’s mind around

the leaks will be more grist for their ~ (war)
something, etc.)
pill mill
the doctor ran an illegal "~" for addicts, dealers wrap our minds around what
it was hard to ~ had happened
term-paper mill
online ~s are the curse of education wrap his mind around what
he is trying to ~ the future will be like (after disaster)
online (term-paper) mills
~ are the curse of education get their heads around
that’s very difficult for people to ~ (murder trial)
♦ A mill traditionally ground wheat, then the word became synonymous
with a factory.
get my head around it
♦ Workers in West Bengal's foundries make manhole covers for New I still can’t ~
York City. The workers make a few dollars a day, and are not supposed
to work barefoot.
wrap you mind around it
creation & transformation: manufacturing you try to ~ but it’s just incomprehensible (a disaster)
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 I still can’t ~ it’s something I can just never ~ (horrible memory)
comprehension & incomprehension / mind: verb put Amundsen out of his mind
comprehension & incomprehension: head Scott now tried to ~, he refused to discuss the subject
mind (go through one’s mind, etc.) sticks in your mind
it ~ forever (a combat memory)
cross your mind
did it ~ that… mind: container

going through your mind mind (open mind)

what was ~ at the time (the sinking of a ship)
open mind
go through your head I kept an ~, but... (antiracism)
thousands of thoughts ~ (on a sinking ship)
open mind with regard to everything
went through your mind I’ve got to keep an ~ (military discipline)
so what ~
tunnel vision versus an open mind
mind: movement / space ~ (criminal investigations)
mind (platform) have an open mind
God tells us to ~ and an open heart (interfaith issues)
on her mind we ~, we have to think out of the box (WHO and Ebola)
the passage of time has been ~ lately (an aging actor)
keeping an open mind
on your mind we are ~ (about cause of disease)
what’s ~
maintain an open mind
on my mind I want to ~, I’ve read Mao, Marx, Lenin... (a US general)
but here’s why integration was ~
♦ “The country is in a better place than it was in 2001 and the Taliban
have become more open-minded.” (General Sir Nick Carter, Britain’s
on people’s minds Chief of Defense Staff.)
it’s got to be ~ (possibilities)
♦ "A person can be so open-minded that his brains fall out." (A critic,
weigh on people’s minds speaking of Thabo Mbeki's willingness to accept any argument against
giving antiretrovirals to South African H.I.V. sufferers.)
it will ~ (bad repercussions)
mind: container
get it off my mind
I can’t ~ mind (top of mind)
mind: platform top of mind
what else do you want to know, what questions are ~
mind (container)
top-of-mind awareness
in mind retain loyal customers with ~ (TOMA / marketing)
what do you have ~ (idea)
mind: space
change our minds importance & significance / priority / superiority &
we might ~ inferiority: direction / position
opened (Afghan women's) minds mind (back of mind)
the media has ~
at the back of your mind
keep in mind other cases like this, are they always ~ (child abuse)
it is a benchmark that we must ~ missing something is always playing ~
keep that in mind in the back of your mind
we’ve got to ~ (explanation) it’s always ~ (shark attacks / Perth)
put the problem out of his mind in the back of our mind
he tried to ~ the Wichita incident was ~ (caution after mistake)
come into your mind mind: space
how did the idea ~ importance & significance / priority / superiority &
get it out of my mind inferiority: direction / position
I can’t ~ mind-bending (adjective)
get out of my mind mind-bending

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 these new theories are ~ (post-string theory / physics) ~ require a lot of energy
mind: materials & substances computer / product: mining
comprehension & incomprehension: head
mine (search)
minded (steely-minded)
mine (real-time) intelligence
steely-minded detective security personnel will now ~ (at airports)
Miss Marple is a ~
mine the (elaborate) chemical signatures
mind: materials & substances researchers have begun to ~ of breath (medicine)
mindful (adjective) searching & discovery: mining / verb

‘mindful’ of how minefield

she urges people to be ~ they’re treating the planet
minefield
mindful about respecting the unwritten rules, hidden agendas, and ~s
I will be more ~ personal space (Joe Biden)
minefield of (early) adolescence
mindful choice the story follows him through the precarious ~
making this ~ of inclusive language (Y’all)
minefield of challenges
mindful life the tumor presents a ~ for the surgeons
tips for living a ~
minefield for those
Mindful Masculinity the immigration bill is a ~ who have been waiting...
For The Love Of Men: A New Vision For ~ (Liz Plank)
minefield of (US) politics
♦ Mindful pregnancy; parenting; politics; diet; burger...
I'm not going to walk into the ~ (a foreign leader)
♦ Like many contemporary cliches, this sometimes appears in quotes.
People may say it, but it is often impossible to know exactly what they minefield of false-news stories
mean by it.
social media has become a ~
wants, needs, hopes & goals: target
geopolitical minefield
consciousness & awareness: head
South Korea’s new president steps into a ~
mindfully
political minefield
mindfully reject how to dispose of his body is a ~ (a dead dictator)
~ it every day (sexism and misogyny) advertisers are afraid to step in any ~s (Super Bowl)
consciousness & awareness: head relational minefield
school can be a daily ~ for girls (social aggression)
mindfulness (noun)
rhetorical minefield
mindfulness he has entered the Mideast's ~ (use of word crusade)
~ is paying attention to what’s happening...
~ has become a buzzword in current mainstream culture social minefield
every day of school can be a new ~ (girls' bullying)
mindfulness movement
the growing ~ entering a (dangerous) minefield
the administration is ~ with serious repercussions (politics)
mindfulness programs
there’s little research behind ~ (schools) navigate a minefield
ad makers had to ~ (Super Bowl 55 / pandemic, strife)
mindfulness training
even the military and police provide ~ planted a (political) minefield
the British colonizers ~ in the 1920s (Sudan)
research on mindfulness
clinical ~ stepped into this minefield
the US ~, this tangle of alliances (northern Syria)
embracing mindfulness ♦ “So the idea here is to prioritize tests, localize decision-making, and to
schools are ~ be careful that we don’t run blindly back into a virus minefield of people
that can be sick but don’t know it, asymptomatic but infectious... Masks
wants, needs, hopes & goals: target are a really important layer in this effort... The mask...kinda defuses the
consciousness & awareness: head mine, if you will, in the virus minefield.” (ABC News Homeland Security
analyst Tom Bossert.)
mine (bitcoin mine, etc.) ♦ Mine / UXO Messages / Game and fun are fine but not with dangerous
objects and in suspicious places. / Play only in safety places. / Do NOT
bitcoin mines throw and do not touch UXO. Report Police, KPC or KFOR. / Do NOT go

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into abandoned houses. / Do NOT go in suspicious places for any the FA Cup allows a ~ to kill a giant (soccer)
reason. / Do NOT touch suspicious objects. / Do NOT touch and do not
take anything that is not yours. (A poster at the entrance to the main
the company is a ~ in the world of tech giants
police station in Pristina, Kosovo, in 2008, showing pictures of the
common types of mines and UXO found in the region.) footballing minnow
♦ “It looked like a little can; it was interesting.” (Mara al-Miri, 10, injured
England was knocked out by Iceland, a ~ (Euro 2016)
by the explosion of a bomblet in the village of Ayt el Shaab in southern
Lebanon.) European minnows
the ~ knocked out Lyon on penalties (Apoel Nicosia)
danger: explosion / military / walking, running & jumping / ♦ "Back home I was a big fish in a small pond, but in Miami I'm just a
weapon minnow surrounded by sharks." (A model.)

miner (bitcoin miner, etc.) ♦ “The whole country will be behind the minnows.” (Les Herbiers plays
Paris St-Germain for the final of the Coupe de France.)

bitcoin miners competition / size: animal / fish

~ prefer the US (cheap electricity, few rules) importance & significance / power / strength & weakness:
Nebraska is welcoming ~ animal / fish / size
product: mining / person minoritized (groups)
Mini-Me minoritized
historically research has left out ~ communities
mini-me violence against black ~ women and girls
she made me look like her, a ~ (child sex abuse) the rule targets racially ~ athletes (Rule 50 / Olympics)
Natalie is my only child, my ~ (mysterious death) we don’t know how many respondents were racially ~
mini me inclusion & exclusion: society
he was just ~, he was Alan junior, he was me all over...
Minotaur
mini-me crop tops and padded bras
~ (for under-tens) (like adults) Minotaur of the national interest
they would have sacrificed his expedition to the ~
mini-me (US army) version
we just created a ~ (Afghan Army collapses in 2021) Minotaur at the heart of the labyrinth
it’s Nixon who’s the ~ (the film Frost/Nixon)
mini-mayors
Chicago’s 50 aldermen are ~ of their individual fiefdoms Operation Minotaur
~, the US military operation to clear a village (Iraq 2007)
mini-Michele
we were so alike that my family called me ~ affliction: allusion / creature

Donald Trump’s mini-me mint (verb)

are we ~, always agreeing with the Americans (Brits)
minted more (Black) millionaires
♦ This is an allusion to the late, great and greatly beloved Verne Troyer,
a Michigander. He affected not only so many people but also the the company has ~ (McDonald’s)
language.
creation & transformation: money / verb
♦ Mini-Me: [writes] Are you a clone of an angel? / Foxxy Cleopatra: Ohhh
how sweet. No, my mini-man, I’m not. / Mini-Me: [writes] Are you sure minted
you don’t have a little clone in you? / Foxxy Cleopatra: Yes, I’m sure. /
Mini-Me: Would you like to? (The film Austin Powers in Goldmember.)
freshly minted
allusion: film ~ graduates
relationship / resemblance: allusion / film / size
newly minted
mining (data, etc.) ~ M.B.A.s
guests jockeyed for face time with the ~ star (party)
bitcoin mining
~ takes a lot of electricity (to power servers) recently minted
he is a ~ University of Iowa MFA graduate
data-mining
~ software sorts information creation & transformation: money

text mining minute (last minute)

~ software to analyze customer feedback
last-minute pardon
searching & discovery: mining some convicts clung to the hope of a ~
minnow (noun) timeliness & lack of timeliness: clock

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minute (for a minute, etc.) pray for a miracle
until the moment of death, families ~
for a minute
he played football ~ (=a short time / “Suge” Knight) pray for miracles
we still ~ in West Virginia (trapped miners)
time: amount
believe in miracles
minute (at this minute) we ~ (that trapped miners are alive)
at this minute worked a miracle
the entire Horn of Africa seems really unstable ~ (NPR) you ~ last night (praise for a nurse)
past & present / time: day pulled off a miracle
they ~... (sports comeback)
miracle (Miracle on the Hudson, etc.) ♦ "We still pray for miracles in West Virginia. There is still a chance and
there's hope and we have that." (Gov. Joe Manchin, on the possibility
Miracle on the Hudson that miners trapped in an explosion were still alive.)
the crash landing became known as the ~ (Flight 1549)
fate, fortune & chance: religion
“Miracle at Medinah” cost & benefit: religion
Europe’s ~ (2012 Ryder Cup comeback / golf)
miraculous (adjective)
Bat Cave Miracle
the ~, 16 August 1992, Nickajack Lake Cave... miraculous
♦ “Knowing that the divers on the scene were not up to this specialized
the last-minute goal bordered on ~ (sports)
task of entering the cave, and assuming—that Gant might still be alive in
an air pocket—[Buddy] Lane pleaded by telephone that trained caver miraculous escape
divers be called in...” (“The Bat Cave Miracle,” 16 August 1992, reports of his ~ (from capture)
Nickajack Lake Cave, New Hope, Tennessee.)
♦ “I would just like to comment briefly about that casualty chart. The loss
fate, fortune & chance: epithet of one human life is intolerable to any of us who are in the military. But I
would tell that the casualties of that order of magnitude considering the
miracle (Miracle of Istanbul, etc.) job that has been done and the number of forces that are involved is
almost miraculous...” (General Schwarzkopf, at the “Mother of All News
Conferences,” the Gulf War, 1991.)
Miracle of Bern
the "~", as the '54 final is known (World Cup soccer) fate, fortune & chance: religion
feeling, emotion & effect: religion
Miracle of Istanbul
the ~, it’s called (Liverpool wins Champions League) mirage (noun)
fate, fortune & chance: epithet mirage of a media company
his reporting suggests that Ozy is a ~ (fraud)
miracle (other)
mirage of sorts
miracle his lead was a ~ (uncounted mail-in ballots)
there can be ~s when you believe…
who knows what ~s you can achieve quick-fix mirage
photosynthesis is a ~ linking heaven and earth beware of the ~ (brain-fitness programs)

miracle cure essentially (just) a mirage

there's no ~ on the horizon (brain tumors) the US’s most valuable startup was ~ (WeWork)

miracle drug just a mirage

the beneficiary of a ~ is the housing recovery ~

miracle pill Inside the Mirage

see pill (miracle pill) ~: America’s Fragile Relationship with Saudi Arabia
♦ "In crossing the desert, I perceived, at a distance, immense tracts,
miracle worker which had the appearance of rivers or lakes, with islands of sand rising in
you're a ~ (helped solve a person's problem) the midst of them; they presented themselves to the eye, in the horizon
of the desert, as places where one might quench one’s thirst... This
Christmas miracle illusion only rendered my situation more dreadful, when I was consumed
with thirst, and saw the sea receding before me as by enchantment. It is
sometimes ~s just don't happen
impossible to form any correct idea of a mirage without have seen one.”
(Travels Through Central Africa To Timbuctoo; and Across The Great
accomplished miracles Desert, to Morocco; Performed in the Years 1824-1828 by Rene Caillie.)
he ~
♦ “The mirages in the Antarctic had a clarity that was almost beyond
belief, and made it difficult for an explorer to know whether he was
expect miracles seeing land or not. Second ranges of mountains appeared to be built up
you can't ~ (search dogs) on top of the real mountains lying below, and these false ranges were
immensely high and clear in outline. They hung there in the pale sky for

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a few minutes and then vanished only to re-form themselves again, so those who tried to ~ (influencer Belle Gibson)
that the sailing ships drifted about in an atmosphere of ghostly fantasy. It
was both awe-inspiring and wonderfully beautiful.” (The Fatal Impact by echo, mirror and differ
Alan Moorehead.)
the two stories began to ~ from each other (a writer)
♦ “Some of the things you could see from a Great Lakes steamer were
not really there... In certain lights the lakes could produce mirages. A repetition: mirror / verb
freighter on the skyline would suddenly break up, midships section
vanishing altogether, pilothouse and after cabins becoming extremely
tall, reaching up like lighthouses in the deep water; then, after a minute
mirror (noun)
or two, the lighthouses would disappear and there would be a steamboat
again, prosaic as any other cargo carrier. On the north shore of Lake mirrors of life
Superior the Canadian cities of Fort William and Port Arthur lie at the end writers whose books are faithful ~
of a broad bay, and on the seaward side of this bay there are islands;
and if you sail from one of these cities late in the day these islands mirror and a bridge
suddenly multiply so that each one is accompanied by a twin, each rock
we are a ~ to culture at large (TikTok)
and tree perfectly duplicated, and no matter how hard you look you
cannot tell which island is real and which is not...After a while the
imitation islands rise into the air, get all streaky and distorted, and then looking in the mirror
go away entirely, and the lake is clear once more. I feel sorry for people we have been ~ and changing the way we teach
who have never cruised the Great Lakes by steamboat.” (Waiting for the we have been ~ and rethinking our approach (education)
Morning Train: An American Boyhood by Bruce Catton.)

fantasy & reality / substance & lack of substance: desert

look at himself in the mirror
he's got to ~ (businessman / ethics)
mired (stuck)
hold a mirror up to ourselves
mired at 9.6 percent we must ~ and ask why (physician suicides)
unemployment is ~ holds a mirror up to how
mired in Afghanistan the film ~ people in this generation grew up
now we are ~ (war) holding a mirror up to himself
mired in crisis he was a terrific self-analyzer ~
Somalia has been ~ since 1991 ♦ Some amusement parks have mirror mazes.
♦ A carnival or funhouse mirror is a curved mirror that can distort your
mired in (economic) distress image. Such a mirror can make you look like a fat midget, or make your
people are ~ (unemployment) chin look a foot long.

mired in the doldrums analysis, interpretation & explanation / consciousness &

we remain ~ (poor economy) awareness: mirror
mired in grief mirror (in the rear-view mirror)
rabbis stress Yom Kippur should not be ~
in the rear-view mirror
mired in litigation she knows her setbacks will soon be ~ (teen)
the university is still ~ we’ll be glad to put this cold weather ~
now that that is ~ (behind us)
mired in misery
Haiti remains ~ leave Steubenville in the rear-view mirror
she was glad to ~ (Traci Lords / Ohio)
mired in a (4-decade) war
Colombia is ~ against guerrillas put this in the rear-view mirror
he needs to ~, move past it (politician and election issue)
mired in squalor and devastation
they led lives ~ (Chechnya) put Covid in the back mirror
we must vaccinate more to ~ (Dr. Zeke Emanuel)
became mired in controversy
♦ “Covid is very much in the side-view mirror, soon to be in the rear-view
the event ~ last year (investment initiative) mirror...” (One can only hope!)
get mired in another Iraq past & present / time: direction / mechanism / mirror /
the US doesn't want to ~ in another Iraq (Syria) movement / position
obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land mis (misbehave, etc.)
flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land
progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land misbehaved
mirror (verb) when one of the newer gyros was switched on, it ~ (Hubble)
failure, accident & impairment: affix
mirrored his erratic (off-the-field) behaviour
his unpredictable style ~ (sports) misappropriation (groups, etc.)
mirror her lifestyle cultural misappropriation

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 they described the video as the height of ~ (U.S. Indians) mislead anyone about his credentials
♦ “Appropriation, the most misappropriated word in the English language he said he had not tried to ~
at this time. Stuff and nonsense.” (greatpix about the
#BlackTikTokStrike.) direction: journeys & trips / verb
♦ “Moccasin maker Minnetonka is publicly apologizing for making money failure, accident & impairment: journeys & trips / verb
off of Native culture.” (The company was founded in 1946, as a small
business creating souvenirs, including moccasins, for roadside gift stores misleading (adjective)
at a time when more and more Americans were traveling by car. An early
partner, Philip W Miller, had come to the US from Poland as a boy, and misleading
used money that he saved from running a corner grocery store in
laboratory results were ~ (vs. fieldwork)
Minneapolis to buy into the company. Its footwear was popular with
hippies in the 1960s. Like most footwear, it is currently made overseas,
in the Dominican Republic and China. Moccasin, Minnetonka and indeed misleading advertisements
Minneapolis and Minnesota all come from native American languages.) ~ (personal ads for porn sites on Internet)
inclusion & exclusion: society misleading case
misbehave (machine) having made a ~ for war… (in Iraq)
misleading (label) claims
misbehaved exotic supplements with ~
when one of the newer gyros was switched on, it ~ (Hubble)
disruption / flaws & lack of flaws / functioning: mechanism
misleading narratives
he debunks ~ about crime, gangs and public safety
/ verb
misleading (accounting) practices
miscarriage (of justice, etc.) ~ in the marketplace
miscarriage of justice misleading statement
the referee made mistakes and there was a ~ (soccer coach) ~s have been made
failure, accident & impairment: baby / birth / health & misleading or inaccurate
medicine the information presented is ~(medical Web sites)
miscue (noun) totally misleading
the stereotype is ~ (that young drug users are "losers")
miscues
Biden can’t afford these kinds of ~ (politics) phony, dishonest or misleading
his only ~ is to... (the director of a documentary) there was nothing ~ about the photo (Iwo Jima)
verbal miscues direction: journeys & trips
he is no stranger to ~ (a politician) failure, accident & impairment: journeys & trips
high-profile political miscue misread (verb)
this was arguably his most ~ (a politician)
♦ A miscue refers to billiards or pool.
misread what
they ~ the protests were all about (the government)
failure, accident & impairment: sports & games
misreading the evidence
misdiagnose (verb) he is ~ (scientific dispute)
misdiagnosed the severity misread him
economists ~ of the problem (financial) I guess I ~ from the beginning
analysis, interpretation & explanation / failure, accident & misread each other’s intentions
impairment: health & medicine / verb countries ~, in the fog of all these events (the Gulf)
misfire (failure) analysis, interpretation & explanation: books & reading /
verb
misfires
during a trial plagued with ~, he was found not guilty miss (verb)
failure, accident & impairment: weapon miss
mislead (verb) a lot of times his jokes ~ (a comic)
success & failure: target / verb
mislead
historical analogy can ~ missing (groups, etc.)
misled Congress missing
he disputed that he ~ last month when he said... older characters are ~. Period (ageism in entertainment)

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inclusion & exclusion: society the lamb was topped, in a ~, with tomatoes (food)
consciousness & awareness / presence & absence: eye /
space
public-relations misstep
the stores decision to change its logo was a ~
missing in action (MIA)
costly misstep
MIA this bill is a ~ (politics)
Google may be ~ (at tech hearings)
honest misstep
missing in action from the big screen he made an ~ (politician)
they have been ~ for years (old stars)
inadvertent misstep
missing in action in terms of leadership he should be blamed for an ~ (ethics)
our national government is ~ (Australia)
incendiary misstep
missing in action when this bill was being negotiated the organization has made some politically ~s
the president was ~
procedural misstep
condition & status / presence & absence: military death-penalty cases are vulnerable to ~s
mission (on a mission) strategic misstep
the company's ~
on a mission
John Ryder is ~ here (a boxing match) admitted missteps
he ~ in his first year (president)
on a mission to clean house
somebody who’s ~ (an administrator) made any missteps
he hasn't ~ (political campaign)
on a mission to travel
they were ~ further than... (England at Euro 2020) apologize for its missteps
Curtis did not acknowledge her experience or ~ (school)
commitment & determination / work & duty: military
engaged in additional missteps
mission (mission accomplished) Curtis ~ following the publication of the article (school)
mission accomplished marred by missteps
there is no such thing as bad publicity, so, ~ the operation was ~ and poor judgments (government)
success & failure: military failure, accident & impairment / flaws & lack of flaws:
mission (other) walking, running & jumping

mission is to keep mist (red mist)

part of our ~ history alive (Trail of Tears) red mist
strayed from its (intended) mission the ~ is a very dangerous thing
Wall Street has ~ (to raise money, versus betting) red-mist moment
commitment & determination / work & duty: military Horner accused Hamilton of a ~ (vs. Max Verstappen)

missionary (person) red mist came down

he acted deplorably as the ~ (prosecutor / England)
missionary to America
he was a soccer ~ red mist descended
then the ~ (soccer player retaliates for foul)
missionary of jazz
Mary Lou Williams, ~ (NPR) suffer the red mist
he would be leading if he didn’t ~ (an FI driver / crashes)
missionary spirit ♦ see also blood (blood in one’s eyes, etc.), red (see red)
you feel that ~ in the performance (BMOP / music) ♦ “They were one hole over. They got plumed. They were erased from
the Earth. DiLeo watched the round all the way down, and it exploded
missionary work right in their hole, vaporizing them. One second, they were there, living
this is my form of ~ (Duckwrth / Hip-Hop) and breathing and thinking and maybe swearing or even praying just like
him. And in the next second, two hale, young men, both of them
enthusiasm / message: person / religion sergeants in the United States Army, pride of their hometowns—
Perryville, Mo., and Willimantic, Conn., respectively—had been turned
person: religion into a plume of fine pink mist, tiny bits of blood, bone, tissue, flesh and
misstep (noun) brain that rose and drifted and settled over everyone and everything
nearby. It—or they—drifted down on DiLeo, who reached up to wipe the
bloody ooze from his eyes and saw that his arms and the rest of him
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whoosh.” (Mark Bowden, author of Hue 1968, reading from his book. digging a (legal) moat
From “’Hue 1968’ Revisits An American ‘Turning Point’ In The War In
Vietnam,” NPR, Fresh Air with Dave Davies, November 10, 2017.) one made no official move without first ~ (Colombia)

feeling, emotion & effect / violence: blood / color / mental protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
health moated
Mister (and Mr., Missus, Mrs.) moated from popular sentiment
Mister Right some political systems suffer because they are ~
if I found ~... (a woman) division & connection / isolation & remoteness / protection
♦ Valerie: I guess I figured that everything would just fall into place if I & lack of protection: fortification
found Mr. Right. / Mac: Mr. Right? (Inspired dialog from the film Earth
Girls Are Easy with Geena Davis.) mob (group)
♦ See also boy, guy (character), man (big man, little man, etc.)
mob of volunteers
character & personality: person police were joined by a ~ (search)
mix (in / into the mix) amount / behavior / group, set & collection: crime
soldiers in the mix mob (society)
more ~ will ensure the desired outcome
mob of his day
get (right) back in the mix he appealed to the base instincts of the ~ (orator Cleon)
you've got to get back up and ~ (MMA fighter)
mob rule
bring more people into the mix the confirmation hearing descended into ~ (protests)
we must ~ (process) the impeachment is legislative ~
remained in the mix liberal “mob”
he ~ as an informal outside consultant (election campaign) he portrayed himself as a victim of a ~ (culture wars)
involvement: mixture lynch mob
mixed up see lynch mob
online mobs
mixed up with a Japanese girl
the threat of ~ shutting down speech (cancel culture)
I got ~ in Honolulu
involvement: mixture twittermob
yet none of this matters to the ~ (racism controversy)
moan (verb) twitter mob
moaning about a ~ has managed to change a New York Times headline
they’re doing fine, what are they ~ (lower middle class) woke mob
wail and moan I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the ~ (Aaron Rodgers)
they’ll ~ and write outraged editorials... baying of the mob
conflict / feeling, emotion & effect / resistance, opposition he did not bow to the ~ (followed his own mind)
& defeat: sound / verb mob is baying
moaning the ~ for blood (an accidental police shooting)

stop moaning captured by an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob

Brearley has been ~ (the school / obsession with race)
he told colleagues to ~ about the pandemic
♦ According to Wilfred Funk, Litt.D., this word is a clipping of the Latin
conflict / feeling, emotion & effect / resistance, opposition mobile vulgus, or “the fickle crowd” and was used at the time of Charles
II. From his book, Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories.
& defeat: sound
behavior / society: person
moat (noun)
oppression: history / society / violence
moat mogul (noun)
the Rhine is a highway as much as a ~ (Roman history)
moat around the outbreak media mogul
long-time Trump ally and conservative ~
officials acted to build a ~ (bird-flu outbreak)
protective moats music mogul
the ~ lured youngsters into his cars
oceans are highways rather than ~ (geopolitics)

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American porn mogul moment in the limelight
Leo Radvinsky, an ~ he had a ~, 30 years later
he had his most significant ~ a dozen years ago
power: history / person
moment in the sun
mold (verb) he had his ~ (rock star)
mold their athletes into officers I think they have had their ~ (team in World Cup)
coaches help ~ able to lead (West Point) “Cronkite Moment”
moulded the ordinary person into a consumer the ~ has it the anchorman changed history (a myth)
capitalism ~ (envy, ads, fashion, etc.) “Lincoln moment”
creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb he described the situation as a ~ (Ghani to Biden / support)

mold (fit a mold, etc.) McCarthy moment

this cancellation culture is the SJW ~ (of Walt Whitman)
societal mold
many autistic people try to fit into a specific ~ Pearl Harbor moment
it was sort of a ~ for America (Fort Sumpter attack)
fit a (prescribed) mold
in an environment where you feel pressured to ~ nine-eleven moment
it was sort of a ~ for America (Fort Sumter attack)
fit the mold
male anchors who don't ~ (TV news) Rashomon moment
this was a ~ meeting a Rorschach test (3-group confrontation
fit a (prescribed) mold on DC mall)
workplaces where you feel pressured to ~
Sputnik moment
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / sanctioning, we are not prepared, it’s a ~, a challenge (a cyberattack)
authority & non-conformity: manufacturing
Doctor Jekyll – Mister Hyde moment
mole (noun) it was a very strange ~ (holding job and eating disorder)

Russian mole Rubicon moment

he turned out to be a ~ this was my ~
♦ “Remember, reader, if you’ve ever been caught in the mountains by a Aha! instant
mist through which you only saw as moles see through their skin...”
(“Bear Meat” by Primo Levy, translated from the Italian by Alessandra the ~ in cognitive science, the Eureka moment...
Bastagli, generously made available to all by The New Yorker.)
"Aha!" moment
concealment & lack of concealment: animal she says that she had an ~ in 2005 (administrator)
behavior / subterfuge: animal
crossroads moment
mole hill (noun) the government is at a ~ (crisis)
mole hills turn into (hallucinatory) mountains eureka moment
in isolated communities, where imaginary ~ (Antarctica) but the ~ came when…
this was a ~, he realized what he needed to do...
make a mole hill into a mountain
don’t ~ Eureka moment
♦ From one blackbird, fifty blackbirds! the Aha! instant in cognitive science, the ~
♦ “Men trip not on mountains but on molehills.” fulcrum moment
importance & significance: animal / size the Capture of Istanbul was a ~ in the Middle Ages

Molotov cocktail groundswell moment

we're at that ~ (rising demand for antibiotic-free meat)
digital Molotov cocktail
the arrests were greeted with ~s (hackers' revenge) lift-off moment
it was a ~ for the game (Federer beats Sampras in 2001)
disruption: explosion / fire
breakthrough moment
moment (type of moment) it was a ~ for a young man (Federer beats Sampras in 2001)
moment of reckoning ‘holy-shit’ moment
will “Framing Britney Spears” be a ~ for the media Mr. President, this is your ~ (Cristina Romer to Obama)
moment of (national) reckoning light-bulb moment
people who want an attorney general to meet this ~ (BLM)

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 you've heard of a ~, this was a spotlight moment 4, 2015. He posits that the moments he lists can only be appreciated
through personal experience.)
these ~s feel as if they happen in a flash but...
will UK provide a ~ for US Democrats (Labor defeat) moment (moment where)
lightning-bolt moment moment where
it was a ~ when I knew what I wanted to do (be a singer) this was the ~ I thought everything was over (fear)
I had a ~ on a trip to Fire Island (about his gayness) I think that now is a ~... (NPR)
split-screen moment in a moment where
dueling televised town halls, a ~ (rival politicians) well, I think we’re ~ 80% of the country thinks...
I think we are ~ many of us... (pandemic)
24-karat moment
Brooklyn's championship was a ~ (baseball) in a moment (right now) where
we are ~ people are taking UFOs seriously (NPR)
key moment
he failed to maintain his situation awareness at ~s (war) in this moment where
we’re ~ there’s so much fakery (a journalist)
landmark moment
it was a ~ in the evolution of artificial intelligence past & present / time: place
“all hands on deck” moment moment (this moment)
there has to be an ~ from the international community
this moment
“where were you when” moments my hope is that ~ allows us to... (social change)
it was one of those ~ from history (Challenger Disaster)
this moment of reckoning and re-imagining
“Oh, no!” moment in ~, we wanted to understand... (monuments)
for Riley, a wildlife biologist, it was a ~
about this (particular) moment
magic moment it was so insightful ~ (a parody)
that ~ when you feel the team spirit coming together
at this moment
storybook moment ~, it’s estimated that... (school enrollment in pandemic)
it was a ~ (glass-carriage royal wedding)
for this moment
watershed moment he is the right man ~ (Dr. Anthony Fauci and pandemic)
the arrival of the drones will be a ~ (war)
the affair was a ~ for British Muslims (Rushdie book) in this moment
this is a ~ for China to lead (pandemic) I’m more optimistic ~ than I’ve ever been
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at a ~ what is the legal situation for her ~ (#FreeBritney)
what are the choices it’s left with ~ (the NCAA)
dramatic moment
a throw from the outfield to a base is always a ~ in this (modern) moment
is selective-service registration really required ~
viral moment
so he had this ~... (an imprisoned rapper) in this (unique) moment
~ we’re in, we have a chance to... (lots of funding)
heart-stopping moment
it was a ~ (near-accident) through this moment
what music is getting you ~ (the pandemic)
jaw-dropping moment
this is the ~ when a sea lion attacked a girl (video) let this moment go by
I implore everyone to not ~ (don’t forget this tragedy)
all-in moment
her ~ comes in 1989 (magazine editor) past & present / time: clock

heat of the moment moment (that moment)

he said some things he wished he hadn't in the ~
I made my decision in the ~ (regret)
in that moment
it just happened in the ~ (regret) I had so many thoughts, ~ (fear)
hundreds could have used the vaccine ~ (COVID)
spur of the moment it felt like anything was possible ~ (Minneapolis protest)
it was not uncommon for them to go stargazing on the ~ let’s listen to Baldwin talk about what happened ~

spur-of-the-moment past & present / time: clock

the ~ brawl moment (other)
♦ “Life is made up of moments.” (“18 Things You Will Never Understand
Until You Experience Them Yourself” by Paul Hudson, Elite Daily, March moment or a (new) movement

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 is it a ~ (a protest) a campaign to regulate the company is ~ (Facebook)
different moment force / power / speed: movement / verb
yeah, it’s a totally ~ (2008 vs now)
momentum (noun)
seize the moment
Congress must ~ to legalize... (politics) momentum of the game
the missed penalty kick changed the ~
past & present / time: clock
momentum for a lottery
moment (have a moment / attention) the budget crisis creates ~ (state)
having a moment anti-noise momentum
the Marshal Plan is ~ the ~ appears to be growing
the Enneagram is ~, thanks to millennials
the word “bae” seems to be ~ (2014) word-of-mouth momentum
the ~ that propels a book (publishing)
having its moment
the arepa is ~ (a corn pancake) burgeoning momentum
a 3-week layoff stopped Baylor’s ~ (basketball)
having a Hollywood moment
Muslims are ~ lost momentum
the Democrats need to regain their ~ (politics)
having (something of) a moment
multiverses are ~ changed the momentum
the missed penalty kick ~ of the game
having a moment in Singapore
vending machines are ~ (face masks, cacti, frozen beef) lost their momentum
they ~
clearly having a moment ♦ Movement, weight and speed equals force.
the jigsaw puzzle is ~, toilet paper, step aside...
force / increase & decrease / power / progress & lack of
♦ The online Cambridge Dictionary defines this as something currently
popular or in fashion. It echoes old clichés like everything has its moment progress / starting, going, continuing & ending: movement
in the sun, or every dog has its day.
♦ If something is “having a moment” in this sense, then it is a “thing.”
Mona Lisa (Mona Lisa of baseball cards,
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
etc.)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: object “Mona Lisa” of baseball cards
moment (have a moment / emotion) the T206 Wagner, the undisputed ~ (50 known copies)

having a moment equivalent of the “Mona Lisa”

Joe’s ~ (a man weeps in front of his friends) it’s the food ~ (Jiro’s in Japan)
♦ The online Cambridge Dictionary defines this as simply having an worth & lack of worth: allusion / epithet / money
emotional moment, for example, tearing up, weeping, the voice cracking
or wavering, or otherwise becoming overwhelmed by an emotion. monarch (MS Monarch, etc.)
feeling, emotion & effect: verb “Monarch of the Dailies”
momentum (lose momentum) the San Francisco Examiner, the ~ (Hearst)

losing its momentum Monarch of the Glen

“The ~” shows a red deer stag (1851)
the US economic recovery is ~
lost their momentum Monarch of Muscledom
John Grimek, “The ~” (the bodybuilder)
they ~
failure, accident & impairment: movement / verb “monarch stag”
a ~ has 16 points (antlers)
momentum (gain momentum, etc.)
MS Monarch
gained momentum the ~, formerly Monarch of the Seas (a cruise ship)
the notion has ~ (that speaking out is therapeutic)
epithet / proper name: royalty
street protests have ~ (Myanmar in 2007)
superlative; epithet
gaining momentum monarch (primacy)
protests are ~
gathering momentum monarch of AI
deep learning is the reigning ~

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monarch of the floating fiefdom Ducournau has ~ from so many disparate ideas (film)
a captain was a ~ of his ship (1770)
affliction: allusion / creature
reigning monarch allusion: books & reading
deep learning is the ~ of AI monster (affliction)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
superlative: person / royalty
monster
only ~s could have planned this (Siberian slave labor)
person / power: royalty
it is a ~ (methamphetamine usage in small rural town)
Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) these are the ~s we've been hunting (serial shooters)
~s committed this crime
playing games in Outer Mongolia these savage ~s will not escape their fate (terrorists)
always hated Europa with its Thursday-Sunday and ~
evil monster
isolation & remoteness: ground, terrain & land this ~ has faced justice (murdered a woman)
monkey (insult) vicious monster
they have become ~s (terrorists)
monkeys
the plane was designed by clowns supervised by ~ portrayed as a monster
♦ “If you hurt a monkey, you will be cursed.” (Japan.) I’m being ~ and no one is defending me (in prison)
insult: animal turned into a monster
in the 3 months we were engaged he ~
monkish (adjective)
♦ "Unemployment is a monster which not only renders the fit powerless
monkish breakfast but prevents them from contributing to their society's development."
(Abdullah Al-Asmari, in Al-Watan, on unemployment in Saudi Arabia.)
a ~ of raw eggs, tea, and a biscuit
character & personality / affliction / insult: creature
size / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: religion
monster (size)
monolith (noun)
monster
monolith it's a ~, it's awesome (speaking of a huge wildfire)
the religious right is not a ~ (a gay man) he is a ~ (a 131-pound blue catfish)
♦ El Capitan, Shiprock, Stone Mountain... (Famous U.S. monoliths.)
♦ “[Tommy Caldwell’s] best-known first ascent is the Dawn Wall, the monster hit
hardest route on El Capitan, the tremendous granite monolith in the studio hasn't had a ~ since… (films)
Yosemite, which he completed in 2015. President Obama tweeted
congratulations from the White House.” (“Finding a Way Up” by William monster hurricane
Finnegan, The New Yorker, November 29, 2021.) the tingling anxiety one feels facing a ~
bases: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills a ~, with its 150-mile-an-hour winds

monolithic (adjective) monster kite

running a ~ is a special skill
monolithic
there are all sorts of Black people, we are not ~ (NPR’s monster ramp
Ayesha Rascoe) most of the riders had never ridden the ~ (MegaRamp)

bases: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills monster ratings
the game show's ~
monster (Monster.com, etc.)
monster swarm
Monster and MSN trillions of cicadas are emerging in a ~ (Brood X)
the site is jointly operated by ~ (Web site)
monster tsunami
proper name: creature a ~ had been unleashed (Indian Ocean / 2004)
monster (create a monster, etc.) monster waves
the hurricane spawned ~ that toppled beach houses
create a Frankenstein
it gets out of hand, they ~ (extrajudicial killings) monster (40-foot) waves
surfers couldn't resist the challenge of the ~
created a monster
we have ~ (diplomacy) monster dust devil
they still don’t accept that they ~ (Facebook) a ~ sent sand and litter high into the air
sewn together a (Frankenstein’s) monster monster iceberg

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 a ~ is drifting towards western Australia (2009) elephants turn woodland into a ~
monster sandstorm turned (parts of) Gaza into a moonscape
a ~ grounded coalition forces south of Baghdad tank and artillery fire and air sorties have ~
concrete monster turn woodland into a (barren) moonscape
it's a dinosaur, a ~ (an old sports stadium) elephants can ~
mechanical monster appearance / environment / resemblance: moon
as the clattering ~ descends (helicopter)
moonshot (noun)
size: creature
moonshot
monument (noun) a ~ is the biggest of ideas to solve the very biggest problems
monument to insignificance moonshot of its day
the novel is a 576-page ~ the Brooklyn Bridge was the ~
greatest monument moonshots and miracles
"Warsaw Survivor" is music's ~ to the Holocaust aiming for ~ is not far-fetched (diplomacy)
♦ “Make Your Moonshot Less of a Long Shot.” (An ad for Quantic’s
importance & significance: infrastructure “Business School of the Future.” The full page ad on the back of The
monumental (adjective) Economist shows a young woman with one hand on her hip, a phone in
her other hand, and dressed futuristically in what looks like black vinyl. In
the background is what appears to be a Martian landscape.)
monumental achievement
it was a ~ (scholarship) difficulty, easiness & effort: astronomy / moon

monumental implications moored

simple acts can have ~
moored in an (earlier) time
monumental law the religion seems permanently ~ (criticism)
but passage of the ~ was an uphill battle
progress & lack of progress: boat / movement
importance & significance: infrastructure
morass (noun)
size: infrastructure
moon (Valle de la Luna, etc.) morass of (complicated and conflicting) research
school officials are confronted with a ~ (education)
Craters of the Moon legal morass
~ National Monument and Preserve (Idaho)
he found himself in a ~
Val de la Luna complexity / environment / obstacles & impedance /
the ~, the Valley of the Moon (west of San Pedro, Chile)
progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land
Half Moon Beach moribund (adjective)
visit ~ on your visit to Al Khobar (Saudi Arabia)
proper name: astronomy / moon / shape moribund
geography: astronomy / moon / proper name / shape the pace of economic growth is ~
the economy is ~
moon (shape)
moribund economy
moon face he should focus on our ~ (politics)
when will my ~ go away (facial swelling due to a drug)
moribund Klan
shape: astronomy / moon its marketing exaggerates the threat of the ~ (SPLC)
moonscape (noun) condition & status: death & life / health & medicine

moonscape Mormon (Mormons of the Middle East)

it was a ~, nothing left almost (after wildfire)
Mormons of the Middle East
moonscape of ash the Druze are the ~
a million years ago the caldera was a vast ~ (Valles Caldera)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: epithet / religion
scorched moonscape morning (early in the morning)
a ~ scoured by whirlwinds of ash (after wildfire)
barren moonscape early in the morning

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 but it's ~, at this point… (response to computer virus) meals off their regardless necks... You can see this Grassi, sitting in a
stagecoach with no springs, oblivious to bumps, deaf to the chatter of his
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day fellow-passengers, with absent eyes counting the Anopheles claviger he
had discovered—with delight—riding on the ceiling of the wagon in which
morsel (amount) he journeyed from one utterly terrible little malarious village to another
still more cursed.” (Grassi did what Ross and Koch couldn’t: prove that
malaria is passed from man to man by the bite of a mosquito that the
morsel of hope locals called zanzarone and that naturalists called Anopheles claviger.
he was noncommittal but offered me a ~ From Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif.)
♦ “A Japanese man burned his house down while trying to kill a
amount: food & drink mosquito.”
mortal (adjective) size / strength & weakness: epithet / insect
mortal blow moth (a moth to a flame, etc.)
the law would strike a ~ to a system that... (athletics)
the Supreme Court’s decision was a ~ to the union flame to (a good many) moths
he was certainly a candle ~ (Lord Byron and women)
mortal threat
Pakistan poses a ~ to the security and safety... attraction & repulsion: fire / insect / light & dark

destruction: death & life / health & medicine mothball (verb)

mortally (mortally wounded, etc.) mothball the aircraft carriers
some wanted to ~ (because of high cost / Britain)
mortally
Joe Biden is wounded, perhaps ~ so (primary election) mothballed (many of their) aircraft
airlines have ~ (COVID pandemic)
destruction: death & life / health & medicine
dismissal, removal & resignation: insect / verb
mortar (noun)
mothballed
mortar of society
family ties across the generations were the very ~ mothballed, refitted and recommissioned
they can be ~ (Navy ships)
attachment: materials & substances
dismissal, removal & resignation: insect
mosaic (configuration)
mother (mother's milk)
mosaic of seas
the Mediterranean is a ~ mother's milk of politics
money is the ~
mosaic of states
India fell into an anarchic ~ bases / importance & significance: food & drink

mosaic of tribes mother (mother ship, etc.)

Italy, meanwhile, was still inhabited by a ~
mother cloud
♦ Seas within the Mediterranean Sea include the Alboran Sea, the Ionian
Sea, and the Ligurian Sea, as well as the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic
a funnel cloud reaches down from the ~ (tornado)
Sea. A sea can have a sea!
mother ship
configuration: picture divers on tethers to their ~
their orbiting ~ (above asteroid)
mosaic (analysis) refueling, resupplying with the help of tenders and ~s
pirates operating from a ~ off the Somali coast
mosaic of evidence
this submarine and its ~ (DSSV Pressure Drop)
it adds to the overall ~
drug smugglers use semisubmersibles to meet a ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture
division & connection: family
mosquito (Mosquito Fleet, etc.) person / relationship: family

“Mosquito Fleet” mother (mother of all battles, etc.)

the ~ had command of the lake (Champlain, 1776)
mother of all battles
♦ “Most of the 25,000 soldiers that Napoleon sent to Haiti to quash the Saddam promised the ~ (Gulf War)
slave rebellion died of malaria. Napoleon had planned to transfer his
army from Haiti to New Orleans but he had to abandon that strategy, and
sold the Louisiana Territory to the US instead.” (The Invention of Nature:
“mother of all biases”
Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf.) overconfidence is often known as the ~ (psychology)
♦ Anopheles claviger! This became the slogan of Battista Grassi. You
can see him, shuffling along behind lovers in the dusk, making fists of his
“mother of All News Conferences”
fingers to keep himself from pouncing on the zanzarone who made it has become known as the ~ (Gen. Schwarzkopf / 1991)

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mother of all (oil and gas) companies ~ had other ideas (concerning explorer's planned trip)
this is the absolute ~ (Saudi Aramco) ~ makes smart critters (salmon head upstream, etc.)
let ~ take her course (a sick animal)
Mother of all Rivers
our own Yukon, the ~ at the mercy of Mother Nature
♦ “We perceived a single Bedawi, running southward all in a flutter, his we're ~ right now (wildfire / town)
grey hair and grey beard flying in the wind, who yelled ‘The biggest we are still ~ with her winds (California wildfires)
aeroplane in the world...’ At Um el Surab the Handley stood majestic on
the grass, with Bristols and 9’s like fledglings beneath its spread of Mother Nature smiled
wings. Round it admired the Arabs, saying, ‘Indeed and at last they have I think today ~ on us (NASA launch)
sent us THE aeroplane, of which these things were foals.’” (Seven Pillars
of Wisdom, Book X, Chapter CXIV, by T.E. Lawrence.)
Mother Nature is finally starting to smile
superlative: family ~ on the Winter Olympics

mother (mother of NPR, etc.) depends on Mother Nature

so much of surfing ~
Mother of Israel
Jews for centuries referred to Salonika as “the ~” biodiversity: epithet / family
epithet: family
mother of invention
if necessity is the ~, discontent is the father of progress
mother (Mother Mountain, etc.)
mother of (all) learning Mother Mountain
repetition is the ~ Sam Ahkeah says that it is the ~ near Taos

mother of machines Mother and Child

the clock was destined to be the ~ (scientific instruments) the ~ are peaks in Vietnam

mother of NPR proper name: family

Cokie Roberts, a founding ~ geography: proper name

mother of telenovelas mother (den mother, etc.)

Delia Fiallo, known as the ~, dies at 96 (NPR) den mother
founding mothers she is a natural ~
the ~ of NPR (Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie) the “~” of Yorkville, singer Vicky Taylor (Girls Like Us)
Eye’s rock scene ~, the charismatic Lillian Roxon...
♦ “Henrietta Lacks: ‘Mother’ of modern medicine honoured,” BBC.
♦ see also father (father of India, etc.) den mother to Canada’s folk community
she was a ~ (Estelle Klein)
creation & transformation: epithet / family
bases / person: family stage mother
epithet: family I'm not a pushy ~
mother (mother earth, etc.) leaned on to be a ‘den mother’
42% of women feel they are ~ (Portland women in tech)
Mother Russia
the annexation returned the Crimea to ~ help & assistance / role: animal / family / person
mother earth mother hen
care for our ~
mother-hen
considered as our mother she justified her ~ efforts as being in her daughter's best
in Bangladesh, the river is ~ (has human legal status) interests
relationship: epithet / family help & assistance: animal / bird / family / person
epithet: family
mother lode
mother (earth mother)
mother lode
earth mother the ~, the jackpot, Valhalla (88th episode of show)
the no-bra, hairy-underarm ~ (1970s California)
hit the mother lode
character & personality: earth & world / family we ~ (information in archive)
mother (Mother Nature) source: mining
Mother Nature mother tongue
~ didn't cooperate (Winter Olympics weather)
mother tongue

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 hyperbole is his ~ (a politician) steep mountain
the team has a ~ to climb
in their mother tongues
users all over the world post content ~ (translation) move mountains
they will ~ for you (coach about his players)
speak Chinese as their mother tongue
over a billion people ~ moved mountains
we asked for support and he ~ to provide it
speak English as their mother tongue
♦ "Enjoy [your unbeaten streak]—the emotion of getting to the top of the
372 million people ~ mountain—because you can't duplicate that. It's a lot tougher to stay on
the mountain than it is to climb it." (Ara Parseghian's advice to Tyrone
translate from their mother tongue Willingham.)
students who need to ~ to English
difficulty, easiness & effort: mountains & hills
taught in their native tongue
children must be ~ (indigenous languages / Nigeria) mountain (amount)
speech: family / tongue mountain of cocaine
he has done a ~ (a troubled celebrity)
motor (driving force)
mountain of criticism
non-stop motor she was subjected to a ~ (a tennis star)
he had a ~ and a no-quit attitude (an athlete)
mountain of data
driving force: engine the newspaper had to sort, search and understand a ~
mount (verb) mountains of data
sift through ~
bloodshed mounted
the ~ on both sides (gang violence) mountain of debris
people trapped under a ~ (building collapse)
concerns (over data security) mount
as ~ (Internet) mountain of debt
they were buried under a huge ~
costs mounted
his ~ and mounted some more (bankruptcy) mountains of disagreement
negotiators tried to scale ~ (G-20)
losses are mounting
livestock ~ (blizzards in Colorado / especially cattle) mountain of evidence
police have a ~ and a statement (murderer)
pressure is mounting
the ~ mountains of garbage
neighborhoods here are ringed by ~ (Luanda)
outrage is mounting
~ over the security guard who... mountain of paperwork
Brexit has created a ~ for wine importers
death toll mounted
the pandemic worsened and the ~ mountain of (new) paperwork
a ~ will be required from today (Brexit)
continued to mount
heat-related deaths ~ mountains of paperwork
the ~ take up so much time that... (Sudan aid)
increase & decrease: number / pile / verb
mountain (at the top of the mountain) mountains of refuse
~ filled the streets (Athens)
at the top of the (boxing) mountain mountain of research
he has reclaimed his place back ~ (Tyson Fury)
a ~ shows that…
hierarchy: direction / mountains & hills / position
mountains of waste
attainment: direction / mountains & hills / position ~, public nudity, drunkenness, drugs (biker rally)
mountain (difficulty)
mountain of (coal) waste
mountain a ~, now 50 stories high (Shanxi Province)
you can move ~s if you put your mind to it man-made mountain
psychological mountain a~
he now has a ~ to climb (young boxer quits in ring) data mountain

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 no such ~ exists for low-resource languages (translation) mounting
♦ “There would need to be a Mt. Everest of evidence to get them to
change their minds.” (Politicians.) mounting (medical) bills
amount: mountains & hills he needs to protect himself from ~

mountainous (adjective) mounting concern

in response to ~ over…
mountainous seas
mounting criticism
~ threatened to dash them against the rocks (sailing)
he had to address the ~
Cape Horn, with its ~
mountainous waves mounting debt
a network of lies and ~s
~ crashed against the headlands (Pillar Point)
~ overturned ocean-going freighters (typhoon / Japan) mounting (public and congressional) doubts
resemblance / size: mountains & hills there are ~ about the war
comparison & contrast: affix mounting evidence
Mount Everest (and Everest) ~ suggests that…

Everest mounting pile

a ~ of invitations
"Ulysses" was an ~ no filmmaker dared assault
Everest of jump sites mounting scandal
a ~ over accusations that… (church)
El Capitan is the ~ (BASE jumping)
increase & decrease: pile
Everest of the Seas
the race is known as the “~” (Vendee Globe) Mount Rushmore
Mt. Everest of the gene therapy community Mount Rushmore of heavyweights
it was the ~ (Muscular Dystrophy cure) if there were a ~, it would have the likenesses of...
Mt. Everest of surfing on our Mount Rushmore
Hawaii's Waimea Bay, the ~ he’s ~ (Rocky Marciano / Italian athletes)
Mount Everest of wreck diving superlative: allusion / place / mountains & hills
the Andrea Doria is considered the ~
mouse (size)
Mount Everest of surfing waves
Pipeline is the ~ (North Shore of Oahu) mouse lemur
~s are the planet's smallest primates (Madagascar)
Mount Everest of the yachting universe
Cape Horn is regarded as the ~ size: animal

my Everest mouse (cat and mouse)

beating Klitschko was ~ (the boxer Tyson Fury)
see game (game of cat and mouse)
regarded as the Mount Everest mouth (entrance)
Cape Horn is ~ of the yachting universe
♦ "It's really the center of the surfing universe. It's like Mount Everest for mouth of the Bosphorus
surfers everywhere. And Pipeline is really the wave one needs to come ferries chug up into the ~ (Istanbul)
to terms with as a surfer in order to be considered a great surfer." (Shaun
Tomson.)
mouth of the Gulf of Aden
♦ “Once they’re finished, the outdoors will be a more inclusive place, Socotra, the main island at the ~
according to their GoFundMe page.” (“A mountaineering group is aiming
to be the 1st all-Black team to climb Mount Everest” by Sharon Pruitt-
Young, NPR, October 9, 2021.)
mouth of the Persian Gulf
the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow ~
♦ “It’s all bullshit on Everest these days.” (Sir Edmund Hillary in an
interview with the Guardian in 2003.) mouth of a cave
♦ “Burn your TV, fill your pockets with chocolate and ham, and go for a 8 Delacour's langurs scampered into the ~ (Vietnam)
big walk.” (A Norwegian.)

attainment / superlative: mountains & hills

mouth of the cave
piles of breakdown at the ~
size / danger / difficulty, easiness & effort: epithet /
mountains & hills mouths of both the (Missouri and Ohio) Rivers
they passed the ~ (Jolliet and Marquette)
mouth of a (hanging) valley

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 the ~ generally discharges a waterfall gentlemen, we need to ~ (reaction to plot)
tunnel's mouth move aggressively
his office at the ~ (Mont Blanc) many universities felt they had to ~ (online education)
cave mouth moves slowly
salamanders also live under rocks near ~s bureaucracy ~
goal mouth got to move
moving quickly from post to post in the ~ (ice hockey) we've ~ (act)
river mouth action, inaction & delay: movement / verb
sea snakes can be found near ~s
move (direction)
orientation / resemblance: mouth
moving in a different direction
mouth (speech) we're ~ (an investigation)
speaks out of both sides of his mouth move in that direction
he ~ it is in everyone's interest to ~ (diplomacy)
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty / speech: mouth moving in a different direction
we're ~ (an investigation)
mouthpiece (person)
move in that direction
mouthpiece for the British government it is in everyone's interest to ~ (diplomacy)
she believes the BBC is a ~
direction: movement / verb
Party mouthpiece
control of the ~, Pravda... (Russia) move (progress)
loyal mouthpiece moved beyond race
she was a ~ (president’s press secretary) America has largely ~ (opinion)
repetition / sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty / speech: move forward
mouth / person we can't ~ until you send your answers back (US census)
mouthwatering (adjective) moving forward
things are ~ and they're moving quickly (many projects)
mouth-watering (all-British) clash we are ~ with solutions on many issues (politics)
it could be a ~ (Fury vs. Whyte / boxing)
moving a little too fast
mouth-watering prospect maybe we've been ~ (relationship)
the fight was a ~ for boxing fans
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement /
looks mouth-watering verb
a bout at a catchweight ~ (boxing)
move (chess move, etc.)
eagerness & reluctance / feeling, emotion & effect: bodily
reaction / food & drink / taste chess moves
consumption: food & drink / taste with a couple of ~, the CIA changed Iran’s history (1953)
attraction & repulsion: food & drink / taste
move towards authoritarianism
mouthy (adjective) critics called the vote a ~ (Hugo Chávez)
mouthy career move
he's ~ one of the best ~s I ever made
speech: mouth genius move
move (move an inch, etc.) playing that card was no ~ (father's influence)
career-ending move
move an inch
it was considered a ~
I wouldn't ~ (negotiations)
resistance, opposition & defeat: movement / verb unprecedented move
in an ~…
move (take action)
get-tough move
move on this in the latest ~

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bold move you need to ~ (encouragement)
it was regarded as an unusually ~
move on with our lives
dangerous move we’ve got to put this behind us and ~ (disaster)
it was a politically bold and ~ (gay marriage)
move on from it
extraordinary move if I hold on to that, I’ll never be able to ~ (boxer / defeat)
removing a commander in combat is an ~
“moved on” from 2015
latest (get-tough) move the science has ~ (a sports issue)
in the ~
forget the past and move on
next move it’s time to ~
commanders have been forced to rethink their ~ ♦ “We should move on, we should leave the past behind. Not forget it,
now we await the ~ from House Democrats (politics) but just leave it behind... Not forgetting, it doesn’t mean not cooperating
with you or not working with you or anything... You have never been
what is our ~ (an investigation) damaged by us, that’s why you never will know what is the feeling... It’s
not about you.” (Twenty-year-old Arian speaking with 16-year-old Selena
poor political move on the bridge over the Ibar that separates their two communities in
this is a ~ (Republicans) Mitrovica, Kosovo.)
♦ “Eighty years on, how should the desire to move on be balanced with
risky move the need to remember?” (“Ukraine’s forgotten ‘Holocaust by Bullets,’
he testified in his own defense, a potentially ~ (trial) BBC, 27 Sept 2021.)

smart move reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / resiliency /

it's just not a ~ (celebration resulting in a penalty) starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips /
movement / verb
strategic move
this was a ~ (an airline merger) move on (change the subject, etc.)
strategy: cards / chess / sports & games move on to other areas
move (move up) I'm going to ~ that need discussion

moving up in the world move on to a different story

he is ~ (affluence, power) let me ~ (ABC news interview)
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips /
move up the (beauty-pageant) ladder
she began to ~ movement / verb

move up the (economic) ladder move on (development)

the play chronicles the struggles of a family to ~ moved on
move up the ranks civil rights have ~ (to equity ideology)
workers who want to ~ development: movement
hierarchy: movement / direction / verb move on (time has moved on, etc.)
progress & lack of progress: movement / direction / verb
movement (progress) time had moved on
but the world had changed, and ~
little movement time: movement
there has been ~ in the negotiations
timeliness & lack of timeliness: movement
progress & lack of progress: movement Mozart (Mozart of Rock, etc.)
move on (resiliency)
‘Mozart of rock’
move on tributes paid to ~ Eddie Van Halen
let's just ~ (end of a relationship) hard-rock’s Mozart
we've got to ~ (put the church controversy behind)
~, Eddie Van Halen
we need to close the book on this and ~
we want to close this dark chapter of our history and ~ achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / music
it’s time to put this behind us and ~ (Muller report)
the artist in me needed to ~ (from a successful TV series) mud (drag something through the mud)
moved on dragged the city’s reputation through the mud
Nina had ~ (after end of relationship) he has ~ (false allegation of hate crime)

move on with your life accusation & criticism: ground, terrain & land / verb

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reputation: ground, terrain & land / verb mule (drug mule, etc.)
mud (dragged through the mud)
mule profile
dragged through the mud he fit the ~ (busted drug courier at airport)
the doctors in the case have been ~ (criticism)
drug mule
getting dragged through the mud Iranian ~s fly into Dubai every few months
my name is ~ (suspicion of sports doping) transportation: animal
accusation & criticism / reputation: ground, terrain & land
mule-headed
mud (sink in the mud)
mule-headed
mud of defeat he is ~ (stubborn)
the US is sinking into the ~ (Iraqi spokesman on war) ♦ “A certain driver, who was driving six mules with a single line, was
whipping and cursing away ‘like sixty,’ as the saying is, when a lean,
sinking into the mud long-necked minister came along, on a horse covered with cooking
the US is ~ of defeat (Iraqi spokesman on war) utensils and stores. The minister, feeling it his duty, called out: / ‘Young
man, do you know who made you?’ / ‘What?’ said the driver, stopping a
obstacles & impedance / progress & lack of progress: moment from his whipping and cursing. / ‘Do you know who made you?’
repeated the minister, this time in a very loud voice. / ‘Oh!’ said the
ground, terrain & land / verb driver, ‘this is no time for conundrums!’ / And lifting his great army whip,
he struck the leading mule on the ear with a snap that sent the blood
mud (in the mud) flying. / ‘Go on there!’ he cried, ‘you cursed descendant of Pluto!’ / He
had heard some one say Pluto, and he thought it must mean some very
in the mud bad beast—bad enough to be the origin of mules. Anyhow, the minister
retired.” (Memoirs of Chaplain Life by W. Corby. The U.S. Civil War.)
we're all ~ and have to get dirty (intelligence)
♦ “You cannot catch rats without going into the sewers.” (A spy for character & personality: animal
Britain.)
multiplier (force multiplier)
behavior: ground, terrain & land / height
force multiplier for delivering
mudslinging (noun) embracing collaborations is a ~ top-notch journalism
mudslinging acts as a force multiplier
they both seem to prefer ~ (politicians) Fox TV ~ for President Trump
mudslinging between rival factions increase & decrease: military / number
~ is being waged out in the open (catholic church)
multipronged
political mud-slinging
this is not the time for ~ (Afghan withdrawal) multipronged approach
we need a ~ to containing COVID-19
name-calling and mud-slinging
~ (politicians) multipronged effort
this is a ~
accusation & criticism: ground, terrain & land / speech
multipronged scheme
muffled the suit claims the pair of companies carried out a ~
muffled branching system: animal / horn
Australia’s conversation has been ~ by defamation laws (sex
abuse) multiverse (noun)
constraint & lack of constraint: speech multiverse
~s are having something of a moment
Muhammad Ali (Muhammad Ali of her
generation, etc.) multiverse of roads not taken
there’s a ~ in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Muhammed Ali of her generation Multiverse of Madness
Megan Rapinoe is the ~ Doctor Strange and the ~ (a film)
her generation’s Muhammad Ali multiverse movie
Megan Rapinoe is ~ it’s refreshing to get a new ~ week (Michele Yeoh)
younger generation’s Muhammad Ali through this multiverse
Nike supports the ~ (Colin Kaepernick) she embodies alternate versions of her life ~ (a film)
achievement, recognition & praise / superlative: epithet ♦ “I felt it was so important for someone like that to be given a voice and
then to be shown that she is actually a superheroine...” (Actor Michelle

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Yeoh about her character in Everything Everywhere All At Once. From perception, perspective & point of view: eye / light & dark /
“Actor Michelle Yeoh wants to change the way we think of superheroes,”
NPR, Fresh Air, April 25, 2022.)
water
♦ see also verse (metaverse, etc.) murky (adjective)
area / environment: astronomy murky problem
murder (verb) what to do with pirates has become a ~ (Somalia)
murkier question
murdered the ~ of whether there are other factors at play...
squatting next to a bear you just ~ is such a weird flex
murky world
murder memory foreign women working in the ~ of the bar trade (Japan)
they’ve being trying to ~ (overwrought politics)
hyperbole: crime / death & life
still murky
exactly what happened is ~
murderer (person)
remain murky
trophy murderers though the facts ~... (criminal case)
big, brave “hunters” and ~ (a wildlife activist) remains murky
hyperbole: crime / death & life / person even now, the source of the problems ~
♦ “The stream is very murky from the very top.” (Afghanistan. Meaning
murderous (murderous hail of bullets, the generals / high officials are involved in corruption and bad dealings.)
etc.) certainty & uncertainty / comprehension &
incomprehension / concealment & lack of concealment /
murderous footsteps perception, perspective & point of view: eye / light & dark /
he is determined his son will not follow in his ~ water
murderous hail muscle (political muscle, etc.)
the Turks loosed a ~ of bullets (Gallipoli)
muscle of the operation
murderous microbes a guy I thought might be the ~ (drugs)
the way our bodies fight off ~
muscle-flexing
death & life: crime / violence
~ by Pakistan's armed forces
comparison & contrast: affix
geopolitical muscle
murk (in / amid the murk) Iran is increasingly flexing its ~s
amid the murk political muscle
it's hard to find clarity ~ the Eastern Band has visibly flexed its ~ (Cherokee)
in the murk of the conflict they use their ~ to scare Republicans
he is a beacon of moral truth ~ (Middle East) economic and political muscle
in the murk of history unions once had ~
he is a shadowy figure lost ~ flex its muscles
in the murk of the situation North Korea might ~
I got lost ~ flexing its muscles
certainty & uncertainty / comprehension & the religious right is ~ in the corridors of power
Saudi Arabia is ~ in the oil market
incomprehension / concealment & lack of concealment /
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / light & dark / flexing its (geopolitical) muscles
water Iran is increasingly ~
murk (other) flexing their muscles
California politicians are ~ on the national stage
cultural and political murk ♦ You got so many kids out here acting crazy, wanting to flex some
investigators have been slowed by the ~ (Middle East) muscle. They don't have respect for life." (South Los Angeles resident,
♦ “Any clarity that Kuryakov’s solution might have brought was quickly commenting on a spate of gang killings.)
occluded amid an atmosphere of murk and mistrust.” (“Cold Case: A new
solution to the mystery at Dead Mountain” by Douglas Preston, The New force / power: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
Yorker, May 17, 2021.) strength & weakness: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
certainty & uncertainty / comprehension &
incomprehension / concealment & lack of concealment /

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muscle (muscle its way through, etc.) the blast sent a huge ~ into the sky (Beirut 2020)
shape: plant
muscled its way through the Midwest
the storm ~ (tornadoes and rain) music (face the music)
force / power / strength & weakness: movement / skin, face the music from audiences
muscle, nerves & bone / verb the film finally streams on Netflix to ~
movement: force / skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
judgment: music
muscular (adjective)
musical chairs
muscular response
we need to have a ~ (impeachment politics) musical chairs at the Justice Department
why have such a ~ (measures against pandemic) ~ (acting attorney general due to be replaced)
force / power / strength & weakness: skin, muscle, nerves game of music-show chairs
& bone the game of ~ may not be over (BBC Radio 2)
muse (person) game of musical chairs
it’s a ~, you have to be ready when the music stops (stocks)
muse
she was his ~, model and co-conspirator (Wendy Whiteley) coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement /
music / sports & games
muse and doormat
the muddy line between ~ (Broadway) muster (pass muster)
two muses passes (constitutional) muster
the film brings together his ~, De Niro and DiCaprio a judge will decide if the law ~
person: religion judgment: military / verb
relationship: allusion / person / religion
creation & transformation: allusion / person / religion
muster (muster courage, etc.)
museum (noun) muster the courage
republicans must ~ to stand up
museum of agriculture
the EU is a ~ (according to US ambassador) assembling: military / verb

belong in a museum must-have (noun)

they ~ now (Pele, Maradona, versus Ronaldo) must-have
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: antiques trees are a ~ in city budgets (environmentalists)
past & present / time: antiques wants, needs, hopes & goals: part of speech
mushroom (verb) mutate (verb)
mushroom into a (strategic) blunder mutated into a metaphor
this is a tactical mistake that will ~ (a company's decision) as its use ~ (the word weaponize)
mushroomed in Zambia creation & transformation: biology / verb
anti-Chinese sentiment has ~ since 2005
mute (speech)
mushroomed along the coast
resorts and hotels ~ (Negombo) mute
he remained ~
mushroom out of the piles
jerry-built shacks ~ of rubble (Tokyo, 1947) speech: sound
audience mushroomed mutilate (verb)
his audience ~ (Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist)
♦ In Asheville, North Carolina, mushrooms truly DO mushroom after a
mutilated the truth with selective and deceptive sources
period of rainy, damp weather. They spring up in patches, can be quite she consistently ~ (Naomi Wolf)
colorful, and some of them can be quite large.
failure, accident & impairment: health & medicine / skin,
appearance & disappearance: plant / verb muscle, nerves & bone / verb
mushroom (shape) mutinous (adjective)
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 workers are in a ~ there are a number of ~
mutinous homeowners myths and tropes
~ are trying to secede from the town what are some common ~ about looting
resistance, opposition & defeat: boat weight loss myths
allegiance, support & betrayal: boat stop following ~ (an advertisement)
mutiny (noun) create that myth
I didn’t ~, but I certainly inherited it (drunk journalists)
mutiny against her teachers
the 9-year-old girl contacted Johnny Depp to lead a ~ bolster the myth
this has helped to ~ that children…
mutiny among (federal) judges
the verdict is so outrageous that is has produced a ~ perpetuate (dangerous) myths
her comments ~ (opinion)
mutiny among taxpayers
high taxes set off a ~ bound up in the myths
Indians are ~ white Americans have created
World Cup mutiny
Anelka was involved in the ~ (against the coach) sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion

victim of a mutiny mythology (noun)

he was the ~ by ultra-conservatives (politics)
family mythology
provoked a mutiny this Paradise Lost kind of ~ (formerly rich family)
he ~ (a boss, of his employees)
Good War mythology
resistance, opposition & defeat: boat the legacy of ~ still affects foreign policy
allegiance, support & betrayal: boat
Greek left-wing mythology
muzzle (verb) in ~, the crime was blamed on the US (Nov. 19, 1973)
♦ “”By God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all.”
muzzle dissent (George H.W. Bush, about the Gulf War.)
they are seeking to ~
bases: religion
constraint & lack of constraint: animal / verb
speech: mouth / verb
myopia (noun) N
myopia nadir (at the nadir)
this ~ can be cured by leadership (shortsightedness)
at a nadir
myopia of (modern democratic) politics his popularity was ~ (a politician)
the ~ is all too obvious (the near term, quick fixes, short-
termism) at its nadir
the team is ~ (losing)
philanthropic myopia
the long lineage of ~ (Mrs. Jellyby, etc.) at their nadir
in 2009, stock prices were ~
perception, perspective & point of view: eye
future / time: eye at the nadir of the (financial) crisis
myopic (adjective) ~, gold was a safe haven (investment)
at the nadir of a bad economy
myopic policymaking the store opened ~
this kind of ~ was dubbed the “political-business cycle”
♦ “We see nothing truly till we understand it.” (John Constable, about at the nadir of his tenure
clouds.) he finds himself ~ (a politician)
consciousness & awareness / future / perception, reached their nadir
perspective & point of view: distance / eye house prices have not yet ~ (falling)
myth (noun) decline: astronomy / direction
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: astronomy /
myth direction
much of what we think we know about Australia is a ~
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nadir (since the nadir) constant, nagging
the ~ fear of catching the disease again (COVID)
since the (recession's) nadir
affliction / fictive communication: speech
~ in 2009, things have improved
decline: astronomy nail (hit the nail on the head)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: astronomy hit the nail on the head
nadir (other) you ~ when you say...
you don’t offend me, you ~
nadir of his career
the ~ came after… (Frank Sinatra) hits the nail on the head
that ~ (what you said was right)
nadir of education one critic called it “Brooklyn verismo,” that pretty much ~
the late sixties were surely the ~ (US)
hit some nails on their heads
nadir in (US) history the prophets ~ (futurists got some things right)
his presidency was the ~ (politics)
success & failure: nail / target / verb
economic nadir
they have taken us to this ~ (politics)
nail (nail something)
political nadir nailed it
the government has reached a ~ you ~ (correct answer)
he ~, he’s right of course (an opinion about Afghanistan)
hit a nadir the sunshield has been unfurled, we ~ (space telescope)
sales have ~
nailed a (48-yard) field goal
hit its nadir he ~ (football)
the population of panthers ~ in the 1980s (Florida)
nailed (several huge) jumps
decline: astronomy he ~ and a spock 540
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: astronomy
nailed the message
nag (verb) her cheerful, soulful, poppy songs that ~ (Lizzo)
nagging at those nailing it
there was a question ~ in charge of his manhunt they spotted a gap in the market and they’re ~ (Social Chain)
affliction / fictive communication: speech / verb success & failure: nail / target / verb
nagging (adjective) nail (nail somebody)
nagging awareness nail this guy
this ~ of having taken someone else’s place... we need more evidence to ~ (police)
nagging fear pursuit, capture & escape: nail / verb
the ~ that the cancer will return
nail (bite one’s nails)
nagging guilt
still, I felt this ~ bite their nails
her parents ~ during big-wave season (Maya Gabeira)
nagging injuries
she came off the pitch early, which could indicate ~ biting their nails
Germany, Italy, Hungary are ~, nervously (Ukraine crisis)
nagging issue
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / finger / gesture
there is the ~ of waste (agricultural plastic)
/ verb
nagging problem
the ~ of head lice nail biter (noun)
nagging question nail-biter
the ~ what if we had only... it was a ~, a lot of back-and-forth play (soccer game)
an expert answers ~s about the virus
nail biter of a mission
there’s always this ~, “Why?”
it’s a ~ (India spacecraft)
nagging worry in a nail-biter
it has become the focus of ~ (air pollution and its effects)
the French beat Slovenia 90-89 ~ (Olympic basketball)

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feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / finger / gesture naked (protection)
nail-biting (fingernails) naked to the elements
nail-biting experience they were ~
the space repair was a ~ for NASA left us naked
nail-biting thriller the destruction of their air-defence radars ~
it's a ~ (a TV show) protection & lack of protection: clothing & accessories
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / finger / gesture nakedly
nail down (gain) nakedly often
nail down the agreement bars are places where people reveal themselves, most ~
she helped to ~ between… (government) appearance & reality: clothing & accessories
success & failure: nail / verb concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories

nail down (settle) name (reputation)

nail down the facts name
it was very hard to ~ his ~ is dirt
my ~ is clean (exonerated)
nailed down her proofs
Evans ~ (concerning undulant fever) bad name
his comments give boxing a ~ (Deontay Wilder)
nailed down the source
scientists believe they have ~ of the coronavirus (MERS) big enough name
he was still a ~ that his latest book sold well, but...
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: nail / verb
good name
naked (unadorned) the company has a ~
naked abuse clear his name
this is ~ of power (politics) he has vowed to ~ (a politician)
he wanted to prove his innocence and ~ (refuses deal)
naked aggression
lies, deceit and ~ (Saddam Hussein) clear my name
I’m here today to ~ and restore my reputation (fired coach)
naked bigotry
the ~ (4 Pakistani female nurses murdered) made his name
he had ~ as the cofounder of the White Helmets
naked discrimination
their marginalization is due to ~ (an ethnic group) make a name for themselves
they should go into business and ~ (father about his sons)
naked politics
this is ~ (impeachment investigation) tarnished the (Hernandez) name
they felt she had ~
naked self-interest
♦ “A name doesn’t spoil a man, but a man can spoil a name.” (A Finnish
~ among budding lawyers (university) proverb.)

naked truth ♦ Life is for one generation; a good name is forever. (Japan.)
what I believe to be the ~ (identity of murderer) ♦ “You have blackened our name. Kill yourself and clean our shame or
we will kill you first.” (Text message to a 17-year-old Turkish girl in
appearance & reality: clothing & accessories Southeast Anatolia from one of her uncles. She had taken a boyfriend.)
concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories ♦ The Howards and the Turners; the Hatfield and the McCoys; the
Lincoln County Feud; the Frenches and Eversoles; the Martins and
naked (substance) Tollivers; the Bakers and Howards... (Famous Appalachian family feuds.)
♦ “Don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against the Campbells, but I would
naked not stay a night in the company of one.” (Said by a MacDonald recently,
our leaders are ~ referring to a massacre of MacDonalds by Campbells after the
Campbells had accepted the MacDonalds’ hospitality. The murders took
♦ This reminds us of the 1837 story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by place in 1692.)
Hans Christian Andersen, about the child who exclaimed, “The King has
no clothes!” reputation: proper name
substance & lack of substance: clothing & accessories namecheck (and name-check)
namechecked it in a song
Beyonce has ~ (OnlyFans porn site)

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name-checked you Napoleonic fervor
the President has ~, called you a rat (NPR) and elsewhere he wrote, with ~... (a Zionist)
♦This merely means to mention a name.
comparison & contrast: affix
attention, scrutiny & promotion: person / verb
narcotic (noun)
nanny (person)
narcotic
nanny state rising profits were a ~ that affected everyone
people expect the ~ to do everything for them (Brexit) ♦ “Salt is the primordial narcotic.”
a small but growing number are defying the ~ (Singapore)
feeling, emotion & effect: addiction / health & medicine
dependency: baby / family / person
person: baby narrative (groups, etc.)
nap (noun) narrative
what ~ they want to advance (disinformation)
taking a nap people were expecting this ~ that... (a controversial show)
the GOP is ~ somewhere (politics) I am so tired of this ~ (Ailsa Chang / life’s milestones)
action, inaction & delay: sleep narrative is
consciousness & awareness: sleep the conventional Anglocentric ~ that... (the Alamo)
Napoleon (the Black Napoleon, etc.) narrative was
a lot of his ~ to create a sensational story (murders)
Napoleon of the West
he referred to himself as the ~ (the captured Santa Ana) narrative that we aren’t doing anything
the ~ is just not true
Black Napoleon
Toussaint Louverture, the ~ (Haiti) narrative that dehumanizes policeman
I think the ~ is dangerous (the writer James McBride)
“Chinese Napoleon”
the last Mongol emperor was driven from Peking by the narrative about the war
upstart ~ (Chu Yuan-chang) this false ~ (that US accomplished nothing)
Muslim Napoleon narrative of the Supreme Courts
his resting place resembles that of a ~ (Mehmet II) in his ~ he identifies issues like gun rights, free speech
Mahometan Buonaparte narrative of negativity
so brave and so good they call him the ~ (Ali Pasha) the “deficit narrative” frames Aboriginal identity in a ~
“One Eyed Eastern Napoleon” narratives of the occupation
he was also called the ~ (the Maharaja Ranjit Singh) it does not fit within dominant ~ (Vichy Jewish Scouts)
♦ “Napoleon is not a name that is easy to live up to, or live down.”
(“Napoleon’s incendiary legacy divides France 200 years on” by Lucy narrative of elevating
Williamson, BBC Paris correspondent, May 4, 2021.) his comments cohere around a ~ white Americans
military: epithet narrative in his head
Napoleon (the Napoleon of surgery, etc.) he has a ~ that he wants Americans to believe

“Napoleon of the Poles” narrative from the report

Roald Amundsen, often called the ~ police say they sent the ~ to the FBI

Napoleon of the Polar regions narrative of the war

that extraordinary explorer, the ~ (Amundsen) he became entangled in the race to control the ~ (Syria)

Napoleon of Surgery “narrative enforcers”

on June 26, 1870, ‘the ~’ died (James Syme) my name was on the list of ~ (Chloe Hadjimatheou)

allusion: military narrative threat

achievement, recognition & praise / character & the 1776 Commission fought the ~ of the 1619 Project
personality: epithet narrative war
Napoleonic (adjective) the North won, but the South won the ~

Napoleonic audacity suspect’s narrative

he had the ~ to swing from one Pole to the other law enforcement’s focus on the ~ has been criticized
one’s narrative

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 gender, self-definition in taking control of ~ misguided narrative
attributes it to what he insists is a ~ of the shooting
self-narrative
construction and accuracy in the ~ overblown (political) narrative
~s of adult children of alcoholics poor photo selection fueled an ~ (#defundNPR)
it became a part of his ~ (Joe Biden and personal tragedy)
at the center of Joe Biden’s ~ has always been that... predetermined narrative
history is molded to fit the needs of a ~ (at the NYT)
my narrative
but I mean, it’s his words, it’s not ~ (disagreement) preferred narrative
research that clashes with the ~ is denied and dismissed
his narrative
although, in ~, the other side is to blame... unsubstantiated narrative
the company is using an ~ to obscure other factors
their own narratives
equitable support for BIPOC filmmakers to author ~ online narrative
~s are misleading
ABC narrative
my posts simple don’t agree with the ~ (removed) counter-narratives
how far right movements create ~ to accepted
“deficit narrative” understandings of history
the ~ frames Aboriginal identity (negative news)
digestible narrative
massacre narrative we’ll tackle the ~ that sports are a pathway...
people pushing the ~ are still looking for the graves (Tulsa)
dominant narratives
vaccine misinformation narratives what do ~ do to our understanding of history
a number of ~ have appeared ~ maintain black oppression (education)
Jewish Scouts do not fit within ~ of the occupation (Vichy)
press narrative
that’s the ~, it’s backwards from what’s likely to happen Eurocentric narrative
he upends the ~ (In the Forest of No Joy)
“white saviour” narrative
critics say the film pursues a ~ (They Are Us) fake narrative
it’s wrong, it’s a ~, you don’t care about the facts
Syrian State narrative
something useful to the ~ doesn’t mean it’s not true false narrative
he led an entire generation into believing a ~
“stop the steal” narrative one of the ~s is there is no choice (plural marriages)
they want to keep alive the ~ (political protesters) this ~ about the war (that US accomplished nothing)
victim narrative foundational narrative
but his is anything but a ~ (Zygmunt Bauman / Polish Jew) their work threatens the ~ of Polish Society (Holocaust)
guests are expected to wallow in a ~ (media)
national narrative
public narrative being a part of a ~ sends a message (arrested for rioting)
the issue has defined her ~ (Britney Spears’ conservatorship)
the ~ was that this was about... (a corporate issue) negative narrative
the ~ influences public opinion (about a black athlete)
third narrative
but I think this ~ is also a big narrative new narrative
his lawyer said this ~ was known to the presiding judge
tale of 2 cities narrative the group pushing this ~ have already sued the Cherokees
the curfew reinforces the ~ (Sydney lockdown / a tweet)
official narrative
changing narrative the migrants don’t believe the ~
reflecting on the ~ around mental health in sport some go beyond the ~ to look into the reality (Syria)
misleading narratives the ~ that was presented by prosecutors was that... (murders)
he debunks ~ about crime, gangs and public safety outlandish narrative
prevailing narrative ~s began to development (about James Le Mesurier)
his book calls into question the ~ surrounding the murders rosy narrative
accepted narrative they agreed to stick to a ~ (diplomacy)
the ~ of the murders just can’t be true (Manson Family) separate narratives
established narrative the trend has been ~ (vs. a collective national story)
I learned not to write papers going against the ~ (campus)

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similar recurring narratives believe in this narrative
show after show is driven by ~ (rape and murder of females) the more people ~...
narrow and sensational and false narrative bring that (important) narrative forward
he presented such a ~ of the murders (a prosecutor) how can they ~
conventional Anglocentric narrative caused that narrative to grow
the ~ is... (Texas independence from Mexico) lack of understanding has ~ (about polygamy)
strong, legitimate narrative challenge the (Kremlin’s) narrative
we have a ~ (secret British document / HMS Defender) there is less to ~ (radio station shut down)
narrative around it change the narrative
did he try to justify it, was there a ~ (surprise rough sex) we were inspired to go public and ~ (about polygamy)
she is keen to ~ (Outdoor Afro)
in his narrative once a story has been framed, it’s hard to ~
although, ~, the other side is to blame...
choose a narrative
mastermind behind the narrative most often they ~ that makes them feel good (denial)
Steve Jobs was not the ~ (“Think Different” ad campaign)
come up with a narrative
change in the narrative they rationalize and ~ that makes them feel good
now, this is a real moment, right, this could be a real ~
committed to the (CRT) narrative
control of this narrative those ~ (critical race theory)
the white media does not want to relinquish ~ (black sports)
constructs its official narrative
part of the narrative as Colombia ~ of the violence, one core actor is Uribe
TikTok has become ~ of the election (2020)
control the narrative
controlling the narrative he was at the center of a battle to ~ of the Syrian War
he has done so well at ~ (civil-rights lawyer)
they went to great lengths to ~ (COVID deaths)
managing the narrative now Silicon Valley has come up with a way to ~
the government appears obsessed about ~
controlling the narrative
“war for narrative” he complained that the team was ~ (an NFL player)
she reminds us of Kimberle Crenshaw’s “~”
create a (different) narrative
narrative was amplified I want to ~ (Elizabeth Colomba, “Riding Places”)
the ~ in a feedback loop by the media (Steele Dossier)
curates the narrative
narrative (shaped around him) will become he carefully ~ around his exploits to enlarge them
I wonder what the ~ (gossip about NFL player)
debunks (misleading) narratives
narrative is changing he ~ about crime, gangs and public safety
the ~ from ‘Fuck Jake Paul’ to ‘We love Jake Paul’
define it
narrative was disputed you get to ~, it doesn’t have to look like any other narrative
the guards’ ~ by prosecutors (Blackwater) (Blacks participating in nature)
narrative (of fake cures) is fed enforce the (false) narrative
the ~ by hope (COVID) you ~ that BIPOC artists are... (BIPOC vs. PBS)
narratives (about her) have dominated fit the narrative
two ~ coverage (pop diva is hot mess, has lost her voice) they didn’t tell you because it didn’t ~ (politician vs. media)
narratives maintain fit within (dominant) narratives
dominant ~ black oppression (education) it does not ~ of the occupation (Vichy Jewish Scouts)
narrative (of deceit) unraveled form a narrative
after her ~ (the influencer Belle Gibson) when they come together and ~ (microaggressions)
amplify (pro-government) narratives frame the narrative
these networks ~ (the internet) it is vital to ~, to persuade the justices of your version
author their own narratives fueled an (overblown political) narrative
equitable support for BIPOC filmmakers to ~ (from PBS) poor photo selection ~ (#defundNPR)

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fueled by (false) narratives take back her narrative
grievances ~ (extremists) she tries to ~ (Monica Lewinsky)
get across the narrative take control of the narrative
to ~, the basic idea of what’s going on in the country Palestinians on the ground have phones and can “~”
get ahead of the narrative taking control of their (own personal) narratives
it is so important to ~ (civil rights lawsuits) athletes are ~ (via the media, The Players’ Tribune, etc.)
goes against the narrative talk about that narrative
never commission a story that ~ (The New York Times) Yah, I want to ~... (NPR’s Sarah McCammon)
keep the narrative alive tilt the narrative
they want to ~ (politics) the photo fueled the notion that NPR is trying to ~
laid out a narrative upends the (Eurocentric) narrative
his attorney ~ that... (court martial) he ~ (In the Forest of No Joy)
make our own narrative using (an unsubstantiated) narrative
we don’t care, we ~ (an older NBA player) is the company ~ to obscure other factors (Walgreens / San
Francisco)
plays to their narrative
they are trying to spin the data that ~ (politics) writes my narrative
no one ~ but me, so know this now... (a celebrity)
promoted these narratives
the Japanese government ~ (soldiers should die in battle) written out of the narrative
like so many Black icons, his contributions were ~
push that narrative
♦ “The same tired narrative gets thrown out there.” (Disgusted.)
you need support for the war, so you ~ (of terrorism)
♦ “As Colombia constructs its official narrative of the violence that has
pushing the massacre narrative torn it apart, one of the core issues is how Mr. [Alvaro] Uribe’s legacy will
be remembered. He’s seen as both a victim of the FARC, after the
people ~ are still looking for the graves (Tulsa) guerrillas assassinated his father, and as a perpetrator, for his alleged
ties to paramilitary groups and the false-positives scandal. The future,
pushing a (false) narrative sadly, looks bleak for Colombia...” (BBC 4, From Our Own
he is ~ that he was robbed (election) Correspondent, “Japan’s Second World War Legacy,” 15 Aug 2020.)
♦ “Politics is story-telling, and politics hopefully is about persuasion,
puts a dent in that narrative about winning people’s hearts and minds.” (Senator Ted Cruz.)
this withdrawal ~ (of being competent in foreign policy) ♦ “Wars are fought with guns, bombs and stories.” (Intrigue, Mayday,
BBC Radio 4.)
reframe the narrative
♦ “Narrative consultant John Yorke advises politicians, businesses,
critical race theory seeks to ~ of American history advertisers on how to tell their stories.” (The old category of “script
doctor” has morphed into public relations and crisis communications.)
resisted the narrative
♦ “When it fits your narrative it’s not a theory, when it doesn’t, it becomes
I ~ and the pressure being applied to me (whistleblower)
one.” (Rancor on a message board about the coronavirus pandemic.)
runs counter to the narrative ♦ “‘Research” is just another way of saying, ‘I’m just going to look at stuff
what I saw ~ that the border is open (immigration) that agrees with me.’” (Carl Brutananadilewski.)
♦ “somebody promo a narrative and y’all follow it.” (Meek Mill, a rapper,
shape the narrative unhappy about criticism of some of his lyrics.)
TikTok has helped ~ of the election (2020) ♦ “For all of you that want to slap narratives on my words and my
experience—one in which I lived for 17 years—you can’t do that because
shape narratives you have no clue.” (Carli Lloyd, soccer player.)
archaeology’s power to ~ (history) ♦ “They say history is written by the victors. But is that still true? Or is it
written by whoever wins the race to control the narrative, the viral video,
shifted the narrative the meme...” (Chloe Hadjimatheou. Intrigue, Mayday, BBC Radio 4.)
it ~ (a protest / from reform to defund the police) ♦ “He has always been of the opinion the truth is something that people
need to know, not the narrative that has been put out.” (A lawyer,
stick to a (rosy) narrative speaking for his client.)
they agreed to ~ (diplomacy) ♦ “NPR’s Emily Feng explains the dueling political narratives...”

support the narrative ♦ “You know, the media narrative, which they have been lazy and listless
about trying to inform or control the media narrative internationally [sic]
the media ignores these cases because they don’t ~ has gone completely against them.” (A former State Department official
on NPR’s Fresh Air, about an international crisis.)
supported the (police) narrative
♦ “Did she say ‘media narrative’? Edward R. Murrow is turning over in
they played up other factors that ~ (medical examiners) this grave.” (A comment about a scandal involving ethics and sex at
CNN.)
sustain the narrative
♦ This word has its own, huge Wikipedia entry.
this is just what you want to ~ (propaganda)

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♦ Narrative (count noun): (a) Your personal view and set of beliefs, which ♦ “I’m so grateful to Bachelor Nation for all of the memories we’ve made
conflict with mine. (b) A codeword for, “I completely disagree with you.” together.” (Chris Harrison. Canceled.)
(Collocation) You do your very best to control / frame the narrative and
attack the other person’s narrative. My narrative is right. Your narrative is enthusiasm / group, set & collection: person
wrong. (See belief, polemic)... (A definition written in the spirit of
Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.) nature (force of nature)
inclusion & exclusion: society force of nature
narrow (breadth) she is a wonderful woman, a ~ (innocence project)

narrow lead amount & effect / force / power: storm

he holds a ~ over his opponent (election) character & personality: storm

narrow scoreline naut (Argonaut, etc.)

despite the ~, they outclassed Real (Manchester City) aquanaut
narrow win an ~ is to the sea what an astronaut is to space
the US survived with a ~ over Spain (World Cup soccer) Argonauts
size: breadth Jason, the ~, and the Golden Fleece

narrow-minded (adjective) astronaut

an ~, from the Greek “star” and “sailor”
narrow-minded
he is ~ cosmonaut
a ~, the Russian equivalent of astronaut
mind: breadth
internaut
narrowness (noun) journalists and ~s can overstate the importance of “clicks”
ideological narrowness taikonaut
~ is a threat to intellectual openness ~ (hangtianyuan / heaven-sailing)
mind: breadth searching & discovery: affix / boat / sea
nascent (beginning) navel gazing (omphaloskepsis)
nascent campaign navel-gazing
kindness and decency is the central thrust of his ~ (politics) millennials are so self-entitled, and there’s lots of ~
growth & development: baby / birth navel-gazing tabulation
the ~ of credentials is insufferable (literary world)
nation (Who Dat Nation, etc.)
academic navel gazing
‘Bachelor’ Nation thinking about free will is much more than ~ (justice, etc.)
racism controversy rocks ~ (the US TV show)
there are controversial cast members within ~ indulging in navel gazing
the British government is ~ while... (aggrieved Scotsman)
Buckeye Nation
hate and derision have no place in ~ (Ohio State loses) feel (too much) like navel-gazing
internal ethics issues can ~ (newsrooms)
Cenation
she’s a member of the ~ of John Cena (the wrestler) analysis, interpretation & explanation: religion

Cub’s Nation navigate (verb)

for ~, this was a tough goodbye (baseball trades)
navigating a tough environment
Who Dat Nation higher education is ~ for enrollment
members of the ~ (fans of New Orleans Saints)
man, there’s a whole ~ out there (Bobby Hebert) navigate through the ocean
it’s hard to ~ of digital information and misinformation
♦ “Well, you know, this is so fascinating, first of all, the fact that you use
that term, “Batchelor Nation.” So what I take from that is it isn’t just a
show anymore, it’s like a whole, what? Ecosystem?” Who’s in Batchelor
navigate through this
Nation, is it like everybody who watches the show, who was a part of it, how am I going to ~ (being gay)
what does that mean?” (Michele Martin wants to know. From “Racism
Controversy Rocks ‘Bachelor’ Nation, NPR, All Things Considered, Feb navigate my way out of the darkness
20, 2021.) I was able to ~ (“A Letter to College Sports”)
♦ “Citizens of vaccination nation, all those shots in the arm, gave a shot
in the arm to the box office this weekend...” (Chris Connelly promoting navigating this (incredibly difficult) experience
filmgoing on ABC. This is a good example of recontextualization of an we are ~ (pandemic)
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navigating the idea ♦ Navigate is one of the most popular cliches in “contempo-speak.”
Literally anything can be navigated and is, nowadays. Like all cliches, it
we are ~ that others were involved (cops about a murder) saves its users any difficulty in expressing a thought.

navigate the (cyber) landscape ♦ “Two Swedish tourists headed for the Italian resort of Capri misspelled
the name in the GPS device and ended up in the industrial town of Carpi,
so how are kids supposed to ~ (misinformation) 400 miles away, where they were very puzzled by the absence of a
beach.” (The Week, August 7, 2009.)
navigate the (bureaucratic) maze
♦ “Triple A suggested that drivers who use GPS still carry a good old-
workers whose only job is to ~ (Sudan) fashioned map.”
navigate the (tangled health-care) maze ♦ “Tired of stumbling off curbs or bumping into other pedestrians while
consulting a map on your smartphone? When you wear Lechal Insoles,
it's difficult to ~ (immigrants) a gentle vibration in one shoe or the other will tell you when and in which
direction to turn. Just enter your destination into Lechal’s GPS app, and
navigate a minefield let your phone do the navigating. The batteries for the vibrating pads last
ad makers had to ~ (Super Bowl 55 / pandemic, strife) about 15 days on a charge. Besides steering you from place to place,
the insoles can also act as activity trackers, monitoring distances
navigating a new (geopolitical) order traveled, steps taken, calories burned, and more. $150, amazon.com.”
countries are ~ framed by the rising dominance of China ♦ The great captain James Cook learned cartographic trigonometry from
Lt. Samuel Holland in the year prior to the 1759 Siege of Quebec. Cook,
navigate the presence in turn, transmitted his knowledge to Captain William Bligh, who taught
ways to ~ of social media in our lives (Mayowa Aina) Captain Matthew Flinders. Cook, Bligh, and Flinders were famous for
their voyages of exploration and discovery.
navigate the (DMV) process ♦ William Bligh, Ernest Shackleton... (Two men associated with
he coached applicants on how to ~ (crooked lawyer) extraordinary feats of open-boat navigation.)
♦ “...the Englishmen were treated to an astonishing spectacle, a review in
navigates a (byzantine) asylum process which no fewer than 330 canoes took part, some of them almost as long
he ~ to finally get a court hearing as the Resolution herself... The painting by Hodges now in Admiralty
House gives one an idea of the scope of this display...” (The Resolution’s
second visit to Tahiti. From The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead.)
navigate the terrain
he knows how to ~ (philosophy) ♦ A FUNNY STORY. A rich stupid city man stopped his limousine next to
a field in the countryside and waved a farmer over. “Where’s
Centerville?” the rich man demanded. “Never heard of it,” said the
navigate a (dense) thicket farmer. “Well, where is Nearville?” the rich man spluttered. “Couldn’t
Netflix is trying to ~ of challenges say,” said the farmer. “Well, you’re pretty goddamn stupid, ain’t you,
boy,” the rich man said. “I ain’t lost,” said the farmer.
navigate the threat
they are forced to ~ of rape daily (girls in South Africa) direction: boat / ground, terrain & land / journeys & trips /
map / verb
navigate (yet) another year
colleges ~ of Covid-19 navigating
navigates the (plot’s emotional) peaks and chasms navigating consent
she ~ like a seasoned Sherpa (critic Robbie Colin) ~ is all about communication (sex)
navigate drug abuse, depression, love and high school navigating the (tangled health care) maze
the HBO show follows a group of teens as they ~ an immigrant’s tale of ~
navigates and negotiates navigating (America’s byzantine health care) systems
she ~ her Black identity in a white space (high school) ~ can be frustrating
difficult to navigate navigating the terrain
for Democrats, the issue has been ~ (Trump vaccine) they have shown themselves adept at ~
difficult (for the outsider) to navigate direction: boat
byzantine regulations are ~ (Egypt)
navigation (cyberspace)
hard to navigate
family dynamics and political opinions can be ~ ease of navigation
great content and ~ (a Web site)
♦ “Family dynamics and political opinions can be hard to navigate during
Thanksgiving.” direction / computer: boat
♦ “They are navigating a difficult transition between high school and
college.” (A young idealistic educator about minority students.) Neanderthal
♦ “How people are navigating this New Year’s Eve amid this variant.”
(Omicron. NPR.) Neanderthal thinking
♦ “Where are you now in sort of navigating your grief?” (Rachel Martin, the last thing we need is ~, wear a mask (COVID)
NPR.)
growth & development: history
♦ “Nostalgia seems to be one of the psychological resources that we
have to help us navigate current challenges and stressors and also...” primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
(Clay Routledge, a professor of psychology at North Dakota State past & present / time: history
University, who has studied nostalgia.)

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near (near future, etc.) he decided it was time to ~ (publicize sensitive info)
fate, fortune & chance: neck
near getting
we’re nowhere ~ on top of this virus (pandemic) neck (up to one's neck)
near future up to their necks in clutter
nobody knows what the ~ will bring they are ~
draws near up to his neck in corruption
the night ~ everyone's ~ around here (illegal logging / Siberia)
drawing near buried up to my neck
the time is ~ I was ~ in debt
future / proximity / time: distance / position / prep, adv, involvement: neck
adj, particle
neck (pain in the neck)
near (verb)
pain in the neck
verdict nears rebuilding it will be a ~ (damaged overpass)
Weinstein judge warns defense as ~ what a ~
future / time: direction / distance / movement / verb pain in my neck
nearsighted (adjective) she was often a ~
nearsighted affliction: health & medicine / neck / sensation
the committee members are ~ (Nobel Peace Prize) neck (oppression)
corporate America is ~
neck of black Americans
nearsighted and ill-informed
we have all seen the knee of injustice on the ~
most Americans are ~
♦ “We see nothing truly till we understand it.” (John Constable, about neck of the people
clouds.) as the boot is removed from the ~ (Saddam's regime)
consciousness & awareness / future / perception, boot on the neck
perspective & point of view: eye the government has its ~ of the company
neck (save one’s neck) knee on the neck
he has his ~ of the public-health community (politics)
save his neck
nothing he can do will ~ putting our foot on their neck
we’re out here every night ~ (a protest leader)
save his own neck
he is doing anything he can to ~ (death row) Get Your Knee Off Our Necks
the event included a ~ protest
death & life / destruction: neck
survival, persistence & endurance: neck took world football’s knee off Africa’s neck
fate, fortune & chance: neck so 2010 ~ (South African World Cup)
neck (stick one’s neck out) ♦ “That issue [prejudice] is now full and centre and top of the mind in the
world and I think this movement of Black Lives Matter and taking the
knee campaign made the world sit back and look at the issue. So 2010
stick their necks out took world football’s knee off Africa’s neck, I don’t think it will be allowed
people don't want to ~ (buying decisions) to put that knee on Africa’s neck again.” (Danny Jordaan, organising
chief for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, won by Spain. From "2010
stick your neck out took world football's knee off Africa’s neck,” BBC, July 11, 2020.)
if you ~, you might get your head cut off (politics)
oppression: neck
stick our necks out for you neck (area)
we’re not going to ~ (not in national interest)
fate, fortune & chance: neck neck of land
we landed on a ~
neck (fate)
area: shape
neck shape: neck
my ~ is on the chopping block (accountability) neck (Throggs Neck, etc.)
put his neck on the line
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 the Siliguri Corridor, or the ~ (India) needle (shape)
Throggs Neck bullets, needles, prisms, columns, stars, cups, plates
~ is a neighborhood, peninsula and bridge (the Bronx)
snowflakes come in shapes: ~
proper name: neck
shape: cloth
neck and neck (adjective) needle (the Needles, etc.)
neck and neck with the Yankees the Needles
they are ~ (a baseball team)
~ are a group of rock pinnacles (Arizona)
competition: horse / neck ~ are a famous tourist attraction (Isle of Wight)
Necklace (Necklace Nebula, etc.) proper name: cloth

Necklace Nebula needle (needle in a haystack)

the ~ in Sagitta, the Arrow
needle in a haystack
Necklace Valley they found a ~ (searchers for body of missing girl)
the ~ Lakes include Jade, Opal and Emerald (the Alpine
needle in a haystack of nothing
Lakes Wilderness in Washington State)
my blog was a ~
proper name: clothing & accessories
found a needle in a haystack
necklace (configuration) they ~ (searchers for body of missing girl)

necklace of islands looking for a needle in a haystack

to the east was a long ~ known as the Lau Group these poor scientists were ~ (viruses back in the day)
♦ “Someone said it's kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack—only
necklace of lights right now, the haystack is covered with snow." (Winter search for body of
a ~ was laid upon the sea (lighthouses on Mediterranean) missing woman.)
♦ In August, 2008, two-year-old Emmett Trapp wondered off into the
necklace of sensors desert. Many wished to look for him, but officials refused offers of help,
an electronic ~ (traffic management in urban areas) saying only they were qualified to search, based on their training. After
40 hours, the little boy was found by a citizen who disregarded the
electronic necklace officials. The boy was just outside the official search zone, which had
been combed over and over. He was only about a mile from his home.
an ~ of sensors (traffic management in urban areas)
♦ “Knowing that the divers on the scene were not up to this specialized
configuration: clothing & accessories task of entering the cave, and assuming—that Gant might still be alive in
an air pocket—[Buddy] Lane pleaded by telephone that trained caver
needle (verb) divers be called in...” (“The Bat Cave Miracle,” 16 August 1992,
Nickajack Lake Cave, New Hope, Tennessee.)

needled Republicans about why ♦ “Finding an animal with a SARS-CoV-2 infection is like looking for a
needle in the world’s largest haystack. They may never find a ‘smoking
he ~ the resolution… (politics) bat.’” (Angela Rasmussen, virologist, Columbia University.)
affliction / speech: sensation / verb ♦ “To find a needle in a haystack, wouldn’t you just use a very large
magnet?”
needle (move the needle, etc.)
searching & discovery: tools & technology
moral-outrage needle needle (thread the needle, etc.)
it takes a lot to move the ~
needle seems (kind of) stuck needle to thread
they have a difficult ~ (politics)
the ~ to me (on progress)
move the needle thread the needle
I tried to ~ (a diplomat)
these ads can ~ if executed correctly (social consciousness)
difficulty, easiness & effort: cloth
move the needle from A to B
legislators have the power to ~ (regulation of social media) negotiate (terrain, etc.)
moved the needle against social inequality negotiate this space
these philanthropists haven’t ~ how to ~ and develop a “cyberspace literacy” (internet)
moving this needle forward negotiated the (rocky) terrain
black women are ~ (protesting a policy) she adeptly ~ of the New York publishing world
action, inaction & delay / effect / feeling, emotion & effect navigates and negotiates
/ progress & lack of progress: tools & technology / verb she ~ her Black identity in a white space (high school)

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direction: ground, terrain & land / journeys & trips / verb ♦ Nemesis was the Greek Goddess of divine retribution, revenge and
justice.
neighbor (verb) affliction / judgment / punishment & recrimination /
neighbors China revenge: allusion / justice / religion
Russia ~ in the Far East neophyte (noun)
configuration / proximity: house / verb
political neophyte
neighbor (noun) Grant wasn’t entirely a ~
♦ From the Greek for new and plant.
neighbors
raised in Brownsville, where poverty and violence were ~ experience / growth & development / person: plant

friendly neighbors nerd (word nerd, etc.)

Azerbaijan and Armenia are not ~
word nerd
new neighbor I was a ~, like yourself (two crossword constructors)
her apartment had a view of her ~, the Atlantic Ocean ♦ Or “wordnik.”
♦ “Choose your neighbor before your house.”
character & personality / enthusiasm: creature / person
♦ “Good fences make good neighbors.”
♦ “A big river and a rich man can be bad neighbors.” nerve (anxiety)
♦ “When your neighbor’s house is on fire, carry water to the top of your
own roof.” war of nerves
(see war of nerves)
configuration / proximity: house / person
nerves are shot
neighborhood (numbers) her ~, she has no confidence (Wimbledon)
in the neighborhood of 3,000 nerves can become frayed
most scholars believe that the actual number is ~ ~ in the blasting Antarctic winds
direction / proximity: number nerves had gotten the better of him
neighborhood (area) Holloway said ~ as he lost momentum... (Olympic track)
calm his nerves
dangerous neighborhood
he lit a cigarette to ~
the US needs a real partner in a ~ (Sudan)
calm people’s nerves
neighborhood and internationally
he appeared on TV to ~ (trade war)
the last thing we need in the ~ is a collapsing state (Burma)
♦ Andy: “Barney, you've just GOT to control your nerves.” (The Andy
area: house Griffith Show. Barney was comically excitable. No doubt every culture
has a representation.)
neighboring (adjective) feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
neighboring countries nerve (strike a nerve, etc.)
Venezuela’s health crisis has spilled over to ~ (measles)
the earthquake rattled Myanmar and ~ raw nerve
(see raw nerve)
neighboring Jordan
Syrian refugees are flooding into ~ hit a nerve
the tweet ~ for doctors (from NRA)
neighboring lands
you are very defensive, I guess I ~, good (discussion)
Christians are seeking shelter in ~ (from Iraq)
configuration / proximity: house hit a Russian (raw) nerve
the German report ~ (about Kursk Battle)
nemesis (noun)
struck a nerve
nemesis of Koch Industries her article ~ (rant against obese people)
the EPA has been a ~ for decades
struck a (growing anti-bullying) nerve
Chicago’s nemesis his death ~ in America (suicide)
they were ~ in the late 80s (“Bad Boy” Pistons)
touched a (raw) nerve
sees her as its nemesis the withdrawal ~ (troops give up area)
the banking lobby ~ (politics)
hitting a nerve with progressives
the speech was clearly ~ (Bernie Sanders)

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struck a (raw) nerve in Haiti Gen Z-ness
the incident ~ (foreign adoptions) amazed at the strategic ~ of the looting (Santa Monica)
effect / feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & Indian-ness
bone / verb you hide aspects of your ~ to fit in (Asian in London)
nerve (courage) Latino-ness
what defines Latinidad or ~
lose our nerve
terrorists can win if we ~ and abandon our mission (Iraq) Muslimness
Cabinet office to investigate ‘~’ claim (England / BBC)
lost his nerve
one intended suicide bomber ~ (Casablanca) other-ness
the ~ of people (racism)
shatter (the enemy's) nerve
the objective is to ~ (shock and violence) trans-ness
I was well aware of my ~ early on in life
get up the nerve
it has taken me 11 years to ~ to come here... transness
Amy was able to center and de-center her ~ (Jeopardy!)
courage & lack of courage: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
truthiness
nerve center (basis) ~ (see the Wikipedia entry)
nerve center of the (light rail) network whiteness
the Guadalupe yard operates as the ~ we hear them talking about the sin of ~ (Fox News)
nerve center for the continent’s liberation movement wokeness
at one time Cairo was the ~ (Africa) the governor wants to take on corporate ~ (Ron DeSantis)
nerve center for (Red Cross) operations African-ness and my queerness
Mazar-i-Sharif, known as the ~ in the north... (Afghanistan) I carry my ~ on my sleeve because that’s who I am
serves as the nerve center ♦ “Lil Nas X doesn’t need to compromise or shrink his Blackness, his
Southern-ness, his ratchetness or his gayness.” (“Lil Nas X is the
Singapore ~ for the company’s global operations boundary-smashing pop revolutionary of 2021” by Jason King, NPR
Music, Dec. 28, 2021.)
bases: back / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
♦ “Every step I’ve taken has gaslighted those whom I love... I am not a
nerveless (adjective) culture vulture. I am a culture leech. You should absolutely cancel me,
and I absolutely cancel myself.” (An academic who claimed “identities of
color,” including Black Caribbean, North African Blackness, US rooted
nerveless Stosur Blackness, Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness, Boricua...)
a ~ dominated the match (tennis)
inclusion & exclusion: affix / society
character & personality / feeling, emotion & effect:
sensation / skin, muscle, nerves & bone nest (Bird’s Nest, etc.)
nerve-racking Bird’s Nest stadium
an art performance at the ~ in Beijing
nerve-racking
it was ~ proper name: animal / bird / house
shape: bird / proper name
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves
& bone
nest (shape)
ness (Asian-ness, etc.) edible nest
creamy quail eggs served in an ~ of spun rye bread
African-ness
shape: animal / bird / house
they fortified New Orleans’ ~ (Saint-Domingue)
Asian-ness
nest (resemblance)
push your ~ to the fore and make art out of it nest of (torn) foam
Blackness she had her puppies there, in a ~ (old mattress)
Lil X Nas doesn’t need to shrink or compromise his ~ rat’s nest
it’s a sad state when your ~ is questioned they must deal with a ~ of wires
brown-ness resemblance: animal / bird / house
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nest (of vipers, etc.) net (cast a net)
nest of (ISIS) military camps cast a (wide) net
B-2 bombers destroyed a ~ in Libya they have not yet ~ (a criminal investigation)
nest of smugglers casting a very broad net
he may have surprised a ~ (border agent found dead) it is a fishing expedition for information, ~
nest of vipers cast a (wide) net for the assassins
the palace turned out to be a ~ (Hulu series The Great) police ~ (bus / rail / plane, etc.)
he was an honest man in a ~
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb
hornet’s nest
the measure could raise a ~ of legal problems netherworld (noun)
the new tariffs stirred up a ~ of problems
netherworld
Pirate Nests the ~ in which he indulged (Calvin Klein)
~ And the Rise Of The British Empire (by Mark Hanna)
flourish in the netherworld
group, set & collection: animal / bird / house these falsehoods ~ of internet pranksters and trolls
nest (empty nest) disappeared into the netherworld
he ~ of Egyptian jails
empty nest
some parents find freedom in an ~ concealment & lack of concealment / environment:
direction / earth & world / society
"empty nest" parents center & periphery: direction / society
~ whose children fly back home society: center & periphery / direction
empty nest syndrome neuter (verb)
how to cope with ~ (kids go away to college)
neuter Grant
place: animal / bird / house Johnson hoped to ~ and control the army (politics)
nest (mare’s nest) neutered blogging
social media ~ as a mode of online expression
mare’s nest of (legal and practical) problems
the administration has a ~ neuter (if not destroy) trade unions
the legislation was designed to ~
mare’s nest of (squabbling) tribes
she knows what a ~ is... (an experienced diplomat) neutered the press and the courts
♦ This perhaps morphed from meaning an illusionary or nonsensical he has ~ (a leader)
discovery (horses don’t construct nests) to meaning simply a tangled
mess, perhaps based on analogy with a rat’s nest, which actually may attenuation: health & medicine
not be that messy... Sigh...
force / strength & weakness: health & medicine
complexity: bird / horse neutral (in neutral)
nest egg in neutral
nest egg uncertainty is keeping the economy ~
at age 69, he had a ~ (retirement savings) activity / functioning: engine / mechanism
money: animal / bird condition & status: engine / mechanism

nestled neutralize (kill)

nestled on the Black Sea neutralized the threat
this regional capital ~ (Trabzon, Turkey) police engaged the shooter and ~ (shot him dead)
♦ “We will catch the rapist and murderer, and encounter him.”
nestled between Bhutan and Nepal (“Hyderabad rape suspect found dead: Is it murder or suicide?” by Geeta
Sikkim is a jewel ~ Pandey, BBC News, Delhi, Sept 18, 2021. This refers to extrajudicial
murder by police who “encounter” a suspect.)
nestled in the heart death & life: euphemism / verb
George Washington University, ~ of the nation’s capital
oppression: euphemism / verb
configuration: animal / bird
neutralized (killed)
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 the perpetrator was ~ (terrorist attack in Vienna) “~” was perhaps the origin for “orange is the new black”
death & life: euphemism rum about to become the new gin
oppression: euphemism is ~
never-never land shark is the new dolphin
the ~ (favorable references on net/ don’t kill maneaters)
Never-Never land
we live in a veritable ~ (Amundsen in Antarctica) Thursday is the new Friday
they say that ~ (ad for a wine club / “Every day feels like
never-never land Britain Friday”)
she set her novels in a ~, massively elitist (Christie)
♦ This is an allusion to Peter Pan. listening is the new reading
♦ “We live in a veritable Never-Never land. Seals come up to the ship
~ (an advertisement for audiobooks)
and penguins to the tent, and allow themselves to be shot.” (The great
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the Bay Of Whales, Antarctica.) 70 is the new 50
~ (you’re only as old as you act)
environment / fantasy & reality: allusion
fantasy & reality: books & reading Next Big Thing
the suckers who want to get in on the ~ (stocks)
new (new normal, etc.) ♦ “The pattern “X (be) the new Y” echoes the old phrase, “the next big
thing.” In other words, it is promotional.
new chastity
♦ see also future (of the future), next (next Steve Jobs, etc.)
the ~ on screen is perhaps prudent, but... (Hollywood)
♦ “If you think that English that has some errors in it is bad, maybe that’s
new normal the new good.” (Heather Hansen, an English Language Instructor and
the new chastity is not an entirely welcome ~ (films) Global Communications Specialist.)
♦ “Yeah, and this is a Monday, you should see this place on a Thursday,
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: object because Thursday’s a new Friday.” (The crazy film Year One.)

new (new teacher, etc.) attention, scrutiny & promotion: object

primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: object
new father
he was a ~ who died while climbing a mountain newborn
new mother "newborn" country
I was a ~ myself, my baby was six months old Kosova, the ~

new soldier newborn league

to a ~, they’re BCGs (glasses) the ~ is fighting for its life (soccer / US)
♦ The Newborn monument in Pristina, Kosovo, is a popular spot for
new teacher citizens and tourists alike. Children, especially, enjoy climbing and
the first year for a ~ can be brutal playing on the giant letters.

experience: person growth & development: baby / birth / death & life
amelioration & renewal: baby / birth / death & life
new (orange is the new black, etc.)
new school
Black Is the New Black
~ celebrates Britain’s black community (BBC 2) new-school juggernaut
Tagovailloa turned old-school Alabama into a ~ (football)
data is the new oil
~ (as valuable as oil) new school / old school
a classic ~ rift (newer kayaking moves)
fish gape is the new duck face
the ~ (female selfie pose) past & present / time: school & education
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: school &
frozen is the new fresh education
~ (fish that is flash frozen and vacuum sealed)
next (next Steve Jobs, etc.)
“nice is the new nasty”
her career rise might signify that ~ (Rachel Maddow) next Bali
Mandalika, a new tourist area touted as the ~ (Lombok)
orange is the new black
~ reprises “Pink is the new black” next Steve Jobs
she was supposed to be the ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
orange is the new grey
~ for Bangladesh beards (henna) next Russia
Italy was considered to be the ~ (post WWII)
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Next Big Thing nightingale (Nightingale of India, etc.)
the suckers who want to get in on the ~ (stocks)
known as the Nightingale of Bollywood
next big thing she was ~ (the singer Lata Mangeshkar)
apparently, it’s the ~ (the metaverse)
♦ see also future (of the future), new (orange is the new black, etc.) superlative: bird / music
achievement, recognition & praise: bird / epithet / music
sequence: epithet / prep, adv, adj, particle
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: epithet / prep, nightmare (worst nightmare)
adv, adj, particle
worst nightmare
next (at a later time) the ~ a parent could endure (missing kid found dead)

next day girl's worst nightmare

the ~ we were sent to the rear (soldiers) it's every ~ (getting pregnant accidentally)

next summer industry's worst nightmare

the bitter political climate ahead of elections ~ shoppers like her are the supermarket ~
he turned into the ~ (George Atiyeh vs. logging)
time: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle
sequence: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle mother's worst nightmare
as a teen, she was every ~ (drugs, sex, etc.)
Niagara (Niagara of the South, etc.)
parent's worst nightmare
Niagara of the South every ~ (child kidnapping, murder)
Cumberland Falls, Kentucky, the “~”
Tallulah was soon dubbed the “~” (Georgia) my worst nightmare
local and national writers extolled Tallulah as the ~ this was ~ (emergency landing in plane)
geography: epithet feeling, emotion & effect: sleep
Niagara (the river and falls) nightmare (noun)
Niagara of vitriol nightmare
it was a ~ (a rock interview) you're seeing shyness as a ~ and it can be…
she talks about her ~ (rape)
in a Niagara Falls traveling alone with young kids can be a ~ (airlines)
we are ~ of the report (criticizing the group) she sees her ~ unfolding before her (traffic jam)
amount & effect / force: river / water it's been a ~ (affirmative action for fire department)
he soon discovered the job was a ~
nibble (nibble at, etc.) shopping for school clothes can be a ~ (girls)
the ~ was not over (one more round / boxing)
nibbling away at land and vital infrastructure the ~ began with an e-mail (hackers extort company)
coastal erosion is ~ (remote Air Force radar stations) OnlyFans was a godsend, now it’s kind of a ~ (porn)
destruction: animal / food & drink / predation / verb nightmare of all firefighters
nibble (noun) structural collapse is the ~
nightmare of (loose) granite
got a nibble
a ~ and overhanging seracs (Dhaulagiri)
he finally ~ from a potential employee
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb nightmare of Sept. 11
nearly a year after the ~, kids still…
night (death / actual)
nightmare of war
go (gently) into that good night the dream of peace has often turned into a ~ (Africa)
do not ~ (Dylan Thomas)
nightmare scenario
death & life: day / sign, signal, symbol the ~ for NATO
the ~ for many biologists, conservationists
night (night and day and day and night) that's a ~ for those… (politics)
night and day to the first round nightmare year
the start was ~ 12 months ago (a boxing match) it was a ~ (teaching at troubled D.C. school)
comparison & contrast: light & dark nightmare first round
they horribly underachieved in a ~ (World Cup)

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actor’s nightmare dream and nightmare
will I ever work again, that’s the ~ (Sir Anthony Hopkins) every surfer's ~ (Condition Black / huge surf)
credit nightmare nightmare is over
divorce can create ~s what makes you think the ~, if he gets away with it
examination nightmare nightmare arises
but would it be an ~ (scheduling school tests) a legal ~ (Jehovah's Witnesses and doctors)
traffic nightmare nightmare began
the city festival will cause a ~ his ~ with a phone call from…
parking and traffic nightmares nightmare (finally) coming to an end
residents living near the popular club face ~ is the ~ (politics)
public-relations nightmare faced a public-relations nightmare
they are fighting a ~ (restaurant chain) the university ~ (murder of Lauren McCluskey at the
University of Utah)
horrifying nightmare
blind dates are either a huge success or a ~ found himself in a nightmare
he ~ (bureaucracy)
living nightmare
he described his life as a "~" (paralysed neck down) make commuting (by train) a nightmare
the gropers who ~ for women (in Japan)
scheduling nightmare
family events can become a ~ turned into an (18-hour) nightmare
it ~ (Mogadishu firefight)
annual nightmare
the ~ of Christmas cards turned the dream into a nightmare
the loans have ~ (home ownership)
bureaucratic nightmare
♦ A find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare…
he found himself in a ~
feeling, emotion & effect: sleep
complete nightmare
it's turned into a ~ (trapped at airport by blizzard) nightmarish (adjective)
concave nightmare nightmarish scene
a ~ of loose granite, overhanging seracs (Dhaulagiri) it was a ~ (125-vehicle pileup that killed four)
Kafkaesque nightmare nightmarish thoughts
my ~ is to be... ~ about…
legal nightmare feeling, emotion & effect: sleep
it was the beginning of a ~ comparison & contrast: affix
a ~ arises (Jehovah's Witnesses and doctors)
night owl (person)
logistical nightmare
getting a force that size into Iraq by air would be a ~ night owls
the Hajj is a ~ (Makkah / Saudi Arabia) the frozen beef is often bought by ~ (from Singapore
resupply was a ~ (Egyptians fight in Yemen) vending machines)

nuclear nightmare behavior: animal / sleep

India has revived the ~ (nuclear tests) person: animal / sleep

racial nightmare nimble (adjective)

turning the trial into a ~
nimble
ultimate nightmare the security system is not ~ enough (border)
"brilliant" bombs strike some as the ~
nimble negotiating
18-hour nightmare Egypt had distinguished itself for ~ (the past)
it turned into an ~ (Mogadishu firefight)
nimble mind
beginning of a (legal) nightmare he has a ~
it was the ~
nimble enough
start of the nightmare are they ~ to close and reopen (schools in pandemic)
yeah, that was the ~ (security arrest)
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 the company vowed to be more ~ (layoffs) Mollie’s Nipples
there are several ~ in Utah (Wikipedia)
nimble, tough-minded and effective
♦ The Wikipedia entry, “Mollie’s Nipple,” is quite interesting as it relates
we need government that is ~ to Utah and its early history and exploration, to include Indians, pioneers,
and outlaws. It also includes a unique collocation: “Notable Mollie’s
lean and nimble Nipples”! Wikipedia also has an interesting article at “Breast-shaped hill.”
the company must become more ~
♦ The GNIS Feature Search returns many results for nipple, including
“Peters Nipple,” “Grannys Nipple” and “Little Nippletop.” Perhaps the less
more nimble said about these things, the better.
smaller, ~ warships and subs are the way to go (Navy)
proper name: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
remain nimble
we must ~ (military) nipple (shape)
keep your mind nimble nipple
you need to ~ a ~ can connect two other fittings (pipes)
♦ “Jack be nimble, / Jack be quick, / Jack jump over / the candlestick” (A
nursery rhyme.)
hex (pipe) nipple
a ~ can be grasped with a wrench
ability & lack of ability: movement
shape: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
nimbus (cloud)
Noah's Ark
nimbus of (curly graying) hair
she is a self-possessed woman with a ~ Noah's Ark of (exotic) wildlife
the Berenty Reserve is a ~ (Madagascar)
resemblance: cloud
Noah’s Ark of small-time criminality
nine eleven (Australia’s 9/11, etc.) this ~ (First Fleet / Australia)
nine-eleven moment modern-day Noah’s Ark
it was sort of a ~ for America (Fort Sumter attack) Norway’s Global Seed Vault is a ~ for plant seeds
Australia's 9/11 biodiversity: allusion / Bible / epithet / religion
in many ways, it is ~ (Bali bomb blast) group, set & collection: allusion / Bible / epithet / religion
“China’s 9/11” no (no Jack Kennedy, etc.)
in Beijing the incident was called ~ (2014 Kunming attack)
no de Gaulle
♦ “What will archaeologists twenty-five centuries from now make of the
ruins of One World Trade Center, currently nearing completion in you will see that Andropov is ~ (Milovan Djilas)
downtown Manhattan?” (The beginning of “Deep Frieze” by Daniel
Mendelsohn. His article is about the Parthenon, another “memorial to a no Jack Kennedy
devastating attack...one terrible day in September.”) Senator, you’re ~ (Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle)
history / military: epithet no (African) Abraham Lincoln
nineteen eighty four (and 1984) Kagame was ~ (Rwanda)
no Andy Dufresne
went all 1984 but Lester Eubanks was ~ (ABC’s Have You Seen This Man)
technology was a lot more fun before it ~
no Suvorov
oppression: allusion / books & reading
he’s ~, but it’s possible to work with him (combat)
allusion: books & reading
ninja (person) no Mardi Gras
but living just above the poverty line is ~ (Scotland)
information ninjas identity & nature: allusion
libraries are full of ~ (employees who can help)
Nobel (Nobel Prize of the Arab World,
ability & lack of ability: creature / magic / person
person: creature / magic etc.)
nipple (Mollie’s Nipples, etc.) Nobel Prize of the Arab World
the King Faisal Award for Service to Islam, dubbed the ~
Nippletop
~ in Zion National Park, Utah (unofficially named) Nobel Prize for Agriculture
the World Food Prize, dubbed the ~
Ferns Nipple
~ is an iconic landmark in Capital Reef National Park achievement, recognition & praise: epithet

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nobody (a nobody) no-holds-barred fight
this was a ~, and neither side backed down (Golan / 1973)
just a nobody
constraint & lack of constraint / restraint & lack of
I’m ~
restraint: sports & games / wrestling
importance & significance / power: person
noise (worthlessness)
no-brainer (noun)
noise
no-brainer trying to pick out the signal from the ~ (epidemiology)
chumbuckets are a ~ (money to be made) a lot of extraordinary data are nothing but ~
the ~ makes it hard to distinguish what matters (the media)
no-brainer for me results are results and the rest is ~ (politics and elections)
it was a ~, I was in from day one your speculation is ~, it has negative value (comments)
make the decision (on Hamilton) a no-brainer noise of customer behavior
Mercedes had enough information to ~ (F1 strategy) Amazon leads the way in finding patterns in the ~
certainty & uncertainty / difficulty, easiness & effort: head
"noise" in the data
nod (permission) ~ makes the new results dubious (earthquakes)

get the nod noise in the system

chances are good that the Chinese firm will ~ (contract) there's going to be some ~ (way to produce statistics)

given the nod to more (COVID) boosters noise to folks

advisors for the FDA have ~ that is ~, what matters is... (a temporary legal distraction)

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: gesture / head noise and confusion

we hope it will reduce some of the ~ (vaccine website)
nod (agree)
annoying noise
heads nod they create this ~ (government internet trolls)
there are days when I see ~ (a defense of Facebook)
short-term noise
unanimity & consensus: gesture / head / verb stick to fundamentals, try and look through the ~ (stocks)
nod (acknowledge) terrible noise
enlightening and helpful data vs. ~ (AI and medicine)
nods to Ralph Ellison
the chapter ~ (Colin Whitehead) full of noise
the information space is ~ (fakes, disinformation, theories)
achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / verb
chaos and noise
nod (acknowledgement) viewers were left with ~ (presidential debate)
nods to diversity nonsense and the noise
in a sea of performative, less than relevant ~ if you are tired of the ~ in our politics... (Amy Klobuchar)
nods to the past signal-noise
we’re going to do some ~ (a new version of Bebo) I will wait for a bit more ~ clarity drug trials)
nod to the victims cut through all this noise
it’s a ~ to make it easier for them (no contest plea) trying to ~ (what was true and what wasn’t)
acting nods rise above the noise
there may be ~ for some members of the cast (Emmys) artists need to ~ and stand out (TikTok)
party nod separate the noise from what is sound and true
everyone knew that Grant would get the ~ (politics) we have to ~ and rely on fact (election journalism)
achievement, recognition & praise: gesture
separate the signal from the noise
no-holds-barred (and no holds barred) ~ (when considering what president says)

no-holds-barred conversation separate signal from noise

it was a ~ if the volume is turned to 11, how do you ~ (culture wars)

no-holds-barred dramas tease apart signal from noise

Riot Girls offer ~(BBC Radio 4) powerful computing and statistical approaches ~

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integrate, unify, and make simple the (apparent) noise noisy (debate, etc.)
he wants to ~ of the world (Karl Friston)
♦ This word is similar to static. noisy
♦ “Some of that data will be enlightening, and really helpful. But some of we will be very ~ in the House because we are unhappy
it is going to be terrible noise and even lead to unnecessary testing and
anxiety.” (Dr. Eric Topol on the kind of health data people can now track fierce and noisy
with their smartphones.) Tunisians are locked in a ~ debate about...
♦ “The human mind can acquire knowledge from very limited input and
rapidly sort through noisy, conflicting information to reach judgments.” conflict / feeling, emotion & effect / resistance, opposition
♦ “We have so much noise in the environment these days, there’s seven & defeat / speech: sound
point six, seven billion people on the planet making a lot of noise... Such
is the noise we live in.” (The remarkable sound recordist Martyn Stewart, noisy (data, etc.)
who has dedicated his life to recording the sounds of nature. “Why this
wildlife expert is making his archive public” by Mark Savage, BBC, 2 noisy data
December 2021.)
studies chase small effects hidden in ~
activity / analysis, interpretation & explanation / obstacles activity / analysis, interpretation & explanation / obstacles
& impedance / worth & lack of worth: sound & impedance / worth & lack of worth: sound
noise (attention and conflict) nomad (person)
noise
nomads of the agriculture world
there has been a lot of ~ and trending on Twitter about...
beekeepers are the ~
we can’t react to all the ~ outside, there’ll be criticism
there’s nothing wrong with making ~ (progressive issues) academic nomad
his comments bring ~ we don’t need (disgruntled athlete) she's become an ~ (adjunct professor)
online sleuthing groups can generate a lot of ~, a lot of data
railroad nomads
clatter "shantytown," a word evoking ~…
how do you get through the ~ that he creates (politics)
Greyhound nomads
noise of the Internet they arrived as ~ (Somali refugees in Lewiston)
better to give an exhausted shrug at the ~ and move on
techno nomad
outside noise he was a ~, moving from country to country (J. Assange)
the club’s hierarchy won’t be swayed by ~ (complaints)
become an academic nomad
political noise she's ~ (adjunct professor)
it’s all just ~, I don’t listen to it (a political kerfuffle) ♦ “In their eyes man was a born migrant, settlement the perversion of
degenerates, and cutting the soil to grow crops, murder.” (Chinese
block out the noise nomads. From “Heavenly Horses” in What Am I Doing Here by Bruce
all you can do is live your life and try to ~ (invasion threat) Chatwin.)
♦ “No one but a slave would agree to live behind walls or under a mud
cut through the noise roof...” (Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni.)
~, register for a BBC account
SLATE Podcasts: ~ migration: person / journeys & trips
person: journeys & trips
make enough noise
the challenge is to ~ to capture the zeitgeist (films) nomadic (adjective)
made noises nomadic life
Nepal authorities ~ that they would limit permits (Everest) he lives a ~ drifting from town to town (Jack Reacher)
♦ “I’ve calmed down now after a week of getting used to the noise and
you just have to accept it.” (Costello of Costello & Bunce, about the
migration: person / journeys & trips
on/off/on/off bout between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. Of course, comparison & contrast: affix
Costello and Bunce were responsible for a lot of that noise!)
♦ “You showed me how, how to leave myself behind / how to turn down
no man's land (people)
the noise in my mind.” (“Haven’t Got Time for the Pain” sung by Carly
Simon.) No Man's Land
♦ “We’re a small minority, we had to make some noise or we knew that
early cartographers called it ~
unless we made that nobody would listen to us.” (Clyde Bellecourt, co-
founder of A.I.M.) no man's land
the reserve is a vast, jungly ~ (rain forest)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / conflict / feeling, emotion the desert was not a ~ (archaeology)
& effect / obstacles & impedance / resistance, opposition the piers became a ~, blocked off by highways
& defeat: sound
no-man’s sea
all through these years the Pacific had remained a ~

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no-man’s-land or twilight zone he himself had helped to ~ (Krymov / Life and Fate)
the ~ between permitted or forbidden (Amos Oz)
putting its head in a (legal) noose
isolation & remoteness: map / journeys & trips the newspaper is ~ (libel)
no man's land (regulatory, etc.) tightening the noose
we're ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
no-man’s-land for police jurisdictions they are ~ but we will fight to the end (protestors)
St. Francis is a ~ (the Rosebud Reservation)
fate, fortune & chance: death & life
bureaucratic no man's land destruction: death & life
he found himself in a ~ amid 3 agencies
normal (as noun)
regulatory no man's land
oil-exploration waste falls into a ~ the normal
more signs of ~ we once knew (COVID restrictions lift)
control & lack of control: military
a little bit of normal
no man's land (danger) it’s ~ (cider mill is open during pandemic)
no-man's-land normal returns
murders and kidnappings make the district a ~ what life might look like when ~ (Mary Louise Kelly)
no-man’s land society: part of speech
it was hotly disputed land, ~ (between tribes)
normal (new normal)
control & lack of control: military
area / danger / environment: military new normal
shrinking coastlines will be the ~ for centuries to come
non-person
welcome new normal
literary non-person the new chastity is not an entirely ~ (films)
he has become a ~ (disgraced French author)
new normal look like
acceptance & rejection: person / society what will the ~ (post-COVID-19)
person: society
society: part of speech
noon (high noon)
north (numbers)
high noon for Darwin’s theory
it was ~ (1860 Oxford debate) north of 70
death toll will be ~ (ABC / Kentucky tornadoes)
high-noon deadline
this ~ meant having to choose between sleep, food and work north of $50 million
he has invested ~ to build...
timeliness & lack of timeliness: day / film / sun
fate, fortune & chance: day / film / sun north of minus fifteen to twenty percent
we’re looking at negative GDP growth that’s ~
noose (fate)
♦ See direction (symbol) for quotations about the cardinal directions as
metaphors.
noose
the ~ is tightening (manhunt) direction: numbers
the ~ is tightening around him (a dictator)
North Korea (epithet)
noose around Baghdad
we're tightening the ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom) North Korea of Africa
Eritrea is often described as the ~
noose around my neck
for six months the media had a ~ (Van Gaal at Man U) North Korea of Europe
he is turning my country into the ~ (S. Tsikhanouskaya)
global financial noose
the ~ is tightening around Iran (sanctions) Africa’s North Korea
why Eritrea is called ~ (The Economist magazine)
legal noose ♦ The Economist has a wonderful article entitled “Why Eritrea is called
the newspaper is putting its head in a ~ (libel) Africa’s North Korea” (August 14th 2018). It is wonderful because it starts
out with how Eritrea is NOT like North Korea.
noose is tightening
the ~ (manhunt) isolation & remoteness: epithet

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Norway (the Norway of Arabia, etc.) a limited, pre-emptive military strike, the so-called ~

Norway of Arabia “bloody nose” theory

they call it the ~ (military force with diplomacy)
Musandam’s nickname, ‘the ~,’ derives from its coastline
geography: epithet got a bloody nose
he had a rough hearing, he really ~ (confirmation hearing)
nose (shape)
suffered (something of) a bloody nose
Nose they’ve ~ in the past couple of days (armed clashes)
a popular routes is "The ~" (rock climbing) ♦ “Obviously we have a bloody nose this morning, but we are not down
for the count. We will continue to stand up and fight this risky route.”
shape: nose (Jane Kleeb, an opponent of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, after a legal
defeat.)
nose (Devil's Nose, etc.)
coercion & motivation / punishment & recrimination: blood
Nose / nose / sign, signal, symbol / violence
the ~ is a peak in Alberta, Canada
nose (thumb one's nose)
Devil's Nose
the ~ section of the Mokelumne (a river) thumbing their noses at almost everything
rare men were ~ that passed for knowledge (Renaissance)
Gladstone's Nose
~ is a rock in the Western Cape, South Africa thumbed his nose at the (US) government
he has ~ (laws)
Alligator Nose
~ is a point in Honduras thumbing their nose at the rules
people are ~ (leash law for dogs)
Dolphins Nose
the ~ is a point in Andhra Pradesh, India thumb its nose at the US
the ~ is a headland (Myanmar) Russia is putting him up to ~ (Edward Snowden)
♦ “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?” / “No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at
proper name: nose you sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.” (Abraham vs. Sampson in Romeo and
Juliet.)
nose (orientation)
insult: gesture / nose / verb
nose of the plane resistance, opposition & defeat: gesture / nose / verb
pulled back on the stick to get the ~ up
nose (attention)
deck, tail, nose, rails and wheels
a skateboard has a ~ get your nose out of your computer
~ and spend more time with...
orientation: animal / direction / nose
attention, scrutiny & promotion: nose
nose (under somebody's nose)
nose (look down one’s nose)
everybody's nose
this is going on right under ~ (child abuse) looks down its nose
satire generally ~ at its subject
under the noses of the security forces
admiration & contempt: direction / eye / gesture / height /
they set up cells right ~
nose
consciousness & awareness: nose / proximity
nose (hold one’s nose)
nose (ability)
held their noses
nose for it voters who ~ and voted for him (lesser of two evils)
he has a great ~… (talent for basketball) eagerness & reluctance: gesture / nose / smell
ability & lack of ability: nose nosedive (verb / decrease)
nose (bloody nose, etc.) temperature will nosedive
bloody nose the ~ by this weekend
the dream of giving Germany a ~ (Greek soccer) increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / number /
“bloody nose” attacks plane / verb
risk of brinksmanship and talk of ~ (diplomacy) nosedive (verb / decline)
“bloody nose” option nosedived

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 relations (with North Korea) have ~ on a high note
at least I finished ~ (learning a job)
nose-dived from A's to (straight) D's
her grades ~ ended (their convention) on a confident note
Republicans ~
decline: direction / flying & falling / plane / verb
nosedive (noun / decrease) finished on a high note
at least I ~ (learning a job)
taken a nosedive
the temperatures have ~
leave on a high note
he wanted to ~
increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / number /
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
plane
nosedive (noun / decline) note (right note)
struck (all) the right notes
nosedive the words he spoke ~ (a conciliatory politician)
his career took a ~ because of questionable integrity
flaws & lack of flaws: music / speech
takes a nosedive
tourism ~ in Crimea note (note of caution, etc.)
took a nosedive note of caution
sales ~ (fashion during the pandemic) he sounded a ~ over encouraging…
decline: direction / flying & falling / plane note of confidence
nostrum (noun) he is injecting a new ~ into the Nato campaign
note of fear
vague nostrums in his voice I detected a ~ (dangerous weather)
they give voters promises and ~ (politicians)
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
cautious note
he sounded a ~ at the meeting
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
notch (verb) defiant note
the Iraqi information minister sounded a ~
notched 10,000 new coronavirus cases different note
New York State ~ between... he sounded a ~ (on a public-health issue)
attainment: number / verb
hopeful note
notch (take something up a notch) striking the same ~, the girl's aunt... (abducted girl)

kicks the intensity up a notch new note

each verse ~ (a rap song) he is injecting a ~ of confidence into the Nato campaign

kick it up a notch optimistic note

if you want to ~, try... (an exercise program) he struck an ~

ratcheted things up a notch upbeat note

he has ~ (political rhetoric) he sounded an ~ at the end of his fact-finding trip

step it up a notch detected a note

and then, to sort of ~, he invited... (promotion) in his voice I ~ of fear (dangerous weather)

increase & decrease: direction / verb injecting a (new) note

he is ~ of confidence into the Nato campaign
note (compare notes)
sounded a note
compared notes about Iraq he ~ of caution over encouraging…
the soldiers ~ (in hospital ward)
struck (all) the right notes
knowledge & intelligence: school & education the words he spoke ~ (a conciliatory politician)
note (on a note) feeling, emotion & effect: music / sound

on a confident note note (one note)

Republicans ended their convention ~
one-note character

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 in the original script he was a ~ (Do the Right Thing) noxious (adjective)
complexity: sound / music
noxious (online) behaviors
nothing-burger stalking and bullying are ~ (Internet)

nothing-burger noxious law

they claim the meeting was a ~ (political scandal) we need to repeal this ~

biggest nothing-burger ever noxious tide

she called it the ~ (political scandal) we need to stem the ~ of ideologically-driven rhetoric

big, fat nothingburger noxious (racial) views

is the memo a damning expose or a ~ (politics) this book connects his ~ to his foreign policy
♦ For information about this word, see “‘Nothingburger’: From 1950s bigoted and noxious
Hollywood to the White House” by Ben Zimmer, Wall Street Journal,
March 9, 2017.) the film is ~
♦ Literally, this word tends to collocate with fumes, chemicals and smoke.
importance & significance: food & drink In other word, bad smells.
substance & lack of substance: food & drink
corruption: smell
nourished feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances / smell

nourished by the media nudge (verb)

sports are ~
nudged
growth & development: baby / plant he never judged, you know he just ~ (a pastor)
nowhere (go nowhere, etc.) nudged him to change
his coach ~ his morning routine
getting nowhere
we are ~ fast nudged me into (just) getting
he gently ~ it over with
go nowhere
they said their claims seemed to ~ (sexual abuse) nudged America’s allies
they have ~ to patch up their differences (diplomacy)
go-nowhere
♦ “Cuomo strong-armed rather than cajoled; he used intimidation rather
he took a series of ~ jobs than seduction to get his way.” (“New York After Cuomo” by Michael
Greenberg, The New York Review, October 7, 2021.)
going nowhere
the peace process is ~ anyway coercion & motivation: arm / gesture / verb
negotiations are ~ (politics) force: arm / gesture / verb
get anywhere nudge (noun)
if you’re worried about the outcome, you don’t ~ (sports)
nudge behaviours
went nowhere the ICO is targeting ~ (Snapchat streaks, “likes,” etc.)
the peace plan ~
nudge technique
direction: journeys & trips / movement / verb but does the “~” really work (Japan / blue lights / suicide)
progress & lack of progress / success & failure: direction / ~s are a way of influencing behaviour
journeys & trips / movement / verb we must put an end to so-called “~s” (kids / social media)
~s encourage children to make bad choices (social media)
nowhere (out of nowhere, etc.)
nudge up
out of nowhere “the ~,” “You have to do this,” helps people get over that
he had himself a career day ~ (football) little barrier (COVID vaccinations)
came out of nowhere behavioral nudge
the team ~ (winning in the NCAA tournament) the mask acts as a ~ to people for better hygiene (COVID)
come out of nowhere Inclusion Nudges
he had ~, now he’s all over Radio One (Headie One) she is the co-author of the ~ Guidebook
♦ “A devastating day for all @ManUtd supporters and the club but it
didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a surprise.” (Bastian smart nudge
Schweinsteiger, about Liverpool 5 Manchester United 0.) lotteries are a ‘~’ to improve vaccination rates (COVID)
appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky get nudges
you ~ that remind you... (Gmail)

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give the stragglers a nudge she and others who knew her best felt ~ (murdered)
the Delta variant offered a chance to ~ (COVID vaccination)
became numb
takes a (gentle) nudge he ~ to even the most gruesome scenes (a marine)
sometimes it ~ to get the ball rolling ♦ “I had like basically no emotions, I was just like numb, all I wanted to do
♦ Cajole, compel, force, make, mandate, make mandatory, nudge, was like lay in my bed.” (A 16-year-old diagnosed with anorexia.)
persuade, require... (Language used by vaccine advocates about the
vaccine reluctant. Other words with similar meaning would include
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation
“intimidate,” “strong-arm,” and “seduce.”) consciousness & awareness: sensation
♦ “Is there anything the United States can do to cajole, persuade, or
threaten the Gulf States to take a different approach? (Heard on NPR, as
number (number is up, etc.)
if the Gulf States were refractory toddlers.)
number came up
♦ See the Wikipedia entry for “Applied behavior analysis.”
my ~ (blown up by a landmine)
coercion & motivation: arm / gesture
fate, fortune & chance: number
force: arm / gesture
nudge (communication) numbered (days are numbered, etc.)
numbered
nudge nudge
Mubarak's days are ~
you got it, wink wink nudge nudge
♦ maryann 03: From CA: Welcome. I highly (wink wink nudge nudge) fate, fortune & chance: number
recommend online ordering and home delivery. Always tip your delivery
person. They are your friend. (An ABC “Join the Discussion” comment on nursery (noun)
“New York legalizes recreational marijuana...”)
♦ “PEN15, write out the title, you’ll get it, has begun its second season on stellar nurseries
Hulu...” (A well-briefed Scott Simon of NPR. This is an example of ~ where stars are born
leetspeak.)
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
fictive communication / subterfuge: eye / gesture
creation & transformation: farming & agriculture / plant
nudged nurture (verb)
nudged aside nurtured his student's career
he is being ~ (a politician) he ~ and became a second father (a coach)
nudged down nurtures (militant) groups
life expectancy was ~ again by a surge in overdoses Pakistan ~ in the area
nudged out nurtured her iconoclasm
play has been ~ of many schools her parents encouraged her ambitions and ~ (musician)
nudged into committing nurtured her interest
whether he was pushed or jumped or was ~ suicide... it was he who first ~ in art
nudged towards keeping nurture the (infant) market
the consumer is ~ their membership (online unsubscribing) ~ (e-publishing)
coercion & motivation: arm / gesture
nurtured relationships
force: arm / gesture he ~ with members of the faculty (journal editor)
nugget (noun) nurtured a reputation
nuggets about what Japanese companies have ~ for reliability (products)
the trial could offer a few more ~ Wikileaks planned... nurture civil society
seven nuggets education helps to ~
here are ~ we learned from the interview identifying and nurturing
key nugget we have been ~ feminist writers (a publisher)
the ~ was when he said... tap, feed and nurture
science nuggets he wants to ~ this anger (politician appeals to base)
follow Maddie and Rebecca on Twitter for more ~ growth & development: baby / plant / verb
amount / worth & lack of worth: mining nurtured
numb (adjective) nurtured by the West
numb with grief he is a criminal ~ (an award winner)

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nurtured by his father
his ideas about cooking were ~ O
nurtured by his mother oak (Royal Oak, etc.)
his early interest in poetry was ~
carefully nurtured Royal Oak
the ~ battleship was sunk by a U-boat in Scapa Flow
he was ~ by the club (young soccer player)
proper name: tree
growth & development: baby / plant
nut (person) oak (strength)

nut case Hearts of Oak

the British have ~
is your client a ~ (a flake)
strength & weakness: materials & substances / tree
religious nut
he's a ~ (controversial politician) Oasis (Oasis of the Seas, etc.)
♦ “In 2012, Nina Totenberg of NPR was criticized by mental-health
advocates for asking the question, “So, is your client a nut case?” Oasis of the Seas
♦ “He’s nuttier than a peach-orchard boar.” the ~ is the world's largest cruise ship

euphemism: mental health Oasis Hotel

character & personality: fruits & vegetables / mental health the ~ has 8 awards of excellence (Cairo)
/ person
proper name: desert / ground, terrain & land
nuts (crazy)
oasis (environment)
nuts
but what's really ~ is insisting that… oasis
Somaliland is an ~ in comparison to Somalia
drives your manager nuts
don’t do whatever ~ (“managing up”) oasis of (relative) calm
it provides an ~ within Iraq (Kurdish region)
go nuts
when I think about it, I ~ oasis of peace
it was once an ~ in volatile West Africa (Ivory Coast)
goes nuts
Dean ~ (reaction to the Howard Dean Scream of 2004.) oasis of peace and stability
Ghana is an ~ in turbulent West Africa
♦ Psycho, wacko, crazy... (Words disliked by mental-health advocates.)

behavior: fruits & vegetables / mental health oasis within New York City
Park Slope, Brooklyn, is an ~ (parks, families, etc.)
euphemism: mental health
nuts and bolts oasis for (late-night) customers
we are an ~ (White Castle)
nuts and bolts
jungle oases
take me through the ~ about how this is going to work
a civilization grew near these ~ (cenotes / Mayas)
nuts and bolts of a gritty industry
green oasis
it was an indoctrination into the ~ (garment center)
New York City's High Line is a ~ (elevated walkway)
nuts-and-bolts character
peaceful oasis
he was a very ~ (Edmund Hillary helps Sherpas)
Bali was considered a ~ (before Kuta Beach bombing)
bases: mechanism
spiritual oasis
nutshell (in a nutshell) Cloud Cottage Sangha is a ~ for me (Buddhist)

in a nutshell considered a (peaceful) oasis

that’s it, ~ (short and sweet) Bali was ~ (before Kuta Beach bombing)
this is Atkinson ~ (review of a writer) ♦ The Al-Ahsa Oasis is the largest date-palm oasis in the world, a lovely
place that gurgles paradisaically with springs and wells and rejoices in
analysis, interpretation & explanation: food & drink the songs of water. It includes the city of Al-Hofuf with its gorgeous
walled fort, also the remarkable Jabal Qara, hills that resemble rock
cauliflowers. The whole area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site,
deservedly. Go there and watch the trail of a meteor transect the wall of
the fort at night. Spend the rest of the night on Jabal Qara, listening to
the howls of the desert dogs. Just be careful where you step at Jabal
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environment: desert / ground, terrain & land ocean (amount)
oats (feel one’s oats) ocean of (digital) information and misinformation
feeling its oats it’s hard to navigate through the ~
China is ~ (booming economy) amount: sea
power / strength & weakness: animal / horse occupy (verb)
Obama (Russia’s Obama, etc.) occupied that part
Jakarta’s Obama he totally ~ (Marlon Brando / Godfather)
they call him ~ (governor Joko Widodo) occupy a (unique) position
Russia's Obama the river began to ~ in folklore (the Mississippi)
Jean Gregoire Sagbo is known as ~ fictive possession: house / verb
♦ Joko Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, has been compared to Obama
for the following reasons. He is hugely popular with the young and the octopus (noun)
poor, who consider him a hero. He often visits his supporters, listens to
them, shows that he cares about them, and gives them a feeling of world-strangling octopus
positivity and hope. He has helped to subsidize healthcare and education
for them. He is humble and his reputation is clean. Finally, he is tall and
he saw Victoria’s British Empire as a ~
lanky, just like Obama! ♦ Anastasia Tsioulcas: “The prosecution asked a defense witness...about
an org (organization) chart he had made of Kelly’s company. It was
achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / government illustrated like a cartoon octopus, and, in retrospect, that was a pretty
unfortunate metaphor for a man accused of running an enterprise
obituary (noun) intended to lure victims into sex crimes.” / Noel King: “That’s a really vivid
image, isn’t it.” / Anastasia Tsioulcas: “It really is.” (“A Jury In New York
political obituary Begins Deliberations In R. Kelly’s Federal Trial,” NPR, Morning Edition,
Sept. 27, 2021.)
her ~ was written at least three times (Hillary Clinton)
affliction / extent & scope: animal / arm / sign, signal,
radio’s obituary
symbol
we should know better than to write ~
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / hunting / predation
writing (Tony Blair’s political) obituary odd couple
last week people were ~
♦ See “ABE, Pioneering Robotic Undersea Explorer, Is Dead at 16” by odd couple
Henry Fountain, The New York Times, 2010. this ~ makes for a compelling violin concerto
♦ Nonhuman and nonliving things can have biographies,
autobiographies, obituaries and even be characters. character & personality: love, courtship & marriage
relationship: love, courtship & marriage
condition & status: death & life
odds (fate)
obsessed
beat the odds
obsessed with foghorns the way I look at it, I ~ (tough upbringing)
my name is Jennifer Lucy Allan and I’m ~ (BBC)
fate, fortune & chance: cards / gambling
politically obsessed
for those of us who are ~ (pundits) ode (praise)
enthusiasm: mental health ode to cinema
his film is an ~ as a whole (Cannes hype)
obsession (noun)
ode to their domesticity
obsession with race Graham’s ~, “Our House” (“with two cats in the yard”)
Brearley’s ~ must stop, the school has lost its way
ode to historically black colleges
enthusiasm: mental health her performance was an ~ (Beyoncé at 2018 Coachella)
ocean (ocean of air, etc.) ♦ “In the salt mines / I saw the salt / in this shaker. / I know you won’t
believe me, / but there / it sings, / the salt sings, the skin / of the salt
mines / sings / with a mouth choking / on dirt.” (The opening lines of
ocean of air “Ode to Salt” by Pablo Neruda, in a wonderful English translation by
we live submerged at the bottom of an ~ (atmosphere) Philip Levine.)

ocean of sand achievement, recognition & praise: speech

the Sahara's ~
Odyssey (Mars Odyssey, etc.)
resemblance: sea
Odyssey
the 75-square-foot solar array that powers ~ (Mars)

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 so far, ~ is an unqualified scientific success (Mars) offer (consumer) feedback
user-opinion sites ~
Odyssey of the Seas
~ (Nassau) is a Royal Caribbean cruise ship offer hope
it we ~, then the stigma begins to fade (HIV)
Mars Odyssey
the ~ (a NASA Mars probe) offers hope
a monkey trial ~ (pandemic vaccine)
proper name: Iliad & Odyssey / journeys & trips
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: verb
odyssey (on an odyssey)
fictive communication: verb
on an odyssey offspring
these girls have been ~ (from Sierra Leone to US)
offspring of the phone booth
on a (six-day, 900-mile) odyssey the ~, referred to as an "enclosure"
he claimed she accompanied him ~ (kidnapper)
product / relationship: family
led his family on a (diagnostic) odyssey
the boy’s illness ~ offshoot
development: Iliad & Odyssey / journeys & trips offshoot of (Shiite) Islam
odyssey (other) Zaydism is an ~
offshoot of Dutch
odyssey of two (likable) women Afrikaans is an ~
the documentary is the ~
Los Angeles offshoot
Georgia man's odyssey the Actor's Lab, a ~ of the Group Theater
a ~ to Europe... (7 flights with XDR TB)
latest offshoot
substance-abuse odyssey stand-up paddling is surfing's ~
she began a long ~ by sniffing fingernail polish...
branching system: plant
personal odyssey
the documentary is the ~ of two strong, likable women ogre (person)
remarkable odyssey ogre and a tyrant
her life traces a ~ from her farmhouse in Poland to… his employees describe him as an ~
♦ Shrek: My father was an ogre. He tried to eat me. I should have seen it
three-decade odyssey coming.
his trip turned into a ~
♦ “Zola’s tale was dubbed the Thotyssey by fans.” (A road trip involving character & personality / person: creature
sex. “Thot” stands for “that ho’ over there.” A ho’ is a whore or a slut. oppression: person
This combination of contemporary slang and a classical allusion is as
astonishing as it is charming.) O. Henry
development: Iliad & Odyssey / journeys & trips O. Henry twist
off (be off, etc.) the story features an ~ at the end
allusion / reversal: books & reading
off
the game is ~ O. Henry-esque (adjective)
starting, going, continuing & ending:: prep, adv, adj, particle O. Henry-esque twist
offbeat (adjective) it sort of has an ~ at the end (a song)
♦ Or, O. Henry-like....
offbeat
she would do things that were ~ (Lizzo) comparison & contrast: affix

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: music oil (pour oil)

offer (offer hope, etc.) poured oil on the fire
he has ~
offers audiences a vision
the latest performance similarly ~ of themselves increase & decrease: fire / verb

offers a sympathetic ear to kids

oil (new oil, etc.)
he ~ (juvenile offenders) “new oil”

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 it’s become common to call data the ~ Old Boy (Old Boy network)
♦ Oil and data are different because oil can only be used once, data
many times. But both have to be processed (oil) or analyzed (data) to Old Boy network
become valuable. Both can make companies rich (Amazon,
ExxonMobil). he had a place on the ~ (a political appointee)
♦ “Before oil, there was whale oil.” group, set & collection / hierarchy / society: school &
epithet: materials & substances education
worth & lack of worth: epithet / materials & substances old-fashioned (adjective)
OK (and okay / verb)
old-fashioned (American) swagger
ok’d extra doses now, let’s show them some ~ (2012 film Emperor)
the FDA ~ of Pfizer’s original recipe (vaccine)
good, old-fashioned
sanctioning, authority & con-conformity: part of speech / Triple A suggested drivers still carry a ~ map (GPS)
verb
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day
old (of old) past & present / time: day

days of old
old guard
in ~ old guard
past & present / time: day the ~ has yielded the throne (world soccer)

old (a year old, etc.) old-guard evangelicals

conflict between ~ and younger evangelicals
just a year old
the song then was ~ (in 1968) Ajan-era old guard
disputes between reformers and a faction led by the ~
turns 76 tomorrow
evangelical old guard
Ebony Magazine ~ there’s a lot at stake for the ~ (gender issues)
♦ “The Archibald Prize is turning 100.” (The Australian portrait prize.)
old guard and its rising stars
growth & development: death & life we will hear from the party’s ~ (political convention)
old (traditional) old guard and younger, more liberal members
Old Army this exposes a divide between the ~ (Democratic Party)
How the ~ Died (by General Smith-Dorrien) exodus of the old guard
Old Bolshevik the ~ leaves the team pretty limited (Manchester United)
Mikhail Sidorovich Mostovskoy, an ~ (Vasily Grossman) avant-garde and old guard
old guard he’s both ~ (rapper Kendrick Lamar)
the ~ has yielded the throne (world soccer) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: allusion /
Old Hollywood history
how the ~ became the New Hollywood (1960s) old hand (experience)
“Old Navy” old hand
the Marion, last wooden ship of the ~ (Asiatic Station) 5-10 new recruits get killed to every ~ (inexperience)
old school old (diplomatic) hands
he wanted to deliver his film on ~ 35mm film ~, emigres, and dissidents relayed stories about...
♦ “[T]he old British Army which fought at Mons is but a glorious
memory... / I do not know how many are left of that little Army. Their newcomers (to the research) versus old hands
numbers must be very few. Some of the men of Mons are in the trenches ~ (science)
to day; but they have become merged in the new armies... / The new
Army has been trained in a very short space of time and everything has accepted (as soldiers) by the old hands
been concentrated in getting them ready to hold their own in trench
warfare, and it is not very probable that they would have been very we were being ~
successful had they been called upon to perform the operation that was ♦ see also hand (work)
imposed on the Expeditionary Force...” (“How the Old Army Died” by
General Smith-Dorrien, Malaya Tribune, 13 April 1917.) ♦ “Forget everything you learned in the academy.” (The standard
greeting a rookie police officer receives from his veteran partner.)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: death & life ♦ “In training camp they filled you full of fancy information on how to be a
soldier. We’re going to work hard to forget all that.” (Ernest Borgnine in
All Quiet on the Western Front.)
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♦ “There’s no fool like an old fool.” size: allusion / mountains & hills / religion
experience: hand Olympian (perspective)
old school Olympian view
old school he takes an ~ of contemporary politics (George F. Will)
he is unashamedly ~ (a 68-year-old Montana farmer) perception, perspective & point of view: religion
old-school in his approach Olympus (Mount Olympus)
he's as ~ to opponents as he is in the ring
Olympus of sociological research
old-school Alabama the University of Chicago was the ~
Tagovailloa turned ~ into a new-school juggernaut (football)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
old-school French bistro importance & significance: religion
a much loved, ~ superlative: allusion / place / mountains & hills / religion
old-school discipline omerta (noun)
he was famous for his ~ (sports coach)
omerta from the labs
old-school (American) fighters the money allows it to purchase a lot of ~ it supports
the ~, they’re always setting traps (boxing) (EcoHealth Alliance)
old school 35mm film code of omerta
he wanted to deliver his film on ~ clerks are expected to abide by a ~ (the Supreme Court)
old-school mentality concealment & lack of concealment: crime / speech
that's that ~ (comment on boxer's work ethic)
omnivorous (adjective)
old-school reporter
he was an ~ who would challenge anyone omnivorous
her interests have been ~ (Jia Tolentino)
old school (corner) team
AJ needs an ~, get back to basics (boxing) consumption: food & drink

old-school style on (it’s on you, etc.)

he brings ~ to the sport (auto racer not afraid to bump)
on you
from the old school drink, drive, get arrested, it’s ~
she is ~, committed to her marriage (military wife)
on (all of) us
new school / old school (m) it is ~ to hold one another accountable
a classic ~ rift (newer kayaking moves)
responsibility: prep, adv, adj, particle
♦ “let’s get back to old school boxing, flip this soap opera on its head.” (A
fight fan about the state of boxing today.) on (performing)
past & present / time: school & education
always on
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: school & she is ~ (Wendy Williams)
education
behavior / character & personality / performance /
olive branch
starting, going, continuing & ending: theater
olive branch on (be on, etc.)
it was an ~ from Bobby Knight to Alford (dispute)
extended an olive branch to South Korea on
stocks kept falling, and the Great Depression was ~
he ~
offered an olive branch to the Republicans back on
the summit is ~
in the State of the Union, he ~
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: tree party is on
the ~, and nobody is going to call it off (a combat operation)
Olympian (size)
starting, going, continuing & ending: prep, adv, adj, particle
Olympian scorn on (30 years on, etc.)
his reactions to the world ran from dismay to ~
he displayed ~ for the popularity of... 30 years on

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 ~, the veterans face health concerns a number of recent and ~
eighty years on ongoing theft
~, how can we balance moving on and the need to remember the ~ of intellectual property
future / time: direction / movement / prep, adv, adj, ongoing violence
particle against a backdrop of ~ (Middle East)
one-size-fits-all ongoing work
researchers and their ~
one-size-fits-all approach
the ~ is not the way to go (retirement plans) ongoing love-hate relationship
public health officials concede no ~ exists (pandemic) the ~ between…

one-size-fits-all journalism condition & status: movement

we were offering ~ to very different audiences starting, going, continuing & ending / time: movement

one-size-fits-all solution onion (noun)

there is no ~ (to managed retreat due to climate change)
layer of the onion
creation & transformation: clothing & accessories you notice that for every ~ there’s another underneath it
one-strike-and-you're-out peel back the onion
what you learn when you begin to ~ (murder)
one-strike-and-you're-out (honor-code) policy
~ do more harm than good peels back yet another layer
a revealing new interview ~ (a politician)
punishment & recrimination: baseball / sports & games
♦ “It’s surprising, and shocking, what you learn when you begin to peel
ongoing (investigation, etc.) back the onion.” (Dateline NBC, “Horror at the Lake.”)

analysis, interpretation & explanation: fruits & vegetables

ongoing (security) arrangements
ensure ~ are appropriate onrushing (future, etc.)
ongoing (budget) battle onrushing days
an ~ between the school system, county the ~ ahead (a bus journey)
ongoing debate onrushing future
the ~ the ways in which the ~ impacts the solidity of the past
he is carried into an ~ he is unprepared to face (train trip)
ongoing (intratribal) disputes
~ (Native Americans) onrushing (midterm campaign) season
the public’s apprehension about war and the ~ (politics)
ongoing effort
the regulations are part of an ~ to… onrushing spring
this mission is an ~ to take away enemy sanctuaries the full power of the ~ is upon us
♦ Onrushing animals (a hippo), cars, force (of the beat), people (goalie,
ongoing focus mob), trains, tsunami, water (hurricane)...
there is an ~ on these economic issues (White House)
time: speed
ongoing investigation future / time: direction / movement
would compromise the ~
onslaught (noun)
ongoing mission
we don't comment on ~s (military) onslaught
another ~ floored Pulev in the ninth (boxing)
ongoing (contract) negotiations
~ (pilots union) onslaught of criticism
Twitter changed its policy after an ~
ongoing plot
forcing terrorists to betray the details of ~s onslaught of events
the idea went quickly by the wayside by the ~
ongoing (management) problems
the ~ onslaught of globalization
many countries resist the ~
ongoing process
this is going to be an ~ under the onslaught
Saudi Arabia melted ~, as Germany... (soccer)
ongoing studies
amount & effect / force: military

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onwards (from a time onwards) open (in the open / into the open)
from 1800 onwards into the open
and so from ~... she has brought the issue ~
from 1740 onwards out in the open
people were experimenting with spinning machines ~ mudslinging between church factions is being waged ~
time / starting, going, continuing & ending: movement broke out into the open
the anger ~ for the whole world to see (pedophilia)
ooze (verb) the cyberconflict ~ (SolarWinds Hack)
oozes tradition and swagger brought it out into the open
the team ~ (Alabama football) the testimonies have really ~ (sexual assault)
leaking: verb / water came into the open
opacity (noun) all of these things ~ (vicious election debate)
get the feelings (we have about war) out into the open
opacity of (Lanier's) criticism
artists can ~ (Margaret MacMillan, Reith Lectures)
the ~ may account for…
♦ The story is out there, in the open.
analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark
consciousness & awareness: ground, terrain & land
comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark
concealment & lack of concealment: ground, terrain & land
opaque (adjective)
open-and-shut
opaque
it's really very ~ what is happening (revolution) open-and-shut case
it wasn't an ~
opaque world it should have been an ~
he offers insights into the often ~ of finance
certainty & uncertainty: books & reading
often opaque
he offers insights into the ~ world of finance
open-minded (adjective)
turned opaque open-minded
the seeming transparency ~ (old allegation of rape) “I’m ~,” he said softly
people are more ~ now (race)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: light & dark my neighbors are very ~
consciousness & awareness: light & dark we should be more ~
comprehension & incomprehension: light & dark he had tried to be ~
open (honest) genuinely open-minded
Joe Rogan is a ~ host who seeks out all sorts of opinions
open about her mental health journey
she has always been so ~ extroverted, unpretentious and open-minded
Tijuana citizens have acquired a reputation for being ~
concealment & lack of concealment / feeling, emotion &
effect / sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: container youthful, open-minded
he has made a name for himself as a ~ reformer (MBS)
open (after lockdown, etc.) ♦ "A person can be so open-minded that his brains fall out." (A critic,
speaking of Thabo Mbeki's willingness to accept any argument against
open up giving antiretrovirals to South African H.I.V. sufferers.)
the states are starting to ~ (after pandemic lockdowns)
constraint & lack of constraint: container
reopen
the border will ~ after a thaw in relations (Burma / Thailand) openness (noun)
reopens for business intellectual openness
as America ~ (pandemic lockdown relaxation) ideological narrowness is a threat to ~

amelioration & renewal: doors & thresholds constraint & lack of constraint: container

open (open marriage, etc.) open up (emotions, speech, etc.)

open marriage open up
they had an ~ we are asking them to ~ all over again (crime podcast)

constraint & lack of constraint: boundary opened up about her mother

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 she finally ~ branding and optics
they’ve spun up an image, it’s just ~ (Silicon Valley)
feeling, emotion & effect: container / verb
speech: container / verb separate the optics from substance
open up (access) we need to ~ (COP26)
♦ “It’s not the optics that are not good, it’s the facts that are not good.”
open up the sportscasting world (Colorado Republican Congressman Mike Coffman about an ethics
issue.)
~ for women
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / tools &
access & lack of access: container / verb
technology
open up (consciousness)
option (nuclear option)
opened up to me
a new world ~ (a website) nuclear option
threatening Medicare funding is the ~ (compliance)
consciousness & awareness / mind: doors & thresholds /
verb nuclear option for state
this is the ~ (opting out of federal Medicaid)
opera (noun)
opposes the (so-called) nuclear option
opera of screeches, shrieks and squawks he ~ (withdrawal of US from Afghanistan)
a riotous ~ (tropical birds)
employ the nuclear option
resemblance / sound: music
employers may be forced to ~ (drop health coverage)
operatic (adjective) oppose the nuclear option
operatic, dramatic I oppose the ~ (changing rules in Congress)
his end was pretty ~ (Mussolini and his mistress) considered the “nuclear option”
♦ “It’s pretty operatic, it’s pretty dramatic, he was killed on the shores of the move was always ~ (Commerce Dept’s entry list)
Lake Cuomo by Communist partisans, with his mistress, Clara Petacci,
and dumped in the middle of Piazzale Loretto, in Milan...” (Professor alternatives & choices / coercion & motivation /
John Foot of Bristol University on the last days of Mussolini, from BBC’s
“Great Lives: Mussolini,” nominated the historian Margaret MacMillan, punishment & recrimination: nuclear energy
professor at the University of Oxford, 2018 Reith lecturer, and most
recently the author of War: How conflict shaped us.) oracle (person)
♦ “Opera has been making art from death for more than four centuries.”
oracle of Silicon Valley
feeling, emotion & effect: theater he has been nicknamed the ~
comparison & contrast: affix
oracle on Polar matters
opiate (noun) Nansen was by then the undisputed ~

opiate of the people oracle of public taste

sports, not religion, is the ~ marketing experts regarded him as an ~ (Calvin Klein)
♦ The Delphic Oracle was an important priestess in ancient Greece.
consciousness & awareness: addiction / health & medicine
person: religion
opium (noun) future / message / time: person / religion
opium of the camps oracle (Oracle Corporation, etc.)
rumours were the ~ (comforting and false)
Oracle Corporation
consciousness & awareness: addiction / health & medicine the American multinational ~
optics (noun) proper name: religion
optics orbit (noun)
the ~ look bad (politics)
the ~ are just awful (a newspaper story) Trump orbit
he never lost touch, that often happens in ~
optics of rapprochement
Kim’s letter played a part in the ~ (Korean leader) campaign orbit
three people in the ~ have tested positive for coronavirus
optics of a response
the ~ like that would be devastating here (protesters) China’s orbit
Thailand has moved firmly into ~
confrontational optics
allies might be turned off by the ~ of a street protest Moscow’s orbit

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 once in ~, Moldova has been tilting towards the West orchid or a dandelion
is your child an ~
in his orbit
♦ Terms with similar meanings are teacup and snowflake. In the old
the investigation will look at people ~ (politics) days, such people were compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy;
suspicions are swirling around people ~ (sex trafficker) a wallflower.

in his inner orbit character & personality: person / plant

and now that major shakeup ~ (politician’s top aid resigns) resiliency / strength & weakness: person / plant
within his orbit order (get something in order, etc.)
he engaged the respect and affection of all ~
get your house in order
entered the Trump orbit you must ~
she first ~ during the campaign
get our (fiscal) house in order
brought him into the orbit we must ~ (debt)
Juilliard ~ of Wynton Marsalis (Lawrence Leathers)
put his life (back) in order
come into Marilyn Manson’s orbit he saw Islam as a way to ~
how did you first ~ (allegations of abuse)
amelioration & renewal: hygiene
get out of that orbit
he tried to ~, but his dad pulled him back (Charles Koch) organ (of government, etc.)
leaving Larry’s orbit organs of law and authority
just as Daniel was ~, others were being drawn in (cult) drug money swept away the flimsy ~ (Colombia)

kept Greece out of the Communist orbit operation: government / mechanism

the US had ~ (after WWII) orgy (noun)
movement: astronomy
orgy of demolition
attraction & repulsion / bases / configuration / division &
ISIS destroyed the ancient theater in an ~ (Syria)
connection / relationship: astronomy / movement
orchestrate (verb) orgy of patriotic fervour
Norway erupted in an ~ (Nansen, Johansen return safe)
orchestrated the assassination
orgy of looting
no one knows who ~
an ~ followed the collapse of Saddam's regime
orchestrated attacks
orgy of violence
he has ~, bombings, kidnappings and beheadings
the film re-creates the ~ (Richard Farley case)
orchestrate a coverup
orgy of (sectarian) violence
they tried to ~
they were the victims of an ~ (Yazidis in Iraq)
orchestrated a hoax restraint & lack of restraint: sex
he may have ~ (false hate-crime allegation)
original sin
orchestrated the whole thing
it’s quite obvious he ~ (The Power of the Dog) original sin
directing: music / verb the ~ was what happened in 1953 (Iran-US relations)
torture is the ~ that creates these problems (Guantanamo)
orchestrated
original sin of this country
orchestrated to blame slavery is the ~
he was the victim of a political hit job, ~ China
original sin of the Afghan war
orchestrated campaign the ~ was the failure of American political institutions to...
Muslims fear they are the target of an ~ (religion)
euro's original sin
orchestrated leaks perhaps this was the ~ (no penalty for breaking rules)
~ from the White House have exposed rifts
Roberts’ original sin
directing: music for conservatives, ~ was his vote... (Supreme Court)
orchid (character) ♦ “The way we talk about white privilege is eerily consonant with the way
one talks about original sin.” (John McWhorter, author of Woke Racism:
How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.)
orchid children
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fate, fortune & chance / origin / punishment & ♦ “In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of
people—the only time in my life that I have been important enough for
recrimination: religion this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town...”
(The opening lines of “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell.)
orphan (noun) ♦ “My wound was not much, but it was a miracle it did not kill me. The
bullet went clean through my neck but missed everything except one
orphan vocal cord, or rather the nerve governing it, which is paralysed. At first I
the issue is an ~ had no voice at all but now the other vocal cord is compensating and the
damaged one may or may not recover. My voice is practically normal but
orphans of extinction I can’t shout to any extent. I also can’t sing, but people tell me this
endangered plants known by botanists as ~ (baobabs, etc.) doesn’t matter. I am rather glad to have been hit by a bullet because I
think it will happen to us all in the near future...” (Letter to Rayner
Heppenstall, 31 July 1937.)
orphan in the world of learning
geography was an ~ (Middle Ages) oppression: allusion
allusion: books & reading
“orphan” academies
comparison & contrast: affix
the school has been caught in the twilight zone of ~
Oscars (Oscars of surfing, etc.)
orphan diseases
incentives to develop orphan drugs for ~ Oscars of surfing
the Billabong Big Waves Awards are the “~”
orphan drugs
incentives for companies to develop “~” achievement, recognition & praise: epithet / film
orphan films superlative: epithet / film
old ~ can be preserved by archivists (copyright issues) ostracized (society)
orphan wells socially ostracized
these “~” often sit on farmland (bankrupt oil firms) if you're truthful, you'll be ~
♦ Orphan drugs treat rare diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 people.
acceptance & rejection: society
division & connection / person / relationship: family
other (the other)
orphaned
“the other”
inactive, abandoned, or orphaned she has had to balance feeling like ~ in her sport (biracial)
at least 167,000 wells are ~ (oil)
inclusion & exclusion: society
division & connection / relationship: family
other (verb / groups, etc.)
Orwell
othered us
Orwell’s 1984 this industry has continuously ~ (women in hip-hop)
and just like that, we are one step closer to ~, wow...
inclusion & exclusion: society
♦ As W.H. Auden acknowledged, Orwell gave us the terminology to talk
about totalitarian society: 1984; doublethink; Big Brother. Those allusions
to his work are used to this day.
othered
oppression: allusion othered or erased
allusion: books & reading they are often ~ in mainstream imaginings (Black voters)

Orwellian (adjective) othered, objectified, or exoticized and coerced

these local women were often ~ (Rafia Zakaria)
Orwellian agency
the futility of fighting an ~ with an obvious vendetta excluded (from womanhood) and being othered
they are being ~ (“trans women are trans women”)
Orwellian dystopia
Children of Men, an ~ (the film) inclusion & exclusion: society

Orwellian dystopic society othering

cancel culture is leading us to an ~ Othering & Belonging
Orwellian (surveillance) system the ~ at the University of California, Berkeley
exporting such an ~ to other countries ♦ “The opposite of Othering is not ‘saming,’ it is belonging.” (John A.
Powell of the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of
Orwellian name changing California, Berkeley.)
the road had been renamed in a frenzy of ~ (WWII) inclusion & exclusion: society
called mandatory vaccination “Orwellian”
she ~ (a political candidate)

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otherism (noun) out (reveal)
fear and otherism outed himself (over the weekend) as the owner
taking a stand against the politics of ~ he ~ of the Twitter handle... (politician)
inclusion & exclusion: society out anyone
I don’t want to ~, but... (blacks who get black dialect wrong)
ounce (amount)
concealment & lack of concealment: container / verb
ounce of prevention
an ~ is worth a pound of cure out (all out, etc.)
ounce of truth all out
there’s not an ~ in anything he says Lizzo wears a leotard, she’s twerking, she’s ~ (compliment)
amount: weight commitment & determination: container / prep, adv, adj,
particle
oust (verb)
outbreak (noun)
ousted her
they ~ in a boardroom coup typhus outbreak
the ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: government / verb
occurrence: pursuit, capture & escape
ousted (removed)
outburst (noun)
ousted in April
he was ~ and filed a whistleblower’s complaint outburst of Iraqi anti-Americanism
the US airstrike resulted in an ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: government
emotional outbursts
out (leave somebody an out, etc.) there was a rational foundation for these ~
left an out for Iran feeling, emotion & effect: explosion
he has ~
outcast (person)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
outcast Hollywood rebel
out (exclusion) he was the ~ (film director Nicholas Ray)
out outcast and non-conforming
they voted him ~ Ibiza has long been an island for the ~
acceptance & rejection: container / prep, adv, adj, particle
social outcast
out (outpace, etc.) he is a ~

outgun, outpace, outshine, outweigh, etc. outcast, and (sexual) rebel

the young mistress of H. G. Wells, social ~ (Rebecca West)
outworked and outthought
she ~ male rivals (Pelosi) grew up as an outcast
he ~ (his father was hanged for murder)
superiority & inferiority: affix
society: person / throwing, putting & planting
out (currency) person: society
acceptance & rejection / dismissal, removal & resignation:
out this year person / society / throwing, putting & planting
short skirts are ~
outcome (noun)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
prep, adv, adj, particle realistic outcomes
when scientists run simulations, they must get ~
out (want out)
product / relationship: movement
wanted out
she ~ (of a marriage) outcrop (and outcropping)
avoidance & separation / situation: container / verb outcrop of a (heated) back-and-forth
allegiance, support & betrayal: container / prep, adv, adj, the insults were an ~ between the two candidates
particle
outcrops of simplicity

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 ~ can appear in the worst writing (Orwell) the majlis provides an ~ (Saudi Arabia)
outcropping from other initiatives outlet for their frustrations
the new character is a natural ~ (the Julia Muppet) people need an ~ (Baghdad gyms)
natural outcrop outlet or hobby
this is simply the ~ of her company’s success (complaints) a creative ~ that fosters a sense of achievement (coping)
bases / occurrence: ground, terrain & land / mountains & creative outlet
hills a ~ can do a lot to relieve stress
outcry (noun) give people an outlet
the media ~ (TV and radio in Afghanistan)
outcry
of course there’s going to be an ~ (sportswashing) amelioration & renewal / constraint & lack of constraint:
infrastructure / movement / pressure / water
sparked an outcry
his remarks ~ (about racism) overflow (verb)
conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: sound overflow
feeling, emotion & effect: sound English prisons began to ~ (too many prisoners)
outdated (adjective) ♦ “As soon as the American outlet was stopped up, English prisons
began to overflow.” (The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding
by Robert Hughes.)
outdated argument
it’s an ~ (that women’s boxing is inferior) movement: water
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: movement / water
outdated (and environmentally irresponsible) totems
big dams are seen as ~, wasteful symbols of pride... outlier (noun)
received and outdated outlier
Nansen did his best to overcome Scott’s ~ opinions when it comes to free speech, the US is the ~ (too free)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: day outlier case
past & present / time: day why is an ~ like this getting so much oxygen (hate crime)
outdueled outliers out there
there are ~ that are preaching nonsense (vaccines)
outdueled by Manning
Romo was ~ (two football quarterbacks) society: center & periphery
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: center & periphery
conflict: weapon
outpace (verb)
outed (concealment)
outpacing the ability
outed and shamed technology is ~ of governments to keep up
I hope she’s ~ (gold digger accuses athlete)
outpaced decision-making
concealment & lack of concealment: container clearly, events have ~ (Afghanistan 2021)
outfox (verb) competition: verb / walking, running & jumping
superiority & inferiority: verb / walking, running & jumping
outfoxed his (political) opponents
he ~ outpost (noun)
behavior / subterfuge: animal / fox / verb outposts at US universities
outgunned the language centers provide China with ~
presence & absence: military
outgunned, outspent, out-lied survival, persistence & endurance: military
we’re going to be ~ (election)
outpouring
strength & weakness: military / weapon
conflict: military / weapon outpouring of aid
superiority & inferiority: military / weapon the disaster prompted an ~
competition: prep, adv, adj, particle
outpouring of generosity
outlet (noun) the ~ has slowed to a trickle (aid)
outlet for (public) criticism outpouring of good neighborliness

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 this ~ went beyond delivering meals (Irish / pandemic) outshone his rivals
during the financial crisis, he ~ (a C.E.O.)
outpouring of (new) poems he ~ in the first debate (a politician)
in his 60s the floodgates opened with an ~ (Geoffrey Hill)
competition: light & dark / prep, adv, adj, particle
outpouring of sympathy attention, scrutiny & promotion / competition / primacy,
there has been a tremendous ~ from so many… currency, decline & obsolescence / superiority & inferiority:
outpouring of (both) praise and outrage astronomy / light & dark / verb
her film has drawn an ~ outside (outside world, etc.)
tremendous outpouring outside world
there has been a ~ from so many of you to the ~, India’s riches were always the stuff of legends
amount & effect / constraint & lack of constraint / center & periphery: earth & world / container / prep, adv,
movement: water adj, particle
outrider (noun) outside (perspective)
hedonistic outriders from the outside
he had contempt for modernity and its ~
it’s easy to criticize ~ (Afghan withdrawal)
driving force: horse
perception, perspective & point of view: center & periphery
outrun (verb) / container / prep, adv, adj, particle

outrunning our ability outsider (person)

the virus is ~ to counter it
outsider
competition: direction / position / prep, adv, adj, particle / Trump won because he was an ~
sports & games / verb / walking, running & jumping they are ~s banging on the doors of city government
byzantine regulations are hard for the ~ to navigate (Egypt)
outset (from the outset)
outsiders to the world
from the outset ~ of money soon notice… (finance)
she had wanted a different approach ~
outsider art
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips he is well known to fans of ~
outset (at the outset of 2020, etc.) outsider's view
an ~
at the outset of 2020
~, we look back on... Washington outsider
he is a ~ facing down entrenched insiders
time: journeys & trips
outset (at the outset / career, etc.) straight-talking outsider
he was a ~
at the outset of her (newspaper) career political outsider
she covered right-wing movements ~ (journalist) he presents himself as a ~ who will not represent K Street
at the outset of the investigation he was a ~ (independent politician Ross Perot)
we said ~ that if the facts and the law... he is a ~, who wants to change the way Washington works

starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips rebellious outsider
he is a ~
outshine (verb)
weird outsider
outshines us in health care he is the ~ who becomes influential (scientist)
Canada clearly ~
buccaneers, outsiders, (political) pirates
outshine the main act they want to be seen as ~ (opposition researchers)
sometimes an opening act will ~ (concerts)
remained an outsider
outshine the competition in China, she ~ (a young woman from Kuytun)
he continues to ~ ♦ The Japanese refer to foreigners as gaijin, literally, "outsider.")

outshone everyone else person: society

she ~ onstage (ballet) power / society: center & periphery / person

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outweigh (power) celebrities routinely ~ on social media
overstretches
outweigh us in every department the US ~ the concept of national security
they ~ (war)
overpolicing
competition: prep, adv, adj, particle the imbalance of ~ and underprotecting (groups)
power: weight / verb
superiority & inferiority: verb / weight over-promising
in Silicon Valley ~, ~ your product isn’t unusual
outweigh (cost and benefit)
overthinking
outweighed the bad they may be ~ certain things (too sensitive)
the good ~ (in a relationship)
over-charged
outweigh the deeds the state ~ the case from the beginning (Kyle Rittenhouse)
the acts of a few should not ~ of the many (war)
over-policed
outweigh the risks what do you mean, ~, and what does that look like
the drug is usually safe but benefits must ~ the community felt ~ yet underserved (Baltimore)
so, we’re ~ and under-resourced (a black woman)
cost & benefit: scale / weight / verb
Over-policed
oven (the Oven, etc.) Black, Brown and ~ in L.A. Schools (a report)
Gladiator School, Torture island, the Oven over-served
nicknames included ~ (Rikers Island jail) I was ~ at the bar...
♦ Rikers Island jail is nicknamed the Oven because it gets so hot in the he was ~ (Who’s To Blame When You Get Drunk)
summer due to its concrete floors and steel doors. ♦ “The state over-charged the case from the beginning...to find him guilty
of something.” (The Kyle Rittenhouse case.)
environment: container / fire / manufacturing /
temperature flaws & lack of flaws: affix / direction
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: affix / direction
over (dominance)
overboard (behavior)
over me
I don't want nobody ~ a little overboard
I admit I went ~ (dispute with store manager)
has an advantage over her
he ~ (politics) way overboard
we have gone ~ (incarceration)
dominance & submission / hierarchy / superiority &
inferiority: position / prep, adv, adj, particle behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: affix / boat

over (finished) overboard (throw somebody overboard)

over threw the commanding officer overboard
class was finally ~ they ~ without a thorough investigation (military)
the Gilded Age of rock journalism is ~ allegiance, support & betrayal / dismissal, removal &
this won’t be ~ anytime soon resignation: boat / verb / violence
the duck face days are ~ (selfie pose)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / starting, going,
overcome (verb)
continuing & ending: prep, adv, adj, particle overcome
over (affix) it was a difficult hurdle to ~
the lure of the north is hard to ~ (migrants)
“over-believes”
overcome a broken heart
it is clear that everybody ~ in recycling
you can ~
overdeliver
hopefully, the storm will underdeliver, but it could ~ overcome its (deep-rooted) problems
the company must ~
overplayed
they ~ their hand (Google versus EU) overcame a lot of things
she ~ in her life, but... (died in pandemic)
overpromise
of course he overpromised, all candidates ~ (politics) overcome a confidence-shattering rookie year
trying to ~ (basketball)
overshare

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resiliency / resistance, opposition & defeat: verb “infobesity,” or ~
obstacles & impedance: mountains & hills our research team studies ~ (Semantic Scholar)
overdose (noun) flaws & lack of flaws: burden / weight
oppression: burden / weight
overdose of history sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: burden / weight
as a child I was poisoned by an ~ (Israeli Amos Oz)
overloaded
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: addiction / affix / health
& medicine overloaded with spices
the sauce was wildly out of balance, ~
overdrive (in / into overdrive)
overloaded, bogged down
into overdrive hospitals are ~ (epidemic)
it sent the village rumour mill ~
flaws & lack of flaws: burden / weight
gone into overdrive oppression: burden / weight
in recent years, those efforts have ~ sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: burden / weight
went into overdrive overlord (person)
my imagination ~
conglomerate’s IT overlords
activity: engine / mechanism the ~ gathered in Maidenhead, England (NotPetya worm)
overflowing (adjective) power: history / person / royalty

overflowing inbox overnight

problems with an ~
overnight success
movement / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: water she was an ~ (an artist)
the firm wasn’t an ~
overhang (noun)
collapsed overnight
overhang of criminal prohibition apple sales ~
once we clear away the ~ (therapeutic psychedelics)
♦ “That was full on, scary, hard.” (Passing the Bottleneck on K2. It is come about overnight
overhung by enormous seracs which could fall at any time.) the recession didn't ~
dominance & submission: mountains & hills solved overnight
overheated (adjective) the problem will not be ~
speed: day
become overheated
she advises him not to get so ~ (an advocate) overplay (verb)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature overplayed their hand
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: affix they ~ (Google versus EU)
overinflated (adjective) failure, accident & impairment: cards / sports & games /
verb
overinflated reputations
a critic should prick ~ (poetry) overreach (verb)
increase & decrease: air / atmosphere overreached
flaws & lack of flaws: air / atmosphere BP ~ (and caused an oil-drilling catastrophe)
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: affix
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / restraint & lack
overlapped of restraint: affix / arm / boundary / distance / verb
overlapped on a number of occasions overreach (noun)
our careers and lives ~
overreach of his power
configuration: cloth
this is an ~ (mask mandate / pandemic)
overload (noun) big technology’s overreach
overload of choice ~, this unchecked power, is equally frightening
there is a cost to having an ~ constitutional overreach
information overload this monumental act of ~ (US Prohibition)

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behavior: arm / boundary / distance overstretch (verb)
restraint & lack of restraint: arm / boundary / distance
constraint & lack of constraint: arm / boundary / distance overstretches the concept
the US ~ of national security (criticism by China)
overrun (verb)
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / restraint & lack
overrunning the region of restraint: arm / boundary / distance / verb
tourists are ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
over-the-top (adjective)
overrun (overwhelmed) over-the-top news stories
most ~ cite anonymous officials (South Korea)
overrun restraint & lack of restraint: direction
we must avoid the risk of hospitals being ~ (pandemic)
overthrow (verb)
overrun with calls
911 dispatchers were soon ~ overthrew his father
the emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, ~
overrun with requests
staff are being ~ for information overthrow the government
he vowed to ~ (Joseph Kony / Uganda)
overrun by otters
its goal is to ~ and install a theocracy (Algeria)
the state has been ~ (Illinois)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military overthrew the government
the military ~ (Fiji / 2006)
overshadow (verb)
vowed to overthrow
overshadowed the race he ~ the government (Joseph Kony / Uganda)
the tragedy ~ (fatality) dismissal, removal & resignation / disruption / primacy,
attention, scrutiny & promotion / competition / primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / equilibrium &
currency, decline & obsolescence / superiority & inferiority: stability / verb
light & dark / shadow / verb
overturn (verb)
overstep (verb)
overturn the ban
overstepped his authority they will go to court to try and ~
a judge ruled the health commissioner ~ he is working to ~ (nuclear power / California)
he led the charge to ~
overstep his boundaries
a journalist should not ~ overturn the (climbing) ban
the group wants to ~ (Twin Sisters / Idaho)
overstepped his bounds
he’s a creep who ~ (gossip) overturned the conviction
a French appeals court ~ of six accused of…
overstepping their bounds
Homeowner’s Associations are ~ overturned (conventional) theories
he ~ about the origin of autism (Rimland)
overstepped a line
he felt she had ~ overturn his (father's) will
the covert operation probably ~ Leon Hendrix was seeking to ~ and gain control

overstepped the line dismissal, removal & resignation / disruption / primacy,

most priests are not predators, but some have ~ (sex) currency, decline & obsolescence / reversal: direction /
equilibrium & stability / verb
overstepped his (electoral) mandate
the governor has ~ (politics) overturned
overstepped his office overturned convictions
the president has ~ (interfering in local issue) unnecessary appeals and ~
faulty FBI lab work may result in ~s
overstepped its power
the government has ~ dismissal, removal & resignation / disruption / primacy,
currency, decline & obsolescence / reversal: direction /
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint / restraint & lack
equilibrium & stability
of restraint: boundary / verb / walking, running & jumping

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overwhelm (as noun) owning her talents
she is now ~ (victim of sex abuse)
chaos and overwhelm
possession: money / verb
the ~ of it all (“A Letter to College Sports”)
♦ People also ask Can Overwhelm be used as a noun? (Google own (responsibility)
search.)
♦ “The overwhelming overwhelm” by Merrill Perlman is a superb article own the defeat
dealing with cases like these (Columbia Journalism Review, June 27, he must ~ and be held responsible for it (Labor Party)
2017). Perlman includes plenty of examples of usage that include the
important collocations and contexts. My “takeaway” (= what I found owns (a big piece of) the disaster
significant) in her article is this: “Even so, no other major dictionary [other
than the OED] includes the noun” and “there’s no stopping people who I think Biden ~ (Afghanistan withdrawal)
want to improve (or improvise) existing words.” Nuff said.
own this
feeling, emotion & effect: part of speech President Biden does not want to ~ (Afghanistan collapse)
owe (obligation) responsibility: money / verb

owe people explanations own (dominate)

you don't ~
owned the center
owe her everything Fury ~ of the ring and dictated the fight (boxing)
I ~ (my wife, said by a grateful husband)
"own" Myanmar
owe you anything people say China is the "big daddy" and will soon ~
the world does not ~
owned the pool
owe you nothing the US has ~ (at British Olympics)
your parents ~
dominance & submission: money / verb
owed it to myself own (make something one's own)
I ~ to consider the implications…
made it her own
owe a lot to my parents she ~ (the song "Respect" sung by Aretha)
I~
possession: money / verb
owe a debt (of gratitude) to my editor
I ~ (writer / acknowledgments) ownership (noun)
took no ownership
owes to Allah
he ~ of what he’s done (criminal case)
Hajj is a duty that mankind ~
♦ “I want them to step up, I want them to take ownership, I want them to
owe him explain what went on...” (A grieving mother whose son died at a fraternity
hazing ritual that involved alcohol.)
you haven’t understood a thing, I ~ (film Miranda)
possession / responsibility: money
obligation: money / verb
owe (relationship) Oxford (Oxford of China, etc.)
Oxford of China
owe its existence to fiber optics Peking University is the ~
the information superhighway ~
Oxford of the East of Europe
owes its origins to the Phoenicians here might be the ~ (Starkie, in 1929, about Cluj)
the name Spain (Hispania) ~
knowledge & intelligence: epithet
owe my (windsurfing) career to him
I ~ (mentor) oxygen (fuel)
oxygen
owe a lot to my heritage liberalism is the ~ that his conflagration required (Trump)
I ~ (Iowa) why is an outlier case getting so much ~ (hoax hate crime)
relationship: money / verb
oxygen that fuels
own (possess) cryptocurrency like Bitcoin is the ~ this ransomware fire

owned it oxygen for the theory

I accepted my Gemini soul, I ~, in fact I adored it (Kravitz) the ~ is that...

owns the past political oxygen

who really ~ (looted and smuggled antiquities) underdog candidates gulped much-needed ~ (TV debate)

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 with her ~ running out, she heads for the exits (candidate) at a furious pace
the impeachment has been sucking up a lot of the ~ when national chains were building ~;
once the snow began, it fell ~
oxygen has been sucked up
much of the political ~ by the presidential race (other races) at a glacial pace
benefits and appeals are decided ~ (veterans)
provide more oxygen
if they did that, it would ~ for this controversy (sports) at a rapid pace
the polar ice cap will shrink ~ for the next 50 years
give oxygen
ignoring it will ~ to extremists (ethnic identity of criminals) at a tolerable pace
we don’t want to ~ to his ideology (media suppresses denial allows assimilation of tragic information ~
manifesto)
speed: foot / walking, running & jumping
giving oxygen
Biden has accused him of ~ to bigotry pace (speed)
suck up all of the political oxygen pace (of medical research) is glacial
impeachment going forward is ~ in Congress the ~

initiation: air / atmosphere / chemistry / fire dictated the pace

growth & development / increase & decrease: air / he has ~ (mixed-martial arts fight)
atmosphere / chemistry / fire
gathers pace
oxygen (life) as the emergency response ~
oxygen ♦ “Every word has its own pace.” (Peter Sokolowski of Merriam-Webster,
answering a question about how long it takes for a word or definition to
for Soviet Russians, his poetry was ~ (Boris Pasternak) become recognized.)
survival, persistence & endurance: air / breathing speed: foot / walking, running & jumping
pace-setter (noun)
P pace-setter
the US has always wanted to be the ~ (in physics, etc.)
Pablo Escobar (of the Middle East,
pace setter
etc.) the company is more an efficient imitator than a ~
“Pablo Escobar of the Middle East”
Hajji Bashir Noorzai, the ~ (in prison in the US) publishing pacesetter
the magazine was a ~ of the Internet economy
comparison & contrast: epithet
pathfinders and pacesetters
pace (at a pace) jazz venerates its ~ (elders)
at the pace of repairs competition / driving force: person / sports & games /
frustrated ~, he traveled to San Jose… walking, running & jumping
at one's own pace pacesetting (adjective)
and there's more freedom to work ~
pacesetting bebop pianist
at a snail's pace Tyner was referring to the ~ (Bud Powell)
moving ~ is the norm above 8,000 meters (climbing)
pacesetting artists
at their own pace ~ like Samuel Fosso and Pascale Martine Tayou
the computer program allows students to work ~
competition / driving force: sports & games / walking,
at an accelerating pace running & jumping
these norms are unraveling ~
pack (competition)
at an alarming pace
but disasters have continued ~ (mine industry) head of the pack
the consensus is that she is at the ~ (a candidate)
at an accelerated pace
lesbian culture evolved ~ leading the pack
achieving the desired outcome at an ~ he is ~ but nipping at his heels is Pete Buttigieg (election)

at a set pace competition: animal / dog / wolf

it is not ~ (human growth and development)

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pack (group) $899-a-couple package
the hotel's ~
pack of riders
on Sunday, he finished in the main ~ (Tour de France) offers (air and accommodation) packages
the lodge ~ (Alaska)
packs of youth
configuration / group, set & collection: container
~s roamed the streets (Ottawa power outage)
lead pack
pack rat (person)
as the ~ approached the third turn on lap 39 (NASCAR) pack rat
he stayed in the ~ (Nascar racer) he is a ~, and kept the original packaging (a CD)
main pack behavior / character & personality: animal
Armstrong finished with the ~ (Tour de France)
paean (noun)
troop or pack
everyone involved in a ~ (Boy Scouts) paean to the swan
Michael Morpurgo’s ~ (BBC 4 Tweet of the Day)
finished with the (main) pack
Armstrong ~ (Tour de France) paean to tolerance
to some it’s a ~ (the beloved film Sound of Music)
break free from the pack
~ (ad for a contraceptive) paean to increasing population
the annual summit is a ~ through birth (vs. immigration)
separate it from the pack
each translator tries to bring something new to ~ (Dante) paean to fells (hills), becks (streams), and flocks
it is a ~ (Pastoral Song by James Rebanks)
group, set & collection: animal
politically correct paean
package (benefits, etc.) the book is not a ~ (The General’s Daughter)
incentive package delivered a paean
creating ~s John Reid has just ~ of praise for Gordon Brown (politics)
benefit package achievement, recognition & praise: music
the federal government offers a very generous ~ (jobs)
♦ see also praise (sing someone’s praises)
settlement package page (on the same page)
the company's ~ (for death of worker)
on the same page
severance package
this year, everyone is ~ (successful team)
the charge will fund ~s (a company)
he got a $5.5 million ~ (executive of failed company) unanimity & consensus: books & reading
financial aid package page (turn the page)
asking for a better ~ (colleges)
turn the page
generous (benefit) package it's time to ~ and go to the next chapter of my life
the federal government offers a very ~ (jobs)
turning over a new page
configuration / group, set & collection: container we are ~ in the history of Kyrgyzstan (elections)
package (commercial) turn a new page after two world wars
he went to Germany to ~ (Charles de Gaulle)
package rate
30 percent off the ~ for a ski trip turn the page on past events
the settlement is an opportunity to ~ (payment of fine)
hotel's ($899-a-couple) package
the ~ reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: books & reading
dive package page (development)
selling ~s
page has turned
air and accommodation packages it feels like a ~ regarding sex abuse (stronger sentences)
the lodge offers ~ (Alaska)
start a new page
most heavily promoted package we will ~
most choose the ~ (buying autos)
development: books & reading

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pageant (noun) this has been very ~ from a balance-sheet perspective

pageant of death and rebirth painful chapter

it was a ~ in Indian history (white boarding schools)
the primordial ~ of light (solar eclipse)
majestic global pageant painful injustice
~ and ordinary heroism (the film Women Is Losers)
this ~ (migratory birds)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / group, set & painful truth
here’s the ~
collection: movement / walking, running & jumping
pain (economic pain, etc.) painful vigil
the ~ of a mother
economic pain feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / sensation
many Americas are experiencing great ~ (recession)
there is only corruption, humiliation, and ~ paint (characterize)
tariffs will just cause us ~
paint the entire border patrol with this same brush
political pain to ~ is irresponsible and unfair (misdeeds of 3 agents)
Trump knows economic meltdown brings ~ (COVID-19)
painted her as an adulteress
forecasts of pain the prosecution ~
sweeping ~ for the continent (climate report / Africa)
painted the North as a promised land
ease the pain he ~ (Robert Sengstacke Abbott of Chicago Defender)
to help ~, the White House will... (high gas prices)
paint democrats as extreme
inflict pain republicans want to ~
we need to ~ (a tech titan about a competitor)
paint alcoholics in harsher colors
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / we need to ~ (TV shows)
sensation
paint a (bleaker) picture
pain (pain in the neck, etc.) there are doctors who ~ than necessary
pain in the ass painted an (ugly) picture
it's a ~ (doing the job right) she ~ of him as a drug user (trial)
pain in the butt paint the accuser as troubled
journalists are a ~ (asking questions, etc.) his lawyer continued to ~
pain in the neck characterization: picture / verb
rebuilding it will be a ~ (damaged overpass)
what a ~
paint (resemblance)
pain in my neck knead, wax, pluck, rub, and paint
she was often a ~ estheticians ~ people

affliction / character & personality: health & medicine / resemblance: picture / verb
neck / person / sensation paint (coat of paint)
pain (emotional) fresh coat of paint
it’s pretty much just NAFTA with a ~ (USMCA)
lonely pain
many still struggle with the ~ (of 9/11) appearance & reality / concealment & lack of concealment
/ subterfuge: infrastructure / materials & substances
in pain
if Aaron was ~, he took care not to show it (dad died) painted (characterized)
leave me in all this pain painted as a horrible person
don’t ~ (emotional pain) I was being ~, and I couldn’t do anything about it (banned)
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / mental characterization: picture
health / sensation
palace (movie palace, etc.)
painful (adjective)
Palace of Weddings
painful the city's elegant ~ (Krasnoyarsk)

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Beckingham Palace feeling, emotion & effect: burial / cloth / verb
their country mansion, known as ~ (English soccer star) oppression: burial / cloth / verb
corn palace palm (in the palm of one's hand)
the world's only ~ (Mitchell, South Dakota)
in the palm of his hand
ice palace he had everything ~ and it was taken away (arrest)
in the late 1800s cities built ~s for winter carnivals
in the palm of their hand
movie palace they had victory ~ but... (soccer team)
the ~s of his youth
attainment / possession: hand
pet palace
Atwood's Pet Resort in SeaTac is a ~
palpable (adjective)
air-conditioned palace palpable
the Grand Ole Opry moved into its new ~ her anger is often ~, the color literally drains from her face

resemblance: royalty palpable in Puerto Rico

the mental health toll of the hurricane is still ~
palatable (adjective)
palpable enmity
palatable to the left there was ~ in the air to begin with (an interview)
a way that is ~
absolutely palpable
consumption: food & drink / taste the tension is ~ in the stadium (Rio 2016 football final)
flaws & lack of flaws: food & drink / taste
nearly palpable
palatial (adjective) the tension between them was ~ (politics)
palatial (Manhattan) loft tragically palpable
she designed the kitchen in his ~ a threat to personal space is ~ (police shootings)
run from basic to palatial excitement (surrounding the team this year) is palpable
river shacks ~ (South Carolina) the ~ (Super Bowl LVI / Cincinnati)
♦ “A hut is a palace to the poor man.” (Irish.)
fear is palpable
size: royalty the ~ on both sides (Kashmir)
comparison & contrast: affix
frustration was palpable
palette (noun) but his ~

palette of ethnic groups grief is palpable

the Kachin dominion includes a ~ (Burma) the ~ (9/11 memorial)
♦ You can feel something that is palpable through the skin (like an
palette of options inflamed lymph node), or seem to feel it (an emotion, for instance), even
the government has a ~ it can use to shore up the economy if it is invisible.

alternatives & choices / amount: color presence & absence / feeling, emotion & effect: sensation
group, set & collection: color panacea (noun)
palisade (noun)
panacea
palisades of steel the new rules will not be a ~
they are great ~ (container ships) blockchain is not a ~, it’s not this magical thing
♦ A synonym for panacea is cure-all. In Greek mythology, Panacea was
resemblance: fortification a goddess of healing.
pall (cast a pall) amelioration & renewal: allusion / health & medicine /
religion
cast a pall on the (peace) process
the victory by Hamas ~ Panama Canal (of its day, etc.)
cast a pall over the Olympics Panama of its day
the accident ~ (luge death / Winter Olympics) the Miracle Canal was truly a ~ (Qin dynasty)
casts a pall everywhere transportation: epithet
if it ~, there is a special darkness to it here (mass shooting)
♦ A pall is the cloth covering a coffin, hearse or tomb.

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pancake (verb) Pandora’s Box
this is a ~ and we don’t know what will happen (vaccine)
pancaked during the earthquake
several buildings ~ Pandora’s box of (menacing) possibilities
they have opened a ~ (war)
configuration: food & drink / verb
Pandora’s box of (legal) troubles
pancake (pancake ice, etc.) his plea agreement may have opened up a ~ for Trump
pancake ice forbidden fruit, a Promethean fire, a Pandora’s box
~ in the Weddell Sea this is ~, and evil genie
♦ “Lake Michigan ice pancakes lap against pier.” (An ABC video taken
near St. Joseph, Michigan.)
open a Pandora’s box of incidents
an investigation might ~ ignored over the years
shape: food & drink
opened a Pandora's box of (menacing) possibilities
pancake (noun) they have ~ (war)
pancake reopen the Pandora's box of (ethnic) conflict
the collapse created a ~ on the floors below failure to act will ~ (Balkans)
♦ Nathaniel Hawthorne wonderfully tells the story of Pandora’s box in A
configuration: food & drink
Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. His emphasis is on the curiosity that all
pancaked children have.
♦ In Greek mythology, the myth of Prometheus and the story of Pandora
pancaked are intertwined.
the plane was ~, it's totally crushed and pulverized ♦ “I opened a Pandora’s box. I released a Frankenstein. People are just
breeding for the money... unscrupulous breeders are crossing poodles
about half of the parking garage was ~ with inappropriate dogs simply so they can say they were the first to do
it.” (Wally Conran, the Australian who created the labradoodle in the late
pancaked floors 1980s. He now says his creation is his “life’s regret.” The labradoodle
they could see bodies in the ~ (earthquake) has been called the first “designer dog.” His concern is about dogs and
their health problems.)
pancaked pile
crews continue to comb through the ~ of debris affliction / concealment & lack of concealment / pursuit,
capture & escape / initiation: allusion / container /
configuration: food & drink creature / religion / verb
pandemic (noun) Panglossian (adjective)
pandemic of street racing Panglossian viewpoint
one person dies and there is all of a sudden a ~ it’s easy to make fun of his ~
‘shooting pandemic’ ♦ Pangloss was a fictional character from Candide by Voltaire. Pangloss
was famous for his optimism.
it could be called a ~ (yet another U.S. mass shooting)
♦ “With all this manure, there must be a pony somewhere!” (This joke is
extent & scope: health & medicine very well researched at: quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/13/pony-
somewhere/ The article contains a link to a 1984 William Safire article
pander (verb) in The New York Times.
♦ “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
pandered to their political bases ♦ see also side (bright side)
the politicians ~
allusion: books & reading
pander (the most) to the far right comparison & contrast: affix
who is going to ~ (French elections) character & personality / flaws & lack of flaws: allusion
pander for selfish gain at the expense of truth and justice panhandle (area)
I will not ~ (Aramis Ayala)
♦ Pandarus fought for the Trojans in Homer’s Iliad. In a different
Florida panhandle
incarnation, he is mentioned by Boccaccio, Chaucer and Shakespeare he drove through the ~
as someone assisting lovers. He helps the two lovers in Chaucer’s ♦ Nine US states are considered to have panhandles, including Florida.
Troilus and Criseyde.
shape: cooking
speech: Iliad & Odyssey / sex / verb
area: shape
Pandora's box (open a Pandora’s box, panic (noun)
etc.)
gay panic
Pandora Papers the ~ defense won’t work (trial)
they are called the ~ (12 million leaked documents)

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moral panic within the pantheon
evidence-based decisions should replace ~ (psychedelics) ~ of great sci-fi from the 190s and 1970s (a movie)
there are always these ~s over what goes on in schools
icon in the pantheon
behavior / feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine Kirk Douglas will always be an ~ of Hollywood
panoply (noun) entered the pantheon
she ~ in 1991 (Tina Turner / Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
panoply of (current) art
the ~ (an art exhibition) place him in the pantheon
his barrel rides ~ of great surfers (Garrett McNamara)
panoply of (other) agencies
the FBI and DEA were there, as well as a ~ (investigation) pantheon (that) speaks to the white patriarchy
it is a ~ (American naturalists / J. Drew Lanham)
panoply of incongruities
♦ In ancient Greek times, a pantheon was a temple dedicated to all of the
the exhibit is a ~ (“Making the Met 1870-2020”) gods.

panoply of tools superlative: allusion / place / religion

social media provides a new ~ to spread disinformation sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
full panoply importance & significance: religion
the ~ of services for long-term care (including hospice) pants (caught with one's pants down)
dealing with the ~ of issues that divide us (diplomacy)
♦ A panoply is a complete suit of armor. caught with our pants down
we were ~ (CDC official)
amount / group, set & collection: military
caught with its (tactical) pants down
panopticon (noun) law enforcement was ~ (Silk Road online drugs bazaar)
medical panopticon readiness & preparedness: clothing & accessories / verb
Thrun envisages a ~ that constantly scans us (AI diagnosing)
pants (get in somebody's pants)
♦ This refers to Jeremy Bentham’s idea for a circular penitentiary open to
hidden view from a central office. The idea was, inmates would control
themselves if they knew they were being secretly watched at every
get in my pants
moment. they all wanted to ~ (pretty girl vs. high-school boys)
surveillance: allusion / crime / history sex: clothing & accessories / euphemism / verb
pan out (verb) pants (scare the pants off somebody)
pan out scare the pants off people
the deal didn't ~ it will ~ (lawlessness)
if the projects ~… (energy development)
hyperbole: clothing & accessories / verb
she had a couple of relationships that didn't ~
courage & lack of courage: clothing & accessories / verb
♦ One dictionary dates the origin of this word to 1868. Famous gold
rushes include: California (1848), Australia (1851), the Black Hills Gold pants (big girl pants, etc.)
Rush (1876), South Africa (1886), and the Klondike (1898).

success & failure: mining / verb put on the big boy pants
worth & lack of worth: mining / verb he needs to ~ and act as commander in chief

pantheon (noun) put his big-boy pants on

the president needs to ~ and acknowledge that he lost
pantheon of (past keynote) speakers
he joins a ~ (political conventions) put your big-girl pants on
you need to ~ and deal with it
Blues pantheon ♦ “You need to put your big-girl pants on and deal with it, pull them up
the Chicago ~ (Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Magic Sam, and get out there and show them what you got...”
and Junior Wells) ♦ “Need to” often collocates with this expression.

pop pantheon growth & development: death & life

she is part of the ~, for sure (Lana Del Ray) role: clothing & accessories
in an illustrious pantheon paper tiger
vaccines are ~ (discoveries that saved billions)
paper tiger
in that (same) pantheon Osama bin Laden believed America was a ~
other athletes deserve to be ~ winners)
substance & lack of substance: animal / tiger

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strength & weakness: animal / tiger paradise
appearance & reality: animal / tiger
force: animal / tiger paradise
parachute (drop in) the place was a ~ compared to Botany Bay (Sydney)

parachute journalism hikers' paradise

Aspen is a ~
writers doing the 20th century version of ~ (Appalachia)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane bird lover's paradise
Horicon Marsh is a ~ (Wisconsin)
parachute (golden parachute)
smuggler's paradise
golden parachute the ~ of Tijuana (drugs)
CEOs got high salaries and generous ~s
surfer's paradise
lucrative golden parachute this ~ (Kuta, Bali)
they rewarded him with a ~ (Blatt)
surfers' paradise
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane Jaws is a ~ (north shore of Maui, Hawaii)
achievement, recognition & praise: plane the North Shore of Oahu has long been a ~
parachute (verb) skateboarder's paradise
the park is a ~
parachute into poor countries
college kids ~ for medical missions (malpractice) train lover's paradise
China is a ~ (43,000 miles of operating tracks)
parachutes into governor’s race
Trump ~ on election eve (Virginia 2021) windsurfing paradise
the Columbia River Gorge is a ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane
appearance & disappearance: plane island paradise
the ~ turned into hell by terrorists (Bali)
parachuted
redneck paradise
parachuted in rock on through to ~
he was ~ last year to lead a turnaround of the business no one’s uptight at ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: plane natural paradise
parade (verb) they live in a ~ (langurs of Halong Bay)

paraded him at a news conference socialist paradise

he promised Venezuelans a better life in a ~
the authorities ~ in Minsk
paraded a scientist around right-wing outlets tropical paradise
in theory this place should be a ~
as proof, they ~
♦ The Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin is a bird-lover’s paradise with its
directing / performance: theater / verb geese and great blue herons. It is the largest freshwater cattail marsh in
the United States.
parade (noun)
environment / superlative: religion
parade of suspects flaws & lack of flaws: religion
the investigation has seen a ~ over the years (crime) Paradise Lost (allusion)
parade of witnesses
Paradise Lost
a ~ has corroborated his account (hearings)
this ~ kind of family mythology (formerly rich family)
after a ~, it was up to the jury
♦ Paradise Lost was the poem by John Milton.
endless parade
the seemingly ~ of principals (troubled middle school) division & connection: allusion / religion

never-ending parade paradisiacal (and paradisal)

a ~ of visits paradisal (Mediterranean) island
nonstop parade a bank manager who goes to live like a peasant on a ~
a ~ of local heroes carrying the Olympic torch paradisiacal sounds
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / group, set & fountains provide ~ (Hama, Syria)
collection: movement / walking, running & jumping paradisiacal time warp

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 the forests of Bucovina seemed to exist in a ~ raise their heads above the parapet
♦ Pronounced para-duh-SEE-uh-kul. If you know how to pronounce a it’s when things fail that allegations of corruption ~
word, you will use it.
stuck their heads above the (proverbial) parapet
feeling, emotion & effect: religion the people who have ~ (groups)
comparison & contrast: affix
conflict: fortification
paralysis (noun)
parasite (person)
political paralysis
it was a result of the ~ in Washington parasite
~ may push American off a fiscal cliff critics are ~s (literary critics)
tax evaders are ~s to society (Italy)
functioning: health & medicine / movement she is a ~ who exploits her culture for money (a writer)
they are ~s whose work depends on the activity of others
paralyze (verb)
parasite on the economy
paralyzed Algiers the government is not simply a ~
the heaviest snow in more than 50 years ~
parasite agents
paralyzed Yaoundé the ~ on a percentage (high prices for soccer players)
antigovernment riots ~, Cameroon's capital (2008)
parasite, a leech
riots paralyzed Yaoundé she’s a ~ (charges soldiers for river water)
antigovernment ~, Cameroon's capital (2008)
described as parasites
snow (in more than 50 years) paralyzed Algiers they were ~, socially dangerous and harmful (USSR)
the heaviest ~
affliction / insult: animal / person
functioning: health & medicine / movement / verb
pare (verb)
paralyzed (feeling)
pare (back) tax cuts
paralyzed with grief to pay for it, the president would ~ (huge spending bill)
when I got home I was ~ (Everest 96)
dismissal, removal & resignation: knife / verb
paralyzed by fear
we are absolutely ~ (stuck in a job you don't like) pared (pared to the bone)
feeling, emotion & effect: functioning / health & medicine / pared to the bone
movement the delegation has been ~ (government trip abroad)
paralyzed (functioning) ♦ see also bone (cut something to the bone, etc.)

dismissal, removal & resignation / sufficiency, insufficiency

paralyzed by hackers & excess: knife / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
Baltimore struggles to revive computer systems ~
parent (parent company, etc.)
left (most of) the capital paralyzed
the assault ~ (Baghdad terrorism) parent company
functioning: health & medicine / movement a revenue-sharing arrangement with its ~
the Washington Post and its ~
paramount (adjective) taxation of ~s and their subsidiaries
our ~, Gannett, sold our building (a local paper)
paramount importance
being ethical is of ~ parent star
the brown dwarf orbits around its ~ (astronomy)
importance & significance: height / mountains & hills
corporate parent
parapet (noun) CNN and its ~, Warner Media, is being sold to...
parapets of schism division / relationship: family
Catholics, Orthodox hurl insults at each other over the ~
parent (cat parents, etc.)
put his head above the parapet
the Ibrox legions need a hero to ~ and voice fan concerns cat parents
they are ~ to Miko the cat (Miko’s owners)
put my head above the parapet ♦ “To our dog parents: Please keep your four-legged children on a least
I ~ and admit that I was wrong (a sports blogger) at all times. / Attention dogs: When nature calls, remind your parents to
pick up after you. / Alcohol is not allowed in the Park. It made the ducks

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too rowdy. Be sure to stop into one of our local restaurants.” (Signage at ♦ “Lyuda, from now on our contact with people has to be one-sided. If a
the park in Lake Lure, North Carolina.) man’s been arrested, his wife can only visit people who’ve invited her.
She doesn’t have the right to say: ‘I want to come round.’ That would be
division & connection / relationship: family humiliating for both her and her husband. You and I have entered a new
epoch. We can no longer write to anyone ourselves; we can only reply to
pariah (person) letters. We can no longer phone anyone; we can only pick up the
receiver when it rings. We don’t even have the right to greet
pariah acquaintances—they may prefer not to notice us. And if someone does
greet me, I don’t have the right to speak first. He might consider it
the changing political fortunes of a man who was once a ~ possible to give me a nod of the head, but not to talk to me. I can only
answer if he speaks first. You and I are pariahs.” (Life and Fate by Vasily
pariah of the village Grossman.)
Tom came upon the juvenile ~ (Huck Finn)
acceptance & rejection / society: person
pariahs in their communities person: society
they have become ~ (girls do sex online controversy) Paris (epithet)
pariah in the music industry
the producer has been a ~ ever since...
Paris of the East
Bucharest’s historic center was on praised as “The ~”
pariah at that time
he was a real ~ (Muhammad Ali in 1967)
Paris of the Orient
the wickedest city in the world, the ~ (Shanghai 1930s)
pariah by association
he became a ~
"Paris of the South"
attempts to promote Asheville as the ~
pariah state
Israel is an apartheid ~ (an opinion)
Paris of the Middle East
before 1975, Beirut was known as the ~
the Taliban do not want to become a ~ again
Beirut was once known as the ~
pariah status
Zimbabwe seeks to jettison its ~
Paris of Java
Bandung, Indonesia, is known as “The ~” (Dutch heritage)
Iran can continue its march towards ~ or...
superlative: epithet / place
international pariahs
they do not want to be seen as ~ (the Taliban) park (walk in the park)
political pariah walk in the park
he went from a pandemic hero to a ~ (Andrew Cuomo) people who said it would be a ~ were wrong (Brexit)
I knew it wasn’t going to be a ~ (transgender hormones)
became a pariah
it should be a ~ (US women should win World Cup)
he ~ in the late 70s (a Hollywood producer)
and so Atiyeh ~ (environmentalist George Atiyeh) difficulty, easiness & effort: walking, running & jumping
once a popular society figure, she ~ (wife of swindler)
park (hit something out of the park)
become pariahs
he said he and his girlfriend had ~ (falsely accused) hit it out of the park
she ~ (a great debate performance)
becoming a pariah
he is rapidly ~ (a French author / MeToo) hit it out of the park a second time
he ~ (second season of a TV series)
made himself a pariah
he ~ at his old studio (an actor) success & failure: baseball / sports & games
♦ This word seems to refer to a caste in India and to the British Raj. parked (movement)
♦ “Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry
Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and parked over the islands
dreaded by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle and lawless
and vulgar and bad—and because all their children admired him so, and
the storm is ~
delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him.
Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied parked on the south-west
Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not a high-pressure system is ~ (a heatwave)
to play with him. So he played with him every time he got a chance...”
(Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.) movement: engine / mechanism
♦ “Frankie was...a wild figure... I had come to join his gang through coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / progress &
clause number two (the threat of torture), and had stayed with it for lack of progress / starting, going, continuing & ending:
profitable reasons of fun and adventure... When the women of our street
engine / mechanism / movement
could think of no more bad names to call Frankie Buller for leading their
children into fights that resulted in black eyes, torn clothes, and split
heads, they called him a Zulu, a label that Frankie came to accept as a
parliament (group)
tribute.” (“The Decline and Fall of Frankie Buller” by the great writer Alan
Sillitoe.) parliament of creatures
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♦ “There was little sense of menace in this parliament of creatures. The avoidance & separation / resistance, opposition & defeat:
only large meat-eating animal was the dingo... Even the dragon of the
bush, a carrion-eating monitor lizard known as a goanna, would rush up blade / sword / verb / weapon
a tree when approached and cling there, its throat puffed out in
soundless alarm, until the intruder went away. The only universal parry (noun)
predator was man.” (The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding
by Robert Hughes. The “parliament of creatures” he mentions includes: passive-aggressive parries
birds (Galahs, lorikeets, rosellas, Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos, etc.);
wallabies; kangaroos; koalas; brushtailed possums; ringtails; sugar-
the scene is full of ~ (Succession dialog)
gliders; platypuses; echidnas (spiny anteaters); and wombats. That’s
certainly a parliament!) thrust and parry
election year ~
group, set & collection: government
avoidance & separation: blade / sword / weapon
paroxysm (emotion) resistance, opposition & defeat: blade / sword / weapon
paroxysm of anxiety parse (verb)
the whole culture is caught up in a ~ (the internet)
parse each of his sentences
paroxysms of grief let’s ~ (radio host / news show)
the loss of the photo sent him into ~ (dead child)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: speech / verb
paroxysms of laughter
it sent them both off into ~
part (moving parts)
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / movement moving parts to this story
there are a lot of ~
paroxysm (other)
a lot of moving parts
paroxysms of (racist) violence there are a lot of people involved and ~ (an investigation)
the ~ (U.S. history)
so many moving parts
last paroxysm there are ~ in terms of the legal issues
his reign had been the ~ of the System’s cruelty
complexity: mechanism
affliction: health & medicine / movement
activity: health & medicine / movement
partner (noun)
parrot (verb) partner in their relationship
the third ~ was his addiction to heroin
parroted the (official) line
he ~ about enemy losses relationship: person

parrot the Pledge of Allegiance party (garden party)

kids who ~ often say, "I led the pigeons to the flag" giant garden party
repetition: animal / bird / sound / speech / verb our lockdown is a ~ compared to China and Italy (COVID)

parry (verb) difficulty, easiness & effort: party

parried the attacks with some skill party (late to the party, etc.)
he ~ (a political debate) late to the party
parry both aren't you rather ~ (entering new market)
he was able to ~ (during a political debate) we’re kinda ~ here (antisatellite warfare)

parried queries join the party late

Merkel ~ during “Chancellor’s Question Time” traders who just follow the herd and ~ will lose money

parry Romney timeliness & lack of timeliness: party

Santorum used humor to ~ (politics) party (invited to the party, etc.)
thrust and parry invited to the party
election year ~ who is ~, and who isn’t (success in America)
♦ “Lieutenant-Colonel Dunlop was here wounded when half way up by a not everyone can be ~ (haves and have-nots)
sirdar of Mysore, who met him scimitar in hand. Parrying a cut with his
sabre, the colonel slashed open his antagonist’s breast, and mortally acceptance & rejection: party
wounded him. The sirdar made another cut that nearly hewed off the
head of the colonel, and falling back into the breach was instantly
bayoneted. Dunlop reached the summit, and then fell from loss of
party (party is over)
blood...” (“Seringapatam, 1799, from British Battles on Land and Sea by
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 we’re coming for you, the ~ (cops versus gang) future / past & present / primacy, currency, decline &
obsolescence / time: direction / movement / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: party
party (coming-out party) pass (progress)
“coming-out party” passed the US
many countries have ~ in healthcare and quality of life
it was Japan’s ~ as a modern naval power (1890)
competition / progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips
inauguration: love, courtship & marriage / party
/ movement / verb
pas de deux
pass (die)
developmental pas de deux
Wuhan has embarked on a ~ with Hong Kong (building) passed
he ~ surrounded by loved ones
intense pas de deux
the intertwining plotlines gain momentum in their death & life: euphemism / movement / verb
increasingly ~ pass away (verb)
relationship: music
passed away last week
pass (time can pass, etc.) he ~
♦ A “deceased person” who has “passed away” is a dead person who
pass has died.
I hope these times ~ soon (a cop) ♦ “Fire Department medic unit Number 4 responded and transported the
victim to Temple Hospital, where she was subsequently pronounced at
passes 5:33 a.m.” (A police spokesperson about a murder.)
every minute that ~ is crucial ♦ “Unfortunately, he was found in a pond and he is no longer with us.”
(Body found.)
time: movement / verb ♦ “I was able to hold his hand as he journeyed on.” (With brother when
pass (free pass) he died.)
♦ His life was tragically cut short. (Murdered.)
free pass death & life: euphemism / movement / verb
many thought the press gave him a ~ (politician)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: ticket
passage (passage of time)
cost & benefit: ticket passage of time
pass (cards) the curve relates forgetting to the ~
the ~ has been on her mind lately
passed time: distance / journeys & trips / movement
when I offered to talk to him, he ~
action, inaction & delay / commitment & determination:
passage (journey)
cards / gambling / verb passage from reporter to novelist (and poet)
pass (end) the ~ was the dominant trajectory of writing then
course / development / experience: journeys & trips /
pass movement
your problems will soon ~
starting, going, continuing & ending: movement / walking,
pass by (progress)
running & jumping pass us by
pass (its time has passed, etc.) we don’t want to let this ~ (adopting new technology)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence / progress &
passed lack of progress: journeys & trips / movement / verb
the great wave of trans-Appalachian emigration had ~
passing (death)
passed it by
time had somewhat ~ (a travel route becomes obsolete) passing of our friend and brother
it is with the heaviest of hearts that I tell you of the ~
time has passed
it’s a tradition whose ~ accidental passing
the person remains, yet his ~ (Life and Fate) her ~ has been so sudden (selfie accident)
time may have (already) passed death & life: euphemism / movement
it’s a gimmick whose ~ (augmented reality phone app)

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passion (enthusiasm) love and passion
he has a ~ for boating (a kayaker)
passion
my ~ is skiing secret or (a) passion or (an) issue or (a) decision
when race is a ~ (people)
passion in life
his biggest ~ was climbing (killed by lightning) with a passion
I love classical music ~ (Anthony Tommasini)
passion for basketball
Spike Lee is famous for his front-row ~ (the filmmaker) developed a passion
he ~ for writing at an early age
passion for butterflies
Nabokov inherited his ~ from his parents (the great writer) followed his passion
he ~ (a windsurfer)
passion for chemistry
his ~ (Richard Smalley) follow your passion
that's part of the spirit of mountaineering, to ~
passion for graffiti
his ~ was extinguished when… (tagging accident) inspires passion
ramen ~ and devotion among Japanese and foreigners
passion for (water) sports
a young man with a ~ (kitesurfing, etc.) turn your passion into a profession
how do you ~ (ad on TV for arts school)
passion for trains ♦ According to Wilfred Funk, Litt. D., passion originally meant suffering:
his life-long ~ (model trains, train spotting, etc.) the passion of Christ. Then it morphed in the late 14th century (the time
of Chaucer) to mean powerful emotions like hatred and rage, including
passion for acting the tender passion of love. In Funk’s day, it came to relate to the
powerful emotion of sex. Today it commonly means enthusiasm.
he quit his job to pursue a lifelong ~ (TV, movies) Compassion comes from the same root and literally means, “with
suffering,” or “I feel your suffering.”
passion for boating
♦ “It was hard for family conversations. You couldn’t exactly talk about it
he has a love and ~ (a kayaker) over Thanksgiving dinner.” (Dr. Mark Siddall, who studies and is
passionate about leeches.)
passion for caving
♦ “Reporting from France for Beardsley is the fulfillment of a lifelong
his ~ and cave diving has taken him around the world passion for the French language and culture. At the age of ten she
began learning French by reading the Asterix The Gaul comic book
passion for dancing series with her father.” (The brilliant National Public Radio correspondent
an active teen with a ~ Eleanor Beardsley, raised in Columbia, South Carolina. From her
biography, “Eleanor Beardsley, Correspondent, Paris,” at NPR.)
passion for sky diving ♦ "Some people may say that passion is folly. I think if you haven't
he had a ~ followed your passions, you haven't lived. If you haven't lived, you
haven't evolved." (John Chao, photographer and founder, publisher and
passion for gambling editor in 1993 of the magazine American Windsurfer. In December 2016
his ~ he drove a panel truck full of firewood and propane from The Dalles,
Oregon, to North Dakota to support the Standing Rock Dakota Access
Pipeline activists in their winter camps.)
passion for caving and cave diving
his ~ has taken him around the world ♦ “Playing video games for a living is a dream for many.” (Amazon’s
Twitch, etc., and online streamers.)
passion project ♦ "What if somebody came up with some kind of French term for dodging
he is doing this audio idea as a ~ (Ian Urbina) traffic?" (An unhappy Captain Jerry Miner, with the Indiana University
police, after IU's daily paper ran a photo of a traceur standing on top of a
passion and devotion school arch.)
ramen inspires ~ among Japanese and foreigners control & lack of control / enthusiasm / feeling, emotion &
deep passion effect: sex
she had this ~ for issues she cared about passionate
grand passion passionate about this case
chelonians are Eric Goode’s ~ (the Turtle Conservancy) I was ~ (the great lawyer Johnnie Cochran)
lifelong passion passionate about the (local) people
he quit his job to pursue a ~ for acting (TV, movies) he was so ~ (a scientist in the field)
space flight has been his ~ (astronaut)
passionate about animals, journalism, and the elderly
national passion she was ~
baseball is part of our roots, it’s our ~ (a Habanero)
passionate defender
interest / passions / hobbies President Jacob Zuma is a ~ of Zulu traditions (S. Africa)
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passionate response biological passports
she delivered a ~ ~ will be scrutinised (athletes / blood doping)
young, passionate and pissed sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: document /
I was ~ (climber who lost best friend) government
control & lack of control / enthusiasm / feeling, emotion & past (in the distant past, etc.)
effect: sex
in the distant past
passionately the meteorite was blasted off the surface of the moon ~
the Revolutionary War and Civil War are ~, but...
feel passionately
but for those of us who ~ about the oceans (preservation) in the not-distant past
Mormons experienced persecution ~
control & lack of control / enthusiasm / feeling, emotion &
effect: sex in the not so distant past
nominees sought bipartisan support ~
passage (nasal passage, etc.)
lies in the distant past
nasal passage for most Americans, World War I ~
the standard Q-tip can’t bend through the ~
past & present / time: distance
resemblance: route
past (distant past, etc.)
passage (noun)
distant past
passage to adulthood litigating cases from the ~ can be difficult
he writes about his ~
Earth’s distant past
passage into womanhood the documentary looks at the ~
her quinceañera, the celebration of a Hispanic girl's ~
past & present / time: distance
passage from ballet student to restaurant apprentice
her rocky ~ past (in the past)
course / growth & development: journeys & trips in the past
this all happened ~
passed down (by ancestors, etc.)
lies in the past
passed down the adventure is finished and our journey ~
their stories have been ~ (vicarious “race-based trauma”) ♦ Scott Simon: When is the past past? Ever? / Chanelle Benz: Well, I
the stories ~ prime us for traumatization (race-based) think we can lay the past to rest once we’ve had some kind of reckoning
♦ see also down (down through the centuries, etc.) with it.” (“Chanelle Benz On ‘The Gone Dead,’” NPR, Weekend Edition,
June 22, 2019.)
transmission: direction / hand
past & present / time: container
past & present / time: direction / height / history /
mountains & hills / prep, adv, adj, particle pasteurized
pass on (verb) pasteurized version
this very ~ of the story where everyone is heroic (Leningrad)
pass on
which track would you like to ~ (BBC Inheritance Tracks) got (completely) pasteurized
transmission: hand / verb it ~ (Soviet story of Siege of Leningrad)

passport (noun) concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene

pasture (greener pastures)
passport to freedom
education is our ~ (young European Muslim women) searching for greener pastures
many young people are ~ elsewhere (migration)
passport to success
Polar adventure was not necessarily a ~ (Hjalmar Johansen) attraction & repulsion: color / farming & agriculture
passport to the world pasture (put something out to pasture)
his camera was his ~ (the photojournalist David Gilkey)
put him out to pasture
passport out of death row we need to ~ (a controversial executive)
a low IQ can be a ~
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 he felt they were ~ so what the hell (a politician) with a ~ across the country...
♦ see retire (verb) for quotations
creation & transformation: cloth
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / horse
path (set out on this path, etc.)
pasture (put out to pasture)
set out on this path
put out to pasture he ~ in 1997 by writing... (rehabilitated his career)
some think the musical should be ~ (The King and I)
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips / path
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / horse
path (the right / wrong path, etc.)
patch (and patch up)
on the right path
patched up the (contentious) issue with a compromise I have put Qatar ~ (Sheikh Hamad)
they ~ (world leaders) so the economy's ~
patched things up on a (sustained) expansion path
the two eventually ~ (a relationship) the economy now appears to be ~
the company has ~ (problems)
on a (good expansionary) growth path
patched up their differences the economy seems to be ~
they have ~ (a couple)
on a downward path
patched the (security) flaw the debt to GDP ratio is ~ (economy)
Microsoft has ~
on a troubled path
patched his relationship when someone you love is ~
he has ~ with them
down a dangerous path
patch the rift his unswerving belief in himself led him ~
he is trying to ~ (disagreement)
down a very dark path
amelioration & renewal: cloth / verb the post were so awful and almost led me ~ (trolled)
patch (patch together) down the wrong path
it has taken us ~ (antiterrorism)
patched together an agreement
leaders finally ~ (diplomacy) down a moderate and secular path
lead Pakistan ~
patched together a (workable group)
he has ~ get back on the path
we must ~ of prosperity (politics)
creation & transformation: cloth / verb
patch (rough patch) got on the (right) path
he straightened his life out and ~ (former criminal)
rough patches stray from the path
you go through ~ in your sport that make you want to quit
a good Muslim must not ~
danger / difficulty, easiness & effort / obstacles &
stray (too far) from (Saudi Arabia's) path
impedance / survival, persistence & endurance: forest / but Qatar does not ~
journeys & trips
taken us down the wrong path
patched it has ~ (antiterrorism tactic)
patched ♦ "In Japan there has been only one path, and today an increasing
number of people are not on it. It's easy to say that academic
Windows is full of security holes that can never be ~ background is not everything. But the parents cannot suggest another
path because they don't know one." (A Japanese psychologist talking
patched up about Hickikomori, the withdrawal from society by young people.)
the problems have been ~ ♦ In the Sierra Mountains of California, do you tell someone about the
best / easiest / normal path? Or do you keep it to yourself, to teach some
amelioration & renewal: cloth kind of lesson? (“Best-Case Scenario” by Joshua Rothman, The New
Yorker, January 31, 2022.)
patchwork (noun)
flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips / path
patchwork
the system, however ~, works well path (path to / toward something)
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 they are on the ~ (Iraq) not all fields at universities have ~
path to citizenship clear path
we offer a ~ for 1.8 million illegal immigrants negotiations with no ~ to success (Middle East)
path to jihad difficult path
hundreds of Americans have followed the ~ military families walk a ~ in wartime (dissent, etc.)
path to legalization perilous path
immigrants need a ~ (US) the military’s action puts Myanmar on a ~ (2021 coup)
path to power smooth path
behavior that’s admired is the ~ among people everywhere no candidate will have a ~ to the Democratic nomination
path to pride straight path
his job to help the school find a ~ (troubled high school) we ask Allah to lead the Muslims to follow the ~
what you do to keep somebody on the ~
path to riches
a marketing wizard who hopes he had found the ~ surer path
hardship is the ~ to discipline, tenacity, courage
path to sainthood
the Pontiff put him on the ~ difficult, unguided path
the ~ toward a market economy (Russia)
path to success
negotiations with no clear ~ (Middle East) long, tortured path
it's been a ~ for the international space station
paths to success
there are many ~ obstacles in the path
the FAA threw ~ of the Peotone proposal (airport)
path to discipline, tenacity, courage
hardship is the surer ~ path appears clear
the ~ for Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee
path to inner peace
the Buddhist ~ led him down a dangerous path
his unswerving belief in himself ~
path toward a market economy
the difficult, unguided ~ (Russia) walk a difficult path
military families ~ in wartime (dissent, anxiety, etc.)
path toward peace and prosperity
putting the continent on a ~ (Africa) difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips / path
flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips / path
wants, needs, hopes & goals: journeys & trips / path
path (alternatives and choices)
path (path of peace, etc.)
path of least resistance
path he's lazy, he'll take the ~
the ~ they follow may not be simple (investigation)
figure out what ~ will work best for you (education) path of the lesser evil
jihad is its ~ (Hamas motto) we took the ~ (US support of Saddam)
path of Allah brother's path
the ~ he assured his father he wouldn't follow his ~
path of peace father's path
the ~ is still the right path he eventually followed his ~ (seminarian)
path of prosperity life's path
we need to get back on the ~ (politics) her ~ took an unexpected turn (serious injury)
path of (ecological) sustainability mothers' paths
they follow a ~ (reindeer peoples) often, young prostitutes follow their ~ into the sex trade
path of reason, justice and dialogue Qeis's path
adopt the ~ to resolve… (Kashmir) he vowed he will follow in ~ (suicide bomber)
course: journeys & trips / path Saudi Arabia's path
but Qatar does not stray too far from ~
path (tough / easy path, etc.)
one path
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 in Japan there is only one ~ oppression: journeys & trips / path
two paths path (cross paths)
there are ~ now for supercomputing
you can take one of ~ in high school (boy-crazy or study) cross paths
when competitors ~, violence usually follows (prison)
another path
parents can't suggest ~ (Japan) cross his path
he is a danger to all who ~
different path
persuade young delinquents to take a ~ crossed paths
late Monday night, the two men ~ again (cop / felon)
divergent paths
the two sister took extremely ~ crossed her path
she left a mark on all of us who ~ (an actor)
many paths
there are ~ to success cross paths with a stripper
an accountant might ~ (at an airport)
quickest path ♦ “The nineteen-year-old student [Gavrilo Princip], a Bosnian recruited by
the ~ is not always obvious Serbia’s Black Hand terrorist movement, could not believe his luck. He
the ~ to raise school's profile is to buy a football team had been standing on Franzjosefstrasse, bareheaded in the early
summer sunshine, depressed over the failure of a comrade, Nedeljko
two paths Čabrinović, to kill the royal couple with a grenade earlier in the day.
Then he saw their open-top car take a wrong turn off Appel Quay and
there are ~ now for supercomputing pass right by him. The lethal logistics that seem to operate at such
you can take one of ~ in high school (boys or academics) moments had transformed error into opportunity. Two point-blank
targets presented themselves, and Princip’s gun did what it was
academic path designed to do.” (Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris.)
decide what the best ~ for you may be ♦ “‘She was coming directly at us,’ Schwieger told Valentiner. ‘She could
not have steered a more perfect course if she had deliberately tried to
Buddhist path give us a dead shot.’” (Captain Walther Schwieger of the U-20.
the ~ to inner peace Schwieger had set a new course for home. As far as he was concerned,
the patrol was over. When he first noticed the Lusitania through the
periscope, she was speeding away from him, uncatchable. But then the
spiritual path Lusitania changed course. From Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the
turning to a ~ in their search for answers Lusitania by Erik Larson.)
♦ Distorted shadows fell / Upon the lighted ceiling: / Shadows of
adopt the path crossed arms, of crossed legs— / Of crossed destiny. ("Winter Night,"
~ of reason, justice and dialogue to resolve… (Kashmir) by Boris Pasternak.)

chose the path fate, fortune & chance: journeys & trips / path / verb
another bored child of privilege who ~ of revolution
path (beat a path)
continue down that path
it’s important that we ~ (environmental cleanup) beating a path to China's door
the world is ~
continue on the path
we're going to ~ that we started on last year eagerness & reluctance: journeys & trips / path / verb

continue on this path path (off the beaten path)

we should let the economy ~
off the beaten path
continue on the (same) path even tours of federal buildings ~ are possible
we will ~ that was laid out by Osama...
far off the beaten path
find a path she lives in a place ~
his job to help the school ~ to pride (high school) isolation & remoteness: journeys & trips / path
follow a path path (a path can turn / development)
they ~ of ecological sustainability
step along the path
set me along this path
a preliminary trial is a ~ to a criminal trial (Colorado)
my mother helped to ~ (of being a writer)
alternatives & choices: journeys & trips / path path took an (unexpected) turn
her life's ~ (serious injury)
path (force someone down a path, etc.)
go down paths
force your child down a path they can ~ that relate to... (investigation)
don't ~ you wanted to follow (but didn't)
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 we have ~ that we won't turn back from (legal action) pathology (noun)
take its path pathology
justice has to ~ (investigation)
Nazism emerged as a ~ of an inflation-wracked…
walked this path before symptom of a (much wider) pathology
no one has ~ (dealing with pandemic)
he is a ~ infecting the entire system (politics)
development: journeys & trips / path
affliction: health & medicine
path (clear a path) pathway (route)
clear the path for Mr. Sanders pathway to citizenship
her departure will ~ in particular (election)
illegal immigrants need a ~
clears the path for thousands of Floridians the Dreamers need a ~
this ruling ~ (voting rules)
pathway from complaint to trial
amelioration & renewal / difficulty, easiness & effort / the ~ is too long (sex abuse cases)
obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips / path / verb
illicit pathways
pathbreaking (adjective) the~ from Columbia to the US became expressways
route: journeys & trips / path
pathbreaking article
he wrote a ~ on this subject patient zero
pathbreaking filmmaker patient zero in the NotPetya plague
he was a ~ who… (obituary) the servers that played the role of ~ (computer worm)
pathbreaking ideas affliction / initiation: health & medicine
he garnered admiration for some ~ but also enmity
patina (appearance)
path-breaking research
he brought ~ to economics patina of authority
his background gave a ~ (Harvard Prof Timothy Leary)
pathbreaking role
the museum played a ~ in fostering education appearance & reality / extent & scope / substance & lack
of substance / subterfuge: breadth / materials &
path-breaking study
substances
he was the primary author of a ~ that found…
pathbreaking work
patrician
his ~ opened a new era in cancer research patrician father
importance & significance: journeys & trips / path his ~ disapproved (of marriage to poor girl)
driving force: journeys & trips / path hierarchy / identity & nature: allusion / history
pathfinder (Mars Pathfinder, etc.) patron saint
HMS Pathfinder patron saint
the ~ was sunk by a German U-boat in 1914 feminists found in her a sort of ~ (an artist)
Lisa Pathfinder if American cuisine has a ~, it is James Beard
the European Space Agency’s ~ help & assistance / representation: religion
Nissan Pathfinder pattern (holding pattern)
he was struck by a ~
coronavirus-induced holding pattern
proper name: journeys & trips / path society’s normal activities are in a ~
pathfinder (person) in a holding pattern
pathfinders and pacesetters the U.S. Senate is ~ (Senators discuss what to do next)
jazz venerates its ~ (its elders) action, inaction & delay: plane
driving force: journeys & trips / path / person Patton (the Patton of Asia, etc.)
searching & discovery: journeys & trips / path / person
“Patton of Asia”
Claire Lee Chennault nicknamed him the ~ (Xue Yue)

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military: epithet it ~ to strangers (got free tickets)
pause (verb) cost & benefit: money / verb

paused the (abortion) law pay (pay a price)

a judge ~ (called it unconstitutional)
pay the price
paused the use when it comes to high heels, the feet ~
officials ~ of the vaccine to study... the Democrats will ~ in 2020 (for impeaching Trump)
you have released the whirlwind and you will ~ (politics)
action, inaction & delay: mechanism / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb pay a price
you want the fame but, baby, you ~ (Frank Sinatra)
pause (noun)
pay the price (of the war) with their arms and legs
pause they ~ (injured civilians)
I am in favor of a ~ (to investigate a vaccine)
pays the price in fear, suffering and death
on pause society ~ (anti-vaccination fears and causes)
the vaccine is still ~ (safety concerns)
pay a price for his activism
hit pause Lenny Pozner would ~ (Sandy Hook shooting Dad)
they have agreed to ~ on their escalating trade war
a judge has ~ on a major US contract paid a price for his beliefs
Yusuf Islam has ~… (controversy, etc.)
lifts pause
US ~ on Johnson & Johnson vaccines (COVID) pays a price for her (burning) righteousness
she ~ (a play)
action, inaction & delay: mechanism
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism pay a (political) price
these corrupt social media companies must ~ (Trump)
pawn (noun)
paid a (heavy) price
pawn of Israel and the West he was overconfident throughout and ~ (a goalkeeper)
he is widely seen as a ~
pay a (huge) price
pawn in the Great Game celebrities ~ for their fame
Azerbaijan was a ~ for territory and power
paid the (ultimate) price
pawns in a (political) chess game she ~ (drug death)
they use human beings as ~ (hostages)
pay the (ultimate) price
pawn in this (hollow representation) game you have to be willing to ~ (surfing)
I felt like a ~ (the comedian Julio Torres)
paid a very high price
pawns in a (highly profitable) scam we ~ (military commander, about casualties)
we were ~ (employees at Southern Poverty Law Center)
♦ No sin without a price.
pawn on the board ♦ see also price (noun)
they were grasping at straws, I was just a ~ (John Artis)
cost & benefit / judgment: money / verb
less a player than a pawn pay (obligation)
a soldier is ~
using migrants as pawns paid me a complement
he ~
he has accused the Turks of ~
use him as a pawn paying tribute to our (nursing) colleagues
both sides will try to ~ for their own purposes (politics) ~—past, present and future

control & lack of control / power / strength & weakness: paid little mind to the outside world
they ~ (rural isolation)
chess / sports & games
paid with his life
pay (benefit) he ~ for the people's freedom (terrorist)
pays to go back pay for their actions
sometimes it ~ and start over (detective / cold cases) they must ~ (teen killers)
pays to be nice paid his debt

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 he has ~ many times over (44 years in prison) pay dirt
pays (little) heed pay dirt
the program ~ to issues of gender and sexuality
he finally hit ~ (in the 1930 census / genealogy)
paid (close) notice movie pay dirt
France's minority communities ~ when…
the company turns graphic novels into ~
pay the (ultimate) penalty hit pay dirt
they want those guilty to ~ (death)
he finally ~ (a researcher)
pay my respects on the fourth day, he seemed to ~ (experiment)
I was determined to ~ to Ronald Reagan (on his death) searching & discovery / success & failure / worth & lack of
paid his respects worth: ground, terrain & land / mining
the president personally ~ to Sheehan pay off (verb)
pay his respects
he went to the cemetery to ~ (to a victim of terrorism) pay off
what you are doing will ~ (studying / school)
pay its respects
the base was opened for the public to ~ (military deaths) paying off
the training is ~ (military / counter-IED measures)
paid their respects China's strategy is ~ (G-20 negotiations
people ~ to the 12 men who died (coal miners)
pays off
paid tribute it’s a nervy gamble that ~ (Kristen Stewart plays Lady Di)
he ~ to the men and women in the armed services
gamble paid off
paid a (surprise) visit the ~
he ~ and was shocked by what he saw (illegal logging)
lessons paid off
paid an (unannounced) visit the piano ~ (plays well)
Rumsfeld ~ to Iraq (government official)
work had paid off
obligation: money / verb all our hard ~ (a scientist)
pay (revenge) ♦ Honesty is its own reward. The same for hard work, helping others, and
doing the right thing.

pay cost & benefit: money / verb

I'm going to make you ~ (a threat) worth & lack of worth: money / verb
you will ~ for what you did
whoever did this needs to ~ (murder) payoff
made them pay payoff for a job well done
he took on those monsters and he ~ (Alvaro Uribe) it was an incredible ~ (successful medevac)

judgment / revenge: money / verb cost & benefit / worth & lack of work: money

pay (pay one’s dues) paywall (obstacle)

paid my dues bemoan the paywall
I’ve ~ (actor Michelle Yeoh) advocates of open access ~ (academic articles)

experience: money / verb paywalls corral readers

~ like cattle into the subscriber pen
payback
moved all of its sport analysts behind its paywall
payback for his reporting ESPN+ ~
was his murder a crime or a political ~ (journalist)
runs into a lot of paywalls
payback time the road to information ~
it's ~
sits behind a paywall
retribution and payback the Stockton Record ~ (a newspaper)
he wants ~
trapped behind pay walls
revenge: money most academic papers are ~

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♦ “You can’t do much web grazing of quality content these days without a
paywall clanging shut on you.” (“Opinion: More Money and Fewer peak (peaks and troughs, etc.)
Readers: The Paradox of Subscriber Journalism” by Jack Shafer,
Politico, 08/21/2021.) peaks and troughs
♦ “Democracy Dies in the Darkness.” (The motto for The Washington the regional patterns of ~ could change (rising sea levels)
Post. Wouldn’t it be more truthful to say, “Democracy Dies Behind a
Paywall”? It is hard to understand why Jeff Bezos would provide rides to peaks and valleys
the edge of space for those who can afford it but not subsidize great it's a long season, you're going to have ~
journalism to those who can’t afford the subscription.)
there are more emotional ~ in the film (than in the book)
obstacles & impedance: money / wall ♦ “We probably have crested a peak, this seems to be the analogy of the
computer: money / wall day, a mountaineering analogy, but the reality is, we’ve only just begun
the descent, and we’re still at a very very high altitude, and we know that
peach (noun) that descent is going to take us months.” (Chris Hobson from NHS
Providers, speaking about the COVID-19 pandemic.)
peach of a shot shape: direction / mountains & hills
it was a cracking punch, a ~ (Dubois knocks out Dinu) increase & decrease / progress & lack of progress /
flaws & lack of flaws / superlative / worth & lack of worth: primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: mountains &
fruits & vegetables hills

peak (numbers / verb) peak (peak temperature, etc.)

peak winds
peaked
with ~ of... (a tornado)
his career has ~ and he’s on his way down
the coronavirus surge has ~, researchers say peak (consumption) month
the pandemic has ~ ~ (oil)
the epidemic has ~ and started to subside (Zika)
peak temperatures
peaked in 1979 we can expect higher ~ (warming)
Union membership ~
increase & decrease: numbers
peaked in May
since lumber prices ~, however, demand... peak (peak experience, etc.)
peaked at 102 degrees Fahrenheit peak experience
my fever ~ it was like a ~ to be at Brown (Brown University)

rose and peaked and (then) fell peak moment

levels ~ again the film’s ~ of misogyny occurs when...
increase & decrease: number superlative: height / mountains & hills

peak (careers, etc. / verb) peak (peak sexy, etc.)

peaked peak sexy
meanwhile, the swing era had ~ ~ (a section in the online New York Post)

peaked in the ‘70s peak Michael Bay

his songwriting career ~ Ambulance is ~ (the film)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / peak Netflix
mountains & hills have we reached ~ (subscriptions go down)

peak (at the peak) peak TV

it’s the age of ~
at the peak of his career ♦ The Merriam-Webster online definition for this usage is excellent.
he disappeared seemingly ~ (an artist) Ordinarily, there is no possessive adjective, no determiner, peak is not
part of a prepositional phrase...
at the peak of his popularity
he was ~ (a leader) attainment / superlative: height / part of speech

at the peak of his powers pear (pear-shaped / failure)

he is ~ (a rugby player)
go pear-shaped
achievement, recognition & praise / increase & decrease / how everything could ~ (Apocalypse How)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: height / failure, accident & impairment: shape
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pearl (Pearl of the Orient, etc.) at the bottom of the pecking order
we were ~ (biker club)
"Pearl of the Adriatic"
the ~, on the Dalmatian Coast (Dubrovnik) fell (even further) down the pecking order
he ~ at Man U (the great Kasper Schmeichel)
pearl of the Aegean
behavior / hierarchy: animal / bird
Naxos has always been the ~
Pearl of Africa
pedal (pedal to the metal)
Mogadishu, the ~, is in ruins (Somalia) pedal to the metal
“Pearl of the Antilles” our default in the ER is ~ (a doctor)
the city was considered the ~ (Havana, Cuba) press the pedal to the metal
Pearl of Asia they dropped their work on dengue to ~ on Zika
when Phnom Penh was known as the ~ keep his pedal to the metal
Pearl of the Orient he vowed to ~ in challenging the president (politics)
Manila, the ~ (Philippines) ♦ When it comes to pressing the pedal to the metal, one thinks of the
Fast & Furious franchise.
the city that came to be known as the ~ (Saigon)
♦ see also gas (step on the gas / step off the gas)
♦ “The Indian rivers are pearls, the mountains rubies, and trees
perfumes.” (Hazrat Oman, a trader.) commitment & determination: engine / mechanism
superlative: epithet / sea pedestal (on a pedestal)
epithet: materials & substances
put him on a pedestal
pearl (string of pearls) they ~ (George Washington)
string of pearls people who ~ since he took charge
when the 21 pieces of the "~" comet hit Jupiter put on a pedestal
configuration: sea he has been put ~ by some and vilified by others (politics)

pearl (clutch one’s pearls) put on a (high) pedestal

they are ~ (priests in immigrant community)
clutch their pearls ♦ “I placed myself on a high pedestal, I refused to lower myself and sleep
her language made some ~ (a lawmaker) around...” (An immigrant girl in England.)

clutching their pearls over his behavior admiration & contempt: height
they are ~ pedestaled
♦ “Some of Trump’s defenders argue he’s not really serious, and he’s
just trying to get people clutching their pearls.” pedestaled notions
♦ “Please, spare us the pearl-clutching faux-outrage.” (Politics.) the pressure to conform to ~ of female beauty...
♦ “Sit down, Jake.” YouTube, “Time of My life” (Final Dance”)
admiration & contempt / sanctioning, authority & non-
feeling, emotion & effect: clothing & accessories conformity: height / statue
Pearl Harbor (Australia’s Pearl Harbor, pedigree (noun)
etc.) mountaineering pedigree
Pearl Harbor moment they have the ~ needed to consider the task (climb K2)
it was sort of a ~ for America (Fort Sumpter attack) decent pedigree
Australia's Pearl Harbor he never fought anyone with a ~ (boxing talk)
the Japanese attack on Darwin is known as ~ (1942) showed his pedigree
history / military: epithet he ~ in the ring tonight (Usyk defeats Joshua)
♦ The origin of this word makes me wish I had taken French in high
pecking order school. It has to do with a crane (the bird) and graphic representation.

pecking order among the girls identity & nature: animal / family
the ~ was clear (sisters in a family) history: animal / family
corporate pecking order peek (verb)
we still have ~s and rigid job categories (lack of change)
peeked through the clouds
above him in the pecking order the sun ~
the fit-again Erik Lamela is ~ (soccer)

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peek out from behind morning clouds pent-up (civic) forces
the sun is just starting to ~ the dictator's ouster unleashed a whirlwind of ~
appearance & disappearance / resemblance: eye pent-up frustration
~s have flared into violence (Nigeria)
peel (peel back the layers, etc.)
left it all pent up
peeled back the layers it's as though the stuttering ~ (talkative person)
as investigators ~, they found more
feeling, emotion & effect: container
peels back yet another layer constraint & lack of constraint: container
a revealing new interview ~ (a politician)
penumbra (noun)
peel back the world
he writes with eager curiosity to ~ of… penumbra of privacy rights
♦ “My name is Mark Remillard, and I’m a reporter with ABC News. And the shadowy ~ (the Supreme Court)
I’ve been working with a team within ABC’s investigative unit to peel
back the curtain on how...” my brother’s penumbra
♦ “You know what, we need to dig in a little bit deeper, so this year we I lived in ~ my whole life
decided to go underneath the covers and peel back some of the layers.”
(Megan Bigelow, about a survey of Portland, Oregon women in lies in the penumbra
technology.) this case ~, between clear right doing and wrong
analysis, interpretation & explanation: fruits & vegetables / superiority & inferiority: light & dark / shadow
verb attention, scrutiny & promotion: light & dark / shadow
Pele (Pele of Saudi Arabia, etc.) pepper (verb)
Pele of Saudi Arabia peppers the body with his combinations
Majid Abdullah, the ~ Derek Chisora ~ (boxing / vs. Joseph Parker)

Pele of Brazilian literature pepper his correspondence

he is the ~ (Paulo Coelho, according to Arnaldo Niskier) references to his impending doom ~ (Nietzsche)

Russian Pele pepper it with gunfire

he earned the nickname, "the ~" (Streltsov) with the convoy pinned down, the unit would ~ and retreat
achievement, recognition & praise / superlative: epithet / peppered him with questions
sports & games she ~

pendulum (reversal) throwing, putting & planting: food & drink / verb
giving, receiving, bringing & returning: food & drink / verb
pendulum is swinging back
now the ~ (from spending to austerity)
peppered
pendulum has swung too far peppered with insights
some think the ~ and they want to push it back her book is ~ (a blurb)

pendulum will swing back getting peppered

the ~ (politics) he is ~ (boxing match)

development / reversal: movement / pendulum giving, receiving, bringing & returning: food & drink
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: movement / throwing, putting & planting: food & drink
pendulum pepper in (attach)
penned (penned into, etc.)
peppered that in
penned into the coastal plain we’ve talked about a bunch of policies, we’ve ~
the British colonists were essentially ~ attachment / relationship: cooking
constraint & lack of constraint: animal / container configuration / identity & nature: cooking

pent-up (constrained) percent (one hundred and ten percent)

pent-up anger gave it one hundred and ten percent
there's a lot of ~ I ~ (investigation of child abduction)

pent-up energy commitment & determination: number

all that ~ came bursting out (a filmmaker)

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perch (verb) performative friendliness
our persistent ~ (Courtney E. Martin)
perch on the edge
people ~ of an unstable cliff (near Seven Sisters) performative nature
it had a ~ to it (politician appears with wife)
configuration: animal / bird / verb
performative and calculating
perched he was so full-on, I thought, “what’s up?” it was so ~
perched in the rugged hills performative, less than relevant
their house is ~ the advertisement stands out in a sea of ~ nods to diversity
perched on a rock completely performative
the local prison is ~ with fabulous views (Monaco) this is ~, do more than just posting meaningless words
perched on a (Danish) sand dune socially performative
for 120 years, it was ~ (Rubjerg lighthouse moved) the act of cancellation is still mostly conceptual or ~
configuration: animal / bird fake / performative
some mocked her undoubtedly ~ accent (Bhad Bhabie)
perch (knock something off its perch)
permanent and performative
knock Facebook off its perch he said posting on Twitter can feel “~” (can be intimidating)
only the government can ~
♦ “But, yeah, the idea of performative activism is a fine line, I mean, you
can’t just stay silent. But, it’s kind of unethical to use those platforms,
“knock Glasgow off their perch” those voices, as a way to kind of put a spotlight on yourself.” (Colin
Edinburgh want to ~ (rugby) Meloy, lead singer with the Portland band The Decemberists. From “On
His New Song, Colin Meloy Gets Lost In ‘Slint, Spiderland,’” NPR,
dislodged Republicans from their congressional perch Morning Edition with David Greene, Sept. 2, 2020.)
the group ~ (politics) ♦ “The politics are mostly gestural; leftism as fashionable posturing;
sanctimony literature; self-promotion and the airing of performatively
dismissal, removal & resignation: animal / bird righteous opinion...” (Criticism of a writer.)

percolate (verb) ♦ had to look up “performative allyship” and I still don’t get it. crazy.
(Diogenes on a comment board.)

percolating ♦ Linguistically, performative verbs for sympathy include to regret; to

support; to be sorry; to grieve; to sympathize.
the debate is ~ in various forms (controversy)
inclusion & exclusion: society
percolating (for years) around the blogosphere
the argument has been ~ perform (verb)
percolated throughout the U.S. Army perform her sexuality
the idea of permanent divisions ~ prior to 1917 she felt forced to ~ (Brown Muslim immigrant)
activity: heating water / temperature / verb / water ♦ “As a Brown Muslim immigrant...she felt forced to perform her sexuality
or be reduced to the usual stereotypes associated with her cultural
initiation: heating water / temperature / verb / water identity.” (‘Against White Feminism’ Is An Urgent Call To Action For
Solidarity And Justice’ by Jenny Bhatt. This sounds very much like
performative (groups) stereotype threat.)

performative performance / role: theater / verb

how to send an anti-racist message without appearing ~
some question its value, is it ~ (critical race theory)
periscope (noun)
my periscope
performative activism from ~ as a state fire marshal, we’re now looking at...
she disparaged their protest as ~ and called for
accountability perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology

performative allyship perish (verb)

she called out the brand for ~ (Victoria’s Secret rebrand) publish or perish software
you can use the free ~
performative-anger
he is calm in a sea of ~ posers (election candidate) publish-or-perish world
the ~ of academic medicine
performative demands
having to bear up under endless ~ (Jia Tolentino) survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
performative events permeate (verb)
we are focused on outcome, not the process, or the ~ permeates their lives
the sea ~ (Norwegians)

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absorption & immersion: air / smell from an economic perspective
~, the Strait of Malacca is… (importance)
perspective (from a perspective)
from a historical perspective
from the perspective of another culture people teaching ~
see Uluru ~ (Australia)
from a psychological perspective
from the perspective of curators people teaching ~
the arrangements were organized ~
from a sociological perspective
from the perspective of lesbians people teaching ~
discussing social events ~ and gay men
from a strategic perspective
from the perspective of students ~, the Strait of Malacca is… (importance)
but ~ and many staff members, nothing changed
consider it from a (larger) perspective
from the perspective of African people ~ that includes… (the town, history, etc.)
history ~ as subjects, not objects...
look at history from a native perspective
from a black man's perspective if you ~ (Cherokee)
~, I expect to be able to... (soccer racism)
look at it from their perspective
from the customer's perspective if you ~...
we're trying to look at it ~
made it from the Japanese perspective
from the employer's perspective he ~ (Clint Eastwood / a film)
help them see the barrier ~
see the world from a different perspective
from the government's perspective people who ~ (autism)
~, he should have been deported years ago
looked at from a long term perspective
from the passengers' perspective however if ~... (exploiting ANWR)
~, it was a normal day... (D.C. Metro)
perception, perspective & point of view: position
from a pilot's perspective
a look at the flight data from a ~ (crash of…) perspective (in perspective)
from the victim's perspective difference in perspective
murder ~ the ~ between Western and Arab views of Hezbollah
from a native perspective kept things in perspective
if you look at history ~ (Cherokee) most importantly, they have ~
from a classroom perspective keep things in perspective
it's important to remember ~ that... to ~, these are scary cases but... (stranger abductions)
from a cost or time perspective put the figures in perspective
when it's infeasible or impractical ~ to ~, each... (water scarcity / Middle East)
from a law-enforcement perspective put the interview in perspective
things get a little easier ~ ~ (jobs)
from a collecting perspective put it (all) in perspective
~, there is a huge interest in these dolls what ~ was a woman who came up and said...
from a marketing perspective put things in (a different) perspective
~, bankers just don't see the possibilities you sure ~ when you tell us about...
from the African perspective put things in (their proper) perspective
studying ~ (African-American studies) if you ~, it doesn’t really matter...
from a federal perspective put things in perspective
that is possible ~ in this matter when we finish grieving and we can ~
from their perspective put the whole thing in perspective
~, the future of arctic wildlands... (Greenpeace, etc.) old people can better able ~ (memories)
from your perspective kept in perspective
and so ~, how do you think about that and... the threat needs to be ~ (Al-Shabab in Somalia)

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perception, perspective & point of view: position historical perspective
Biological warfare: A ~ (JAMA article)
perspective (into perspective)
invaluable perspective
puts everything else into perspective Glen Mills provided him with ~ (a good school)
a child's death ~ (on Tour de France)
new perspective
put it into perspective it must revitalize itself with new ideas and ~s (college)
I think you have to ~ (string of skydiving fatalities)
3,000-foot perspective
put this into perspective Carrie, let me get your ~ something, do you think that...
to ~, this is... (comparison of pay-per-view fights)
sense of perspective
perception, perspective & point of view: position
he has a thick skin and a ~ (homicide detective)
perspective (other) shortcomings of the perspective
perspective they try to redress the ~ (African-American studies)
your ~ is welcome (a call-in TV show) objectivity or perspective
perspective that ~ are not easy to come by in books generated by the war
the past ~ they were pastoralists has been corrected reflection or perspective
perspective of a historian calm ~ are not easy to come by (war books)
he brought to the subject the shrewd ~ sympathy and perspective
perspectives of the Civil War ~ are not easy to come by in wartime
if both black and white ~ are recognized... time, distance, and perspective
perspective on (AIDS) issues I am able to write about it now because of ~
articulate the public health ~ perspectives differ
perspective on life why their ~ (Boomers vs. Gen Xers)
articulating the Saudi ~, religion and Sept. 11 my perspective might have been skewed
perspective on how ~ (US vs. European attitudes to...)
they don't have enough ~ they're being formed (teens) perspective lends understanding
Parent's Perspective ~ (history of Dubai)
a ~ (depression in children) perspective was shared
public health perspective Cohan's ~ by a number of Asian-Americans
articulate the ~ on (AIDS) issues add my perspective
marketing perspective I'd like to ~ to the discussion
I think in terms of the larger picture, which is a ~ adds a (fresh) perspective
balanced perspective the parent's view ~ to their fight (intersexed)
it is important to have a ~ (safety and study abroad) agreed with my perspective
limited perspective not everyone ~
I had a ~ (status of windsurfing of US vs. rest of world) changed my perspective
Saudi perspective it ~ on everything...
articulating the ~ on life, religion and Sept. 11 consider (Native American) perspectives
another perspective federal officials need to ~ when...
~ came from prostitutes... ("John" School) depends on your perspective
cultural perspective so it probably ~ as to where you are (education reform)
a distinctive ~ that we simply don't have gained some perspective
different perspective he professed to have ~ in the ruins of his career
different groups have ~s gives you (a little) perspective
they can't see that their partner simply has a ~ it ~ (reading about industry trends)
~s can produce different outlooks on the war (pilots)
gives you a perspective
enough perspective it ~ that everyone is not the same (International camp)
they don't have ~ on how they're being formed (teens)

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gives you perspective ♦ “A Seattle man used a can of spray paint and a lighter as a makeshift
blowtorch to kill a spider and ended up burning down his house.”
the institute ~, you see that other people feel…
♦ “The world record for the longest chain of mini dominoes was...
introduce (new) perspectives into curriculums thwarted when a fly triggered the dominoes.” (A failed attempt at a
Guinness World Record.)
trying to ~ (schools)
♦ “A Texas woman ended up burning down her home in a heated battle
keep some perspective about it with a snake. When the Texarkana resident spotted the serpent in her
garden, she doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze. The flaming snake
try to ~ (toddlers who throw food) slithered into a nearby brush pile, igniting it and the house in a
conflagration...”
provided him with (invaluable) perspective
♦ “The flies plagued Giufa and stung him. He went to the judge and
Glen Mills ~ (a good school in a bad neighborhood) complained about them. The judge laughed at such a simple young man
and said, ‘Whenever you see a fly you can strike it.’ While the judge was
promote (the proper ethical) perspectives speaking, a fly rested on his face and Giufa dealt it such a blow that he
commanders ~ (military) broke the judge’s nose.”

supplied perspective affliction: animal / insect / person

David Morrison of NASA ~ (asteroid danger to earth)
pester (verb)
take a (global or an American) perspective
should it ~ (black studies) pester you for sex
they constantly ~ (men at a hotel on Cyprus)
♦ see the related point of view (other)
♦ “Position determines perspective. Or, to put it more simply, what you pestered me about it
see depends on where you’re standing. I’d been standing in the wrong my brother ~ for years, it was a crazy idea, I told him
place. I’d been standing too close to William Kent. I had to step back and
see Kent from a different angle.” (The General’s Daughter by Nelson affliction: animal / horse / insect / verb
DeMille.)
♦ “Where you stand (on an issue) is determined by where you sit.” pet (vocative)
♦ “To envision how an ant might see its world, the Norwegian
photographer Tine Poppe places her camera in the dirt of a meadow, my pet
lens pointing up.” (“Looking Up: Photograph by Tine Poppe,” The don’t worry, ~
Atlantic, April 2021.)
♦ “The Mekong River is the Dza-chu in Tibet, the Lancang (Lancang vocative: animal
Jiang) in China, and the Khong (Mae Nam Khong) in Thailand.”
♦ In Russia, World War II is known as the Great Patriotic War. In China, it
pet (pet cause, etc.)
is known as the Second sino-Japanese War. In Vietnam, the Vietnam
War is called the American War. pet cause
♦ A FUNNY STORY. Nasreddin was lying on the bank of a river,
seeking attention for a ~
relaxing. Across the water, he saw a man. The man shouted, "Hey, how
to I get to the other side of the river?" Nasreddin shouted back to him, pet ideas
"You are on the other side of the river!" they want their ~ adopted (conservatives)
♦ A good school assignment: Tell us about an event, or a period of time,
that changed your perspective about something, someone, or pet name
everything... my girlfriend's ~ for it is…
perception, perspective & point of view: position pet phrase
"We shall see" is one of his ~s
pest (person)
pet project
sex pest a ~ of Navy Secretary Danzig
X is a ~ (a sign with pictures of a rat and cockroach) earmarks are ~s that lawmakers insert into giant bills
a division of the Guardian Angels is on the lookout for ~s
pet theory
relentless pest it’s hard to let go of a ~
he was a ~ (the stalker / mass murderer Richard Farley) history can reinforce one’s ~s
♦ “A Canadian man nearly blew off his own head while trying to kill a
mouse with a rifle...” Fortune’s pet
♦ “A Japanese man burned his house down while trying to kill a he was now ~ instead of her stepson (change to good)
mosquito.”
♦ “Police arrested a man who tried to torch a hornets’ nest, but instead
teacher's pet
ended up setting fire to two rented motorbikes.” (Cambodia.) I was the ~ (school)
♦ “A New York City woman set off 21 bug bombs inside her apartment, enthusiasm / relationship: animal
causing an explosion that collapsed her five-story building, injuring 14
people.” petri dish
♦ “A New Jersey man’s over-zealous attempt to eradicate a home
cockroach infestation ended in an explosion.” petri dishes of cafes and storefronts
♦ “A California man is currently homeless, after attempting to clear spider a new theatrical culture grew in the ~ (NYC)
webs from his backyard using a propane-powered blowtorch.”

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♦ The petri dish was named after the German bacteriologist Julius
Richard Petri. photobomb (verb)
growth & development: biology photobomb the images
Ms Steinbach denied she had been asked to ~
petrified (adjective)
♦ Kelly Steinbeich (AKA Kelleth Cuthbert) became known as the Fiji
Water Girl after she upstaged celebrities on the Golden Globe red carpet
petrified to vote while providing that brand of water to them.
Blacks were ~
♦ “There has been an increase in so-called ‘Zoom-bombing.’”(Video
feeling, emotion & effect: movement conferencing during the Coronavirus pandemic.)
♦ “The Zoom bombing was an attack on free expression.” (Brandeis
phantom President Ronald Liebowitz.)

phantom classes attention, scrutiny & promotion: picture / theater / verb /

an academic scandal involving ~ (athletes) weapon

appearance & disappearance / presence & absence: pick (pick oneself up)
creature
pick themselves up
pharaoh (power) they've got to ~ (a losing team)

military pharaoh resiliency: direction / hand / verb

power has transferred from a ~ to an Islamic one (Egypt) pick apart (analyze)
power: history
picking apart the language
Pharaonic (adjective) opposition leaders have been ~ (Brexit deal)

Pharaonic analysis, interpretation & explanation: cloth / verb

the scale and ambition of the project are ~ (a book) pick up (verb)
pharaonic-scale pick up
did Ceausescu really care if this ~ was completed (canal)
demand will eventually ~ (airline industry)
size: allusion / history
increase & decrease: direction / prep, adv, adj, particle /
comparison & contrast: affix
verb
pharmacy (Pharmacy of the World, etc.)
picnic (no picnic)
Pharmacy of the World
India is often called “The ~” (drug making) no picnic
Isabelle is ~ herself (needy and insecure)
importance & significance: epithet loving him is ~
the shelter is ~, but he’s thankful (disaster relief)
Phoenix (myth) getting Lyme disease is ~
Phoenix no picnic being a kidney patient
we will rise from the ashes like the ~ (town burns) it’s ~ even in the best conditions (Gaza Strip)
scientific Phoenix no picnic for lawmakers
he was a ~, rising from the ashes of his mistakes (Pasteur) the August recess is ~
♦ In Greek mythology, the Phoenix was a bird that periodically was
consumed by fire and then regenerated itself from the ashes. difficulty, easiness & effort: food & drink
♦ In his notes to Canto XXIV of The Inferno, John Ciardi describes the
Phoenix thusly: “The fabulous Phoenix of Arabia was the only one of its
picnic (other)
kind in the world. Every five hundred years it built a nest of spices and
incense which took fire from the heat of the sun and the beating of the picnic
Phoenix’s wings. The Phoenix was thereupon cremated and was then re- in comparison with Nanda Devi East, Everest is a ~
born from its ashes.” This is close to the story the Egyptians told
Herodotus in the 5th century BC.) difficulty, easiness & effort: food & drink
♦ In Atlanta, Georgia (USA), a bronze monument of the Phoenix rescuing
a woman from a fire commemorates that city’s rise from the ashes of the picnic (church picnic)
Civil War. Atlanta prides itself on its motto, “The city too busy to hate.”
church picnic
creation & transformation / destruction / origin / survival, the rally was more ~ than protest (Tea Party)
persistence & endurance: allusion / fire / sign, signal,
symbol behavior / conflict: religion

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picture (out of the picture) heart-wrenching picture
the ~ of last week…
out of the picture
he is ~ (husband who abandoned family) complicated picture
an investigation presented a ~
take you out of the picture
a mistake will ~ (competition) accurate picture
present an ~ of the current boom (economy)
wanted him out of the picture
she ~ (murder) better picture
we need to get a ~ of what's going on
involvement / presence & absence: picture
bigger picture
picture (in the picture) you never see the ~, do you (criticism)
put you in the picture bleak picture
this will ~ it is an amazingly ~ that you present (jobs / adjuncts)
involvement: picture bleaker picture
there are doctors who paint a ~ than necessary
picture (in the big picture)
clear picture
in the big picture confused parents have no ~ of their kids
it's not important ~ no single agency has a ~ of who is responsible for what
♦ If you want to know whether a ship is moving, you don’t look at the
deck, you look over the side... (A quote attributed to the great geologist complete picture
John Tuzo Wilson, an important convert to and proponent of the theory complaints authorities haven't provided a ~ (epidemic)
of continental drift and plate tectonics.)
what happens in the lab isn’t the ~ (virology)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture
context / perception, perspective & point of view: picture conventional picture
the ~ of the economy is…
picture (big picture / noun)
different picture
bigger picture a ~ emerged of the risks…
you never see the ~, do you (criticism)
little-picture (m)
big-picture goal a ~ trend
her ~ is to end the conservatorship
pessimistic picture
focus on the big picture they are painting a ~ of her career (an actor)
politicians put aside their bickering to ~ (9/11)
sordid picture
get big picture the allegations painted a ~ (recruiting violations)
let’s back up and just ~ for a second (NPR)
true picture
♦ NPR’s Ari Shapiro once said, “Pull the camera back and explain what
you think that says about Mormonism in this moment of the 21st century
disclosure will give a ~ (toxic emissions)
beyond Mitt Romney.”
ugly picture
♦ “She is here to lay out something of a radio map for us, hey there,
Diaa, so before we get to the fighting, would you give us the big map?
she painted an ~ of him as a drug user (trial)
Afghanistan, of course...” (Breezy language heard on NPR.)
whole picture
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture you have to look at the ~
context / perception, perspective & point of view: picture you might not be seeing the ~ (health ad)
the numbers may never capture the ~ (pandemic)
picture (big picture / verb)
quite a (gloomy) picture
big-picture this he presented ~ of the region
I want you to ~ for me (a sports show / two guys)
one-sided picture
analysis, interpretation & explanation / context /
the ~ purveyed by the media
perception, perspective & point of view: part of speech
favorable picture
picture (view) suspects want to paint the most ~ possible
picture of the economy picture emerged
the conventional ~ is… a different ~ of the risks…
picture of their kids as the cases accumulated, a common clinical ~ (epidemic)
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picture (of what is going on) is getting clearer piece (missing pieces)
more and more the ~ (epidemic)
missing pieces
described a different picture the ~ now are falling into place (police investigation)
but he ~… (of a crisis)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: puzzle
drew a (very different) picture
prosecutors ~ (a trial) piece (pick up the pieces)
get a better picture pick up the pieces
we need to ~ of what's going on (diplomacy) hopefully, negotiators can ~ and find a way forward
painted an (ugly) picture amelioration & renewal: destruction / verb
she ~ of him as a drug user (trial) resiliency: destruction / verb
painted a (damning) picture pieces (go to pieces)
the report ~ of a culture of coercion (sports camp)
went to pieces
paint a (bleaker) picture when he was abandoned by his friends, he ~ (politician)
there are doctors who ~ than necessary he ~, drank more, gave up...
add nuance to the overall picture euphemism: mental health
future research will no doubt ~ (epidemiology) failure, accident & impairment: mental health
analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture piece together (verb)
characterization / evidence: picture
piece it together
picture (picture-perfect) it took him less than two weeks to ~ (serial rapist)
picture-perfect piecing together (historic) clues
the launch was ~ (Blue Origin’s New Shepard) he began ~
♦ “Not too shabby.” / “It was picture-perfect!”
piece together what
flaws & lack of flaws: picture police are trying to ~ led to the shooting
pie (apple pie) pieced together where
investigators have still not ~ the money came from
apple pie
nativism is as old as ~ analysis, interpretation & explanation: puzzle / verb

identify & nature: food & drink / sign, signal, symbol pied piper
pie (shape) pied piper
he was too charismatic, a ~ leading students astray (Uni)
“pies”
there are snowdrifts, we call them ~ (ice yachting) “pied piper of R&B”
♦ “There are snowdrifts, we call them ‘pies.’ The small ones are ok, but
he adopted the nickname, ~ (R. Kelly)
the big ones are dangerous. I drove into one yesterday. It was not great.”
(Roman Kopylov, an ice yachting enthusiast, speaking on Lake Baikal.) pied-piper meaning
he had a message, a kind of ~ (Charles Manson’s lyrics)
resemblance / shape: food & drink
♦ “So Charles would be walking, and then thousands would be following
pie (piece of the pie, etc.) him everywhere he went, you know. He was the Pied Piper.” (Magic
Johnson, about Charles Barkley at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
“Chuck” enjoyed strolling the Ramblas at night, attracting great crowds,
piece of the billion-dollar pie and at least one sportswriter considered him “America’s best
they weren’t getting a ~ (NCAA athletes) ambassador” at the games.)

piece of the revenue pie attraction & repulsion: allusion / epithet / magic
students don’t get any ~ (the NCAA) allusion: books & reading
♦ “I don’t want a piece of the pie, I want the goddamn recipe!” (The piety (noun)
character of singer-songwriter-businessman Sam Cooke from the fine
Amazon film One Night in Miami.)
pieties of the (early) 1990s
♦ “They weren’t getting a piece of the billion-dollar pie... but ya know, you liberals have reverted to the ~ (alleged sex harassment)
can let them go make their own pies.” (T.J. Holmes for ABC’s Good
Morning American, about NCAA athletes being allowed to make money
on their name, image or likeness.)
lazy pieties
she avoids ~ and reactionary forecasts ( a writer)
amount: food & drink
takes aim at the pieties
she is a heretic who ~ of diet culture

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pieties could scarcely survive some Y.A. books are targeted in intense social-media ~
these ~ WWII (goodness of man, sentimentality, etc.)
joined the pile-on
idea: religion soon big-named comedians ~ (Instagram problem)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion ♦ A person who joins a pile-on is a piler-on. The plural would be pilers-
on: “She was one of the early pilers-on and she is begging forgiveness.”
pig (insult)
unanimity & consensus: pile / sports & games
pig accusation & criticism: pile / sports & games
he's a ~ punishment & recrimination: pile / sports & games
but your bosses can keep coasting along, the ~s
no matter how much lipstick you put on a ~, it's still a pig
pile on (gang up on)
♦ What do you expect from a pig but a grunt! pile on
behavior / insult: animal some urged Democrats not to ~ (attacks on Joe Biden)

pigeonhole (noun) piled on

national Democrats ~ (calls for resignation)
resisted this pigeonhole fans ~ (to criticize Bill Buckner after his 1986 error)
he ~ (Bruce Chatwin, of a homosexual) the media ~ (criticism of Bill Buckner after 1986 error)
♦ “Man Utd are a club giving joy to hundreds of millions every week. Just
characterization: animal / bird not their fans.” (Mish on a BBC HYS. 1037 upvotes. 48 downvotes.)

pigeonholed unanimity & consensus: pile / sports & games / verb

accusation & criticism: pile / sports & games / verb
pigeonholed punishment & recrimination: pile / sports & games / verb
he never wanted to be ~ (Bruce Chatwin and his sexuality)
pile on (increase)
characterization: animal / bird
piggyback (verb) piling on the pressure
he’s ~ (politics)
piggy-back something partisan on it increase & decrease: pile / verb
one side or the other tried to ~ (legislation politics)
pile up (verb)
piggybacked on his reporting
other sites ~ to cast aspersions on the company pile up
♦ Originally this meant pitching something onto somebody’s back. disturbing details began to ~ (missing child)
configuration: animal / verb distractions can pile up
~ (while driving a car: kids, music, cellphone, etc.)
piggybank (noun)
evidence was piling up
piggybank the ~ (investigation of missing woman)
they used the group’s coffers as their ~
increase & decrease: direction / pile / prep, adv, adj,
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol particle / verb
pile (pile of money, etc.) pilgrimage (trip)
pile of money pilgrimage site
they hoped to make a ~ his restaurant is a ~ for foodies
amount: pile
rock ‘n’ roll pilgrimage
pile-on (noun) Australia’s annual ~ (the Elvis festival / Parkes)

pile-on on Bernie Sanders annual pilgrimage

there did seem to be a ~ (election debate) they've made the ~ for 12 years (Daytona 500)

bipartisan pile-on act of pilgrimage

it was a ~ (Boeing congressional hearing) in an ~, he found Amundsen’s cairn on Betty’s Knoll

cable-news pile-on make the pilgrimage

the first accusation, the next accusations, the ~ Scandinavians ~ here each year (northern Jutland)
tourists ~ to see sunrise from Low’s Peak (Kinabalu)
online pile-ons
even non-public figures have ~ makes a pilgrimage
nearly every day, somebody ~ here (Lake Lure)
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♦ “They say they just want to see the site. I’m just stunned. It takes work the family was a ~
on their part to find out [the locations] where the movie was shot.” (John
Cloud at Lake Lure, North Carolina, on people who come looking for
he has always been a ~ (slain businessman)
where the film Dirty Dancing was filmed. The movie, released in 1987,
starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Dirty Dancing Cove is the pillars of excellence
popular name for the place where Swayze and Grey practiced lifts in the black schools that were once ~ fell into decline
water.)
♦ The "devotional crawl" around Kang Rinpoche (Mount Kailas) in pillar of their faith
western Tibet takes about two weeks. The path starts at an altitude of a pilgrimage that is a ~ (Hajj)
15,000 feet, attains an altitude of 18,600 feet at the Drolma La Pass, is
33 miles long, and crosses streams. Most pilgrims walk or crawl in a pillars of our plan
clockwise direction, but the Bonpos go counterclockwise. Pilgrims spend here are the four ~ (State of the Union address)
years and even decades simply getting to the mountain.
♦ "Downtown Jeddah is bustling with the annual post-Haj commercial pillar of (modern) science
boom caused by the influx of pilgrims. Many pilgrims are on a shopping peer-reviewed journals are a ~
spree while others set up stalls to sell items they brought with them to
help pay for their journey, and even take a little extra cash home with
them… Asian pilgrims can be seen buying Islamic-themed gifts,
pillars of (Somali) society
perfumes, beauty products, henna, and prayer rugs… Tunisians, clan elders, the traditional ~ (Somaliland)
Indonesians, Pakistani and Egyptians are buying religious books and
rugs. African pilgrims are buying gold, electronics, cosmetics, furniture EU’s (major policy) “pillars”
and other products in bulk in order to re-sell these items back home… the ~ include free movement and Schengen open borders
The Gold Street at Bab Sharif has temporarily turned into a Little
Khartoum or Little Nouakchott due to the sheer numbers of Mauritanian community pillar
and Sudanese pilgrims. Women from Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia and
Yemen are buying textiles for clothes." ("Balad bustles as pilgrims the ~ became an object of loathing (pedophile)
trade," by Omaima Al-Fardan and Fatima Sidiya, Arab News, 7 Dec.
2009.) ideological pillar
she assaulted the ~s of the system
enthusiasm: religion
attraction & repulsion: religion / place traditional pillars
clan elders, the ~ of Somali society (Somaliland)
pill (poison pill)
four pillars
poison pill the AAMDC executes the ~ of Missile Defense
they included a ~ in the spending bill (to kill it)
five pillars
destruction / subterfuge: health & medicine pilgrimage is one of the ~ of Islam
pill (bitter pill, etc.) first pillar
pill to swallow the ~ of our framework offers a path to citizenship for...
getting advice can be a bitter ~ second pillar
it was a hard ~ having medalled in the past (track loss) salah, prayer, is the ~ (of Islam)
bitter pill second (Israeli) pillar
the long term solution may be a ~ a ~ was the Israeli Air Force (1973 war)
easily swallowed pill fourth pillar
the song’s humor made its feminism an ~ (You’re So Vain) fasting during Ramadan is the ~ of Islam
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine fifth pillar
consumption: health & medicine Hajj is the ~ (Islam)
pill (miracle pill) rested on the (three) pillars
miracle pill victory ~ of intelligence, the air force, and tanks
it is not a ~ (a drug) bases: infrastructure
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine pillar (Pillar Rock, etc.)
pillar (basis) Pillar
pillars of Islam the ~ is a mountain in British Columbia
pilgrimage is one of the five ~ Pillars of Hercules
pillar of the (US) approach the northern pillar of the ~ is the Rock of Gibraltar
another ~ is to minimize civilian casualties Pillar Point
pillar of the (Iraq) coalition we walked to ~ (Hong Kong)
a ~ has collapsed (Spain) Cape Pillar
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proper name: infrastructure pinball (verb)
pillar (resemblance) pinballed around the box
pillar of fire Joe Allen’s deflected shot ~ (soccer)
a ~ rose from the home (plane crashes into home) movement: ball / sports & games / verb
pillars of smoke pincer (noun)
huge ~ rose above buildings (bombardment)
pincer attack
resemblance: infrastructure
the option for a ~ against Peking was possible (1895)
pilloried claw of the pincer
pilloried he wanted to see the southern ~ on the map (Stalin)
the same military that was idolized was now being ~ caught in the pincers
pilloried in the media Romanians have been ~ of three empires
he was ~ ♦ The three pincers that Romania has been caught between were the
Ottoman Turks, the Russians (and the Soviet Union), and the Austro-
pilloried by the Trump administration Hungarian Empire.
the former ambassador is being ~ pursuit, capture & escape: animal / hunting / predation
pilloried (by critics) for supporting pincered
he is sometimes ~ the revolutions (Arab Spring)
pincered between his hope and his fear
pilloried by his rivals for his past donations he was ~
he has been ~ to Democrats
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / hunting / predation
pilloried after Games fall
skater ~ (on social media after fall at 2022 Olympics) pinch (pinch of hunger, etc.)
accusation & criticism: speech / violence pinch of hunger
punishment & recrimination: speech / violence to feel the ~ in April and May (Alaska)
pillory (verb) economic pinch
what unites them is the ~ and anger at the president
pilloried the president over (federal) spending
he has ~ (politics) feel the pinch
♦ In Krakatoa, Simon Winchester reprints a German soldier’s list of they don’t ~ yet (subsistence farmers and COVID)
punishments in Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in 1676. The soldier
mentions beheadings, six unfortunate men who were broken on the feeling the pinch
wheel, a hanging, whippings, burnings (brandings), two soldiers forced to the economy is bad, and shopkeepers are ~
run the gauntlet, and “A Dutch Schoolmaster’s Wife,” caught cheating on
her husband, who was “put in the Pillory.” ♦ “Scraping along / In a little shack, / With hardly a shirt / To cover his
back, / And a prairie wind / To blow him down, / Or pinching times / If he
accusation & criticism: speech / violence / verb went to town.” (“Nancy Hanks” by Rosemary Benet. The poem is about
Abraham Lincoln.)
punishment & recrimination: speech / violence / verb
pilot (verb) feeling, emotion & effect: finger / sensation
affliction: finger / sensation
piloted the school to (considerable) success survival, persistence & endurance: finger / sensation
he ~ (a principal) pinched
directing: boat / verb
pinched by the pandemic
pin (attach) it was a windfall for local governments ~ (relief bill)

pinning its hopes on a new strategy feeling, emotion & effect: finger / sensation
the company is now ~ (oil leak) affliction: finger / sensation
survival, persistence & endurance: finger / sensation
pinning their hopes on the new treatment
they are ~ (leukemia)
ping-pong (verb)
pinned their hopes on the report ping-pongs along
many Democrats ~ as a game changer (politics) as the dialogue ~, the audience… (a play)

attachment: cloth / verb ping-pong back and forth

versions ~ between the House and Senate (spending bill)
ping-ponged (around) from music to comics

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 the conversation ~ pinned to the ground
the squad was engaged by weapons fire and ~
ping-pong between institutions
patients often ~ (nursing homes and hospitals) pinned vertically
his boat was ~ (kayaking)
ping-pong between the two (major) parties
voters ~ (Mexico) attachment: cloth
ping-ponged between Los Angeles and New York pinned (pinned down)
he ~
pinned down on a roof
ping-ponged (numerous times) between Syria and Iraq the two marines were ~ (Falluja)
her family ~
attachment: cloth
ping-pongs between vulnerable and obnoxious
she ~ (a child in a film) pinpoint (locate)
movement: ball / direction / sports & games / verb pinpoint with accuracy
engineers can ~ the areas... (oil)
ping-pong (noun)
pinpoint the (relic's) age
ping-pong editing but metals experts could not ~ (a watch)
what I call ~ (close-ups toggle between 2 talking people)
pinpoint (with accuracy) the areas
ping-pong exchange engineers can ~... (oil)
the ~ of offer and counteroffer
pinpoint the location
ping-pong structure acoustic sensors can ~ of snipers (combat)
the book’s ~ makes for a kinetic read
pinpoint locations
ping-pong with your emotions G.P.S. can ~
this sport plays ~ (Costello & Bunce / boxing)
pinpoint the (shooter's) position
budget ping pong police used computer software to ~
it’s a game of ~ between the two parties (spending bill)
pinpoint the (tumor's) size and location
game of (legislative) Ping-Pong a CT scan can ~
it’s a ~ (budget dispute)
difficult to pinpoint
movement: ball / direction / sports & games it is ~ a spot in the desert
pinnacle (achievement) location: map / verb
pinnacle of avarice pinpoint (accuracy, etc.)
critics see it as the ~ (presidency of Goldman Sachs)
pinpoint accuracy
pinnacle of glory direct his bombs with nearly ~
it was the ~ in a career of already meteoric achievement
pinpoint precision
pinnacle of her profession cops can track a person’s whereabouts with ~ (5G)
after reaching the ~ on her shuttle mission…
pinpoint timing
pinnacle of (Scottish) wooden shipbuilding surfers must hit a wave with ~
she really was the ~ (the Terra Nova)
location: map
pinnacle of success
Tyson reached the ~ at the age of just 20 pioneer (person)
reached a pinnacle pioneers of (independent) film
his popularity ~ when he won the lead in the school play he’s one of the ~ (the great Spike Lee)
♦ A pinnacle is a long pointed "cap" on a tower or buttress. They are pioneer of their sport
common on gothic cathedrals. The name comes from the Latin for "little
feather." a fallen ~, Craig Kelly (avalanche / snowboarding)

achievement, recognition & praise: height / infrastructure pioneers of (wilderness) therapy

he is one of the ~
pinned
pioneer of tow-in surfing
pinned in the (submerged) rock jumble Laird Hamilton, the ~
I saw his boat, ~ (kayaking)

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pioneer in his field pioneering study
he is a ~ (psychology) his ~, "Sexual Behavior…" (Alfred C. Kinsey)
pioneers in their field pioneering work
those who become ~s of endeavor he has done ~ in this field (neural prosthetics)
pioneer species importance & significance: history / journeys & trips
~ like brown sedge colonize disturbed sites
pipe (noun)
big-wave pioneers
~ such as Greg Noll and Jeff Clark (surfing) narrower pipe
British English comes to us through a much ~
hip-hop pioneer ♦ “British English comes to us through a much narrower pipe than the
~s RUN-DMC one that floods Britain with our words.” (“Even Americans Find Some
the ~ stabbed a homeless man to death Britishisms ‘Spot On’” by Geoff Nunberg, Fresh Air, Nov. 1, 2012.)

industry pioneer directing / route: infrastructure / water

the National Captioning Institute, the ~ pipe (sports)
Internet pioneer full pipe
an ~ the park has a ~, bowls, vert ramp and fun box
skateboarding pioneer halfpipe
Andy Kessler, a ~… (1970s / NYC) snowboarders catch big air in the ~
snowboarding pioneer quarterpipe
Craig Kelly, a ~ who died in an avalanche the landing area flows to a 27-foot-tall ~
Space Pioneer shape: infrastructure
Scott Bolton receives NSS ~ award (Juno Mission)
♦ “I think pioneers are very important because I think they set the scene, pipe (go down the pipes)
they show others that they can do it, and they put it on the agenda...and
others can take it up.” (Zerbanoo Gifford speaking about Dadabhai went down the pipes
Naoroji.) our relationship ~
♦ "In the evening I sat by the fire and discussed with Dersu the rest of our
journey down the Lefu. I very much wanted to have a look at Lake failure, accident & impairment: infrastructure / verb
Hanka, discovered by N.M. Przewalski... /// [The old man] stopped and destruction: infrastructure / verb
pointed out an old track overgrown with grass and shrubs. That was the
old route, he told us, by which the Ussurians used to go through to Olga pipe dream
Bay. It was by that route that, in the sixties of the last century,
Budishchev and Maximovich had come, and at the thought their portraits
rose before my eyes and their description of their journey… /// The
pipe dream
Tadusha! It was this very river that L. Veniukov was the first to explore, it's not just a ~ anymore
but the Chinese had stopped him and compelled him to turn back.That
was in 1857 when he put up a big wooden cross to mark his farthest just a pipe dream
point, but I could find no trace of it. No doubt the Chinese had destroyed 100,000 people in June is ~ (boxing during pandemic)
it as soon as the Russians had left. Later there came Maximovich,
Budishchev, and Przewalski, all famous men of science... /// The climb
up the ridge is stiff near the crest. The pass itself is in the form of a broad
remains a pipe dream
saddle, boggy, and covered with burnt-out forest. The altitude is 1584 ft., democracy ~ in places like the Congo and Sudan
and it ought really to be named after the pioneer, M. Veniukov, who
passed this way in 1857, breaking the way for the men who followed... /// dismissed as a pipedream
September 27 was given up to a reconnaissance of the Bay of Terney, restoring function after paralysis can no longer be ~
discovered by the famous La Perouse on 23 July 1767, who then and
there gave it its name...” (Selections from Dersu Uzala by V. K. fantasy & reality: addiction / mental health
Arseniev.)
♦ “The Explorer” (1898) by Rudyard Kipling is a stirring poem about an pipeline (Mexican Pipeline, etc.)
explorer and the pioneers who followed in his footsteps.
Mexican Pipeline
driving force: journeys & trips / person
Zicatela Beach is renowned as the ~ surf break
person: journeys & trips
importance & significance: history / journeys & trips / epithet: shape
person geography / shape: epithet
pioneering pipeline (Pipeline, etc.)
pioneering contribution Pipeline
their ~s to intelligence testing ~ is one of the world's most dangerous surf spots
~ has claimed its victims (fatalities)
pioneering (elephant) researcher
~ breaks 30 feet from shore (Hawaii)
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proper name: infrastructure radio pirate
~s get on the bad side of the FCC
pipeline (shape)
buccaneers, outsiders, (political) pirates
waves, tubes, pipelines and barrels they want to be seen as ~ (opposition researchers)
the ~ of surfing
counterfeit, pirate or bootleg (m)
shape: infrastructure
seizures of ~ labels soared (music)
pipeline (other) track down the pirates
aviation pipeline ~ (CDs, computer software, etc. / UAE)
he was in the ~, he was training in aviation (military) ♦ Somali pirates are now capturing ships closer to India than to Africa.
Xarardheere is a notorious pirate town on the Somali coast.
drug pipeline ♦ “[A] sudden check came in the form of a piratical incursion. A small
the ~ that runs through the reservation (border) prau arrived which had been attacked by pirates and had a man
wounded. They were said to have five boats, but more were expected to
money pipeline be behind and the traders were all in consternation, fearing that their
small vessels sent trading to the “blakang tana” would be plundered. The
the US vowed to shut down the ~ that finances terror Aru natives were of course dreadfully alarmed, as these marauders
attack their villages, burn and murder, and carry away women and
serves as a pipeline children for slaves... (The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace.
the boarding school ~ to some of the best universities Chapter 30: The Aru islands & residence in Dobbo.)

directing / route: infrastructure / water taking & removing: boat / crime / person / sea
person: boat / crime / sea
piquancy (noun) character & personality: boat / crime / person / sea
sustained piquancy piratical (adjective)
it is this which lends the book its ~ (a book review)
piratical museums
consumption: food & drink / taste formerly ~ (colonialism)
piracy (noun) taking & removing: crime / sea
comparison & contrast: affix
Internet music piracy
music executives are trying to end ~ Pirlo (the Yorkshire Pirlo, etc.)
biopiracy Yorkshire Pirlo
if the tribe does not share in the profits, it's ~ (Brazil) Phillips has been branded “The ~” by his adoring fans
electronic piracy superlative: sports & games
do not participate in or encourage ~ of copyrighted materials comparison & contrast: epithet
taking & removing: crime pit (bear pit)
piranha (predation) bear pit of the House of Commons
piranhas around Britney she stands tall in the ~
the ~ were awful (the pop star) bear-pit atmosphere
thousand internet piranhas a York Hall type of experience, that ~ (boxing match)
a ~ ripped through his every utterance (Jordan Peterson) loves a bear pit
character & personality: animal / fish / predation Dillian ~, he’s fought in places smaller... (the great boxer)
affliction / person: animal / fish / predation transformed the ring into a bear pit
pirate (person) he ~ and bullied his rival (boxing)
environment: hole
pirate server
French police located and dismantled the ~ (botnet) conflict: animal / blood / hole / predation / sports & games
/ violence
pirate trade pit bull (person)
its perceived benefits have fueled a ~ (tree frog)
music pirate pit bull
she’s a ~, sinks her teeth into a case and doesn’t let go
the industry is pursuing lawsuits against ~s (Internet)
porch pirates pit bull for the president
he has been a ~ (a lawyer)
they call them ~ (parcel thieves)
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 copyright is in the custody of ~ pitfalls await
many ~ the new House majority (politics)
legal pit bull
he is a bookish, ~ with two Ivy League degrees avoids the pitfalls
his book ~ that come with its territory (a biography)
attachment: animal / dog / teeth
♦ “Not far from the rock there is a big pitfall. This is in the form of a stout
character & personality: animal / dog / teeth fence to keep animals away from their watering-place, built up partly of
behavior / coercion & motivation / commitment & fallen logs and partly of growing trees. Big stakes had been driven in to
determination: animal / dog hold it firmly and prevent the animals from trampling it down. In a few
places openings were left with pits dug underneath them, hidden by
pitch (promote) grass and dry twigs spread over the top. When the deer come down to
the water at night, they come up against the fence, and in trying to find a
pitches the nation's charms way round, come to the holes and fall into the pits. There are fences like
that stretching over a distance of thirty miles and more, with a couple of
he ~ (tourism) hundred pitfalls. / This pitfall on the Vangou had been abandoned... /
Dersu abused the Chinese terribly for abandoning the pits without filling
enthusiasm: speech / verb them in.” (Dersu Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: speech / verb
danger: hole / hunting / walking, running & jumping
pitchfork (oppression)
pivot (noun)
pitchfork-wielding
they are derided as ~ hysterics (sensitivity readers) pivot point
Casey saw the Iraq War as a ~, one of history’s hinges
pitchforks and torches
it was a mob scene with ~ (perp walk in cuffs) pivot (away) from green energy
Ohio’s ~ (coal)
sharpened its pitchforks
Twitter ~ and came for her (NPR interviews racist) career pivot
♦ The oppression of Frankenstein’s monster in the sentimental film
it’s a bit of a ~, from chemical engineer to bookstore owner
versions seems irrational and cruel. Less so if you read Mary Shelley’s
harrowing and creepy novel! botched pivot
♦ “The pitchforks are changing hands.” (The U.S. electorate.)
the ~ likened to a strip club focusing on chicken wings...

oppression: allusion / creature / sign, signal, symbol remarkable pivot

allusion: books & reading this represents a ~ for the State Department (in Iraq)

pitchfork (shape) making a (big) pivot here

we’re ~, from no water to too much (rain in California)
awful pitchfork ♦ Teen speak: “Obviously now our plans have had to pivot” instead of
that ~ we saw in the sky (Shuttle Challenger Disaster) “We have had to change our plans.”
♦ “One simple pivot that we could do is to shift our focus away from X to
shape: tools & technology Y.” (An author being interviewed about his book.)
pitch in (help) development / reversal: direction / mechanism
pitch in on child’s play pivot (verb)
the government needs to ~ (no playgrounds, etc.)
pivoted to a more aggressive stance
help & assistance: throwing, putting & planting / verb the group has ~
pitch-perfect (adjective) suspicions (soon) pivoted
their ~ and focused instead on Smollett (detectives)
pitch-perfect
his speech was ~ for his audience ♦ In a very nice opinion piece, Scott Simon of NPR rightly characterizes
this word as a buzzword. (“Politics, Pundits And The Problem With The
Word ‘Pivot,’” NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, June 11, 2016.)
flaws & lack of flaws: music / speech
development / reversal: direction / mechanism
pitfall (noun)
pivotal (adjective)
pitfalls of capital punishment
the case is an illuminating window into the ~ pivotal elections
these are ~ (Zimbabwe after Mugabe)
pitfalls of launching adolescents
it’s time to wake up to the ~ into an adult lifestyle (models) pivotal (naval) battle
it was a ~ (Battle of Trafalgar)
pitfalls in interpretation
~ (seismic data interpretation by geologists) pivotal day
Friday marks a ~ in the Senate’s impeachment trial
scams, schemes, and pitfalls
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 that was a very ~ in the fight (“I put him on his ass”) we don’t think we can move forward, we are all ~ (grief)
pivotal people in a (really) dark place
name five ~ in your life I was ~, I was 17, it seemed like the end of the world...
pivotal (backstage) role in a good place
he played a ~ in persuading… the last time he saw her she was not ~ (suicide)
I was not ~ until I told myself... (mentally)
development: direction / mechanism
he is not mentally well, he’s not ~
importance & significance: mechanism
in the right place
place (resting place) they key now is that he gets his head ~ (a defeated boxer)
resting place in a (very) weird place
the sub would never move from its ~ (sunk) I feel ~ about this (opinion on a sports issue)
resting place for hundreds of cars all over the place
the bluff is the final ~ (St Joseph / Lookout Park) they are ~ (emotionally)
place: burial / death & life free of that place
place (internet, etc.) you can only live with resentment for so long, I’m ~

trusted place come to a place

we’re a ~ where people can go (a podcast) I had ~ accepting that she was probably dead

kinder place find a peaceful, happy place

she wants to make the internet a ~ personally, I want for her to just ~ (manager resigns)

welcoming place get to a place

a more ~ for others who look like them (music industry) we want to ~ of forgiveness for him (a murderer)
♦ “I understood where he was mentally at that point because I’d been
♦ The internet seems to be both a place and a space.
there.” (A suicide in prison.)
area: place ♦ “I haven’t been there myself but I know women who have.” (In an
abusive relationship.)
place (feelings and emotions) ♦ “In the last year, I had come to a place accepting that Michaela was
probably no longer alive.” (Mother of child missing for 32 years and
place of genuine concern presumed murdered, on arrest of suspect.)
it’s hard to tell if the criticism is coming from a ~ ♦ “Our hearts are just in a place that we can’t even describe how sad we
are.” (Murder of a colleague.)
place of fear
♦ “I’ve been in a place where it’s been dark. And it’s been deep, and it’s
he is pushing studios to make decisions from a ~ been sad. And I’m like, I need to get out of that place.” (Sloane
Stephens, tennis player, about mental health.)
place of (aspirational) thinking and hope
♦ “Once again I find myself in a place of shame and regret... / In the heat
they come from that ~ (high schoolers / reform) of the pain I was feeling, I went to dark places.” (The actor Johnny Depp,
at trial.)
dark place
♦ “You’ve been taking mental-health meds, and your mind is finally in a
the ~ that I was in (depression) better place...” (An online advertisement for Ingrezza® valbenazine
capsules. Advertising is the final stage in the sanctioning of a cliche.)
worst place
♦ “Place” seems to have replaced “state” or “status” or “way.”
I’ve been to the ~ anybody could go (depression)
feeling, emotion & effect: container / mental health / place
at a bad place
I think she was ~ in her life (mental issues) place (situation)
in a very anxious place at a different place
you have to function despite being ~ we’re ~ than we were earlier (vaccines)
in a bad place in a bad place
she was sobbing uncontrollably, she was ~ I put myself ~ (decisions, drinking, aggression)
in a (really) bad place in a better place
I was ~ physically and mentally the country is ~ than it was in 2001 (Afghanistan in 2021)
in a better place in a (much much) better place
I am ~ mentally (Iraq combat vet) we are ~ right now than we were a month ago (COVID)
your mind is finally ~ (a drug advertisement)
in a very different place
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in a much different place he ~ blacks have power, opportunity
the heavyweight division was ~ on Dec. 1, 2018...
get it to a place where
in a difficult place it takes time to ~ you can safely take a helmet off (ISS)
the government is sort of in a ~ (COVID 19 vaccine)
get into a place where
in a (really) good place I tend to ~ I’m not filling with self-love... (feelings)
the Post is ~, it’s time to move on (Marty Baron retires)
get us in a place where
in a (much less) privileged place eventually he would ~ we were really talking to each other
other children are ~ than my family (pandemic)
get back to a place where
in a (very) solid and stable place we need to ~ individuals can feel free
the NIH is ~
seen as a place where
in a divided and disheartening place sports are often ~ all that matters is...
our nation is ~
take us to a place where
from a place of privilege I’m all for doing anything that will ~ this can’t happen again
~, she... ♦ see also where (situation / development)
♦ At times, “a place where” can be substituted perfectly for a “moment /
going toward a younger and more progressive place time when.”
their fan base is ~ (the NFL)
♦ “Eventually he would get us in a place where we were really talking to
each other about things...” (Al Pacino reminiscing about conversations
get to a place with the legendary John Cazale, the actor who played Fredo in The
if we ~ in 2024, if it’s worse than 2020... (US elections) Godfather.)
♦ “So I think this is really more about...[they] are in a place where where
got to this place where what they are [doing] is... (NPR punditry.)
how we ~ is because... (history)
♦ A figurative place seems to mean or refer to, specifically or in any
remind us how she ~, I mean, how was she able to... combination: (1) “a situation in which” (2) “in / at a time / moment when”
(3) “a stage of development during / in which...” (4) condition & status.
put yourself in a place Place / space and time are extremely connected!
if you do these things, you can ~ to be successful (politics)
condition & status / development / situation / time: place
ratcheted this up to a ridiculous place
they ~ (a sports controversy / Naomi Osaka) plague (verb)
♦ “It seems like a good place to do that.” Marty Baron retires after many plague patients with (long hospital) stays
years with newspaper in good shape. He might just as well have said, “It
seems like a good time to retire.) infections ~
♦ “The country is in a better place than it was in 2001 and the Taliban plagued California for years
have become more open-minded.” (General Sir Nick Carter, Britain’s
Chief of Defense Staff. He might just as well have said, “in a better blackouts have ~
state.”)
plagues Vermont all winter
♦ see also where (situation / development)
a remedy for the cabin fever that ~
condition & status / development / situation / time: place
plagued him for years
place (place where) depression had ~

place where plague Guatemala

will our digital century be a ~ our civilization can thrive police corruption, lawlessness and drug trafficking ~

at a place where plagued Russia

we are still ~ black people can’t... illegal logging has long ~ (Siberia)
she is ~ she feels she can speak out
plagues the south
at a place (right now) where the lawlessness that ~ (Somalia vs. Somaliland)
we are ~ our hospitals are overtaxed (pandemic)
plagued him
in a place where injuries ~ (an athlete)
we’re still ~ we have to talk about equality (women athletes)
plagued the investigation
in a place (similar to) where leaks ~ (DC sniper murders)
by next January, they could be ~ the Lions were last year affliction: health & medicine / verb
in a state where plague (noun)
but we are still ~ supply is nowhere near demand (vaccine)
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 its worst ~ in nearly 30 years (Afghanistan) plagued by coups and dictators
Mauritania has been ~ since independence
plague of (gold) prospectors
the natives faced a ~ plagued by faulty elevators, mold, and leaky roofs
the 33-story building is ~
plague of (Western) wildfires
the annual ~ (US) plagued by scandals and intrigue
the Vatican is still ~ (finances)
plague of drugs and prostitution
victim's relatives have worried about the ~ accident-plagued
accident-plagued I95
crack plague
the ~ of the late 1980's corruption-plagued
~ civilian governments (Pakistan)
cellphone plague
the ~ began in the 1990s (a teacher / schools) crash-plagued
the innovative but ~ aircraft
HIV plague
the growing ~ crime-plagued
a ~ neighborhood
NotPetya plague
the servers that played the role of patient zero in the ~ deficit-plagued
the ~ Federal Government
growing (HIV) plague
the ~ injury-plagued
after an ~ season in Europe (sports)
annual plague
the ~ of Western wildfires (US) insurgent-plagued
Haditha, a lawless, ~ city in Anbar Province
plague began
the cellphone ~ in the 1990s (a teacher / schools) mine-plagued
African children live on the most ~ continent
faced a plague
the natives ~ of gold prospectors mosquito-plagued
Siberia's ~ expanse
consider motoboys a plague
ordinary motorists ~ (Sao Paulo) scandal-plagued
♦ The great traveler Ibn Battuta recorded that during the Plague of 1348 a ~ program (Alabama football)
in Damascus, representatives and members of the three major the ~ former prime minister
religions—Muslims, Jews, and Christians—all made their way to the
Mosque of the Footprints with their holy books to pray for the end of the violence-plagued
sickness. Ibn Battuta recorded that in Damascus deaths reached under
2,000 people a day, while in Old Cairo they reached 24,000 a day. in ~ Iraq
♦ China has been periodically ravaged by plague, including 1911 and ♦ “Swarms of mosquitoes plagued the travelers. Jack’s diary is dotted
1917. A. J. Cronin wrote about plague during that period in his novel, with such entries as ‘mosquitoes thick,’ ‘Mosquitos make a
The Keys of the Kingdom, and so did Mary Ninde Gamewell in New Life demonstration in force,’ ‘Put up netting and fooled mosquitoes,’ ‘John
Currents. driven out of bed by mosquitos,’ ‘Evening burned smudges’ (smoky fires
to drive the insects away), ‘Bite me through overalls and heavy
♦ “Plagues always bring moral judgments with them.” underwear.’ The men smeared their faces with clay for protection. (Gold
Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike by Charlotte Gray. “Jack” is the
affliction / amount & effect: health & medicine great writer Jack London.)

plagued ♦ "Dense swarms of mosquitoes set in immediately after sunset… a

nuisance that can hardly be imagined. No breath of air incommodes
those light-winged tormentors. It is quite impossible, for the European at
plagued with violence least, to close an eye without the shelter of a mosquito net. Our Indians
Southern Thailand has been ~ for years slept with no covering, only occasionally brushing away the most
obtrusive of the little fiends." (The Amazon and Madeira Rivers by Franz
plagued with cracks Keller.)
the monument is ~, leaks and corroding surfaces ♦ “Before evening that day there put in its first appearance the curse of
the taiga, flies. The settlers call them gnus, horror or abomination, and
plagued by drugs they are indeed the plague of the forest. Their bite draws blood and the
wound itches desperately, and the more it is scratched the worse it
her life has been ~ and other personal demons becomes. When there are many biting flies about, it is impossible to
expose the head for an instant. The flies blind your eyes, become
plagued by (sectarian) violence entangled in the hair and ears, crawl up your sleeve, and savagely bite
Karachi has been ~ (Shiites / Sunnis) your neck. Your face swells up as though with erysipelas.” (Dersu Uzala
by V.K. Arseniev.)
plagued by homesickness
he was ~ (student) affliction: health & medicine

plagued by (cost) overruns

the project has been ~ (Big Dig / Boston)

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plain (plain people, etc.) commitment & determination: baseball / sports & games /
verb
plain people plate (on one's plate)
we’re ~, just country people
character & personality: people on your plate
I know that you have an incredible amount of work ~
planet (noun)
a lot on his plate
planet in the Arab world he has ~ and wants to get back to work (Obama)
Egypt is a ~
have a lot on your plate
importance & significance: astronomy I know you ~ (busy)
plank (noun) work & duty: food & drink

plank of the investigation plate (full plate)

the obstruction charge was a secondary ~
full plate of attacks
bases: infrastructure they are fighting a ~ from the Republicans (Democrats)
plant (put) amount: food & drink

planted a bomb plateau (noun)

he ~ along the route (terrorist)
hit a plateau
planted the explosives if you slip up or ~, don't beat yourself up (weight loss)
he would not speculate about who might have ~ shape: direction / mountains & hills
planted a (political) minefield increase & decrease / progress & lack of progress:
the British colonizers ~ in the 1920s (Sudan) mountains & hills / shape

throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / plant / plateau (verb)
verb plateaued
plant (create) there was an initial upswing, but it has ~ since (soccer)

plant the seeds slightly plateaued

the British helped to ~ of discord in Afghanistan she has ~ (decreased need for sex)
Nasser wanted to ~ of revolution on the Arabian Peninsula increase & decrease: numbers
planted the seeds increase & decrease: mountains & hills / shape / verb
he ~ that gave principals more autonomy (education) platform (as verb)
planted and tended platform marginalized voices
as field director, she has ~ chapters across the country she became a music journalist to ~
creation & transformation / growth & development / prioritize, center, and platform
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / plant / we must ~ the voices of women (sexual assault)
verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion: part of speech / theater
plastered (impression)
platform (noun)
plastered across magazine covers
her face was ~ platforms to bloggers
his show gave ~ like…
impression: materials & substances
platforms of radio, television and digital media
plate (step up to the plate) across the ~

step up to the plate huge platform

it's time to ~ and take responsibility I work at The New York Times, I have a ~...
we need to ~ and take this issue seriously (climate change)
use our platforms
stepped up to the plate we’re not going to shut up and play, we’re going to ~
he could have ducked it but he didn’t, he ~ (honesty) ♦ “[In the hill and mountain country of northern India]... inter-village
she ~ and advocated for her community (Stella Bowles) communication is carried on by shouting. Standing on a commanding
point, maybe a big rock or the roof of a house, a man cooees to attract
responsibility: baseball / sports & games / verb the attention of the people in a neighboring village, and when the cooee

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is answered the message is shouted across in a high-pitched voice. summer playground
From village to village the message is tossed, and is broadcast
throughout large areas in an incredibly short space of time.” (The cooee Lebanon's resorts were the ~s of wealthy Arabs
method of communication. From Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett.)
high-speed playground
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater street racers have claimed the roads as their ~ (Atlanta)
play (play to the audience, etc.) whitewater playgrounds
the ~ do not freeze in winter (city of Vancouver)
play to their base
he expects Republicans to ~ for a time rapids-filled playground
the river is a ~ (paddle sports / the Gauley)
plays to the gallery
♦ “Deserts and cliffs in western states are not a playground.” (Comment
the representation of emotion ~ (anguish, distress, etc.) about an adult who became separated from a 9-year-old boy. The former
ended up falling to his death.)
performance: theater / verb
environment: school & education
play (play with data, etc.)
playing field (uneven playing field, etc.)
playing with different parameters
we’re ~ (computer modeling) uneven playing field
corruption and greed have created an ~ (college admissions)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: sports & games /
verb playing field has been tilted
they claim the ~ in China’s favor
play down (verb)
played down concerns flaws & lack of flaws: sports & games
the Pentagon has ~ over the Chinese fighter (plane) competition: sports & games
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sports & games
played down the importance playing field (level the playing field)
Democrats ~ of the findings (politics)
played down the incident level the playing field
he ~ the changes will ~ (sex cases on campus)

attenuation: prep, adv, adj, particle / theater / verb amelioration & renewal / competition / sanctioning,
attention, scrutiny & promotion: prep, adv, adj, particle / authority & non-conformity: sports & games / verb
theater / verb plinth (noun)
play (play out)
plinth in their lives
play out their grandmother was the ~ (chaotic upbringing)
how do you think this will ~ (a sports scandal)
bases: statue
playing out
all this was ~ in Washington (controversy) plod (verb)
play out along the border plod along
anger and confusion continues to ~ he expects Republicans to ~ for a time
her life was just ~ until...
played out (very) publicly
her personal crises ~ in the tabloid press (#FreeBritney) progress & lack of progress / speed: journeys & trips /
movement / verb / walking, running & jumping
development: rope / verb
movement: journeys & trips / speed / verb / walking,
starting, going, continuing & ending: rope / verb running & jumping
playbook (noun) plot (verb)
playbook plot new lives
others are taking a page out of that ~ freed miners in Chile ~
follow the (administration’s) playbook direction: journeys & trips / map / verb
nominees closely ~
plot line (development)
script: books & reading / sports & games
torn up the (division’s proposed) plot lines
playground (noun) Andy Ruiz Jr has ~
playground for Westerners development: theater
Nairobi, once a favorite ~ in Africa…

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plow (plow a field, etc.) curtailment: infrastructure / verb / water
dismissal, removal & resignation: infrastructure / verb /
plowing a (very fertile) field water
Donald Trump was ~ (NPR’s Mara Liasson / 2016)
plugged (fixed)
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / verb
holes have been plugged
plow (plow on, plow through, etc.) the security ~ (computers)

plowing ahead amelioration & renewal: tools & technology / water

we are ~ (difficult medical research)
plugged in / into
plow on
he remains determined to ~ (Elon Musk after a failure) plugged in
he likes to convey the impression he’s ~ (radio host)
plowed through the (review) books
I ~ (studying for test) plugged into politics
people who are very ~
♦ “Keep your hand on that plow, and hold on.” (A moving Negro spiritual.)
division & connection: electricity
starting, going, continuing & ending: prep, adv, adj, particle
difficulty, easiness & effort / starting, going, continuing & plum (desirable)
ending / work & duty: farming & agriculture / verb
plum assignment
plow (put) the final ~ at the end of a distinguished career
plowed their money into gun smuggling it was a ~ for a young detective
they have ~ (ex-pirates) plum commission
directing: farming & agriculture / verb won the ~ for the library (architecture)
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / verb plum posting
plug (verb) in return they would give this judge a ~ in Monaco

plug the hole plum (committee) seats

the Ministry must find savings to ~ in their budget promises of ~ (politics)

amelioration & renewal: tools & technology / verb / water plum spot
relationships and favors guaranteed him a ~ (government)
plug (pull the plug)
flaws & lack of flaws / superlative / worth & lack of worth:
pulled the plug on the expedition fruits & vegetables
the alpinists have ~ after both suffered injuries...
plumbing (noun)
pulled the plug on the project
homeland security ~ (border towers) plumbing of the Internet
the copyright legislation messes with the secure ~
pull the plug on its fall sports season
Big Ten presidents are ready to ~ (coronavirus pandemic) plumbing components
the essential ~ are the routers (Internet)
pulled the plug on the show
CBS ~ economy's plumbing
financial data centers put much of the ~ in one place
pulling the plug on its mascot
the university is ~ (getting rid of it) Internet's plumbing
we're now seeing attacks on the ~
pull the plug on the (global) talks he wants to create standards to secure the ~
no one is quite ready to ~ (climate)
bases: infrastructure
pull the plug on hate radio
we need to ~
plume (shape)
time to pull the plug plume
it's ~ on the project ~s started blowing off the summit (Everest)

decided to pull the plug plumes of ash

they ~ on their marriage sending out ~ and three rivers of lava (volcano)

threatening to pull the plug plume of cyanide

investors are ~ a ~ reached to the Black Sea (spill into Danube)

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plume of dust price (of gold) has plummeted
a rockslide sent up a ~ the ~
plume of (sarin) gas rates have plummeted
blowing up the Khamisiyah dump released a ~ (Iraq) crime ~ over the last decade
plume of smoke production plummeted
the ~ from a rocket-propelled grenade agricultural ~, leading to growing unemployment
plumes of smoke temperature can plummet
sent up huge ~ (military air strikes) the ~
plume of water wages plummeted
on the left is a huge ~ called "The Thing" (kayaking) ~, and the black market flourished
plume altitude blood pressure plummeted
information about ~ (volcanic eruption) his ~
plume bifurcation output plummeted
~ was visible (volcanic eruption) economic ~ and unemployment rose
♦ “Now, I want to talk to you about, well, this is your phrase, the year you
ash plume plummeted to stardom. That’s a great phrase. You made The Graduate
~s from the two volcanoes in 1967...” (Another brilliant Kirsty Young BBC Desert Island Discs
interview, this time with Dustin Hoffman.)
sarin plume
US troops in the path of a huge ~ (Gulf War) increase & decrease: number
decline / increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling /
smoke plume verb
~s streaking diagonally through the sky (shuttle disaster)
plunder (verb)
vapor plume
traces of water in a ~ plundered intellectual property and trade secrets
it has ~ (economic espionage)
classic plume
you can see the ~ blowing off the top right now (Everest) taking & removing: crime / verb

huge plume plundered

sending a ~ of smoke into a cloudless sky (air strike) plundered
toxic plume had he tapped on the link, the phone would have been ~
bombing chemical sites could send up ~s taking & removing: crime
radiological or biochemical plume plunge (noun / decline)
evacuation in the event of a ~
plunge in the stock price
path of a (huge sarin) plume the ~ was based on reaction to an article...
US troops in the ~ (Gulf War)
♦ Many species of birds were nearly driven to extinction by plume harrowing plunge
hunters eager to make money from adorning women's hats. At one time, a day after a ~ in the stock market
cormorants and egrets were mercilessly hunted for their feathers.
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction
shape: animal / bird
increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling
plummet (decline / decrease) plunge (decline / decrease)
plummeted from $5.9 to $3.3 billion plunged to 38 years
spending at the agency ~ in Zambia, life expectancy has ~ (AIDS, drought, etc.)
plummeted out of contention plunged by two-thirds
the team ~ (sports) the number of Shinto weddings has ~ (Japan)
business has plummeted plunged 33 percent
its advertising ~ new-home sales ~
levels can plummet grades plunged
women's testosterone ~ as they age his ~ (school)
morale had plummeted markets plunged
~ (US soldiers / Vietnam War) but the ~ (bankruptcy)

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sales plunged pocket (deep pockets)
but then ~ (the auto industry)
deep pocket
life expectancy has plunged talent is being hired away by ~ companies
in Zambia, ~ to 38 years (AIDS, drought, etc.)
deep pockets
decline: direction / flying & falling / verb
the Gulf's ~ beckon (arms sales)
increase & decrease: direction / number / flying & falling /
verb with deep pockets
even hedge funds ~ can borrow money (FED)
plunge (plunge into something)
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol
plunge into (dangerous sexual) behavior
newly released prisoners often ~ (H.I.V.) pocket (in the pocket)
plunge into the ocean in their back pocket
~ of pleasure (ad for porn Web site) the NRA has every politician ~
plunge into my subject in the pocket of Donald Trump
before I ~… (lecture) the Republican Senate is completely ~
plunging into the unknown control & lack of control: purses & wallets
we are ~ (new technology)
pocketbook (money)
involvement: flying & falling / water / verb
good for the pocketbook
plunge (involvement) it's ~, too (energy conservation)
take the plunge hit (more and more) pocketbooks
it was time to ~ (begin dangerous trek) the strike will ~ the longer it goes on
involvement: flying & falling / water money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol
plus (benefit) pockmark (verb)
plus to us pockmark Baltimore’s poorest areas
he has been a ~ (versus a detriment) blocks of vacant row houses now ~ (white flight / crime)
plus for them pockmark Indonesia’s landscape
if they can get a big project, that’s a ~ illegal mines ~
negative or a slight plus pockmark the dirt road
tariffs might be a ~ puddles of icy water ~
cost & benefit: letters & characters affliction / appearance / configuration / flaws & lack of
poach (verb) flaws: health & medicine / hole / mark / verb
pockmark (noun)
poached rival quarterbacks
he ruthlessly ~ (leader of a league) pockmarks on the wall
he fired a shotgun, leaving ~ of the mosque (Tunisia)
poached allies from Taiwan
China has steadily ~ in the Pacific (Kiribati, etc.) bullet pockmarks
all those ~ were new (Haiti)
poached several employees from Apple
the company ~ splattered (wildly) with pockmarks
the front of the house is ~ (cartel gunmen / Matamoros)
poach Allyson Felix from Nike
Gap’s Athleta brand was able to ~ left pockmarks on the side of his house
taking & removing: animal / crime / verb a grenade exploded in his garden and ~ (Mitrovica)
pursuit, capture & escape: animal / crime / verb ♦ “For all its pockmarks, there’s a reason they call soccer ‘the beautiful
game.’” (“Three Books To Ignite Your World Cup Fever” by Cord
poached Jefferson, NPR, All Things Considered, May 28, 2010.)

affliction / appearance / configuration / flaws & lack of

poached by (software giant) Oracle
she was ~ (prodigy) flaws: health & medicine / hole / mark

taking & removing: animal / crime

pursuit, capture & escape: animal / crime

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pockmarked point (inflection point, etc.)
pockmarked by disparaging comments data point
his path to power has been ~ about women the public no longer has a key about the war
one ~ in the report is civilian casualties
pockmarked with embarrassment the public will no longer have a key ~ about the war
Grammy history is ~ (poor choices, lip-syncing, etc.)
COVID rates were one ~, and there were others...
pockmarked with mass graves it’s another ~ that illustrates that... (a statistic)
the country is ~ (Rwanda) foregoing the count means we will miss a crucial ~
the results give researchers a vital new ~ (a test)
pockmarked with bullet holes it’s the latest grim ~ (number of confirmed COVID cases)
the buildings are ~ (West Mosul)
decision point
pockmarked with abandoned lots it’s really an enormous ~ which will transform... (sports)
it’s an area ~ (Mansfield, Ohio)
inflection point
pockmarked with deep, abandoned pits (see inflection point)
the Iron Range is ~ (northern Minnesota)
pain point
pockmarked with shrapnel highly localized surges a ~ for many communities (COVID)
a statue of Jesus is still ~ (Negombo, Sri Lanka)
price point
pockmarked with empty lots and dilapidated homes cigars at every price in every ~ (Casablanca Cigar Club)
neighborhoods are ~ (Port Arthur, Texas / poverty, storms)
talking point
pockmarked by the trenches ~s written by the oil and gas industry (propaganda)
the land is still ~ that once lined the Western Front
development: direction / number
pockmarked by police shootings and nationwide
protests
point (sticking / friction point)
a summer ~ sticking points
♦ "Oh, where I was born, everyone had this. First, a fly bit you, then you so what are the ~ in these talks (tariff negotiations)
got a sore. After a while it healed and never came back." (A
grandfather, originally from southern Turkey, explaining to his American flaws & lack of flaws: mechanism
grandson how he got a shallow scar—a papery depression—on his
cheek. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is also known as "Oriental sore," point (tipping point)
"Baghdad boil," and Aleppo evil." In India it is known as kala azar, or
black fever.)
tipping point
♦ “One day I was called into the room of our hostess’s younger sister.
we're at that ~ (demand for antibiotic-free meat)
The room was dark, and only when hot hands gripped mine did I realize
that I was standing near her. When my eyes had got accustomed to the what was the ~ that made the company say, “Enough”
darkness, I looked toward the bed and recoiled in a horror which I could
hardly conceal. There lay completely transformed by sickness one who Syria's tipping point
two days before had been a pretty healthy girl. Though a layman, I this could be ~ (pro-democracy protests)
instantly saw that she had smallpox. Her larynx and tongue were already
attacked and she could only cry out with thick articulation that she was social tipping point
dying. I tried to tell her that it was not so, and then escaped from the
room as quickly as possible to have a thorough wash. There was nothing we have passed a ~, we can no longer look away (justice)
to be done and one could only hope that an epidemic would not break
out. Aufschnaiter also visited her and agreed with my diagnosis... (Seven passed a tipping point
Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer, Chapter 4, “The Village of we have ~, a point of no return (Greta Thunberg)
Happiness.”)
♦ “For survivors, smallpox was a cruelly fickle disease, leaving many of reached a tipping point
its survivors blinded or dreadfully scarred, but others unscathed. It had he thinks 3D has reached a ~ (new normal for films)
existed for millennia, but didn’t become common in Europe until the early
sixteenth century. Its first recorded appearance in England was 1518.” development: direction / mechanism
(At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson.)
importance & significance: mechanism
♦ "I had lots of things to carry me across the river. Sometimes I could use
a camel, sometimes I could get a boat. But if I knew there was critical point (pivot point)
timing involved…I would try to arrange in advance for the elephant. The
elephant rides pretty smoothly and it's pretty tall. Usually I got on with a pivot point
ladder, but you could step on its trunk and it would put you on its back. I
was always a little nervous about that." (May Guinan, sent to Uttar Casey saw the Iraq War as a ~, one of history’s hinges
Pradesh from the CDC in the campaign to eradicate smallpox, on how
she would cross a river to get to her headquarters in Lucknow. Another development: direction / mechanism
method involved mounting a bicycle, which was then carried on the importance & significance: mechanism
shoulders of two men. From The Invisible Fire by Joel N. Shurkin.)
point (point where)
affliction / appearance / configuration / flaws & lack of
flaws: health & medicine / hole / mark in a point where

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 I was ~ I was ready to be done with it (drugs) point of view (from somebody's point of
development: place view)
point (point when) from the point of view of concealment
point when select supply positions ~
Iran’s nuclear program is long past the ~ it is... from the point of view inside his (climbing) boots
was there a low ~ you look back (addiction) it was written ~ (Boukreev's "The Climb")
time: place from Abdul Tawab's point of view
point (at a point) ~, the marriage helped his position

at a point from the animals' point of view

I don’t think I was ~ to be ready then (to give up drugs) ~ (animal rights, cruelty, eating meat, etc.)
♦ “At a point” in one sentence and “in a point” in the next... from the destroyers' point of view
Native Americans ~
development: place
point (in a point) from the enemy's point of view
consider the traps ~ (military)
in a point from players’ points of view
I was ~ where I was ready to be done with it (drugs) produce content ~ (Uninterrupted / LeBron James)
♦ “At a point” in one sentence and “in a point” in the next sentence...
from a spectator's point of view
situation: place ~, the most interesting match was…
point (low point / high point) from our point of view
lowest point characteristics which are catastrophic ~ (a terrorist)
it was the ~ in the history of the CDC (lab adjudged filthy) from your point of view
at a low point which country is most promising ~ (Central Asia)
the investigation was ~ (of a serial killer) from an Indian point of view
progress & lack of progress: height museum exhibitions ~ (Native Americans)

point (low point / emotion) from the Japanese point of view

the film is told ~ ("Letters from Iwo Jima")
low point he tells the story of Iwo Jima ~ (Clint Eastwood film)
was there a ~ when you look back (addiction)
from an intelligence point of view
hit some (real) low points ~, this is a problem
I’ve ~ in my life
from the policy point of view
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / height another aspect, again ~ (educational establishment)
point man (and point person) from a safety point of view
improve things ~ (motor racing)
point man
he is the ~ for the administration's efforts to… (politician) from a driving point of view
~ you know what's happening (racing)
point person for the Obama administration
Biden was ~ on Ukraine (politics) from a human point of view
its scope and setting is horrible ~ (terror)
State Department’s point person
the ~ on Iran... from a military point of view
♦ The point man is the lead man in a column of soldiers. He goes a bit ~, we don't face any threats (Uzbekistan)
ahead of the group and must look for snipers, mines, and booby traps.
He may set off a trap and be maimed or killed outright. The enemy may from a pragmatic point of view
shoot him dead. Or, the enemy may shoot to wound him and then pick ~, don't… (monitoring employees)
off anyone trying to come to his aid. Or, the enemy may let him pass and
shoot at the main body of men, leaving him cut off and isolated without from a scientific point of view
support. Nowadays the “point person” is usually a female who parrots the
administration or company line.
~, geothermal power is touted as "clean"

driving force: military / person catastrophic from our point of view

person: military he has 3 characteristics which are ~ (a terrorist)
consider (the traps) from the enemy's point of view

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 ~ (military) different points of view
we seek out sources with ~ (free press)
describes an event from two (different) points of view people have ~ (culture, circumstances, etc.)
the book ~
strong point of view
imagine it from their point of view reluctance to offer a ~ on civics (education)
~ (toilet training for toddlers) excellence often involves taking a ~
told from his point of view a ~ can even work against you
the story is ~ two (different) points of view
told from the Japanese point of view describe the same event from ~
the film is ~ (Letters from Iwo Jima) differences in point of view
perception, perspective & point of view: position those ~ fueled the debate (Confederate flag)

point of view (other) affinity for the (outlaw) point of view

his unconcealed ~ (teacher in jail)
point of view
depending on your ~ denied or ignored their point of view
their parents denied or ignored their ~ (suicidal kids) their mother and father ~ (suicidal kids)

point of view of concealment explained the (public-health) point of view

select supply positions from the ~ he patiently ~ (an epidemic)

point of view on tourism understand each other's point of view

a Hawaiian ~ it is important to try to ~
♦ see the related perspective (other)
employer's point of view ♦ In Vietnam, the Vietnam War is called the American War. (Point of view
an ~ (on hiring) (job searching) and war.)

people's points of view ♦ The French blamed the pestilence on the Neapolitans. The English,
Germans and Italians called it the morbus gallicus or the ‘French
~ are influenced by their language and culture disease.’ The Polish labeled it the ‘Russian disease.’ To the Turks it was
the ‘Christian disease.’ It was called the ‘Chinese pox’ by the Japanese
each other's point of view and the ‘Portuguese disease’ in India and Japan. The Tahitians referred
it is important to try to understand ~ to venereal disease as ‘the British disease.’ (Names for syphilis, from
Disease, The Extraordinary Stories Behind History’s Deadliest Killers by
another person's point of view Mary Dobson.)
it is important to understand ~ ♦ “I have a special hatred for ice cream trucks. I think they should be
outlawed. I have so many traumas from them, and the children hit by ice
public health point of view cream trucks are usually on the small side, so they get head traumas.”
(Gracie Dinkins, a trauma surgeon. From “Flesh & Blood” by Gracie
he patiently explained the ~ (an epidemic) Dinkins as told to Matthew Segal, Los Angeles magazine. A purely
personal point of view, based on occupation.)
Hawaiian point of view
♦ “People say it’s a peaceful demonstration but I would say that a huge
a ~ on tourism 18-wheeler is not a peaceful thing to have in the middle of your city.”
(“Health care workers in Ottawa are being harassed protesters [sic]
Nez Perce point of view against COVID-19 mandates,” NPR, Weekend Edition, Saturday, Feb.
increased emphasis to the ~ (park sites) 12, 2022.)
♦ “Yeah, they have these belts on with like all these extra bullets and
minority point of view they’re like dressed for war.” (Leah talking to her Brit producer, Georgia,
the ~ for their podcast about the militia movement.)
♦ “Next morning I awoke, looked out the window, and nearly died of
outlaw point of view fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half shaven. ‘The
his affinity for the ~ (teacher in jail) world’s ended, Atticus. Please do something.’ I dragged him to the
window and pointed. ‘No it’s not,’ he said. ‘It’s snowing.’” (The beloved
conflicting points of view American novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This is an example
good articles tend to be built on ~ (journalism) of the point of view of a child.)
♦ A FUNNY STORY. A city man grew weary of the hustle and bustle, the
differing points of view hubbub and din, of city life and decided to visit his relative in the quiet
these ~ (in the "education" community) and peaceful countryside. He made a sign that said, "Gone to the
countryside," posted it on his door, and set off. He drove through the
desert until the road ended. Then he drove off road, following tracks in
opposing points of view the sands, until the tracks ended at the edge of a steep valley. He
the two songs show ~ of the same situation... abandoned his truck there, crossed the valley on foot, and then walked
for miles over a flat barren empty gravel desert. Finally, in the distance,
clear point of view he saw his relative's stone hut, next to a single tree. In great joy and
she has a very ~ anticipation he hurried to it, only to find, posted on the door, a note that
read... "Gone to the countryside."
different point of view perception, perspective & point of view: position
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point out (verb) ponds and the water table. Ironically, many of the contaminated ponds
and boreholes were dug with the help of international relief organizations
to protect villagers from unclean water.
point out that
let me ~ I wasn't... corruption / destruction: materials & substances / verb

pointed out that poisonous (adjective)

he ~ murder is illegal in all societies
poisonous
pointed out the taint of a bankruptcy can be ~
Chevron Texaco ~ it was already doing a lot... (Nigeria) the rot in Pakistani society is more ~ than anyone thought
another cause of concern, he ~, are the lack of road signs...
poisonous atmosphere
pointed out in the NYT magazine a "~" has descended on the Times (firings)
as she ~...
poisonous (political and rhetorical) climate
pointed out the blunder politics suffers from a ~
only when he ~ did Hutchison... (Everest)
poisonous doctrine
pointed out the inconsistencies he was an antidote to the ~ of extremism
liberals have long ~ of conservative support for…
poisonous mix
pointed out problems he despises the ~ of religion and politics (an Iraqi)
media stories have ~ in assisted living...
poisonous situation
neglects to point out it was a ~ (politics and war)
what he ~, though, is that... feeling, emotion & effect: materials & substances
attention, scrutiny & promotion: finger / gesture / verb destruction: health & medicine / materials & substances
poised (adjective) poker (game)
poised on Baghdad's doorstep high-stakes poker
coalition forces are ~ this is ~ (a business decision)
poised to lose strategy: cards / gambling
the party is ~ the elections
poker-faced (adjective)
poised to write
he is ~ a triumphant new chapter (Obama) poker-faced
they were ~
readiness & preparedness: equilibrium & stability
poker-faced chairman
poison (noun) the ~
political poison appearance / concealment & lack of concealment / feeling,
advocating gun control has been ~ emotion & effect: cards / face / gambling
talk of confiscating guns can be ~ with certain voters
polar (polar opposite, etc.)
destruction: materials & substances
polar opposite of the coach
poison (verb) he is the ~ he replaces (soccer)
poison the atmosphere polar opposite (of Fitzpatrick) in play style (sports)
fear and distrust can quickly ~ (epidemic) he’s the ~
poison (everyday) life extent & scope: earth & world
trivialities ~
polarizing (adjective)
poison the project
this academic feud began to ~ (undersea mapping) polarizing figure
he is a ~ (a football coach)
poisoned the waters his critics say he is a ~ who exploits divisions (politics)
his statement ~ for anyone seeking an honest answer
intensely polarizing
poison the well among intellectuals, he is ~
establish a false persona, then ~ of information (Facebook)
division & connection: direction
♦ Perhaps the worst mass poisoning of a population in history has taken
place in Bangladesh. Around 25 million people have been exposed to
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police (thought police, etc.) ♦ “I feel like the mask police, and that’s not what I signed up for.” (An
unhappy Iowa State University RA (resident assistant) during the 2020
coronavirus pandemic. RAs at universities have quit or gone on strike for
behavior police “danger pay.”)
the ~ don’t just stick to soccer (women in sports) ♦ “We didn’t want to be the mask police in the early portions of this
pandemic and we certainly don’t want to be the vaccination police at the
diversity police officer end of it.” (Marc Perrone, International President of the United Food &
I’m not the ~, policing non-marginalized people (a Commercial Workers International Union.)
“sensitivity reader”) ♦ “It just means when you go to Rolling Loud, the police are inescapable,
they are all over the place, they are there (“day are dare”) when you walk
fashion police in, they’re there when you leave, they’re there around the barricades,
they’re there like even in the parking lot, and they’re a bunch of them.
I’m not trying to be the ~, but... (sagging pants) They line up together, and they’re not helpful, either, and so I think
there’s an ominous aspect to it... that made me uncomfortable.” (Jason
fun police Buford of the Rolling Stone magazine.)
we sound like the ~, but... (Gay Pride festival litters beach)
oppression: justice / person
‘leftist’ language police control & lack of control: person
Chapo Trap House offends the sensibilities of ~ sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person
person: crime
mask police
restaurants don’t want to be ~ (COVID epidemic) police (verb)
I feel like the ~, and that’s not what I signed up for
polices (his kid's gaming) habits
morality police he ~ carefully
the ~ are working overtime against the sexual agency of...
police my identity
notability cop attacks by people trying to ~ (cultural appropriation)
some ~ cruised past my bio and pulled me over (Wikipedia)
police his mind
outrage police he is now aware of how to ~ (a troubled boxer)
the ~ are calling for him to be fired (TV news culture wars)
police students’ speech
speech police universities should not ~ so carefully
given tech companies discomfort in the role of ~...
police the web
thought police he formed a group to ~ (Lenny Pozner / Sandy Hook)
he called Facebook “~” (for removing his posts)
liberals want to call out the ~ and force people to agree control & lack of control: justice / verb

feminist thought police polish (verb)

I don’t want to get into trouble with the ~ polished the image
vaccination police the Klitschko brothers have ~ of the sport (boxing)
confusing guidance could force workers to become the ~ flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances / verb
parenting police amelioration & renewal: light & dark / verb
she has run afoul of the ~ (the marvelous singer Pink) polished (adjective)
spelling police polished professional
Oh, look... the spelling police are here (BBC HYS sports) there is a vulnerable woman beneath the ~
cultural police polished speaker
~ punish writers for using their imagination (sensitivity) he is a ~ who hits just the right tone (Beto O’Rourke)
comment section police flaws & lack of flaws: light & dark / materials & substances
you don’t need to be the ~ (internet bulletin board)
political correctness (groups)
woke police
the ~ is out there (Chris Harrison, Bachelor host) political correctness and cancel culture
free speech has been pushed to the wayside for ~
role of being a cop
pharmacists don’t want to be placed in ~ (vaccinations) rebel against political correctness
♦ “[The Olympics] need us more than we need them. See how they Trump campaigned as a ~
poison sports. They’re like the secret police or worse, like your parents.”
(The great snowboarder Terje Haakonsen.) shibboleth of political correctness
♦ “If all you have is a good-quality Parmigiano, the cacio e pepe police “everyone has rights” is a ~
are not going to come and arrest you!” (Elizabeth Minchilli, quoted in
“Cacio e pepe: Italy’s beloved three-ingredient pasta dish” by Emily sacrificed free speech to political correctness
Monaco, BBC, 14 May 2020. The cacio is ordinarily sheep’s milk cheese, the university has ~
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♦ "It was ironic, it was arch, so it felt like, ‘Oh My God! they’re using this even in the most dire circumstances, and the word is often used in the
against us!’” (Ruth Perry, who founded the Women’s Study Department pejorative sense.
at MIT in 1984, about the term “political correctness.” From “How Cancel
Culture Became Politicized—Just Like Political Correctness,” NPR, All character & personality: allusion
Things Considered, July 26, 2021.) allusion: books & reading
♦ “In 2012, Nina Totenberg of NPR was criticized by mental-health
advocates for asking the question, “So, is your client a nut case?” Pollyannaish (adjective)
Activists dislike words like psycho, wacko, and crazy.
Pollyanna-ish (and calming) assumption
inclusion & exclusion: society it was the ~ of some analysts that while…
pollute (verb)
Pollyanna-ish notion
polluted airwaves he mocks the ~ that nations hate war
rudeness has ~
seems (oddly) Pollyanna-ish
corruption: water / verb at times, he ~ about his future

polluted sounding Pollyanna-ish

I know I'm ~, but…
polluted with incivility
the airwaves are ~ character & personality: allusion
allusion: books & reading
polluted with sex
our children's minds are being ~ (YAL, etc.) Pompeii (Pompeii of the East, etc.)
polluted with spam “Pompeii of the East”
Web searches on health are ~ the site is known as the ~ (1815 eruption of Mount
Tambora)
polluted (political) rhetoric
we must clean up our ~ Pompeii of the New World
Cerén is sometimes called the ~ (El Salvador)
polluted sea ♦ Pompeii and the nearby town of Herculaneum were buried by the
pop music has become a ~ eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The excavated Pompeii is today a
Unesco World Heritage Site and a time capsule for life in the Roman era.
corruption: water
destruction / geography: epithet
pollution (noun)
pontificate (verb)
visual pollution
these signs are a nuisance, ~, illegal (in rights-of-way) pontificate on any subject
he was ever ready to ~ (Thomas Edison)
corruption: water
speech: religion / verb
Pollyanna
pony (one-trick pony)
Pollyanna
not everything goes smoothly, and she is not a ~ one-trick pony
I don't want to be a ~, but tomorrow is another day you don’t want to be a ~ in Hollywood (directing)
I am no ~ ability & lack of ability: animal / horse / theater
Pollyanna appeal performance: animal / horse / theater
the film has a ~ poodle (noun)
Pollyanna territory UK poodle
she explores optimism without tipping into ~
the US government and its ~
feel like (such) a Pollyanna dominance & submission / resistance, opposition & defeat:
I ~ here…
animal / dog
sound (too) Pollyanna pool (verb)
do I ~
turned me into a Pollyanna pool and share
the awards show has ~ enhance the ability of the FBI and CIA to ~ information
group, set & collection: water / verb
accused of being a Pollyanna
he isn't usually ~ (a financier, stock-market guru) pool (people)
♦ Pollyanna was a character from the 1913 children's-literature novel by
Eleanor H. Porter. A Pollyanna is a person who is incredibly optimistic pool of (available) brides
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pool of candidates bring your popcorn
he'd looked at the entire ~ (government) ~, this has become a show (congressional hearing)
pool of (prison-educated) college graduates get out your popcorn
the ~ ~, get ready for political theater today (hearing)
pool of test takers superiority & inferiority: film / sign, signal, symbol
the ~ has grown larger
Pope (Pope of Beaujolais, etc.)
adjunct pool
spent 7 years in the ~ in Atlanta (Ph.D.) ‘Pope of Beaujolais’
the ~ dies aged 86 (Georges Duboeuf)
applicant pool
representation: religion
the ~ has doubled (entry to a Jesuit boys' high school)
importance & significance: epithet
employment pool
Seattle offered an ideal ~
pop up (verb)
jury pool popping up in (third-tier) cities
strike eccentric citizens from ~s writers are ~ (China)
~s are disproportionately female popping up (all) over the country
most of the ~ was white coronavirus clusters are ~ (US)
labor pool appearance & disappearance: direction / plant / prep, adv,
the shrinking ~ will slow growth adj, particle / verb
media-pool (m) porn (food porn, etc.)
a ~ representative in the execution witness room
dessert porn
office pool
delicious ~ that will make your mouth water
~s for money are generally illegal (sports)
fear porn
press pool
it’s not ~, they’re reporting what happened (pandemic)
and as the ~ left the room
food porn
talent pool
food blogs and “~” sites (online)
the company's ~ is remarkable
inspiration porn
shrinking (labor) pool
we call it ~ in many disability circles (a disparaging term)
the ~ will slow growth
“map porn”
ideal (employment) pool
Reddit’s ~ discussion (sharing, discussion, appreciation)
Seattle offered an ~
group, set & collection: water poverty porn
what Bassin calls ~ (images of starving kids / charities)
pool (things) is “~” making a comeback (1980s fundraising ads)
slum tourism is like ~ (2009)
pools of information
databases are vast ~ “space porn”
what some astronomy enthusiasts call ~ (Hubble photos)
pool of (two- and three-year-old) used cars
the ~ “torture porn”
horror dominated by a ~ aesthetic (Saw, Hostel, etc.)
car-pool (m) the Saw-led ~ craze of the mid-2000s
~ lanes
trauma porn
envy pool it’s easy to descend into ~ (the great writer Phil Klay)
women are little ~s with one another
victimization porn
group, set & collection: water I don’t get how ~ helps minorities (discussion about NPR)
popcorn (noun) violence porn
I did not want Career of Evil to become ~ (J.K. Rowling)
popcorn entertainment
the series provides audience with pure ~ (Fast & Furious) war porn
~ has vulgarized evening news TV footage
popcorn sensibilities soldiers call these clips “~” (“Watch this!” / snippets)
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wealth porn critical-positive
culture critics describe it as “~” (shows like Succession, it would be an easy, ~ change (to Academy Awards)
Billions, Gossip Girl, etc.)
inclusion & exclusion: society
attraction & repulsion: sex
possessed
portal (entrance)
possessed by rage
portals to the underworld he was ~
Maya culture long considered cenotes to be ~
fictive possession / possession: hand
portals for discovery feeling, emotion & effect: hand / mental health / religion
mistakes are the ~
post (abandon one’s post)
portal back to the 1960s
the book offers a vivid ~ abandon his post
he will not ~ to run for governor
portal: doors & thresholds / gate
allegiance, support & betrayal: military / verb
portrait (view)
postage stamp (size)
portrait of life
he painted a grim ~ in North Korea Postage Stamp Mural
smaller, portable murals are designated ~s
pen portrait a ~ shows Champion Paper and Fibre Company (Canton)
a gossipy memoir shot with vivid ~s ♦ “It’s got solar cells, batteries, two cameras... computer systems,
navigation systems. All of this in a helicopter that’s only the size of a
grim portrait chihuahua.” (A drone on Mars.)
he painted a ~ of life in North Korea
comparison & contrast / size: object
portrait emerges
a Jekyll and Hyde ~ of SEAL accused of murder postcard (and post card)
painted a (grim) portrait audio postcard
he ~ of life in North Korea he sent this ~ from California’s Central Valley (NPR)

analysis, interpretation & explanation: picture speech: tools & technology / writing & spelling
characterization / evidence: picture poster (poster child, etc.)
posse (group)
poster boy for everything
hang out with their posse he became a ~ that was wrong with boxing
they ~ after school (high school)
poster boy for how
group, set & collection: crime / horse he is a ~ to do it well (a fund-raiser)
position (on an issue, etc.) poster boy for the sport
he was considered the ~ (Ray Mancini / boxing)
staking out their positions
the two sides are ~ on the issue (politics) posterboy for all things Draco
he has become the ~ (a rapper / the weapon)
position, policy & negotiation: line / position
poster child for the spoiled athlete
positive (sex positive, etc.) he's a ~
“positive” sexuality poster child for ignorance
Blake as a representative of liberation and ~ (2015) he has become a ~ (racist)
body positive poster girl for tennis
her 2016 memoir about being feminist and ~ she’s going to be a wonderful (Emma Raducanu)
“sex positive” representation: picture / sign, signal, symbol
~ libertarians (feminism and porn)
post-mortem (analysis)
sex-positive
~ feminism commodifies sexual identities post mortem
~ representations of puberty and adolescence I’m sure after the ~ people will analyse and... (sports)
Hoang’s new romance is ~
postmortem
women are grasping the language of ~ feminism
the report is a ~ to understand what went wrong (politics)

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 ~: Netherlands Vs. Cameroon (a soccer match) trauma a “near universal experience” for people with mental and
behavioral health issues.” (“Not Just For soldiers: Civilians With PTSD
post mortem of processes and practices Struggle To Find Effective Therapy” by Caroline Covington, NPR, May
20, 2019.)
the company promised a ~ it followed (internet meltdown)
♦ “Every culture possesses what Edward Shorter, a medical historian at
post mortems on her campaign the University of Toronto, calls a ‘symptom repertoire’—a range of
physical symptoms available to the unconscious mind for the physical
now she has dropped out, ~ have begun (election) expression of psychological conflict.’ In parts of India, patients are said to
suffer from dhat syndrome: they complain of impotence and have the
campaign post-mortem delusion that they are losing their semen. In Nigeria, students who can’t
her book is a ~ retain information and report feeling a burning sensation in their heads
are sometimes given a diagnosis of ‘brain fag.’ The illnesses are
election post mortem reinforced by a local belief that the symptoms are a sign of authentic
suffering, worthy of expert attention and care.” (“The Apathetic: Why are
Republican governors perform ~ refugee children falling unconscious?” by Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker,
April 3, 2017.)
Grammy Postmortem
♦ Zar: Spirit possession (Middle East); amok: an episode of murderous
a ~ (Pop Culture Happy Hour) rage followed by amnesia (Southeast Asia); koro: the feeling that the
genitals are retracting into the body (Southeast Asia); tsog tsuam (sleep
focus of post-mortems paralysis / Hmong in the US); Digeunton (pressed on / Indonesia); Bei
the bridge’s design will be a ~ (collapsed) gui ya (held by a ghost / China); Boszorkany-nyomas (witches’ pressure /
Hungary); the Old Hag and ag rog (hag ridden / Newfoundland) …
♦ “There’s going to be a post-mortem, isn’t there, we’re going to have to
(Illnesses associated with particular cultures.)
look and see and say, ‘What next now for Anthony Joshua?’ it’s such a
hard thing, isn’t it?” (Jeanette Kwakye commentating on the Oleksandr ♦ “If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please
Usyk-Anthony Joshua fight, which Usyk won.) contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at...”
♦ Shell shock (WW I), combat fatigue (WW II), operational exhaustion
analysis, interpretation & explanation: death & life / health (Korea), PTSD (Vietnam)... (The military.)
& medicine ♦ “One agency that seized upon Freeman’s work was the Veterans
post-traumatic stress syndrome (and Administration. Faced with an influx of shell-shocked World War II GIs
that flooded its mental wards, the VA issued a directive in 1943
PTSD) requesting its neurosurgeons to study and use the Freeman and Watts
lobotomy technique. By 1951, nearly 3,000 lobotomies had been
performed at VA hospitals, according to agency records.” (“D.C.
PTSD Neurosurgeon Pioneered ‘Operation Icepick’ Technique” by Glenn
seeing herself as someone with ~ was odd at first Frankel, the Washington Post, April 7, 1980.)
many people think ~ is mostly a military problem ♦ Case B2.—DEAF-MUTISM / PRIVATE, 35 YEARS OF AGE.
veteran with ~ smokes week, faces deportation DURATION, 26 MONTHS/ A shell explosion in France resulted in this
patient being buried to the neck. He could not remember anything until
~ doesn’t qualify them for workers’ comp he arrived in England a few weeks later. While in a London hospital he
the recreational drug MDMA looks promising in ~ made several attempts at escaping and was successful on one occasion.
Previous to his admission to the National Hospital he had been given
ptsd strong faradic shocks; tuning forks had been applied to the head; and
I have ~, I have panic attacks I go to therapy sudden noises and hypnotism had also been tried, but all without any
result whatever. He was dull, depressed, discouraged and suspicious,
PTSD providers and in a tremulous condition.” (Hysterical Disorders of Warfare by Lewis
Ralph Yealland, M.D., Resident Medical Officer, National Hospital for the
Texas has a need for more ~ (trafficking, refugees, etc.) Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, London, with preface by E.
Farquhar Buzzard, M.D., F.R.C.P., Lieut.-Colonel, R.A.M.C., 1918.)
PTSD treatment
♦ see also shellshocked
another controversial ~ is eye movement desensitization
feeling, emotion & effect: military
forms, face and causes of PTSD
the many ~ posture (position)
patients with post-traumatic stress disorder posture of (ADA) units
psychiatrist Dr. Julie Holland uses psychedelics to treat ~ the readiness ~ (military)
from nightmares to PTSD posture on the border
from ~, the toll on Facebook moderators... the force has increased its security ~
treat PTSD posture as tough on terrorism
using virtual reality to ~ he seeks to exploit his ~
Congress calls on VA to study medical marijuana to ~
posture, stance, attitude
trigger PTSD what surprised you most about China's ~ (diplomacy)
VA cautions Ken Burns’ Vietnam documentary could ~
♦ “Years later, I have ptsd, I have panic attacks I go to therapy. Finally
assault posture
I’m ready to talk about it and finally heal.” (Gabby, about a sexual assault the Iraqis were in a classic air-land ~
with a Golden Globe nominee.)
♦ “Lady Gaga reveals how she used her PTSD in new role,” BBC.
security posture
the force has increased its ~ on the border
♦ “The push to expand the trained workforce coincides with a growing
understanding of trauma’s effect. The National Council for Behavioral readiness posture
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 the ~ of ADA units (military) I think it’s ~ compared to... (politics)
systems posture importance & significance: potato / size
we will review our ~ based on events (White House)
potato chip
aggressive posture
put his troops in a more ~ equivalent of potato chips
the guard prides itself on its ~ (Iran) it is the literary ~ (a VERY interesting book)

defensive posture consumption: food & drink

destroyed 10 Iraqi T-55 tanks dug in a ~ potency (strength)
the Israeli counterattack has all of Lebanon in a ~
potency of this
nuclear posture the ~ is beyond the individual services (aircraft carrier)
the classified ~ review (US government)
attenuation / force / power: health & medicine
protective posture functioning / strength & weakness: health & medicine
it causes us to maintain ~s but doesn't stop us (BW)
potent (adjective)
position, policy & negotiation / readiness & preparedness:
standing, sitting & lying potent
the ideology is very ~ (Isis)
posture (performance)
potent weapon
defiant posture the method of non-violent resistance is the most ~
Iraqi officials struck a ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
politically potent
tough-guy posture the Arab community is not as ~
he hides behind a ~
♦ George Stephanopoulos: “How much of this is real, and how much of
attenuation / force / power: health & medicine
this is posturing?” / Dan Abrams, ABC News Chief Legal Analyst: “”I functioning / strength & weakness: health & medicine
think this is real posturing.”
pothole (noun)
performance: standing, sitting & lying
public relations potholes
posturing the film would soon run into a number of ~
partisan posturing failure, accident & impairment / obstacles & impedance:
after days of ~ by senators, she was confirmed (judge) infrastructure / journeys & trips
political posturing potshot (noun)
a lot of the rhetoric is just ~ (politics)
potshot
finger-pointing and (political) posturing a few ~s have been aimed at him (criticism of artist)
we must put behind us ~ and solve this problem
potshot approach
performance: standing, sitting & lying I don’t like that kind of a ~ (politics and criticism)
position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying
gleeful potshots
potato (small potatoes) Republicans are taking ~ at Democratic opponents
small potatoes two potshots
I think it’s ~ compared to... (politics) they loved her ~ at the state’s Republican governor
importance & significance: potato / size take potshots at Harvard
pot (pot calls the kettle black) people like to ~ (elitist, rich, politically correct, etc.)

calling the kettle black taken (more than a few) potshots at his home state
this is the pot ~ he has ~ over the years
♦ “What was Zaha moaning to Maupay about? I hope it wasn’t about his takes potshot at whatever is bothering him
celebration in front of the CP fans. Didn’t Zaha do that to the Brighton
fans after his pen? Pot calling and all that.” (wemarchon about Crystal
he takes ~ (comedian)
Palace vs. Brighton & Hove Albion, Mon 27 Sept 2021.)
accusation & criticism: speech / weapon
accusation & criticism: color / cooking
pounce (verb)
potato (small potatoes)
pounce
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pouncing poured out
his opponents are ~ (politics) thousands of protestors ~ of the mosque
the doors opened, everyone ~ and ran (subway shooting)
pounced
prosecutors, then, ~ (on defendant’s testimony) poured into 911
over 100 calls ~ as the shooting unfolded (at a school)
pounce on him
for me to ~ now would be cruelty (criticism) poured into (neighboring) Turkey
thousands of Syrians ~
pounced on the story
British tabloids ~ pouring into Iraq
terrorists from every group are ~
quick to pounce
the Obama campaign was ~ (on opponent's gaffe) pouring into Kabul
♦ “For me to pounce on him now would be an exercise in cruelty, with rural migrants and refugees ~
because that brother is not right.” (Sports discussion about a troubled
NFL player.) pour into the city
♦ An article about tigers at the BBC states that a tiger can leap forward thousands of delegates began to ~ for the… (UN)
33 feet from a sitting position!
poured into hospitals
eagerness & reluctance: animal / hunting / movement / scenes of anguish as civilian casualties ~
predation / verb / walking, running & jumping
movement: animal / hunting / predation / verb / walking,
pour into his office
running & jumping messages ~ from disaffected Saudis (dissident)

pound (amount) poured into the slum

police ~ in armored cars (Paraisopolis / São Paulo)
pound of cure
an ounce of prevention is worth a ~ (proverb) pouring into streets
Jewish worshippers ~ following sundown prayers
amount: weight
aid poured in
pound (snowfalls pounded the international ~ and disaster was averted…
Northeast, etc.) invitations have been pouring in
~ (to speak at colleges / author)
pounded the Northeast
record snowfalls have ~ leads poured in
the ~ (70,000 / child abduction)
pounding the Northeast
the hurricane is ~ praise poured in
~ for Carter (Oslo agreement)
pound the region
Hurricane Dorian continues to ~ as a Category 4 storm tributes are pouring in
force: storm this morning ~ for King following his death
amount & effect / movement: verb / water
pound (pound targets, etc.)
pour (put)
pounding the social media companies
lawmakers are ~ over their market dominance pour fuel on the fire
this will ~ of toxic political warfare
pounded targets
US aircraft ~ in Libya pour fuel on the flames
♦ Allenby: (Pointing to the map.) Pound them, Charley. (Thumping his the documents are likely to ~ of a strained relationship
fist on the chalk board.) Pound them. / (The scene changes. It is night.
Artillery flickers on the horizon like the aurora borealis.) / Ali: God help pour gases into the air
the men who lie under that. / Lawrence: They're Turks. / Ali: God help factories ~
them. (From the film Lawrence of Arabia.)

destruction: fist / verb / violence poured his heart and soul into the game
he ~ (Reggie Miller speaking of Larry Bird)
pour (in, into, pour out, etc.)
poured money into improvements
poured in King Fahd ~ (Hajj)
complaints ~
poured my soul into it
pouring in I ~ (singing performance)
casualties from the attack started ~ (to a hospital)
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 we really ~ (social justice) scouts from ~ like the Florida Gators... (sports)
poured (intense) fire into the position Nigeria’s economic powerhouse
he ~, killing three enemy as… Lagos is ~
poured troops into this region global powerhouse
the Kenyan government has ~ US whalers were a ~ (in the past)
poured money into its Web site financial or political powerhouse
the company phased out its catalogue and ~ the N.R.A. is not the ~ that it once was (guns)
pour its resources into transit ratings and merchandizing powerhouse
some question whether the region should ~ it is a ~ (Sponge Bob cartoon show)
poured effort and money into developing driving force / power / strength & weakness: dam /
different companies have ~ jets electricity / river
pour (deadly) fire upon the enemy praetorian guard
Pfc. Lozada continued to ~ (combat)
chillingly effective praetorian guard
poured a stream of fire at the enemy such men make a ~ (miners break up student protests)
undaunted, he ~ (combat)
protection & lack of protection: history / military
pouring on the pressure
he is ~ (a boxing match) praise (sing someone’s praises)
throwing, putting & planting: verb / water singing his praises
directing: verb / water I have been ~ ever since he joined Liverpool (sports)
pour (resemblance) sang the praises of the contract
the mayor ~ (Chicago teachers’ strike ends)
pouring over the mountains
dark storm clouds were ~ achievement, recognition & praise: music / verb

pour downhill pray (verb)

boulders ~ in debris flows
praying that
resemblance: verb / water Democrats are ~ the case will disappear
powder keg wants, needs, hopes & goals: religion / verb

powder keg preach (verb)

Northern Nigeria is a ~ (sectarian divisions)
the region is a ~, and things could get out of hand preach about what
my father would ~ we could do and couldn't do
human powder keg
plantation owners knew they were sitting on a ~ (race) preaches against the evils
Sports Illustrated periodically ~ of steroid use
handle (political) powder kegs
he knows how to ~ (president) preach to the choir
see choir (preach to the choir)
light a fuse on a powder keg
the pandemic’s end might ~ of frustrated desire preaching a gospel (of rebirth) to everyone
he is ~ (Detroit mayor)
set a spark to a powder keg
I don’t want to ~ at precisely the wrong moment preaching a gospel
he is ~ of rebirth (Detroit mayor)
♦ “Far from bringing peace, De Gaul’s visit put a spark in the powder
barrel.” (His visit to Algeria in the 1950s.) preach hate
danger / initiation: explosion / military / weapon school textbooks ~

powerhouse (noun) preaching nonsense

there are outliers out there that are ~ (COVID)
powerhouse (investment) bank
the ~ Goldman Sachs preach the virtues
many ~ of diversity and tolerance, yet…
powerhouse (legal) team
he was represented by a ~ (rich pedophile) practices what he preaches
he ~ by hiking regularly (fitness)
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♦ Practice what you preach! (Hypocrisy.) defend themselves against the predations
message: religion / speech / verb young people must know how to ~ of credit
speech: religion / verb danger: animal / predation
precede (at an earlier time) Predator (the Predator drone, etc.)
preceded the car Predator
the horse ~ a Hellfire air-to-ground missile launched from the ~
preceded the (boxing) match the ~ is a medium-altitude, long-endurance drone
months of trash talking and hype ~ the ~ can linger for 20 hours over a battlefield

time: direction / movement / position / verb Predator drone

sequence: direction / movement / position / verb an unmanned ~ (military)

preceding (at an earlier time) Predator unmanned aerial vehicle

the ~, a 27-foot-long drone
preceding days the ~ is operated remotely by controllers on the ground
in the ~ the soldiers got ready for battle
proper name: animal / predation
sequence / time: direction / movement / position / prep, death & life / military: proper name
adv, adj, particle
predator (people)
precipice (at the precipice)
predators on the Internet
at the precipice of (epic) failure the problem of sexual ~
he stands ~ (politician)
predators in the chain
at the precipice of becoming they were the top ~ (Iraqi terrorists)
it was recorded when he was just ~ a star (music)
predator in a white coat
at the precipice of the presidency he is a ~ (doctor accused of sex abuse)
he stands ~ (Obama)
predators and harassers
skating at the precipice this culture that turns a blind eye to ~ (entertainment)
news organizations that are ~ of financial disaster
predators and the prey
tottered at the precipice in prison, there are the ~
she ~ of despair (mother lost her son through death)
predators and thieves
danger / fate, fortune & chance / proximity: ground, terrain they are all ~ (bankers)
& land / mountains & hills
online predator
precipice (other) ~s trying to have sex with children
headed for the precipice within minutes, he heard from his first ~ (Webcam)
as Britain and the Boer republics ~ (war) lethal predators
danger / fate, fortune & chance / proximity: ground, terrain ~ are psychopathic, sadistic, and sane (evil)
& land / mountains & hills real predator
he is a ~, he’s destroyed many women’s lives
precipitous (adjective)
serial (sexual) predator
precipitous deterioration he was a ~ (pedophile)
their daughter's ~ in the month before her death
sexual predator
decline: ground, terrain & land / mountains & hills
the judge called the former NFL player a “~”
precursor (noun) dealing with ~s (pedophile)
the problem of ~s on the Internet
precursor to fear Web cams are a magnet for ~s
doubt is the ~ (the great climber Alex Honnold)
sexual-predator
initiation: chemistry six states have ~ laws
predation (noun) prey and predator
he believed people fell into two groups: ~
predations of (unscrupulous) business people
Africa can defend itself against the ~.... evolved into a (serial) predator
how a high-school dropout ~

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portrayed him as a predator pregnant (adjective)
prosecutors have ~ who exploited his fame
♦ “The world is like this: it’s eat or be eaten.” (“The German Experiment pregnant with disaster
That Placed Foster Children With Pedophiles” by Rachel Aviv, The New the city was ~ (intercommunal violence)
Yorker, July 19, 2021.)
♦ “It was this Vedic civilization that first developed India’s Grand Road. pregnant with Easter eggs
These Indians found the region covered with dense forests, which it’s ~ (the book D C-T! by Avillez and Young)
sheltered robbers and wild beasts.” (To the Ends of the Earth: The Great
Travel and Trade Routes of Human History by Irene M. Franck and creation & transformation: birth
David M. Brownstone.)
♦ “In the Ussurian taiga, the most dangerous meeting of all is with a prehistoric (adjective)
man.” (Inhabitants include trappers, bandits, escaped convicts, gold
hunters, ginseng hunters, hermits, migrants, tribesmen, etc. From Dersu prehistoric (college football) coaches
Uzala by V.K. Arseniev.) ~ are killing players (heat stroke, etc.)
behavior: animal / person / predation knowledge & intelligence: history
character & personality: animal / person / predation primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: history
predatory (adjective) past & present / time: history

predatory best
prescription (noun)
Harry Kane was back to his ~ (England vs. Ukraine) prescription
predatory business the diagnosis is wrong, and the ~ is malpractice
Internet gambling is a ~ prescription to save
predatory coach a ~ globalization from itself
~s are some of the most successful (sex abuse) prescription for disaster
predatory educators it was a ~ (girl wants acceptance, boys like alcohol)
I view for-profit collages as ~, like predatory lenders amelioration & renewal / script: health & medicine
predatory lender presence (groups)
the poor fall prey to ~s
obscure or even erase my presence
predatory priest I fear that teaching online will ~ (a black female)
the archdiocese is accused of harboring ~s
♦ “We are other, different, not expected to be seen.” (Blacks outdoors in
the woods or hiking on a trail.)
predatory publisher
the company is a ~ (fees, no checking, fake lists) ♦ “He is the main penalty box presence because...” (Karim Benzema.)

predatory lending inclusion & exclusion: society

~ is alive and well (credit cards) present (groups)
“exploitative” and “predatory” visible, courageous and present
the activewear company was branded ~ by a judge LBGQT folks have been so ~
criticize (payday) loans as predatory inclusion & exclusion: society
consumer advocates ~ (300 percent annual interest)
present (up to the present)
danger: animal / predation
up to the (very) last ball
predecessor (go away before) the match was impossible to call right ~ (tennis)
predecessor up to the present day
the car and its ~, the horse... she explores his legacy right ~ (Julius Caesar)
Dollar General’s predecessors continues up to the present day
the rise and fall of ~ (five and dimes, etc.) the city’s tradition as a hotbed of espionage ~
its predecessors past & present / time: direction / height / history /
how does this new Ben-Hur compare with ~ (the film) mountains & hills prep, adv, adj, particle
♦ prae = “before” and decedo = “go away”
press (verb)
past & present: direction / movement / position
time: direction / movement / position press him
sequence: direction / movement / position I had questions, but I didn't ~
coercion & motivation: force / pressure / verb

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pressure (under pressure) pressure from Moscow
because of political ~
under (relentless) pressure to boost
schools ~ scores pressure from (the other) players and parents
she felt ~ (ice-hockey goalie)
under (enormous) pressure to succeed
children are ~ (education) pressure from abroad
~ is responsible for the government's about-turn
under the pressure of (battle) conditions
the unit performed well ~ pressure from family members
the relentless ~ (India)
under pressure from Washington
Saudi Arabia has come ~ to reform pressure on the adversaries
diplomatic ~ to seek a diplomatic solution
under pressure from the Vietnamese-Americans
~, the museum left out… pressure on (arable) land
population ~
under pressure from (animal rights) groups
the business is ~ pressures on Muslims
the social ~ can be intense (US high schools)
under pressure from higher-ups
the recruiters are ~ (military) pressure on police
people are scared and there's a lot of ~ (murders)
under enormous pressure
children are ~ to succeed (education) pressure on getting
there's so much ~ good grades
under relentless pressure
schools ~ pressure in the Alps
increasing settlement ~ and avalanche…
come under pressure
Saudi Arabia has ~ from Washington to reform pressure along the Appalachian Trail
growing development ~
plays well under pressure
the team ~ pressure and competition
society is full of ~ (suicide)
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure
coercion & motivation: pressure pressures and stress
escape the ~ of everyday life (an inn)
pressure (noun)
development pressure
pressure growing ~ along the Appalachian Trail
the ~ leads his colleagues to "blow up" from time to time
family pressure
pressure to be they face strong ~ to be dutiful sons
they face strong family ~ dutiful sons
government pressure
pressure to “get the bird up in the air” ~ kept the book under wraps
there was a great deal of ~ (Challenger Disaster)
immigration pressure
pressure to succeed ~ on Germany or even Italy
there's a lot of ~ (Chinese athletes)
job pressure
pressure to open up freedom from ~s
the ~ areas like Badger-Two Medicine and ANWR
population pressure
pressure of allies ~ on arable land
the ~ who counsel against war
schedule pressure
pressures of his job I do not think we are being unduly influenced by ~
feeling overwhelmed and unable to cope with the ~
settlement pressure
pressures of sex, drugs and alcohol increasing ~ in the Alps and avalanche…
the ~ (adolescents)
added pressure
pressures (and stress) of everyday life he expected ~ (NASA scientist, after series of failures)
escape the ~ (an inn)
sustained pressure
pressure from (hardline) Muslims ~ from the European imperialist powers
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academic pressure some people ~ (stressful, demanding jobs)
~ and peer pressure in schools
keep up the pressure
diplomatic pressure we need to ~
~ on the adversaries to seek a diplomatic solution
he faces increased internal and international ~ (a ruler)
put pressure on their children
parents ~ to achieve
intense pressure
she was under ~ to join the boycott (Olympics)
prevail in the face of (extraordinary) pressures
teenagers will be under ~ to… (early puberty) the boldness that enabled him to ~ (Musharraf)

internal pressure thrive under (enormous) pressure

Saudi Arabia faces ~ from hardline Muslims some people are able to ~ (jobs)
♦ “When I was talking to our team about this, I suddenly started to think
political pressure about the pressure I feel under to not miss out, a kind of digital FOMO.”
(Nihal Arthanayake, presenter of “Information overload: Are we
because of ~ from Moscow... drowning in content?” for the BBC.)
relentless pressure ♦ “Consider it a kind of bizarro FOMO but for cultural life.” (Nicholas
the ~ from family members (India) Quah about his need for speed-reading)
schools under ~ to boost students' performance ♦ “Pressure is for tyres.” (James Milner, Liverpool football player, on
being asked if he felt pressure when taking penalty kicks. YNWA.)
social pressures ♦ “Pressure makes diamonds and you learn to deal with it.” (The boxer
the ~ on Muslims can be intense (US high schools) Conor Benn, son of the boxer Nigel Benn.)
the ~ on middle school girls (acceptance, sex, etc.) feeling, emotion & effect: pressure
strong (family) pressure pressure cooker (in a pressure cooker,
they face ~ to be dutiful sons
etc.)
public and political pressure
~ is growing on the Metropolitan Police (Sarah Everard) in the pressure cooker of (pandemic-era) health care
~ (a fatal medication error)
so much pressure
there's ~ on getting good grades in the pressure cooker of the San Siro
he did a good job ~ (a soccer player)
freedom from (job) pressures
it’s hard to imagine ~ environment: container / pressure

anger under pressure pressure cooker (other)

he has shown ~ in the past (police chief)
pressure cooker
pressure is building the White House is a ~ that can burn out idealistic aides
~ to end the 18-year moratorium on whaling despotism is a ~ without a safety valve (protests)
our son graduated from the ~ that is Cornell
pressure did not let up he was a ~ who lacked a safety valve (murderer)
the ~ (on a politician to resign)
pressure cooker of ideas
ease the pressures the California scene in those days was a ~ (art)
~ on common resources (medicinal plants, etc.)
pressure-cooker atmosphere
escape the pressures the accusations underscore the ~ in the region
~ and stress of everyday life (an inn) was it a response to the ~ we have been living in (suicide)
face (strong family) pressure pressure cooker environment
they ~ to be dutiful sons high school can be a ~ (bullying, sex, etc.)
felt pressure reputation as a pressure cooker
she ~ from the other players and parents (sports) M.I.T. is battling a ~ (student suicides)
put on the pressure ♦ My grandpa had a pressure cooker. He had false teeth, and the
pressure cooker softened beef to his liking. Once he shouted that the
it’s time to ~ pressure cooker was about to blow, and ordered me and my small
brother to evacuate his shack, while he heroically adjusted something
come under pressure called the “bead.” Dinners with grandpa, a World War I veteran, could be
Saudi Arabia has ~ from Washington to reform wonderfully exciting!

crack under pressure environment: container / pressure

favored competitors have been known to ~ (cycling)
pressured
crack under the pressure
pressured to choose

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 many students feel ~ sides (rape allegation at school) as many as 45 million people will ~ (by 2010)
pressured to cooperate fell prey to the (voracious) sun
his client is being ~ in the investigation eight ~ (stranded whales)
feel pressured pursuit, capture & escape: animal / predation / verb
many students ~ to choose sides (rape allegation)
I ~ to fit a prescribed mold (work)
prey (prey and predator, etc.)
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure prey for terrorists
coercion & motivation: pressure subways, shopping centers are easy ~

pressure-filled prey and predator

he believed people fell into two groups: ~
pressure-filled environment
this ~ easy prey
subways, shopping centers are ~ for terrorists
pressure-filled meeting room their status outside the law makes them ~ (migrants)
in a ~ she became ~ for an ex-convict twice her age (14 y.o.)
feeling, emotion & effect: pressure predators and the prey
in prison, there are the ~
pretty (adjective)
makes them (easy) prey
pretty their status outside the law ~ (illegal immigrants)
it’s not always ~ (discussing race)
regard girls as prey
flaws & lack of flaws: eye
boys ~
prey (prey on something) pursuit, capture & escape: animal / predation
prey on (homeless) addicts price (noun)
drug dealers who ~...
price to pay
prey on people’s desperation a little bit of sexism is a small ~ for a lot of attention
doctors who ~ (brain-health products, CTE worries, etc.)
price to be good
preyed on parents’ fears he's willing to pay the ~ (an athlete)
he ~ (university admittance fraud)
price of doing
preyed on his mind the ~ the same old thing is higher than price of change
the matter ~ as he went about his daily routine (Archimedes)
price of fame
preys on people Hinckley forced Jodie Foster to think hard about the ~
COVID ~ with existing health problems
price of freedom
preyed on the political prisoners "the ~ is eternal vigilance"
criminals ~ (gulag)
price of hypocrisy
prey on the sheep the ~ has never been lower (politicians and sex)
there are a lot of wolves in here who will ~ prison)
price of liberty
prey on ego and greed eternal vigilance is the ~ (Thomas Jefferson)
regal-sounding diploma mills ~
price of peace
behavior / pursuit, capture & escape: animal / predation / the costs of war and the ~ (soldiers)
verb
price of success
prey (fall prey to something) weary but optimistic, he weighed the ~ (a rapper)
fall prey to (unscrupulous) agents price of war
don't ~ (sex trafficking of Nepalese to UAE) white tombstones, a reminder of the ~ (Arlington)
they pay the ~ with their arms and legs (civilians)
fall prey to (predatory) lenders
the poor ~ price of our inaction
the ~ will be paid by our kids (unplanned growth)
fall prey to traffickers
older women can ~ (sex trafficking) price for writing
there is a ~ your mind (journalist in conflicts)
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price for his activism prick (verb)
Lenny Pozner would pay a ~ (Sandy Hook shooting Dad)
prick (overinflated) reputations
price for (their) fame a critic should ~ (poetry)
celebrities pay a huge ~
destruction: air / atmosphere / hole / verb
price for freedom
the ~ is high (fight against terrorists) priesthood (noun)
price for your sins priesthood of economists
Jesus Christ paid the ~ he was excommunicated from the ~
heavy price sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion
fame came with a ~
he was overconfident throughout and paid a ~ (soccer)
prime (verb)
high price prime us for traumatization
we paid a very ~ (military commander, casualties) the stories passed down ~ (Blacks / race-based)

huge price initiation / readiness & preparedness: explosion /

celebrities pay a ~ for their fame mechanism / verb / weapon

political price primed (ready)

he may pay a ~ nevertheless (a senator)
primed for outrage
those corrupt social-media companies must pay a ~
we are all so ~ (culture wars)
small price
primed to detonate
a little bit of sexism is a ~ to pay for a lot of attention
the film was ~ this weekend (open)
terrible price
primed to love it
but Knievel's fame came at a ~ (daredevil / injuries)
I was so ~ (a Jane Campion film, Power of the Dog)
ultimate price ♦ “Priming” a response is a “big thing” in academic experiments,
she paid the ~ (drug death) particularly in social psychology, linguistics, etc.
you have to be willing to pay the ~ (surfing) initiation / readiness & preparedness: explosion /
came at a (terrible) price mechanism / weapon
but Knievel's fame ~ (daredevil / injuries)
prince (epithet)
comes with a price
fame ~ Prince of Cartography
John George Bartholomew, called the “~”
comes at a price
user-friendliness ~ prince of surgeons
Lister, the ~, hugged Pasteur (1892)
have a price
superlative: epithet / royalty
false hope can ~ (unproven treatments)
epithet: royalty
pay a price prince (person)
see pay (pay a price)
put a price on that little prince
you can’t ~ (happiness in career) I got used to being the ~ (first-born Asian male)
superlative: person / royalty
weighed the price
weary but optimistic, he ~ of success (a rapper) person: royalty
♦ No sin without a price. princess (person)
cost & benefit / judgment: money princess
price tag she thinks a ~ in a pink gown is kid stuff (Halloween)
princess phase
price tag every little girl goes through a ~ (US / pink)
obsessive attention to the ~ is misleading
there's no ~ you can put on it (hearing a wolf in the wild) princess or angel
I want to be Britney Spears, no more ~ (Halloween)
cost & benefit / judgment: money
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 teen ~ Britney Spears prisoner (take no prisoners, etc.)
superlative: person / royalty
take no prisoners
person: royalty
we fight hard, we play for keeps, we ~ (gun-rights activist)
prism (through the prism)
take-no-prisoners
through the prism of its own ideology the ~ approach to justice
the US sees the world ~ his aggressive, ~ attitude was always on display (a coach)

through my own ethnic prism take no prisoners

I view the world ~ her ~ approach got her fired (an educational reformer)

looks at Israel through the prism hard-charging, take-no-prisoners

he ~ of his Christian faith (Bush) he’s known as a ~ kind of guy (Governor Andrew Cuomo)
♦ This is the same as to give no quarter.
sees his role through the prism
♦ “We fight hard, we play for keeps, we take no prisoners. We’ll get in the
Bush ~ of the war on terror (Middle East) trenches and fight dirty.” (Greg Pruett, president of the Idaho Second
Amendment Alliance, a gun-rights group.)
viewed through a (partisan) prism
the past is ~ (US) judgment / punishment & recrimination: military
perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology privilege (white privilege, etc.)
prism (other) white privilege
the law seeks to ban any discussion of ~ (education)
ethnic prism “~” is used as a political weapon to bash opponents
my own ~ sometimes distorts my perspective
I view the world through my own ~ carries some privilege
any white person ~ due to their skin color
ideological prism
♦ “The way we talk about white privilege is eerily consonant with the way
his ~ has not changed (Qaddafi / anti-imperialism) one talks about original sin.” (John McWhorter, author of Woke Racism:
How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.)
partisan prism
the past is viewed through a ~ (US) inclusion & exclusion: society
perception, perspective & point of view: tools & technology prize (noun)
prison (constraint) prize
it was their biggest ~ yet in the 18-day old war (airport)
prison of fat she has some obstacles between her and the ~ (candidate)
if you want to lose weight and escape from the ~ (an ad)
Arctic prize
unlock the prison perhaps the biggest ~ is oil and natural gas
to study the past is to ~ of the present (Jill Lepore)
constraint & lack of constraint: crime
strategic prize
the city is a vital crossroads and a ~ (war)
prisoner (constraint) An Nasiriya is considered a ~ (Iraqi Freedom)

prisoner considered a (strategic) prize

care about people’s approval and you will be their ~ An Nasiriya is ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom)

prisoner of his determination cost & benefit / worth & lack of worth: money
he was the ~ (Amundson follows line of longitude to Pole) wants, needs, hopes & goals: money

prisoners of our own doctrine prized

we were ~ (Israelis in 1973 war) prized in China
prisoner of duty the saiga horn is ~ as a traditional remedy (Mongolia)
he could seem like a grudging ~ (President Grant) prized as an ingredient
prisoner of a preconceived notion the saiga horn is ~ of Chinese medicine
he was the ~ prized (in China) as a (traditional) remedy
prisoner of her own success the saiga horn is ~
she is a ~ (a Pop diva) prized as dairy cattle
♦ “Keep the tongue in your mouth a prisoner.” (Turkish.) the kuri are native to the Lake Chad region and ~
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prized for their odor * This refers to making everyone and everything fit to an arbitrary
standard; to ensure conformity. In science, it can relate to tailoring data
durians are ~ (fruit) to fit the hypothesis. It is similar to “one size fits all.” Procrustes was a
crazy man who stretched people or cut off body parts so that his victims
prized for their taste would fit a metal bed.
edible wild mushrooms are ~ (poisonings) * “Perhaps a laudable anxiety to be correct and systematic in making and
recording meteorological observations has induced the prevailing idea
prized by the (local) Bushmen that extreme precision is all-important, and that observations should be
ostrich eggs are greatly ~ (water containers) very numerous. Observatories, unquestionably, such should be the case;
but to treat all localities, all alike, and to require a similar registration from
prized by Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups each, would indeed be Procrustean, while their application of very
refined instruments might be like cutting wool with razors.” (The Weather
a stash of weapons-grade uranium that would be ~ Book by the great sea captain and scientist Robert FitzRoy.)
prized dish comparison & contrast: affix
they're a ~ at restaurants (Cat Ba langurs) creation & transformation / oppression: allusion / clothing
& accessories
prized fur
llamas and their ~ prod (verb)
prized (QB) recruit prodded the government to do something
Alabama beat Tennessee for a ~ he ~
horn is prized prodding districts to apply
the saiga ~ in China as a traditional remedy the government is ~
greatly prized coercion & motivation: finger / force / verb
ostrich eggs are ~ by the Bushmen
product (noun)
most prized
sable was the ~ accessory in the courts of Europe product of my environment
♦ “They arrive with gold and depart with pepper.” (An amazed Tamil I’m a ~ (place, food, friends, speech, etc.)
trader. Europeans prized pepper. From At Home: A Short History of
Private Life by Bill Bryson.) product of mentorship
♦ “Jade has no meaning for our culture, but we are thankful to Allah that I’m a complete ~ (Broadway producer Scott Rudin)
the Chinese go crazy for it.” (Yacen Ahmat, a Uighur in Khotan’s jade
bazaar, in Xinjiang.) product of its time
♦ The small corpses of Carolina parakeets were used whole by milliners
the film was a ~ (Gone with the Wind)
to adorn women’s hats. The last known representative of its species died
in February 1918. product of her upbringing
she is the ~ (an Appalachian musician)
cost & benefit / worth & lack of worth: money
product of her (Midwest) upbringing
process (verb) this is possibly a ~ (an inviting personality)
processed what happened product of their (life) experiences and their education
I don’t think I’ve really ~ (a building collapse) they are to some extent the ~ (Supreme Court justices)
process our grief creation & transformation: manufacturing
we ask that the media respect our privacy as we ~ identity & nature / product / relationship: manufacturing
process this (awful) loss professor (noun)
her little sister can hardly ~ (a fatal selfie accident)
his professors
feeling, emotion & effect: manufacturing / verb the Arctic was his university and the Inuit ~ (Amundsen)
comprehension & incomprehension: manufacturing / verb
knowledge & intelligence: person / school & education
procrustean (adjective)
profit (verb)
procrustean
requiring rigor from expert and amateur is ~ (data) profit from lessons learned
he was confident that he could ~
procrustean bureaucracy
~ in the name of consistency (education) cost & benefit: money / verb
worth & lack of worth: money / verb
procrustean criticism
they faced ~ from rightists and leftists (immigration) profile (low profile)
procrustean decisions low profile
film editing sometimes requires making ~ US citizens should maintain a ~ (terrorism)
my company was ~

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keep a low profile profile parameters
Westerners ~ in line with their embassies' advisories ~ for Arab terrorists
maintain a low profile person's (personality) profile
Americans should ~ (terrorism overseas) a ~ is a powerful influence
US citizens should ~ (Saudi Arabia)
consumer profile
attention, scrutiny & promotion: height / target portal sites are doing a lot with ~
protection & lack of protection: height / target
credit profile
profile (high profile) customers with even riskier ~s (phone companies)
high-profile case criminal profile
~s involving sex techniques for developing a ~
the police are under pressure to solve the ~
flight profile
high-profile disappearance the dangerous potential of the ~ (aircraft crash)
it was the nation's fourth ~ of a child
mule profile
high-profile intellectual he fit the ~ (busted drug courier at airport)
Mr. Ramadan ins not just a professor but a ~
personality profile
high-profile target a person's ~ is a powerful influence
the US is a ~ (terrorism)
DNA profile
highest-profile (soccer) star the law mandates taking a ~ of all criminals
he is one of the world's highest-paid and ~s the F.B.I. maintains a national database of ~s
attention, scrutiny & promotion: height detailed profile
~s that include the donors' health history
profile (attention)
criminal profile
profile of atheists techniques for developing a ~
raising the ~ in America (a march)
demographic profile
profile in the US as the ~ of Los Angeles changed (police department)
trying to raise the sport's ~ (table tennis)
different (homicidal) profile
profile in the region he appears to fit a ~
the US has raised its military ~ (Korea)
discernible profile
sport's profile these victims do not fit any ~ (spree killings)
trying to raise the ~ in the US (table tennis)
geographic profile
military profile ~s use crime locations to determine…
the US has raised its ~ in the region (Korea)
homicidal profile
profile soared he appears to fit a different ~
her ~ spectacularly in 2016 (after interviewing Trump)
particular profile
raised her profile victims usually fit a ~, such as prostitutes…
the endorsement ~ (a politician)
psychological profile
raise the (sport's) profile construct a ~ of a serial killer
trying to ~ in the US (table tennis) the FBI is working on developing a ~ of the suspect
attention, scrutiny & promotion: height FBI ~s of the Green River killer appear to match him

profile (picture) reproductive profile

construct a ~ of the women in the tribe
profile of the killer
he created a ~ profile had suggested
an FBI ~ the kidnapper is a predator, and possibly…
profile of the women
construct a reproductive ~ in the tribe profile (also) suggested
the ~ that the killer… (FBI-created profile)
profile of Los Angeles
as the demographic ~ changed (police department) construct a (psychological) profile
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developing a (criminal) profile ♦ This word refers to at least 4 things: (1) great creativity and originality,
especially, now, technology (2) “gifting” something of great benefit to
techniques for ~ others (3) defiance of authority and disobedience (4) great suffering.

fit a (particular) profile ♦ In Greek mythology, the myth of Prometheus and the story of Pandora
are intertwined.
victims usually ~, such as prostitutes…
♦ “Prometheus unframed: A new type of camera could prove valuable or
fit any (discernible) profile robots, drones and driverless cars,” The Economist, January 29th, 2022.
these victims do not ~ (spree killings) ♦ “Paine is the preeminent spokesman of a new class of people who are
emerging at just that time. We used to call them the artisans, self-
fit the (mule) profile educated working men with a skill... They’ve taught themselves to read
or they’ve become literate.. And they develop political ambitions. And
he ~ (busted drug courier at airport) Paine is the perfect spokesman of this group of people who meet in
taverns and coffeehouses and public squares to discuss self-
characterization: picture improvement and the improvement of society. And that’s why—it’s
Promethean, I suppose, is the word I’m looking for. It’s the desire to
profile (profile in courage) share the fire, not just with the gods but with the whole of humanity, so
everyone can warm themselves by the flame and see by it, too.”
profiles in courage (“Hitchens: How Paine’s ‘Rights’ Changed the World,” NPR, October 23,
major businesses are not exactly ~ (the bottom line) 2007. From the special series, “Books That Changed the World.”)

♦ The beloved US president John F. Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage, difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion / religion
in which he singled out eight senators for their bravery and integrity. comparison & contrast: affix
♦ “Look, I never expect a foreign leader I’m dealing with, or a colleague sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: allusion / religion
senator, to voluntarily appear in the second edition of Profiles in
Courage. So you got to think of what is in their interest.” (Joe Biden Promised Land
speaking to Evan Osnos.)

allusion / character & personality: books & reading

painted the North as a promised land
he ~ (Robert Sengstacke Abbott of Chicago Defender)
prognosis (noun) environment / superlative: allusion / Bible / religion
grim prognosis prong (river)
the ~ was consistent with new figures (world economy)
South Prong
reliable prognoses the ~ of the Current River
there aren’t any ~ of how the Arctic climate will develop
branching system: animal / horn
scientific prognoses
grim ~ have come to pass (death of the Amazon) prong (part)
condition & status: health & medicine two main prongs
future / time: health & medicine the scheme consisted of ~ (college admissions scandal)
progress (verb) branching system: animal / horn
case has progressed prop (noun)
a lot has happened as this ~
spiritual prop
progress & lack of progress: movement / verb he leaned on Wilson as his ~ (Robert Falcon Scott)
development: movement / verb
allegiance, support & betrayal / amelioration & renewal:
promethean (adjective) infrastructure / mining / verb
Promethean Award prophet (person)
the ~ for Headteacher of the Year in a Primary School
prophets
Promethean fire some of these ~ had been spectacularly wrong (stocks)
this is forbidden fruit, a ~, a Pandora’s box, and evil genie
prophets of doom
Promethean hero we must reject the ~ and their predictions of the Apocalypse
the Romantic view of Satan as a ~ (Frankenstein)
mantle of a prophet
promethean heroes he increasingly adopted the ~
a high Romantic vision of authors as ~ of creativity
turned (doomsday) prophet
Promethean individualism the news anchor ~ (the film Network)
Nietzsche was drawn to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ~
message: Bible / person / religion
Promethean task future / time: person / religion
the scale-up for treating a human is a ~ (growing livers) person: religion

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prop up (verb) importance & significance: epithet

props up North Korea with aid and trade

public-spirited
China ~ public-spirited
prop up his government ~ citizens
foreigners ~ (Venezuela) ~ journalists
character & personality: religion
prop up (global) growth
China may not be able to ~ pull (tidal pull)
props up Maduro tidal pull
the military ~ (Venezuelan leader) the ~ of Berkeley was strong on her (academic)
prop up her spirits attraction & repulsion: astronomy / sea / tide
though her body sagged, her doctor helped ~ relationship: astronomy / sea / tide
allegiance, support & betrayal / amelioration & renewal: pull (attraction)
infrastructure / mining / verb
pull of the Arctic
proselytize (verb) he felt the ~ (Amundsen)
proselytize for his government pull of ISIS
his political allies are expected to ~ (workers) the book explores the ~
message / speech: religion / verb gravitational pull
proverbial (adjective) some felt the ~ of the gold rush in California (migrants)
irresistible (gravitational) pull
proverbial slow boat to China
the almost ~ of getting more attention (on the internet)
what must have seemed like the ~ (circuitous route)
exerted a pull
proverbial parapet
Lake Ohrid has ~ on me since my childhood (Balkans)
the people who have stuck their heads above the ~ to
improve visibility (groups) felt the pull
she still ~ of her childhood faith (a scientist)
proverbial committee-designed racehorse
collaboration often leads to the ~ becoming a giraffe attraction & repulsion: astronomy
resemblance: allusion relationship: astronomy

prowl (on the prowl) pull (pull for someone)

pulling for you
on the prowl for (naïve) girls
we're ~
Internet predators are always ~
allegiance, support & betrayal: arm / burden / verb
behavior / movement: animal / predation
prune (verb) pull (pull yourself together, etc.)
pull himself together
prune the budget
he would ~ and seem to be under control (troubled)
they are seeking ways to ~ (government)
resiliency: mental health / verb
dismissal, removal & resignation: farming & agriculture /
amelioration & renewal: mental health / verb
plant / tree / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: rope
pruned pull back (verb)
pruned pulled back
every interview here has been ~ he ~ after giving the green light and go order (military)
creation & transformation: farming & agriculture / plant / pulled those ships and planes back
tree he ~ (called off military attack)
Ptolemy (Chinese Ptolemy, etc.) starting, going, continuing & ending: verb
avoidance & separation: verb
Chinese Ptolemy
the ~, Phei Hsui, made a detailed map of China

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pulled in use the ~ of the office to highlight human rights
“‘You’ve got to use the bully pulpit of the mayor’s office,’ Lori Lightfoot
pulled in by this light said at the MIT roundtable in April as she explained how she runs
Chicago... / Lightfoot seems not to understand what Teddy Roosevelt
they are ~ (migratory birds and urban areas) meant when he called the presidency a ‘bully pulpit.’ Like a lot of
Northeastern patricians of his day, he used the adjective ‘bully’ to mean
situation: container / movement great, or perhaps jolly good. The bully pulpit is the opposite of what
involvement / attraction & repulsion: astronomy / Lightfoot describes. She means the smoke-filled room. And she seems
movement to assume that Roosevelt is referring to bullying...” (“The Inequality of
‘Equity,’” by Christopher Caldwell, National Review, May 17, 2021.)
pulled into
message: Bible / religion / speech
pulled into the rabbit hole pulpit (Devils pulpit, etc.)
I got ~ (an online feud)
situation: container / movement Devil’s pulpit
the ~ (an outcrop in a gorge)
involvement / attraction & repulsion: astronomy /
movement proper name: religion
pull out (verb) geography: proper name
pulsating (adjective)
pull out of the agreement
they want to ~ pulsating contest
starting, going, continuing & ending: burden / verb in a ~, Ward produced a composed performance (boxing)
dismissal, removal & resignation: burden / verb pulsating start
pull through (verb) the fight has a ~ in Leeds (boxing)
feeling, emotion & effect: movement
pull through
I thought she was strong enough to ~ (died of Covid) pulse (noun)
managed to pull through pulse of the planet
some companies have ~ (satellite constellations) the satellites allow scientists to take the ~ (climate)
survival, persistence & endurance: verb pulse of the (Israeli) public
pull together (verb) the polling firm regularly takes the ~

pull together oceans' pulse

we all ~ (hurricane) robot subs help to take the ~
he asked conservatives to ~ (politics) on the pulse of the nation
maybe we can ~ to beat this pandemic the prime minister does not have his finger ~
but in North Carolina, we’re gonna ~, work to clean up
we will ~ and through this (a disaster) pulse (of the city) is (really) pumping
the ~ again (Chinese nightlife post-pandemic)
pull together as a country
we’re going through a time when we have to ~ (pandemic) got a pulse
we need to prove that we’ve still ~ (the film Maze)
pull together as a team
are we going to be civilized and ~ when there’s a crisis taken the pulse
we have ~ of sex in the US today (survey)
pull together to help
it’s vital that we all ~ weather this crisis (pandemic) keep our finger on the pulse
help us to ~ (popup survey at a website)
pull together, grieve together, work together
we will ~, and love one another (high school shooting) condition & status / measurement: blood / death & life /
health & medicine
unanimity & consensus / work & duty: arm / burden / skin,
muscle, nerves & bone / verb pummel (the storm pummeled the
pulpit (bully pulpit, etc.) island, etc.)
pulpit pummels Midwest with snow
television is the ~ from which they preach (politics) spring blizzard ~
presidential bully pulpit pummeling the islands with rain and winds
Obama should use the ~ to address entitlements the hurricane is ~
pulpit and the megaphone pummeled Barbados

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 the hurricane ~ ♦ “Last night we got out of strict Level Four lockdown, which hasn’t
allowed us to surf for five weeks. We’re in Level Three now and we can
force: storm finally surf. I’m so pumped to get out there.” (A video showing a female
teen surfer in New Zealand on the shore in a wetsuit with her surfboard.
pummel (verb) She runs to the water.)

feeling, emotion & effect: air / atmosphere / pump

pummeled him over the cost
Republicans ~ of the bill (politics) pump up (verb)
pummeled the company's earnings and stock prices pump up your confidence
the problem has ~ ~ (job hunting)
pummeled her rival pumped the rookies up
she ~ (a tennis match) having ~, he now deflates them… (NFL camp)
accusation & criticism: boxing / fist / speech / verb / increase & decrease / feeling, emotion & effect: air /
violence atmosphere / mechanism / prep, adv, adj, particle / pump
pummeled / verb

pummeled
punch (punch above one's weight, etc.)
the bank's shares have been ~ fight above our weight
pummeled in the media we're going to have to ~ (politics)
she has been ~ (a leader) punches above its weight
pummeled for failing Hungary ~ in math, it has produced many mathematicians
he has been ~ to solve the problem punched (massively) above our weight
pummeled by conservatives we ~ (small Wales does great in Rugby World Cup)
he was ~ for even broaching the topic (politics) power / substance & lack of substance: boxing / verb /
pummeled by the storm weight
the area was ~ punch (sucker punch / verb)
pummeled by both sides sucker punched France
he has been ~ (Obama)
the US has ~ (scored a goal against run of play)
pummeled by drugs and crime behavior: boxing
the neighborhood has been ~
readiness & preparedness / restraint & lack of restraint /
feeling, emotion & effect: boxing / fist / sensation subterfuge: boxing / fist / verb

pump (direct) punch (pull a punch)

pumps $20 million into the (local) economy pull any punches
rafting ~ (Summersville, WV) she didn’t ~

pumped (new) life into the (martial-arts) genre pulled no punches

he ~ he ~ when he spoke of the president (cursed him)
prosecutors ~ (called him a liar, thief, cheat)
pumped (more than) $100 million into (city) schools the women wrote the toughest scrips, they ~ (Chris Meloni)
the Gates Foundation has ~
pulled his punches
directing: verb / water he was very direct, never minced his words or ~
pumped (directed) restraint & lack of restraint: boxing / fist / speech / sports
& games / verb
pumped into the facility
speech: boxing / sports & games / verb
for all the money that was ~…
punch (punch back)
directing: pump / water
pumped (feeling) punching back
he wants Trudeau to keep ~ (trade war)
so pumped conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: boxing / verb
others were not ~ (eager to deploy to Iraq)
punch (roll with the punches)
so pumped to get out there
I’m ~ (a female teen surfer) roll with the punches

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 you just have to ~ (government shutdown) punch bowl (shape)
survival, persistence & endurance: boxing / verb
punchbowl waterfall
resiliency: boxing / verb
it’s a ~, the water falls into a wide pool (kayaking)
punch (beat somebody to the punch) shape: food & drink / object
beat Kim to the punch punch bowl (Punch Bowl Falls, etc.)
it was a way for Trump to ~ (cancel meeting before Kim)
sequence: boxing / verb Punch Bowl Falls
we walked to the base of ~ (Eagle Creek, Oregon)
readiness & preparedness: boxing / verb
punch (the storm packed a punch, etc.) Devil’s Punchbowl
you can leap from cliff to cliff at ~ (Aspen CO)
punch the ~ is a naturally formed swimming hole
Atlantic Beach was feeling Hurricane Isabel's ~ the ~ is just 10 miles outside Aspen, Colorado

most brutal punch Battle of the Punchbowl

the storm saved its ~ for New England Bloody Ridge, Heartbreak Ridge, the ~ (Korean War)

one-two punch proper name: food & drink / object / shape

the ~ has devastated wildlife (algae and red tide) geography: proper name
the extinction could have been a ~ punching bag (noun)
packed a punch punching bag for (Russian) cyberattacks
the storm ~
Ukraine has been a ~ for years
force: storm
punching bag for politicians
punch (punch in the gut, etc.) Facebook has become a ~ on all sides (hearings)

punch in the face punching bag for their (domestic) politics

he said the defeat was a massive ~ but... (Liverpool) the British must stop using us a ~ (migrants from France)

punch in the gut media’s (new) punchbag

they broke the story and for us that was a ~ (police) she became the ~ (Meghan, Duchess of Sussex)

punch in the gut reading industry punching bags

it was kind of a ~ about the case for the first time (racism) screenwriters act as ~ (they have much to complain about)

punch-counterpunch rhetorical punching bag

this kind of ~ makes Canadians nervous (trade war) Biden wasn’t as much of a ~ this time (election debate)
♦ Punchbag is British English (BE) for the American English (AE)
gut punch punching bag, or heavy bag. The Guardian spells it as one word.
historic oil bust delivers a ~ to Texas county Merriam Webster has it as two words.
that is a ~ of a finding from a new study (pandemic deaths) accusation & criticism / punishment & recrimination:
knockout punch boxing
he is looking for a ~ (political race)
punchline (joke)
one-two punch
the ~ of self-righteous preening and hypocrisy punchline
the ~ of the pandemic and the oil bust (Texas) he is a ~ (athlete who failed, choked, blew it)
insult: speech
packs an (emotional) punch
the play ~ punctuate (verb)
landed a (rhetorical) punch punctuate her points
she ~ (at a political debate) her hands move emphatically to ~
took a (gut) punch attention, scrutiny & promotion: letters & characters / verb
we ~ in Iowa (Joe Biden on Iowa caucus results)
punctuate (configuration)
effect: boxing / fist / force / sensation / violence
feeling, emotion & effect: boxing / fist / force / sensation / punctuate the horizon
violence huge red-rock walls and pillars ~ (Utah / Indian country)
configuration: letters & characters / verb

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puncture (verb) a sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of
deception (Wikipedia)
punctured Slater's aura computer / subterfuge: puppet
he ~ of invincibility (surfing)
concealment & lack of concealment: puppet
puncture (widely held) beliefs puppeteer (noun)
the allegations ~ about how he operated
destruction: air / atmosphere / hole / verb cast Murdoch as a ~, controlling British politics
they ~ through is partisan newspapers
punt (verb) control & lack of control: puppet
punt to the courts purgatory (noun)
the strategy is to ~ and run out the clock (politics)
legal purgatory
punted their decision back to him
he finds himself in ~ (waiting to face charges)
they ~ (did not decide themselves)
period of purgatory
punted on a major test
he had been living in a ~ (pilot’s crash kills at air show)
the Supreme Court ~ (gerrymandering)
remain in purgatory
punted on what to do
the refugees ~
the Supreme Court ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: football / verb stuck in this purgatory
nurses describe getting ~ (applying for state licenses)
punt (noun) action, inaction & delay / environment / situation: religion
more of a punt than a (long-lasting) decree puritanism (noun)
the decision was ~ (Supreme Court)
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: football puritanism versus our Latin culture
American ~ (France)
puny (adjective)
modern puritanism
puny (bailout) mechanism his film rebels against our ~ about intoxication (Vinterberg)
we must extend the euro's too ~
rebels against (our modern) puritanism
strength & weakness: health & medicine / size his film ~ about intoxication (Thomas Vinterberg)

puppet (control) oppression / sex: history / religion

puppet purity (sex)

she was a ~ under his control purity culture
promoters run the shop, the guys in the ring are just ~s evangelical ~, or abstaining from sex before marriage
puppet of the Left purity movement
he is the ~ (politics) the evangelical ~
puppets on a string ♦ "He was criticized—and praised—earlier this year after he had issued a
Scott saw his men as ~ (negative criticism) fatwa saying it was permissible for women to have reconstructive hymen
surgery before marriage to conceal that they were no longer virgins. He
said that since it was impossible to tell whether a man was a virgin,
puppet master women should have the same option." (Egypt's grand mufti, Sheik Ali
some say he is a ~ of the news media (WikiLeaks) Gomaa, "A Compass That Can Clash With Modern Life," by Michael
he is the ~ of a brutal human-trafficking group Slackman, NYT, June 12, 2007.)
♦ "Virginity is a very real issue for Egyptian women, as illustrated in the
puppet rulers popular film "The Wedding." It tells the story of Abdullah and Gamila, a
Nazi ~ in Croatia killed thousands (Jasenovac) young couple who signed their marriage contracts years ago but couldn't
afford the marriage ceremony that would, by tradition, allow the union to
control & lack of control: puppet / theater be consummated. But the couple has been having sex all along…
("Artificial Virginity Device Sparks Backlash In Egypt," by Peter Kenyon,
unanimity & consensus: puppet / theater NPR, Oct. 13, 2009.)
puppet (sockpuppet / internet) ♦ "If they think they can get a pure-hearted girl this way they are really
mistaken. To me, the way people are taking virginity as a commodity
sock these days is such a sad thing." (A Chinese woman, on the practice of
very rich Chinese businessmen advertising for virgin brides, and then
I will not be coming back here as a ~ (Wiki editor) interviewing them.)

sockpuppet ♦ "She can be in danger because sometimes it's a matter of traditions

and family. I believe we as doctors have no right to decide for her or
judge her." (An Arab doctor in Paris who performs hymenoplasty two or

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three times a week. The operation takes about 30 minutes under local pursue a (film) career
anesthetic and costs 2,000 euros.)
left her TV show to ~
♦ "The editor of Morocco's Al-Ahdath Al-Maghribia daily newspaper,
Moktar el-Ghzioui, is living in fear for his life after he expressed support pursue the case
for pre-marital sex during a local television debate. / 'The next thing there
was a cleric from Oujda releasing a fatwa that I should die,' he says. / the Pakistani government vowed to ~ (rape of girl)
According to article 490 of the penal code, Moroccans can be jailed for
having sexual relations outside marriage. / This is based on Islamic law, pursuing a doctorate
which bans unmarried people from engaging in sexual activity… / A he was ~ in computer sciences at…
sociologist at the University of Mohammed V, Abdessamad Dialmy,
argues that article 490 needs to be removed because human beings pursue her dream
have the right to sex. / He says more and more unmarried couples are
having sex because they are getting married much later… / Imam
she quit her job to ~ of becoming…
Hassan Ait Belaid who preaches at a mosque in the commercial capital
Casablanca says article 490 is part of the culture of a non-Western pursue a dream
society. / 'If the code is removed, we will become wild savages. Our people who switched courses late in life to ~
society will became a disaster,' he says." ("Morocco: Should pre-marital
sex be legal?" by Nora Fakim, BBC, 8 August 2012.) pursue an education
♦ The boto is a dolphin that can transform itself into a human to it is in his interest to ~ in computers or technology
impregnate impressionable young virgins. (The Amazon.)
♦ Purity applies to women, but not men. pursue my education
the thing that will make me happiest is to ~
♦ There is no religion below the navel.

sex: hygiene / materials & substances pursue (higher) education

women who delay marriage to ~ and a career
purse (money)
pursued her goal
purse of seventeen million dollars she ~ by studying…
a ~ (boxing match)
pursue your interests
total purse you can certainly find an hour a day to ~
the ~ is at least $475,000 (New York Marathon)
pursue (other) interests
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol I want to have time to travel and ~
purse strings pursue its (own strategic) interests
the US should ~ (vs. high-minded goals)
controls the (family’s) purse strings
he ~ pursuing (even quadruple) majors
students are ~
controls the purse strings
Congress ~ pursue these matters
but we'll ~ further to build on… (diplomacy)
money: purses & wallets / sign, signal, symbol
pursue (military) objectives
pursue (afflict) army forces must ~ energetically
pursue her to her grave pursue opportunity
racism and hatred would ~ (Hattie McDaniel) they left to ~ in California (black Okies)
pursue its lawsuit pursue (new job) opportunities
the company retained the right to ~ if… the ability of workers to ~
pursued a (ruinous) economic policy pursue (other) opportunities
he has ~ (a president) she resigned, saying the time had come to ~
affliction: animal / creature / verb pursue the opportunity
pursue (pursue a dream, etc.) she encouraged him to ~ (of study abroad)

pursue it with (great) vigor pursue all possibilities

he said investigators would ~ (blast)
I intend to ~ (full investigation)
pursue their (own hidden) agendas pursue this
I think it's wrong to ~, we should let it drop
factions ~ outside of the law
pursue (both old and new) approaches pursues his vision
Wangurri clan Elder Timothy Buthimang ~
NASA will ~ simultaneously
pursue an (acting) career pursue a film career
left her TV show to ~
he moved to Los Angeles to ~

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whether to pursue I do want to ~ (a pushy reporter)
the lawyers will determine ~ further appeals
pushing players in that direction
continue to pursue the NFL can’t mandate it, but they are ~ (vaccinations)
and so we will ~ a relationship with Russia that…
pushed me to do better
aggressively pursued he ~ (a teacher)
if it had ~ an investigation (FBI / 9/11 terrorists)
pushing each other to do things
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting but it’s not like we’re ever ~ (2 elite climbers)
pursuit (in pursuit) push immigrants to drop out
critics say Regents English Tests ~
in pursuit of (economic) development
Native American tribes ~ pushes for (speedy) elections
as the Bush Administration ~ (in Iraq)
in the pursuit of their duties
they are overzealous ~ (Saudi religious police) push you around
don't let people ~
in pursuit of goals
~ that are political, religious, or ideological (terrorists) push myself
I’m a little scared but I’m gonna ~ (Sky Brown)
in pursuit of gratification
cybersex addicts risk jobs, marriages ~ coercion & motivation: arm / gesture / force / verb
force: arm / gesture / verb
in their pursuit of justice
rape victims often find cultural bias ~ (Mexico) push (push comes to shove)
in the pursuit of knowledge when push comes to (political) shove
men swear off women ~ corporate-led NGOs don’t work ~

in pursuit of (various) objectives political shove

~ (special operations) corporate-led NGOs don’t work when push comes to ~

in its pursuit of peace resistance, opposition & defeat: arm / force

Afghanistan has a long way to go ~ force: arm

in our pursuit of victory push (promote)

we well be relentless in our ~ (Iraqi Freedom)
pushed the story
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting prominent right-wing media figures ~ (conspiracy)
pursuit (other) attention, scrutiny & promotion: arm / verb

pursuit to satisfy push (force)

her ~ the ticking biological clock
pushed the Bath bombing out of the headlines
pursuit of excellence Lindbergh’s triumphant flight ~
it's what the ~ in his field requires (a doctor)
push a breed to extinction
pursuit of happiness economic forces can ~ (indigenous pigs, cows)
freedom, equality, justice and the ~ (US)
push one's enemy to the point of despair
pursuit of revenge one should never ~, because…
the ~ is a turn-on for men (brain studies)
push them over the edge
pursuit of truth just a tiny temperature rise can ~ (coral bleaching)
the historian's supposedly disinterested ~
pushed religion too far
dangerous pursuit the Islamists ~ (a Somali)
climbing mountains can be a ~
pushing or suppressing
noble pursuit people wonder if the BBC is ~ agendas
working for the homeless or some other ~ force: arm / verb
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting
push (push against, etc.)
push (coercion and motivation)
push (hard enough) against Beijing’s attempts
push you on this they didn’t ~ to cover up its misinformation

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resistance, opposition & defeat: arm / force / verb pusher (drug pusher, etc.)
push (a number) world’s drug pusher
pushing $500 they don’t want to be seen as the ~ (Fentanyl)
the price of gold is ~ an ounce attention, scrutiny & promotion: person
attainment: arm / number / verb pushing (keep on pushing, etc.)
push (push somebody away, etc.)
pushing the extremes
push him away from me ~ of calculational speed (a supercomputer)
I don't want to ~ (relationship)
pushing a quick pace
avoidance & separation: arm / verb with Heras ~, they passed Jalabert (Tour de France)
push (summit push, etc.) pushing for an Islamic state
~ in Egypt
push for acceptance
the public ~ of its technology (Microsoft) pushing for a place
~ in the cell-phone business
push for (Maori) rights
the ~ (New Zealand) pushing yourself into unknown realms
adventure is ~
push for the summit ♦ Curtis Mayfield’s song “Keep on Pushing” was a rousing anthem of
the final ~ began in the evening encouragement and hope during the Civil Rights movement.

summit push commitment & determination: arm / force

in anticipation of a ~ the next day (K2)
waiting to begin the final ~ (Camp IV / Everest)
push on (verb)
final push pushed on
the ~ for the summit began in the evening in spite of the insults, she ~

next big push push on to Baghdad

the US retrenches for its ~ (Operation Iraqi Freedom) just waiting for word to ~ (a US soldier)

difficulty, easiness & effort: arm / force resiliency / starting, going, continuing & ending / survival,
persistence & endurance: force / journeys & trips / prep,
push back (verb) adv, adj, particle / verb
push back pushover (noun)
they are preparing to ~
no pushover
pushed back against the military’s claim the Iraqi Army was no ~
he ~ of impropriety (a filmmaker)
difficulty, easiness & effort: arm / force
resistance, opposition & defeat: arm / force / verb
pushy (people)
pushback (noun)
pushy
pushback from Congress over the treaty knowing how to be encouraging without being ~ (kids)
do you expect any ~
pushy parents
resistance, opposition & defeat: force / arm the problem of ~ in public schools
pushed around pushy people
pushed around don't let ~ affect your decisions
we will not be ~ (tariff war) pushy stage mother
coercion & motivation / resistance, opposition & defeat: I'm not a ~
arm / force come across as pushy
pushed out or you'll ~...
behavior / character & personality / coercion & motivation:
pushed out of better paid work into lower paid work
force / arm
they were ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: force / arm

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put (put something back together) puzzles, riddles and real-life problems
solving ~ (forensic science)
put my life back together
I'm trying to ~ complicated (racial and political) puzzle
the hearings presented him with this incredibly ~
putting his life back together
he was just ~ after being sexually assaulted piece of the puzzle
that was the ~ we needed (crime tip)
put the talks back together the findings are just one ~ and there is still a lot to learn
negotiators have been scrambling to ~
pieces of the puzzle
resiliency: infrastructure / mechanism / verb gather as many ~ as possible (investigation)
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / mechanism / verb
pieces of a puzzle
put (put something together) one agency can have ~ that another agency is missing
put it together larger puzzle
nobody ~ (clues leading to a spy) it might be a key piece in the ~ that is emerging
put these pieces together unlock the (whole) puzzle
when we ~, we have a better idea about… a tiny detail can ~ (police investigation)
♦ “There’s a puzzle-within-a-puzzle, for the diehard puzzleheads.” (The
analysis, interpretation & explanation: puzzle / verb book D C-T! by Joana Avillez and Molly Young.)
put (put somebody through something) analysis, interpretation & explanation / complexity /
put me and my family through comprehension & incomprehension: picture / puzzle
I had to forgive the media for what they ~ (Bill Buckner) puzzling (adjective)
affliction / oppression: mechanism
puzzling comment
put off (verb) not long after hearing this ~...

putting it off puzzling details

I’ve been ~ (making a plan) investigators were trying to make sense of some ~

action, inaction & delay: verb puzzling disease

making some sense of this ~
putty (noun)
puzzling news
putty in the hands this was ~ indeed...
students are ~ of all-powerful professors (sex abuse)
comprehension & incomprehension: puzzle
control & lack of control: materials & substances
character & personality: materials & substances
pygmy (size)
creation & transformation: materials & substances pygmy goat
put up with (verb) visitors pet ~s (at a zoo)

put up with it pygmy parrot

they are a nation of terrorists, and we won’t ~ the ~ is so small it fits in a human hand (Madagascar)

put up with this size: person

enough is enough, I’m not going to ~ pyramid (the Black Pyramid, etc.)
putting up with it Black Pyramid
we’re not ~ anymore in this country (politics) they traversed the ~, a gauntlet of exposed rock (K2)
survival, persistence & endurance: verb proper name: shape
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: verb pyramid (hierarchy)
puzzle (problem) pyramid’s apex
and at the ~ is “self-actualization” (Maslow)
puzzle
I'm happiest working on ~s (chemist) corporate pyramid
the path to the top of a ~ no longer looks desirable
puzzle-solving
there is ~ in all technical climbing food pyramid

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 apex predators at the top of the ~ quarantine (verb)
tennis pyramid quarantine (suspicious) files into sandboxes
it seemed impossible they could regain the tip of the ~
systems ~ (computing)
economic pyramid computer: health & medicine / verb
those individuals at the apex of the ~
acceptance & rejection / avoidance & separation /
apex of a (complex) pyramid protection & lack of protection: health & medicine / verb
he was at the ~ of individuals... (crime) quarter (no quarter, etc.)
bottom of the (football league) pyramid no-quarter kind of guy
I’ve had to start from the very ~ (Vardy) Max is a ~ and Lewis... (F1 racing)
tip of the (tennis) pyramid ask for no quarter
it seemed impossible they could regain the ~
I ~ and I bear no malice (Churchill / politics)
top of the (English Football) pyramid ♦ This is the same as, “Take no prisoners.”
Manchester City have finished ~
judgment / punishment & recrimination: military
at the bottom of the economic pyramid queen (Queen of Soul, etc.)
new jobs are coming ~ (poorly paid jobs)
at the top of the pyramid Queen of method acting
the people ~ know exactly what they are doing (justice) Stella Adler was the ~ (Marlon Brando, etc.)

hierarchy: direction / history / shape Queen of the Adriatic

the ~ is no stranger to flooding (Venice)
Pyrrhic victory (figurative)
Queen of the English Channel
Pyrrhic victory Alison Streeter, the “~,” has swum the distance 43 times
the confidence vote may prove to be only a ~
Queen of Crime
♦ “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be
utterly ruined.” (Attributed to Pyrrhus of Epirus, following the Battle of
Agatha Christie, the so-called ~ (mystery writer)
Asculum.)
Queen of Soul Food
♦ A variation is a Hannibalic victory, referring to Hannibal’s famous
victory over the Romans at the Battle of Cannae during the Second
Sylvia Woods, the ~ (Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem)
Punic War, which he failed to follow up on. Ultimately, he would be
defeated. Queen of the Plata
Buenos Aires, ~
♦ You can win the battle and still lose the war.

allusion: military “Queen of Rock ‘n Roll

cost & benefit / resistance, opposition & defeat / success Tina Turner, widely referred to as the ~
& failure: allusion / history / military “queen of the skies”
the Boeing 747, the ~, was the first jumbo jet

Q Queen of Soul
Aretha Franklin, the ~ (singer)
quagmire (noun) queen of her sport
she is the ~ in her country (speedskater)
quagmire of Vietnam
we're in the ~ (war in Afghanistan) superlative: epithet / person / royalty
epithet: royalty
quagmire of (boxing) negotiations
the two camps are swimming through the ~ queen (role)
Libyan quagmire queen bees
Egypt might get sucked into the ~ (military intervention) selecting ~ from the most productive colonies
fear of a (Somalia-like) quagmire beauty queen
~ which could have endangered US troops (Rwanda) the Georgia ~ is accused of murdering her boyfriend
digging themselves deeper into the quagmire Coffee Queen
they are ~ (an embattled regime fighting to survive) she won the popular title of ~ (Argentina)
obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land drag queen
progress & lack of progress: ground, terrain & land ~ theater

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drama queen she was ~ Everest
Nikki is fussy, she's a ~ (sister)
go on a (vision) quest
Festival Queen ~ with the help of a medicine man
Nicholas County Potato ~ (West Virginia)
pursuit, capture & escape: Middle Ages
opera queen searching & discovery: Middle Ages
gimlet-eyed ~s quest (other)
soap-opera queen
the ~ Susan Lucci
quest to ascend
her widely publicized ~ Everest ended in disaster
powwow queen
this year's ~
quest to become
she is 2 months into a ~ the youngest person to …
homecoming queen
she was ~ her senior year (high school)
quest to develop
in their ~ a vaccine effective for HCV
a gay student who ran for ~ caused a huge stir
students elected their first male ~ (university) quest to find
King and Queen the ~ the biggest, scariest wave (surfing)
the coronation of a Geek ~ (Geek Prom) quest to get
kings and queens their ~ cheap AIDS drugs (India)
homecoming, the American tradition featuring ~ quest to honor
call María Lionza the queen their ~ a man (Rocky Versace, Medal of Honor)
devotees ~ (María Lionza religion / Venezuela) quest to observe
superlative: person / royalty the ~ an extremely young moon is a lifelong one
person: royalty quest to reach
queen (Dairy Queen, etc.) in his ~ the largest possible audience (film)

Queen Elizabeth quest to land

the ~ is the third Cunard ship of that name her ~ at the FBI was still up in the air

Queen Charlotte Islands quest for answers

the ~, or Haida Gwaii (British Columbia) an almost three-year ~ (Columbine shooting)

Dairy Queen quest for employment

Faisal found a job at ~ his Ph.D. has not helped him in his ~

proper name: royalty quest for Everest

her ~ (climber)
queen-size (and queen sized)
quest for identity
queen-size the ~ is a constant undercurrent in the Middle East
a ~ bed
Quest for Immortality
comparison & contrast: royalty / size the ~: Treasures of Ancient Egypt (exhibit)
quest (in a quest) quest for the moon
NASA's ~ in the 1960s
in our (never-ending) quest to be
~ more, and do more quest for peace
the deal was a necessary concession in the ~
in the quest for peace if the US stays steady in our ~ (Middle East)
the deal was a necessary concession ~
quest for profits
in their quest for profits companies will change business strategies in their ~
companies often change business strategies in their ~
quest for self-understanding
pursuit, capture & escape: Middle Ages transmute the violent impulse into a ~ (prison teacher)
searching & discovery: Middle Ages
quest for a (separate) state
quest (on a quest) the ~ (Uighurs)
on a (widely publicized) quest to ascend quest for a (fourth Tour de France) title

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 his ~ (Lance Armstrong) ♦ “To dream the impossible dream / To fight the unbeatable foe / To bear
with unbearable sorrow / To run where the brave dare not go.” (The
quest for (some elusive underlying) unity musical Man of La Mancha.)
our ~ pursuit, capture & escape: Middle Ages
quest for the mountain quail searching & discovery: Middle Ages
my personal ~, a Code-2 bird (bird-watching) question mark
quest for love, lust, adventure question mark
one woman's ~ he has got a lot of ~s (an athlete)
NASA's quest the ~ hovering over their rematch (boxing)
~ for the moon in the 1960s he left command of the ship with a ~ hanging over him

woman's quest question mark over the evidence of...

one ~ for love, lust, adventure so now there is a ~ (a criminal trial)

airlines' (decadelong) quest question marks around how

~ to create frictionless travel there are ~ the shoes... (alphaFLY)

vision quest question marks about him

go on a ~ with the help of a medicine man there were a few ~ (a boxer)
♦ “Masks have been a question mark in public health, and now I think
never-ending quest that question mark has been removed.” (“Lawrence Wright on How the
in our ~ to be more, and do more Pandemic Response Went So Wrong,” The New Yorker Radio Hour.)

certainty & uncertainty: letters & characters

widely publicized quest
she was on a ~ to ascend Everest queue (sequence)
ceaseless quest time queue
in the ~ to stake out bigger slices of the market in the ~, earlier events are before later ones (linguistics)
her quest sequence: line
she isn't about to give up ~ anytime soon
quicksand (in / into the quicksand)
personal quest
he was on a ~ to… in the quicksand of organized crime
~, murder is an option for solving disputes
spiritual quest
jihad can also mean one's private ~ ♦ “We reached the river about two in the afternoon. A stiff breeze was
blowing off the sea, and the waves were noisily breaking on the beach,
sucking back along the sand in a cloud of foam. From the mouth of the
private spiritual quest river a sand-bank stretched out to sea. Thoughtlessly I walked along it,
jihad can also mean one's ~ when suddenly I felt a great weight tugging at my feet. I tried to retreat
but to my horror found I could not stir from the spot. I was slowly sinking.
decadelong quest ‘Quicksands!’ I yelled in an unnatural voice... (Dersu Uzala by V.K.
airlines' ~ to create frictionless travel Arseniev.)
♦ Famous film “quicksand” scenes include Lawrence of Arabia and
century-long and decade-long quest Mountain Patrol: Kekexili.
this ~ (genome achievements)
obstacles & impedance: ground, terrain & land
three-year quest
their ~ to impose dosage restrictions
quiet (adjective)
start of their quest gone quiet
the ~ to dethrone the champs (NBA) the gangs have ~

exhaustive but fruitless quest went quiet

the ~ for a scientific basis for… he left Serbia, we were in touch for a week, then he ~ (a
migrant trying to get to the EU)
go on a (vision) quest
~ with the help of a medicine man seek quiet
Israel does ~, with elections only a week away (fighting)
give up her quest
she isn't about to ~ anytime soon stay quiet
are we going to ~ as they turn back the clock (protest)
made reliability its quest
Toyota ~ activity / conflict: sound
resistance, opposition & defeat: sound

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Quisling (Quisling of China, etc.) secondarily was this ~ that if... (a music project)

quisling army quixotic campaign

he finally ended his ~ for the GOP nomination this week
a ~ at the tail of the Japanese (Burma / led by Aung San Suu
Kyi’s father) quixotic gesture
in a characteristically ~, he offered them a truce (Mehmet)
Petain, the Laval, the Quisling
he became the ~ of China (Wang Jingwei) quixotic project
♦ Wang Jingwei escaped his treason trial by dying in Japan in 1944, each of them pursued a ~ (two inventors)
where he was receiving treatment for an old wound from an
assassination attempt. Following Japan’s defeat, his tomb in Nanjing was quixotic run
destroyed and his body was burnt.
Yang’s ~ addressed the challenges of automation (election)
♦ Benedict Arnold; Wang Jingwei; Vidkun Quisling; Pierre Laval; Philippe
Petain; William Joyce (aka Lord Haw-Haw)... (Notorious traitors.) crazy or quixotic
military: epithet so maybe he wasn’t ~ after all (an explorer)
♦ This adjective comes from Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes, a
quiver (noun) surprisingly modern book for having been written so long ago. Quixote
means different things to different people. The phrase “tilting at
quiver windmills,” especially, can be viewed sympathetically or negatively.
we carry a whole ~ (of protection while climbing) ♦ “At times, his attempt to start a farm seems like an act of love or
intense passion, and at others, utterly quixotic and self-destructive.”
presidential quiver (“Lee Isaac Chung Jotted Down Some Family Memories—They Became
‘Minari,’” NPR, Fresh Air, March 3, 2021. Presented by Arun Venugopal.
he will use every arrow in his ~ to get his will It seems to me that Don Quixote embodied all those qualities.)
arrows in their quiver ♦ See “A Gargantuan Error: Quixotic Is Not The Only Word From A Book
Character,” NPR, All Things Considered, September 10, 2015. With
they have more legislative ~ (politics) NPR’s Robert Siegel and Professor Bruce Conforth of the University of
Michigan.)
amount / group, set & collection: weapon
fantasy & reality: allusion / person
Quixote (Don Quixote)
allusion: books & reading
Don Quixote’s lance comparison & contrast: affix
he is fighting globalization with ~ (US isolationism, etc.) quiz (verb)
medical Don Quixote quiz the heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter
he became an academic picaro, a ~ (Paracelsus) the US Senate Commerce Committee will ~ about...
played Sancho Panza to Scott’s Don Quixote judgment: school & education / verb
Wilson ~ (The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford)
tilting at windmills
he suggested that Trump is ~ (attributed to Xi Jinping) R
♦ “Scott seemed as incomplete without Wilson as Don Quixote without
Sancho Panza.” (The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford.) rabbit hole (fantasy)
♦ “When Jehu was shot, Wilson noted in this diary, it was ‘a good few
miles further South than the lat. where Shackleton shot his first pony.’ rabbit hole
Wilson, playing Sancho Panza, to Scott’s Don Quixote, had joined his the Percocet could have sent her down a ~
master in his illusory battle with an imaginary foe.” (The last Place on
Earth by Roland Huntford.)
rabbit hole of conspiracy theories
♦ “From my childhood I remember Grandpa Alexander standing on the simply typing “federal reserve” led students down a ~
balcony in the early morning in his vest and bedroom slippers, beating
the pillows like Don Quixote attacking the wineskins, bringing the carpet rabbit-hole quality
beater down on them repeatedly with all the force of his wretchedness or
despair.” (A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz.) this obsessive, ~ can make the show feel almost manic (a
♦ see also windmill
“deep-dive” podcast)

fantasy & reality: allusion / person populist rabbit hole

allusion: books & reading the country is diving down a ~ (Czech Republic)

quixotic (adjective) burrowed into an anti-vax rabbit hole

people who have ~
quixotic
the endeavor is, needless to say, “~” (E-Prime / “to be”) diving down a (populist) rabbit hole
the country is ~ (Czech Republic)
quixotic ability
his ~ to extract himself from peril (James Weddell) fall down the rabbit hole
how did people like Lopez ~ (bogus COVID cure)
quixotic ambition
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 when people ~, that’s when we lose (a Democrat) down the street a piece. He’s coming this way! (From the beloved film of
To Kill a Mockingbird starring Gregory Peck. In a very dramatic scene,
jump down this rabbit hole Mr. Finch shoots the mad dog and Jem learns something about his
father that he hadn’t known.)
maybe I need to ~ (Abby Wendle, Invisibilia)
♦ “On a day in October in 1831, a nine-year-old boy ran frightened away
leads him down a rabbit hole from the edge of a crowd that blocked the door of the blacksmith shop of
a village in the mountains of eastern France. Above the awed excited
the quest ~ to strange uncanny places (Reply All podcast) whispers of the people at the door this boy had heard the crackling “s-s-
s-z” of a white hot iron on human flesh, and this terrifying sizzling had
lead people down these rabbit holes been followed by a groan of pain. The victim was the farmer Nicole. He
the algorithm can ~ to extremism (YouTube) had just been mangled by a mad wolf that charged howling, jaws
dripping poison foam, through the streets of the village. The boy who ran
sent me down a rabbit hole away was Louis Pasteur, son of a tanner of Arbois and great-grandson of
a serf of the Count of Udressier... (Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif.
it ~ that lasted for 20 years (Tom O’Neill about his book) The chemist Louis Pasteur would go on to develop the rabies vaccine.)
sent you down the rabbit hole ♦ “A Norwegian woman has died after contracting rabies from a stray
puppy in the Philippines. / Brigitte Kallestad, 24, was on holiday with her
let’s go back to the question that ~ friends when they found the puppy on a street, her family said in a
statement. / The puppy is thought to have infected her when it bit her
went down the rabbit hole after they took it back to their resort. / She fell ill soon after returning to
she ~ of the alt-right to embrace an ideology of hate Norway, and died on Monday at the hospital where she worked. / It was
the first rabies-related death in Norway for more than 200 years. / Her
♦ “I didn’t jump in, I got pulled into the rabbit hole.” (An online feud.)
family are calling on Norway to make rabies vaccinations compulsory for
citizens traveling to the Philippines.” (“Norwegian woman dies from
allusion: books & reading rabies after Philippines puppy bite,” BBC, 10 May 2019.)
fantasy & reality: addiction / allusion / animal / books & ♦ “When I have a mad dog in my yard there is only one solution.” (A
reading / hole / mental health / person comment on a discussion board about a heinous murderer.)
rabbit hole (exploration) behavior: animal / dog / health & medicine / wolf
rabbit holes rabidly
~ leading to music you won’t find elsewhere (bandcamp)
rabidly intolerant
informational rabbit hole they are ~ of Israel
clicking on the links would propel me down an ~ (Title IX)
rapidly opposed
Internet rabbit hole Republicans ~ the legislation
following a browser down some weird ~ (surfing)
behavior: animal / dog / health & medicine / wolf
trapped in that rabbit hole
they have a website and I got ~ last night race (the term raced to its end, etc.)
♦ “You can go down the YouTube rabbit hole following Carroll Shelby. I
lived down there for a while.” (Matt Damen talking about his role in the
raced to its end
film Ford v Ferrari.) as the term ~ (university)
searching & discovery: allusion time: movement / speed / verb / walking, running &
jumping
rabid (enthusiasm)
race (hurry)
rabid fans
~ that make for a true sports town racing to develop
scientists around the world are ~ a vaccine (COVID)
rabid support
he has the ~ of his base (politics) racing to take credit
politicians are ~ for the initiative
enthusiasm: health & medicine / mental health
race toward an election
rabid (behavior) as we ~ in November...
rabid animals competition / speed: movement / verb / walking, running &
they are ~ that should all be put down (looting and arson) jumping
rabid crowd movement: speed / verb / walking, running & jumping
he did not look very comfortable in front of that ~ (boxer) race (politics)
rabid defenders race in Hawaii
he has many ~ (Bill Cosby) an all-female ~ (for governor)
rabid supporters race for the White House
there are many ~ of death for blasphemy (Pakistan) the quadrennial ~
♦ Calpurnia: Scout, Jem, come on inside. Come on, come on! (Inside, on
the phone.) Mr. Finch, this is Cal. I swear to God there’s a mad dog all-female race

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 an ~ in Hawaii (for governor) race (race to the bottom)
closely fought race race to the bottom
other ~s just outside Washington
we are engaged in a ~ (two states wooing companies)
closely watched race decline: direction / sports & games / walking, running &
in the most ~ in Virginia (politics)
jumping
quadrennial race race (race against time, the clock, etc.)
the ~ for the White House
in the (most closely watched) race race against time
~ in Virginia (politics) saving endangered animals is often a ~
we are in a ~ (disaster relief)
competition: government / sports & games / walking, State of Terror features a classic ~ (against terrorists)
running & jumping
race-against-time
race (arms race) it's a classic ~ film

arms race in a race with the clock

the ~ and mutual misunderstanding we are ~

arms race between variants and vaccines race against time, it’s a race against the clock
we have an ~ (COVID) it’s a ~ to get these animals refloated (stranded whales)

arms race with spammers race is on

this has been a bit of an ~ (CAPTCHAS) the ~ to save the Gulf (oil spill)

arms race to build plush new dorms and stadiums competition / timeliness & lack of timeliness: sports &
Berea College has opted out of the college ~ games / walking, running & jumping

regional arms race racism (groups)

Southeast Asia is facing a ~
space racism
technological arms race ~ associates black neighborhoods, or spaces, with violence
the stock market has become a great ~ (electronic)
systemic racism
spark a (technological) arms race he pledged to root out ~ (President Biden)
the Vaporfly shoe could ~ before this summer’s Olympics
inclusion & exclusion: society
competition: allusion / history / military / sports & games /
radar (on the radar)
walking, running & jumping
race (competition) on the radar
he has long been ~ of groups following hate groups
race between vaccination and the virus on their radar
it’s a ~
he had been ~ for a long time (trafficker)
race to build on anyone's radar
the ~ computer chips out of individual molecules
it's not really ~ (Pakistan's contribution to warming)
race-to-the-moon on our radar
the glorious ~ days
he came ~ when we were looking through footage (riot)
arms race on the radar of law enforcement or the school
see race (arms race)
the teen had never been ~ (a school shooter)
♦ “So, in some respects, it’s kind of like a race between the potential for a
surge and our ability to vaccinate as many people as we possibly can. consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
And hopefully, if you want to make this a metaphorical race, the vaccine
is going to win this one. Which I believe it will, if we continue with the
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
vaccine program, which has really been quite successful, at the same presence & absence: tools & technology
time as we don’t prematurely declare victory and pull back too much on
our mitigation policy.” (“Dr. Anthony Fauci Does Not Expect A 4th radar (below / under the radar)
Coronavirus Wave To Hit The U.S.,” NPR, Morning Edition, April 2,
2021.) under the (cultural) radar
men-only clubs operating for decades ~
competition: movement / sports & games / walking,
running & jumping passed under the educational radar
the NCSS standards ~ completely unnoticed (education)

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went below the radar presence & absence: tools & technology
it really ~ (a piece of news) radar (other)
work below the radar
Bear-dar
they work best when they ~ (ICRC / POWs)
the ~ is being field test in Churchill (Canada)
keep him under the radar
gaydar
we are trying to ~, out of the spotlight (troubled athlete)
~: supposed ability to recognize a person is gay
consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
have (really good) radar
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
presence & absence: tools & technology I ~, it was no accident (a perceived slight)
♦ “I’m surprised this is on here lol.” (BenjaminUnfried, 30 May 2011, who
radar (drop off the radar) looked up “gaydar” at the Merriam-Webster site, in the “What made you
look up this word?” section.)
dropped off the radar ♦ “Can you tell us a little more about this Bear-dar, like, how does it
several of the men have "~" (terrorists) work?” (Ayesha Rascoe of NPR wants to know! From “‘Bear-dar’ might
help humans keep their distance from Polar Bears,” NPR, Weekend
appearance & disappearance / attention, scrutiny & Edition Sunday, May 1, 2022.)
promotion / consciousness & awareness / presence & consciousness & awareness: tools & technology
absence: tools & technology / verb
radioactive (adjective)
radar (under the radar screen)
radioactive
under the radar screen he is only 24, yet he's currently ~ (troubled athlete)
girls' aggression often passes ~ (school bullying)
radioactive in the Arab world
well under the radar screen NATO is ~ and seen as a tool of US imperialism
flying ~ was a move by Congress to…
radioactive for them
passes under the radar screen Democrats have decided the issue is ~ (gun control)
girls' aggression often ~
radioactive words
consciousness & awareness: tools & technology the play contains ~ (relating to race, sexual identity)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology
presence & absence: tools & technology find me radioactive
his friends began to ~ (an investigative reporter)
radar (radar screen)
avoidance & separation / destruction: nuclear energy
radar screen
I want this on everybody's ~ (kids need more sleep) radius (blast radius, etc.)
films like "Good Will Hunting" put him on our ~s
blast radius
Hollywood's radar screen its ~ was the entire world (NotPetya worm)
he popped onto ~ two years ago with…
in the blast radius
national radar screen Tom Brady got caught ~ (Anthony Brown controversy)
he disappeared from the ~ 4 years ago (a coach)
blast radius wasn’t contained
blip on the radar screen the ~ to social and hip-hop media circles (KL’s “Control”)
Ecstasy is no longer a ~ (the club scene) ♦ “Brady just happened to be the blowback. He got caught up in the
blowback, Skip, the collateral damage, that’s what Brady is. And so, it
fell off the radar screen was a blast radius. He dropped the bomb, ‘I got BA [Bruce Arians], I got
both men ~ (terrorists) the Tampa medical staff, I got...’ and Tom Brady and Guerrero, they got
caught up in that, Skip, the blast radius. (Shannon Sharpe talking with
disappeared from the (national) radar screen Skip Bayless on their great sports show “Undisputed” about the Antonio
Brown controversy of January 2022.)
he ~ 4 years ago (a coach)
effect / force: explosion
popped onto (Hollywood's) radar screen
he ~ two years ago with… raft (amount)
put him on our radar screens raft of (op-ed) articles
films like "Good Will Hunting" ~ (an actor) a ~ debated the issue
radar screen went dark raft of books
then the ~ where Heinrich was concerned (child murder) there have been a ~ about the case
consciousness & awareness: tools & technology raft of shell companies
attention, scrutiny & promotion: tools & technology he set up a ~

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raft of new measures his ~ is amazing, but his practices are Machiavellian
he announced a ~ (to fight COVID) the film is a Dickensian ~

raft of (technical) problems money: clothing & accessories / sign, signal, symbol
engineers encountered a ~ during development (Nauka) rail (verb)
raft of research
there has been a ~ lately that...
railed against the government’s trade policies
he ~
amount: boat
accusation & criticism: sound / speech / verb
rage (verb) speech: sound / verb

raging in New York City rail (off the rails)

the epidemic is ~ off the rails
raging in the Philippines, France, Brazil it seems like he is ~ (behavior of celebrity)
the virus is still ~... off-the-rails speech
raging through this country everyone is talking about his ~
Omicron is running wild in Australia, it’s ~ go off the rails
they will not let things ~ (two politicians)
debate rages
police officers become candidates as policing ~ gone off the rails
science has ~, gone astray, many times
fighting rages
~ as Taliban attack key Afghan city went off the rails
he ~ after moving to the big city (Brazil)
activity / behavior / control & lack of control / feeling,
emotion & effect: force / movement / mental health / verb failure, accident & impairment: train
behavior / control & lack of control: train
rage (enthusiasm)
rail (third rail)
become all the rage
Paris danced the Mazurka, which had ~ third rail of politics
social security reform is the ~
enthusiasm: mental health
third rail of (American) politics
ragged (adjective) this issue was once considered ~ (gun control)
ragged (red) beard third rail of (Indian) politics
he had a shaved head and a ~ agricultural reform has long been the ~ (avoided)
ragged roadscape third rail on this show
a ~ of motels, franchises and big box stores... so why is race such a ~ (the Bachelor)

ragged, sensitive, elemental third-rail issue

Joplin’s voice—a ~ howl... this is one of those ~s (criticism of Israel)
there are certain topics that are ~s (China and Hong Kong)
battered and ragged this was a ~ that the governor didn’t want to touch (guns)
the ships left gleaming and laden and returned ~
embraced the third rail
flaws & lack of flaws: cloth / clothing & accessories he has ~ of Republican politics (pro-immigration)
raging (adjective) ♦ “There are certain topics that are third-rail issues in certain countries,
societies and communities. Supporting a separatist movement in a
Chinese territory is one of those third-rail issues, not only for the Chinese
raging forest fire government, but also for all citizens in China.” (Brooklyn Nets owner Joe
for the first time in my life I beheld a ~ (V.K. Arseniev) Tsai, about comments made by the general manager of the Houston
Rockets about China and Hong Kong. The general meaning of the
activity / behavior / control & lack of control / feeling, phrase is “untouchable.”)
emotion & effect: force / movement / mental health danger: electricity / train
rags-to-riches railroad (verb)
rags-to-riches journey railroad the sick into giving up
Mina Raiola had a ~ the healthy could ~ (assisted suicide)
rags-to-riches story railroaded him into seeking

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 he claimed the university had ~ publicity (cold fusion) rainbow (Rainbow Falls, etc.)
railroad innocent folks Rainbow Falls
the judicial system can ~
~ is on the Wailuku river in Hilo, Hawaii
coercion & motivation: train / verb
rainbow trout
railroaded ~ are predators
♦ Many falls around the world are named Rainbow Falls. This is often
railroaded because, when the light is right, you can see a rainbow, or even a
he was ~, chosen to be the scapegoat (wrongly convicted) moonbow, in the mist at the bottom of the falls.

got railroaded proper name: atmosphere / color / sky

people say they think he ~ (victim of #MeToo movement) geography: atmosphere / color / proper name / sky

coercion & motivation: train rainbow (mixture)

rain (amount and effect) rainbow mix
a ~ of Creole, Garifuna, Mestizo, Spanish, Maya (Belize)
rained on (northern) Israel
Hezbollah rockets ~ rainbow tribe
they are a ~, black, Asian, white, biracial (kids at a pool)
rained debris for (more than) 10 miles
the explosion ~ (2 trains collide) rainbow nation
what Trinidadians call their "~"
raining mud and ash ♦ Rainbows occur when it is raining while the sun is shining. To see a
it is now ~ (eruption of volcano on Rabaul) rainbow, turn your back to the sun. Look at your shadow on the ground.
From the shadow of your head (the antisolar point), measure 42 degrees
rockets rained upwards, or about four fist widths with your arm held straight out in front
Hezbollah ~ on northern Israel of you, as if you were holding a stick in your fist vertically. There you may
see the top of the rainbow. The sun must be less than 42 degrees above
amount & effect / resemblance: rain / verb the horizon, so that you will never see a rainbow at noon on a summer
day in the US, when the sun is high in the sky. At 51 degrees, you may
rain (rain down) see a second rainbow above the primary rainbow.

mixture: atmosphere / sky

rained down
more than a hundred cruise missiles ~ (Libya) rainforest (rainforests of the sea, etc.)
rain down missiles on Israel rainforests of the sea
they could ~ coral reefs are often called the ~
rained down on her biodiversity: epithet
boos ~ (an athlete)
rainmaker (person)
cables (of congratulations began to) rain down
the ~ (Amundsen reaches the South Pole) lead rainmaker
the congresswoman’s chief of staff and ~ has resigned
embers rained down ♦ A rainmaker is a lawyer or salesman who makes a lot of money for the
~ on a nearby highway (California wildfire) company, or a person who can ensure progress and success.

amount & effect / resemblance: rain / verb ♦ “Last year, religious leaders, including Khoisan leader Ockert Lewies,
pictured, gathered at the bottom of Table Mountain to pray for rain.”
rainbow (searching and discovery) (“Icebergs and empty pools: Five things Cape Town’s Day Zero taught
us” by Flora Drury, BBC, 12 May 2018.)

end of the rainbow worth & lack of worth: person / rain

Chile, to me, is the ~ (Bill Sharp / surfing) person: money / rain
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
follow every rainbow
/ weather & climate
~, 'till you find your dream (song)
searching & discovery: allusion / atmosphere / sky
raise (attention)
rainbow (color) raises
the other question it ~is...
rainbow sheen
material or ~ on water (pollution incident)
raise awareness
the women will use the Olympic platform to ~ (basketball)
resemblance: atmosphere / color / sky
raised (a number of ) issues
we both ~ (diplomacy)

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raised objections rallying around their nominee
they have ~ they are ~, falling in line (Trump)
raised a (fundamental) question rallied around the reporting
his firing ~ fellow reporters have ~
raises the question rallied behind him
it ~, how can... conservatives have ~ (a minister in trouble)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: direction / height / verb rallied public sympathies around her
a new documentary has ~ (#FreeBritney)
raise (feeling)
rally their faithful
raised our spirits they climbed the stage to ~ (conservatives / politics)
she really ~
rallied the troops
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / height / verb
she ~ (an executive of troubled company)
raise (your image, etc.) rallying their troops
raise your image conservative luminaries are ~ (against Obama / politics)
raise your pants, ~, stop the sag (a billboard) assembling: flags & banners / military / verb
it you don’t ~, people look down on you allegiance, support & betrayal: flags & banners / military /
behavior / reputation: direction / height / verb verb

raised (reared) ramp (on ramp and off ramp, etc.)

raised to be exit ramp
I was ~ a good Christian Trump provided the ~ (that Biden followed / Afghan war)

conceived, born and raised off-ramp

Nature was ~ to serve polemic purpose (the magazine) he may want an ~ to back off and try later (confrontation)

growth & development: death & life on-ramp to misinformation and extremism
talk radio is the ~
rake (destroy)
diplomatic “off-ramp”
raking the coast there appears to be no easy ~ in this crisis
the hurricane is ~
visible off-ramp
destruction: farming & agriculture / tools & technology / is there a ~, to get Putin to back down (NPR)
verb
offramps and onramps
rake in (verb) we need ~ for when conditions change (mask wearing)

rake in big money accept this off-ramp

lobbyists can ~ (government) he is willing to ~ that Iran is offering (diplomacy)

raked in more than $100 million block whatever off-ramp

their business model has ~ (Somali pirates) you don’t want to ~ is available to him (confrontation)

giving, receiving, bringing & returning: tools & technology / looking for an off-ramp
verb he is ~ (de-escalation of a crisis)

rake up (verb) offers (both sides) an off-ramp

the attack ~ (de-escalation of crisis)
raking up some horrible memories
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: infrastructure
we are ~ (a crime podcast)
searching & discovery: tools & technology / verb rampart (protection)
rally (verb) rampart against militancy
France relied on Ben Ali as a ~
rallied around her
her fans ~ (controversy) ramparts of flesh and blood
they were living ~ against barbarity (the Kurds)
rally round the flag
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military
see flag (rally around the flag)

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rampart (Upper Ramparts, etc.) hierarchy: line / military

Upper Ramparts
rape (verb)
the ~ is a canyon on the Porcupine River (Yukon) raping me all over again
proper name: fortification I felt like the system was ~

rampart (resemblance) destruction: violence

ramparts of the Hindu Kush

rape (noun)
the Wakhan Corridor is cut off by the ~ rape of (Indonesia's) forests
resemblance: fortification / military the devastating ~

ramp up (verb) destruction: violence

ramping up our efforts

rapier (noun)
we are ~ (diplomacy) rapier thrust
ramp up (COVID-19) testing there is a ~ to Solskjaer’s side (BBC hype)
the US wants to ~ feeling, emotion & effect: blade / sword
increase & decrease: tools & technology / verb rash (affliction)
rancid (adjective) rash of (home) burglaries
rancid (political) environment concern about a ~
we’re now in a ~ (the U.S.) rash of cases
corruption: food & drink a ~ occurred in Puerto Rico (early puberty)

rank (close ranks) rash of clashes

a recent ~ between bikers (motorcycle gangs)
close ranks
when cops are attacked, they often ~ rash of crime
the natural tendency for the Arab world is to ~ gun sales are up after a ~s
there has been a ~s against women
closed ranks around him Academy officials have no explanation for the ~
in the past they have always ~ (politics)
rash of drownings
close ranks behind him the ~ has tourism officials on the spot (Florida)
will the party ~ (politics)
rash of abductions and murders
close ranks with Obama the impression of a ~ of children
her concession and her call to ~ (politics)
rash of accidents and near misses
close ranks, (they) circle the wagons a ~ had spooked the sailors of the 7th Fleet
the groups ~ (bands, sororities, fraternities / hazing)
recent rash
allegiance, support & betrayal: line / military / verb the ~ of cybervandalism
unanimity & consensus: line / military / verb
affliction / amount / amount & effect: health & medicine
protection & lack of protection: line / military / verb
rank (break ranks) rash (road rash, etc.)
break ranks river rash
some Democrats will ~ it's just ~ (scratches on used kayak)

broke ranks road rash

she ~ and told Americans... (pandemic) he proudly showed off his ~ (skateboarder)
♦ “I don’t have health insurance so I just taped it up.” (Kayaking
allegiance, support & betrayal: line / military / verb enthusiast, on how he treated a gash in his right eyebrow after a run on
unanimity & consensus: line / military / verb the Green River south of Asheville, North Carolina. “No brain, no pain, no
problem!”)
rank-and-file (adjective) ♦ “It’s not broken, it’s good.” (A moaning Czech Republic guide
incapacitated and on his butt after a tower jump.)
rank-and-file rebels
she has secured her nominations after negotiations with ~ resemblance: health & medicine
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rash (hasty) rat (smell a rat)
rash decision smell a rat
he made a ~ (short of money, he shoplifted) I ~ (something suspicious)
haste: health & medicine evidence / suspicion: animal / rat / smell
Rashomon (point of view) rat race
Rashomon effect rat race
the ~ refers to conflicting eye-witness accounts of an event deep into the ~, far from the finish line of retirement
“Rashomon effect” admissions rat race
the unreliability of witnesses is referred to as the ~ it helps in the ~ if you founded a company in high school
Rashomon moment meeting a Rorschach test corporate rat race
this was a ~ (3-group confrontation on D.C. Mall) many women drop out of the ~ (competition, etc.)
♦ In the 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa, four people give radically different
versions about how a man ended up dead. In the film, everyone lies, and competitive, driven, rat-race
there is the sense no one will ever know the full truth. it’s a very ~ culture
♦ The film The Last Duel highlights, “The truth according to X.”
drop out of the (corporate) rat race
♦ A group of Kentucky teenagers, a Native American, and black Hebrew many women ~ (competition, etc.)
Israelites all met by accident on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Read “Viral standoff between a tribal elder and a high schooler is more ♦ The Rat Race is for Rats! (A bumper sticker.)
complicated than it first seemed” by Michael E. Miller, The Washing Post, ♦ Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. (A bumper sticker.)
Jan 22, 2019. Or “January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation”
(Wikipedia). ♦ “I get away from all that rat-race noise down in the street.” (Carole
King, “Up On the Roof.”)
allusion: film ♦ In China, 996 refers to working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week.
perception, perspective & point of view: allusion / film
competition / work & duty: animal / rat
rat (lab rat, etc.)
ratchet up (verb)
gym rat
he's a ~ ratcheted up its criticism
he was the quintessential ~ (Larry Bird / basketball) the State Department has ~ of China on this issue

lab rat ratchets up the pressure

if you weren't such a ~, you would know that this ~ on him (athlete receives sports award)
his arrest ~
mall rat
my brother is a ~ ratcheted up the pressure
he has ~ on foreign oil companies
pack rat
I’m a bit of a ~ (hoarder) ratcheted up its rhetoric
Iran has ~ too
river rat
~s (kayakers, rafters) versus the locals ratcheted up his (anti-American) rhetoric
he has been a ~ since the age of 14 (guide) he has ~

"snow rat" tensions ratchet up

he was a ~ from childhood (a snowboarder) before a deployment, ~ (military families)
♦ A ratchet is a tool that can be used to tighten cables or metal strips.
enthusiasm: animal / person / rat The pawl of the ratchet, which looks like a Toucan's beak, prevents
slippage backwards. Deckhands on riverboats use ratchets to tighten
rat (betray) cables that hold the barges together. Warehouse workers often use a
ratchet to securely bundle together trash-compacted material, which is
ratted him out then taken away by a forklift.
his personal chef ~ increase & decrease: direction / mechanism / prep, adv,
allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / rat / verb adj, particle / pressure / tools & technology / verb

rat (a snitch) rattle (disrupt)

rat rattled some people
the other inmates think he's a ~, an informant I ~ (female CEO and former athlete)
allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / person / rat rattle our cage
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rattle cages feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves
the government is willing to ~ to get things done & bone
rattled neighbors and allies raw (raw recruit, etc.)
the conflict has ~ (within a royal family)
♦ “Justice will be served and the battle will rage / This big dog will fight
raw novice
when you rattle his cage...” (“Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The how much work it takes to become a ~ (boxing)
Angry American”)) by Toby Keith.)
experience: meat
disruption: animal / equilibrium & stability / sound / verb
raw (unrefined, etc.)
rattled (feeling)
raw data
rattled the NSA wanted to gobble up as much ~ as it could
the city is ~ (a series of murders)
raw opium
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability Kandahar is a key transit point for ~
rave (verb) worth & lack of worth: materials & substances
raved about her (smoky gray) eyes raw nerve (feeling)
Multichannel News ~
raw nerve in Haiti
enthusiasm / speech: mental health / verb the incident struck a ~ (foreign adoptions)
rave (rave review, etc.) raw nerve among Democrats
her epic fail is still a ~ (Hillary Clinton)
rave reviews
her album came out to ~ (Lizzo) Russian raw nerve
the German report hit a ~ (about Battle of Kursk)
enthusiasm / speech: mental health
ravenous (adjective) on the raw nerve
it pressed directly ~ of English society (class anxiety)
ravenous for success struck a raw nerve
he is ~ the incident ~ in Haiti (foreign adoptions)
intellectually ravenous touched a raw nerve
he was ~ (an academic) her comments ~ in this country (Israel)
wants, needs, hopes & goals: food & drink the withdrawal touched a ~ (troops give up area)
consumption: food & drink feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves
ravenously & bone

ravenously followed
ray (ray of hope, etc.)
the media ~ the story ray of hope
consumption: food & drink looking for a ~

raw (emotions, etc.) amount / evidence: atmosphere / light & dark

raw
razor (razor-thin)
her emotions are still ~ razor-thin margin
the emotions are ~ (Netherlands crash out at Euro 2020) the election was decided by a ~
raw nerve comparison & contrast / size: breadth
(see raw nerve)
reach (secure)
still raw
the war wounds are ~ (between Japan and its neighbors) reached an agreement
Democrats said they had ~ with the White House
rubbed raw
she was ~ emotionally (newspaper advice columnist) reach your conclusion
the battle ~ the country’s divides (political, social, etc.) how did you ~
remain raw attainment: movement / verb
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reach (a number) what was once in our grasp is now ~
attainment / possession / proximity: arm
reached number one
his song ~ in the charts reach (within reach)
reached 72 mph within reach
gusts ~ (windy weather) the president has declared world peace ~
reached an unprecedented high attainment / possession / proximity: arm
suicide rates have ~
reach (extent and scope)
reached a 9-year high
stabbings have ~ global reach
our local touch with our ~ (L.A. Times)
attainment: number / verb
gang's reach
reach (reach an answer, etc.) the ~ extends across America
reach your answer reach was extended
how did you ~ the paper’s ~ by Pullman porters (Chicago Defender)
reached its conclusion extent & scope: arm
on 22 May the trial ~
reach out (verb)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: journeys & trips /
movement / verb reached out to people
he has ~ who have been looked over (a fashion designer)
reach (a place on a journey)
reached out to families
reached its lowest ebb she ~ from the neighborhood (school needs students)
morale had ~ when... (military)
reaches out to his rivals
reached an impasse he ~ (politician)
we have ~ in the negotiations
reach out to students
reached a point universities ~ from all walks of life
we have almost ~ of no return
reach out to those
reached a crisis point it is not unusual for the Amish to ~ who hurt them
we have ~ in education funding
reach out to us
reached its lowest point we hope he will ~ (cops seek contact with criminal)
her life ~ one morning in a gutter
reach out to (minority ethnic ) youth
reached (one of) its most crucial stages the government has failed to ~ (France)
350 million years ago, evolution ~ (life moves to land)
reach out to non-Muslims
development: journeys & trips / movement / verb ~ and educate people about Islam
attainment: journeys & trips / movement / verb ♦ “Maybe it’s their way of you know ‘reaching out,’ as the Americans
reach (the news reached him, etc.) say...”

division & connection: arm / verb

reached him
sadly, the good news never ~ read (read something into
♦ “It’s a lot of things that went on in the South that never reached the
papers, no one wants to talk about it, but they happened, these things
something)
happened.” (Patsy Rembert about her artist husband’s autobiography,
Chasing Me To My Grave.) read too much into it
♦ The February 1779 death of Captain Cook, killed by natives on a beach don't ~
in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, during his third Pacific voyage, took over a there’s no need to ~
year to reach London.
♦ Bad news travels fast! read anything into that
but I really would beg you not to ~
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: journeys &
trips / movement / verb analysis, interpretation & explanation: books & reading /
verb
reach (beyond reach)
beyond our reach

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read (analyze) radar read
the ~ 31,500, 25,400, and 18,300 (diving plane)
read between the lines
they fail to listen, observe and ~ sign read
~ and you can see... a hand-painted ~, “God Bless America”
you have to ~ to understand watch read
read clues my ~ 1:17 P.M. (at the top of Mount Everest)
the FBI's failure to properly ~ available before 9/11 fictive communication: books & reading / verb
read a map realm (area)
I can't ~ to save my life
realm of ideas
read your (electric) meter now that partisanship infects every corner of the ~
how to ~ (utility brochure)
realm of giant peaks
read my mind the ~ (Pakistan)
you ~
realms of sci-fi and fantasy
read the (blocking) schemes he explored the ~ (Rod Serling)
they know how to ~ (football players)
♦ “Crushing pressure, brutal cold and utter darkness; an epic journey into
the unknown; alien worlds; bizarre creatures; extraordinary new
reading the skies behaviours; unendurable pressures; savage hordes of Humboldt squid...”
as long as people have walked the earth, they have been ~ (BBC enters the hype realm for Blue Planet II, The Deep.)

read the signs ♦ “Adventure is pushing yourself into unknown realms, not dying just
because the pro sucked.” (The great climber Todd Skinner.)
if you can't ~, you won't survive (the taigá)
area: royalty
reads the signs
he ~ like a map ("Shadow Wolves" tracker) reap (verb)
read the sky reaped (vast) sums from (Nigerian) oil
they pride themselves on their ability to ~ (hunters) Shell has ~
read a (financial) statement reap (enormous political) support from the unions
she learned how to read a ~ politicians can ~ (education)
read the weather, wind, sun, stars reap their (biggest) profits by selling
a sailor must be able to ~ (sailing) sex traffickers ~ virgins (Asia)
hard to read reaping a (bitter) harvest
Ohio is ~ (elections) teachers are ~ (dislike by public)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: books & reading / reap the (almost immeasurable) rewards
verb a few corporations ~ of a vast new world (AI)
read (the sign read don’t enter, etc.) reap the whirlwind
he who sows the wind shall ~ (Bible)
altimeter read
my ~ 27,500 feet (Mount Everest) product: farming & agriculture / plant / verb

banners read reaper (Reaper drone, etc.)

huge ~ “Allez les Bleus” (World Cup soccer)
Reaper drone
card read a Hellfire missile fired from a ~ killed...
his business ~ “Any kinds of Ladies’ Tailor and Skin, etc.”
proper name: farming & agriculture / plant
decal (on the door) read death & life / military: proper name
a ~ “In the name of Allah we enter...” death & life: farming & agriculture

label reads rear (verb)

the ~, “Made in England”
rearing for a fight
map reads Dees is still ~ (Southern Poverty Law Center)
“These islands are rich,” the ~
behavior / conflict: animal / horse / verb
poster read
the ~, “You’re Not Good Enough To Be A Marine”

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reared (raised) gospel of rebirth
he is preaching a ~ to everyone (Detroit mayor)
reared on fiascoes
young Americans have been ~ (war, recession, etc.) death and rebirth
the primordial pageant of ~ of light (solar eclipse)
growth & development: death & life
growth & development: birth
rebel (person) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: birth
amelioration & renewal: birth
rebel against political correctness
Trump campaigned as a ~ reboot (verb)
rebel, tree sister, earth protector reboot the series
I am a ~ (Extinction Rebellion) he is helping ~ (new Twilight Zone)

outcast Hollywood rebel starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb
he was the ~ (film director Nicholas Ray) reboot (noun)
rank-and-file rebels
after negotiations with ~... (politics) reboot
Ukraine is ready for a ~ (political change)
world’s oldest rebel
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism
he calls himself the ~ (Harry Leslie Smith)
conservative rebels
reborn
~ have attacked plans to extend lockdown powers (UK) reborn
sexual rebel Spanish football was ~ (13 Oct 2007 vs Denmark)
she was a ~ (the remarkable Rebecca West) reborn in Athens in 1896
♦ “Here’s to the Crazy Ones! / The misfits. / The rebels. / The the Olympics, born in ancient Greece and ~
troublemakers. / The round pegs in the square holes. / The ones who
see things differently.” (Apple’s “Think Different” advertising campaign.) reborn career
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / person a ~ as an advertising icon (Jeff Hakman)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: military / person amelioration & renewal: birth
rebel (adjective) growth & development: birth
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: birth
Rebel Royal
Princess Margaret: ~
rebound (recover)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: military rebounded in numbers
resistance, opposition & defeat: military it's possible the sharks have ~

rebel (verb) ability to rebound

resilience is the ~
rebel
he began to ~ (in school after death of father) skin can rebound
~ and look younger (anti-aging creams)
rebels against our modern puritanism
his film ~ about intoxication (Thomas Vinterberg) resiliency: ball / movement / verb
movement: ball / verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: military / verb
rebound (verb)
rebellion (noun) rates never fully rebounded
vaccination ~ (autism fears)
seeds of rebellion
enforced potty sitting can sow the ~ (toddlers) increase & decrease: ball / movement / verb
movement: ball / verb
courting rebellion by pushing ahead increase & decrease: numbers
he is ~ with his plan (political party)
rebound (on the rebound)
conflict / resistance, opposition & defeat: military
on the rebound
rebirth (noun) the economy is finally ~
the sick seal appears to be ~
rebirth of (mountain) culture
the ~ amelioration & renewal / resiliency: ball

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rebound (rebound headache, etc.) recipe (vaccine recipe, etc.)
rebound headache original recipe
it sounds like you're experiencing ~s the FDA ok’d extra doses of Pfizer’s ~ (COVID vaccine)
drugs can cause ~s
script: food & drink
rebound hypertension
abrupt discontinuation may cause ~ (drug)
recipe (for conflict, etc.)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: ball recipe for conflict
in the brutal world of Afghan politics, this was a ~
rebuild (verb)
recipe for controversy
rebuild their lives combining sex and religion is a ~ (the arts)
they are trying to ~
recipe for disaster
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / verb this is a ~ (using pig organs for human transplants)
recant (verb) recipe for success
working together is a ~ (sports)
recanted
one of his earliest supporters ~ recipe for a breakdown
I can't let it tear me apart because it's just a ~ (anxiety)
allegiance, support & betrayal: religion / verb
♦ “I don’t want a piece of the pie, I want the goddamn recipe!” (The
recapture (verb) character of singer-songwriter-businessman Sam Cooke from the fine
Amazon film One Night in Miami.)

recapture past glories script: food & drink

patience is required as the club tries to ~ (Man U)
reckoning (groups)
pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
fictive possession: hand / verb MeToo reckonings
the ~ engulfed NBC, CBS, and Fox News (and now ABC)
recast (verb)
nationwide (racial) reckoning
recast herself as a sexy dancing girl a ~ over the systematic oppression of...
she ~, and the world went mad (Joey Heatherton)
racial reckoning
recast the (university's) image this is time for a true and steadfast commitment to a ~
it is part of a longstanding plan to ~
moment of (national) reckoning
recast (modern) womanhood people who want an attorney general to meet this ~ (BLM)
she helped ~ (Helen Gurley Brown / Cosmo)
reckoning has expanded
recast as a villain the MeToo ~ in scope to include workplace bullying
a guard cast as a hero was ~ (Richard Jewell)
face a reckoning
characterization: manufacturing / verb statues of Hannah Duston ~ (cancelled)
creation & transformation: manufacturing / verb
inclusion & exclusion: society
recast
reckoning (judgment)
recast as a villain
a guard cast as a hero was ~ (Richard Jewell) reckoning with it
lay the past to rest once we’ve had some kind of ~
characterization: manufacturing
creation & transformation: manufacturing historical reckoning
the trial was part of a ~ (2010 / Argentina)
received (wisdom, etc.)
moment of reckoning
received opinion will “Framing Britney Spears” be a ~ for the media
like so much ~, it was fallacious
reckoning is at hand
received wisdoms and so the ~ (a moment in a revenge story)
I do like to question ~ because they suit somebody
avoided any (deep) reckoning
received and outdated Japan ~ with its past (after WWII / many not punished)
Nansen did his best to overcome Scott’s ~ opinions
judgment: money / society
transmission: giving, receiving, bringing & returning

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reclaim (groups) red (Red Sea, etc.)
reclaimed Red Basin
21 words the Queer community has ~ the ~ is Good Earth country (China)
reclaim desire Red River
~ for yourself and take agency (sex / women) the ~ rises in Yunnan and flows to the Gulf of Tonkin
reclaim her (sexualized) image Red Sea
her sexy selfies allow her to ~ (abused when young) Jeddah, the bride of the ~
reclaimed (country and Americana) music Red Volta
how Black women ~ in 2021 the ~ is a tributary of the Volta River
♦ Watching the sun set from Jeddah’s corniche is a delight!
reclaims the (genre) space
the creator ~ for people of color (a horror film) ♦ The White Volta’s main tributaries are the Black Volta and the Red
Volta.
reclaimed space proper name: color
she has ~ for the Lumbee of Baltimore (Ashley Minner) geography: color / proper name
reclaims a previously demeaning term red (politics)
“Thunder Thighs” ~ (Miss Eaves)
red state
reclaim and repurpose is Iowa at this point a ~ or a blue state
~ the rhetorical and aesthetic space of country music (Mali
♦ "Is Iowa at this point a red state or a blue state?" "Iowa is still a purple
Obomsawin) state." (US politics, as talked about on NPR.)
inclusion & exclusion: society ♦ “Red, R, Reagan, that’s why we chose red.” (A network broadcaster
during the 1984 presidential election, explaining why states that had
reclaim (other) gone for Reagan were colored red on a national map. Democratic states
were colored blue.)
reclaim the heights identity & nature: color
they have managed to ~ (tennis sisters)
red (blood)
reclaimed his place
he has ~ back at the top of the boxing mountain (Fury) bleed red
possession: boundary / ground, terrain & land / surveying / white, black, brown, yellow, red, we all ~ (the military)
verb death & life: blood / color / sign, signal, symbol
recoil (verb) red (see red)
recoiled from his comments saw red
fellow Republicans ~ he ~ (enraged and violent)
♦ see also blood (blood in one’s eyes), mist (red mist)
recoiled from (a lot of) positions
he ~ propounded by Miller (politics) feeling, emotion & effect: blood / color
attraction & repulsion: movement / tools & technology / violence: blood / color
verb red alert (on red alert)
recycle (verb) on red alert
all organizations employing Westerners are ~ (terror)
recycle parts
we hope to ~ of the program readiness & preparedness: color
amelioration & renewal: manufacturing / verb red carpet (treatment)
red (red list, etc.) red carpet for investors
lay out the ~
red-list countries
travel to and from ~ remains restricted (COVID) lay out the red carpet for investors
they ~
England’s travel red list
England has added Turkey to ~ (pandemic) rolled out the red carpet for Karzai
the White House ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: color / sign, signal,
symbol superiority & inferiority / welcome: carpets & rugs / color /
royalty

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red flag got bogged down by red tape
rescue efforts ~ (Kobe earthquake)
red flags
obstacles & impedance: government
it raised some ~ to me (ethical question)
the company's disclosure raises a ~ (fraud) action, inaction & delay: government

red flags of arson reek (verb)

there are many ~ (arson investigation) reek of euphemism
intelligence red flags words and phrases that ~ (in U.S. English)
a range of ~ signaling terrorist activity (Kenya) corruption / flaws & lack of flaws: smell / verb
huge red flags reel (verb)
there were ~ nearly three years ago (a building collapse)
reeling from accusations
warning signs or red flags Wall Street is ~ that it is a rigged casino
there were no ~ (mass shooter)
reeling from the worst attacks (on their homeland)
red flags may signal Americans were ~ since Pearl Harbor (9/11)
the following 10 ~ an early problem (children)
reeling from her diagnosis
raised red flags she is ~ (HIV)
I ~ at the time the decision was made
♦ "Not only were there red flags, they were flapping in the wind." (A reeling from the effects
psychiatrist, commenting on the suicide of a university student.) the town is ~ of the hurricane
warning: color / flags & banners / sign, signal, symbol reeling from 3 hurricanes
redoubt (noun) Cuba is still ~ in a year last year

redoubt of independent Russian mass media reeling from a (citizens') revolt

the radio station is the last ~ the city council is ~ over officials' pay

redoubt of (all-male Protestant) privilege reeling from a (massive) scandal

Princeton University was a ~ Massachusetts is ~ in its state's crime lab

redoubt for the townies and old-timers reeling from a series

the hotel and its bar is the last major ~ the industry is ~ of scandals

redoubt for carousing reeling from the shock

it was a ~ (Sarajevo bar during war) the staff is still ~ of the shootings

redoubt in hay loft economy is reeling

the barn cat watched me from its ~ the ~, and politicians are making it worse
movement: verb / walking, running & jumping
last redoubt
North Korea is the ~ Stalinist isolation disruption / feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium &
stability / verb / walking, running & jumping
gritty, blue-collar redoubt reel in (verb)
Williamsburg used to be a ~ (Brooklyn)
protection & lack of protection: fortification / military reel him in
maybe there's a way we can ~ (investigation)
red tape
pursuit, capture & escape: fish / verb
red tape reflected
rescue efforts got bogged down by ~ (earthquake)
bureaucratic red tape reflected glory
the ~ required to… they now accepted him and partook of his ~
transmission: light & dark
incompetence and red tape
the ~ is amazing (Italian government) reflex (noun)
ran into red tape reflex response
the inmate's transfer ~ shaming has become the ~ to anything (Twitter)
cut through (all) the red tape standard reflex
he ~ to get it done when confronted, his ~ is to try and gaslight you

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♦ “[T]he simple, elegant, inexpensive almost plebeian swing of the reflex mission rehearsals
hammer has a cost/benefit ratio that I think no advanced technology will
likely ever match.” (Dr. Stephen Krieger, an expert on multiple sclerosis.) this plan, along with ~… (military)

control & lack of control: skin, muscle, nerves & bone plans, SOPS, standards, and rehearsals
integrate measures into ~ (fratricide)
refrain (common refrain, etc.)
planning, rehearsal, and execution
common refrain during mission ~ (military)
there’s a ~ among these MeToo stories (relief)
reconnaissance and (some) rehearsal
Navy refrain no doubt it required some ~ (attack on Red Cross)
“SWOs eat their own” is a common ~ (jealousy)
conduct rehearsals
repetition: music ~ on terrain that resembles the actual ground (military)
reframe (characterize) readiness & preparedness: theater
reframe the narrative rehearse (verb)
critical race theory seeks to ~ of American history
rehearse for combat
characterization: picture / verb the maneuvers are a chance for soldiers to ~ (Kuwait)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: infrastructure /
picture / verb rehearse on terrain and under conditions
if possible, ~ like those at the operation site (military)
refuge (noun)
rehearsed your answers
refuge from bullying when you have your script and have ~ (interview)
nowadays there is no ~ (teens and cyber-bullying)
rehearse procedures
last refuge ~ for evacuation requests (casualties / military)
patriotism is the ~ of the scoundrel
rehearse the signals
seek refuge ~ to be used on the patrol (military)
many ~ in delusion, denial and fantasy (Mideast)
rehearses (critical) tasks
protection & lack of protection: place the platoon ~
refugee (person) tasks to rehearse
some important ~ include assaulting a bunker
“bitcoin refugees”
China’s ~ are scrambling to find a new home (Texas) failure to rehearse
migration: person / journeys & trips short planning time, ~, and leader fatigue… (military)
person: journeys & trips plan, rehearse, and execute
regurgitate (verb) ~ the operation (military)
readiness & preparedness: theater / verb
regurgitating the bitterness
they are ~ of the election (politics) reign (verb)
consumption: food & drink / verb reign in Congress
rehearsal (noun) polarization is likely to ~ after the election
reigned supreme
rehearsal
censorship ~ from 1932 to the late 50s (Hollywood)
~s build confidence and improve performance (military)
~s reveal weaknesses or problems (military) confusion reigns
~ nationwide amid conflicting coronavirus rules
rehearsal of all (critically timed) events
a ~ should be done (ARSOA) uncertainty reigns
even with computer models as a guide, ~
rehearsal for invasion
North Korea calls the maneuvers a ~ unease reigns
~ after North Korean missile test
rehearsals or reconnaissance
terrorists undertake ~ originality and uncertainty still reign
~ (Black Mirror TV show)
dress rehearsal
if a full-scale ~ is impossible (military) starting, going, continuing & ending: royalty / verb

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primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty / verb carrying out a ~ (Burma)
reign (noun) reign of terror in Uganda
Idi Amin's ~
reign of Gerald
the ~, an aggressive turkey, is over (relocated) reign of terror by (indigenous) Dayaks
a savage ~ (Indonesia)
reign over FIFA
questions have been raised about Sepp Blatter’s ~ Idi Amin's reign of terror
~ in Uganda
reign as a terrorist mastermind
his ~ (Palestinian) savage reign of terror
a ~ by indigenous Dayaks (Indonesia)
championship reign
she took 3 months out of her ~ to do the movie (Valentina imposed a reign of terror
Shevchenko) foreign militants have ~ in South Waziristan
rise and reign oppression: allusion / history / royalty / violence
Amazon and the ~ of Jeff Bezos
rein (rein in)
reign ends
Klitschko’s heavyweight ~ with loss to Fury (boxing) rein in (Medicare) costs
he wants to ~ (politics)
reign (as the heavyweight champion) lasted
his ~ only... rein in (tribal and personal) rivalries
~ (Afghanistan)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty
rein in the rocket fire
reigning Hamas has been trying to ~
reigning academics rein in (government) spending
he battled against the stale works of the ~ we need to ~
reigning champion control & lack of control: animal / horse / verb
as ~, Armstrong… (Tour de France)
rein (reins of power, etc.)
reigning (NFL) champions
the ~ led 17-0 at half-time (American football) reins of Holland
he ran PSV Eindhoven before taking the ~ (coach)
reigning champs
we're the ~ (basketball) reins of power
he has successfully gathered all the ~ into his hands (crown
reigning monarch prince)
deep learning is the ~ of AI
reins to the union
reigning wisdom he holds the ~
this has become the ~ of the nineties
organizing reins
former and reigning (m) Rose will turn over the ~ to Sunny Ross
~ heavyweights (boxing)
hold on the reins
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: royalty he now has a much stronger ~ (government)
re-ignite (verb) holds the reins to the union
he ~
re-ignite (economic) growth
I'll ~ (commercial for a politician) turn over the (organizing) reins to Ross
he will ~
initiation: fire / verb
handed the reins
reign of terror / fear, etc. he has been ~ (new coach for team)
reign of fear seize the reins
Iraq's Shiites describe a ~ (Saddam) he will probably ~ (football player for a position)
reign of terror control & lack of control: animal / horse
a full-scale invasion to end the ~ (Haiti)
stoning is used to extend the ~ (Iran) rein (free rein)
reign of terror against (ethnic) minorities free rein

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 he was given ~ to loft his jumper (basketball) CBS comes along to ~ (show on hillbillies)
the panel has a ~ to look at other areas of his research
initiation: fire / verb
have a free rein starting, going, continuing & ending: fire / verb
weapons inspectors must ~ (in Iraq)
relative (relationship)
constraint & lack of constraint: animal / horse
relative
reincarnation (noun) anorexia nervosa, or its ~, bulimia nervosa
reincarnation of continuity relative of the giraffe
he is the ~ (German politician Armin Laschet) the okapi, a ~…
reincarnation of hope close relative
American Utopia argues for the ~ in the American project chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a ~ of Alzheimer's
♦ “But I am still alive / But I am living still / But I am still around / But I will
remain, and I’ll be back again...” (“The Highwayman,” American outlaws, relationship: family
Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990.)
relax (relax control, etc.)
creation & transformation / presence & absence: religion
relax the (normally strict) boundaries
reined in a psychiatrist may ~ of the doctor-patient relationship
violence has been reined in relax their lockdown measures
the ~ (in a filmmaker's latest film) a number of countries are set to ~ (COVID-19)
control & lack of control: animal / horse relaxed some rigid rules
reinforce (verb) he has ~ (coach)
increase & decrease: pressure / verb
reinforce his claims
candidates who ~ of voter fraud (politics) relax (feeling)
reinforces the importance relaxed and drank wine
the research ~ of hand washing (public health) in the afterglow of our rafting trip we ~
reinforces racism feeling, emotion & effect: pressure
CRT ~ (John McWhorter)
relic (noun)
reinforced a sense
the tragedy has ~ of community (in a Texas town) relic of a (different) era
this system is a ~ (governance)
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / verb
relic of the past
reinvigorate (verb) privacy has become a ~ (Internet, etc.)
his confrontational approach was rejected as a ~ (coach)
reinvigorated the agency whooping cough, once thought to be a ~...
she has ~ will Covid-19 make handshakes a ~
reinvigorates support relic of an earlier time
Nike’s ad ~ in Kaepernick’s corner the club is a ~ (a social club)
amelioration & renewal: death & life / health & medicine /
relic of households past
verb the iron is a ~
rekindle (verb) relic of the Cold War
rekindles memories NATO is not a useless ~
it ~ of the bad old days of Suharto Ottoman relics
rekindle our relationship we have no weapons, only old ~
I'm not looking to ~ dated relic
rekindling their romance some think the musical is a ~ (The King and I)
Lindsay and Samantha may be ~ (celebrities) obsolete relic
rekindle stereotypes the book-based world will be an ~ (Internet)
he worries the case might ~ of Mississippi twin relics
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out-of-touch relic a sense of control is the best ~ (living with terrorism)
she is an ~ with a fossilized understanding of race and
gender
remedies for violations
administrative ~ of the statute (Title IX)
past & present / time: Bible / religion
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: Bible / religion
remedy for the cabin fever
a ~ that plagues Vermont all winter
relief (in bold relief)
administrative remedy
in bold relief ~s for violations of the statute (Title IX)
Battle of the Bulge revealed those intelligence failures ~
best remedy
attention, scrutiny & promotion: height a good mousing cat is the ~ (mice in stable)
a sense of control is the ~ for stress (terrorism)
religion (enthusiasm)
legal remedy
religion the injustice cried out for a ~
deep in the Bible Belt, here football is ~ (Knoxville) in some countries marriage is a ~ for statutory rape
football is a ~ and Saturday is the high holy day (South)
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
religion to many
barbecuing is a ~ … remind (verb)
nearly a religion reminds us that
Brazil, where football is ~ his life ~ the cutting edge can grow dull (Hugh Hefner)
♦ “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”
(The opening line of A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean. The
remind him
book is set in Montana and features the Blackfoot River.) if someone has lost his freedom, the steppe will ~ of it...
♦ “Their fellowship went further still. On Sundays, after mass, they took fictive communication: speech / verb
their rods and slipped secretly—lest they shock finer sensibilities—
through the back ways of the Sabbath-stricken town, out into the verdant
valley of the Whitadder. In his tin, packed with sawdust, were luscious
remote (past)
maggots, picked the night before from Mealey’s boneyard. Thereafter the
day was heady with the sound of the stream, the scent of remote past
meadowsweet,—his father showing him the likely eddies,—the crimson- in the ~, dinosaurs roamed the land
speckled trout wriggling on bleached shingle,—his father bent over a twig
fire,—the crisp sweet goodness of the frizzled fish...” (The Keys of the past & present / time: distance
Kingdom by A.J. Cronin.)
remote (future)
enthusiasm: religion
religiously remote future
alternative scenarios of the ~ (science)
watches the show religiously events set in a ~ (science fiction)
he ~ future / time: distance
behavior / enthusiasm: religion remove (kill)
remain (verb)
remove him from the battlefield
remain the president’s decision to ~ saved US lives
but many questions remain (terrorism) ♦ “President Biden, Vice President Harris and members of the
President’s national security team observe the counterterrorism
remaining coy operation responsible for removing from the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-
Hashimi al-Qurayshi—the leader of ISIS.” (A White House Tweet with a
most potential candidates are ~ for now (presidency) picture.)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / presence & death & life: euphemism / verb
absence / survival, persistence & endurance: movement /
verb renaissance (noun)
remedy (verb) renaissance of fable
the Age of Discovery brought a ~
remedy the problems
we must ~ of the past renaissance era
its release ushered in Disney’s ~ (Little Mermaid, 1989)
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine / verb
renaissance man
remedy (noun) a ~, Morton already had experience as... (anesthesia)
he was a ~ who just enjoyed a wide range of things
remedy for stress

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career renaissance feeling, emotion & effect: sound
she is enjoying a ~ (an actor) effect: sound
something of a renaissance repertoire (noun)
documentary has undergone ~ in the last ten years repertoire of your teaching kit
amelioration & renewal / growth & development / primacy, jokes may contribute to the ~ (education)
currency, decline & obsolescence: birth / history help & assistance / performance: theater
renegade (person) amount / group, set & collection: theater
report card
renegade hobby
skateboarding is still considered a ~ Report Card for America's Infrastructure
the 2005 "~" (American Society of Civil Engineers)
renegade thinkers
~ like Franz Boas and Margaret Mead nation's report card
the national assessment is often called " ~"
ideological renegade
he developed a reputation as an ~ (Ishmael Reed) mixed report card
for Obama, a ~ from Afghanistan
resistance, opposition & defeat: person / religion
allegiance, support & betrayal: person / religion report card gives
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: person / religion a ~ 29 states an F (health-care price transparency)
repaid (a debt, etc.) gets a bad report card
when a school ~
repaid to those men
a debt has been ~ (blanket men / Maze Prison escape) issues report cards
obligation: money the state department of health ~ on hospitals and surgeons
judgment: school & education
repair (verb)
repose (position)
repair the economy
we need to ~ at home reposed the city
on its near edge ~ (a plain)
repaired their relationship
she and Tom have ~ fictive position: standing, sitting & lying / verb
amelioration & renewal: mechanism / verb representation (groups)
repair (noun) representation at the Olympics
I think it’s awesome that we’re finally getting trans ~
in need of repair
their marriage is ~ representation and presence
amelioration & renewal: mechanism ~ aren’t the same thing

repay (verb) representation game

I’ve felt like a pawn in this hollow ~ (comic Julio Torres)
repaid me with petty insults Black representation
he ~ for having rejected him (#MeToo)
he spoke up about ~ (Andre Leon Talley)
repay the debt of gratitude indigenous representation
we can never ~ owed to our nation’s veterans
the show is groundbreaking for ~ on TV (Reservation Dogs)
♦ “I place a date in your lips, and you spit the pit in my face!”
(Ingratitude.) trans representation
obligation: money / verb ~ onscreen

repercussion (noun) more empowerment, more representation

~, more stories told (PBS versus Beyond Inclusion)
repercussions and reverberations
inclusivity and representation
fears about the ~ of a targeted killing persisted
~ within the Black disabled transgender community
shocking repercussions
visibility, representation and equality
her reaction had some ~
thanks to increases in ~, more LGBTQ folks can come out
crime and its repercussions ♦ “For me, it’s a catalyst to go harder. It’s a catalyst for the next door that
this gruesome ~ I walk into to create a space where we can combine this scholarship and

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this culture to have more Black girls dominating these academic spaces.” bloody reprisals
(Emani Stanton, 17. At People, “Black Female Duo Wins Harvard Debate
Competition” by Rachel DeSantis, July 21, 2021.) I suspect the volume will feature ~ (issue among linguists)
♦ “You see a fierceness that’s coming from the girls that are coming up fear of reprisal
now, that’s because we understand we ain’t got nuttin to lose. I already
done lost that job, I already done lost that job.” (Angelica Ross, about they could express their feelings with less ~ (secret ballot)
Trans representation in media / entertainment. According to her
Wikipedia entry, “Her breakthrough role came in 2018, as Candy Ferocity retaliation and reprisal and threats
in Rya Murphy’s FX drama series Pose.”) donors face ~ on the internet (a Supreme Court case)
♦ “I think it had a lot to do with me being a Black woman, period. And
having seen how historically, you know, if our stories, you know, have faces reprisals
been presented to the world, oftentimes they’re misrepresented or their she ~ (Gina Carano / for social media posts)
not represented in their fullness or there’s just like a sliver of us being
presented. And so, I just felt like this is huge responsibility to not only targeted the executives for reprisal
show, like her—I would say ginormous levels of strength and resilience—
but also to provide an audience like a window into the vulnerability.”
he appeared to have ~ (the CEO of a US agency / politics)
(Katori Hall speaking about the great American-born Tina Turner, birth ♦ The tragedy of Lipa Village; the Massacre in Velika; the Podhum
name Anna Mae Bullock, a Swiss citizen since 2013.) massacre; the Kriva Reka Massacre... (Awful reprisals against civilians in
the Balkans during World War II. “Here, in the village of X, on Sept. 30,
♦ “We’ve been silenced and misrepresented. And so, any time you get
1943, 30 civilians were murdered in reprisal for the killing of a German
an opportunity to tell your truth, you are pushing back against so many
soldier...”)
lies and falsehoods...And being an artist and in demanding that the world
just looks at you, you oddly are being an activist.” (Katori Hall.)
conflict / punishment & recrimination: military / violence
♦ “We demanded representation, and not just in gender and race, but in
perspective, values and experience.” (Rashad Robinson, president of
Color of Change, about Ketanji Brown’s confirmation to the Supreme
rescue (verb)
Court.)
rescued him from a life
♦ “Representation, diversity, inclusion, words that pervade the world we
live in.”
canoe-making ~ of alcohol and obliteration (Palawa artist)
♦ “At issue, is the question of who controls the non-fiction stories told on rescue the program from mediocrity
PBS and which stories—or filmmakers—get the most financial support.” he promised to ~ (a new coach)
(PBS And Ken Burns Vow To Do Better On Diversity But Critics Aren’t
Convinced,” Eric Deggans, NPR, Television, August 12, 2021.)
rescue these 78 RPMs, tapes, wax cylinders, everything
♦ “It is really important to remember that we have very limited we try to ~ (AMAR Foundation / Mustapha Saeed)
representation and presence isn’t the same thing as representation
representation centered around the Black American person the Black help & assistance: death & life / verb
American community and it does not take into account constantly the
white gaze.” (Bethany C. Morrow, author of So Many Beginnings: A Little survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
Women Remix, speaking with Lulu Garcia-Navarro on NPR.)
♦ “A lot of the festivals that we have, now, overlook hip-hop, they do. I
rescue (noun)
mean, if you look at [?], there’s not enough hip-hop, uh, representation, if
you look at Coachella, there’s not enough hip-hop representation, Firefly, come to (America’s) rescue
any of those festivals, there’s not enough hip-hop representation.” (“Why Franklin’s call for history to ~ (John Hope Franklin)
hip-hop festival Rolling Loud seems to be a hotbed for arrests,” NPR, All
Things Considered, Monday, Nov 1, 2021.) come to their rescue
♦ “For a while, I have felt like a pawn in this hollow representation game. people are looking to scientists to ~ (pandemic)
Because what the hell does Disney’s ‘Coco’ do for Mexican children?
Bob Iger gets richer. That’s the climax.” (“Extraordinary Alien: The survival, persistence & endurance: death & life
otherworldly comedy of Julio Torres” by Michael Schulman, The New help & assistance: death & life
Yorker, December 28, 2020.)
♦ “[My father said to me] ‘Listen son, people like us don’t do things like reservoir (amount)
that...son, I just don’t want you to talk about it anymore...” (“British Actor
Terence Stamp Reflects on London in the Swinging ‘60s,” NPR, Fresh reservoirs of rage
Air, Nov 5, 2021. Originally broadcast in 2002. About what his father had
said, Stamp said, “In fact, it didn’t deter me at all.”)
the loneliness of children and their often unrecognized ~

inclusion & exclusion: society reservoir of good feeling

polls show a surprising ~ toward Obama
reprieve (noun)
tap into the reservoir
reprieve from (intense) colds the militants can ~ of submerged hatred
with only 20 weeks of ~ every year… (Siberia)
amount: dam / river / water
fate, fortune & chance: justice
punishment & recrimination: justice
reservoir (source)
reprisal (noun) viral reservoir
bats are among the most dangerous ~s on earth
reprisals against opposition politicians and activists
source: dam / river / water
politically motivated ~
reprisal from their employer
reservoir (group)
talking about misconduct without fear of ~ reservoir of labor

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 the DPs became a ~ (WW II “Baltic Swans,” etc.) residence (noun)
group, set & collection: river / water
taken up residence
reset (noun) this iceberg has ~ near the coastland (Newfoundland)

reset location: house

he wants an overall ~ (policy towards Afghanistan) place: house / death & life
our ~, which is not a retreat, will be different (Time’s Up) presence & absence: death & life
the group call this a ~, it could also be called an implosion resonate (verb)
in our reset resonated around Mexico
we’re determined ~ to do better, get it right (Time’s Up) the news ~ (arrest of Garcia Luna)
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism
resonate with students
reset (verb) his speech will ~ (politics)

reset relations resonates with Latin voters

Obama promised to ~ with Russia Bernie’s message ~ (election)

reset the trajectory resonates today

he helped formulate the strategy that ~ of the war the riot still ~ (Attica / 1971)

fix or reset resonated loud and long

the law’s efforts to ~ struggling schools (NCLB) accounts of the 1963 Everest epic ~
♦ Steve Inskeep: “This is really interesting, not going to reset. Meaning feeling, emotion & effect: sound / verb
not gonna look into Putin’s eyes as George W. Bush did, not gonna bring
a reset button, as Hillary Clinton once did under Obama, not going to effect: sound / verb
look away from Russian election interference, as Donald Trump did. Just
try to move forward? (In an incredulous tone.) Is that what they’re trying
rest (put / lay something to rest)
to do?” / Franco Ordonez: “Yeah, they wanna move forward...” (“U.S.
Announces Sanctions On Russia Over Poisoning Of Opposition Leader laid to rest any doubt
Alexei Navalny,” NPR, Morning Edition, March 2, 2021.) she ~ about... (PM Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand)
♦ “We are resetting, we are not retreating, and we are here, we have a
vision, we are capable of fulfilling it.” (Ashley Judd of Time’s Up, laid to rest a misapprehension
responding to criticism of that organization.) Apple ~ that...
starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism / verb put these accusations to rest
reshape (verb) the idea for the interview was to ~ (historical sex abuse)
lay this history to rest
reshape how
any trial is unlikely ~ (in Columbia / Alvaro Uribe)
the debate could ~ Americans understand foreign aid
laid the incident to rest
reshaped Hollywood
China appears to have ~ (returns US underwater drone)
the Jaws producer who ~ (Richard Zanuck)
put the matter to rest
reshaping (Indian) society
Cook had now ~ (no Southern Continent)
westernization is ~
put this matter to rest
reshaped the (ethnic) landscape
we must ~
the brutal violence has ~
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, going,
creation & transformation: hand / manufacturing / verb
continuing & ending: burial / sleep / verb
reside (verb)
rest (put / laid to rest)
resides at Goodrich Castle
Roaring Meg ~ (an English Civil Wars-era mortar) laid to rest
the issue has now been ~ (a work issue)
reside inside of a business or campaign headquarters the situation has finally been ~ (authorship dispute)
the drop-boxes ~ (the controversial US 2020 election) Rosetta will be ~ not too far away (from Philae)
♦ see also live (location) doubts about his birth had been ~
Adobe Flash is finally ~
location: house / verb
place: house / death & life / verb starting, going, continuing & ending: burial / sleep
presence & absence: death & life / verb reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: burial / sleep

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restlessness retire (verb)
musical restlessness retire the term
that ~ has made her a lightning rod (country music) it’s time to ~ (LGBTZ+)
it’s time to ~ ‘People Of Color” (Damon Young)
activity: sleep
♦ This simply means to retire someone (or something) and is a
resurface (verb) benevolent concept. An alternative is, “Time to send him off to the
sanctuary.” A less benevolent idea is “Slaughter the donkey when its
work is done.” Or “it’s time to send him to the glue factory.” Or, “put him
resurfaced to sleep.” Or “take him behind the barn.”
jihadists have ~ to pursue an Islamic state ♦ Cats in the Cradle; Imagine; Yesterday; Happy (Pharrell); American
he went to ground for a few months but then ~ (wanted) Pie; Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)... (“Hallelujah! The Songs We Should
his self-destructive tendencies have ~ Retire,” NPR, All Songs Considered, hosted by Bob Boilen, October 11,
2017.)
appearance & disappearance: verb / water ♦ Sam Sanders (“Opinion: It’s Time to Put ‘Woke’ To Sleep,” NPR,
Weekend Edition Sunday, December 30, 2018) argues that the term
resurrect (verb) woke has had its day and should be retired.
♦ “Why It’s Time To Retire The ‘Serious Conversation About Race’”, with
resurrect a career Damon Young. (1A, WAMU, NPR, July 16, 2020.)
he was desperately trying to ~ that… (a boxer)
♦ “Author Damon Young Says it’s Time To Retire The Term ‘People Of
Color,’” Here & Now, wbur, September 04, 2020.)
resurrect (many of the old) criticisms
a German defeat will ~ (soccer) ♦ “Honestly, I think we should probably retire the phrase ‘cancel culture’
at this point. Because it’s losing its meaning...when people just use it to
resurrected a killer mean, ‘I resent your drawing attention to my crazy ideas.’” (Mona
Charen, the Bulwark.)
scientists have ~ (reconstructed 1918 flu virus)
dismissal, removal & resignation: verb / work & duty
resurrecting the Hummer name
GMC is ~ as a full-electric pickup truck retired
resurrect performers retired
CGI can ~ from another era the Chief Wahoo logo is to be ~ (Cleveland Indians)
amelioration & renewal: death & life / religion / verb retired in July
the original Segway will be ~ (the personal transporter)
resurrection (noun)
retired in 2025
resurrection of the (1918) flu Windows 10 will be ~ (Microsoft)
the story of the ~ began in 1995…
retired planes
retrieval, resurrection, and revival Australian Airline selling bar carts from ~
his ~ (Thoreau / US literary canon)
pensioned-off warships
amelioration & renewal: death & life / religion
the oak walls of these ~ (English prisoner hulks)
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / religion
dismissal, removal & resignation: work & duty
resuscitate (verb)
retort (speech)
resuscitate this (all but abandoned) city
how can we ~ (Detroit) angry retort
the allegations have brought an ~
resuscitate the middle class
♦ A retort is a chamber or vessel relating to heat.
if only we could ~
speech: tools & technology
amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence &
endurance: death & life / health & medicine / verb retread (noun)
retch (verb) retread of the original
the sequel is a loud, brash ~ (a film)
retch
if education jargon causes you to ~... starting, going, continuing & ending: mechanism
make me want to retch retreat (withdraw)
some of his comments ~ (politics)
retreated into himself
acceptance & rejection / consumption / feeling, emotion & he ~ (high-altitude bivouac on Gasherbrum IV)
effect / hyperbole: bodily reaction / food & drink / stomach
/ verb retreated into a fantasy world
she ~ (9-year-old, father jailed)

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confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / feeling, the dramatic ~ (bald eagle)
emotion & effect: direction / military
return of the wolf
retreat (reverse / verb) the west has seen the ~ (US)

retreated from that stand dramatic return

he has since ~, saying… (politician) the ~ of this national symbol (the bald eagle)

retreated on several points primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction

still, the state has ~ (prisoners' demands) survival, persistence & endurance: direction

retreating on his policy return (point of no return)

he is ~ to... (president) point of no return
retreated on that many see annexation as a ~ in terms of a peace deal
but the EPA ~ (reverses a ban) fate, fortune & chance: journeys & trips
♦ “We are resetting, we are not retreating, and we are here, we have a development: journeys & trips
vision, we are capable of fulfilling it.” (Ashley Judd of Time’s Up,
responding to criticism of that organization.)
commitment & determination: journeys & trips

reversal: direction / military / verb return (noun)

resistance, opposition & defeat: direction / military / verb return of function
retreat (reverse / noun) full ~ is common (fracture)

media retreat return of cold temperatures

there was a ~ and apology for past invasiveness the ~ led to an ice age

reversal: direction / military return to function

complete ~ is the norm (fracture)
retreat (glaciers, etc.)
return to the fundamentals
retreating rapidly Salafis advocate a strict ~
alpine glaciers are ~ (Switzerland)
return to the "old days"
♦ The Swiss cover sections of the Rhone Glacier with tarps in the
summer to prevent melting. what he really wants is a ~ (Pakistani Christian)

movement: direction / military / verb return to traditional foods

the tepary bean symbolizes a ~ (Tohono O'odham)
return (and return to)
point of no return
return to normal I reached the ~
coral can recover if conditions ~ (bleaching)
symbolizes a return
returned to normal the tepary bean ~ to traditional foods (Tohono O'odham)
his heart and liver function had ~ (CO poisoning)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement
returning to normal
things are slowly ~ revisit (verb)
returned in force revisit that stuff
it was still horribly cold and the wind ~ (climbing) it’s always hard to ~ (a racial murder from 1964)

conditions return past & present / time: direction / journeys & trips /
coral can recover if ~ to normal (bleaching) movement / place / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: movement /
function had returned verb
his heart and liver ~ to normal (CO poisoning)
rewritten (changed)
wind returned
it was still horribly cold and the ~ in force (climbing) rewritten
♦ see also go back (and get back)
tools that allow the code of life to be ~ (Crispr-Cas9)

coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / situation: creation & transformation: writing & spelling
direction / movement / verb
reveal (verb)
return (animals, etc.)
reveal how
return of this (national) symbol his novels ~ things really got done (spycraft)

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reveal a (genetic) bottleneck the political dialogue in the US ~ (New Zealand massacre)
blood samples ~ (too few Amur tigers left)
reverberate through admission offices
reveal some dirt the case is sure to ~ (forged transcripts)
critics hoped the report would ~ on the President (politics)
reverberating throughout Kenosha
revealed the extent the acquittal on all counts is ~ (Kyle Rittenhouse trial)
dawn ~ of devastation
feeling, emotion & effect: sound / verb
revealed a (deep) fissure transmission: sound / verb
the resignations ~ among Afghan leaders reverberation (noun)
reveals (many) hidden gems
the road ~ (N7 in France)
reverberations across the globe
the attacks in Christchurch have had ~ (mass shooting)
reveal gulf
antiwar marches ~ between leaders and people
global reverberations
the choices that are made have ~ (world leadership)
reveal the hypocrisy
he listed the façade of respectability to ~
political reverberations
the ~ continued to be felt (assassination)
reveals a (disturbing) pattern
the data ~ to a trained eye
repercussions and reverberations
fears about the ~ of a targeted killing persisted
reveal themselves
secrets always ~ in the light of truth
reverberations haven't died away
that was 150 years ago, yet the ~ (Civil War)
concealment & lack of concealment: verb
feeling, emotion & effect: sound
evidence: verb
effect / transmission: sound
reveal (big reveal, etc.) reverential (adjective)
reveal (for most of the country) was
the biggest ~ that... (a government hearing)
reverential care
the livestock was guarded with ~ (a colony)
reveal moment reverence: religion
it’s like a real chilling ~ where you realize that... (a film)
review (noun)
gender reveal
at a ~ party rave reviews
big reveal his new pitch has drawn ~ (a pitcher)
when will she make the ~ mixed reviews
juicy reveals but his performance got ~ (a lawyer)
candid confessions, ~ (on reality-TV hot mics) judgment: theater
concealment & lack of concealment: part of speech revive (verb)
searching & discovery: part of speech
revive (computer) systems
rev up (verb) Baltimore struggles to ~ paralyzed by hackers
revved up the debate revive hiring
the information ~ over the war government intervention can ~
revved up its focus amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence &
the probe has ~ on alleged corruption and fraud (Florida) endurance: death & life / health & medicine / verb
increase & decrease: engine / mechanism / verb revivify (verb)
revved (revved up) revivify the context
revved up creative non-fiction seeks to ~ of events
the crowd is ~ amelioration & renewal / survival, persistence &
feeling, emotion & effect: engine / mechanism endurance: death & life / health & medicine / verb
reverberate (verb) revolt (verb)
reverberates beyond our own shores revolted against the pay

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 shareholders have ~ awarded to... ~ is a challenge (Silicon Valley)
♦ “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
revolted against her attempts (Thomas Edison, December, 1879.)
many supporters of her party have ~ at austerity
disruption: history / person
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb
revolutionary (adjective)
revolt (noun)
revolutionary for biology
shareholder revolt the discovery of DNA was ~
the aftershocks from the ~ will be felt...
revolutionary for physics
citizens’ revolt the discovery of cosmic microwave fluctuations was ~
the city council is reeling from a ~ over officials’ pay
revolutionary breakthroughs
resistance, opposition & defeat: military ~ in armor technology (military)
revolution (noun) revolutionary toothbrush
brush your teeth in less than 10 seconds with this ~ (ad)
revolution in (data) storage
astronomy faces a ~ importance & significance: history
disruption / growth & development: history
communications revolution
the ~ that is the Web revolutionize (verb)
information revolution revolutionized the (retail drug) business
the impact of the ~ Mr. Walgreen ~ in the 1950s
Internet revolution revolutionized (medical) care
helped propel the ~ the CAT scanner ~ throughout the world
digital music revolution revolutionized women's lives
his startup, MP3.com, helped ignite the ~ the sewing machine ~ (1870s)
shortboard revolution revolutionized forensic anthropology
his board designs helped kick off the ~ (surfing) the body farm ~ (Knoxville, TN)
lesbian revolution importance & significance: history / verb
her hit song Wenn die beste Freundin unleashed a ~ disruption / growth & development: history / verb
sexual revolution revolve (revolve around something)
living in a country that went through the ~ (US)
revolves around Mahomes
aftermath of the (sexual) revolution the entire offense ~ (injured NFL quarterback)
in the ~
revolved around heroism
igniter of the (3-point) revolution for many tribes, life ~
he was the ~ in the NBA (the great Stephen Curry)
revolves around the ocean
impact of the (information) revolution our life ~ (Perth / Australia)
the ~
revolved around the sea
path of revolution his life ~ (a surfer)
another bored child of privilege who chose the ~
revolved around sports
revolution is brewing his childhood ~
a ~ (against bilingual education)
revolved around a (church) youth group
launched a revolution her social life ~
he ~ (astronomer looking at X-ray emitters)
revolve around personalities and geography
kick off the (shortboard) revolution allegiances ~ (Tuvalu politics)
his board designs helped ~ (surfing)
movement: astronomy
importance & significance: history attraction & repulsion / bases / configuration / division &
disruption / growth & development: history connection / relationship: astronomy / movement / verb
revolutionary (person) revolving door
separating the charlatans from the revolutionaries revolving door

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 her romantic life is a ~ ~ produce much larger signals in the brain
it has been a ~ and there’s been a lot of turnover (politics)
it was a ~, there was a lot of turnover (a company) lion's share of the rewards
they reap the ~
revolving door of the Trump administration
through the ~ goes another high-level departure incentives and rewards
improve class climate through ~ (teachers)
revolving door between the DEA and the drug industry
if you take a look at the ~ (regulators become lobbyists) perils and rewards
the ~ of the backcountry (Mt. Rainier)
revolving door between sickness and health
many moved constantly in a ~ (preventive medicine) rewards (certainly) justified the effort
the ~ (hiking)
revolving door of (national-security) advisors
this has been the ~ (firings, resignations, etc.) carries rewards
developing the Arctic ~ and dangers
movement: doors & thresholds
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: doors & delivering (cash) rewards
thresholds / movement the new software is ~

reward (verb) attuned to rewards

the human brain is acutely ~ like money, sex and drugs
reward you with its beauty ♦ Honesty; doing the right thing; learning and education; kindness and
whatever the season, the galax will ~ (plant) helping people and animals... (Things that are their own rewards.)

reward the winners with certificates cost & benefit: money

we ~ of achievement (class project)
rewarding
rewards loyalty over excellence
he ~ (president) rewarding
the work is very hard but very ~ (nursing assistant)
reward (or punish) students for their behavior
grades should not ~ rewarding experience
it's the most ~ I've ever had (adoption)
rewards (creative) approaches
the competition ~ to… (research) rewarding thing
it's the most ~ I've ever done (adoption)
rewards the (personal) loyalty
the bureaucracy ~ of those at the bottom rewarding spiritually
it's very ~ (paragliding / Hawaii)
reward or punish
grades should not ~ students for their behavior fun and rewarding
wilderness and travel medicine can be ~
cost & benefit: money / verb
cost & benefit: money
reward (noun)
rewind (verb)
reward
I think that the risk is part of the ~ (a climber) rewind
if I could ~ I would (a swatting leads to death of innocent)
rewards of fish watching
introduce recreational divers to the ~ rewind this film
you cannot ~ (US withdrawal from Afghanistan)
rewards like money, sex and drugs
present & past / reversal / time: film
the human brain is acutely attuned to ~
rewards for (good) work
ribbon (Ribbon Reef, etc.)
high grades are given as ~ (school) Ribbon Creek
rewards or other kinds of motivation we paddled up ~ (Alberta, Canada)
recognize achievement with ~ (job) Ribbon Lake
rewards and dangers ~ is in Alberta, Canada
developing the Arctic carries ~ for those in the area Ribbon Reef
cash reward we scuba-dive on ~ (Queensland, Australia)
the new software is delivering ~s Pabst Blue Ribbon
unpredictable rewards drink ~ and imbibe some American history

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proper name: cloth ricochet (verb)
ribbon (ribbon of moonlight, etc.) ricochet
ribbon of moonlight this could ~
the road was a ~, across the purple moor... movement / reversal: verb / weapon
shape: cloth riddle (noun)
rich (rich land, etc.) solve the riddle
rich their objective was to ~ of COVID-19’s origin
the land here is particularly ~ ♦ When I eat I live, when I drink I die. What am I?
♦ “Better poor with honor than rich with shame.” (A point of pride in ♦ What has three heads, eight legs, and two wings? (A Bedouin, on a
Kosovo.) horse, with a falcon.)
♦ Four in the morning, two in the afternoon, three in the evening.
worth & lack of worth: money
♦ Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
rich (plentiful) certainty & uncertainty: speech
rich in (natural) beauty riddled (riddled with flaws, etc.)
the Aisén area of Patagonia is ~ (Chile)
riddled with bullets
rich in minerals
his car was ~ (assassinated)
Guinea, a former French colony that is ~
riddled with clichés
rich in uranium
the script is ~
the north of Niger is ~
riddled with doubt
rich in protein, iron and calcium
he was ~ (Ben-Gurion)
teff, an easily absorbed millet ~ (Ethiopia)
riddled with falsehoods
feature-rich
the series was a hatchet job ~ (a documentary)
it is not nearly as ~ or versatile (a camera)
riddled with flaws
fiber-rich
that particular study was ~
to avoid hemorrhoids, fill up on ~ foods
riddled with lookouts
fossil-rich
the gang-infested neighborhood is ~
at the ~ site in China…
riddled with bugs and glitches
oxygen-rich
the game is ~, and is prone to crashes
fish need ~ water to survive (pollution)
♦ Riddled is generally followed by something that is negative. The
resource-rich following quote of the actor Peter O’Toole is an exception. Speaking
about the actors in the film Becket, he said, “The place was riddled with
China and India court ~ counties like Nigeria first-class people.”
target-rich affliction: animal / hole / insect
he flew into a ~ environment (combat) flaws & lack of flaws: animal / hole / insect
wildlife-rich configuration: animal / hole / insect
the ~ province of Mpumalanga ride (rough ride, etc.)
amount: money ride of my life
rich (superlative) this has been the greatest ~ (graduating basketball star)

rich (maritime) heritage rollercoaster of a ride

the New York and New Jersey area has a ~ I’ve had a ~ (rugby player Gareth Thomas)

rich (Jewish) legacy magic carpet ride

there is a ~ associated with boxing her campaign has become a ~ (Michele Bachmann)

rich (basketball) tradition “Magic Carpet Ride”

Philadelphia has a ~ ~ by Steppenwolf

rich, sophisticated and varied bumpy ride

consumers are in for a ~ this year (customer service)
Islamic civilization—~
superlative: money fantastic ride

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 we have had a ~ (his team loses in semifinal) rifts between blacks and whites
already existing ~ in the South
greatest ride
this has been the ~ of my life (graduating sports star) rifts between the Defense Secretary and the military
~ (US)
rough ride
we're in for a ~ (new troops in Iraq) rifts (between blacks and whites) in the South
already existing ~
wild ride
it’s going to be a ~ (future events) rifts in the city
his tweets and interviews make for a ~ (President Trump) trying to heal the racial ~ (LA)
easiest of rides rift among Indians
it hasn’t been the ~ (a film’s release) the move created a ~ here (Yakama Nation)
take you along for the ride rifts over (America's) strategy
a start-up that's ready to ~ (job) orchestrated leaks from the White House have exposed ~
♦ It looks like we’re in for a wild ride, so hang on. (A Wall Street bear
market.) deepening rift
hopes to end the ~ between Hamas and Fatah
experience: horse / movement / riding
centuries-old rift
ride (ride on something) a ~ has come to the surface (Egyptians in the US)
rides on our ability racial rift
the future ~ to adapt trying to heal the ~ in the city (Los Angeles)
rides on terminology new school / old school rift
much ~ (diplomacy) a classic ~ (newer kayaking moves)
riding on this exposed rifts
a lot of people's jobs are ~ (strike) leaks have ~ over America's strategy
hopes are riding healed the rift
all ~ on their daughter (immigrant family) the years have not ~ between Shipa and her family
dependency / relationship: riding / verb division & connection: ground, terrain & land
fictive transportation: riding / verb
right (right a wrong, etc.)
ride (ride something to fame, etc.)
right our (fiscal) ship
rode them to fame we must ~ (budget)
she was the one who ~ (ideas of fat liberation)
right this wrong
fictive transportation: horse / riding / verb we must ~
ride out (verb) right a (perceived) wrong
ride this thing out seeking to ~ with a firearm
we'll just have to ~ (a hurricane) seeking to right
rode out the hurricane at home ~ a perceived wrong with a firearm
they ~ amelioration & renewal: equilibrium & stability / orientation
ride out his affliction / verb
he chose to ~ (instead of going to the hospital) right (bragging rights)
rode out the storm claim bragging rights
the punch hurt him, but he ~ (boxing)
Putin’s eagerness to ~ is justified (hypersonic missiles)
survival, persistence & endurance: boat / riding / verb
competition: sports & games
rift (division) righted
rift righted
a ~ occurred between the radicals (Seattle mosque)
finally, a terrible wrong is being ~ (miscarriage of justice)
rift between Hamas and Fatah amelioration & renewal: boat
hopes to end the deepening ~
equilibrium & stability: boat

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right-hand (right-hand man, etc.) ring true
his stinging accusations about EU institutions ~
right-hand man
he was Mubarak's ~ for decades rings true
his story ~
importance & significance: hand / position the message ~ 75 years later (It’s a Wonderful Life)
rigid (constraint) perception, perspective & point of view: sound / verb

rigid (religious) beliefs ring (ring of truth, etc.)

he has ~
ring of truth
rigid doctrine his words had the ~ (murder trial)
the group does not have a ~ it doesn't have the ~ (an FBI report)
rigid hierarchy magical ring
teachers should avoid establishing a ~ of groups those three letters have a ~ (BBC)
'Vichyssoise' still has a ~ to it (for a chef)
rigid routine
inside, life followed a ~ (a factory) successful ring
it had a ~ (a boxer's boxing name for himself)
rigid rules
he has relaxed some ~ (coach) perception, perspective & point of view: sound

rigid (production) schedule ring (kiss the ring)

workers must deal with ~s
kiss the ring to get there
rigid versus a flexible he had to ~ (a Supreme Court justice)
commanders must weigh the benefits of a ~ plan
allegiance, support & betrayal: Middle Ages / religion
rigid and omnipotent ringed (circled)
its caste dynamics were ~
rigid and puritanical ringed by sand flats
Wahhabism, the ~ strain of Islam Rabbit Key, a small mangrove hummock ~ (Florida)

ideologically rigid ringed by barbed wire

our political leaders are too ~ the area is ~ (military post)

less rigid ringed by mountains of garbage

the Berbers practice a ~ form of Islam today neighborhoods here are ~ (Luanda)

ability & lack of ability / constraint & lack of constraint: ringed seal
materials & substances / movement the ~ is a chief prey of the polar bear (Arctic)
♦ Animals might be banded, dappled, marbled, mottled, ringed, speckled,
rigid (character) spotted, stippled, striped, and even spectacled!

rigid configuration: shape

she was not ~, and her views evolved (Ann Landers) ring in (the New Year, etc.)
we are not being so ~ as saying that is the only option
don't be ~, stay aware of your environment (military) ring in the Year of the Pig
next month, China will ~
rigid in his beliefs
his parents claim he is not ~ (religion) rung in some huge changes
the past 10 years have ~ for television
rigid or extremist
his parents say he is not ~ in his beliefs ringing out 2019 and ringing in the New Year
today we are ~
ability & lack of ability / character & personality: materials
& substances / movement attention, scrutiny & promotion: bell / sound / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / inauguration
ring (ring false, etc.) / starting, going, continuing & ending: bell / sound / verb
rang false ringmaster (role)
her story ~
ringmaster of the (daily) news briefings
rang hollow he was the ~ (government public-affairs news briefer)
his apology ~ (insincere)
ringmaster of loyalty investigations

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 he was the ~ (Joe McCarthy) ripe (adjective)
role of the ringmaster
he is playing the ~ (a crusader and media personality) ripe
the time is ~ to sit down with the Chinese
turned himself from spectator to ringmaster
he artfully ~ and took control (a mayor) ripe for a (large) fire
conditions are ~ (dead trees)
directing: circus / person
performance: person
ripe for cultivation
person: circus the colonists found meadows ~

ring out (the New Year, etc.) ripe for rebellion

the city is ~ (Basra)
ringing out 2019 and ringing in the New Year
today we are ~ seemed ripe
the time ~ for a fresh attempt (scientific ballooning)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: bell / sound / verb
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / starting, made conditions ripe
going, continuing & ending: bell / sound / verb the fronts and temperatures ~ for tornadoes

ring out (voice) growth & development / timeliness & lack of timeliness:
fruits & vegetables / plant
voice rang out
her ~ with an accusation ripple (verb)
speech: bell / sound / verb ripple out
all sorts of abuses ~ (from dogfighting)
ring out (a shot rang out, etc.)
rippled westward
shot rang out the tradition may have ~ with the Scythians (art)
suddenly, a ~ and a bullet fired from the house struck…
rippled through the system
sound: bell / verb United's flaws ~ (plane transportation)
riot (run riot) rippled through Hollywood
a groundswell of cases like hers ~ (MeToo)
ran riot
they ~ in a 5-0 win (a soccer match) rippled through every industry
the effects of the movement have ~ (MeToo)
ran riot at St Mary’s
Leicester ~ to win (a soccer match) rippled around the ground
a sense of foreboding ~ (a soccer game)
ran riot around the streets
he ~ of Holytown as a young lad (Chris Bungard) transmission: verb / water
effect / feeling, emotion & effect: verb / water / wave
mind ran riot
his busy ~ after his success (a troubled boxer) ripple (ripple effect)
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: crime ripple effects
riot (other) the ~ have affected river access (kayaking fatalities)
ripple effects in all directions
Riot Girls Kazakhstan’s policies have caused ~
~ offers no-holds-barred dramas (BBC Radio 4)
~ offers provocative writing by women (BBC Radio 4) have ripple effects
weather delays ~ (air transportation)
behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: crime
riot (riot of color, etc.) adds to the ripple effect
every new infection ~ (AIDS epidemic)
riot of wildflowers effect / feeling, emotion & effect: water / wave
spring covers the Rocky Mountains in a ~
ripple (noun)
riot of life and colour
Southern Africa is a ~ (ocean currents) ripples
delays can have ~ thousands of miles away (planes)
resemblance: crime
ripple on the economy
that move, in turn, has had a ~

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ripples of Columbine confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: direction /
what were the ~ height / verb
ripples of the shutdown rise (rise above something)
travelers everywhere felt the ~ (airport)
rose above party politics
ripple in the atmosphere he was a towering figure who ~ (a politician)
the smallest changes can have a ~ (tornadoes)
behavior: direction / height / verb
ripples from the drownings
the ~ have affected river access (kayaking) rise (rise and fall / verb)
political ripple rise and fall on the believability
the existence of child workers has made barely a ~ here the case will ~ of the accusations (rape)

barely a ripple fate, fortune & chance: direction / height / verb

the existence of child workers has made ~ success & failure: direction / height / verb

ripples could extend rise (rise and fall / noun)

the ~ beyond the industry (tainted beef)
rise and fall of a business colossus
made (barely) a ripple the ~ (Carlos Ghosn)
the existence of child workers has ~ here
rise and fall of Dollar General’s predecessors
sending ripples through colleges the ~ (five and dimes, etc.)
the changes are ~
rise and (sudden) downfall
♦ “Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of her ~ captured the nation’s imagination (Theranos trial)
the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that
propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence...” (Nature, Rise, Fall, and Return
Chapter 4 (Language), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836.)
The ~ of Michigan Football (John U. Bacon)
♦ “The pebble had been dropped in that water and it started rippling out
in waves that nobody could finally control, least of all Timothy Leary.” rise, fall, and rise again
(“Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out and LSD.)
his ~ may have seen a final chapter (a boxer)
effect / feeling, emotion & effect: water / wave growth & development: direction / height
rip through (verb) primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
height
ripped through the community
the virus has ~
rise (resist)
movement: force / verb rose in revolt
force: movement / verb the people ~

rise (prices rise, etc.) rise up

no one knows if the people will ~
rose 20 percent people who ~ often get killed (rebellion)
prices ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: standing, sitting & lying /
increase & decrease: direction / number / verb verb
rise (increase / noun) rise (on the rise)
rise in popularity on the rise
the meteoric ~ of the word “bae” (2014) feed prices are ~ (drought effect on herds of animals)
increase & decrease: direction on the rise in Tajikistan
rise (rise to the challenge, etc.) Islam is ~
growth & development: direction / height
rising to the challenge
increase & decrease: direction / height
we are ~
rise (rise of agriculture, etc.)
rise to the occasion
can they ~ rise of the Roman Empire
with the decline of Greece and the ~…
rose to the occasion
he ~ like freshly baked dough rise of Buddhism
with the ~ the study of anatomy was prohibited

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rise of Christianity and Islam rising right
the practice predates the ~ (FGM) the ~ in Europe (populism)
rise of China rising senior
if you are worried about the ~ she’s a ~ on the UCLA gymnastics team
rise of agriculture primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
his hypothesis suggests that the ~ led to… height
rise of feminism rite (rite of passage)
this period witnessed the ~
rite of passage
rise of podcasts it's kind of a ~
the popularity of audiobooks coincides with the ~
wild rite of passage
growth & development: direction / height Las Vegas becomes a ~ for new 21-year-olds (booze)
primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction /
height growth & development: journeys & trips / religion

rise (achievement) ritual (noun)

meteoric rise ritual of (village) life
she had a ~ and a heartbreaking fall (Whitney Houston) in a ~

on the rise rituals and routines

he has been ~ (a politician) many people have ~ before bedtime (nursing)
his profile was ~ (Detroit’s Kwame Kilpatrick)
concert ritual
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height ~s include "body surfing"
rise (achieve) bedtime ritual
follow a nightly ~ (bath, pajamas, story, bed) (kids)
rise in the company
he was anxious to ~ (workplace sociopath) springtime ritual
drinking sap from the maple tree is a ~ (S. Korea)
rose to fame
he ~ in 1973 (Ahmed Zaki Yamani) pre-spring-break ritual
what became a ~ (females diet / eating disorders)
achievement, recognition & praise: direction / height / verb
fraternity drinking ritual
rising (rising star, etc.) his son had taken part in a ~ (died)
rising star personal finance ritual
she is a ~ (a singer) recording checks is a ~
~ Poeti Norac has died (the French surfer)
she was named a ~ (cinematographer Halyna Hutchins) hazing ritual
it was a ~ (training)
rising star in the (Lincoln) firmament Yale has strict policies barring ~s (fraternities)
General Grant was a ~ ~s pushed too far (high school)
rising star in the Democratic Party mating ritual
he was considered a ~ (Stockton California mayor) cicadas engage in a frenetic ~
rising star in Democratic politics annual ritual
Joe Neguse has been considered a ~ the summer sojourn is an ~ (Germans visit Mallorca)
rising star in the (progressive) ranks bizarre rituals
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is the ~ elaborate and sometimes ~ (OCD)
achievement, recognition & praise: astronomy / direction / nightly (bedtime) ritual
height / star follow a ~ (bath, books, and bed) (toddlers)
rising (upcoming) superstitious ritual
~s such as wearing the same shirt (sports)
rising generation
young women were part of this ~ (CIA post 9/11) wacky (bedtime) ritual
you learn who's got ~s (sharing a room)
rising politician
reaction to the riots lifted a ~ named Ronald Reagan yearly ritual

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 the start of the ~ (Cancun spring break) amount & effect: river / water
movement: river / water
bedtime ritual
follow a nightly ~ (bath, pajamas, story, bed) (kids) river (sell somebody down the river)
you learn who's got wacky ~s (sharing a room)
stab us in the back or sell us down the river
follow a (nightly bedtime) ritual he might ~ (lack of trust)
~ (bath, books, and bed) (toddlers)
allegiance, support & betrayal: history / river / verb
stop the ritual
colleges have tried various tactics to ~ (alcohol) riveted
engage in a (frenetic) mating ritual riveted in the (public) imagination
cicadas ~ Brandi Chastain is forever ~

taken part in a (fraternity drinking) ritual riveted on the drama

his son had ~ (died) the nation’s attention is ~ unfolding in Washington
♦ “Reading about Larry’s exploits in the Boston Harold had become a keep you riveted
happy ritual.” (Larry Bird, the great NBA player and Hoosier from French
Lick, Indiana.) this twisty crime thriller will ~ (No Sudden Move)

behavior: religion attachment: tools & technology

river (resemblance) riviera (Riviera of the Midwest, etc.)

river of (yellow taxi) cabs Riviera of the Midwest
a ~ ebbed and flowed down Broadway and 7th Ave St. Joseph, Michigan, on the “the ~”

River of Grass Caucasian Riviera

the ~ that is the Everglades (Florida) Sochi is on the ~ (Russia)
the Florida Everglades, the so-called ~ Irish Riviera
the subtle, sodden grandeur of the so-called ~ the South Shore, referred to as the “~” (south of Boston)
river of (high-altitude) air Scituate, on the “~,” was a center of the mossing industry
the jet stream, a speeding ~, veered far south ♦ The Wikipedia entry for this word has a nice list of various rivieras
around the world but does not yet include Michigan’s “the Riviera of the
river of ice Midwest,” famous for the city of St. Joseph, fondly referred to as Saint
Joe.
the glacier is broad and grand, like the ~ it is
geography: epithet
river of lava
sending out plumes of ash and three ~s (volcano) road (turn in the road, etc.)
the volcano sent 200-foot-wide ~ through the town
turn in a (troubled) road
river of wind it was one more ~ (personal problems)
that ~, called the jet stream
development / direction: journeys & trips
lava river
the ~ seemed to have widened (Fagradalsfjall) road (rules of the road)
atmospheric river rules of the road
the Pineapple Express is an ~ we need to have some basic ~ that we can all abide by
you can see the ~ on the satellite here (weather report)
constraint & lack of constraint: infrastructure
♦ “The city is in my blood, the ruins of its palaces, the mosques and the
river.” (An Iraqi, speaking of Baghdad.) road (road from / to something)
resemblance: river
road to recovery
river (river of hogs, etc.) she is well on the ~
the economy is on the bumpy ~
river of hogs
this annual migration, this “great ~” (Buncombe Turnpike) road to riches
other companies saw a different ~ (online education)
iron river
the ~ refers to the flow of guns from the US into Mexico road to ruin
♦ “...[B]ehind all this [violence] was constantly present to our eyes and
a doctor's ~ (addiction)
mind the scene of a great stream, a procession, so to speak of human road to space
souls on their way to eternity.” (Memoirs of Chaplain Life by W. Corby. the ~ is being built today (Blue Origin’s New Shepard)
The Civil War.)
road to the truth

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 the ~ is still a very long one (slave laborers in Siberia) ♦ "When you don't know what's coming down the pike, you worry." (A
businesswoman, speaking about government regulation.)
road to sin and evil future / time: direction / movement / verb
it blocks the ~ (women and non-mahram males)
road (road ahead, etc.)
road to stardom
the ~ hasn't been a superhighway for her (film actor) on the road ahead
road to the White House nobody knows what is ~
his ~ was paved with discretion and loyalty long road ahead
road to a fit, fabulous body there is still a very ~ for Ms Warren (running for presidency)
the ~ isn't short future / time: direction / journeys & trips
road from convert to jihadist road (down the road, etc.)
the ~ can be remarkably short (terrorists)
down the road
road from research to (finished) product but that's ~, right now, people are still…
the ~ is long and costly (drugs) this will lead to problems ~
road (to get) from where we are now to impeachment it could be indictable ~ (in the future)
the company hopes to make money ~ (in the future)
there’s a long ~
thank you both so much for your time, we’ll see you ~
♦ “By the time I discovered love, I was no greenhorn. I knew there were
different menus. I knew that there was a motorway and a scenic route, easier down the road
and also unfrequented byways where the foot of man had barely
trodden... There were so many different ways.” (A Tale of Love and it'll make your job ~
Darkness by Amos Oz.)
few years down the road
course: infrastructure / journeys & trips we don't want to find out a ~ that… (investigator)
route: infrastructure / journeys & trips
progress & lack of progress: journeys & trips further down the road
survival, persistence & endurance: journeys & trips they hope for improvement in relations ~ (diplomats)

road (along / on the road) further down the track

and then, ~, Trump will be waiting (election)
along the (long) road of parenting
it'll help you ~ (advice about toddlers) ample time down the road
there will be ~ to allocate responsibility
on the road to fame
they were young, just starting ~ future / time: direction / distance / journeys & trips

on the road to peace road (down a road before)

we’re still ~ (Palestinian road map) down this road before
the negotiations are an important stepping stone ~ (Sudan) we have been ~
on the bumpy road to recovery I can tell you've been ~
the economy is ~ to recovery down that road before
well on the road I've been ~ (exploited by girlfriend)
she is ~ to recovery ♦ “We’ve been around this block before in 2018.
♦ “Been there, done that, this is like, I need to get a perm, right, because
bumps along the road we’re back in the eighties...” (Christie Donner, a leader of the Colorado
there have been a few ~ Criminal Justice Reform Coalition.)

first step on that road experience: journeys & trips / movement / place
this is a pretty aggressive ~ (to impeachment) past & present / time: journeys & trips / movement / place

start on the road to e-riches road (go down that road, etc.)
all eager to ~ (Internet prospectors) go down that road
♦ “We’re still on the road to peace, it’s just going to be a bumpy road, and let’s not ~
I’m not going to get off the road until we reach the vision.” (President
Bush on Palestinian road map, after suicide bombing.) confronting, dealing with & ignoring things / eagerness &
course: infrastructure / journeys & trips reluctance: journeys & trips / movement

road (come down the road / pike) road (end of the road)
coming down the pike the end of the road
so a lot is ~ today a defeat does not necessarily mean ~ for Nigeria

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the end of the legal road there have been some ~ to reform
they are at ~ (Hillsborough tragedy / YNWA)
on a road (that)...
hit the end of the road ~ is paved with leaks, supposition, speculation (enquiry)
he has ~ (arrested for murder)
flaws & lack of flaws: journeys & trips
starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips
road (long road) road (the high road / the low road)
long road low road of impeaching people
the ~ we have traveled in the U.S. (desegregation) this ~ for political speech (politics)
it’s a ~ when you face the world alone (Mariah)
it’s been a ~, and sometimes it has been fun (old rocker)
taken the high road
he has ~ and refused to respond to the insults
long road of parenting behavior: direction / height
it'll help you along the ~ (learn to pick your battles)
road (fork in the road, etc.)
long road to an uncertain result
investigators face a ~ come to a fork in the road
long road ahead the countries involved in the Middle East have ~
when things like that happen, you ~
there is still a very ~ for Ms Warren (running for presidency)
face a long road different road
other companies saw a ~ to riches (online education)
investigators ~ to an uncertain result
traveled a long road similar road
the six countries all followed a ~ (to democracy)
we have ~ (desegregation)
help you along the long road going down that road
I am not ~
I'll ~ of parenting (learn to pick your battles)
course: journeys & trips going down a road
you are ~ that will be your undoing
difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips
road (tough / easy road, etc.) take you down the wrong road
it's a question that can ~ (job interview)
bumpy road ♦ “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel
the economy is on the ~ to recovery both / And be one traveler...” (“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.)
♦ Wikipedia has a very nice entry at “fingerpost.” The iconic fingerpost
dangerous road from the beloved US TV show M*A*S*H shows the directions and
it seems like a ~ to go down (a social issue) distances from that little base in Korea to places in the larger world.

difficult road alternatives & choices: journeys & trips

they team slogged a ~ to qualify for the tournament road (push something down the road)
hard road
it's been a ~ (a victim of abuse)
pushed down the road
some of the big decisions were ~ (government)
rough road action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
President Obama faces a ~ (politics)
ignoring things: journeys & trips / verb / walking, running &
safe road jumping
do I take the ~, or do I venture out
road (the Silk Road, etc.)
tough road
it's been a ~ for everybody Silk Road
the ~ was not one route, but a series of routes
troubled road
it was one more turn in a ~ (personal problems) Whale Road
early Icelanders referred to the sea as the ~
bumps along the road ♦ A BBC link “Canada’s 6,000-year-old ‘Silk Road” leads to an article
there have been a few ~ entitled “The little-known hiking trail that built Canada” which turns out to
be about the Nuxalk-Carrier Grease Trail in British Columbia, which is
bumps in the road just 279 miles long!
many families encounter ~ to toilet training
proper name: journeys & trips
stumbles on the road route: epithet

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road (road to Damascus) sound: animal
resemblance: sound
road to Damascus kind of conversion roar back (verb)
this can’t be a ~ (Al Sharpton on whites getting black
electoral support) roar back
consciousness & awareness: allusion / Bible / journeys & the job market is starting to ~
trips / religion usually within a year or two, the disease would ~
it can fade away and then ~ (grief)
roadblock (noun) but the economy isn’t going to ~, it’ll be a slog...

legislative roadblock roar back in the primaries

the union headed to Albany to set up a ~ (education) he did ~ (a politician)

face some roadblocks roared back from (Chapter II) bankruptcy

we ~ (better relations with China) the company has ~

hit roadblocks roar back to life

Baltimore residents ~ in efforts to combat urban blight the winds are expected to ~ by Tuesday (wildfires)
if they would do this, our economy would ~
thrown up roadblock after roadblock
Texas has ~ for people (mail-in voting) roar back with a vengeance
inflation will ~ unless...
obstacles & impedance: journeys & trips
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / force: animal
roadkill (noun) / sound / verb
a lot of roadkill roaring back (come roaring back, etc.)
there is going to be a ~, but some will succeed (migration)
♦ “The people who come to California are brave, this is a high-risk, high- bring manufacturing roaring back
reward state. There is going to be a lot of road kill, people are going to he promised to ~ (politics)
get hurt, people are going to get steamrollered, but in the end you have
some people who are going to succeed...” (“The California Century: came roaring back
From Hollywood to Silicon Valley,” BBC, Sounds, 17 June 2020, sales ~ in the third quarter (cars)
wonderfully narrated by Stanley Tucci.)

destruction: animal / death & life / infrastructure come roaring back

it could ~ (coronavirus)
road map
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning / force: animal
road map toward peace / sound
a ~ in the Middle East
Roaring Twenties
road map to cutting
he has a detailed ~ spending (politician) Roaring Twenties-type
there could definitely be a ~ deal post-COVID (spending)
roadmap for the Internet
the 13 root servers that provided the ~ behavior / time: history

road map for what roast (verb)

it's a ~ we must do (plan to save coral reefs) roasted the president
♦ “Two Swedish tourists headed for the Italian resort of Capri misspelled she ~ (White House Correspondents’ Dinner)
the name in the GPS device and ended up in the industrial town of Carpi,
400 miles away, where they were very puzzled by the absence of a speech: cooking / fire / verb
beach.” (The Week, August 7, 2009.)

script: journeys & trips / map

rob (verb)
roar (activity) rob the winds of their moisture
the uplands ~ (valley in rain shadow)
roar again
the American economy will ~ (after pandemic) robbed me of my health and vitality
he ~ (a sex abuser)
activity: animal / sound
robbed me of that justice
roar (noun) his death has ~

roar of the waterfall robbed me of my youth, innocence, and self-worth

he had to shout over the ~ he ~ (seduced by older man)

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taking & removing: crime / verb robot (noun)
robbed robot
robbed of our child he's not a ~, he's got feelings and emotions
we were ~ (murdered) I'm not a ~, I get tired (an athlete)
we are human beings, not ~s (faces racist fan abuse)
taking & removing: crime
robot in (pressure-packed) situations
robbery (noun) he's a ~ (a coach)
highway robbery robot kids
it’s an outrage, ~ (boxer gets draw instead of win) in a world of cookie-cutter ~, he was different
taking & removing: crime translation robots
wide-ranging ~ require large datasets
robe (noun)
consciousness & awareness / feeling, emotion & effect /
in her (most exquisite) robes operation: mechanism
an aurora is nature ~
robust (adj)
appearance / resemblance: clothing & accessories
Robin Hood robust
our quality-control systems are ~
Robin Hood in reverse robust debate
this is a transfer of wealth, it’s ~ (taxes)
the controversy has ignited a ~ on Web sites
Robin Hood figure robust response
in Mexico, some saw him as a ~ ( “El Chapo” Guzman)
the threat of terrorism requires a ~
Robinhood name robust suite
the ~ is a household name now (the stock trading app)
the MQ-9 has a ~ of visual sensors for targeting
Robin Hood reputation robust (testing) system
with this began the ~, totally undeserved (bushrangers)
we need a ~ (coronavirus pandemic)
taking & removing: allusion / crime
strength & weakness: health & medicine
allusion: books & reading
condition & status: health & medicine
Robinson Crusoe rock (verb)
Robinson Crusoe winter
a ~ alone in a makeshift hut (Nansen and Johansen)
rocked the (scientific) community
the earthshaking experiment has ~
Arctic Robinson Crusoes
Edible Country diners aren’t ~ (Swedish “outdoorsiness”)
rocked the media
the story ~
♦ “Immediately our Pinnace return’d from the shore, and brought
abundance of Craw-fish, with a Man cloth’d in Goat-Skins, who look’d rocked the (Japanese) sport
wilder than the first Owners of them. He had been on the Island four
Years and four Months... His name was Alexander Selkirk a Scotch the match-rigging scandal has ~ (sumo)
Man...” (A Cruising Voyage round the World by Woodes Rogers.)
rocked Silicon Valley
♦ In The Last Place on Earth, Roland Huntford tells the tragic story of
Hjalmar Johansen. After surviving the “Robinson Crusoe winter” with the scam ~ (technology fail)
Nansen in the Arctic, he took to drink, separated from his wife and
children, resigned from the army, went bankrupt, and became destitute. rocked their world
Nansen, wishing to help his old companion who had saved his life, a fertility-clinic mix-up has ~
convinced Amundsen to take Johansen on his expedition, which
Amundsen did, against his better judgement. In Antarctica, Johansen rocked New York and the country
rubbed Amundsen the wrong way. The result was that Johansen was left
out of the party that went to the South Pole. Back home, Johansen
his resignation was a major surprise that ~ (a politician)
resumed drinking and ended up committing suicide. He was a man who
withstood and overcame harshest nature, but not society.
disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb
♦ “There was a frailty in the man himself, and the indoor life of human
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / verb
relationships was something that he found difficult.” (Sir Ian McKellen on
Sir Edmund Hillary, BBC, Great Lives, 04 Aug. 2015.)
rock (Rock of Chickamauga, etc.)
isolation & remoteness: island / sea Rock of Chickamauga
society: island / sea his legendary status as “the ~” (Gen. George H. Thomas)
allusion: books & reading epithet: materials & substances
strength & weakness: epithet

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rock (support) we have been ~

rock of a family stuck between a rock and a hard place

I’m ~ (too poor to improve situation)
Barbara Bush was the ~ dedicated to public service
oppression / situation: ground, terrain & land / pressure /
rock of their family
weight
she was a caring person, the ~ (murdered)
rock of stability
rock (turn over every rock, etc.)
Jordan remained a relative ~ in a terribly rickety region look under every rock
rock of learning and geniality people then were not prepared to ~ (historical sex abuse)
he was a solid ~ turn over every rock to see
our rock we're going to ~ if… (police investigation)
she has been ~ (a soccer player) difficulty, easiness & effort / pursuit, capture & escape /
how strong a rock searching & discovery: ground, terrain & land / verb
~ Elizabeth was to his life and career (Bruce Chatwin’s) rock-bottom (adjective)
bases: ground, terrain & land
rock-bottom
rock (rock-solid) the prices for scuba diving are ~ (Belize)

rock-solid rock-bottom price

their ~ case began to crumble (murder) rented at ~s
she was a ~ witness (in murder case) decline: direction / ground, terrain & land
strength & weakness: materials & substances rocked (disruption)
comparison & contrast: materials & substances
rock (on the rocks) rocked by the leak
the intelligence community was ~ of classified documents
on the rocks
rocked by the sex scandal
their relationship is ~
the network was ~ (CBS)
their marriage is ~
Ringwald and James play a couple ~ feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability
the ballad describes a romance ~ disruption: equilibrium & stability
their relations had been ~ for some time (celebrities)
I think it’s ~ (the US-UK relationship) rocket (increase)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s future is ~
Manila’s relationship with Washington is ~
rocket to 1 billion
the number of passengers is expected to ~ by…
On the Rocks
~ is a light-hearted romp... (Sofia Coppola film)
rocketing upward
demand is ~ (for a service)
~ features a couple living in Manhattan (Sofia Coppola)
♦ “America’s Long Love Affair With Beer Is on the Rocks.” (The Wall levels will rocket
Street Journal.) sediment ~ (dam removal)
♦ “At eleven, they saw St. Alban’s Head, a mile and a half to the leeward,
upon which they took in sail immediately, and let go the small bower increase & decrease: number
anchor, which brought up the ship at a whole cable, and she rode for increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / rocket /
about an hour, and then drove. They now let go the sheet anchor, and
wore away a whole cable; the ship rode about two hours longer when
verb
she drove again. / In this situation the captain sent for Mr. Meriton, the
chief officer, and asked his opinion concerning the probability of saving
rocket (speed)
their lives. He replied with equal candor and calmness, that he
apprehended there was very little hope, as they were then driving fast on rocketed down the slope on his back
shore, and might expect every moment to strike.” (The Halsewell went on he ~ (a climber)
the rocks near Seacombe, on the Isle of Purbeck (a peninsula), South
Dorset, in 1786. Rescuers on the cliff above managed to pull seventy- rocketed to fame
four to safety. One hundred sixty-six perished. From “The Loss of the
Halsewell East Indiaman,” reprinted in The Tragic History of the Sea by she ~ in New York (an actor)
Anthony Brandt.)
movement / speed: rocket / verb
failure, accident & impairment: boat / sea movement: speed
danger / destruction: boat / sea
rocket (resemblance)
rock (between a rock and a hard place)
fired a rocket past the keeper
caught between a rock and a hard place a moment later, he ~ (soccer)

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resemblance: rocket rod (iron rod, etc.)
Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar / war) rod of iron
“Gibraltar of Africa” they ruled Afghanistan with a ~ (the Taliban)
an attack on the ~ (the Cape of Good Hope) with an iron rod
Gibraltar of America in the 1990s the Serbs ruled Kosovo ~
the ~ (Quebec) oppression: materials & substances / weapon
“Gibraltar of the West” rodeo (first rodeo)
Vicksburg, the ~ (state of Mississippi / Civil War)
her first rodeo
Gibraltar of the West Joan made it clear that this was not ~ (adultery)
Columbus, the ~, is ours...(state of Kentucky)
his first (debate) rodeo
“Gibraltar of the Western World” this won’t be ~ (a debate moderator / presidential debate)
Quebec was then named the ~ (1759)
♦ “After weeks of incessant but minor cannonading, the grand attack was my first rodeo
made on the 13th of September, 1782... / By evening the ship I worked on several viruses, this is not ~ (COVID-19)
cannonade began to slacken; rockets, as signals of distress, were seen
soaring into the air, while boats were rowed about the disabled men-of- our first rodeo
war, in which our artillery must have made the most dreadful havoc, for,
during the short intervals of cessation, a strong, indistinct clamour, the
this is not ~, we’ve been through this before (hurricanes)
mingled sound of groans, and cries, and shrieks, came floating upward
to the ears of the garrison... (British Battles on Land and Sea by James
experience: animal / horse
Grant.)
rogue (noun)
military: epithet
rogue cells
Rock of Gibraltar (and Gibraltar / your immune system identifies those ~ and kills them
figurative) rogue pharmacists
my Rock of Gibraltar corrupt doctors and ~ worked hand in hand (opioids)
Lisa has been ~ (emotional support in a relationship) rogue (Chinese) scientist
allusion: military a ~ claims to have edited the DNA of twin girls
allegiance, support & betrayal: epithet gone rogue
bases / protection & lack of protection / strength & he has ~
weakness: fortification / military / mountains & hills
rocky (adjective) went rogue
they discussed what to do if she ~ (publicity)
rocky society / control & lack of control: animal
his relationship with his superiors was ~
behavior / character & personality: animal
their season has been ~ (a women’s basketball team)
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: animal
rocky (midterm Congressional) elections roil (verb)
the president faces ~
roiled (Tibetan) areas
rocky ending ethnic unrest has ~ of China
he had a ~ to his nine years in Pittsburgh (NFL player)
roiling the markets
rocky (on-again, off-again) relationship what is ~ is the fact that… (international finance)
they've had a ~ (a couple)
disruption / effect / feeling, emotion & effect: verb / water
rocky start
his NFL career got off to a ~ role (act)
their bid for an Olympic title is off to a ~ (soccer)
played the role
rocky tenure he ~ of a loving husband and doting father (a murderer)
he had a ~ at the State Department (resigned)
performance: theater
rocky year
it was a ~ for the newspaper (criticism) role (function or part)
flaws & lack of flaws: ground, terrain & land sport's (starring) role
the ~ in the end of apartheid (South African rugby)
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 the investigation into his sexting case ~ in the 2016 US culture shock can be a ~ of emotions
presidential election it’s a ~, a light scene followed by a dark scene (film)
importance & significance: theater roller coaster of a career
she had such a ~ (Judy Garland)
roll (on a roll)
roller coaster of ups and downs
on a (pretty good) roll he really has been through a ~ (footballer Jamie Vardy)
we're ~ now (basketball coach / win streak)
emotional roller coaster
get on a roll it's frustrating, an ~
you ~, you get momentum… (winning streak) an ~, with many tears and goodbyes (deployment)
started the year on a roll Carly is an ~ (drama)
the radical right ~ rode an emotional roller coaster
flaws & lack of flaws: ball / movement the family ~ for months (daughter kidnapped)
progress & lack of progress: ball / movement feeling, emotion & effect: direction / movement
starting, going, continuing & ending: ball / movement
roller coaster (development)
roll (verb)
roller coaster
start rolling my life is a ~ and this is a down time
revolutions often ~ when the army refused to shoot
roller-coaster
rolling on this is a real ~ (attempts to rescue trapped miners)
the controversy keeps ~
roller-coaster ride
progress & lack of progress / starting, going, continuing &
it's been a ~ ride for investors
ending: ball / movement / verb
rollercoaster week
roll (move) it’s been an up and down, ~ (impeachment trial)
roll across the mountains roller coaster (weight) gains and losses
some strong thunderstorms ~ (news / weather) she has a long history of ~
thunderstorms roll legal roller coaster
some strong ~ across the mountains (news / weather) the ~ over stem-cell research…
movement: ball / direction / verb ♦ “Businesses are strapping themselves in for a bumpy ride on the new
trade deal rollercoaster.” (Brexit.)
roll (slow-roll) movement: direction / sports & games
slow-rolled their requests development / increase & decrease: direction / movement
opponents claim that he ~ (politics) / sports & games

constantly slow-rolled roll in (verb)

he ~ any sort of military option (politics) rolling in
movement: speed donations are ~ (after fire at cathedral)
action, inaction & delay: ball / movement / verb movement: ball / verb
roll back (verb) rolling (movement)
roll back policies rolling end
he has attempted to ~ to address carbon emissions
the war had a rolling start and will have a ~ (Iraq)
roll back the (health-care) reform rolling start
politicians want to ~
what commanders have called a ~ to the war (Iraq War)
reversal: ball / mechanism / verb the war had a ~ and will have a rolling end (Iraq War)

roller coaster (emotional roller rolling blackouts

another day of ~ (California)
coaster, etc.)
movement: ball
roller-coaster starting, going, continuing & ending: movement
and you talk about emotion, it’s been a ~ (soccer final)
roller-coaster ride

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roll on (resiliency) failure, accident & impairment: house / roof / ruins
destruction: house / roof / ruins
roll on roof (through the roof)
roll on, soldier
resiliency: journeys & trips / verb going through the roof
the price is ~
roll out (verb)
shot through the roof
roll out (six) new models prices have ~
Chrysler will soon ~ (automobiles)
increase & decrease: number
rolled out 17 different initiatives extent & scope / increase & decrease: direction / flying &
he ~ to reduce gun violence falling / height / house / roof

rolled out a package roof (roof of the mouth, etc.)

the Party ~ of reforms (China / economy)
roof of the cave
rolling out new policy the ~ collapsed
we are not ~ (politics / election)
roof of his mouth
roll the (new) settings he got peanut butter on the ~
we are going to ~ this week (Website)
orientation: direction / house / roof
roll out their new shows roof (Roof of the World, etc.)
each fall the 3 networks would ~ at the same time (TV)
inauguration: mechanism / verb Roof of the World
the Pamir mountains, which the natives called “The ~”
rollout (noun) Tibet, the ~...

rollout of new features geography: epithet

he is overseeing a ~ to protect users (bullying / Facebook) rookery (noun)
inauguration: mechanism
rookery of absconders
roll over (verb) the central Pacific became a veritable ~ (escaped convicts)

roll over “rookery” of the poor

Watford won’t ~ (FA Cup final underdogs) East London was a warren of tenements, a ~
♦ A rookery is a breeding colony of animals, of rooks, birds in general,
resistance, opposition & defeat: animal / dog / verb and some other animals like seals, etc.
conflict: animal / dog / verb ♦ “In the South Shetlands a single ship would expect to take as many as
romance (noun) 9,000 seals in three weeks, and there is a record of two ships and sixty
men demolishing 45,000 in one season. And since every pelt was worth
a guinea—in some markets like Canton in China very much more—there
romance with the West was every inducement for the slaughter to go on to the bitter end. An
his ~ makes him vulnerable to detractors (leader) end, however, there had to be; and by the eighteen-thirties fur seals in
the southern ocean were virtually extinct, and sea-lions and sea-
enthusiasm: love, courtship & marriage elephants were dying out as well. / The main attack was now diverted to
the whales...” (The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead.)
Romeo and Juliet (epithet) creation & transformation / growth & development / place:
Romeo and Juliet of the East animal / bird
Layla and Majnun were the ~ (Lord Byron)
room (back room, etc.)
♦ “Grit of Women” by Jack London is one of the greatest love stories ever
written. back room of the terrorist attack
♦ “One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it the ~ was exposed (Charlie Hebdo trial)
was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the
grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned back-room deals
with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.”
(The beginning of “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry.) private meetings and ~ can pay off

allusion: books & reading back room deals

comparison & contrast: epithet enough with the secrecy and ~ (“health care” costs)
she uncovered the ~ struck by Rockefeller (Ida Tarbell)
roof (a roof can cave in)
smoke-filled rooms
roof has caved in on the team the ~ (before the Progressive era / politics)
the ~ (losing)

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concealment & lack of concealment: house / society there is ~ here… (UN issue)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: house / society
room for error
room (inclusivity) there’s no ~

invited into the room room for improvement

they weren’t being ~ to discuss policy (women, etc.) there was ~ in his shooting (basketball)
acceptance & rejection: house room for maneuver
how much ~ do you think he has in Brussels (diplomacy)
room (wiggle room)
room for an additional voice
wiggle room there's ~ (new newspaper)
negotiators had very little ~
he then used the only ~ the law allowed him room for slipups
if you don't allow yourself ~… (dieting)
wiggle room on wages
the MTA has hinted at ~ (negotiations with union) breathing room
provide ~ to consider the options
wiggle room for players the rate increase gives the Postal Service "~"
there's no ~ (11-point table-tennis games) we have a little ~ to establish alternative energy sources
situation: container / ground, terrain & land the Turks are giving the Saudis a little ~ (to reply)
constraint & lack of constraint: container / ground, terrain negotiating room
& land how much ~ is there on the part of…
room (war room) allow yourself room
war room if you don't ~ for slipups… (dieting)
teams can have a ‘~’ to make their selections (NFL draft) constraint & lack of constraint: space
assembling a war room situation: space
the White House is ~ as impeachment looms root (at the root)
readiness & preparedness: military
at the root of his desperate act
room (space) the mystery ~

room to hide bases: plant / tree

thick forests and deep gorges offer ample ~ (Caucasus) root (tear something out by the roots,
room for a dart game etc.)
a few pool tables and ~
tearing it out by the roots
room for wasted space it’s like we’re trimming the branches of the tree when we
no ~ in the apartment should be ~ (drug trafficking in Sinaloa)
room for 12 coffins dismissal, removal & resignation: plant / tree / verb
a mausoleum with ~, 20 cremation niches and… curtailment / destruction: plant / tree / verb
legroom root (root cause)
new seats allow more ~
root cause
sea room nobody is looking at the ~s…
a ship with adequate speed and ~
root causes of the conflict
ample room the accord failed to address the ~ (Darfur)
thick forests and deep gorges offer ~ to hide (Caucasus)
root causes of jihad
constraint & lack of constraint: space it's not easy to address the ~
room (opportunity) root cause of these problems
the ~ …
room for advancement
his predecessor left because there was no ~ root causes of global warming
the burning of coal, oil, and gas is the ~
room for compromise
there is little ~ root cause of Global Dimming
the burning of coal, oil, and gas is the ~
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root cause of why Azeri roots
that might be the ~… (reasons for a disaster) many Iranians have ~
root causes or common threads Catholic roots
in some places, suicides seem to have ~ the region has never lost its ~ (New Mexico)
bases: plant / tree Dalit roots
analysis, interpretation & explanation: plant / tree despite his ~, he earned a degree... (Kanshi Ram)
root (root of the problem, etc.) Italian roots
Rico himself has no ~ (mobster)
roots of conflict
the ~ run deep (Sudan) Jewish roots
he's tried to deny his ~ (politician)
roots of militancy
the ~ lie in a feeling of intense humiliation Polynesian roots
he traces the history of surfing back to its ~
roots of this misery
the ~ are not hard to find (Indian reservations) Southern roots
as NASCAR grew from its ~ into a national sport
root of the problem
once you find out the ~ ancient roots
the science of anatomy has ~
roots of terrorism
understand and address the ~ biological roots
little info about the ~ of the disorder
roots of the disorder
there is little info about the ~ humble roots
this learned man from ~ (North Carolina poet laureate)
bases / origin / relationship: plant / tree
urban roots
root (origin) this competition is a tribute to the ~ of street skating
roots in Mexico deep historical roots
he is proud of his ~ (son of immigrants) it’s a dispute that has ~ (Greece and Macedonia)
roots in Virginia proud of his roots
time to research her family ~ he is ~ in Mexico... (son of immigrants)
roots (deep) in the Jordanian desert roots run deep
he is of the Beni Hassan tribe, with ~ it’s a new sport for the Olympics and its ~ (surfing)
roots in the (local) culture deny his (Jewish) roots
he had no ~ (Barak Obama in Hawaii) he's tried to ~ (politician)
NASCAR’s (moonshine whiskey) roots ♦ “Our Waters Run Deep, Our Roots Run Deeper.”
(WWW.CROWNSGUAM.COM.)
he represented ~ (Junior Johnson)
identity & nature / origin / relationship: plant / tree
family's roots
time to research her ~ in Virginia root (take root, etc.)
surfing's roots deep roots
I'm stoked to be in Hawaii, back to ~ child labor retains ~ (west and central Africa)
university's (military-school) roots Catholicism has very ~ in Ireland
the ~ firm roots
home-town roots Christianity failed to set ~ in Japan and China
he is stressing his ~ (a Mississippi politician) shallow roots
military-school roots his success has ~
the university's ~ a sport with ~ in this country (tennis in China)
many residents have ~ in the city (state workers)
reporting roots Democracy has ~, it’s a fragile flower
it marked a return to his ~ (editor reports on war)
roots and wings
moonshine-running roots the only thing you can give your children is ~
its ~ (NASCAR)
take root
but the colony did not ~ (Australia)

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taking (commercial) root rope (learn the ropes, etc.)
the new generation of nanomaterials is ~
learning the ropes
took root she is still ~ (a waiter)
cricket ~ during the colonial era of the Raj (Pakistan)
knows the ropes
put down roots she ~
many Canadians have ~ in Florida (home-buyers)
experience: boat / rope / sea
set (firm) roots
Christianity failed to ~ in Japan and China rope (at the end of one's rope)
growth & development: plant / tree at the (very) end of my rope with him
survival, persistence & endurance: plant / tree I think I'm ~ (kid)
strength & weakness: plant / tree
feeling, emotion & effect: rope
root (root server)
rope (on the ropes)
root server
organizations responsible for operating the ~s on the ropes
the ~s serve as a sort of master directory for the Internet many Hawaiian species are ~
8 or more of the world's 13 ~s must fail before… got Turkey on the ropes
the 13 ~s that provided the roadmap for the Internet
Italy has ~ now (a soccer game)
root server (m) survival, persistence & endurance: boxing / rope
at the top of the ~ hierarchy is the "A" root server
the most complex DDOS attack ever against the ~ system rope (velvet rope)
computer: plant velvet-rope syndrome
rooted he exploited the ~ (“hard to get in” fraud Bernie Madoff)
puts you inside the velvet rope
rooted in authority and integrity “membership” ~ (subscriptions)
information grounded in science and truth, ~ (Guardian)
superiority & inferiority: cloth / materials & substances /
rooted in (violent) collisions
rope / sign, signal, symbol
a sport whose popularity is ~ (NFL / concussion)
rope in (verb)
deeply rooted
Ethiopia, a country with a ~ Christian identity rope him in
fireworks are a ~ tradition in Peru he stuck to that line no matter how senators tried to ~
family deer hunts in November are a ~ tradition
control & lack of control: animal / cows & cattle / horse /
bases: ground, terrain & land / plant / tree verb
root out (verb) Rorschach (test)
root out crooked cops Rorschach test
the force must ~ she is our newest human ~ (Alexandria (Ocasio-Cortez)
root out corruption Rorschach test for people
the UN must improve its accountability and ~ I think the Black Panthers are a kind of ~ (aid / guns)
he is trying to ~ (a leader)
living Rorschach test
root out an enemy he is a ~ (Brett Kavanaugh / the Supreme Court)
the marines are trying to ~ that knows the terrain
legal Rorschach
root out militants the cases before the Supreme Court are a ~
efforts to ~ inside Egypt
Rashomon moment meeting a Rorschach test
root out (wasteful) spending this was a ~ (3-group confrontation on D.C. Mall)
we need to ~
♦ “We call this case an inkblot. I see what I see, Barb sees what she
root out terrorists sees, and you see what you see.” (The podcast “Down The Hill: The
Delphi Murders,” Chapter 7: Madness.)
send more troops and ~ (in Iraq)
♦ A group of Kentucky teenagers, a Native American, and black Hebrew
dismissal, removal & resignation: plant / tree / verb Israelites all met by accident on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
No, this is not by any means the beginning of a joke. Read “Viral standoff
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first seemed” by Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post, Jan 22, 2019. sniffed out the rot
Or “January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation” (Wikipedia).
Shevardnadze ~ in the system (Republic of Georgia)
♦ “For now, observers are left to speculate about what fundamentally
drives Kavanaugh... / If Kavanaugh is ‘dangerous,’ as his critics contend, stop the rot
it’s not because he is part of some brazen right-wing conspiracy. It’s
because he has managed to ascend to the height of American power the church needed someone else at the helm to ~ (Catholics)
while remaining, perhaps even to himself, a living Rorschach test.” ♦ The fish rots from the head. (A proverb about leaders in organizations,
(“Whose side is Kavanaugh on?” by McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, June governments, etc.)
2021.)
corruption: food & drink
perception, perspective & point of view: allusion / picture
Rosetta Stone rotten (adjective)
rotten
Rosetta stone for understanding
your billing system is ~
the article is a ~ Y.A.’s toxic culture (Kat Rosenfield)
rotten in gaming culture
psychological Rosetta Stones
he has become a global symbol for all that is ~ (swatting)
people are looking for ~ (to understand alcoholic politician)
♦ “The brilliant victory won by Nelson in the Bay of Aboukir imprisoned rotten administrator
the army of France amid the arid sands of Egypt; but, nevertheless, she's a ~ but a nice person
Napoleon led it in 1799 across the desert to Palestine. He took Jaffa by
storm, and laid siege to Acre, where, as related, he was repulsed by the rotten shape
British and Turks under Sir Sidney Smith. Subsequent to this, alarming
news from France caused him to hurry home and leave his troops in the job market is in ~
Egypt, when they began to lose heart, about the time our great
expedition to that country was projected, with the purpose of driving them corruption: food & drink
out of it.” (British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant. A French
soldier had found the stone, but the British took it from the French by the rough (adjective)
Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801 as a spoil of victory, which is why it is
in the British Museum, and not the Louvre, never mind the Grand rough edges
Egyptian Museum.)
her policies aim to smooth capitalism’s ~
analysis, interpretation & explanation / comprehension &
incomprehension: allusion / history rough flight
it was a ~
rot (verb)
rough patches
rotting from the inside you go through ~ in your sport that make you want to quit
America is ~
rough ride
rotted away we’re in for a ~ (new troops in Iraq)
inside prison one simply ~
rough road
left to rot President Obama faces a ~ (politics)
the working class has been ~ (US)
rough times
corruption: food & drink / verb develop better coping skills to get you through ~
rot (noun) flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances / sensation

rot in (Pakistani) society roulette (noun)

the ~ is more poisonous than anyone thought (violence)
genetic roulette
rot in the system we are playing ~ with our agriculture and crops
Shevardnadze sniffed out the ~ (Georgia)
play roulette
Rot at the Top boxers ~ with their brains (Gerald McClellan tragedy)
the lead opinion piece was entitled, “The ~” (corruption) fate, fortune & chance: gambling / sports & games
rot and corruption round (boxing)
the moral ~ (of the Republican Party)
Round One
moral rot
it's ~ in a prizefight, but the bell hasn't rung yet
the silence on the issue is an example of ~
round one
spiritual rot
this is just ~ (in the budget battle)
this ~ (Dr. Cornel West vs. Harvard Divinity School)
15-rounder
personification of the rot
it’s a long haul, son, it’s a ~ (pandemic)
she is the ~ that has sickened the party (politics)

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development / time / timeliness & lack of timeliness: the Gunners were ~ (Arsenal loses soccer game)
boxing / sports & games
routed in Delhi elections
rounded up India’s ruling party ~

rounded up by authorities routed in the state

they were ~ (opposition figures) he got the youth vote even though he was ~ (election)

assembling: animal routed during his first run

he was ~ for governor (politics)
round up (assemble)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
round up groups of black men
RICO was weaponized to ~ (gangs) row (row to hoe)
rounded up a few things long row to hoe
I’ve ~ (Cortana internet search) it’s going to be a ~ (a legal challenge to president)

assembling: animal / verb tough row to hoe

he's got a ~ (a boxing match)
route (course) without him, the state will have a ~ (prosecution)
roundabout route work & duty: farming & agriculture
he had come to painting by a ~ difficulty, easiness & effort: farming & agriculture
go this route row (row in the same direction, etc.)
I'm surprised more people don't ~ (turn down fame)
row in the same direction
came (to painting) by a roundabout route it’s better when we ~
he had ~
unanimity & consensus: boat
course: journeys & trips
row (row back)
rout (defeat / noun)
rowed back on his comments
Biden rout he later ~ (unfounded accusations against Russians)
Sanders assessing campaign after ~
rowed back on most of them
stock rout the Academy tried to make changes, but they have ~
Dow falls more than 4% amid coronavirus ~
rowed back on its promise
Old Trafford rout the company has ~ to...
Spurs embarrassed Manchester United in ~ (1-6)
reversal: boat / direction
♦ “Never was a rout and never was a victory more complete!... / Along
the whole line of road from Vittoria to the Pyrenees, a distance of one
hundred miles, the way was strewn with dead or abandoned horses,
royalty (noun)
dilapidated carriages, clothing of every kind, uniforms, books, rich
dresses, laces, veils, gloves, and bonnets torn forth from mails and basketball royalty
imperials, by the rude hands of guerillas, cacadores, and peasants; the Lakers are ~ (NBA winners)
letters, orders, and French bank-notes in bundles, too, lay there. / Many
unfortunate women—some of them the wives of officers, and others boxing royalty
ladies of the court—barefooted, almost naked, and in the most pitiable
condition, were overtaken in wild and solitary places, and most
Eubank Jr has ~ in his corner (coach Roy Jones Jr)
barbarously used and then murdered by the merciless Spaniards.”
(Vittoria, 1813. British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant.) Broadway royalty
~, and Outer Banks Royalty (William Ivey Long)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military
Oscar royalty
rout (defeat / verb) the film could make Will Smith ~ (King Richard)
rout (champions) Arsenal US running royalty
the Blues scored three times in ten minutes to ~ Kara Groucher was ~ (medal winner)
routed all the experts, pontificators, Arctic authorities Chicago sports royalty
Nansen had ~ by his safe return (Fram) ~ (Mike Ditka, Richard Dent, Michael Jordan together)
resistance, opposition & defeat: military / verb superlative: royalty
routed (defeated) rub (rub somebody the wrong way)
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 her whining is ~ (an auto racer) rubbing off on you
I guess living with me is ~ a little (father / son)
rubbed me the wrong way
what he said ~ (rationalization) rub off on Vanessa
I hope some of her will ~ (better behavior)
rubbed a lot of people the wrong way
she ~ (a poor woman who married money) transmission: rubbing & washing / verb
♦ “Robert Bly could rub people the wrong way.” (The poet.)
rudderless
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / verb
rudderless in the gathering storm
rubber stamp (noun) the hospital is ~ (deficits)
rubber stamps for (special-interest) groups seemed rudderless
we must assure that these forums are not just ~ an isolated political class that has ~, even helpless
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: mark control & lack of control / direction: boat
rubble (in the rubble) ruffled (feathers)
In the Rubble appeared ruffled
Finding a New Economics ~ (financial earthquake) he rarely ~ (a diplomat)
destruction: ruins appearance / disruption: animal / bird
feeling, emotion & effect: animal / bird
rubble (other)
rug (under the rug)
financial rubble
regulators sifted through the ~ shoved under the rug
most of the details were quickly ~ (an investigation)
reduced the country to rubble
they have ~ (Somalia) sweeping their mess under the rug
politicians are ~ (Greta Thunberg)
sift through the (political) rubble
both sides will be left to ~ (impeachment trial) swept under the rug
the whole affair will be ~
destruction: ruins
♦ “They sweep their mess under the rug and ask children to clean up for
Rubicon (cross the Rubicon, etc.) them.” (Greta Thunberg, climate-change activist.)
♦ see also carpet (under the carpet, etc.)
Rubicon moment
concealment & lack of concealment: carpets & rugs
this was my ~
digital Rubicon
rug (pull the rug out)
I had remained on the near shore of a ~ (smart compose) pulled the rug out from under him
political Rubicon the White House ~ (failed to support him)
impeachment crosses ~ with House vote allegiance, support & betrayal: carpets & rugs / verb
crossed my Rubicon rugged (as noun)
finally I ~ (author uses Smart Compose)
return to rugged
crossed that Rubicon ~, the all-new 2-22 Nissan Pathfinder (advertisement)
and so we ~ (journalist passes info to police)
♦ The Roman Tribune named Curio encouraged Caesar to cross the character & personality: part of speech
Rubicon, saying, “A man prepared is a man hurt by delay.” Because he
“settled Caesar’s doubts that day” Dante put Curio in Circle Eight of hell, Ruhr Valley (new Ruhr Valley, etc.)
as a sower of discord. “Ah, how wretched Curio seemed to me / with a
bloody stump in his throat in place of the tongue / which once had dared Ruhr Valley
to speak so recklessly!” (John Ciardi’s wonderful translation of the Hebei Province, China's new ~ (steel)
Inferno.)
♦ “Magnitogorsk was the U.S.S.R.’s answer to Pittsburgh.”
commitment & determination / fate, fortune & chance:
allusion / history / journeys & trips / river comparison & contrast: epithet

rub off on (verb) ruin (verb)

rubs off on the (local) host ruined our country with corruption
the factory refutes the idea that foreign technology ~ they have ~ (president and his family)
ruined me professionally

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 the accusations ~ lay in ruins
his reputation ~ (a beaten general)
ruined the INS
decades of that civil-service mentality have ~ left his life in ruins
his alcoholism ~
ruined the careers
♦ “The timeless allure of ruins” by Paul Cooper (BBC Culture, 16 January
the Greenville has ~ of two captains (nuclear sub) 2018) is an article about our fascination with ruins, with artwork.
ruin (Bruce's) career destruction: infrastructure / ruins
he essentially tried to ~ (scientists)
ruin (road to ruin)
ruins the ceremony
letting white guys or non-Indians in ~ doctor's road to ruin
a ~ (addiction)
ruin it
if you overcook kangaroo meat, you ~ destruction: infrastructure / ruins

ruins kidneys ruined

life support ~, it ruins brains, it ruins all the organs
ruined by the greed
ruins (people's) lives the land was ~ of strip-mining
crystal meth ~ (a cop)
destruction: infrastructure / ruins
ruined my life
he ~ and a lot of girls’ live (rich pedophile)
rule (verb)
ruined his (medical) practice rule
the H.M.O.s have ~ science is going to ~ (public health decisions / pandemic)

ruin his (company's) reputation control & lack of control: royalty / verb
he was determined not to let the hackers ~ ruled
ruin the (tourist) trade ruled by vice
crime could ~ my soul was ~
ruins the catalytic converters control & lack of control: royalty
high-sulfur fuel quickly ~ (sour crude)
rumble (verb)
tried to ruin
he essentially ~ Bruce's career (scientists) ready to rumble
the other Democrats are ~ (political debate)
quickly ruins
♦ The boxing announcer Michael Buffer is associated with the
high-sulfur fuel ~ the catalytic converters (sour crude) catchphrase, “Let’s get ready to rumble!” He has been paid up to one
million dollars to say it. According to the Internet, he copyrighted the
endanger or ruin phrase in 1992 and has received $400 million from others using it at
I hope this doesn't ~ your career sporting events. “One of the things I really love about my job is
enthusiasm,” he has said. To quote Don King, “Only in America!”
destruction: infrastructure / ruins / verb
conflict: boxing / sports & games / verb
ruin (financial ruin, etc.)
run (a road can run, etc.)
financial ruin
he faced ~ runs through the (An Nafud) desert
the route ~
facing (financial) ruin ♦ Run is extremely polysemous, as explained in “A Verb for Our Frantic
they are in crushing debt and ~ Times” by Simon Winchester, The New York Times, May 28, 2011. And
Winchester himself can be heard speaking at “Has ‘Run’ Run Amok? It
destruction: infrastructure / ruins Has 645 Meanings... So Far,” NPR, Talk of the Nation, May 30, 2011.

ruin (in ruins, etc.) fictive motion: verb / walking, running & jumping

ruins of their (silly) theory run (run deep / high / strong)

they had to sit sullenly amid the ~ run (especially) deep
in ruins fears of Moscow ~ in Poland (2009)
my life is ~ runs deep
economy is in ruins Wright's admiration for the marines ~ (correspondent)
the rural ~ (Buryatia) the sense of allegiance to the Catholic Church ~ (city)
resentment of the US ~ (Arabs)

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 support for the insurgency ~ (Kandahar) the project ~ (museum)
runs deepest ran into (serious) resistance
in places where anti-American sentiment ~ (Iraq, etc.) she ~... (girls wants to play football)
ran high run into trouble
as anti-Western sentiment ~ in the Arab world trail angels figure out where hikers are likely to ~;
the laws have ~ on free-speech grounds (cross burning);
runs high he has ~ with the law before
envy ~ in the world of art and intellect
ran into red tape
run high the inmate's transfer ~
emotions ~ with an abandoned infant (ED nursing)
run into a brick wall
runs strong law enforcement has ~
the grief and anger still ~ (murder)
run into stone walls
admiration (for the marines) runs deep journalists have ~ with the administration
his ~ (an embedded correspondent)
ran into a hornet's nest
anger (still) runs strong the Apache helicopters ~ of antiaircraft fire
the ~
obstacles & impedance: crashes & collisions / walking,
emotions run high running & jumping / verb
~ with an abandoned infant (ED nursing)
run (in / over the long run)
envy runs high
~ in the world of art and intellect over the long run
our advocacy of human rights ~
fears (of Moscow) run deep
~ in Poland (2009) happiest in the long run
the thing that will make me ~ is to pursue my education
grief (still) runs strong
the ~ pay off in the long run
it would ~
resentment (of the US) runs deep
~ in the Arab world future / time: distance / movement / walking, running &
jumping
tensions (in the area) are running high
~ (Gaza) run (on the run / haste)
tradition and reverence for the dead run deep on the run
this is a town where ~ (Puerto Rico) we had to improvise solutions ~
♦ Melting snowpack will cause a river to run high. If it runs too high, it
might burst its banks and cause a flood. haste: movement / walking, running & jumping
♦ “Our Waters Run Deep, Our Roots Run Deeper.”
(WWW.CROWNSGUAM.COM.)
run (on the run / retreat)
extent & scope / feeling, emotion & effect: river on the run
the sheriff’s department believed the parents were ~
run (run into next week, etc.)
have our enemies on the run
run into next week we ~ (terrorism)
the defense's case will ~
resistance, opposition & defeat: walking, running & jumping
future / time: movement / walking, running & jumping
run (a good run, etc.)
run (run into something)
a good run
run into (further) delays the term has had a ~, but we don’t need it anymore
in case the Russians ~ (space station) it’s been ~, but it’s come to an end (Blog of the Nation)
paper coupons had a ~, but they ran out of steam
running into some hurdles
marine-energy developers are ~ starting, going, continuing & ending: theater
ran into problems runaround
but Zhou's plan to get even ~
bureaucratic runaround
ran into (political and financial) problems months of unanswered phone calls and ~s (NYC)

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♦ In the wonderful film "Coal Miner's Daughter" there is a funny scene. rungs of the (Hindu) caste hierarchy
Doolittle asks Mr. Ted Webb for his daughter Loretta's hand in marriage.
Mr. Web tells him to ask his wife, Clara. Clara tells him to ask Ted. those on the lowest ~
Loretta, who has been waiting expectantly, stops Doolittle on his way
back to her father and asks him what is going on. Doolittle explains, and rung below the main circuit
Loretta advises him to wait until Ted and Clara are both in bed, and he the Challenger Tour is a ~ (men’s tennis)
can catch them together. And that is just what Doolittle does.
rung on the ladder
progress & lack of progress: direction
it was the pioneers who occupied the highest ~ of prestige
runaway (control) rung on the (corporate) ladder
runaway consumerism their ~
some criticized the long lines as a sign of ~ (Ikea) ladder's (lowest) rung
runaway cycle the socioeconomic ~
events in the Arctic could lead to a ~ of melting bottom rung
runaway debt child molesters and informants are on the ~ (prison)
we have to stop ~ (ad for a politician) bottom-rung (m)
runaway rhetoric she landed a ~ job there (at a TV station)
we must tone down this ~ highest rung
runaway success free speech occupies the ~ of First Amendment values
the ~ of the building they occupied the ~ on the ladder of prestige
the Ford Model T was a ~ (1908-1927) lowest rung
runaway spending the socioeconomic ladder's ~
the country is headed off a fiscal cliff of ~ hierarchy: ladder
control & lack of control: animal / horse / walking, running running (continuing)
& jumping
long-running argument
run away (verb) a ~ about what it means to…
run away on us long-running battle
we must not let the virus ~ again (Jacinda Ardern / COVID) the ~ over the rights of…
♦ “Beyond Yasothon, past Mahachanachai, outside of Village Number 3,
a water buffalo had somehow slipped the tyranny of its nose-ring and long-running competition
coursed along the embankment above the green rice paddies like a their ~
black torpedo.”

control & lack of control: verb / walking, running & jumping

long running conflict
settles a ~ that went to arbitration (business)
rung (on the bottom rung)
bitter and long-running (m)
on the bottom rung the bloody culmination of a ~ feud (cop / citizen)
child molesters are ~ (prison) time: distance / movement / walking, running & jumping
informants are ~ (prison)
starting, going, continuing & ending / survival, persistence
hierarchy: ladder & endurance: walking, running & jumping

rung (bottom rung) run-of-the-mill

bottom-rung job run-of-the-mill offence
she landed a ~ there (TV station) the incident is not a ~ (cheating scandal at West Point)

bottom-rung workers run-of-the-mill politician

~ in plants, in warehouses, behind counters your ~

hierarchy: ladder run-of-the-mill sinner

people will realize that he was just another ~
rung (other)
worth & lack of worth: manufacturing
rung of the hierarchy
trappers occupy the most basic and brutal ~ (fur trade)
run out (of time)
rungs of power see time (run out of time)
he worked his way up the ~ (government)

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run out (of gas, etc.) failure, accident & impairment: mechanism
division & connection: mechanism
running out of excuses rush (rush to judgment)
I'm ~ that sound plausible
rush to judgment
ran out of gas we contended there had been a ~ (defense lawyer)
he ~ (a losing boxer) we don't need a ~ (national-security lapse)
we ask only that people not ~ (a lawyer)
run out of ideas
we've ~ fell victim to a rush to judgment
she ~ by police following the murder
running out of patience
Iraqis are ~ with foreign fighters haste: justice
luck (finally) ran out rush (oil rush, etc.)
their ~ (football team loses) oil rush
luck is running out the discovery well set off an ~ (East Texas 1903)
I feel my ~ (Marine killed in Falluja) activity / haste: movement
patience is running out Russian roulette
my ~
consumption: walking, running & jumping / verb play Russian roulette with my livelihood
I can't afford to ~
run out (of town, etc.)
playing Russian roulette with your lives
run out of town you are ~ if you get critically ill abroad (poor care)
he survived but was ~ (Black newspaper editor) fate, fortune & chance: weapon
♦ In the old days, a person might have been run out of town on a rail,
after having been tarred and feathered. rust (functioning)
dismissal, removal & resignation / oppression: walking, rust
running & jumping at age 38, the ~ caught up with him against… (boxing)
run over (verb) ring rust
Tyson had ~ after long layoff (the great boxer)
run over you he showed considerable ~ (boxer after a layoff)
if you aren’t dominating, they’re going to ~ (protestors)
don’t let anybody ~ (mother’s advice to daughter) flaws & lack of flaws / functioning: chemistry
let them run over you rust (resemblance)
either you curl up and ~ or you defend yourself (protesting)
wheat rust
destruction: tools & technology / verb a fungus causes ~
force: tools & technology / verb the disease, ~, caused famines in the past
run over (get run over, etc.) in the 1950s, ~ devastated crops in North America
resemblance: chemistry
run over like this
we will not be ~ (Alaska, by the federal government) rusty (adjective)
get run over rusty
if law enforcement isn’t computer-wise, it will ~ his skills are ~
got run over by Wall Street Bets ring rusty
Melvin Capital ~ (the Robinhood affair) I was a bit ~, I haven’t boxed in a year
get run over by that a little rusty
jazz is male-dominated and I think a lot of females ~ after a winter's layoff, every kayaker is ~
destruction: tools & technology flaws & lack of flaws / functioning: chemistry
force: tools & technology
rut (in a rut)
rupture (noun)
in a rut
bridge the rupture we are ~ and spinning our wheels (financial reform)
US diplomats are trying to ~ (Middle East)
stuck in a rut

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 he is ~, unable to move forward saccharine (adjective)
obstacles & impedance / progress & lack of progress:
saccharine propaganda
ground, terrain & land / movement
Green Book’s ~ (Academy Award winning film)
ruthless (sun, etc.) feeling, emotion & effect: taste
ruthless consumption: taste
the calculus behind people trafficking is ~
the katabatic winds off the glacier can be ~ (very cold)
sacred (adjective)
ruthless deadlines sacred to Democrats
every day brings ~ (an independent contractor) it is a program ~ (low-income heating assistance)

Ruthless Sun sacred to Cubs fans

Beneath a ~ (a book by Gilbert King) the statue is ~

empathy & lack of empathy: animal sacred to a newspaper

there is nothing more ~ than its credibility
sacred to you
S maybe it’s ~, but it’s not sacred to me (US anthem)

saber rattling sad and sacred

it is a place ~ to many Americans (New York 9/11 site)
calculated saber rattling
importance & significance: religion
it's not the drum beat of war, it is ~
just sabre rattling
sacred cow
is this a serious threat or ~ (military intervention) sacred cows of the (Israeli) economy
message: military / sound / sword the defense and high-tech industries are the two ~

sabotage (verb) sacred cow of (farming) subsidies

many countries are afraid to touch the ~
sabotage what
are you trying to ~ we are doing here Victorian sacred cows
his mordant wit and irreverence for ~ (Lytton Strachey)
sabotaged his (attempted) reforms
conservatives ~ (politics) sacred cows are slaughtered
some ~ on the way (educational theory)
destruction / disruption: military / verb
destroy the "sacred cow"
sabotage (noun) I am not out to ~ of the Kennedy presidency (filmmaker)

sabotage of the conversation idea / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: animal /

what he said was deliberate ~ cows & cattle / religion

self-sabotage sacrifice (give up something)

his talent, intelligence and gift for ~ (Val Kilmer)
sacrifice his career on such a remote altar
digital sabotage no respectable clergyman would ~ (Norfolk Island)
it’s been a summer of ~, hype houses, conspiracy theories
sacrificed free speech to political correctness
destruction / disruption: military the university has ~
sabotaged sacrificed everything for me
he ~ and the team (Tour de France)
sabotaged by subzero temperatures
our efforts to force the route were ~ (climbing) sacrificed himself for the sake of the team
he ~ (professional foul / soccer)
destruction / disruption: military
saboteur (person) sacrifice for success
boomers are generally willing to ~ (careers)
kind of saboteur sacrificed his dream
he was a ~, he undermined the policy of public health he ~ of attending college to help finance…
destruction / disruption / person: military
sacrificed his life
he ~ by throwing himself directly onto the grenade

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sacrificed their lives saddle (acting saddle, etc.)
the Rangers who ~ (Roberts Ridge)
acting saddle
sacrifice themselves she got right back in the ~ (after college)
thousands will come after us, ready to ~ (terrorists)
role: horse
sacrifice their personal lives
they don't want to ~ (for a career) saddle (oppress)
ready to sacrifice saddled him with (derogatory) nicknames
thousands will come after us, ~ themselves (terrorists) his opponents have ~ (a politician)
willing to sacrifice saddled America with (high) unemployment
each one of us is ~ himself for... (suicide terrorist) the stimulus merely ~ and more debt
sacrifice: religion / verb ♦ A devious horse, resistant to being saddled and ridden, will fill his lungs
with air as the cinch strap is tightened. If this behavior is not taken into
sacrifice (noun) account, the saddle will slide off the horse’s back, depositing the rider on
the ground.

financial sacrifice oppression: horse / verb / weight

it takes a ~ to get through the training (nursing)
saddle (Saddle Island, etc.)
sacrifice: religion
Saddle Island
sacrilegious (adjective) we visited ~ (Yemen)
sacrilegious to suggest Saddle Mountain
maybe it’s ~, but... ~ is in Queensland, Australia
sacrilegious for women to smoke Sansan saddle
it was once ~ cigarettes ~ is a double-topped hill, 195 feet high... (China)
sacrilegious about making proper name: horse
there is nothing ~ a sequel (film)
saddle (saddle up)
offensive or sacrilegious
do you worry about being ~ saddle up
let's ~ (get ready and go)
being sacrilegious
I hope I’m not ~ in suggesting that... starting, going, continuing & ending: horse / verb

considered sacrilegious saddle (in the saddle)

athletes who bet on games are ~
back in the saddle
felt sacrilegious NATO is ~ (Libya)
it ~ to hear my brother say those words he is ~ running Breitbart News (after political job)

seemed sacrilegious firmly in the saddle

it ~ to visit Oxford and not visit Faulkner’s house president Arroyo is now ~ (following plots against her)
the Scottish Nationalists seem ~
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: religion he is ~ as IPL chairman for the next 5 years (cricket)
sad (as noun) control & lack of control: horse
sad saddle (get back in the saddle)
the ~ I get from being with you (vs. without you)
get back in the saddle
feeling, emotion & effect: part of speech if you fall off a horse, pick yourself up and ~
saddle (shape) resiliency: animal / horse / verb
saddle between the peaks saddle (a burr in the saddle)
he climbed the ~
burr in the saddle of the company
below the saddle the controversy is a ~
right side of that peak, right ~ (a sniper speaking) ♦ “Maybe learning what happened to the famous old weaving would
remove that tickling burr under his saddle, if that figure of speech worked
shape: horse in this case.” (The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman.)

affliction: horse / sensation

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saddle (support) legal saga
his ~ was far from over
in their saddles
the boilers began to work loose ~ (ship in typhoon) scientific saga
the modern fight against syphilis is a ~
configuration: horse
grim, continuing saga
saddled the ~ of clearing up after the storm (Storm Arwen)
saddled in debt development: journeys & trips
I was ~
Sahara (Sahara of snow, etc.)
saddled with responsibility
the government did not want to be ~ Sahara of snow
the homecoming landmark in that rolling ~ (Ross Ice Shelf)
oppression: horse / weight ♦ A sea of sand, a Sahara of snow...This comparison is in no ways
safety net strange if you think about it.

environment / resemblance: desert

safety net comparison & contrast: epithet
the ~ has become a hammock (dependency)
the poor don't need a ~, they need a trampoline sail (sail to victory, etc.)
safety net for (troubled) students sailed to victory
gaps in the ~ (suicides at college) he ~ (a politician)
safety net for the poor and uninsured sailed (through) to the third round
the hospital was a ~ (closed) he ~ (an easy victory / tennis)
safety-net rescue sailed through the House and Senate
a medical hospital is a ~ for them (anorexia) the bipartisan bill ~ by unanimous voice vote (Hubbard Act)
social safety net difficulty, easiness & effort: boat / movement / verb
he dismantled the ~ (Pinochet / Chile) attainment: boat / movement / verb
gaps in the safety net sailing (smooth sailing)
~ for troubled students (suicides at college)
smooth sailing
dismantled the (social) safety net after that, it's ~ (job)
he ~ (Pinochet / Chile) it's not been all ~ (marriage)
it's not going to be ~ from now on
weaken, repair, or strengthen the social safety net
we can ~, or leave it alone (politics) difficulty, easiness & effort: boat
protection & lack of protection: circus saint (superlative)
sag (verb) saint
he was a real ~ (9/11 FDNY chaplain Mychal F. Judge)
sag he was not a ~ (anger issues / politician)
morale in some parts of the office has begun to ~
no saint
sags Mr Berlusconi has always maintained he is “~”
a lot is a good time, but too much still ~ (play review) I’m ~, how about you
sags a little bit revolutionary saint
the first half of the movie ~ Lenin, the ~
decline / increase & decrease: direction / verb behavior / reverence / superlative: religion
flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness: direction /
materials & substances / verb sainthood (noun)
saga (noun) secular sainthood
his family has mixed feelings about his ~ (Matthew
saga Shepard)
there is continuing public interest in his ~ (a boxer)
superlative: religion
saga of Antonio Brown
the surreal ~ is not slowing down (troubled NFL player)

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salient (important) he’s ~ (has a lot of experience, like an old sailor)
experience: sea / taste
salient points
he covered all the ~ in his report salute (verb)
♦ A salient is a projecting part of a fortification. Or it is a bulge on the
front line. If the salient is cut off, it becomes a pocket. A salient can form saluted his efforts
in a number of different ways, and can be defended or used offensively his colleagues ~ to lower racial barriers (tribute)
in a number of ways. In World War II, the Kursk Battle and the Battle of
the Bulge each developed around a salient. At Kursk the Germans salute her timing
attacked a Russian salient; at the Battle of the Bulge, they used their
own salient to spearhead their attack. Both ended up in crushing defeats I have to ~ (author produced timely book)
for them.
salute you
importance & significance: fortification / ground, terrain & we ~ (encouragement to those who stick to their diets)
land / military
achievement, recognition & praise: gesture / military / verb
salivate (verb) salvage (verb)
salivating over the (class-action) lawsuits
lawyers should be ~
salvage a (decent) life from the wreckage
money to ~ of misfortune
salivating at the prospect
consumers are ~ of the new product
salvage order out of chaos
we are trying to ~ (East Timor)
salivating to attack
Republicans are ~ the president over…
salvage his career
he got a chance to ~
salivating to build
developers are ~ in the area
salvage their credibility
politicians need to ~ (versus corruption)
eagerness & reluctance: bodily reaction / mouth / verb
salvage its season
salt (flavor) the team is desperate to ~ (sports)

salt went out salvage a (recently scrapped) summit

when I ‘wrote short’ much ~ of the work (R. Kipling) they are trying to ~
♦ “Salt is the primordial narcotic.” amelioration & renewal: boat / manufacturing / verb
character & personality: taste salve (noun)
salt (sailor) salve for (racial) rancor
old salt the only ~ is honesty
the ~ sent the apprentice off to find Charlie Noble amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
♦ Hazing inexperienced sailors by sending them off on a fool’s errand
has a long tradition. salvo (noun)
experience: boat / sea / taste latest salvo
salty (language) this is the ~ in the war against plastic straws
the sports argument is the ~ to prevent equality (transexuals)
salty response verbal salvo
a ~ from an artist who won’t back down (you idiot!)
they exchanged ~s over this turn of events (enmity)
speech: taste
fired salvos
salty (slang) a number of generals publicly ~ at each other

salty about it accusation & criticism / speech: boat / military / weapon

it’s like a bad breakup, that’s why I’m ~ (a Patriots fan) sanctuary (noun)
♦ Salty can mean bitter, angry or upset. See “A ‘Salty’ Word With a
Promising Future: The American Dialect Society picks its Most Likely to Sanctuary City
Succeed word” by Ben Zimmer, the Wall Street Journal, January 16,
2015.)
making Tucson a ~ failed (Proposition 205 / 2019)

feeling, emotion & effect: taste “Second Amendment sanctuaries”

counties have declared themselves ~ (to resist gun control)
salty (experience)
finds sanctuary
salty she ~ in Ranchera music

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protection & lack of protection: religion textbooks sanitize
~ Japan's wartime atrocities (Japanese schools)
sanctum (and inner sanctum)
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb
sanctums of conspiracy
he founded the project to penetrate the ~ (a Ufologist) sanitized
West’s literary inner sanctum sanitized edition
he saw his role as storming the ~ (Ishmael Reed) the ~ of 'Huckleberry Finn' has caused an uproar
inner sanctum sanitized version
the computer’s kernel, the machine’s most privileged ~ lawmakers read aloud a ~ of the US Constitution
she took one of my tapes into the ~ of the office
less sanitized (m)
penetrate (al-Qaida’s) inner sanctum reenactors aim for a fun, ~ view of the Old West
he was able to ~ (a US sympathizer)
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene
reverence: religion
sanitizing
sand (political sands, etc.)
sanitizing language
political sands military officials used ~ to mask the fact...
the ~ are shifting (diplomacy after the Arab Spring)
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene
environment: desert
sardined
sand (stick one’s head in the sand)
sardined in the settlement
stick my head in the sand no more convicts could be ~
I didn’t want to ~ and deny what was going on...
configuration: animal / fish / pressure
♦ “Allan Pocock, a resident of the Oudtshoorn region of South Africa,
where 200,000 ostriches were once reared for their feathers, noted that
during the 80-odd years when records were kept, no one had reported a
satellite (noun)
single case of an ostrich burying its head, or even apparently attempting
to do so.” Iranian satellite
Bahrain could become an ~
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: animal / bird /
desert attraction & repulsion / relationship: astronomy

sandwiched Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia of coal,

sandwiched between Australia and Indonesia
etc.)
East Timor is half an island ~ Saudi Arabia of coal
sandwiched between Europe and Central Asia the US is the ~
Turkey has a strategic role in a region ~ (Caucasus) West Virginia has been called the ~

sandwiched between Togo and Ivory Coast Saudi Arabia of cotton

~, Ghana is considered a model democracy the South was the ~ (the US Civil War)

Sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine Saudi Arabia of lithium

~, Moldova emerged as an independent republic... Afghanistan could become the ~ (mineral)
we know that Bolivia can become the ~
configuration: food & drink
Saudi Arabia of renewables
sanguine (adjective) could Scotland ever be ‘the ~’ (wind and tidal energy)
sanguine about the series Saudi Arabia of clean water
he was ~ thanks to Lake Michigan, Chicago is the ~
feeling, emotion & effect: blood / color / health & medicine Saudi Arabia of tidal power
Scotland could be the ~ (Alex Salmond / 2008)
sanitize (verb)
♦ “As Saudi Arabia is to oil, the UK is to wind.” (Prime Minister Boris
Johnson, about Scottish wind power.)
sanitized Mark Twain's masterpiece
he has ~ by replacing the N-word amount: epithet
sanitize the history savage (Savage Mountain, etc.)
the Japanese often ~
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 K2, the so-called ~, doesn’t have much tolerance save his voice
♦ The climber George Irving Bell, after a 1953 trip to K2, said, “K2 is a he would play music to ~ (early days of radio)
savage mountain that tries to kill you.” He was one of the five men saved
by Pete Schoening’s famous belay.) survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / verb
epithet / character & personality: animal savior (the savior of mothers, etc.)
danger: epithet
Saviour of Poland
savage (verb) long live Napoleon, the ~
savaged his critics savior of mothers
the president ~ today he is known as “the ~” (Semmelweis)
savaging him achievement, recognition & praise: epithet
critics are ~ (a journalist over ethics)
savior (noun)
accusation & criticism: animal / predation / verb
speech: animal / predation / verb Wale’s saviour
behavior: animal / predation / verb it was always likely Bale would be ~ (soccer game)
savage (adjective) environmental savior
the press made Obama out to be the ~
savage day
Antietam was a ~ in American history (the Civil War) global savior
NASA doesn't really want the job of ~ (NEOs)
savage humor
his ~ spared no one (Mort Sahl) white saviour
she was accused of exhibiting a ~ complex (aid worker)
savage toll
the Great Lakes can take a ~ on swimmers (drownings) wildlife savior
♦ “Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty celebrates fearlessness, confidence and
she is referred to as “India’s greatest ~” (Indira Gandhi)
inclusivity.” (Lingerie.)
savior was back
♦ “The Most Savage... Bachelorette.” (An advertisement for the TV show
the Boston Garden erupted, the ~ (Larry Bird, May 5, 1991)
showing a young lady walking away fiercely, obviously upset.)
♦ “But I was aware of what was going on around me in only a seen as Kosovo’s savior
disconnected and hazy manner. It seemed as if the weariness and the Russian President Vladimir Putin is ~ (by ethnic Serbs)
illness, like ferocious and cowardly beasts, had waited in ambush for the
moment when I dismantled my defences, in order to attack me from help & assistance: religion
behind... / I was hoisted on to the cart...together with a load of dying
men, from whom I did not feel very different.” (The Truce: A Survivor’s
Journey Home From Auschwitz by Primo Levy.)
savor (verb)
force: animal savor the benefits
~ of living a healthier lifestyle (energy, sleep, etc.)
savant (noun)
savored the feeling
heavily travelled savants I ~ (a massage)
(sports) scouts are ~ who value young players
savor the moment
knowledge & intelligence: person some other voice was telling me to slow down, to ~
save (verb) savored the moment
I ~ (a moonlit swim)
save globalization from itself
a prescription to ~ feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste / verb
save face say (a sign can say something, etc.)
dictators always need to ~ (repression)
say
save "honor" restaurants signs that ~, “Restrooms for customers only”
Pakistani killed daughters to ~ (headline) what did the letter ~
save the honor says
men who kill women to ~ of their family a street sign that ~ Martin Luther King
the rumor mill ~ he may have plans... (boxing)
save his own skin
he was a liar who just wanted to ~ (criminal trial) said the San Francisco Chronicle
US Terrorized by Radio’s ‘Men From Mars,’ ~
save their skins
executives sold their stock, hoping to ~ (Enron) ♦ “Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact,” declared the
New York Times. “Radio Fake Scares Nation,” cried the Chicago Herald

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and Examiner. “US Terrorized By Radio’s ‘Men From Mars,’” said the Palace ~ (victory against Tottenham Hotspur in FA Cup)
San Francisco Chronicle. (“The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds
panic” by Professor W Joseph Campbell, BBC, 30 October 2011.) collected scalps
fictive communication: speech / verb they issued demands, ~ (students force resignations)

scaffold (verb) have his name as a scalp

it’s great to ~ on my record now (boxing)
scaffold instruction
we need to ~ in mixed-ability classes and materials take scalps
he is looking to ~ at Sony (underperforming films)
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / verb
help & assistance: infrastructure / verb thirsting for another manager’s scalp
now I see McNutty is ~ (a BBC sportswriter)
scaffolding (noun) ♦ “He’s a hedge fund guy looking to take scalps at Sony.” (The actor
George Clooney stands up for Hollywood against big-money investors
cosmic scaffolding looking to make a buck.)
strands of dark matter form a kind of ~ ♦ “Get (at least one) incumbent establishment scalp to become a credible
threat.” (An internal document of Justice Democrats. From “The Left
amelioration & renewal: infrastructure Turn” by Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, May 31, 2021.)
help & assistance: infrastructure ♦ See “‘Adjusting Appropriately’ To Words That Hurt,” NPR, Opinion,
scale (scales of justice, etc.) Language, August 8, 2018. See also the Wikipedia entry, “Scalping.”

achievement, recognition & praise / punishment &

scales of justice recrimination / success & failure: hair / history / violence
he put his finger on the ~ to exonerate the police
scape (threatscape, etc.)
put its thumb on the scales
the court has ~ on the side of student free speech Bat-scape
♦ “The way this issue has been reported, it’s as if there is a thumb on the the ~ is pretty well established (The Batman)
scale in favor of white supremacists. But as I understand this case, that’s
just not what the judge is doing.” (“A look at Bruce Schroeder, the judge battle-scape
in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial,” NPR, All Things Considered, Nov. 4, 2021.) the brain is the 21st Century ~ (microwave weapons)
judgment: justice / scale / sign, signal, symbol
cityscape
scale (tip the scales) the dramatic ~ of steel and lights (Hong Kong)

tip the scales friendscapes

this could ~ as we curate our ~ post-COVID (some fade away)
why we need diversity in our ~
tip the scales against him ~ change as life’s landscape changes
this could ~ (politics)
hellscape
development / initiation: scale / verb / weight flames turned the small town into a ~ (wildfire)
scale (climb) landscape
(see landscape)
scaled the heights of government
he never ~ (MP Sir David Amess) mediascape
he rips into the Internet-juiced ~ (the film France)
attainment / progress & lack of progress: direction /
mountains & hills / movement / verb moonscape
(see moonscape)
scalp (save one’s scalp)
roadscape
save his own scalp a ragged ~ of motels, franchises and big box stores...
he is a career criminal trying to ~ (jailhouse snitch)
“sandscape”
survival, persistence & endurance: hair / head / skin,
how the ~ has changed (Bacton Beach / North Norfolk)
muscle, nerves & bone / verb
seascapes
scalp (noun) artists fall in love with the area’s ~ (Northern Jutland)
scalp on his record smellscapes
Wilder would be a great ~ (boxing) how transformations have affected people’s ~ (history)
impressive scalp smell-scapes
Usyk would be an ~ for Joshua (boxing) as the world faces a pandemic, our ~ are being changed
claim another (big) scalp soundscape

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 the unique ~ of Tanzania’s largest city (Eyder Peralta) scar (resemblance / noun)
a new field of biology called ~ ecology
gentle ambient ~s, electronic beats (German music) scar on the face
the slums are a ~ of a beautiful city (Jeddah)
streetscape
the bomb destroyed the facades and ~ of the tourist area gaping scar
the open-pit mine has left a ~ two sq miles in size
threatscape
the changing ~ (terrorism) resemblance: health & medicine / mark / wounds & scars
townscape scar (resemblance / verb)
additions to the ~ of Lhasa (drains, etc.)
♦ “As the world faces another global pandemic, our smell-scapes are
scar the landscape
being changed again...” (“What’s That Smell? Researchers Hope to abandoned construction sites ~
Recreate Historic Scents From Europe’s Past” by Reese Oxner, NPR,
Nov. 22, 2020.) appearance / resemblance: health & medicine / mark /
♦ “He called that painting “Bottlescape.” (Winston Churchill, a great verb / wounds & scars
amateur painter. His painting consisted of 12 bottles and some large
cigar boxes.) scar (psychologically scar)
area: affix / ground, terrain & land / picture scarred me
environment: affix / ground, terrain & land / picture the way my grandpa taught me to drive forever ~
scapegoat (noun) affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine /
mark / verb / wounds & scars
scapegoat
he was railroaded, chosen to be the ~ (wrongly convicted) scar (psychological scars, etc.)
scapegoats of imperialism deep (psychological) scars
they became the ~ (Indians in East Africa) soldiers are coming home with ~ (from Iraq)
scapegoat for California’s drought emotional scars
how almonds became a ~ the ~ he inflicted on his children
scapegoat for America’s failures the ~ of modern slavery run deeper than any wound
he accused Trump of making Pakistan a ~ in Afghanistan personal scars
government’s scapegoat the political mistakes and ~ that shaped Joe Biden
she is the ~ for crimes committed by Epstein psychological scars
made a scapegoat ~ suffered by the orphan subjects (experiment)
he has been ~ for the failings of the Catholic Church the victims struggle with ~ (town lost to wildfire)
(Cardinal George Pell) ♦ “I heard yesterday that there is a military hospital hidden in the forest
for the soldiers who have had their faces shot away. They apparently
make Pakistan a scapegoat look so horrific that ordinary people can’t even look at them. Things like
that make me despair.” (Elfriede Kuhr, a young German schoolgirl. From
the US is trying to ~ for the war in Afghanistan The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund.)

chosen to be the scapegoat ♦ “A World War One memorial to soldiers whose story has been
described as an unresolved ‘taboo’ is set to be unveiled... / The statue is
he was railroaded, ~ (wrongly convicted) to be unveiled by descendants of some of the soldiers, at Queen Mary’s
Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, where many of the men were treated.” (“Ending
use the West as a scapegoat the taboo of soldiers with ‘broken faces’” by Sean Coughlan, BBC, 9
Moi sought to ~ for the country’s troubles (Kenya) November 2019.)

used as a scapegoat affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine /
the company is being ~ for America’s opioid crisis mark / wounds & scars
♦ One goat was sacrificed. The scapegoat was driven off into the
wilderness to perish with the sins of the community lying symbolically on
scar (blemish / noun)
its horns.
scar on the history
oppression / punishment & recrimination / sacrifice: the Sand Creek massacre is a permanent ~ of Colorado
animal / justice / religion
economic scars
scar (the Scar, etc.) the longer the recovery, the more long-lasting the ~

know the rock formation as “The Scar” flaws & lack of flaws: mark / wounds & scars
fishermen and Taku locals ~ (Jaw Point, Alaska) scar (blemish / verb)
proper name: health & medicine / mark / wounds & scars
scar it

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 this report will not just injure the BBC but ~ (Lady Di) scattershot approach
they have taken a ~
flaws & lack of flaws: mark / verb / wounds & scars
configuration / extent & scope / target: weapon
scarred (afflicted)
scene (behind the scenes)
scarred by a (harrowing) incident
all of us have been ~ that happened to a friend… behind the scenes
people want to know what goes on ~
scarred by (childhood) rejection and abuse what goes on ~ isn’t always known (Man U)
an angry young man ~
behind the scenes of the arts and sciences
scarred for life BTM takes a monthly deep-dive ~
I was ~ (traumatic incident)
from behind the scenes
emotionally scarred they will pull strings ~ (politicians)
if you are half as ~ as I am…
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine /
working (feverishly) behind the scenes
the US is ~ (diplomacy)
mark / wounds & scars
attention, scrutiny & promotion: society / theater
scarred (battle-scarred, etc.) concealment & lack of concealment: society / theater
scarred with piles
the open land around Norilsk is ~ of tailings (mines) scene (come onto the scene)
battle-scarred buildings came onto the scene in 2015
checkpoints and ~ (Middle East) he first ~ with a handful of mixtapes (a dead rapper)
battle-scarred capital appearance & disappearance / attention, scrutiny &
in Mogadishu, Somalia's ~ promotion: theater
battle-scarred country scent (throw somebody off the scent)
a ~ divided among warlords (Afghanistan)
threw the Nazis off the scent with subterfuge
battle-scarred air base she ~ (saved Polish Jews)
American forces based at the ~ (Afghanistan)
throw the investigators off the scent
flaws & lack of flaws: mark / wounds & scars
he tried to ~
scarring throw the press off the scent
scarring experience he tried to ~
it was a ~ (being bullied) pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / smell / verb
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine / subterfuge: hunting / smell / verb
mark / wounds & scars scent (evidence)
scathing (adjective) scent of malfeasance
he’s a born bloodhound who lives to track the ~ (journalist)
scathing editorial
in a ~, the newspaper condemned the university for... evidence: smell
scathing portrait schism (noun)
the book offers a ~ of the president
schism between the sides
scathing report the ~ has deepened (politics)
the ~ faults Boeing for the deadly crashes
cultural and political schism
scathing testimony the region’s ~ (Northwest Michigan)
he lashed out at his former boss in ~ ♦ “Better the Sultan’s turban than the cardinal’s hat!”
affliction / speech: health & medicine / mark / wounds & division & connection: religion
scars
schizophrenic (adjective)
scattershot (adjective)
schizophrenic
scattershot the weather is ~
his approach can be somewhat ~ (a historian)
kind of schizophrenic

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 we’re ~ (a musician about music scene) character & personality: light & dark
schizophrenic blend scissor (resemblance)
she encapsulates the ~ of exhilaration and alarm (tech)
scissor kick
schizophrenic issue his 94th-minute ~ sent the game to penalties (soccer)
it’s a ~, in fact (Egyptian attitude to West)
movement / resemblance: blade
♦ The secondary definition in the OED is “with the implication of mutually
contradictory or inconsistent elements.” Some see this definition as scissor (genetic scissors, etc.)
hurtful to the mentally ill and would like to see it removed.

behavior: health & medicine / mental health Crispr-Cas9 genetic scissors

their discovery, known as ~
school (experience)
creation & transformation: blade / tools & technology
school of the sea sclerotic (adjective)
they were tough men risen in the ~ (ship captains)
suspicious school sclerotic bureaucracy
having been brought up in a ~, I suspected... businessmen must deal with a ~

tough school sclerotic culture

it’s a ~, this... (Scotland beaten by Croatia / Euro 2020) she campaigned to change the ~ of Sacramento (election)
♦ “A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.” (Moby Dick by sclerotic (judicial) system
Herman Melville.) the ~ is in need of reform
♦ “Ability has no school.” (Turkey.)
♦ “Time teaches more than books.” (Po but siklos bersentar sar lilentar /
sclerotic, authoritarian (m)
Roma.) it is not the only country with a ~ political system
♦ Life is the best education.”
unthinking and sclerotic (m)
♦ “The Eskimos were right!” (An excited scientist in a helicopter in 1994, they rebelled against ~ traditionalism (filmmakers)
noticing a bow whale swimming with a group of beluga whales.)
condition & status: health & medicine
experience / knowledge & intelligence: school & education
schooled scold (verb)
scolded the White House press corps for behaving
schooled (at an early age) on how
she sometimes ~ like her children (Sarah Sanders)
he was ~ to be a drug dealer
accusation & criticism: family / verb
schooled for twelve rounds
he was ~ and nearly KO’d (a boxer) scold (person)
outclassed and schooled moral scold
he was ~ (Oleksandr Usyk beats Anthony Joshua / boxing) he became a ~ (Bill Cosby)
got schooled character & personality / judgment / speech: person
AJ ~ in his own yard (by Usyk, in London / boxing) scorched-earth
♦ “Dennis Rodman just went to Larry Bird University for a term.”
(Commentary during a 1986 NBA game.) scorched-earth approach
experience / knowledge & intelligence: school & education what they see as his ~ (a federal prosecutor)

scintilla (scintilla of doubt, etc.) scorched-earth attacks

voters want answers to their questions, not ~ (politics)
scintilla of evidence
scorched-earth offensive
there is not a ~ against him
this ~ that we saw from the president (attacks his critics)
scintilla of merit
scorched-earth politics
there is not a ~ in this claim (of a jailhouse snitch)
republicans have adopted his slash-and-burn, ~
♦ This is from the Latin meaning a spark.
scorched-earth pursuit
amount: fire / light & dark
the senator’s ~ of communists (Joe McCarthy)
scintillating (adjective) ♦ According to William Safire, this term was first used in the Sino-
Japanese war during the 1930s. (Lend Me Your Ears, “Stalin Commands
scintillating performance the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitler’s Troops.”)
she gave a ~ conflict / destruction: military / fire
feeling, emotion & effect / superlative: light & dark

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scorching (adjective) scourge (noun)
scorching (final) scene scourge of (mass) incarceration
in the play's ~, she unleashes a torrent of fury at… the ~ rips apart poor communities
feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation / temperature scourge of (violent) jihad
the ~ has not gone away
score (settle a score, etc.)
scourge of racism
score we thought the ~ was a distant memory (soccer)
you're gonna pay, 'cause I'm the one who's keepin' ~
scourge of the Resistance
settle scores Klaus Barbie was the ~
there are worries that people may try to ~
♦ Score refers to an account or a bill.
scourge of (modern) technology
car wrecks are a great ~ (Fast & Furious films)
revenge: money / verb
scourge in the black communities
scorecard (noun) crack cocaine was a ~
Police Scorecard self-appointed scourge
the research organization ~ Project he is now a ~ of victimhood and outrage (a writer)
culture, diversity and inclusion scorecard blessings as well as its scourges
in 2016 the company began using a ~ (hiring) celebrity’s ~
judgment: baseball / sports & games affliction: violence / whip
scour (verb) scout (noun)
scoured the shops for antiques boy scouts
they ~ the ~ are shining paragons of American boyhood
scoured the Earth for (rare) fruit sports scouts
Bill Whitman ~ (collector) ~ are heavily travelled savants who value young players
♦ The scout / snipers serve as the eyes and ears of the battalion
scoured the area for hours commander.
search teams ~ (Delphi Indiana murders)
searching & discovery: military / person
scoured the Web
crazed fans ~ ("Blair Witch Project") scout (verb)
scoured his computer scout blind drops
police ~ please ~ (memorial to kayaker Edward Lee Green)

scoured the neighborhood scout for talent

more cops ~ he came to Bosnia to ~ (KSM / terrorist)

scoured (all) the records searching & discovery: military / verb

the new team ~ in the case (prosecution) scramble (verb)
scoured 46,332 sq miles
scramble to get
the search ~ of sea floor (for MH370)
I had to ~ some money
scoured the streets and homeless shelters
scrambled (this week) to prevent
officers ~ but could find no trace of him
attorneys ~ the public release of recorded statements
searching & discovery: rubbing & washing / verb
scrambling to provide
scoured the government is ~ additional security (Olympics)

scoured by whirlwinds scrambling to put

a scorched moonscape ~ of ash (wildfire) negotiators have been ~ the talks back together

scoured by wind scrambling to salvage

the land is ~ and baked by sun they are ~ the treaty (diplomacy)

resemblance: rubbing & washing scrambling to stop

health officials are ~ the spread of the virus (measles)

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scrambled for his (political) survival the ~
he has ~ this week (ethics problems)
program will be scrapped
activity / difficulty, easiness & effort / haste: movement / he believes the ~ later this year (State Dept.)
verb / walking, running & jumping
tour was scrapped
movement: verb / walking running & jumping the ~ (music)
scramble (disrupt)
want them scrapped
scrambled the lives Americans oppose the bills and ~
he has ~ of everyone in the news business (president) dismissal, removal & resignation: manufacturing
scrambled their plans scratch (scratch and claw, etc.)
the impeachment trial has ~ (politicians)
disruption: mixture / verb
scratch and claw for the maximum
she is going to ~ she can get (politics)
scrap (verb) behavior / conflict / difficulty, easiness & effort: animal /
scrapped (nearly all of) the changes verb
he has ~ (of the previous regime) scratch (record scratch)
scrapped the idea
the team ~ of… record-scratch effect
her close relationship to her sources did have a ~
scrapped (NASA's) plan ♦ This refers the feeling you would have if you were listening to a song
the administration has ~ to return to the moon on a turntable and the needle abruptly ripped across a record. It is a
sound effect used in films.
scrap its plan
feeling, emotion & effect: film / sound
the government must ~ to restart the nuclear reactors
sound: film
scrap that strategy scream (scream “premium,” etc.)
they should ~ and try something different
scrapped the (color-coded) system scream (out to the young people) that
the Obama administration ~ (terrorism alerts) this sentence will ~ you can’t drive drunk (prison)

dismissal, removal & resignation: manufacturing / verb scream “adventure”

the off-road capability of their cars ~ (Jeep Wrangler)
scrap (noun)
screamed money laundering
scraps of the (old) economy from law enforcement’s point of view, bitcoin ~
young people should fight over the remaining ~
scream maturity
scraps of morale what we saw in Houston doesn’t ~ to me (NBA)
hunger destroyed whatever ~ may have been left (convicts)
screamed the front page
amount: food & drink “Raheem shots himself in foot” ~ of the Sun newspaper
scrape (verb) scream ‘premium’
if there are scratches on the tin, that doesn’t ~ (paint)
scrape 500,000 members’ private details
the flaw allowed hackers to ~ screams “Rob me”
the carry case ~ (Apple AirPods Max)
computer / dismissal, removal & resignation / searching &
discovery / taking & removing: blade / knife / verb scream Washington
at first glance the restaurant doesn’t ~ (Compass Rose)
scrape by (verb)
screams David v Goliath
scraping by if there’s one tie that ~, this is it (Falkirk v Rangers)
farmers are just ~ ♦ “The effect is trashy, hollering sexual availability... (Young American
girls who wear short shorts, or Daisy Dukes.)
survival, persistence & endurance: blade / knife / verb
♦ Fashion that suggests rather than shouts. (Females.)
scrapped ♦ “I just love the idea that you can listen to a body and it’s screaming at
you. In this case Ganymede’s screaming, ‘I have my own magnetic field!’
scrapped by the governor That’s a very special tale...” (Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for
the project was ~ the Juno Mission, about the moon revolving around Jupiter. The sounds
are “data converted to audio, so we could all hear it.” From “What does a
moon sound like,” NPR, Morning Edition, Dec. 24, 2021.)
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♦ see also cry (verb) pressure: tools & technology / verb
evidence / fictive communication: speech / verb coercion & motivation: pressure / tools & technology / verb

scream (scream for action, etc.) screw up (verb)

screaming for action screwed up
the public is ~ now (Australia / fires / climate change) I~
failure, accident & impairment: tools & technology / verb
screamed (out) for an activist investor
it is a situation that ~ (tennis reform) script (to script)
scream and holler and carry on exactly to script
people manufacture outrage and ~ like there’s no tomorrow things haven't gone ~ (a boxer's career)
conflict: sound / verb gone (exactly) to script
screen (split screen) things haven't ~ (a boxer's career)

split screen sticks to script

South shore is a ~ (rich / poor) White House ~ (diplomacy)
♦ “This is an American crime story that follows what sadly feels like a
split screen of conduct familiar script. Woman goes missing, husband gets in front of a camera,
it’s a ~ that is required (manufacturing hygiene in India) makes an emotional plea for her return, and that husband is arrested for
her murder. This has now happened in the case of...” (“Husband of
missing Colorado mom arrested nearly one year after her
split-screen day disappearance,” ABC.)
this was really a ~ in the US Senate (2 important events)
development / script: theater
split-screen messaging
there was some ~ (cooperation vs. unilateralism) script (off script, etc.)
split-screen moment flipping the script
dueling televised town halls, a ~ (rival politicians) older gymnasts are ~ (gymnasts are usually girls)
split-screen reality go off script
he lived in this ~ all the time (adoration / vilification) they are so good when they ~ (two quarterbacks)
chilling split screen development / disruption / script: theater
it was a ~ (president addresses nation / street protests)
scrub (remove)
worse split screen
I can’t imagine a ~ (9/11 pile / Osama escapes Tora Bora) scrub campuses clean
some want to ~ of words, ideas, and subjects that might
series of split screens cause discomfort
Trump is hoping to set up a ~ (during impeachment trial)
scrub the video off the internet
♦ “The World Trade Center pile of debris was literally still smoking on
December 12th, 2001, which is the day Bin Laden escaped from Tora he tried to ~
Bora. It’s also the same day that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
was getting briefed about the future Iraq war plans by the Pentagon, and scrub a computer
to me that sort of speaks for itself... The split screen on 9/11 (in 2021) they made a plan to ~ (criminal investigation)
will be the Taliban you know taking over chunks of Afghanistan using
American military equipment that they’ve seized, and reading the names scrub the record
of the victims at the World Trade Center site, and I can’t imagine a worse
split screen, but I think that is likely what we will see.” (The fine journalist
can you imagine Clinton after impeachment trying to ~
Peter Bergen. From “Osama Bin Laden Biography Goes Inside Al-Qaida
Leader’s Final Hideout,” NPR, Fresh Air, with Dave Davies.) scrub your criminal record
♦ “And here is a split screen 20 years later... (Video of Bush in 2001
state agencies can ~ (expungements, sealing records)
announcing attacks in Afghanistan and Biden announcing US exit from
Afghanistan in 2021.)
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene / verb
dismissal, removal & resignation: hygiene / verb
attention, scrutiny & promotion / comparison & contrast:
film scrubbed
screw (tighten / loosen the screws) scrubbed in the hours after the fatal raid
his social media accounts were already ~
loosen the screws
concealment & lack of concealment: hygiene
if we ~ on restrictions the economy will return (pandemic)
dismissal, removal & resignation: hygiene
tightened the screws
the judge ~ and… (sentence)

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scrum (reporters) also, demolition charges were set off. The German military was
disappointed they hadn't been able to seize the ships intact, but Hitler
was pleased because the fleet was destroyed and could not be used
scrum of reporters against the Axis. The captains of a few ships were able to sail them to
we were surrounded by a huge ~ the Allies.
♦ On the 21st of June, 1919, German sailors scuttled the interned
sidewalk scrum German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow. Arguably, It was the greatest
during a ~ with reporters, he was asked why... (politician) loss of shipping in a single day in world history. Fifty-two of the 74 ships
went to the bottom.
♦ A press gaggle is similar.
♦ “ANNELIESE ESSBERGER – intercepted by the USS MILWAUKEE
♦ Give blood, play rugby; Rugby players eat their dead; Trample the and scuttled while outbound November 21, 1942, at ØØ-54 N. 22-34 W.”
weak, hurdle the dead, play rugby... (Rugby bumper stickers.)
destruction: boat / sea / verb
behavior / group, set & collection: sports & games
activity / resemblance: sports & games scuttled
scum (insult) scuttled by the governor
the project was ~
scum
you people are just as much garbage as this ~ (TMZ) scuttled show
the musical was a last-minute replacement for a ~
wash the scum off the streets
we need to ~ (criminals, etc.) deal was scuttled
some day a real rain will come and ~ (film Taxi Driver) the ~ (politics)
insult / violence / worth & lack of worth: hygiene plan was (later) scuttled
scupper (verb) the ~ was (government)
destruction: boat / sea
scupper all chances
that might ~ of getting peace talks going again Scylla and Charybdis
scuppered the deal Scylla of blandness and the Charybdis of confrontation
that’s what ~ the last time like most shows of this ilk, it toggles between the ~
scupper the (current) recovery Scylla of negativity and the Charybdis of cheerleading
the Federal Reserve does not want to ~ how to steer between the ~ (literary criticism, etc.)
destruction: boat / sea / verb Scylla and Charybdis of Yiddish on the one hand
scuppered Hebrew, under threat from the ~ and European languages...
lexicographer’s Scylla and Charybdis
scuppered the dictionary steers a sound middle course between the ~
the deal was ~ (prescription vs. description)
efforts to pass the Law of the Sea Treaty are always ~
between “Scylla and Charybdis”
scuppered by Wenner their proposals are an unnecessary choice ~ (Greek crisis)
previous attempts at this book were ~ (a biography)
alternatives & choices: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey
destruction: boat / sea
danger: allusion / boat / Iliad & Odyssey / sea
scuttle (verb) sea (in a sea)
scuttled an agreement
in a sea of (armed) chaos
she headed off a dispute that nearly ~ (diplomacy)
Somaliland is an island of stability ~
scuttled her plans
in a (rising) sea of (moral) pollution
she ~ to become a teacher
they saw themselves as a small archipelago of decency ~
scuttled its economics program
in a sea of sexism
the university ~
we existed ~ (Poppy Northcutt of NASA)
scuttled the talks
in a sea of viruses
no side wishes to appear to have ~
we are swimming ~ (bacteria, viruses, etc.)
♦ “Indian unity by British rule will swiftly perish... The great ship is sinking
in the calm sea. Those who should have devoted their utmost efforts to in a sea of woes
keep her afloat have instead opened the sea-cocks.” (Winston Churchill
in a speech in 1946.)
a school flailing ~ (title of article)
♦ On November 27, 1942, the French scuttled the French fleet in Toulon environment: sea / water
as the Germans attempted to seize it. Three battleships, 7 cruisers, 15
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sea (environment) ♦ "Where had it come from? Had it rained down or sprung from within
the earth? Did the townsfolk of al-Hadra, al-Rawdha and the dozens of
other places behind the hills know that all this water was here? Why was
sea it here instead of in other places where people needed it? The rainwater
it is the ~ we all swim in (the Internet and regulation) and well water were sweet and drinkable, if at times a little brackish, but
how had the seawater become so salty and bitter that no one could
environment: sea / water possibly drink it? How long would it be here—where was it going?"
(Bedouins from the interior of the Arabian Peninsula seeing the sea for
sea (at sea) the first time. From Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif.)

amount: sea
at sea
policy makers are ~ sea (sea of sand, etc.)
direction: boat / sea sea of mud
sea (amount) everywhere is a ~ (after a tsunami)
sea of sand
sea of clouds
their way was blocked by an impassible ~ (desert)
I saw a ~ extending miles and miles (fire tower)
dune sea
sea of data
the great ~s called ergs in Arabic (Sahara)
the testing mandates had generated a ~ (education)
sand sea
sea of debt
the Eastern Erg, a ~ covering 120,000 square miles
a ~ threatens to drown the dreams of a generation
♦ A sea of sand (a desert), a Sahara of snow (Antarctica)...
sea of (unfamiliar) faces
resemblance: sea
all I saw was a ~
sea of humanity
sea legs
the pilgrims formed a ~ (Hajj) fame sea legs
sea of (rights) issues a 19-year-old man finding his ~ (Lil Nas X)
the turbulent ~ (copyright) experience: boat / walking, running & jumping
sea of merchandise equilibrium & stability: walking, runny & jumping
there's a ~ (department store) seal of approval
sea of people seal of approval
as far as I could see was a ~ (state funeral) he gave me that grin of his, and that was his ~
sea of pilgrims mob's seal of approval
a seemingly endless ~ (Hajj) a kiss on the cheek was the ~
sea of protestors sign, signal, symbol: royalty
a ~ were waving Socialist party flags (Albania) judgment / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: sign,
sea of red signal, symbol
the stands were a ~ (Seoul World Cup stadium) seam (burst at the seams)
seas of squalor bursting at the seams
islands of prosperity within great ~ (Bombay, etc.) a nearby campground is ~
sea of thoughts size: clothing & accessories
he says his mind is a muddled ~
seamless (adjective)
sea of unknowns
the oil spill has created a ~ seamless service
the company delivers ~ to its customers
sea of candles and flowers
a ~ (public memorial to terrorist victims) seamless teamwork
~ can be a potent weapon (epidemiology)
sea of (Japanese) flags and signs
the stands were a ~ (baseball) division & connection: cloth
flaws & lack of flaws: cloth
sea of (2,000 mostly) Hispanic students
this ~ (school) seamlessly
sea of red ink seamlessly
keep it from crashing in a ~ they work together ~

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division & connection: cloth searing (adjective)
search (for truth, cure, etc.) searing attack
search for answers he launched into a ~ on the Republicans (politics)
the ~ should start with… feeling, emotion & effect: fire / sensation
turning to a spiritual path in their ~
season (time)
search for a cure
the ~ for autism season of our life
in each ~, there are certain tasks which must be
search for evidence accomplished
the ~ of childhood abuse
seasons of our lives
search for fulfillment as the seasons turn, so do the ~ turn
their ~ goes unrewarded (quarterlifer crisis)
harvest season
search for identity he has a sense that this is his "~" (lifetime awards)
his adolescence was marked by a painful ~ (racial)
typhoon season
searching for a better life the ship had orders to sail as soon as the ~ had passed
they were all ~ (migrants to L.A. in 1904)
going through a season
search for thrills we are ~ right now but we will come out of it (hope of
the ~ can kill (Chilko River rafting disaster) change)
search for the truth development / time: season
in the unrelenting ~
seasoned (experienced)
search for safety and perfection
all the gear was overhauled ad altered in the restless ~ seasoned
I’m ~, I’ve seen a lot of things, but not like this (cop)
unrelenting search
in the ~ for the truth seasoned actor
she is a ~
spiritual search
he began a ~ that took him to… seasoned doctors
~ are likely to be resistant to coaching
searching & discovery: hunting
seasoned executive
search (digital strip search, etc.) the company needs a ~ with a proven track record
digital strip-searches seasoned investigator
critics are unhappy over ~ (cop requests for smartphones) he is a ~ who specializes in cleaning house (government)
~ of victims are unnecessary and violate victims’ rights
seasoned (tax) lawyers
searching & discovery: clothing & accessories
even ~ are confounded by the new rules
computer: clothing & accessories
seared seasoned observers
the speed of the Taliban takeover startled even ~ (2021)
seared into my consciousness seasoned professional
that period of time was ~ (divorce of her parents) she is a ~
seared in the Japanese consciousness seasoned (diplomatic) troubleshooter
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ~ he is a ~ (dispatched by president to Egypt)
seared into the national consciousness seasoned and sensible (m)
their names are ~ (names of World War I battles) he is a ~ traveler
seared in my mind young but seasoned
that's a moment that is ~ forever (disaster) he is ~ (city lobbyist at state capital)
seared in her memory ♦ Good firewood has gone through at least four seasons.
her rape is ~ experience: season
remain seared seat (front seat)
the images ~ in our collective memory (9/11)
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 I have had a ~ to many profound events seduced by the French Revolution
Byron, Heine, Goethe, Hegel and Beethoven were all ~
front seat to history
it’s such a privilege, you have a ~ (Cokie Roberts) seduced by the siren song
they've been ~ "college for everyone"
proximity: theater
attraction & repulsion / pursuit, capture & escape: love,
seat (front-row seat)
courtship & marriage / sex
front-row seat seductive (adjective)
as the weather gets weirder, we in Alaska have a ~
front-row seat to the revolution seductive spokesman
he is a ~ for a new brand of youthful defiance (Han Han)
he had a ~ (a journalist)
front-row seat to the tornado seductive theory
it's a ~
they had a ~ (storm chasers)
had a front-row seat sounded seductive
the pitch has ~ (for an educational fad)
he ~ to her surprise loss (policy advisor to Clinton in 2016)
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / sex
proximity: theater
seat (in the driver’s seat) see (a date can see something, etc.)
in the driver’s seat saw over 250 climbers
he continues to be ~ going forward (politician) 23 May ~ try to summit (Mount Everest)
the smaller parties are ~ (German election) fictive meeting & seeing: eye / verb
he is ~ in terms of the conversation going forward (politics)
see (fictive)
firmly in the driver’s seat
hip-hop and streetwear are ~ (fashion industry) seen
this is some of the hottest air we have ~ in half a decade
puts you in the driver’s seat
a good credit score ~ see from him
control & lack of control / driving force: engine what do you want to ~ (what do you want him to do)

seatbelt (fasten your seatbelt / ironic) seeing a reverse brain drain

the US is ~ as foreign students go home
fasten you seatbelts
firebrand comes from—~—fire and brand (a stick) see fees
consumers ~ everywhere (phone, credit cards, hotels)
readiness & preparedness: mechanism
see more responsible government
second-class (adjective) we are beginning to ~ (Indonesia)

second-class citizen seen an increase

comedy has always been a ~ (in films, versus drama) the library has ~ in attendance at spoken-word events
hierarchy / superiority & inferiority: ticket seen (angry) protests
Bolivia has ~ by the country's indigenous majority
seduce (verb)
seen the return
seduce patrons (of the arts) into parting the west has ~ of the wolf (US / relocation programs)
he hoped to ~ with some money (backers' audition)
seen a series
seduce Hollywood the last few years have ~ of political upheavals (England)
the film has gone on to ~ since being unveiled at Cannes
seen a 100 degree temperature
pursuit, capture & escape: love, courtship & marriage / sex
New York City has not ~ in seven years
/ verb
seen (a series of political) upheavals
seduced the last few years have ~ (England)
seduced by him saw Basques ambush
authors were often ~ at first but then became disenchanted the battle ~ a part of Charlemagne’s army
seduced by Hollywood saw the Scandinavians eliminated
some novelists, like Fitzgerald, are ~
her goal ~ by the same team that...

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fictive meeting & seeing: eye / verb ♦ “I’m just seeing a small piece of this elephant.” (A reporter reporting on
extensive wildfires on the west coast.)
see (visit / meet) experience: eye / verb
sees him (maybe) once a month see (comprehension)
his biological father ~
see
see a doctor you'll ~…
he had to pay $95 to ~ (immigrant)
I ~ (understand)
I advise you to ~
see your point
saw a neurologist I ~ and it’s a good one
she ~, who diagnosed traumatic brain injury with…
see for yourself
see the (patient's) nurse you'll ~ how you can save (ad for store)
please ~ to obtain a mask (hospital)
see the potential
see you around don't you ~ for disaster here
I'll ~
comprehension & incomprehension: eye / verb
came to see
thousands ~ Willy Nelson (concert) see (white people don’t see you, etc.)
advise you to see see you
I ~ a doctor I ~ (acknowledge you, your existence, etc.)
place to see see Black people
the mall, for many teens, is a ~ and be seen white people don’t ~, they look past them (Katori Hall)
social interaction: eye / verb ♦ “And for readers like me, who can relate to the experience of being a
non-binary gestational parent, who are so used to being erased and
see (refer to) invisible from conversations around families and parenting, the book
looks us dead in the eye and says, unflinchingly: I see you. I am you.”
(“Labeled ‘Mother’ When Not A Mother At All: On Being A Non-Binary
see www.nim.nih.gov / research Gestational Parent” by Britni De La Cretaz, NPR, Review, June 15, 2021.
a draft version is available, ~ Britni de la Creatz is a “freelance writer whose work sits at the
intersection of sports, gender, culture, and queerness,” according to their
See Instructions Website, which is not secure. They describe themselves as an older
millennial. See “The woman who refused to have sex...” by Erica
~ (product) Tempesta for Dailymail, 10 December 2015.)
reference: eye / verb ♦ “To all trans people who deal with harassment, self-loathing, abuse and
the threat of violence every day: I see you. I love you and I will do
see (see action, etc.) everything I can to change this world for the better.” (“Oscar Nominee
Elliot Page Announces He Is Transgender” by Dustin Jones, an intern on
NPR’s News Desk.)
saw action
she last ~ Jan. 8 against Arizona (basketball) ♦ “We’ve been silenced and misrepresented. And so, any time you get
an opportunity to tell your truth, you are pushing back against so many
lies and falsehoods...And being an artist and in demanding that the world
see combat just looks at you, you oddly are being an activist.” (Katori Hall.)
he never expected to ~ (young soldier)
♦ “How do I become something I don’t see?” From this simple question,
The Delta Project was born. The Delta Project exists to break the
saw combat generational cycle of incarceration by reconnecting youth of color and
the B-2 stealth bomber first ~ in the air war over Kosovo their families to community relationships through mentorship, coaching
and storytelling. Help young men see what they can become. Take
see the world action. the deltaproject.co/action. (A full-page advertisement for The
in his early 20's he set off to ~ Delta Project in The Atlantic magazine.)
I wanted to ~… ♦ “What was clear to him was invisible to others.” (A native tracker.)

see a great fight inclusion & exclusion: society

win or lose, you're going to ~ (with boxer Arturo Gatti)
see (see something coming)
expected to see
he never expected to ~ combat (young soldier) saw it coming
I never ~
a lot to see they never ~
there is quite ~ within the underwater caves here nobody ~ (boy arrested)
we were caught flatfooted, we never ~
set off to see
in his early 20's he ~ the world see it coming
♦ “We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.” (The he didn't ~ (heart attack)
tagline for a cute series of ads by Farmers Insurance.)
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 he didn’t ~ (the great Cam Newton) see themselves as the victims
♦ "Such a tragedy. They will think this was their victory so this will Shiites always ~ (said by a US diplomat / Iraq)
become an American war. And the end will be the same… except for the
numbers who will die before we get there." (Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An, on see themselves through this male gaze
the inability of the NLF to overrun Hal Moore's troops in the Ia Drang women are starting to ~ (as sex victims / TV and films)
Valley in 1965, from the 2002 film, "We Were Soldiers.")
♦ “Five members of the Communist Workers Party, participating in a see the world from a different perspective
‘Death to the Klan’ rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, were shot to people who ~ (autism)
death by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis.” (The Greensboro
massacre, 1979.)
see eye to eye
♦ Steve Irwin died from the barb of a stingray to his chest while filming a I don't ~ with my new boss
series called “Ocean’s Deadliest.”
♦ Shrek: My father was an ogre. He tried to eat me. I should have seen it sees fit
coming. he is determined to live as he ~ (a Native American)
♦ You don't play with snakes and not expect to get bitten.
see the best
future / time: eye / movement / verb ~ in others (wise advice)
consciousness & awareness: eye / movement / verb
development: eye / movement / direction / verb see nothing wrong
fate, fortune & chance: eye / movement / direction / verb many ~ with it
see (future) see choice
patients ~ as both a blessing and a burden
see
we’ll just have to ~ (what will happen) saw himself
but we don’t know what the court will do, we’ll ~ what mattered was how he ~ (identity)
when you think about your future, what do you ~
see us
see beyond the next election as others ~, five views of Britain from the rest of the world
many politicians can barely ~
see any hope
saw the future Palestinians don’t ~ in the plan
he ~ and he set out to build it (Jeff Bezos, Amazon)
see it
remains to be seen there's another world out there, you just can't ~
it ~ if he can weather the storm (a politician)
see warmth
he claims he will win, but that ~
the thermal-imaging camera can ~ through walls (cops)
it ~, and we just don’t know yet, it’s too early
future / time: eye / verb saw different things
people ~ (televised hearings)
see (perceive)
continue to see
see Tutsi as (foreign) interlopers we ~ strong job growth
many Congolese ~ (eastern Congo)
hard to see
see the collapse on the horizon progress may be slow and ~ (nursing / rehabilitation)
we can ~ (a resumption of ethnic strife) ♦ A STORY ABOUT PERCEPTION: An old man lived in a house. His
hobby was woodworking. One day a new family moved into the house
sees himself as an ambassador next to him. The family had a young boy, and the old man looked at him
through this window: the boy acted like a child, ran like a child, laughed
he ~ for his sport (Tito Ortiz) like a child. One day the old man went into his garage and discovered
that his hammer was missing. He looked out his window, and now the
see it as a (good) excuse boy acted like a thief, ran like a thief, laughed like a thief. A few months
some ~ not to go to the office (snowfall in London) later, the old man found his hammer in a place where he had put it,
absent-mindedly. He looked out his window, and saw the boy. And the
seen themselves as the gatekeepers boy acted like a child, ran like a child, laughed like a child.
book publishers have long ~ of literary culture
perception, perspective & point of view: eye / verb
see immigration as an (invisible) invasion see (see through something)
people ~ (Europe)
saw the Germans as liberators see (straight) through that confidence
many Siberian gulags ~ (W. W. II) I ~ (one boxer talking trash about another)

see themselves as members saw through the (spurious) claims

many Congolese Tutsi ~ of a vulnerable minority he ~ of a therapy called... (autism)

see boxing as a ticket seen through the spin

many Indian girls ~ to a middle-class life (India) I think people have ~ (of powerful sex abusers)

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see (right) through you seen (future)
I can ~ (to real motivations)
remains to be seen
consciousness & awareness: eye / verb
it ~ if he can weather the storm (a politician)
concealment & lack of concealment: eye / verb he claims he will win, but that ~
appearance & reality: eye / verb it ~, and we just don’t know yet, it’s too early
seed (noun) future / time: eye / verb
seeds of distrust seen (groups)
India's 21-day war with China in 1962 sowed ~
seen
seeds of doubt when we get older, we aren’t ~ (Lola Flash)
plant the ~
supported, seen and developed
seeds of rebellion programming that makes us feel ~ (minorities)
enforced potty sitting can sow the ~ (toddlers)
♦ “I wanted her to feel seen.” (A trans person waving a trans banner in
seeds of (sectarian) hatred support of a trans swimmer.)
the ~ had taken root ♦ “I would say up to the age of 25 or 26 we’re the it girls, right? And then
after you pass over this threshold of maybe 30, 35, you’re put out to
seeds of revolt pasture. When we get older, we aren’t seen.” (Lola Flash, who uses she /
her and they / them pronouns. From “Photographer Lola Flash is
Facebook helped to blow the ~ across the country honored for creating images that challenge invisibility,” NPR, All Things
Considered, December 14, 2021. Told by Allyson McCabe.)
seeds of revolution
♦ “Everybody is desperate to tell you who they are, to be seen. Which is
Nasser wanted to plant the ~ on the Arabian Peninsula sadly or not a reality of our species. We are all desperate to be seen or
to be heard.” (The Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, talking with
seed for that (momentous) law Terry Gross of Fresh Air about his film Nightmare Alley.)
the ~ was planted about 40 years earlier (Title IX) ♦ “Everyone deserves to be seen as they truly are.” (A Superbowl
advertisement for Google’s Real Tone software, included on its Pixel 6
seeds for (future) unrest phones, with Lizzo singing a new song.)
they have planted the ~ (military hangs on to power)
inclusion & exclusion: society
plant the seeds
the British helped to ~ of discord in Afghanistan
seep (verb)
planted the seeds seeps into (neighboring) countries
he ~ that gave principals more autonomy (education) heroin ~ and then into Russia (from Afghanistan)

sowing the seeds seeped into mainstream thinking

he could be ~ of a new disaster (price controls) it ~

sow the seeds movement: water / verb

enforced potty sitting can ~ of rebellion (toddlers) seer (person)
♦ "He planted the seed, and I'm just one of the apples that fell from the
tree." (Tribute paid by a black rodeo rider to a pioneer in his sport.) play the seer
♦ You don't harvest grapes from planting thorns. (An Arab proverb.) the temptation to ~ is strong (journalism)
♦ “He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” person: magic / religion
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant future / message / time: eye / magic / person / religion
creation & transformation: farming & agriculture / plant seesaw (noun)
seed money
seesaw of emotions
seed money thus began, for him, a violent ~ toward Kevin
the government loans will be ~ (to new businesses)
seesaw battle
provided seed money they are locked in a ~ for the strategic city
tech tycoons ~ (for an AI startup)
see-saw classic
growth & development: farming & agriculture / money / they produced a ~ (Champions League soccer)
plant
see-saw (economic) recovery
seen (perceived) the ~

seen as modern-day people legal seesaw

we aren’t ~ at all (a Native American) the ~ was part of a protracted battle (environment)

perception, perspective & point of view: eye movement: direction / sports & games

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development: direction / movement / sports & games he was seized by a ~ of lurking danger
seethe (verb) fictive possession / possession: hand / verb
taking & removing: hand / verb
seething with anger
protestors are ~ (against the US) seized (by an emotion)
feeling, emotion & effect / initiation: heating water / seized by a (gut) feeling
temperature / verb / water he was ~ of lurking danger
seismic (adjective) feeling, emotion & effect: hand
fictive possession / possession: hand
seismic taking & removing: hand
the impact would be ~ (educational reform)
self (authentic self, etc.)
seismic change
the results are a ~ for Irish politics (nationalists win) authentic self
bring your ~, you’ll be seen heard, valued, loved (gay)
seismic impact to finally love who I am enough to pursue my ~
this will have a ~ in the world of athletics (doping bans) she’s not really sure how to harness her full, ~
Kim experiences what life is like as his ~ (a boy)
seismic news
this is ~ in the world of sports business (Nike change) authentic selves
I want spaces in sport for trans athletes to be their ~
seismic shift
when kids are able to be their ~ (reactions to trans kids)
increased female enrollments portends a ~ (education)
we need a ~ in the way maternity care is provided my authentic self
to finally love who I am enough to pursue ~
seismic (life) shift
his ~ (from entertainment to farming) her full, authentic self
she’s not really sure how to harness ~
seismic win
Japan are praised for their ~ against Ireland (Rugby) his authentic self
Kim experiences what life is like as ~
constitutionally seismic
their relationship was ~ (Wallis Simpson and King) our true authentic selves
spaces where we can flourish and be ~ (a Black teen)
historic and seismic (m)
the coalition government marks a ~ shift (Britain) their authentic selves
amount & effect / extent & scope: earthquake I want spaces in sport for trans athletes to be ~

seismically your authentic self

bring your ~
shifted seismically
true self
power has ~ (Liverpool vs. Manchester United)
Shangela reflects on embracing your ~ (drag queen)
amount & effect / extent & scope: earthquake
full, authentic self
seize (verb) be your ~

seized Dirac true, authentic self

this idea ~ (Paul Dirac / that math was beautiful) never be afraid or ashamed or have any fear to be your ~

seized hold true authentic selves

a militant consensus ~ of the Austrians (1914) spaces where we can flourish and be our ~ (a Black teen)

seized it do the sport (I love) as my authentic self

with the title within their grasp, Boston ~ (NBA / 1984) I can continue to ~ (a trans woman college swimmer)

seized me live as our authentic selves

the story really ~ (an author / camels in US) more LGBTQ folks can come out and ~
♦ “I want spaces in sport for trans athletes to be their authentic selves
seize the moment and compete at the highest level, and know they are loved and that they
he has failed to ~ (a politician and economic problems) belong there.” (Chris Mosier, about transgender athletes at the Tokyo
Olympics.)
Congress must ~ to legalize... (Democratic politics)
♦ “This is a day that Minnesota says, ‘Bring your authentic self. You’ll be
seize the reins seen, heard, valued and loved in this state, and we want you to be
he will probably ~ (football player for a position) whoever you are.’ We see you, we hear you, and we will make sure you
are in a safe place to be who you are.” (Gov. Tim Walz.)

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♦ “Starting today, no matter how you identify, you can express your
authentic self on Tinder. We haven’t had the right tools to serve our seminal (adjective)
diverse community in the past but that changes today.” (A Tinder
announcement.) seminal album
♦ “Thank you for creating a safer space for current and future athletes to her ~ “Back to Black” (Amy Winehouse)
unequivocally be themselves.” (Nastia Liukin, thanking Simon Biles on
Instagram.) seminal (Silicon Valley) companies
♦ “Heather has a BS in Psychology and an MS in Criminal Forensic other ~ (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, etc.)
Studies. She aims to use her gifts, talents, experiences, education, and
authentic self to help others feel empowered to live as their authentic seminal moment
selves. She wants to normalize mental health struggles and addiction, the bikini’s ~ came in the Bond film, Dr No)
and let people know that they are not alone. There is help and support
just around the corner.”
~s in TV history and Black history (Bill Cosby)

inclusion & exclusion: society seminal one

it wasn’t just a striking effect, but a ~ (prosthetic makeup)
self-destructive (adjective)
seminal works
self-destructive behaviour ~ to go on show (sculptures by Henry Moore, etc.)
he is known for his ~ (celebrity)
creation & transformation / importance & significance:
self-destructive tendencies birth
his ~ have resurfaced
send (emotion or effect)
self-destructive habit
most addicts want to kick their ~ sent her into a tailspin
the news ~ (light sentence for her stalker)
behavior / character & personality: explosion / ruins
destruction: explosion / ruins sent a chill through the academic world
the sentences ~ (arrests)
sell (promote)
send a shiver through Congress
sell his (immigration) bill to the public the news will likely ~ (Senators sick from coronavirus)
a trip to ~ (President Bush)
sent a jolt of anxiety around the city
sells women an ideal the murder ~
the fashion industry also ~ of beauty (thinness)
sent (racial) tensions to a boiling point
sell yourself his death ~ (Amadou Diallo, shot by police)
you have to ~ (job interviewing)
sent shock waves through French politics
selling himself as a dealmaker the poll ~ (strength of right)
he’s ~ who can take on President Trump (Joe Biden)
♦ “This ‘active shooter’ BS is something that Mr. Binger is trying to sell sent shock waves through the American psyche
you people.” (The Kyle Rittenhouse case.) Tet ~ (Vietnam War)
♦ “If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.” (Con men, gullible
people and even New York monuments like the Brooklyn Bridge. Caveat
feeling, emotion & effect: movement / verb
emptor! Merriam-Webster dates that phrase to 1523 and defines it as,
“Let the buyer beware.”
send (transport)
♦ Psst! Hey, buddy. I can sell you a three-legged racehorse. Cheap!
send the Americans to the dustbin
message: money / verb the Afghans will ~ of history
attention, scrutiny & promotion: money / verb sent the game to penalties
sell out (verb) his 94th-minute scissor kick ~ (soccer)

selling out to big energy fictive transportation: verb

environmentalists say federal officials are ~ (drilling) send (transmit)
sold out for the money send (mixed) messages
he was a great actor, but he ~ (films) schools ~ about cheating
sold out his (progressive) ideals sent mixed signals
he has ~ his lawyer has ~ (about what his client might do)
sold out its members send the wrong message to kids
some say the union has ~ (contract) the ads ~ (that thin is good)
allegiance, support & betrayal: money / verb
send messages through their body language
resistance, opposition & defeat: money / verb people ~

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transmission: verb sermon (message)
send (cause to move) subject of his sermon
sent up a plume of dust the sinister power of TV is the ~ (the film Network)
a rockslide ~ message: Bible / religion / speech
sent up (huge) plumes of smoke servant (help)
the military air strikes ~
servants
send up toxic plumes
hold the church accountable for the actions of its ~
bombing chemical sites could ~
servants to us
sent streams of lava down the mountain
fossil fuels are enormous ~
the volcano ~
civil servants
sent sand and litter (high) into the air
54% of ~ come to work late (Saudi Arabia)
a monster dust devil ~
public servant
sent a wall of water downstream
he is a ~ in the Russian Forestry Service
the dam failure ~
help & assistance / work & duty: person
fictive transportation: verb
sensitive (feelings) servant (dominated)
servant of the Kremlin
so sensitive
he is a ~ and not the Ukrainian people (politics)
don’t be ~
character & personality: sensation servant of private power, wealth, and the corporations
he’s a very loyal ~ (politics)
character & personality: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
sensitive (adjective) servant to anyone
we are sovereign and independent and won’t be a ~
sensitive to their concerns
obedient servant
we must be ~ (diplomacy)
his intelligence was now merely the ~ of his emotions
sensitive issue ♦ “We will be your friend, not your slave.” (Imran Khan, the Prime
this is a ~ in Israel Minister of Pakistan, to the United States.)

feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves dominance & submission / superiority & inferiority: person
& bone serve up (verb)
sentence (life sentence) serves up anti-Obama rhetoric
permanent life sentence he ~ every night (a news host)
there can’t be a ~ on someone who does something wrong consumption / supplying: food & drink / verb
judgment / punishment & recrimination: justice set (skill set)
sentinel (noun) skill set (was perfect) for that show
sentinels of environmental quality his ~ (S.N.L.)
birds are ~ bring a skillset
sentinel disease women ~ (CIA)
she calls it a “~” in the era of climate change (CKDu) group, set & collection: tools & technology
warning: military / person setback (progress)
Serengeti (Serengeti of the North, etc.) setback
Serengeti of the North a ~ in their frustrating hunt for the sniper (D.C. area)
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is often referred to as setbacks
the ~ he has had some ~
biodiversity: epithet / place she knows her ~ will soon be in the rear-view mirror
handed (its first major) setback
the terrorist group was ~ when...

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crises and setbacks I ~ fence-building and brush-clearing
the heartbreak of constant medical ~
set out to take
progress & lack of progress: direction / movement / Mr. Marwa ~ revenge (on murderers of his relative)
journeys & trips
set out to terrorize
set off (initiate) extremists rejected these terms and ~... (Rwanda)

set off a domino effect set out to take revenge

this ~ (economic collapse) Mr. Marwa ~ (on murderers of his relative)
♦ see also embark (embark on something).
set off a (political) storm ♦ “I left Tangier, my birthplace, on Thursday, 2nd Rajab 725 [June 14,
her decision has ~ in the Netherlands 1325], being at that time twenty-two years of age [22 lunar years; 21 and
4 months by solar reckoning], with the intention of making the Pilgrimage
set off a firestorm to the Holy House [at Makkah] and the Tomb of the Prophet [at
he ~ of opposition when he… Madinah]. (The great traveler Ibn Battuta.)

set off a shoot-out starting, going, continuing & ending: journeys & trips /
the request ~ between the two camps movement / verb

set off a storm set piece (noun)

calls for an investigation ~ between the two countries
regular weekly media set-pieces
set off a (trade) war the ~ are no longer the must-watch sideshows (soccer club)
economic sanctions could ~
performance: theater
set off shock waves
he ~ with his statement
set sail (verb)
initiation: explosion / verb set sail on the seas
he ~ of his exciting career as a microbe hunter
set off (feeling and emotion) ♦ “We traveled very pleasantly all day; in fact nothing can be more
beautiful than the views of this immense river; sometimes as smooth as
set him off a mirror, at other times ruffled with a gentle breeze, but at all times
little things would ~ (a violent man) sweeping us along at the rate of six or seven miles per hour." (Mungo
Park on the Niger River.)
it sounds like that really ~ (anger)
♦ “Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.” (A Japanese saying.)
set the president off
that was the thing that ~ (upset him) starting, going, continuing & ending: boat / journeys & trips
/ verb
set off a wave of emotions
the resignations ~ from sadness to relief settle down (verb)
set off a wave of fury settle down
the nominee list ~ nobody knows when things will ~ again (shaken)

set off a wave of pride reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: equilibrium &
his success has ~ (Japanese ballplayer) stability / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / verb sever (verb)
set off (and set out) severed it from the world
the Suez Canal ~ (Mauritius)
set off on a wild rampage
dozens of teenage boys ~ (Central Park) division & connection: ax / blade / knife / verb

set out on this path sewn up

he ~ in 1997 by writing... (rehabilitated his career)
already sewn up
set out to build Scotland go into the game with a playoff spot ~
he saw the future and he ~ it (Jeff Bezos, Amazon)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: cloth
set out to film
they ~ the city's prostitutes (documentary / Calcutta)
sew together (verb)
set out to find sewn together a (Frankenstein’s) monster
when he ~ his biological father, he never imagined... Ducournau has ~ from so many disparate ideas
creation & transformation: cloth / verb
set out to master

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sew up (verb) syphilis is a major scourge ~ (public health)

sewn up the nomination operate in the shadows

spammers ~, relying on botnets (Russia)
he has effectively ~ (a politician)
sewn up the support returned from the shadows
the hactivist group Anonymous has ~
she has ~ she needs (politics)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: cloth / verb stepping out of the shadows
she is ~ to use her voice to fight hate (victim of crime)
sexy (adjective)
concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark / shadow
sexy shadow (cast a shadow)
the hypothesis was ~ (psychology)
cast a shadow
described as sexy his flaws ~ (Sinatra)
the iPhone was ~ (the early days of technology vs. now)
attraction & repulsion: love, courtship & marriage / sex
casts a shadow (of suspicion) over all priests
it ~ (sexual misconduct)
shackle (noun) cast a shadow over the Oscars
break the shackles the war ~ this year (Iraq)
we must ~ of an oppressed people's chains cast a shadow over the (New York) Police
constraint & lack of constraint: animal / crime the case ~
oppression: animal cast a shadow over our (foreign-policy) record
shade (throw shade) Rwanda ~

threw some shade at the channel cast a (dark) shadow

he congratulated his rival but also ~ (PewDiePie) the tragic accident ~ over US-Korean relations

throw shade at Florida cast a (long) shadow

people ~ (Florida Man meme) the conflict has ~ (Algerian War affects to this day)

throw shade at the biggest name feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / shadow
he seemed to ~ in hip-hop oppression: light & dark / shadow

accusation & criticism: light & dark / verb shadow (in / under the shadow)
shadow (concealment) in the shadow of the gun
they live ~ (Kashmiris)
in the shadows
killing, interrogating and bribing are done ~ (terrorism) in the shadow of terrorism
NSO was created ~ in 2010 many are revitalizing family ties ~ (US)

in the city’s shadows under the shadow of a boycott

an underground rock scene ~ (the Leningrad Rock Club) Algeria voted ~

from the shadows to the spotlight feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / shadow
survivors have moved ~ (sex abuse) oppression: light & dark / shadow

created in the shadows shadow (dark shadow, etc.)

NSO was ~ in 2010 dark shadow
drive them (further) into the shadows the ~ of the tyranny has been lifted (Obama / Libya)
the law will only ~ (illegal migrants) deadly shadow
draw the undocumented out of the shadows the mystique of pole vaulting includes a ~ (fatalities)
we need to ~ and into the sunlight of legal status horrible shadow
live in the shadows there has been this ~ over his legacy (child abuse)
many homeless men and women avoid shelters and ~ feeling, emotion & effect: light & dark / shadow
live life in the shadows oppression: light & dark / shadow
they ~ (CIA agents) shadow (attention)
lurking in the shadows shadow of the (previous) coach

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 he will never escape the ~ (basketball) shadow of what it used to be
in reality the Royal Navy is already a ~
brother's shadow
he was desperate to emerge from his ~ (Mike Quarry) pale shadow
it was a ~ of their mighty clashes (soccer tie)
in Moscow's shadow he has looked a very ~ of his former self (a soccer player)
a city that has always labored ~ (St. Petersburg)
attenuation: light & dark / shadow
in his shadow substance & lack of substance: light & dark / shadow
anything I do is completely eclipsed, I’m ~ (jealousy)
shadow (follow)
in the shadow of (such a) legend
was it hard growing up ~ (grandson of famous woman) shadow the politician
she asked to ~ on a 15-hour “ride-a-long” (reporter)
break out of his dad’s shadow
he is trying to ~ Conor Benn, boxer) proximity: light & dark / shadow / verb
escape the shadow shadow (shadow government, etc.)
he will never ~ of the previous coach (basketball)
shadow governors
emerge from his brother's shadow the rebels have named ~
he was desperate to ~ (boxer Mike Quarry)
shadow foreign secretary
labored in (Moscow's) shadow Labour’s ~ Emily Thornberry
a city that has always ~
shadow attorney general
step out of the long shadow the ~
Sarajevo is attempting to ~ of war
shadow foreign policy
attention, scrutiny & promotion / competition / superiority they view what he did as a kind of ~ (politics)
& inferiority: light & dark / shadow
Labour shadow
shadow (proximity) his ~ questioned why...
shadow repetition: light & dark / shadow
I'm supposed to be your ~ (follow you and watch you)
shadow (shadow boxing, etc.)
in the shadow of Mount Snowdon
she works as a hill farmer ~ shadow boxing
jumping rope, ~, hitting the heavy bag (boxers)
in the shadow of the Ural Mountains
substance & lack of substance: light & dark / shadow
Magnitogorsk was constructed ~ (1930s)
lives in its shadow
shadow (rain shadow, etc.)
the volcano shapes the lives of everyone who ~ rain shadow
proximity: light & dark / shadow the uplands leave the valley in a ~

shadow (beyond a shadow of a doubt, configuration: light & dark / shadow

etc.) shadowy
beyond any shadow of a doubt shadowy figure
I will convince you ~ (trial) he is a ~ whose intentions remain shrouded in mystery

without a shadow of a doubt shadowy (extremist) groups

they knew, ~, that he was guilty ~ have burned Internet cafes
certainty & uncertainty: light & dark / shadow shadowy (Internet) organization
the documents were released by a ~
shadow (devitalized)
shadowy world
shadow of himself his arrest provides a lens onto the ~ of computer hackers
he’s a ~, of his best times (a chess grandmaster)
shadowy Baluchistan Liberation Army
shadow of its former self the ~, born in the 1970's (Pakistan)
the company will be a ~
the group is a ~ (terrorists) concealment & lack of concealment: light & dark / shadow
the once proud newspaper is a ~ (cuts, etc.)

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shady (adjective) Shakespeare (“hillbilly Shakespeare,”
shady behavior
etc.)
they are guilty of some really ~ (a hospital) “hillbilly Shakespeare”
shady dealings the man who was called the ~ (Hank Williams)
~ made him a rich man superlative: books & reading / epithet
there were some ~ going on in the Ukraine (US politics) allusion: books & reading
shady (furniture-and-appliance-rental) service Shakespearean (adjective)
Rent-T-Own, just another ~ (its real product is debt)
♦ “It’s like an orphanage that also has a gruel business on the side.” Shakespearean in scope and grandeur
(Employer self-dealing with 401(k) options.) the Olympics will be ~ (drama, tragedy, comedy)
corruption / subterfuge: light & dark / shadow Shakespearean proportions
this is a tragedy of ~ (family murder)
shake (disrupt)
superlative: books & reading / epithet
shaken the university allusion: books & reading
the allegations have ~ comparison & contrast: affix
shakes people from their slumber shake up (verb)
I hope this film ~ (Spike Lee)
shook up the (immigration) debate
shook Hollywood and the country to its foundation the president ~ (President Trump)
the murders ~ (Charles Manson)
shook me up
disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb
his story ~ (a suicide)
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability / verb
disruption: equilibrium & stability / verb
shake (shake something off)
shake-up (noun)
shake it off
she’s now struggling to ~ (label of calculating) shakeup in leadership
it’s a step back, but we need to ~ and go again (soccer) what do you think the ~ indicates
resiliency: gesture / verb shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security
what do you think the ~ indicates
shake (remove)
sudden shake-up
shake her demons the ~ could signal instability in the regime
she couldn't ~ (singer dies of drug overdose)
disruption: equilibrium & stability
shake my depression
I couldn't ~ shaky (equilibrium)
shake off the mantle shaky bank
they want to ~ of tradition (artists) ~s, volatile markets…
shake off the sense shaky ground
I couldn't ~ of pessimism and failure I felt their relationship is on ~
dismissal, removal & resignation: movement / verb shaky relationship
they have a ~
shaken (feeling)
shaky science
shaken to my core the company’s claims rest on ~
I was ~ (by a perceived injustice)
shaky start
drained and shaken the spacewalk got off to a ~
I left feeling ~ (tour of Auschwitz)
shaky truce
left him shaken they have reached a ~ in their trade dispute
the violence ~
flaws & lack of flaws: equilibrium & stability
leave the movie shaken
you ~ (a film review) shallow (adjective)
feeling, emotion & effect: equilibrium & stability shallow analysis

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 this is a ~ of a complex problem identity & nature: animal
creation & transformation: hand / manufacturing
shallow book
it is a ~ from a shallow man shape (condition)
shallow goal financial shape
looking beautiful is a ~ airlines aren't in ~ to back a new industry (biofuels)
shallow roots fiscal shape
she has ~ in the state (a politician) we are in better ~ now (politics)
shallow questions in good shape
they are asking very ~ baseball is ~
uneducated & shallow condition & status: health & medicine
her detractors are ~
shape (verb)
extent & scope: depth / water
substance & lack of substance: depth / water shape a (desired) behavior
teachers can ~
Shangri-la
shape the future
my own Shangri-la a battle that could ~ of home cinema (standard)
I wanted to stay here, ~ among the hills, for always...
shape our lives
vision of Shangri-la the unseen influences that ~
the monastery appeared as the archetypal ~ (Bulgaria)
♦ The novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton was set in Tibet and published
shape the narrative
in 1933. Shangri-la was a fictional place in the Kunlun Mountains. TikTok has helped ~ of the election (2020)
♦ “The name Kyirong means ‘the village of happiness’ and it really shape public perception
deserves the name. I shall never cease thinking of this place with
yearning, and if I can choose where to pass the evening of my life, it will he wants his surrogates to ~ (politics)
be Kyirong. There I would build myself a house of red cedarwood and
have one of the rushing mountain streams running through my garden, in shaped Joe Biden
which every kind of fruit would grow...” (From Heinrich Harrer’s Seven the political mistakes and personal scars that ~
Years in Tibet, published in 1953. Though Harrer doesn’t explicitly
mention Shangri-la, for him it seemed to be Kyirong.) shaped its course
♦ “The scene was unforgettably dramatic. In the background was the the First Fleet weighed anchor and ~ for Tenerife
immense massif, scoured by three mighty glaciers... She had long
pigtails, and her hair was decorated with amulets made of yellowed shaped my life
amber; on her arms she wore bracelets of braided silver. I thought then I
had never seen anything quite so beautiful. There was distant it was incredible, it ~ (a Norwegian boarding school)
birdsong...and some of the yaks wore bells, which pealed slightly... Tiny
puffs of cloud lazed in the summer sunshine, their shadows briefly shaping prices
darkening the grassland. I wanted to stay here, my own Shangri-la it’s ECON 101, not the white House, that’s ~ (gas)
among the hills, for always. / But we had to cross the Chola hills...” (The
River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in shapes the lives
Chinese Time, by Simon Winchester, published in 1996. The last two
chapters are set in western China.)
the volcano ~ of everyone who lives in its shadow
♦ “[T]he monastery appeared as the archetypal vision of Shangri-la: a shape and manipulate
rhapsody of warm and sensuous colors, topped by domes, roofs, and a
medieval tower, clashing perfectly with the austere, sylvan tones of the
algorithms ~ (filter bubbles)
landscape. The sunlight shone through dark and towering pine trees as ♦ “We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.”
Nadia [whom he later describes as an attractive, intelligent woman] led (Winston Churchill, urging MPs to re-create the House of Commons—
me up the hillside. Bands of mist, which made me think of high ideals, which had been bombed in the war—as an exact replica.)
floated between the peaks. Everywhere I heard the sound of mountain
torrents.” (From Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by the great creation & transformation: hand / manufacturing / verb
travel writer, journalist and political analyst Robert D. Kaplan. He
experienced his vision of Shangri-la at the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria.) shaped
♦ see also heaven, paradise
shaped our world
allusion: books & reading firsthand accounts of events that ~ (BBC witness history)
superlative: epithet
shaped by coal
shape (form) the 19th century was ~
shape of her life shaped by oil
what people want from her has defined the ~ (Britney) the 20th century was ~
very different shape shaped by natural gas
harassment takes a ~, this can look like ... the 21st century may well be ~ (energy)

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creation & transformation: hand / manufacturing increase & decrease: blade / knife / verb
shard (The Shard, etc.) sharp-tongued
the Shard sharp-tongued
~ was designed by Renzo Piano (London building) she's a ~ woman
proper name: materials & substances / shape speech: blade / knife / tongue

shark (thrown to the sharks) shatter (emotions)

thrown to the sharks shattered (people's) hopes
Alberto has been ~ (unproven allegations of doping) they ~ of seeing their country become a democracy
allegiance, support & betrayal: animal / shark / verb shatter (the enemy's) nerve
shark (predation) the objective is to ~ (shock and violence)

loan shark shatter her self-esteem

see loan shark it will ~
feeling, emotion and effect: destruction / materials &
financial shark
he is a ~ who downsizes companies substances / verb

full of sharks shatter (destroy)

elite summer basketball is ~ (AAU coaches) shattered the (fragile) calm
attracts sharks the attack ~ that had descended on Tel Aviv
whenever money is being made illegally, it ~ (drugs) shatter our image
♦ "Back home I was a big fish in a small pond, but in Miami I'm just a it does kind of ~ of Taos (crimes)
minnow surrounded by sharks." (A model.)
♦ A GOOD JOKE. Question: Why didn’t the shark eat the lawyer? shattered stability
Answer: Professional courtesy! the country's first-ever coup in 1999 ~
behavior / person: animal / predation / shark shatter stereotypes
character & personality: animal / predation / shark Tunisia's liberal social policies ~ of the Arab world
affliction: animal / predation / shark / sign, signal, symbol
shattered the family's life
sharp (skills, etc.) her daughter's rape and death ~
sharp shatter everyday life
his skills are still ~ drugs and crime ~
condition & status / functioning: blade / knife destruction: materials & substances / verb
sharp (speech) shattered
sharp words shattered by the (Sept. 11) attacks
the officer exchanges ~ with a man that illusion was ~
speech: blade / knife confidence (in United) is shattered
sharpen (verb) his ~ (airline delays)

sharpen her concentration illusion was shattered

that ~ by the Sept. 11 attacks
the extreme pressure only seemed to ~ (Wimbledon)
destruction: materials & substances
sharpen our instincts
we must ~ for empathy shattering (adjective)
sharpen their knives confidence-shattering
Madrid’s media ~ (a soccer controversy) trying to overcome a ~ rookie year (basketball)
sharpen his skills ear-shattering
he took a kayaking clinic to ~ he heard an ~ noise
sharpen wit earth-shattering
the prospect of death can ~ the potential is ~
amelioration & renewal: blade / knife / verb destruction: materials & substances

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feeling, emotion & effect: destruction / materials & shelf life
substances
shave (removal) shelf life on coaches
the ~ has never been shorter (winning and losing)
shave billions off their taxes has shelf life
companies know how to ~ he ~, he will last (a philosopher)
dismissal, removal & resignation: blade / hair / verb ♦ “Rappers seem to have a short shelf life for some odd reason.”
(Message-board snark.)
shed (verb)
survival, persistence & endurance: death & life / food &
shed (36,000) jobs drink
the economy ~ last month
shell (substance)
shed the pound
those who are trying to ~ (dieting) shell
he came back a ~, like a ghost (soldier)
dismissal, removal & resignation: hair / verb
shell company
sheep (consciousness) ~s for the tax evader and money launderer
sheep substance & lack of substance: sea
most people are ~
shell (protection)
♦ She: And a lot of people had this question, Wait, are other people
going? / He: And the families have that kind of fear, what if I’m, you
know, if I look around, no one else came with me... So it’s a collective- thick shell
action problem, we all have to step forward at the same time... They you do have to have a very ~ as a boxer because...
would be able to act as a collective.” (The angst some parents suffer
trying to select the best public grade-school for their kids in New York underneath the (granite) shell
City and its environs. High schools have open houses to sign-up such ~ there was a sometimes unbearable sensitivity
parents.)

consciousness & awareness / behavior / unanimity & come out of his shell
she encouraged him to ~ during his teenage years
consensus / society: animal / sheep
sheep (predation) come out of my shell
I was a shy person who needed to ~ (got into boxing)
sheep came out of my shell
we won’t be ~, we’re going to be lions (self-defense) that’s when my life began and I ~ (gay leaves home)
prey on the sheep stayed inside my shell
there are a lot of wolves in here who will ~ prison) I ~ for the first two or three weeks (summer camp)
♦ “Death devours lambs as well as sheep.” (Infant mortality.)
protection & lack of protection: animal / sea / water
strength & weakness: animal / sheep / predation isolation & remoteness: animal / sea / water
destruction: animal / sheep / predation
shellshocked
shelf (Sahul Shelf, etc.)
shellshocked
Sahul Shelf I was so ~, I left the building by the wrong exit (interview)
the ~, that shallow ledge of ocean floor
shell-shocked Barca side
Sunda Shelf a ~ was unable to fashion any serious response
the islands of the ~
looked shellshocked
proper name: house / shape he ~ in court (a celebrity who was arrested for rape)
geography: proper name Liverpool players ~ after that loss (to Newcastle United)
shelf (ice shelf, etc.) ♦ “This man took part in the Mons retreat, battle of the Marne, battle of
the Aisne, and the first and second battles of Ypres. He also fought at
ice shelf Hill 60, Neuve Chapelle, Loos and Armentieres... When I saw him nine
months later he was mute. Many attempts had been made to cure him.
they anchored to the floating ~ He had been strapped down in a chair for twenty minutes at a time, when
strong electricity was applied to his neck and throat; lighted cigarette
continental shelf ends had been applied to the tip of his tongue and ‘hot plates’ had been
the ~ dives down... placed at the back of his mouth. Hypnotism had been tried. But all these
methods proved to be unsuccessful in restoring his voice.”
shape: house (“DISORDERS OF SPEECH / Case A1—MUTISM / PRIVATE, 24
YEARS OF AGE. From Hysterical Disorders of Warfare by Lewis Ralph
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feeling, emotion & effect: explosion / military ability & lack of ability / help & assistance: mountains &
hills / person
shelter (verb)
shibboleth (noun)
sheltered the terrorist
Pakistan denied that it had ~ shibboleths
protection & lack of protection: place / verb these are not official regulations, they’re more ~

shelve (verb) shibboleth of political correctness

“everyone has rights” is a ~
shelved its mascot
the university has ~ shibboleth of old thinking
heavy tanks are seen as a ~ (the military)
shelved the plan
Beijing officials have ~ to redevelop the neighborhood shibboleth in American politics
it’s hard to think of any greater ~ (middle class)
dismissal, removal & resignation: books & reading / verb
educational shibboleth
shepherd (verb) "learning styles" has become an ~
shepherding the (main) bill through the Senate political shibboleth
he is ~ (US) the “right of return” has remained a ~ (Palestinians)
shepherded me through the medina liberal and conservative shibboleths
he ~ (Fez guide) empirical evidence vs ~ (voting patterns)
directing: animal / journeys & trips / sheep / verb shibboleths and cliches
sheriff (new sheriff in town) the ~ of conventional Washington punditry
shibboleth—a rule—
new sheriff in town
there is a ~ in the movie business, that...
this is more of a Biden thing, there’s a ~ (diplomacy)
control & lack of control: film myths and the shibboleths
the project breaks down the ~ surrounding the Irish famine
Sherlock Holmes
abandon another (long held republican) shibboleth
Sherlock Holmes he was ready to ~ (Northern Ireland)
I used to call her ~ (journalist Lyra McKee)
cling to the shibboleths
SHERLOC they ~ that have spelled disaster (South Africa)
~ will hunt for clues in Martian rocks
jab at the shibboleths
~ will work in tandem with WATSON, a camera (Mars)
he took a populist line to ~
♦ SHERLOC = Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman &
Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals. WATSON = Wide Angle took root as a shibboleth
Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering.
this early finding ~
♦ “‘How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.’ Sherlock
Holmes’ first words to Dr Watson in “A Study in Scarlet” are among the ♦ “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles
most famous introductory lines in literature...” (“The REAL Dr Watson: approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility
The Victorian army medic who was the inspiration for Sherlock’s trusty is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing.” (Quoted in “Forget What You
sidekick” by Annabel Venning, Daily Mail, Feb 1st 2012.) Know About Good Study Habits,” by Benedict Carey, The New York
Times, September 6, 2010.)
searching & discovery: allusion ♦ “There’s no evidence to support the conventional wisdom that kids can
allusion: books & reading be auditory or visual learners.” (“Think You’re An Auditory or Visual
Learner? Scientists Say It’s Unlikely,” by Patti Neighmond, NPR, Morning
Sherpa (noun) Edition, August 29, 2011.)
♦ “One of the biggest surprises from Dr. LeDoux’s work is that there may
‘Sherpa’ for a Supreme Court nominee be no such thing as the limbic system—a hypothetical construct of
what it’s like to be a ~ (NPR) pathways in the forebrain, which contains the hippocampus, amygdala
and a few other tiny structures that has been supposed to underlie
emotion and motivation.” (“Using Rats to Trace Anatomy of Fear, Biology
sobriety Sherpa of Emotion,” by Sandra Blakeslee, The New York Times, November 5,
he was my ~ (rehab) 1996.)
♦ “The brain loves peppermint!” (A North Carolina teacher-trainer and
Michael Pack and his Sherpa devotee of “brain-based, evidence-based” educational research,
she boasted that she was “very close to ~” encouraging teacher-trainees to hand out peppermint in class to promote
learning.)
serves as Trump’s G7 “Sherpa”
Larry Kudlow, who also ~ (NPR’s Bobby Allyn) idea: religion
♦ See “‘Adjusting Appropriately’ To Words That Hurt,” NPR, Opinion,
sanctioning, authority & nonconformity: allusion / religion
Language, August 8, 2018.)

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shield (on one’s shield) ♦ “Anonymity is often necessary as a shield for victims but opposing
counsel has used it as a sword to publicly humiliate our client.”
(Statement from a lawyer.)
go-out-on-his-shield kind of guy
he’s a ~ (the boxer Deontay Wilder) protection & lack of protection: military / weapon

go out on my shield shift (change)

I just wish my corner had let me ~ (a boxer / towel)
political shift
went out on his shield like a man there has been a big ~
Amir Khan ~ (in his fight against “Canelo” Alvarez) position, policy & negotiation: position / movement
♦ “In Aristophanes’ comic play, Lysistrata, the women go on sex strike as
a way of ending the Peloponnese War. Do you think we would be as shifty (adjective)
warlike if women were in charge?” [Delighted laughter and clapping from
the audience.] / “It’s such a good question. My brief answer is no.
[Nervous laughter from audience.] You know, the Peloponnesian war, it
shifty character
was the Spartan mothers who said, ‘Come back bearing your shield or she's a ~, watch out
on it....’ I’m not sure that women are by nature kinder or gentler.”
(Margaret MacMillan, “War and Humanity,” the Reith Lectures, BBC.) behavior / character & personality / subterfuge: direction
commitment & determination: allusion / history / military shine (noun)
shield (verb) a little of the shine
~ had now been taken off his halo (a politician)
shielded your fellow citizens from danger
you have ~ (the military) flaws & lack of flaws: light & dark
protection & lack of protection: military / verb / weapon shining (superlative)
shield (noun) shining examples
these men stand as ~ of bravery
shield from the (sun's harmful) rays
ozone provides a protective ~ shining paragons
~ of American boyhood (scouts)
Europe’s shield
EU chief says Greece is ~ in migrant crisis superlative: light & dark
missile shield ship (ship of state, etc.)
the first step in deploying a ~
a global ~ won’t work ship of their research
they caulked up every seam in the ~
missile defense shield
U.S. testing of a ~ ship of state
the protestors wish to sink the ~
Desert Shield
the ~ buildup before the Persian Gulf War sink the ship of state
the protestors wish to ~
global (missile) shield
a ~ won't work steer and stabilize the ship
a government that can ~ through the economic crisis
human shield ♦ Longfellow’s “The Building of the Ship” is a terrific poem. Franklin
rebels used men, women and children as ~s Delano Roosevelt wrote out by hand the following lines from it in a
Saddam's loyalists are using Iraqi civilians as ~ message he sent to Winston Churchill, and Churchill used those same
lines in a speech broadcast to the English people: “Thou, too, sail on, O
his supporters have offered themselves up as ~s
Ship of State! / Sail on, O Union, strong and great! / Humanity with all its
fears, / With all the hopes of future years, / Is hanging breathless on thy
legal shield fate!”
Section 230 is a key ~ that protects tech platforms
bases: boat / epithet / government / sign, signal, symbol
protective shield
ozone provides a ~ from the sun's harmful rays ship (ship of the desert)
human and religious shields “ships of the desert”
the Iraqis have used ~ (Iraqi Freedom) many Australian farmers keep the country’s prolific ~
sword and shield transportation: boat / epithet
the “~” version of WWII (de Gaulle and Petain)
ship (tight ship, etc.)
testing of a (missile defense) shield
U.S. ~ run a (very) tight ship
we ~ (a company with many rules)

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steering the ship ship has sailed
some believe he was actually ~ (a vice-president) that ~ (no regrets now)
that ~, we’ve missed the window (to stop global warming)
control & lack of control: boat
ship has (long since) sailed
ship (abandon / jump ship) the civility ~ in American politics (2019)
abandon ship that ~ (that college sports are amateur)
it's time to ~ (a failing company) ♦ “Your dad loved her very much. If there was one other cat in this world
that could have loved her and treated her as well as your dad, then it
jumping ship was me. But, unfortunately, for yours truly, that train has sailed.” (Austin
Powers to Vanessa Kensington from the film Austin Powers:
a lot of investors are ~ International Man of Mystery.)
♦ “You must remember he believed, as any other man would have done
in his place, that the ship would go down at any moment...” (Lord Jim by timeliness & lack of timeliness: boat / movement / verb
Joseph Conrad. The Patna, of course, did not go down.)
ship (launched a thousand ships)
coming, arriving, staying, leaving & returning: boat
allegiance, support & betrayal: boat engender a thousand conversations
this acutely argued book will ~ (a blurb)
ship (sink the ship)
launched a thousand academic careers
sink the ship his book ~ and plenty of opaque jargon... (Orientalism)
the protestors wish to ~ of state
launched a thousand magazine covers
destruction: boat / verb the clean-cut matinee idol who ~ (Dirk Bogarde)
ship (a sinking ship) launched a thousand takes
the leak ~ (of a cache of nude celebrity photos)
leave a sinking ship
what a fool, he had a chance to ~ (sour soccer fan) launches 1,000 conspiracy theories
♦ “Indian unity by British rule will swiftly perish... The great ship is sinking it will be a snafu that ~ (2020 Iowa caucus results)
in the calm sea. Those who should have devoted their utmost efforts to
keep her afloat have instead opened the sea-cocks.” (Winston Churchill launched a thousand think pieces
in a speech in 1946.)
it was the song that ~ (I Kissed A Girl)
decline: boat / sea
launched a thousand jokes and memes
failure, accident & impedance: boat / sea this bipartisan hope that has ~ (infrastructure)
ship (right the ship, etc.) initiation: allusion / boat / Iliad & Odyssey
right the ship ship out (remove)
we’ll see if the company can ~ (financial problems)
ship him out
righted the ship they wanted to ~, and this was their opportunity (dismissal)
he ~ (a troubled government agency)
his polls were shaky, he was sagging, but he has ~ dismissal, removal & resignation: boat / verb
right our (fiscal) ship shipwreck (noun)
we must ~ (budget)
shipwreck of my conscience
steady the ship I would not make a ~ (Paulet, 1587)
even Messi was unable to ~ (loss to Liverpool)
destruction: boat / crashes & collisions
steadied the ship failure, accident & impairment: boat / crashes & collisions
his performance more than ~ (politician at debate)
shirt (lose one’s shirt)
amelioration & renewal: boat / verb
equilibrium & stability: boat / verb lost their shirts
they ~ when the market crashed
ship (turn the ship, etc.)
failure, accident & impairment: clothing & accessories
turn the ship around
he is struggling to ~ (a soccer manager) shit (and bullshit)
reversal: boat / verb bullshit on Everest
it’s all ~ these days (Sir Edmund Hillary / 2003)
ship (ship has sailed, etc.) ♦ “a lot of casuals have been coming here lately just talking shit I can’t
wait for them to fuck off” (A boxing fan on reddit’s “post fight thread
boat has sailed Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk.” The opposite of “casual” fans
I think that ~ (that the US can dominate the Pacific) would be hardcore, knowledgeable fans.)

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worth & lack of worth: waste shock or horror or outrage or indignation
I could not show ~ (journalist witness to ethnic strife)
shiver (noun)
family's shock
send a shiver through Congress she recalls the ~ when her mother was arrested
the news will likely ~ (Congressmen get coronavirus)
culture shock
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / skin, muscle,
reverse culture shock can worse than the classic ~
nerves & bone
sticker shock
shoal (noun) bracing themselves for ~ (laptop-computer prices)
shoals of theology and cosmology absolute shock
Lyell had tried to avoid the ~ (Principles of Geology) this is an ~ (death of a young athlete)
foundering on the shoals quite a shock
he finds himself ~ of issues around race (a politician) it was ~ (mine disaster)
run aground on the shoals look of shock
the promises have ~ of changing sex ratios I saw the ~ in his face
failure, accident & impairment: boat / sea state of shock
danger / destruction / obstacles & impedance: boat / sea we were all in a complete ~ (athlete's sudden death)
shock (verb) anger and shock
the ~ (to yet another terrorist bombing)
shocked the world
Ireland ~ by announcing… (dispute with Vatican) surprise and shock
training can lessen the ~ of combat
shocks and terrifies
violence ~ even the best-trained troops (combat) shock (of prison) wears off
after the ~
offend, shock or disturb
those that ~ the majority (freedom of expression) lessen the (surprise and) shock
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force / verb training can ~ of combat

shock (in shock) come as a shock

I know this may ~ to you...
still in shock it may ~ to people…
he was ~ but relieved… (survivor of porch collapse)
reeling from the shock
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force / health & the staff is still ~ of the shootings
medicine feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force
shock (feeling) shocked (adjective)
shock shocked
9/11 was a ~ that should not have come as a surprise not one of the students in the group looked ~
shock of combat shocked that
training can lessen the surprise and ~ people are ~ this is so close to home
shock of losing they're kind of ~ her parents are white, and she's not
the ~ his dad, there was so much anger (a young man) he said that he is ~ a killing could take place there

shock of prison shocked to see

after the ~ wears off he was ~ so many dead or wounded (combat)

shock for me shocked at her appearance

it was a ~ and everyone else they were ~ (eating disorder)

shock for the (previously unbeaten) team shocked at the prices

it was a ~ they may be ~ (rent for assisted living)

shock radio shocked at what

for those who enjoy ~ they are ~ is now happening

shock and delight shocked when

the winners' ~ (MacArthur Award) Iraqi commanders were ~ they discovered…

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shocked by the attacks feeling, emotion & effect: electricity
Australians were ~ (bombing on Bali)
shocking (feeling, emotion and effect)
shocked by the decision
he was ~ not to renew his contract (job) shocking
the mismanagement and incompetence is ~
shocked by the (gorilla) killings the firing was surprising but not ~ (Notre Dame coach)
conservationists were ~ (DR Congo / Virunga)
shocking crime
shocked by the news it was a ~ (a murder)
they were ~ (favorite restaurant closed)
shocking defeat
shocked by the number they talked about his ~ of Lewis (boxing)
she was ~ of Muslims having surgery to…
shocking news
shocked by these revelations the ~ is…
I was ~ (in the press)
shocking scenes
shocked by the (death) toll ~ of dead or terrified children (Chechen terrorism)
people were ~ (climbing disaster)
shocking story
shocked by the verdict he related a ~
I'm ~ (jury lets businessman off)
shocking upset
shocked by the viciousness at the conclusion of the ~ (football)
police were ~ of the attack (hate crime)
shocking and inflammatory (m)
shocked silence desecration of the Koran is a ~ act
through it all she sat in ~
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force
shocked and appalled
we are ~ by this news (plans to shoot tigers)
shock wave
shocked and baffled shockwave of trauma
the rap word was ~ by the murder (Jam Master Jay) this decision has caused a ~ across the church (Methodists)

shocked and bewildered (m) send shock waves through the market
the ~ passengers (train crash) such a drastic step would ~

shocked, embarrassed and disgusted sent shock waves through French politics
residents are ~ (town government) the poll ~ (strength of right)

shocked and grief-stricken sent shock waves through the American psyche
~ relatives of the victims gathered (bus-truck crash) Tet ~ (Vietnam War)

shocked and outraged sent shockwaves through the skiing world

I was ~ his death ~ (Doug Coombs)
the arrests have ~ (blood doping)
shocked, upset, fearful and angry
the community is ~ (hate crime) sent shockwaves through the sport
their bans ~ (sports doping)
completely shocked
I was just completely shocked sent shock waves around the globe
the dramatic plunge of the Web site ~
definitely shocked
when I found out, I was ~ sent shock waves rippling
the discovery of sperm whales ~ through Nantucket
genuinely shocked
I was ~ set off shock waves with his statement
he ~
a little shocked ♦ “There is no dearth of prose describing the mass of humanity that
he looked ~ that I wasn't ready to go out made its way to the feet of the Great Emancipator that day; no metaphor
that has slipped through the cracks waiting to be discovered, dusted off,
feeling, emotion & effect: electricity / force and injected into the discourse a half century on. The March on
Washington has been compared to a tsunami, a shock wave, a wall, a
shocker (noun) living monument, a human mosaic, an outright miracle. / It was all of
those things...” (Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that
Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones.)
honeymoon shocker
couples who encounter the "~" (a snoring spouse) feeling, emotion & effect: earthquake / explosion

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effect: earthquake / explosion shoestring (noun)
shoe (a shoe can drop or fall) shoestring budget
next shoe NASA supports the ~ to find NEOs
what’s the ~ to drop, what happens next shoestring ($1 million) budget
the other shoe its ~ (a film)
people wait for the other ~ to drop (occupation) money / sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: clothing &
shoe has fallen accessories
now that the ~, where will he go (fired) shoot (plant)
waited for the other shoe
shoots of ballet activity
his colleagues ~ to drop (investigation)
she helped the new ~ that developed (Karsavina)
fate, fortune & chance: clothing & accessories / verb ♦ The term “green shoots” has become trendy lately. See green shoots.

shoe (in somebody's shoes) creation & transformation: plant

growth & development: plant
in her shoes
I'm gay, I've been ~ shoot (speech)
in their shoes shoot first
I should be clear that as a journalist I was not ~ he tends to ~ and aim second (a politician)
put yourself in his shoes shoot from the hip
~ (see it from that person's point of view) people who ~, who tell it like it is...
put yourself in the other person’s shoes speech: weapon / verb
~, you might be more sympathetic
shoot (shoot back)
walking in somebody else’s shoes
I can’t say I’m ~, but I’m not oblivious to it (race) shot back
he ~, "Of course it's easier…" (to criticism)
♦ “I’d like people to put themselves in my shoes and think what it’s like to
get threats to my family.” (Spain striker Alvaro Morata about fan abuse speech: weapon / verb
during Euro 2020.)

empathy & lack of empathy: clothing & accessories shoot (shoot first)
perception, perspective & point of view: clothing & shoot first and ask questions later
accessories investors are likely to ~ (stocks fall on fears)
shoe (big shoes) action, inaction & delay / initiation: verb / weapon
big shoes shoot (shoot oneself in the foot)
those were definitely some ~ that I had to fill...
shot himself in the foot
superiority & inferiority: clothing & accessories / size
he has ~ again (Colin Kaepernick)
shoe (the shoe is on the other foot) shot themselves in both feet
shoe’s on the other foot CNN ~ with this crazy rule and enforcement (a scandal)
what might happen to you if the ~ failure, accident & impairment: foot / verb / weapon
reversal: clothing & accessories shoot down (verb)
shoe (a stone in the shoe) shoot me down
stone in our shoe I do feel like, ~ here if you think it’s necessary (argument)
Ecuador’s president has described him as a ~ (Assange) destruction: plane / speech / verb / weapon
stone in Nato’s shoe shoot-out (noun)
Turkey is fast becoming a ~ (over Libya)
shoot-out between the two camps
affliction: clothing & accessories / sensation
the request set off a ~ (privacy vs. right to know)
feeling, emotion & effect: clothing & accessories /
sensation conflict: weapon

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shoot up (verb) he has ~ (billionaire politician and advertising)
failure, accident & impairment: electricity / verb
shot up
disruption: electricity / verb
the price of gas has ~
the price of food has ~ shortcut (verb)
the price of helium has ~
after that, his stock in the village ~ (with Balinese people) shortcut it
it’s a long process, and we can never ~
increase & decrease: direction / number / verb / weapon
difficulty, easiness & effort: distance / movement /
shore (far shore) journeys & trips / verb
left stranded on the far shore shortcut (noun)
his system of critical judgment was ~
shortcut to success
society: ground, terrain & land / island / sea
athletes who take a ~ (doping)
division & connection: ground, terrain & land / island / sea
safety shortcut
shore (resemblance) ~s led to the oil spill
shore magical shortcut
Sahel is the Arabic word for "~" joining the military should not be a ~ to hero status
shore of the Sahara Desert difficulty, easiness & effort: distance / movement /
the Sahel is the ~ journeys & trips
shore of the salt pan shorthand (noun)
after reaching the further ~ (Ntetwe in Botswana)
shorthand for a person
Sahara's southern shore
calling someone a Karen has become ~ who...
the Sahel is a band of dry grassland, the ~
resemblance: sea shorthand term
the ~ ‘illegals’ is an insult
shored up
political shorthand
shored up by dubious data one word that pops up often in ~ is “reform”
her books are ~ (Naomi Wolf)
take that shorthand away
amelioration & renewal / strength & weakness: I don’t want to ~ from them (terms and memes)
infrastructure / mining analysis, interpretation & explanation: sign, signal, symbol /
shore up (verb) writing & spelling

shore up their (criminal) case shortsighted

the police are working to ~
shortsighted to treat
shore up her confidence it is ~ addicts as criminals
a victory would ~ (athlete)
shortsighted in the extreme
amelioration & renewal / strength & weakness: this policy is ~ (self-interest vs. collective good)
infrastructure / mining / verb
shortsighted and dangerous
short (a short time, etc.) it would be both ~ to allow…

short time later criticized it as shortsighted

he arrived a ~ they ~ (a policy)

time: distance future / perception, perspective & point of view: eye

short-circuit (verb) shot (nerves are shot, etc.)

short-circuit our expectations shot
she knows how to ~ (a writer) her nerves are ~, she has no confidence (Wimbledon)
short-circuited the process failure, accident & impairment / feeling, emotion & effect:
he ~ skin, muscle, nerves & bone

short-circuited the (traditional campaign) route

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shot (shot in the arm, etc.) at least give it ~ (try)

shot of adrenaline on track for a shot

a win would keep him ~ at the title (boxer)
his writing is a ~ that awakens us from our apathy
shot in the arm give him a shot
hopefully somebody will ~ (an athlete)
it's a ~ (the encouragement of a research prize)
shot in the arm for the local economy got a shot
she finally ~ on the Tonight Show
this is a ~ (a basketball tournament)
shot in the arm for the MacBook lineup taken a shot
at least 7 expeditions had ~ at Gasherbrum IV
its own chip has been a ~ (Apple Silicon)
real shot in the arm cost the climbers a shot
helping the other group ~ at the summit
this victory is a ~ (union victory)
attempt: weapon
gave the industry a shot in the arm
Disney’s Matterhorn Bobsled Ride ~ in 1959 shot (chance)
♦ To inject new life / fresh blood can be similar.
one-in-a-million shot
♦ “Citizens of vaccination nation, all those shots in the arm, gave a shot
in the arm to the box office this weekend...” (Chris Connelly promoting 400 times a day, a ~ will occur (probability)
filmgoing for ABC. The is a good example of recontextualization of an
old cliché in the age of COVID.) fate, fortune & chance: target / weapon

feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine shot (shot in the dark)
amelioration & renewal: health & medicine
shot in the dark
shot (attempt) deciding which MS drug is something of a ~
♦ “Sometimes a shot in the dark hits its mark.” (A murder investigation.)
shot at advancement
♦ A former California State prosecutor, speaking about a legal takedown,
his son has a better ~ than he faced as a young man said, “This case was a huge stab in the right direction.” (Step in the right
direction? Stab or shot in the dark? Is this an “eggcorn”?)
shot at the job
I thought I had a ~ (job interview) fate, fortune & chance: target / weapon
shot at the peak shot (criticism)
this was their last ~ (mountaineering)
taking shots at him
shot at the summit everyone is ~ (criticism)
helping the other group cost the climbers a ~
accusation & criticism / speech: weapon
shot at the title
a win would keep him on track for a ~ (boxer) shot (shot across the bow, etc.)
shot at the (world) championship shot over the bow
a ~ (boxing) it was a ~ (penalty against Facebook)

shot in Orlando shot across the bow for cruise lines

he knew he had a ~ (to win, at a championship) the incident was a ~ returning to sea (2 Covid cases)

title shot fired a shot across the bow

give Tyson a ~ (boxing) he also ~ (he praised, then criticized)

another shot accusation & criticism / conflict / speech / warning: boat /

Tyson might get ~ (to fight for championship) military / weapon

first shot shot (call the shots)

Tomaz got his ~ at the Himalayas in 1994
calls the shots
good shot he ~ (boss)
I thought I had a ~ at the job (interview)
calling its own shots
last shot North Korea is ~ and not taking orders from anybody
this was their ~ at the peak (mountaineering);
control & lack of control / directing: weapon / verb
a ~ to right a historical wrong (reparations)
one more shot

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shot (opening shot) heard round the world.” (“The Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo
Emerson.)
♦ On reaching Concord, the grenadiers executed the object in view by
opening shot of his campaign destroying the ordnance and stores... / The loss of the Provincials in this
the speech was the ~ (politics) affair, which they pompously styled ‘the battle of Lexington,’ was only
sixty men, two-thirds of whom were killed. / An officer who was engaged
conflict / development / sequence / speech: weapon wrote thus:-- / ‘The rebels fought like the savages of the country, and
treated some who had the misfortune to fall like savages, for they
shot (parting shot) scalped them and cut off their ears with the most unmanly brutality. This
has irritated the troops to a very high degree...’ / The return of the troops
parting shot to Boston, though they had fully accomplished the duty on which they
had been sent, was represented all over the continent as a defeat...”
as a ~, he said… (British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant.)
parting shot of (barely masked) bitterness allusion: books & reading
they left with a ~ (royals leave family) attention, scrutiny & promotion: allusion / military / sound /
conflict / development / sequence / speech: weapon weapon

shot (warning shot) shot down (and shot down in flames)

fired a warning shot shot down in flames
that theory was quickly ~
he ~ at his colleagues (about priorities)
the approach was ~ at his conference
conflict / development / warning / speech: military / its strategy has been ~ (a political party)
weapon
shot down in flames by the focus group
shot (best shot) their suggestions were ~

best shot got shot down

the guys have given it their ~ the idea this was terrorism ~
I have given it my ~ (spots event) got shot down in flames
gave it my best shot they ~ for criticizing the president (Dixie Chicks)
I ~ (tried as hard as I could) destruction: flying & falling / military / plane / weapon
attempt / difficulty, easiness & effort: weapon
shoulder (shoulder the burden, etc.)
shot (shot heard round the world)
shoulder the blame
cough heard round the world he must ~ for the loss (sports)
a ~ (the economic impact of the pandemic / The Economist)
shoulder the (financial) burden
hug heard round the world the government should ~
the ~ (BBC / Revisionist History / Malcolm Gladwell)
shoulder the cost
“scream” heard around the world BP must ~ of the cleanup (oil spill)
Howard Dean’s famous ~ (DEAN GOES NUTS)
shoulder the load
shot heard around the world the defense is not yet ready to ~ (sports)
the day he took the ~ (Paul Caligiuri / US soccer / 1989)
shoulder the responsibility
smack heard ‘round the world he must ~ now
it was the ~ (Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at Oscars) responsibility / work & duty: shoulder / verb / weight
tweet heard around the world shoulder (shoulder to the grindstone)
the ~ (crash of Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on Twitter)
♦ “Her husband leapt to the stage and gave the comedian a slap that put your shoulder to the grindstone
was heard around the world.” (Will Smith v. Chris Rock.) you've got to ~ (work harder)
♦ “It changed everything. Suddenly the world turned its attention because
we were the source of news—and it wasn’t us, it was this person in the work & duty: shoulder / weight
boat using the service, which is even more amazing.” (Jack Dorsey,
about the crash of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on Jan. shoulder (shrug one’s shoulders)
15, 2009. That person was Janis Krums, who tweeted about the incident
with a photo. His was the first report of what would become known as shrugging its shoulders
“The Miracle on the Hudson.”
even the Supreme Court is ~ and looking the other way
♦ “It really was like the shot that was heard around the world in terms of
hip-hop.” (Reggie Rock Bythewood about the murder of the Notorious action, inaction & delay: gesture / shoulder / verb
B.I.G.)
♦ “By the rude bridge that arched the flood, / Their flag to April’s breeze
unfurled, / Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot

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shoulder (stand shoulder to shoulder, standing on the shoulders of giants
I really feel as though I was ~ (an author)
etc.)
stand on the shoulders of those
standing shoulder to shoulder we all ~ before us (tweakers of innovation)
we must make sure we are ~ (US and Britain)
stand on their shoulders
allegiance, support & betrayal / unanimity & consensus: we are proud to ~
shoulder / standing, sitting & lying / verb
bases / superiority & inferiority: shoulder / verb
shoulder (a shoulder to cry on)
shoulder (mountain, etc.)
offered him a shoulder to cry on
she ~ lower shoulder
its ~ gives great views of Everest (Kala Patthar / Pumori)
empathy & lack of empathy: shoulder
resemblance: shoulder
shoulder (look over somebody's
shout (verb)
shoulder)
shooting from the rooftops
look over our shoulders he is ~, “Hey, Democrats, we have a problem”
the government should not be allowed to ~
♦ “[In the hill and mountain country of northern India]... inter-village
surveillance: shoulder communication is carried on by shouting. Standing on a commanding
point, maybe a big rock or the roof of a house, a man cooees to attract
shoulder (tapped on the shoulder, etc.) the attention of the people in a neighboring village, and when the cooee
is answered the message is shouted across in a high-pitched voice.
From village to village the message is tossed, and is broadcast
tapped on the shoulder throughout large areas in an incredibly short space of time.” (The cooee
people were promoted by getting ~ method of communication. From Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett.)

sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: shoulder attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound / verb
speech / warning: sound / verb
shoulder (oppression)
shout-out (noun)
shoulders
it's definitely a weight off my ~ shout-out to southeast Ohio
his ~ has inspired more than donations
oppression: shoulder / weight
attention, scrutiny & promotion: sound
shoulder (rub shoulders)
shove (noun)
rubbed shoulders with them
the magazine eagerly ~ (celebrities) shove in the back
the army delivered a very strong ~ when... (coup)
proximity: shoulder / verb
social interaction: proximity / shoulder / verb coercion & motivation / force: arm / gesture

shoulder (fall on the shoulders) show (the data show, etc.)

falls on the shoulders of regular Americans shows that
the tax burden still ~ (politics) history ~...

falls on the shoulders of BP data shows

that ~ (responsibility) new ~ that...
the city’s own ~ that Minneapolis police...
falls on the shoulders of those
the burden ~ least able to bear it (the poor) evidence shows
~ that officers both knocked and announced their presence
responsibility: shoulder / weight
evidence will show
shoulder (stand on somebody's the ~ that officers made 2 calls for emergency help
shoulders) it shows
stand on the shoulders of other artists ~ that they didn’t care (women got smaller weight room)
artists ~ pandemic shows
stand on the shoulders of giants the ~ that you can’t wait until the disaster hits to be ready
we ~ (achievement) poll shows
~ that more than half of Americans...

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 a recent NPR / IPSOS ~ that 29% of parents polled... show (steal the show)
report shows stole the show
the new ~ that an alarming number of...
Travis Pastrana ~ (X Games / motocross)
the ProPublica ~ that morale among...
she ~ at the MLS match (girl belts out national anthem)
research shows attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / verb
but ~ that number is dropping
showboat (verb)
shooting shows
the ~ that gun laws don’t work showboat
he likes to ~ (an athlete)
study shows
a new ~ that women in the U.S. military... ♦ A showboat was a river steamboat on which theatrical performances
were given. Show Boat was a very popular novel and musical.
analysis, interpretation & explanation / evidence / fictive ♦ “From 1919 to 1921. We used to play at the foot of Canal Street during
communication: picture / verb the winter and then we go up the river, all the way up to Davenport, Iowa
(EYE-oh-way). That’s where I first met Bix Beiderbecke. He was a little
show (nature, etc.) kid, he was coming up with the horn, he’s come on the boat... We used
to sit around and blow a little, that’s when I found out he could play that
piano—“In the Mist”—a lovely kid.” (“Louis Armstrong,” BBC, Desert
moving show Island Discs, 1968, with Roy Plomley.)
this ~, this shining and shifting spectacle (Bombay)
attention, scrutiny & promotion / behavior / character &
put on a show personality: boat / theater / verb
at night the stars ~ for free (Carole King)
the meteor shower could ~ starting... show business (performance)
performance: theater show business
it’s just ~, it’s sort of performance art (politics)
show (performance)
performance: theater
all (a) show
the meeting was ~, no substance showcase (verb)
just for show showcase your talents
for the most part the confrontations is ~ (a talk show) a good resume can ~

become a show attention, scrutiny & promotion: container / verb

bring your popcorn, this has ~ (congressional hearing) showcase (noun)
put on a show
showcase of (twisted) psychology
she doesn’t try to ~ (favorable reaction to a politician)
the trial has been a ~ (murder)
players ~ to get calls (soccer)
♦ A commentator talking about a senate hearing used the words stunt, attention, scrutiny & promotion: container
spectacle, and public show.
shower (verb)
performance / substance & lack of substance: theater
show (horror show) showered the two men with gifts
she ~
defensive horror show showered him with praise
they were aided by a ~ by the Hornets (soccer) they ~
resemblance: film amount & effect: rain / verb
show (the show must go on) throwing, putting & planting: rain / verb

show must go on shower (cold shower)

the ~ cold shower of power
starting, going, continuing & ending: theater then came the ~ (Obama faces problem of war)

show (the show is over) cold shower for Silicon Valley

these lackluster prices are kind of a ~ (stock prices)
show “Russia” was over
the ~, everyone was hurrying to get his hat (1917) cold shower for them
the match was very much a ~ (Leicester City loses)
♦ “The show “Russia” was over, everyone was hurrying to get his hat and
coat.” (Viktor Shklovsky, literary critic, on Russia in 1917.)
cold shower on Everton’s ambition
starting, going, continuing & ending: theater Carlo Ancelotti’s departure is a ~ of joining the elite

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give them (a bit of) a cold shower we have never seen a ~ from him (family of victim)
he has been forced to ~ (about investing in Iran)
shred of comfort or hope
♦ “She was plunged into a cold bath of Schadenfreude.” (A government
official who broke a rule.)
the film offers hardly a ~ (Network)

eagerness & reluctance: temperature / water amount: cloth

enthusiasm: temperature / water shrine (reverence)
feeling, emotion & effect: temperature / water
consciousness & awareness: temperature / water shrine to the Backstreet Boys
her bedroom is a poster-filled ~ (teen girl)
showered
shrine to NASCAR
showered with honors the new museum is a ~ (auto racing)
Wellington was ~
banana shrine
showered with (geographical) medals and awards Ann Lovell's house is a ~ (banana memorabilia)
he was ~ (Amundsen)
poster shrine
amount & effect: rain
he still had the ~ in his bedroom (of 3 actors)
showman (person) poster-filled shrine
whip-smart showman her bedroom is a ~ to the Backstreet Boys
he was a ~ who loved the media attention (defense lawyer) polar shrine
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater / person there she is, a national monument and ~ (the Fram)
♦ “When Jeremy Strong was a teen-ager, in suburban Massachusetts, he
show up (verb) had three posters thumbtacked to his bedroom wall: Daniel Day-Lewis in
‘My Left Foot,’ Al Pacino in ‘Dog Day Afternoon,’ and Dustin Hoffman in
show up ‘Rain Man...’” (The opening to the fascinating profile “The Straight Man”
by Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, December 13, 2021.)
the officials were supposed to testify but didn’t ~
waves don’t ~ for surfing contest enthusiasm / reverence: religion
showed up to donate shrink (downsize)
residents ~ blood
shrink its footprint
showed up in Mozambique as the US military begins to ~ in Afghanistan
TR4 ~ five years ago (banana fungus)
shrink our (leviathan) government
show up on weather radar he wants to shrink our ~ (a politician)
the swarm was big enough to ~ (grasshoppers)
shrink the military
show up for school he wants to ~ and reduce its footprint overseas
neighborhood crime makes it harder to ~
increase & decrease: size / verb
appearance & disappearance: prep, adv, adj, particle / verb
shrink (decline)
shrapnel (noun)
shrank
emotional shrapnel as Britain’s global influence ~ (after WWII)
the ~ scarred both children (divorce)
decline: size / verb
affliction / feeling, emotion & effect: weapon
shrinking violet (person)
shred (verb)
shrinking flower
shredding his (congressional) support Pasteur was no ~ (the great chemist)
he is ~ (politics)
shrinking violet
destruction: cloth / verb he is not a ~ who will wilt under pressure (a politician)
shred (shred of hope, etc.) ♦ Terms with similar meanings are teacup and snowflake. In the old
days, such people were compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy;
shred of evidence a wallflower. The modern update on that is orchid (versus a dandelion).
I was unable to find a ~ to show... character & personality: person / plant
shred of kindness person: plant
is there a ~ inside her that... shrivel (verb)
shred of (true) remorse shrivel (slowly) to irrelevance

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 the group could ~ action, inaction & delay: confronting, dealing with &
ignoring things: gesture / shoulder
decline: plant / size / verb
shroud (noun) shrug off (verb)
shroud of mystery shrug off
it's nothing that you can just ~ (responsibility)
a ~ surrounds him
cover: cloth shrugs off the media’s questions
he ~ with his good-natured grin (a politician)
shrouded (covered)
shrugged off his reputation
shrouded in clouds he ~ as a daring space explorer (Neil Armstrong)
the top of the mountain was ~ all day (Mount Hood)
shrugged it off
exhaust-shrouded he ~ (a setback)
we walked down ~ Fifth Avenue
Parton shrugged it (all) off
fog-shrouded ~ (criticism, accusations, memes, caricatures)
the helicopter crashed in the ~ Balsam Gap area
avoidance & separation: gesture / shoulder / verb
a passenger jet overshot a ~ runway, killing 42
shun (verb)
snow-shrouded
we walked through the ~ fields shunned computers
remained shrouded he ~ for years (a journalist)
she ~ in a flowing black abaya (Doha) shunned the spotlight
configuration / cover: cloth he ~ for the rest of his life (Neil Armstrong)

shrouded (concealment) shunned violence

the group has ~
shrouded in mystery
the details are ~ (an ancient Swazi rite)
shun the 21st century
they ~ (Mennonite colony in Bolivia)
the course of infection in chimps is ~ (SIV)
he is a shadowy figure whose intentions remain ~ acceptance & rejection: society / verb
Lewis' death was ~ (Lewis and Clark expedition)
the exact origins of the film are ~ (controversy) shunned
the whole Liston story is so ~ (death of the boxer)
its mission has been ~ (X-37B space plane) shunned (by executives) for being (openly) gay
he was ~
shrouded in secrecy
its work is ~ (Saudi Dept. of General Statistics) shunned by the world
this left the review process ~ (virus research) he felt ~
acceptance & rejection: society
shrouded in myths and mystery
the origin of the Maasai is ~ shut down (verb)
shrouded from public view shut them down
inmates’ lives are largely a mystery, since prison life is ~ we have to spot them and ~ (Nazi websites)
concealment & lack of concealment: cloth curtailment: mechanism / verb
shrug (gesture) shut off (verb)
shoulder shrug shut off the comments
he has kind of a ~ towards that (politician about spying) everyone has appealed to the Harold Sun to ~ (AFLW)
it was a big ~ because it doesn’t help us any (murder)
shut off the spigot
shrugs and eye rolls they are trying to ~ of Russian boar (invasive species)
the framework was largely met with ~ (virus research)
shut off the (gushing federal) spigot
give an exhausted shrug many voters don’t want to ~
better to ~ at the noise of the Internet and move on
curtailment: mechanism / verb
responded with shrugs
Wall Street luminaries have mostly ~ and dismissals

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shut out (verb) politicians have ~ (taxes)

shut out Huawei shied away from it

for years I ~, now I’m leaning completely into it
U.S. makes another move to ~
shut out poor kids shy away from these priorities
this is not the time to ~ (politics and the budget)
elite colleges ~
avoidance & separation: horse / verb
access & lack of access: doors & thresholds / verb
confronting, dealing with & ignoring things: horse / verb
acceptance & rejection: doors & thresholds / verb
shut out (adjective) Siamese twins
shut out Siamese twins
medicine and botany had become ~, neither could advance
many writers have been ~ (publishing)
without the other...
shut out of the system ♦ The great Saudi pediatric surgeon Dr. Abdullah al-Rabeeah and his
organizations like ours will be ~ teams have successfully separated a number of actual conjoined twins.
The world salutes him and his great patron, King Abdullah.
shut out from education relationship: family / health & medicine
the women are ~
Siberia (exile)
shut out from the industry
both artists and fans are ~ (country music) Siberia for Irish dissidents
feel shut out Australia was the official ~ (1790s onwards)
many Afghan women ~ of politics ♦ Crimean Tatars (to Kazakhstan as well as to the Western and Far
Eastern Arctic); Volga Germans (to Kazakhstan as well as to the
Northwestern Urals and Eastern Siberia by the Aldan River); Kalmyks (to
keep them shut out the Angara River west of Lake Baikal); Karachais (to Kazakhstan);
academic hurdles that ~ of higher education Meskhetians (to Uzbekistan); Chechen-Ingush (to the Irtysh River and
Kazakhstan)...(The Soviet deportation of nationalities 1941-1945, from
access & lack of access: doors & thresholds the Atlas of Russian History by Martin Gilbert.)
acceptance & rejection: doors & thresholds ♦ “The forest Evenk lived in bark-covered teepees, and rode reindeer
with bridle and saddle.”
shuttered (adjective)
dismissal, removal & resignation: society
shuttered acceptance & rejection: society
with 90% of the economy ~ (pandemic) isolation & remoteness / society: ground, terrain & land
curtailment: window sibling
shy (adjective) hideous sibling
education's ~: training...
shy of coming
others are ~ into Pakistan (versus China) rebellious and working class sibling
the “Oi!” sub-genre was mainstream punk’s more ~
shy about criticizing
Trump has never been ~ Omicron variant, and its siblings
the super-contagious ~, are the threat
eagerness & reluctance: love, courtship & marriage
relationship: family
shy (shy away)
Sicily (Mexico’s Sicily, etc.)
shied away from focusing
he has not ~ on abuses in Russia (a Russian journalist) Mexico’s Sicily
Sinaloa State is known as ~ (drug lords)
shy away from making
the Republicans will not ~ tough proposals comparison & contrast: epithet
shy away from speaking out sick (condition)
he did not ~ politically (a cleric)
sick
shy away from (difficult) decisions the bond market is ~
he does not ~ (a politician)
Sick Man
shy away from the fact our country is the ~ of Europe
we cannot ~ that...
sick computers
shied away from the issue she fixes ~ (tech worker)

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sick (auto) industry frankly, I am ~
increased new-car sales would help our ~
sick and tired of lean times
sick institution voters are ~
~s should be allowed to die (finance) feeling, emotion & effect: mental health
sick, failing or unsuccessful (m) sickle (shape)
we are not dealing with a ~ industry (oil leak)
condition & status: health & medicine sickle cell
he has ~ anemia
sick (disgusted) shape: blade / tools & technology
sick of lawyers sickness (noun)
America is ~ (terrorism)
sickness in society
sick of war
there is a ~ (gun violence)
Ugandans are ~ (Lord's Resistance Army)
affliction / corruption: health & medicine
sick of hearing
I'm ~ your complaints sickness (enthusiasm)
sick of airports and plane disease
I am ~ (security, poor service, etc.) it's a bit of a ~ (Jay Leno on collecting cars)
sick and tired sickness for flight
see sick and tired (feeling) his wife accused him of having a ~ (Mark Stucky)
♦ “Sick of the news? Come look at pictures of baby animals.” (The
internet.) enthusiasm: health & medicine

feeling, emotion & effect: mental health side (conflict)

sick (with anxiety, etc.) two sides
the ~ were on the brink of major fighting
sick with anxiety
I was almost ~ (teaching first class) conflict / division & connection: direction

sick (to my stomach) with dread side (on one’s side / time)
I felt ~
on their side
sick with envy time is ~ (negotiation and diplomacy)
one academic ~ over another
allegiance, support & betrayal: direction / position
worried sick time: direction / position
both were ~ (parents of abducted young woman) side (on one’s side / person)
made me sick
her story ~ to my stomach (rape)
on your side
you need someone ~ (ad for lawyer)
felt sick (to my stomach) with dread
I ~ (mother of 1 pound 15 oz baby)
on the side of the White House
the public is not really ~ (political issue)
feeling, emotion & effect: health & medicine
allegiance, support & betrayal: direction / position
sick (slang) side (on the good side, etc.)
sick deal
if you want to get a ~ on a jersey (NFL merch)
on America’s good side
if they want to be ~
♦ "[Most] of the sickest climbers in the Himalayas are Polish, Russian,
Czech, or Slovenian. They're hard-core. Everyone knows that. You can social interaction: position
tell when you meet them." (Mark Synnott.)

superlative: health & medicine

side (on the wrong side, etc.)
sick and tired (feeling) get on the wrong side of him
you don’t want to ~ (a workplace sociopath)
sick and tired of being
getting on the wrong side of people
I am ~ sick and tired (DC police chief / gun violence)
she has spent a career ~ (Ani DiFranco)
sick and tired of it

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social interaction: position importance & significance: center & periphery / circus
side (dark side) sidestep (verb)
dark side sidestepped
this fantastic concept has a ~ (adult family home) he ~ when asked how he would... (a politician)
people soon realized he had a ~ (bad temper)
sidestepped Congress
dark side of America’s ‘green gold rush’ the President ~ and issued an order
the ~ (marijuana, Native Americans, and immigrants)
sidestep the issue
dark side of addiction and (emotional) abuse the academy is doing its best to ~ (controversy)
he had a ~
sidestepped the (major) issues
dark side to America’s drinking boom the Supreme Court ~ (gerrymandering)
there is a ~ (drinking during the pandemic)
sidestepped that question
dark side to him she has ~ for months (politics)
he had a ~ (a serial killer)
sidestepped the question
has a dark side he ~ entirely, instead discussing citizenship (a politician)
although regarded as genteel, cricket ~ (match fixing)
sidestepped questions
flaws & lack of flaws: light & dark the State Department spokesman ~ about why…
the supreme court nominee ~ about abortion, the ACA
sideline (on the sideline)
avoidance & separation / confronting, dealing with &
on the sideline of history ignoring things: movement / verb / walking, running &
I didn’t not want to be ~ but rather a part of it (jihad)
jumping
sitting on the sideline sidetracked
hope is not ~ or shirking from a fight (a politician)
stand on the sidelines become sidetracked
Russia will not ~ it’s easy to lose focus and ~ with all the nonsense

involvement: center & periphery / sports & games got sidetracked

he ~ and ended up talking about...
center & periphery: sports & games
sideline (involvement) failure, accident & impairment / progress & lack of
progress: direction / journeys & trips / movement / train
watches from the sidelines
he now ~ (Iraqi politician)
sideways (go sideways)
relegated to the sidelines go sideways
the ambassador was ~ (war) from there, things started to ~ (political fortunes)

involvement: center & periphery / sports & games goes sideways

center & periphery: sports & games if shit ~, who do you think Vought will go after

sidelined (adjective) going sideways

the balloons aren’t falling, everything is ~ (a convention)
coronavirus-sidelined
the ~ aircraft carrier started to go sideways
it was up and down, then things ~ (politician)
increasingly sidelined
she was ~ (a scientist) went sideways (very) quickly
with all the gangs, it ~ (Wood Green)
curtailment: sports & games
dismissal, removal & resignation: sports & games failure, accident & impairment / progress & lack of
center & periphery: sports & games progress: direction / journeys & trips / movement / verb
sideshow (noun) siege (under siege)
sideshow under siege
the Russians didn’t see information warfare as a ~ (vs US) NBC news executives are ~ after release of the book

designated the operation as a sideshow under siege from a population boom

historians ~ (Dragoon / France / WWII) the wilderness is ~

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world under siege fans have been left to ~ of a failed season (sports)
videos depicting a Muslim ~
sifted through evidence
country under siege investigators ~ and interviewed survivors (arson)
this is a ~ (by crime / South Africa)
sift through the (classified) materials
Prime Minister is under siege it could take three months to ~ (investigation)
and now to the U.K., where the ~ (Brexit)
sift through names
wilderness is under siege the computer program will help officials to ~ (crime)
the ~ from a population boom
sifted through many submissions
feel under siege she ~ (photo competition)
Asian Americans really ~ (safety, COVID, racism, etc.)
sift through the (political) rubble
has (much of) the US under siege both sides will be left to ~ (impeachment trial)
dangerous weather ~
sift through the results
amount & effect / conflict: fortification / military search engines make you ~ for an answer
resistance, opposition & defeat: fortification / military
sifted through the trash
siege (other) they ~, looking for anything edible or saleable

siege mentality sifted down to her

the ~ (Israel) the terrible facts ~ when she heard…
the government is showing signs of a ~ (Syria) ♦ Sieves are found in most any kitchen. Archaeologists also employ
the generals are comfortable in their ~ (Myanmar) them. Workers used sieves to search for human remains and objects
from the World Trade Center collapse.
siege tactics
searching & discovery: tools & technology / verb
traditional ~ used in Himalayan climbing
worth & lack of worth: tools & technology / verb
laid siege to NBC sifted
Weinstein ~ (threats and enticements)
amount & effect: fortification / military sifted for (fresh) clues
resistance, opposition & defeat: fortification / military the new trove of material was being ~ (terrorism)

sieve (noun) sifted for evidence

the report is ~ of subtle changes in policy (China)
come through the sieve
a lot of the personal Lenin was never allowed to ~ (archives) sifted, correlated and analyzed
data can increasingly be ~ (online behavior)
searching & discovery: farming & agriculture
wisely sifted
scientist (rocket scientist) more information, ~, is usually better than less
rocket scientist searching & discovery: tools & technology
you don’t need to be a ~ to explain this (criminal trial)
sigh (sigh of relief)
take a rocket scientist
it doesn’t ~ to understand what they did was illegal sigh of relief
there’s a collective ~ in Florida (hurricane track)
knowledge & intelligence: person
breathed a sigh of relief
sift (searching) Americans ~ and told themselves the system had worked
sifted the sources breathing a sigh of relief
she has ~, examining their reliability (historian) companies are ~
leaders are ~
sift for youth they are all ~ (health care)
job requirements in the Valley ~ (Silicon Valley)
breathing a sigh of relief over the verdict
sifted the debate for clues we are all ~
observers ~ about action on carbon legislation
feeling, emotion & effect: bodily reaction / breathing
sifted through the returns for lessons learned danger: bodily reaction / breathing
both parties ~ (election)
sift through the debris

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sight (in sight) It’s above us. So we all want to go to the higher ground.” (Clarence
Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama.)
♦ “I will lift mine eyes unto the hills...” (The Bible.)
in sight
relief is ~ attainment: direction / height / mountains & hills
gains are nowhere ~ (progress of war) wants, needs, hopes & goals: direction / height /
there’s no relief ~ (wildfires in California) mountains & hills
there is still no viable solution ~
there is no end ~ to this opioid litigation sign (sign of the times, etc.)
the end is ~ (impeachment trial)
in a sign of the times
future / time: distance / eye ~, the retail chain has declared bankruptcy
proximity: eye
evidence: sign, signal, symbol
sight (lose sight)
sign (evidence)
lose sight that
do not ~ we are at war (government) larger political signs
Denison could read the ~ (a government official)
lose sight of the big picture
don't ~ (advice to teachers) no sign
there is still ~ of a plan to train new doctors
consciousness & awareness: eye / verb the firestorm over his allegations shows ~s of abating
sight (in somebody's sights) signs point
all the ~ to her having a breakout year
in the SEC's sights for fraud ♦ “Nothing is more formidable than a sign, especially if you ignore it or
the Wall Street firm is ~ fail to recognize it in the first place. Signs are fate.” (Gold Dust by
Ibrahim al-Koni.)
had him in their sights
♦ “Tigers, lynxes, bears, wolverines, wapiti, deer, roe, pig, all are resident
federal prosecutors ~ (criminal investigation) in this rich taiga. / Dersu strode on in silence, serenely seeing everything.
I was reveling in the view, but he looked at a twig broken off at the height
have it in our sights of a man’s arm, and from the way it was hanging knew the direction in
we ~ (merger) which the man had been going. From the freshness of the fracture he
judged the time that had elapsed. Whenever I passed by a particularly
have you in their sights obvious track, Dersu would chuckle, wag his head, and say: / ‘H’m! Just
like small boy. Go walk, wag head; have eyes, no-can look-see.’ / As we
they are unspeakably mean and disingenuous once they ~ went, I trod upon a thorn...” (Dersu Uzala by V. K. Arseniev.)
target: weapon analysis, interpretation & explanation / evidence: hunting /
sight (in plain sight) religion

hide in plain sight sign (warning sign)

people had to ~ (Jews in Germany in W.W. II) warning sign
his wealth and fame allowed him to ~ (sex abuse) ~s include confusion, ashy skin (heatstroke)
hiding in plain sight ~ that your child may be doing drugs
make people see what was ~ (sex abuse) warning sign of problems
the structure was “~” (discovered by satellite / archeology) a ~ ahead
edits are all around us, ~ (the media)
warning signs of psychosis
made in plain sight spotted the ~ in himself
the plans to storm the Capitol were ~ (on the Internet)
warning signs of suicide
concealment & lack of concealment: eye
public education about the ~
sights (weapon) warning signs of an (impending) eruption
turned their sights on Joe scientists caught the ~
then they ~ (prosecutors in trial) warning signs for stroke
target: weapon people should learn the ~

sights (lower one’s sights) warning signs for violent behavior

17 ~
lower their sights
boxers who lose a fight, lose self-belief, and ~ warning signs and dangers
the ~ of huffing (sniffing glue, etc.)
♦ “We look for songs that mean something. Higher ground. You know,
everybody know where the higher ground is. It sure ain’t here on earth.
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 recognize ~ signal (mixed signals)
ample warning signs mixed signals about his plan
there were ~ (psychotic breakdown)
the President is sending ~ for the southern border
education about the warning signs sent mixed signals
public ~ of suicide
his lawyer has ~ (about what his client might do)
warning signs or red flags message: tools & technology
there were no ~ (mass shooter)
signal (signal and noise)
display (any of) the warning signs
if they ~ of suicide… sends (multiple) signals
Iran's action ~ (military deployment)
know the warning signs
~ (depression) separate the signal from the noise
~ (when considering President Trump)
missed the warning signs
they ~ (son's breakdown) pick out the signal from the noise
warning: sign, signal, symbol trying to ~ (epidemiology)
message: sound / tools & technology
sign (verb)
analysis, interpretation & explanation: sound / tools &
signed your work technology
bloody boot prints, just like a signature, you boys ~ signature (evidence)
evidence: verb / writing & spelling
signature
signal (verb) if he is alive, he's not moving enough to create a ~

signal a change signatures of (past or present) life

I don't mean to ~ in policy (government official) organic molecules, possible ~ (Mars)

signals danger signature of our submarines

stress is an external stimulus that ~ reducing the acoustic ~

signals the onset signature of the vehicle

ejaculation ~ of puberty in boys the smaller the width or track ~

signal the presence signature of water

the green palm trees ~ of water (Egyptian desert) searching for the chemical ~

signal a problem signatures of unmanned aerial vehicles

the following 10 red flags may ~ (child development) the small thermal ~

signal a shift artillery's (firing) signature

gifts can ~ in a relationship the field ~ makes it vulnerable

signaled a willingness chemical signature

the administration has ~ to be creative with… searching for the ~ of water
researchers mine the elaborate ~s of breath
signal diabetic coma
Kussmaul respirations ~ (nursing) chemical "signature"
DEA labs are testing the heroin to find a ~
signaled a sucking chest wound
the bubbling blood ~ (ED) dust signatures
rapid movement causes dramatic ~ (military)
gifts can signal
~ a shift in a relationship heat signature
stationary aircraft have a considerable ~
palm trees signal screen exhaust systems to reduce ~ (trucks)
the green ~ the presence of water (Egyptian desert)
lane signature
red flags may signal increase the ~ to aid passage of larger forces
the following 10 ~ a problem (child development)
return signature
evidence: sign, signal, symbol / verb a ~ that indicates a mine (mine detector)
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 movement is detected by ~ (military) signature crusade
he made health-care reform the ~ of his career
track signature
the smaller the width or ~ of the vehicle signature issue
he has made immigration his ~
aircraft signature
ensure that the ~ will be minimized signature victory
this was a ~ by Eubank, the best of his career (boxer)
firing signature
the field artillery's ~ makes it vulnerable attention, scrutiny & promotion: writing & spelling
acoustic signature sign off (on something)
reducing the ~ of our submarines
signed off on the plan
acoustical signature he ~ (government)
the V-22 Osprey flies with a lower "~"
sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: writing & spelling /
considerable (heat) signature verb
stationary aircraft have a ~
signpost (as verb)
criminal signature
he left his ~ at each crime scene (serial killer) signposted her final moments
a data trail accurately ~ (smartwatch, phone, etc.)
dramatic (dust) signatures
rapid movement causes ~ (military) evidence: infrastructure / journeys & trips / part of speech
/ sign, signal, symbol / verb
electronic signature
it has no ~ (an air-defense weapon); signpost (noun)
the Tactical Operations Center has little ~
signpost as to how bad
infrared signature his death was a ~ things were (Liston, boxing, the mob)
reducing ~s is a passive anti-air consideration
signposts of my childhood
metallic signature I pass the ~
locate mines by a slight ~ (AN/PSS-12)
signposts of (rulers') authority
operational signature Baghdad's bridges are ~
its ~ was aggressiveness (L.A. police)
signpost on a road
slight (metallic) signature the Balfour Declaration was a ~ heading towards a cliff
locate mines by a ~ (AN/PSS-12)
evidence: infrastructure / journeys & trips / sign, signal,
small (thermal) signature symbol
the ~s of unmanned aerial vehicles
silenced (groups)
thermal signature
the small ~s of unmanned aerial vehicles silenced and misrepresented
we’ve been ~ (Katori Hall)
track signature ♦ “We’ve been silenced and misrepresented. And so, any time you get
the smaller the width or ~ of the vehicle an opportunity to tell your truth, you are pushing back against so many
lies and falsehoods...And being an artist and in demanding that the world
visual signature just looks at you, you oddly are being an activist.” (Katori Hall.)
markers provide commanders with a ~ ♦ “I couldn’t fight back when Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused me,
because I hadn’t yet found my voice. Well, I found my voice now, and
thermal and optical signatures while Jeffrey may no longer be here to hear it, I will not stop fighting and I
friendly and enemy ~ will not be silenced anymore.”

footprint or signature inclusion & exclusion: society

they don't have a ~ (terrorists) silent (fall silent)
detected by (sand and dust) signatures fall silent
movement is ~ (military)
the factory will ~
evidence: writing & spelling ♦ "When the mines were working, there was a rhythm to life by what the
whistles told you, and what the sounds were. So there was a noise that
signature (signature issue, etc.) went on constantly that you were aware of and yet not aware of. And
when the mines were gone, there was a dead silence… And it was
signature affliction eerie." (From the PBS documentary, "Butte, America." The mines
operated from 1890 to 1977, and in 1920 over 40,000 people lived in
every age has its ~ (burnout) Butte, many of them miners.)

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starting, going, continuing & ending: sound the reality is the funding is ~ (restrictions on how to spend)
curtailment: sound
“siloed” (healthcare system
Silicon Valley, etc. the US has a ~ (public, private, fragmented)

Silicon Valley for the new industry siloed off

this is the ~ (Mojave Desert / aerospace / 2007) I’m kind of ~, our studios are in Brooklyn...
women are so ~ in this profession (TV directors)
Silicon Alley
the dot com companies of ~ (NYC) siloed and insular
political journalists are even more ~ today (than in 2016)
Crypto Valley
the canton of Zug is now known as ~ (Switzerland) siloed and stereotyped
native people have long been ~ in film (Reservation Dogs)
Hillicon Valley
~, tech and cyber news from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley constraint & lack of constraint / division & connection /
isolation & remoteness: farming & agriculture
Lithium Valley
extraction can turn this area into the ~ (Salton Sea / CA) silver (speech)
Silicon Glen silver
the central belt of Scotland was called ~ speech is ~, silence is gold
Silicon Valley speech: materials & substances
she was the golden girl of ~ (Elizabeth Holmes)
failure and reinvention are embraced in ~ (no ethics)
silver-tongued
♦ “Whatever happened to Silicon Glen?” by Douglas Fraser, Business / silver-tongued
economy editor, Scotland, BBC, 28 January 2016.)
a ~ recruiting sergeant
proper name: mountains & hills Speech is silver, silence is gold!
place: tools & technology
speech: materials & substances / tongue
computer: place
silo (verb) simmer (verb)
silo information simmered with resentment
hospital systems ~ (EHRs) he ~

isolation & remoteness: farming & agriculture / verb activity: heating water / temperature / verb / water
division & connection: farming & agriculture / verb initiation: heating water / temperature / verb / water

silo (academic silos, etc.) simmering (activity)

siloes of information and misinformation simmering resentment
we are getting our news from different ~ (US dysfunction) ~ blossomed into warfare (two politicians)

silo-busters simmering tensions

leaders should be ~ this explosion of violence follows weeks of ~ (Jerusalem)

so many different separate silos long-simmering debate

people get info and entertainment from ~ (a divided U.S.) the ~ over whether dinosaurs…

academic silos long-simmering dispute

the school wants to break down ~ his ~ with…
♦ This word is nicely written about in “The Vocabularist: How did ‘silo’ get long-simmering event
to mean something else?” by The Vocabularist, BBC, 30 June 2015.
this ~ in our history
♦ “This is the problem of spying. You are always in one particular silo
within that particular organization in a black hole of information like long-simmering tension
Afghanistan, so you are really focusing on one area but you are blind ~ between the private university and the town
sometimes basically to other activities happening around.” (Aimen
Dean.)
long-simmering (ethnic) tensions
isolation & remoteness: farming & agriculture ~ have erupted into violence
division & connection: farming & agriculture
long-simmering (racial) tensions
siloed the altercation caused ~ to erupt

siloed activity: heating water / temperature / water

Jobs had insisted that departments were ~ (secrecy) initiation: heating water / temperature / water

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sinew (effort) sink (sink into the mud, etc.)
strain every sinew sinking into the mud
the government needs to ~ to encourage... (industry) the US is ~ of defeat (Iraqi spokesman on war)
difficulty, easiness & effort: skin, muscle, nerves & bone sinking into the mud
the US is ~ of defeat (Iraqi spokesman on war)
sink (destroy)
failure, accident & impairment / obstacles & impedance:
sank the (prosecution's) case direction / ground, terrain & land / verb
it was the torpedo that ~ (forensics)
sink (sink into obscurity, etc.)
destruction: boat / sea / verb
sank into obscurity
sink (disappearance) Petra ~ about 1000 AD
sank without a trace primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: direction / verb
the poem ~ in England (by D’Arcy Wentworth)
sink (decline)
appearance & disappearance: boat / sea / verb / water
sinks into melodrama
sink (behavior) the story ~
sunk to a new low sank fast
she has ~ United ~ after City went ahead (2019 soccer game)
sink to the level stocks sank
we cannot ~ of our oppressors blue-chip ~ Friday (stock market)
sinking lower and lower decline: direction / verb
broadcasters are ~ to get higher ratings increase & decrease: direction / verb
behavior: direction / verb sinkhole (noun)
sink (put) sinkhole of shame and self-hatred
sink (a lot of) money into their kids' sports stuttering leaves behind an ever-deepening ~
adults ~ decline: ground, terrain & land
throwing, putting & planting: water / verb sink in (verb)
sink (sink into a coma, etc.) sink in
sank into a coma it took two days for it to ~
he ~ if you let that ~, that’s an alarming statistic (police suicide)

consciousness & awareness: direction / water sinks in

reality ~
sink (sink into debt, etc.)
sunk in
sinking (deeper) into debt has it ~, John (a great boxing victory)
I was ~ (now homeless)
absorption & immersion: verb / water
swim or sink comprehension & incomprehension: verb / water
we are going to ~ together (revitalizing Detroit / 2010)
sinking (sinking feeling, etc.)
survival, persistence & endurance: direction / water
sinking feeling
sink (sink into despair, etc.) I had a ~ that…

sink into despair feeling, emotion & effect: direction / water

she was starting to ~ (losing soccer game)
sink or swim
heart sank
my ~… (news of murder of boy) sink or swim type
it was a ~ type of thing (new bandmember)
spirits sank
survival, persistence & endurance: water
my ~
feeling, emotion & effect: direction / verb / water

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siphon (verb) Judy Collins was a kind of ~ (place to crash, etc.)
help & assistance: family
siphon Republicans away
a “centrist” might ~ from Trump (elections) sister (sister ship, etc.)
siphoned funds to her own pockets sister
she ~ our ~s the plants, our brothers the animals (a Navajo)
directing: verb / water sister building
siren (siren call / siren song) concerns about its ~ down the block (building collapse)

siren call of booze sister city

Asheville's ~, Saumur, France
they cannot resist the ~ (alcoholics)
China has terminated the ~ relationship with Prague
siren call of fads
sister event
don't give in to the ~ (tattoos you can live with)
Bike Week and its ~, Biketoberfest (Daytona Beach)
siren song of bargains
sister organizations
the ~ is too irresistible to avoid (outlet malls)
he described them as “~” (terrorist groups)
heard the siren call
sister publications
he ~ of his former club Real Madrid (Carlo Ancelotti)
the Los Angeles Times and its ~
heed the siren call
sister ship
her book is for all who ~ of the water (swimming)
HMS Queen Elizabeth and her ~, HMS Prince of Wales
seduced by the siren song the Zaandam and its ~ the Rotterdam
they've been ~ "college for everyone" the nuclear sub San Francisco and its ~, Honolulu
♦ A Ulysses pact (contract) allows a mentally ill person to stipulate in sister science
advance that he be hospitalized during an episode, thus circumventing a
legal requirement that he give permission. natural language processing and its ~, speech generation
♦ Dieter Klose, who made three attempts to climb the 6,700-foot sister technology
Northwest Face of the Devils Thumb, on the border of Alaska and British
Columbia, likened this climb to Sirens who attempted to lure Ulysses to Smart Reply is a ~ of Smart Compose
his death.
sister virus
attraction & repulsion: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey Marburg's ~: Ebola (African hemorrhagic fevers)
siren (other) smaller sister
the Mediterranean and its ~, the Black Sea...
siren
this is the age of Viagra, and Mr. Trink was its ~ ugly sister
eugenics and its ~, eugenic euthanasia (Nazis)
siren-voiced
a ~ singer three sisters
♦ “Today’s sirens want to charm you with seductive and insistent ~ soup, built from beans, squash and corn
messages that focus on easy gains, the false needs of consumerism, the
cult of physical wellness, of entertainment at all costs. All these are like she and her sisters
fireworks: they flare up for a moment, but then turn to smoke in the air.” ~ were not very weatherly under sail (a class of 5 ships)
(Pope Francis on his trip to Greece in December, 2021.)
♦ After the nose of the nuclear submarine USS San Francisco was
attraction & repulsion: allusion / Iliad & Odyssey crushed in a collision with a seamount in 2005, the nose of its sister ship
the USS Honolulu—which was due to be retired—was cut off and welded
sister (redneck sisters, etc.) to the San Francisco, which continued to serve for another eight years.
Now, that’s a sister!
all my sisters relationship: family
here’s to ~ out there keepin’ it country...
♦ “Here’s to all my sisters out there keepin’ it country...” (Gretchen Wilson
sister (the Seven Sisters, etc.)
singing “Redneck Woman.” Hell yeah!)
Two Sisters
group, set & collection: family we sailed to the ~ (Saudi islands off of Jizan)
division & connection / relationship: family
Three Sisters
sister (big sister, etc.) we could see the ~ (mountains in KwaZulu-Natal)
a group of boulders called the ~ (Stawell, Victoria)
big sister
I was like a mother hen to them, I was like ~ (skateboarder) Seven Sisters
the Pleiades are often called the ~ (stars)
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 Assam is one of the ~ (states in India) sit by (verb)
the ~ Waterfall has 7 separate streams (Norway)
~ schools were still all-female (early 1960s) sit idly by
~ alumnae (Ali MacGraw, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinhem...) I couldn’t ~ (need to take action against barking dogs)
Roaring Sister action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with &
the ~ is a rock on the Western Cape of South Africa ignoring things: standing, sitting & lying / verb
proper name: family sit down (verb)
sisterhood (noun) sit down with the opposition
member of this sisterhood we need to ~
yet another ~ was Gerdy Troost (female architects) sitting down with the Taliban
group, set & collection: family we shouldn’t be ~
division & connection / relationship: family position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying /
Sisyphean (adjective) table / verb

Sisyphean task
sit-down (other)
it is a ~ (creating a database) sit-down with the child
the ~ of digging out the hut from snow (Antarctica) have a serious ~ (a serious talk)
difficulty, easiness & effort: allusion serious sit-down
allusion: books & reading have a ~ with the child (a serious talk)
comparison & contrast: affix
position, policy & negotiation: standing, sitting & lying /
sit (a house can sit somewhere, etc.) table
sat in a suburb sit out (verb)
his house ~ called...
sit out this year
sits on the (northern) edge
he can’t afford to ~ (working during pandemic)
the city ~ of the African continent (Melilla)
sits (comfortably) at the top of their group sit it out
Italy ~ (soccer) he could stay in Ulm and ~ until the Russians arrived
involvement: standing, sitting & lying / verb
sitting 2 points above the regulation zone
Manchester United ~ (English soccer) action, inaction & delay: standing, sitting & lying / verb

sits behind a paywall

sitting duck
the Stockton Record ~ (a newspaper) sitting duck
fictive position: standing, sitting & lying / verb my brother's a ~ (snitch in prison)
the convoys are ~s (Pakistan)
sit (sit on something) you’re a ~, you have no way to defend yourself (sniper)
sitting on the report danger: animal / bird / hunting
the government is ~ protection & lack of protection: animal / bird / hunting
sits on his ideas size (and sized / affix)
so he ~ (Darwin takes his time to publish)
bus-sized
action, inaction & delay / concealment & lack of ~ Tundra buggies haul tourists (Churchill / polar bears)
concealment: standing, sitting & lying / verb
California-sized
sit (sit on one’s hands) Kiribati has declared a ~ marine reserve (Phoenix Islands)

sat on their hands rice-grain-size

they ~ on the sidelines (politicians) a tiny ~ microchip (embedded in a pet)

sit (back) on our hands queen-size

what are we supposed to do, ~ when we see there may be see queen-size (and queen sized)
problems ♦ Marble / moth ball (.50); penny (.75); nickel (.88); quarter (1.00); half
dollar (1.25); walnut / ping pong ball (1.50); golf ball (1.75); hen egg
action, inaction & delay / confronting, dealing with & (2.00); tennis ball (2.50); baseball (2.75); tea cup (3.00); grapefruit
ignoring things: standing, sitting & lying / verb (4.00); softball (4.50)... (Converting traditional hail size descriptions. Hail
size (in.) / Object analog reported. From NOAA.)

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comparison & contrast: affix / object / size schools are operating with a ~ (pandemic)
size (one size fits all) sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: skeleton / skin, muscle,
nerves & bone
one-size-fits-all policy
can Twitter have a ~ for every country (India, Turkey) skeleton (substance)
one-size-fits-all strategy skeleton
it was a ~, and it didn’t work (GOP politics) this is just a ~, you need to flesh it out (essay)
cookie cutter, one-size-fits-all substance & lack of substance: skeleton / skin, muscle,
I tried not to develop that ~ home run call (an announcer) nerves & bone
creation & transformation: clothing & accessories skeleton (resemblance)
skein (entanglement) skeleton
she was skin and bones, a ~
messy skein
he was already tangled in a ~ of indictments charred skeleton
complexity / involvement: cloth all that was left of the boat was a ~ (burned to waterline)
resemblance: skeleton / skin, muscle, nerves & bone
skeletal (adjective)
sketchy (adjective)
skeletal
state services for victims are ~ (sex abuse / North Dakota) sketchy stuff
sufficiency, insufficiency & excess: skeleton / skin, muscle, there is still some ~ taking place (banks)
nerves & bone a little bit sketchy
details remain ~ at the moment (a criminal assault)
skeleton (secret)
certainty & uncertainty / flaws & lack of flaws: picture
skeleton
who knows what ~s he's got in his closet (troubled) skewer (verb)
skeletons in our closet skewered the powerful with his cartoons
I knew we had ~ (newspaper's lack of coverage of…) he ~ (an editorial cartoonist)
skeletons in its (Communist) closet skewered Mormonism
Poland exhumes ~ the Broadway show ~ (The Book of Mormon musical)
skeletons in the closet skewer (office) life and (business) norms
all the ~ are spilling out (Turkey) modern literary fiction often attempts to ~
he has a few ~ that he doesn't want you to know about ♦ “These two women are such easy targets, a fingerless chef could
skewer them.” (A neat line from a book review by the critic Heller
skeletons (in the closet) are spilling out McAlpin.)
all the ~ (Turkey's past)
accusation & criticism / affliction / insult / speech: cooking
newly revealed skeletons / verb
~ joined old ones in his closet (a politician)
skewered
exhumes skeletons
Poland ~ in its Communist closet skewered in an (attack) ad
♦ "If you autopsy anybody's personal life deep enough, everybody's got
he has been ~ for speaking French (a US politician)
skeletons." (A police chief under fire.)
accusation & criticism: cooking
♦ “I get that feeling too. It’s like we’ve arrived in a small town and
everybody knows everybody’s dirty secrets, and we know there are
affliction / insult / speech: cooking
skeletons in the closet, but we can’t find the closets.” (The General’s
Daughter by Nelson DeMille.)
ski (over one’s skis, etc.)
concealment & lack of concealment: skeleton got out (a little bit) over his skis
he probably ~ (a premature announcement)
skeleton (skeleton crew, etc.)
got far out over their skis
skeleton crew critics of the new law ~ (sanctions, etc.)
we are operating with a ~ ♦ see also far (too far)
we were able to open with a ~ (store after hurricane)
“Critics of the Georgia elections law got far out over their skis.”
a ~ would remain aboard to maintain the vessel (ship) (Corporations sanctioned the state, and Major League baseball removed
the All-Star Game from Atlanta.)
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♦ For some reason this type of phrase gets tossed around a lot at my
company. They’ll say, “you don’t want to get ahead of your skis” and I skinny (adjective)
always have the urge to shout back “actually I don’t want my skis to get
ahead of me!. Lol It’s always distracting... (MissySki, Apr 19, 2021, on skinny
“The Ski Diva forum titled “Can you really get “out over your skis”? by department budgets are already ~ (state government)
SallyCat, Apr 18, 2021.)
♦ See “Where Did the Phrase ‘Over His Skis’ Come From?” by Noreen skinny on results
Malone, New York Magazine, May 31, 2012, and the comment. diet books are fat on profits, ~
behavior / restraint & lack of restraint: distance skinny (coronavirus) bill
failure, accident & impairment: distance the senate failed to pass even the ~
skin (feeling) skinny budget
got under his skin believe it or not, this is what they all the ~, Scott
I knew I ~ (at a trial) substance & lack of substance: fatness & thinness / weight
got under my skin skirmish (noun)
she really ~
this ~, because it touched something that mattered skirmishes
it’s important to know which ~ to join and which to ignore
gotten under his skin
this has clearly ~ (irritated) skirmishes with the (New York literary) establishment
one of his many ~ (Ishmael Reed)
gotten under (NPR’s) skin
the allegation of bias has clearly ~ budget skirmishes
the budget is subject to annual ~
made my skin crawl ♦ “In every bureaucracy it is important to know which skirmishes to join
it ~ (disgust) and which to ignore.” (The great film Citizen X with Stephen Rea and
Donald Sutherland.)
feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
conflict: military
skin (jump out of one’s skin)
skirt (skirt an issue, etc.)
jump out of my skin
loud noises make me ~ skirted the issue
he ~
hyperbole: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb
feeling, emotion & effect: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / avoidance & separation / confronting, dealing with &
verb ignoring things: clothing & accessories / verb
skin (save one's skin) skirt (configuration)
save their skins skirt Xinjiang and Tibet
executives sold their stock, hoping to ~ (Enron) the Kunlun Mountains ~
save your skin configuration: clothing & accessories / verb
it's lucky they're taking you to the boss, that may ~
skittish (adjective)
survival, persistence & endurance: skin, muscle, nerves &
bone / verb skittish
euphemism: skin, muscle, nerves & bone / verb insurers are ~

skin (outside) skittish about crowds

audiences are ~ (pandemic)
skin
someone had tended to its guts, if not its ~ (a rifle) skittish about Gulf seafood
consumers are still ~ (after oil spill)
mango skin
the ~ ripping away from the fruit's flesh… skittish about talking
many people are ~ openly about race (cancel culture)
orientation: skin, muscle, nerves & bone
skittish bankers
skin-deep easing the fears of ~ (marijuana business)
skin-deep skittish investors
the reforms have only been ~ he could calm ~ and attract foreign capital (an economist)
comparison & contrast / extent & scope / substance & lack felt skittish
of substance: breadth / skin, muscle, nerves & bone she ~ about that (separate bank accounts / marriage)

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left some investors skittish skyrocket (increase)
the coup ~ (Myanmar)
population has skyrocketed
grown skittish in Europe's prisons, where the Islamic ~
many businesses have ~ in the face of weak demand
price (of helium) is skyrocketing
look skittish the ~
it was important not to ~ (modern hooligans)
profits skyrocket
makes privacy experts skittish corporate ~ even as the economy remains stalled
the bill ~
unemployment is skyrocketing
remain skittish the economy is crashing, ~ (politics)
investors ~
♦ “No sex please, we’re skittish,” is the title of a 2021 article in The movement: rocket / speed
Economist about the porn site OnlyFans. It plays on the title of the 1971 increase & decrease: direction / number / rocket / sky /
British play, No Sex please, we’re British. verb
♦ “Edison wired a whole district of lower Manhattan, around Wall Street,
to be powered in two semi-derelict buildings on Pearl Street. Through skyscraper (tall building)
the winter, spring and summer of 1881-2 Edison laid fifteen miles of
cable and fanatically tested and retested his system. Not all went earthquake-resistant skyscraper
smoothly. Horses behaved skittishly in the vicinity until it was realized
that leaking electricity was making their horseshoes tingle.” (At Home: A
architects design ~s
Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson.)
4,000 skyscrapers
behavior / eagerness & reluctance: horse a city that already has ~, double New York (Shanghai)
sky (the sky can fall) ♦ “Shibam is one of the oldest examples of urban planning using vertical
construction.” (Yemen.)

sky size: atmosphere / sky

the ~ is not falling (fears of attacks on Internet)
skyway
fate, fortune & chance: air / atmosphere / sky
Cherohala Skyway
sky (a clear blue sky, etc.) the ~ connects western North Carolina and Tennessee
a clear blue sky tunnel and skyway
the attack on the politician did not come out of ~ Montreal is known for its ~ network
Toronto and Minneapolis are known for their ~ networks
appearance & disappearance: air / atmosphere / sky
route: atmosphere / sky
sky (blue sky thinking)
slack (noun)
“blue-sky thinking”
~ is a way to tackle intractable issues (conflict) slack
she deserves a little ~
blue-sky thinking
now is not the time for ~, new approaches (the Balkans) behavior / constraint & lack of constraint: rope
constraint & lack of constraint / idea: sky slam (verb)
sky-high slammed the politician for his hatred and bigotry
he ~
sky-high
fans were ~ after the win accusation & criticism / speech: force / verb / violence
emotions were ~ (at a murder trial)
slam-dunk (and slam dunk)
sky high
costs are ~ slam dunk
this case is anything but a ~, and whatever the outcome...
comparison & contrast / extent & scope: atmosphere / sky in my mind it’s a ~, based on the evidence (guilty)
skyrocket (to attention, etc.) slam dunk for Chelsea
it’s a ~ (re-signing Lukaku is a good idea)
skyrocketed onto the (national political) scene
he ~ in 2018 slam-dunk for him
this is no ~ (a tough boxing match)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: direction / rocket / sky /
verb slam-dunk for Republicans
this should have been a ~ (election)

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slam-dunk (positive) drugs test slash (verb)
the case did not have a ~ to stand upon (sports doping)
slash (state) agencies
slam-dunk variety he wants to ~
discoveries are unlikely to be of the ~ (Mars mission)
slash (private and corporate) taxes
no slam dunk his budget blueprint would ~ (politician)
there was ~, and the family knew it (a murder conviction)
dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / blade / knife / verb
certainty & uncertainty / difficulty, easiness & effort:
basketball / sports & games slash-and-burn (adjective)
slanted (news, etc.) slash-and-burn process
their approach to cutting costs is a ~ (politics)
wanted it slanted
readers wanted the news, but they ~ (early newspapers) conflict / destruction: fire / farming & agriculture
dismissal, removal & resignation: ax / fire / farming &
perception, perspective & point of view: direction / agriculture
geometry
slate (a clean slate, etc.)
slap (awareness)
wiped my slate clean
slaps you right in the face I feel like God has ~ (executed for 6 murders)
this reality ~ (weekly death toll during pandemic)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: books & reading
consciousness & awareness: face / gesture / sensation /
verb
slaughtered
slap (punish) slaughtered
some sacred cows are ~ on the way (educational theory)
slapped them on the face
get slaughtered
last night we ~ (Iranian attack on US)
Democrats are going to ~ in 2022 and 2024
slaps them on the wrist destruction: animal / violence
the law just ~and lets them drive again (drunk driving)
punishment & recrimination: face / gesture / hand / verb
slave (verb)
slap (slap in the face, etc.) slaved over this
I really ~ (a project)
slap in the face difficulty, easiness & effort: history / verb
the offer was a ~ (to relatives of dead miners)
hyperbole / work & duty: history / verb
slap to the prosecutor slave (slave to fashion, etc.)
his words were a ~ (judge orders new trial)
slaves to the clock
slap in the face of the German Army
we aren't ~, like the Americans
the misconduct of some soldiers is a ~ (wild hotel party)
slave to duty
slap in the face of (U.S.) politicians
he did not wish to go, but Scott was always a ~
a ~ (Saddam's view of nine-eleven)
slave to fashion
slap in the face for players
she is a ~
the NBA’s plans are a ~
slave to laziness
slap in the face for the US
don't become a ~
the attack was a ~ (by Iran)
slave to the past
slap in the face to Chicagoans
Turkey is not a ~
his actions were a ~ (false accusation of hate crime)
slave to the rules
slap in the face to the female students
I refuse to be a ~
it was a ~ (who had been molested at USC)
slave to tobacco
slap in the face to his victims
to smoke is to be a ~ (public-health ad)
this was a ~ (Markeith Loyd penalty decision)
insult: face / gesture slave to trends
she is chic, but not a ~

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slave to forms and etiquette the city was abandoned and ~ (Matanzas, Cuba, revived)
Scott was a ~ (Robert Falcon Scott)
allusion / consciousness & awareness: books & reading
debt slave sleepwalk (verb)
don't be a ~ to your mortgage
become a slave sleepwalking into a level of risk
don't ~ to laziness it’s ~ you don’t realize you have (funds cut to Navy)
♦ Do a favor for a beggar and you'll be his slave! sleepwalking towards (greatly increased) risk
♦ Teach me one thing, and I am your slave. we are ~ (end of INF nuclear treaty)
dependency / dominance & submission: person consciousness & awareness: sleep / verb / walking,
running & jumping
slave (dominated)
sleepy (activity)
slave
we will be your friend, not your ~ sleepy backwater
♦ “We will be your friend, not your slave.” (Imran Khan, the Prime oil transformed Khartoum from a ~ to a modern city
Minister of Pakistan, to the United States.)
sleepy community
dominance & submission / superiority & inferiority: person the ~ of…
sledding (tough sledding) sleepy oasis
Korla, once a ~, is undergoing an oil boom (Xinjiang)
tough sledding
it's been ~, but… (progress of war) sleepy (little farm) town
♦ “The Yukon lay at his feet, a sea of ice, disappearing around two great a~
bends to the north and south, and stretching an honest two miles from
bank to bank. Over its rough breast ran the sled-trail, a slender sunken activity: sleep
line, eighteen inches wide and two thousand miles in length, with more
curses distributed to the linear foot than any other road in or out of all sleeve (on one’s sleeve)
Christendom.” (“The Man With the Gash” by Jack London.)

difficulty, easiness & effort: snow & ice

with his heart on his sleeve
he always fights ~ (the great boxer Johnnie Tapia)
sledgehammer (noun)
wears his heart on his sleeve
taken a sledgehammer to America’s trustworthiness he ~ when it comes to his dad (Ray Mancini / boxer)
he has ~ and credibility (politics)
wear my influences on my sleeve
taking a sledgehammer I ~ (a writer)
is he ~ to crack a nut here (overreaction) concealment & lack of concealment: clothing & accessories
destruction / force: tools & technology sleeve (up one’s sleeve)
sleep (noun)
up his sleeve
awakening from (its winter) sleep he will have his own little tricks ~ (rugby coach)
nature is ~ concealment & lack of concealment / subterfuge: clothing
resemblance: sleep & accessories
sleep (put something to sleep) sleeve (roll up one’s sleeves)
put woke to sleep roll up the sleeves
it’s time to ~ time to ~ once again and just get the job done (soccer)
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion / starting, going, rolling up our sleeves
continuing & ending: burial / sleep / verb we are ~ for Canal Istanbul (Erdogan)

sleeping (consciousness) roll up their sleeves

everyone will have to ~ and work collaboratively
sleeping majority
I was one of the ~, but now I have woken up (Egypt) rolls up their sleeves
they want someone who ~, gets things done (politics)
consciousness & awareness: sleep
difficulty, easiness & effort / work & duty: clothing &
sleeping beauty accessories / gesture
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sleight of hand feeling, emotion & effect: direction / movement / verb
slim (small)
linguistic sleights of hand
governments propagandize citizens with ~ slim majority
subterfuge: magic Republicans have a ~ in the Senate
concealment & lack of concealment: magic very slim
slender (adjective) the chances of success are ~ (a cold murder case)
size: breadth / fatness & thinness
slender chance
there was a ~ she would recover (sick) slink (slink in, etc.)
slender victory slunk in through a ship
Uruguay’s ~ over Saudi Arabia ensured that... the deadly flu ~
size: fatness & thinness subterfuge: animal / movement / verb
sleuth (person) transmission: animal / movement / verb
movement: animal / verb
sleuth slip (noun)
is not the biographer also a ~
searching & discovery: person ethical slip
we all have the capacity for these ~s (cheating, lying)
slice (piece) failure, accident & impairment / flaws & lack of flaws:
slices of the market equilibrium & stability / walking, running & jumping
in the ceaseless quest to stake out bigger ~ slip (fail)
amount: blade / knife
slipping (further) into chaos
slice (road slices, etc.) the country is ~ (the U.S.)

slices through the land slips into recession

where a creek ~ near the house Italy unexpectedly ~

slice through the town slipped in the rankings

just north of the railroad tracks that ~ the U.S. has ~ (corruption)
slices through the heart of the forest decline: direction / verb / walking, running & jumping
the Cuiabá-Santarém road, which ~ slip (sales have slipped, etc.)
road slices
the ~ through thick pine and spruce forest slipping
gun sales have been ~ under Trump
resemblance: blade / knife / verb
fictive motion: blade / knife / verb slipped 7 percent
murders ~ last year
slick (adjective)
decline: direction / verb
slick presentation increase & decrease: direction / number / verb
they put together a ~ (impeachment trial) slip (permission slip)
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech
speech: materials & substances permission slip
the US does not need a ~ to defend its security
slide (slide to perdition, etc.) the verdict is a ~ that extremists have long sought

slide to perdition complicit in the permission slip

give socialism a foothold, and nothing can arrest the ~ they must disavow him or they are ~ (politics)
decline: direction / movement behavior / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: school
& education
slide (verb)
slippery (words, etc.)
slid into a depression
she ~ of extraordinary depth and duration slippery
the word itself was ~ (the word war and Afghanistan)
decline: direction / movement / verb

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slippery state sliver of solace
closure is a ~, not so easily defined there may be a ~ in the fact that...
slippery word amount: blade / knife
that question was wrapped up in another ~: culture
slog (verb)
slippery, vague
this language has a ~ quality (Silicon Valley hype) slogged a difficult road
the team ~ to qualify for the tournament
speech: materials & substances
difficulty, easiness & effort: journeys & trips / walking,
slippery (difficult) running & jumping / verb
slippery slog (long hard slog, etc.)
the investigation will be ~ (difficult, problematic)
slog
slippery process the long running time is occasionally a ~ (a film)
the ~ of counting immigrant jobs (disagreements) in real life, politics is a ~ (victories a long time coming)
slippery, vexing slog of lockdowns and death counts
Promising Young Woman is a ~ (not easy to describe) before life turned into this ~ with no definite end (Covid)
prove slippery easy slog
predictions of ‘peak oil’ production ~ this is not going to be an ~
difficulty, easiness & effort: materials & substances lifelong slog
slippery (character) learn a language, getting there needn’t be a ~ (an ad)
long hard slog
“Slippery Jim” the fight will be a ~ (war)
James Blaine was widely known as ~ (bad reputation)
the candidates have a ~ to go (election)
character & personality: materials & substances the election campaign will be a ~
it may be a ~ to bring about regime change (in Venezuela)
slipstream (in a slipstream)
tough slog
in Tyson Fury’s slipstream it was a ~ to get that done (legislation)
Anthony Joshua is ~ now (boxing)
difficulty, easiness & effort / movement: journeys & trips /
competition / superiority & inferiority: direction / movement military / walking, running & jumping
/ plane / position / wind
slope (on a slippery slope)
slip up (fail)
on a slippery slope
slip up or hit a plateau she is ~ (celebrity bad behavior)
if you ~, don’t beat yourself up (weight loss)
danger / fate, fortune & chance / starting, going,
♦ “Iran put a banana peel in front of the United States and President
Trump put his foot right on it.” (Cali Nasir’s analysis after an Iranian proxy continuing & ending: ground, terrain & land / mountains &
militia in Iraq killed an American. The resultant US airstrike against the hills
militia resulted in an outburst of Iraqi anti-Americanism, including an
attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad.) slope (slippery slope)
failure, accident & impairment: verb / walking, running &
slope
jumping the ~ is slippery in both directions (censorship)
slip-up (failure) slippery slope towards democracy
verbal slip-ups this was the start of the ~ (South Africa)
his ~ don’t undermine his judgment (politician) slippery-slope argument
failure, accident & impairment: walking, running & jumping the ~ (relating to precedents)

sliver (piece) fear of a slippery slope

the ~ was pervasive (military intervention)
sliver of the electorate
this impacts just a small ~ start of the slippery slope
this was the ~ towards democracy (South Africa)
sliver of remorse
he express what seemed to be a grudging ~ push the state down a slippery slope
this will ~ of prosecuting thoughts (versus acts)

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send our country down this slippery slope he found himself bedeviled by the ~ (president)
nobody wants to ~ (impeachment trial / precedent)
sluggish growth
danger / fate, fortune & chance / starting, going, the report shows ~ (economy)
continuing & ending: ground, terrain & land / mountains &
sluggish pace
hills the economy is improving, but at a ~
sloppy (adjective) sluggish response
sloppy display the city will investigate the ~ to the storm
it was a ~ from Wales (soccer) remain sluggish
sloppy pass economies in the US and Europe also ~
her ~ back almost gifted Cameroon a goal (World Cup) remains sluggish
flaws & lack of flaws: hygiene hiring ~

slot (the Slot, etc.) movement: animal / speed

speed: animal / movement
“the Slot” condition & status: health & medicine / movement
the New Georgia Sound was known as ~ by the Allies slumber (noun)
the Japanese from Rabaul regularly came down ~
they brought ships through ~ to attack the US (Guadalcanal) shakes people from their slumber
Slot’s (narrow siltstone) canyon I hope this film ~ (the great Spike Lee)
it’s an easy walk through the ~ (Anza-Borrego park / CA) consciousness & awareness: sleep
slot of doom slump (verb)
“the ~” narrows to a foot at its base (Otago, NZ)
slumped
Steamer Lane-The Slot economic growth ~
~ is usually safe and works all year (reef break / surfing) ridership fell as tourism ~ (cabs)
epithet / proper name: shape slumping
geography: epithet manufacturing is ~ in recent months (employment)
slot (shape) slumping (back) into recession
slot canyons Ireland is ~ (falling exports)
the area is famous for its ~ slumped to (its third) defeat
shape: object the team ~ of the season as...

slow (adjective) slumped to a (record) low

the Syrian currency has ~
slow to ground
decline / increase & decrease: direction / verb
the FAA was ~ the 737 MAX (after two crashes)
flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness: direction /
timeliness & lack of timeliness: movement materials & substances / verb
action, inaction & delay / speed / time: movement slump (in a slump)
slug (slug something out)
in a (record) slump
slugged it out the birthrate is ~ (USA)
Obama and Clinton ~ in the primaries
remains in a (severe) slump
conflict: boxing / verb the economy ~
sluggish (adjective) decline / increase & decrease: direction

sluggish slump (other)

growth has been ~
tourism is still ~ the Slump
sales were ~ in July by 1933 ~ had spread like the plague (England)
hiring remains ~ slump in form
economies range from ~ to staggering (downturn) the club has seen an alarming ~
sluggish economy slump in home sales
everyone is feeling the effects of the ~ furniture sales have been hit by the ~

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“Trump Slump” smart (verb)
because of the ~, shops have more guns than buyers
smarting from the last couple of weeks
team’s slump people are still ~ (a bruising political battle)
he is adamant he can fix his ~ (a manager)
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / verb
economic slump
Russia’s ~ has been good for London smart (as noun)
great slump putting smart to work
the ~ could have turned into a Great Depression (2010) we’re ~ (an ad for a corporation)
ongoing slump knowledge & intelligence: part of speech
the decline in the U.S. birthrate is an ~
smart (technology)
slump is dragging on
the ~ smart bomb
~s are less likely to go astray
slump has hit ~s used to be guided by a laser
the economic ~ the nation’s truckers ~s hit the target, but rely on good intelligence
~s and stealth technology won Gulf War I
slump is worsening "brilliant" bombs are the ~s of the future
Miami’s housing ~ all-weather ~s are guided by satellites
broke out of its slump JDAM ~s are guided by inertial guidance and GPS
the team finally ~ (won) JDAM ~s are unaffected by clouds, dust, smoke
the stock of satellite-guided ~s is depleted
bucked the retail slump
the company has ~ smart cards
~ that store data have been routinely cracked
get out of their slump
the team won’t ~ until they start scoring and... smart devices
~—smart PCs, smart cell phones...
hit a slump
after years of blockbuster global sales, the iPhone has ~ smart dust
"~"—tiny digital sensors, strewn around the globe
reverse its (sales) slump ~ would monitor, measure and understand the world
the company hopes to ~ ~ remains a ways off
~ has proved impossible because sensors need power
decline / increase & decrease: direction
smart fuse
slurry (noun) a "~" for penetrating warheads uses an accelerometer
slurry of bad news smart house
this year’s exceptional ~ (2020) ~s could monitor the elderly
♦ "In this grim Welsh mining village of 5,000 there is turkey in plenty on ~ could monitor those with chronic conditions
the table, but the eyes of bereaved parents turn inevitably to empty
chairs." ("Turkey Is Plentiful But Holiday is Sad in Aberfan, Wales," NYT, smart mine
Dec. 25, 1966. One hundred and sixteen children between the ages of
seven and ten, and 28 adults, died when a mountain of coal waste
dumb mines versus ~s (self-destruct / self-deactivate)
collapsed, hitting a school.)
smart motorway
amount: mixture a grandmother died on a ~ which had the hard shoulder
opened to traffic
slut (enthusiasm)
smart munitions
photo slut targeting of assets for attack by ~ (UAVs)
~s, surfers going big on small waves for the money
smart refrigerators
stats sluts ~ can alert you to when the refrigerator door is left open
he abhors the "~" (a football analyst)
smart tractors
eagerness & reluctance / enthusiasm: sex farmers could use it to keep tabs on autonomous ~ (5G)
small-minded smart elevators and window shades
complaints about ~ (new office building)
small-minded
she's ~ "smart" licenses and visas
~ that incorporate anti-counterfeiting chips
extent & scope / mind: size

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smart crosswalks there is no evidence of a ~ (against a film)
~ flash overhead warnings when you step off the curb
smear on conservatives
smart ID card the Right condemned the report as a ~ (hate groups)
soldiers will be issued with ~s
inflammatory and misleading smears
smart and scatterable (m) he described warnings over US farming practices as ~
~ mines and their delivery vehicles (military)
reputation: mark
from dumb to smart to brilliant (m) flaws & lack of flaws / speech: mark
~ bombs (military) smell (suspicion)
♦ “We call it a smartie, and her name is Ripley.” (SpaceX vice president
Hans Koenigsmann, about the dummy named Ripley sent into space on smell right
March 2, 2019.)
something doesn't ~ (suspicion)
♦ News reader: South Yorkshire’s police and crime commissioner has
written to the government to say smart motorways should be abandoned. smells bad
Dr. Alan Billings said they were unsafe. Earlier this week, a coroner at
the inquest of two men who died on a smart motorway near Sheffield
something ~ (suspicion)
called for such roads to be reviewed... (From BBC’s Six O’clock News,
24 / 01 / 2021, “SNP sets itself on collision course with Westminster.”) smelled funny
♦ “Smart doorbells becoming more intelligent.”
it ~ to him and he turned down the deal (music)
♦ A FUNNY CARTOON. “The microwave is smart, but the refrigerator is ♦ "There’s something dead up the branch." (A Southern Appalachians
woke.” (A funny cartoon of a real-estate lady showing a kitchen to two expression. A branch is a watercourse like a creek or a stream.)
potential customers. From The New Yorker, March 6, 2017. When a ♦ “Does it smell like an ambush to you?” (From the film We Were
trendy cliche appears in a cartoon, it means that it no longer has any Soldiers, based on the book We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Lt
force of meaning. The same if it appears in a commercial. In other words, Gen (Ret.) Hal Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. Book and film are about
the term has become utterly conventionalized.) the Battle of the Ia Drang in 1965.)

knowledge & intelligence: mechanism suspicion: smell

ability & lack of ability: mechanism
smell (evidence)
smash (smash a record, etc.)
smell of disaster
smash everything it began to ~ (a public-relations offensive)
the crossword girl, she’s about to ~ (Anna Shectman)
small a phony actor
smashed the (previous) record he could ~ a mile away (the filmmaker John Ford)
he ~ (mountaineer Nirmal Purja)
smell an upset
destruction / disruption: ruins / verb they began to ~ (a team playing well)
success & failure: fist / force
looks and smells
smear (verb) it ~ like an important adaptation (to a virus)
smear my character evidence: smell
I will not let her ~ (politics)
smile (verb)
smear my reputation
she tried to ~ smiled on him
Lady Luck has ~
smeared (Chicago’s) reputation
he has ~ (false hate-crime accusation) smiled on Modi
but fortune ultimately ~ and his colleague
smear somebody
information, disinformation, ~ (current state of politics) smiled on me
God has ~
smear at will fate ~ that day
attack groups can ~ and do it anonymously (politics)
smile on the Winter Olympics
smear (people) casually Mother Nature is finally starting to ~
don’t ~ on a podcast (politics)
smiled on (affirmative action) programs
reputation: mark / verb he has ~ from the bench (a judge)
flaws & lack of flaws / speech: mark / verb
smiled on us
smear (noun) I think today Mother Nature ~ (NASA launch)
smear campaign judgment / sanctioning, authority & non-conformity: face /
the allegations are part of a ~ by opponents gesture / sign, signal, symbol / verb
the ~ is based on unjustified and groundless allegations

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smitten (effect) they may never find a “~” (SARS-CoV-2)

smitten by the song smoking gun

the letter is a ~ that shows…
I was ~
the document is the ~ (investigation of Boeing)
smitten by birding
three smoking guns
he was ~
they found ~ (forged data / academic paper withdrawn)
feeling, emotion & effect: fist / force / weapon
find a smoking gun
smitten (afflicted) prosecutors could not ~

smitten by polio finds no smoking gun

he was ~… he ~, no evidence that… (a historian)
affliction: fist / health & medicine / weapon provides the smoking gun
Madagascar ~ for… (impacts from asteroids or comets)
smoke (evidence)
turn up a "smoking gun"
smoke months of searching failed to ~ (UN / Iraq)
where there is ~, there is fire
evidence: fire / weapon
evidence / substance & lack of substance: fire
smolder (verb)
smoke (smoke clears)
smolders
smoke has cleared the conspiracy theory still ~ today (spy issue)
now that the ~, investigators… (stock-market plunges)
tensions smolder
reconciliation, resolution & conclusion: fire racial and gender ~ (hiring firefighters)
smoke and mirrors activity: fire / verb
starting, going, continuing & ending: fire / verb
smoke and mirrors
this is ~, nothing has changed (politics) smooth (verb)
he has accused ministers of using “~” over its plan...
the industry is known for ~ (digital media / numbers) smooth over their frictions
Britain and Pakistan hope to ~
smoke and mirrors deal
the government has done ~ with the energy companies smooth over its (rocky) relations
♦ “He described the case as laced with marijuana smoke and mirrors.” the Chinese military wants to ~ with the Pentagon
(Federal case against militia members collapses.)
smooth (capitalism’s) rough edges
subterfuge: magic / theater her policies aim to ~ (a progressive)
smoke out (verb) smooth relations
officials hope to ~ with Beijing
smoke out the opposition
he is trying to ~ amelioration & renewal: hardness & softness / sensation /
verb
smoke out the truth
he decided he would ~ (investigation) smooth (smooth the road, etc.)
pursuit, capture & escape: fire / verb smooth the road
concealment & lack of concealment: fire / verb there is no way to ~ to assimilation (forget racial past)
smokescreen (concealment) amelioration & renewal: infrastructure / journeys & trips
smokescreen smooth (speech)
his aggressiveness is just a ~
smooth talker
smokescreen to divert attention he is a ~
it was a ~ away from discontent (politics)
speech: materials & substances / sensation / taste
subterfuge: fire / military sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: speech
concealment & lack of concealment: fire / military
smooth (character)
smoking gun
smooth and self-assured
smoking bat he is ~ (a politician)

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character & personality: materials & substances / snag (noun)
sensation
technical snag
smooth (lack of flaws) a ~ aborted the test launch (satellite rocket)
smooth ride hit a snag
the team's season has not been a ~ (sports) negotiations ~ over…
smooth transfer ♦ "Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great
steamer in her marks in that murky waste of water, one should know that
he seeks to ensure a ~ of power to his son not only must she pick her intricate way through snags and blind reefs,
and then shave the head of the island so closely as to brush the
smooth transition overhanging foliage with her stern, but at one place she must pass
the new administration has made a ~ almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would
snatch the hull timbers from under her if she should strike it, and destroy
smooth and speedy a quarter of a million dollars' worth of steam-boat and cargo in five
minutes, and maybe a hundred and fifty human lives into the bargain."
we should encourage a ~ transition to democracy (Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.)
flaws & lack of flaws: hardness & softness / materials & obstacles & impedance: river
substances / sensation
snail (at a snail's pace)
smorgasbord (noun)
at a snail's pace
smorgasbord of sound moving ~ is the norm above 8,000 meters (climbing)
the musical festival offers a virtually limitless ~ (SXSW)
moving at a snail's pace
smorgasbord of meetings queues are ~ (Passports Department)
the annual gathering is a ~ (UN general assembly)
speed: animal
biggest smorgasbord
it’s the ~ on TV (Olympics coverage) snail (snail's pace / other)
veritable smorgasbord snail's pace of the investigation
he admitted to a ~ of fraudulent conduct (politics) the ~ (murder)
alternatives & choices: food & drink snail's pace of (scientific) publishing
amount / group, set & collection: food & drink the ~
smother (amount and effect) speed: animal

smothered her (little) boy with love snake (insult)

she ~ and attention
snake
smothered the trio in hugs and kisses the guy was a ~ (got her in trouble)
her grandmother ~ you don't play with ~s and not expect to get bit
amount & effect: breathing / verb snake and a traitor
Sanders loyalists called Warren a ~ (no endorsement)
smother (cover) ♦ “There are no snakes in Vermont, but there are Vermonters.”
smothered the grenade with his body character & personality: animal / person / snake
he shouted a warning and ~ (combat) insult / person: animal / person / snake
smothered the ball snake (head of the snake)
the goalkeeper ~ to prevent the own goal (soccer)
head of the snake
sand dunes smother he is the ~ (a terrorist leader)
~ empty homes (desertification / northwest China) Raqqa is the ~ (IS)
cover: breathing / verb
hit the head of the snake
smother (oppress) I want to ~ of IS in Raqqa (David Cameron)

smothered me with their rules described as the head of the snake

they ~ (angry teen about her parents) he was ~ (a people-trafficking kingpin)
♦ “The jihadist threat in Africa has many heads and tentacles.”
campaign to smother
an unsuccessful ~ separatist ambitions affliction: animal / snake

oppression: breathing / verb

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snake (cut off the head of the snake, etc.) snake (snake-bit)
cut off the snake’s head snake-bit
if you want to resolve a problem, you should ~ (war) I’m ~ (Spike Lee on losing two Oscars to “driving” movies)
the Iraqi government has ~ (al-Zarqawi) ♦ This means having bad luck, bad fortune. There are many snakes, but
few people get bitten.
cut off the head of the snake
the King urged Washington to “~” fate, fortune & chance: animal / snake

cut the head off the snake snake oil (noun)

they are urging the US to ~ (war)
you have to ~ if you want to kill it (cricket match-fixing) snake-oil merchants
~ who promise protection (bogus cures)
cut the head off a snake
we’re trying to ~, but the body is so damned long (crime) vulnerable to snake oil
it’s better to ~ before it grows and reproduces (Taliban) people who are desperate are ~ (health)
worth & lack of worth: animal / health & medicine / snake
taken off the head of the snake
now we have ~ we’re winning (against terrorism) snake pit
♦ There’s a saying that if you cut the head off a snake, two more will
grow. snake-pit atmosphere
♦ “They cut off the head of the snake, Gaddafi. But now there are the news division is known for having a ~ (ABC)
hundreds of snakes replacing him. We are still fighting for the same
thing—to find a just ruler for Libya.” (Anwar Suwan of Libya.) media snake pit
♦ “The Asheville School Board of Trustees is the root of the problem. jump into the ~
Until the head of the snake goes, the rest is not going to get cleaned up.” ♦ Psychiatric hospitals were referred to as snake pits for their chaos,
(An alumna of a high school supporting a sexual-abuse victim at her distress and horror.
alma mater and calling for the resignations of two men.)
environment: animal / hole / mental health / snake
destruction: animal / head / snake
conflict: animal / hole / snake
snake (a trail can snake, etc.) danger: animal / snake

snake downward snap (verb)

the trails ~ (public cave) snapped
snaked (its way) eastward he had a short fuse and he just ~ (troubled veteran)
the road ~ failure, accident & impairment / feeling, emotion & effect:
snaked down the streets materials & substances / rope / verb
lines of voters ~ outside polling places (Lusaka) snapshot (picture)
snakes between Boston and Cambridge
the Charles River ~
snapshot of the epidemic
the studies were the first to provide a ~ in the US
snake through the city
miles of fencing ~ (Washington DC security)
snapshot of what
first, just give us a ~ you’ve been seeing... (NPR)
snake through the wilderness characterization: picture
logging roads ~
snare (verb)
snaked through the long hallways
lines of people ~ (congressional hearing) snared real people
snakes (more than) 300 miles his website had ~ (fake news)
the Trans-Ecuadorean pipeline ~ involvement: hunting / verb
snakes from Lago Agrio to the Pacific pursuit, capture & escape: hunting / verb
the Trans-Ecuadorean pipeline ~ snarl (verb)
trails snake snarled travel
the ~ downward (public cave) the storm ~ (snow)
pipeline snakes obstacles & impedance: rope / verb
the Trans-Ecuadorean ~ more than 300 miles
snarl (impedance)
fictive motion / movement: animal / snake / verb
resemblance: animal / snake / verb untangle the (supply) snarls

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 it could take a while to ~ (the economy) resemblance: sleep / verb
obstacles & impedance: rope snout (orientation)
snarl (speech) glacier’s snout
a ~ can advance or retreat
snarled
♦ “Pigs can play video games with their snouts, Scientists find,” BBC,
“Shut up!” he ~ Feb 1, 2021.)
speech: animal / sound / verb orientation: animal / direction / nose
sound: animal / verb
snow (marine snow, etc.)
snatch (verb)
plankton and “marine snow”
snatched defeat from victory sea squirts feed on ~ (dead debris and faeces)
athletes who have ~
resemblance: snow & ice
snatched victory
his late goal ~ (soccer) snowball (verb)
taking & removing: hand / verb snowball
fictive possession: hand / verb their problems ~ (newly homeless)
sneeze (verb) snowballed across the internet
truth pages have ~ (racism in education / Great Britain)
sneezes
if Wall Street ~, Europe gets a cold snowballed into beatings
the abuse ~ (school)
relationship / transmission: bodily reaction / health &
medicine / verb snowball into panic
a false alarm can ~
sniff out (verb)
snowball into something
sniffed out a new avenue this could ~ much worse (trade war)
he soon ~ for his marketing genius (Southern Poverty Law
Center) snowball into trouble
these trends could ~ for the US (conduct of war)
sniff out intelligence
spies ~ snowballed from there
it ~ and the interest never died (windsurfing)
sniffed out the rot
Shevardnadze ~ in the system (Georgia) snowballed out of control
it was an accident that ~ (murder trial)
searching & discovery: smell / verb
evidence: smell / verb snowballed and avalanched
it quickly ~ (late August 2020 sports protest)
snipe (verb)
continued to snowball
snipe from the sidelines the effects ~
tradition dictates former presidents don’t ~
started to snowball
accusation & criticism: weapon / verb the number of her Instagram followers ~
speech: weapon / verb
scandal has snowballed
sniping (noun) the ~
Gingrich's sniping increase & decrease: snow & ice / verb
~ has left Romney better prepared for… (politics) relationship: snow & ice / verb
digital sniping snowball (snowball effect)
the comment produced more ~ (politics)
snowball effect
accusation & criticism: military / weapon entitlements like these always seem to have a ~
speech: military / weapon
chain reaction, a snowball effect
snooze (verb) this will create a ~ (falling in a crowd crush)
snooze beside walls and in museum courtyards created a snowball effect
cannons ~ (Istanbul) the media and public fascination with serial murder ~

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increase & decrease: snow & ice toll soars
relationship: snow & ice landslide death ~
snowflake (person) increase & decrease: direction / flying & falling / numbers /
verb
today’s snowflakes
Pogba and ~ are an embarrassment (rabid soccer fan) soar (a heart can soar)
targets snowflakes hearts soared
the ad campaign ~ (British Army) our ~ when we realized that...
♦ A similar term to snowflake is teacup. In the old days, such people
were compared to plants: a shrinking violet; a pansy; a wallflower. The heart: direction / flying & falling
modern update on that is orchid (versus a dandelion). feeling, emotion & effect: direction / flying & falling / heart
character & personality / strength & weakness: hardness & sober (verb)
softness / person / snow & ice
person: snow & ice sobered voters about the costs
Iraq has ~ of big wars
snuff (verb)
feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol / verb
snuffed the rally with an interception
they ~ (football) sober (adjective)
snuffed out the movement sober assessment
a series of high-profile arrests soon ~ (in Syria) the panel has issued a ~ of National Defense Strategy

curtailment / destruction: fire / verb sober reminder

this report is a ~ of the expensive legacy costs of...
soaked
feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol
sun-soaked
the highway runs along ~ Pacific beaches (Hawaii) sobering (adjective)
absorption & immersion: water sobering end
Scotland’s dream came to a ~ (Euro 2020)
soak up (verb)
sobering figures
soaked up the sun these are ~
she ~
sobering realization
absorption & immersion: verb / water it was a ~ (owners find their cat is obese)
soap opera (noun) feeling, emotion & effect: alcohol
soap opera soft (soft on crime, etc.)
it’s the greatest ~ of the year (NBA Draft)
this continuing ~ surround his career (Ray Mancini) soft on Australia
he does not want to be painted as ~ (Indonesian politics)
soap opera with bad actors
I find it a ~ (group stage of Champions League soccer) soft on crime
he tarred his challenger as ~ (George HW Bush / Clinton)
perennial soap opera
Real Madrid is a ~ (conspiracy, intrigue, passion, etc.) soft on illegal immigration
he is ~
royal soap opera
this is a ~ about members of a royal family... soft on sleaze
he has been accused of being ~ (Boris Johnson)
attention, scrutiny & promotion: theater
feeling, emotion & effect: theater strength & weakness: hardness & softness

soar (verb) soft (soft opening, etc.)

career was soaring soft deadline
his ~ (an academic) a ~ can encourage without the negative effects
rents are soaring soft launch
~ (in France) NBC introduced the website with a ~ (NBCBLK)
sales and profits soared soft opening
~ (a drug company) the ~ is a tried-and-true tactic (getting ready, etc.)

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timeliness & lack of timeliness: hardness & softness possession: ground, terrain & land
softball (noun) soldier (noun)
softball questions soldier in a team
TV interviewers lobbed ~ at him I’m a ~, I do what I’m told (a jockey)
she’s only fielded ~ from her own lawyer (a trial)
soldier in the (culture) wars
difficulty, easiness & effort: sports & games if you are a ~
soften (verb) good soldier
the best way to rebuild her political capital was to be a ~
soften the blow Laura is such a ~ and good person (her error cost game)
the program intends to ~ of the economic downturn he decided to play the ~ and not make a fuss (a diplomat)
soften their image loyal soldier
the rebels are on a mission to ~ he was more a ~ (vice-presidential debate)
soften the impact good little soldier
the military is trying to ~ (families greet coffins) I need you to be a soldier of God, a ~
soften the law ♦ “I need you to be a soldier of God, a good little soldier.” (Female victim
testimony from the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA) /
lawmakers have tried to ~ (marijuana) Ryan Commission, which detailed Catholic Church abuse in Ireland.)
softened her stance ♦ “I mean, I’ve been in the Twitter war zone for a while, it takes a lot to
phase me at this point. You can’t take it personally, none of these people
she has ~ on the issue actually know you. It’s like if you’re fighting a war and there’s some
opposing soldier that shoots at you, it’s not like they hate you. They don’t
attenuation: hardness & softness / verb even know you. So, just think of it like that. They’re firing bullets,
soften (speech) whatever, but they don’t know you, so don’t take it personally.” (Elon
Musk talking to Joe Rogan.)
♦ “That declaration of war makes Liz Chaney a key general in a rear-
soften his tone guard action against the former president. The problem for her is that
the president appeared to ~ (tariffs) there are few if any foot soldiers ready to follow her lead.” (BBC, Six
O’clock News, 12/05/21.)
softened their tone ♦ “Embracing collaborations...is critical to our shared success, and a
the US and China have ~ (dispute) force multiplier for delivering top-notch journalism across the country.”
(Senior Vice President of News and Editorial Director Nancy Barnes.)
speech: hardness & softness / verb
♦ “We are here to provide you the approved short-term substitute
amelioration & renewal: hardness & softness / verb training. I’m sorta the captain of today’s shift, and I’ve got a wonderful
softheaded (and soft-headed) crew...” (Chicago education.)
♦ “Yeah, they have these belts on with like all these extra bullets and
they’re like dressed for war.” (Leah talking to her Brit producer, Georgia,
soft-headed son of a bitch for their podcast about the militia movement.)
I’ll reform you, you ~ (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
♦ “Nobody can soldier without coffee.” (A Union cavalryman, writing in
character & personality: hardness & softness / head 1865.)

insult: hardness & softness / head ♦ Who won the war? / The MPs won it. / How’d they win it? / Why, their
mothers and sisters laying for Liberty Bonds. (Infantry chant while
softhearted (and soft-hearted) marching past MPs. From From Here to Eternity by James Jones.)
♦ "I weighed one hundred eighty going in, and I came out weighing one
soft-hearted woman hundred fourteen...” (From Once Upon a Town, the Miracle of the North
she's a ~ Platte Canteen by the brilliant Chicago Tribune writer Bob Greene.)
♦ "There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's
character & personality: heart more like Portsmouth." (A British soldier, on hearing that the British
heart: hardness & softness defense secretary Geoff Hoon had asserted that Umm Qasr, Iraq, was
like Southampton.)
soil (fertile soil, etc.) ♦ "Camp Lejeune." (A US marine in Afghanistan, who had also served in
Iraq, on being asked where he felt the threat was most dire. Camp
fertile soil for the cultivation Lejeune is in North Carolina in the United States.)
Pakistan has proved to be ~ of terrorist activity ♦ “In combat, cleanliness for the infantryman was all but impossible. Our
filth added to our general misery. Fear and filth went hand in hand...”
perfect soil for a growing insurgency (With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge.)
that chaos was the ~ (Iraq)
allegiance, support & betrayal / work & duty: military
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant
soldier on (verb)
soil (on one's soil)
soldiered on
on its soil she and her mother ~ (in poverty, after divorce)
the government will protect foreign diplomats ~
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 his teammates had to ~ (red-carded) they fear her ~ will flood both sides (raising sluice gages)
♦ In 1941, 10-11 May, during the blitz, London firefighters had to make a
soldiered on through (the last months of) 1964 Solomonic choice: fight the fire in the chamber of the House of
as Joni ~ (poor, pregnant, unmarried) Commons or the fire on the roof of Westminster Hall. They chose to save
Westminster Hall.
♦ “Roll on, drive on, soldier on...”
♦ “Wiiiiide River! / Wiiiiide River! / River, of Saigon! / River, of Saigon! / judgment: allusion / Bible / religion
Wiiiiide River / Wiiiiide River! / Oh! One more river to cross / Oh! One
more river to cross.” (Marching cadence, Vietnam War training at Fort
comparison & contrast: affix
Knox. In Vietnam, the Vietnam War is called the American War.) somebody (a somebody)
resiliency / starting, going, continuing & ending / survival,
somebody
persistence & endurance / work & duty: military /
I went from being a ~ to being a nobody (immigrant)
movement / prep, adv, adj, particle / verb
importance & significance / power / society: person
solid (adjective)
son (son of the South, etc.)
solid evidence
there is no ~ that… son of the hills
like many a ~, he... (southern Appalachians)
solid bet
investing in gold is not a ~ son of the (October) Revolution
I am a ~ (an elderly Russian, born in 1917)
solid footing
the company is on ~ (profitable, etc.) sons of the soil
we are the ~, we shouldn’t leave (Hamid Karzai)
solid foundation
terrorism has weakened the ~ of our democracy identity & nature: family / person

solid performance soothe (sensation)

she had a ~ (an athlete)
soothe concerns
solid (backup) plan what he said did not ~
the team has a ~
amelioration & renewal / feeling, emotion & effect: health
solid results & medicine / sensation / verb
the bank has shown ~
soothsayer (person)
rock solid
the case law is ~ (suit should fail) soothsayer
he said the relationship with France was “~” (UK) I’m not a ~, I don’t have a crystal ball
there were some ~s who were saying... (election results)
rock-solid
their ~ case began to crumble (murder) market soothsayers
she was a ~ witness (in murder case) TV allowed the ~ to reach a voracious audience

look solid media soothsayers

the economies of Southeast Asia ~ all these ~ are crazy (sports)

remain solid stock market soothsayer

the ties between our two countries ~ secrets of the ~ (David Schwartz)

flaws & lack of flaws / strength & weakness / substance & future / message / time: magic / person / religion
lack of substance: equilibrium & stability / materials & person: magic / religion
substances sore (affliction)
Solomonic (adjective) running sore
Bloody Sunday became a ~ in the body politic (Ireland)
Solomonic choice
firefighters had to make a ~ (choose which fire to fight) affliction: health & medicine
Solomonic compromise sore (sensation)
supporters of the decision regarded it as a ~ (politics)
sore loser
Solomonic decision he's just a ~ (boxer complains of decision)
the three-judge panel made a ~
sore spot
Solomonic solution regional rivalries are a particular ~ (Central Asia)
she suggested a ~

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sore subject soul-searching
money can be a ~ in any relationship
soul-searching
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves
after much ~ we decided…
& bone I did some ~, it was a wakeup call to me (athlete)
sorely there will be ~ (boxing champ loses in shock defeat)

sorely missed career-oriented soul-searching

he did some ~
she was hugely loved, and she will be ~ by so very many
feeling, emotion & effect: sensation / skin, muscle, nerves national soul-searching
the Holocaust memorial is the result of years of ~
& bone
analysis, interpretation & explanation: religion
sorrow (China’s Sorrow, etc.)
sound (perception)
China’s Sorrow
the river is known as ~ (the Yellow River) sound of that
feeling, emotion & effect / geography: epithet I don't like the ~

sort out (analyze) perception, perspective & point of view: sound

sound (measure)
sort it (all) out
joining us to ~ is our media correspondent... sounds (dark comedic) depths
analysis, interpretation & explanation: mechanism the play ~

soul (bare one’s soul) measurement: depth / verb / water

extent & scope: depth / verb / water
bare their souls to the authorities sound (solid)
it is not easy for women to ~ (rape, sex abuse)
concealment & lack of concealment: religion scientifically sound
their theory isn’t ~ (about autism and the brain)
sincerity, lack of sincerity & honesty: religion
soul (heart and soul) flaws & lack of flaws: materials & substances
strength & weakness: materials & substances
see heart and soul
sound off (verb)
soul (identity)
sound off
soul citizens phoned in to ~
every place has its ~ (Solovetsky Islands) ♦ Sound off. / One-two. / Sound off! / Three-four! / Bring it on down. /
One two three four one two...three-four! (Military cadence.)
soul of the dance
the hand is the ~ (Cambodia) speech: military / sound / verb
resistance, opposition & defeat: speech / verb
soul of the Democratic Party
she has won a critical battle for the ~ (anti-Semitic Somali) soup (mixture)
soul of snowboarding soup of pollutants
he was the ~ (Jake Burton Carpenter) the fish live in a ~ (tomcod in New York)

political soul mixture: food & drink

a window into the dark corners of our ~ (conspiracies) soup (alphabet soup)
identity & nature: religion
alphabet soup
soul (sell one’s soul to the devil, etc.) he dislike the alphabet soup (LGBTQ+)

sell my soul to the devil alphabet soup of choices

I'd ~ for… we have the ~ (federal organizations and their initialisms)
hyperbole: money / verb alphabet-soup designation
wants, needs, hopes & goals: money / verb the ~ for sexual minorities
commitment & determination: money / verb
alphabet-soup of law enforcement
the ~ that’s here (Louisville protests)
mixture: food & drink / letters & characters

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sour (verb) going south quick
things were ~ (California wildfire)
souring on the (administration's) handling
polls show the public is ~ of the catastrophe went south
that’s when things ~ (runaway locomotive)
soured many on service then, things ~
a variety of things has ~ (military reservists) things ~ pretty quickly
crop prices ~ (worries of trade war)
soured investors the economy ~ and jobs dried up
uncertainty over legislation has further ~ (Mexico) something ~ in the prosecutor’s case, perhaps a witness
soured relations there was hope of an agreement, but things ~
the incident ~ between the two countries went (seriously) south
sour the relationship something ~ in the prosecution’s case (charges dropped)
raising the question of human rights could ~ (diplomacy) ♦ Michele Kelemen: “... [B]ut, you know, these promises could be hard to
keep if things go south quickly for this Afghan government. / Audi
Cornish: Not just south, I mean, if there’s a threat that the government
soured some could collapse, what are you, what are you as diplomats doing to try and
her decision ~ in law enforcement (a district attorney) head that off?” (A very interesting and very odd conversation. Interesting
because Audi Cornish seems to react sharply to the use of the cliché
relationship soured “head south” and very correctly restates the meaning as, “if there’s a
but the ~ (between two politicians) threat that the government could collapse...” But odd because Michele
Kelemen does not represent the State Department, she is NPR’s
relationship has soured diplomatic correspondent. Were the two of them “acting out” a script?
From “Biden To Meet With Afghanistan Leaders As Sept. 11 U.S. Troop
the ~ between museums and archaeologists Withdrawal Nears,” All Things Considered, June 25, 2021.)
corruption: food & drink / taste / verb ♦ See direction (symbol) for quotations about the cardinal directions as
metaphors.
feeling, emotion & effect: food & drink / taste / verb
failure, accident & impairment: direction / verb
sour (adjective)
decline: direction / verb
sour taste
the whole experience left a ~ in my mouth sow (verb)
gone sour sowed farmlands and fields with mines
her perfect marriage had ~ combatants ~ (Balkans)

turn sour sown grief here

when did the relationship ~ they have ~, they are destroying us (warfare)
so soon had victory begun to ~ (Amundsen)
sowed violence across the region
turned sour extremists have ~ (Northern Caucasus)
his life in England ~
sow chaos
went sour Assad's fall could ~ in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon
a series of business ventures ~
sowed (such) confusion
consumption / corruption: food & drink / taste he and his legal advisers ~ that… (a general)
sour (personality) sowed discord
sour person the act ~ that lasted for years
she’s a ~ sow fear
character & personality: food & drink / taste they use terrorism to ~ and undermine security
snipers ~ (combat)
south (numbers)
sowed fear
went south
the killings have ~ and apprehension (sniper murders)
crop prices ~ (worries of trade war)
sow goodwill
direction: numbers
you can ~ by referring them to competitors (business)
south (go south, etc.) sow instability
heading south the drug war has helped ~, particularly in Bolivia
the lifeless Gunners are ~ (failing Arsenal football team) the insurgents seek to ~ (Iraq)

going south sow malware

she knew things were ~ when he locked the door (rape) they ~ that cripples networks (criminals / ransomware)

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sow the seeds in the same space
enforced potty sitting can ~ of rebellion (toddlers) they were just there ~ sharing life (white & black in school)
sowing the seeds situation: container / space
he could be ~ of a new disaster (price control)
space (personal space)
sown the seeds
this successes may have ~ of his demise (business) their own space
you have to let people have ~ (ignore behavior in ghetto)
sow terror you just look past it, because everyone deserves ~ (ghetto)
shooting and carjacking rampage ~ through city (news)
space and privacy
sow doubt and defeatism as a family we ask to be given ~ to mourn...
a psy-op to ~ (military)
back down or give her space
sowed fear and apprehension French officials didn’t ~, they threatened her (Naomi Osaka)
the killings have ~ around the area (sniper)
give her the space
sow fear and distress and anger it’s important that we ~ and time she needs (troubled)
terrorists know that headlines ~
given yourself space
♦ "He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind."
once you’ve ~, approach the person who harassed you...
creation & transformation / growth & development /
give more space
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / plant /
native English speakers can talk less to ~ to non-native
verb speakers
sown (planted) invading their space
sown in (such) a field women felt he was ~ and it was unwanted (a politician)
antipersonnel mines should not be ~ until… respect my space
throwing, putting & planting: farming & agriculture / plant / please ~, you do not have a mask on (noncompliant Black
woman to a policeman)
verb
♦ “The first day I was there, everyone tried to do everything for me. But
sown (mine-sown, etc.) now they give me space. This is a place I can study and achieve my
goals.” (Mary Bailey the only female in a welding course with 18 males
students.)
mine-sown
a ~ strip of earth (border) ♦ “Back off; get out of my face; get your hands off me; I don’t need your
help...” (Common reactions to those who violate a person’s space.)
configuration: farming & agriculture / plant ♦ “If approached by a bear, park officials recommend slowly backing
away to put distance between yourself and the animal, creating space for
space (in a space, etc.) it to pass.” (Great Smoky Mountains National Park.)

in a space where constraint & lack of constraint: boundary

anytime I’m ~ I’m scared (a teen debater) space (groups, etc.)
in spaces with people
space where
in 2021, more robots will coexist ~
we created a ~ it’s okay to criticize Israel (BLM)
in spaces like that anytime I’m in a ~ I’m scared (teen debater)
I’m used to ~ fighting for air time (a Zoom meeting) social media is a ~ authors can... (an advertisement)
President Trump has opened a ~ people are emboldened
in this space
companies that play ~ are... (semiconductor fabrication) spaces where
she is a thought leader ~ (modifying boy’s identities) when there are ~ we can flourish (Black debaters)
the dearth of ~ you can hear people speak honestly
in these spaces
Black people are ~ (safe access to nature / Black birders) space of their own
so many people have to live ~ (basement apartments) they made a ~ (opened a lesbian club)

in the media space space of the strange

tech giants collect the lion’s share of revenue, profits ~ she hardly the first musician to occupy the ~

in those social-media spaces space of remembrance and healing

followers ~ (on the internet) the Gun Violence Memorial Project is a ~

in educational spaces spaces of employment and education

whiteness ~ (title of session at teachers’ conference) our ancestors fought to occupy ~ (a Dunghutti woman)

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space of empathy, of love, of understanding, of safety online space
we always will work together to create ~ (University of TikTok has enabled a lot of people to jump into the ~
Chicago)
workspace
space for (rebellious) artists Black people in the ~
“Political Art” show provides a ~ (Poland) as people return to the ~ (vaccination requirements)
spaces (in sport) for trans athletes cool spaces
I want ~ to be their authentic selves (a trans athlete) many are affected by the lack of access to ~ (heatwave)
space for honest chats brave space
it was a ~ (a podcast) the term ~ was first popularized in 2013
space for cooperation commemorative spaces
we must confront, compete but also leave that ~ (China) less than 1% of our ~ tell Latinx, indigenous stories...
space for people digital spaces
I want to contribute to creating a ~ to be heard ~ where the far-right gather...
spaces for them to make friends Digital Spaces
there aren’t a lot of ~ (young gays / exploited on Grindr) Performing Arts Education in ~
spaces in the 1980s educational space
lesbian and queer ~ (gay bars) whiteness in ~s (title of session at teachers’ conference)
it also feels like an ~ (lesbian bar with older and younger)
space racism
~ associates black neighborhoods, or spaces, with violence elite spaces
these kind of microcosms, in these very ~ (a private school)
women’s spaces
men’s intrusion into ~ “free space”
advocating the exclusion of trans women from ~ (group) the term ~ was first used by Harry C. Boyte
our spaces geopolitical space
women must not allow men into ~ (Women’s Movement) the Arctic, a new ~ (Kathleen Hicks)
their own space gracious spaces
you have to let people have ~ (ignore behavior in ghetto) ~ in school (kids sit knee to knee, discuss concerns)
you just look past it, because everyone deserves ~ (ghetto)
greenspace
no space it is a vital ~ for all New Yorkers (Central Park)
there should be ~ for them (mushers who abuse dogs)
new spaces
arts space Knight Lab wants to push journalism into ~ (Northwestern)
the storied Lower East Side ~ (the Nuyorican Poets Café)
non-essential spaces
community space the mayor has threated to close all ~ (pandemic)
for 50 years the store has been that ~ for Chinatown
personal space
burial spaces a threat to ~ is tragically palpable (police shootings)
these cemeteries and ~ are precious black spaces (Burr Oak)
political space
locker room spaces being outrageous lets you occupy the ~
ensure ~, sports facilities and stadiums are less homophobic
public spaces
drug-treatment space recontextualize the country’s current ~ and add new ones
people who work in the ~ in Puerto Rico... protestors have taken over ~
attempts to bar Blacks from celebrating in ~ (Juneteenth)
crypto space he’s been stopped for skateboarding in ~ before
China has for some time been putting pressure on the ~ removing dangerous explosives from ~ (munitions depots)
white-majority spaces sacred space
some blacks code-switch when entering ~ he had to reimagine what a ~ looks like (architect)
information space safe space
the ~ is full of noise (fakes, disinformation, theories) ~ is always imaginary
lesbian spaces ~s have been credited with producing radical identities
we honor the history of ~ in the US (lesbian bars) ~s are very powerful sites
create a ~ at home (kids and post-lockdown anxiety)

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 it was a ~ so that they could be themselves (Moms’ Club) men’s ~
this is not a ~ for people of color (sorority disbands)
you think you’re in a ~ at work (fatal accident on film set) much space left
there isn’t ~ to say you support Israel in the liberal camp
same space
you have two national movements competing for the ~ spaces and actors
(Israelis and Palestinians) misinformation originates from ~ (on the internet)

smaller space space and opportunity

to be female is to exist in a ~, to take up less room our goal is ensuring ~ for potential protestors (a mayor)

social spaces spaces and opportunities

~ that offer a sense of safety or security the demand for “proper” English can be used to shut people
out of ~
virtual space
in a place called Clubhouse, a ~, an app that launched... space and place
there will be ~a for black and Latino creators (Sundance) freedom and slavery, ~ (social and cultural analysis)

white space space and time

a ~ that expects her to perform whiteness (high school) it’s important that we give her the ~ she needs (troubled)

white spaces providing a space

what it means to occupy predominantly ~ while black it’s about bringing people together, ~ (Chinatown store)
(University of Chicago) claiming and protecting space
important and fascinating space ~ has always been fundamental in anti-racist protest
women athletes have carved out an ~ in the podcast access (queer) spaces
landscape before the pandemic, I could ~ (gay bars)
large urban space allow men into our spaces
Paris is a city with the challenges of any ~ women must not ~ (Women’s Movement)
majority white spaces arrived at this space
misidentifying people of color in ~ (work, media, etc.) I wish that I would’ve ~ in my earlier years (contriteness?)
perilous cultural space breach a space
a powerful treatise on the ~ occupied by Black women... trying to ~ (2021 riot at Capital)
positive, safe and empowering space build spaces
our goal is to create a ~ where... (Morphe cosmetics) I wanted to ~ where women could be free and shine (an
precious black spaces Afghan beauty parlour)
these cemeteries and burial spaces are ~ (Burr Oak crime) create a space
rhetorical and aesthetic space I wanted to ~ where everyone can feel safe (bookstore)
reclaim and repurpose the ~ of country music (Mali create a (safe) space
Obomsawin) ~ at home (kids and post-lockdown anxiety)
virtual digital space create spaces
“inhabiting a black persona” in ~ (digital blackface) ~ for artists, especially LGTBQIA communities of color
tranquil, multi-generational female space dominates that space
the ~ of Afsoon’s beauty salon (Afghanistan) the US ~, whether it’s Instagram, Facebook
2,500-acre space engaged in that space
20 more elephants are expected at the ~ (Yulee refuge) the players, the media and all of those ~ (media / tennis)
representation in all the spaces gave ourselves the space
so that we have that ~ ( black teen debaters) we never really ~ to ask that question (Muslim women)
dearth of space get into spaces
given the ~ where you can hear people speak honestly DJing or trying to ~ to DJ, I felt very unwelcome (female)
(Clubhouse)
give her the space
disappearance of lesbian spaces it’s important that we ~ and time she needs (troubled)
the slow ~ (lesbian bars)
given us space
intrusion into (women’s) spaces the conversation has ~ to say, “I don’t agree with...”

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grant space take up (less) space
it’s important to ~ to women (a male feminist) women have been taught to ~ in a patriarchal world (be
quiet, be small)
had the space
we haven’t ~ to politically organize (young Palestinian) take up (more) space
I try to cry quietly so that I don’t ~ (Robin DiAngelo)
held the space
my dear friend Shameka ~ at Injustice Square for 120 days shut people out of spaces
the demand for “proper English” can be used to ~ and
learn your (garden) space opportunities
it takes 5 years to ~ (growing a garden)
struggle for, occupy, craft, and mark space
leave some space ~ in order to establish ownership and autonomy
the ruling seemed to ~ for future lawsuits
♦ “Space is a feminist issue.”
make a space ♦ “I try to cry quietly so that I don’t take up more space.” (Robin
there is not space for much in the South, so you just have to DiAngelo. She coined the term “White fragility” which has been
characterized as silence, defensiveness, argumentation, certitude, and
~ (two Black women start a lesbian bar) pushback.)
made spaces ♦ “I want spaces in sport for trans athletes to be their authentic selves
and compete at the highest level, and know they are loved and that they
these artists ~ where women could share thoughts, feelings belong there.” (Chris Mosier, about transgender athletes at the Tokyo
Olympics.)
make space
♦ “Harrison announced that his would be a safe space and also a brave
women shrink to ~ (vs. men, who take space) space where everybody could say things that were hard to say, without
being judged.” (“Guns Down: With the number of shooting deaths rising,
negotiate this space Shaina Harrison is teaching kids to turn anger into advocacy,” by Ian
how to ~ and develop a “cyberspace literacy” (internet) Frazier, The New Yorker, April 5, 2021. Harrison was addressing ninth
graders.)
occupies space ♦ “We’ve given them the flexibility to kind of determine what their spaces
she unapologetically ~, literally and figuratively (Aidy look like...you know, do they want to do rows...?” (Qynne Kelly,
Bryant) Associate Principal at Lincoln High School, Des Moines, about the
guidelines teachers have for setting up their classrooms during the
occupy space pandemic.)
men spread, utilize and ~ (vs. women) ♦ “We feel very proud to be Asian here, and we want to share kind of
culture and space with each other but also with the rest of the city.”
occupy the (political) space (Joanne Kwong, President, Pearl River Mart.)
being outrageous lets you ~ ♦ “People have become accustomed to more car-free spaces during the
pandemic.” (Cities block streets so restaurant patrons can dine in the
occupy that space road, socially spaced. Ordinarily, this would be express as “car-free
zones.”)
I had to research him before I could ~ (actor about a role)
♦ “It’s so unfortunate that marginalized communities are in competition
occupy predominantly white spaces for the tiny allotment of space that society gives them.” (Ani DiFranco.)
what it means to ~ while black (University of Chicago) ♦ “Watts (2001) has made the argument that to have a voice an agent
must find a space where the voice can be concretized... The connection
opening up this space between voice and space becomes particularly critical when such a
space is denied in the real world through marginalizing forces and a new
her case is ~ to have these conversations where... (mental space needs to be carved out.” (“Voices of the Marginalized on the
health and tennis) Internet” by Ananda Mitra.)
♦ “Black folk have always been aware that we’ve been excluded and
putting pressure on the (crypto) space othered. Even in spaces we’ve managed to create for ourselves, [non-
China has for some time been ~ Black] people violently infiltrate and occupy these spaces with no respect
to the architects who built it.” (Eric Louis, age 21, a Black TikTok
reclaims the (genre) space “creator” who helped to organize the #BlackTikTokStrike, to protest
the creator ~ for people of color (a horror film) cultural appropriation and preferential treatment.)
♦ “The industry caught up to my ambitions and created space for me to
reclaiming space have my voice.” (“Faces of NPR HBCU Edition: Kia Miakka Natisse,”
Ashley Minner, ~ for the Lumbee Indians of Baltimore Sommer Hill, NPR, February 16, 2022.)
♦ “It really is an unusual space in which we can come together and
share a space socialize and it doesn’t feel anything like Zoom.” (The 2021 virtual
figuring out how to ~ with predatory people (artwork) Sundance Film Festival.)
♦ “NPR arts editor Nina Gregory was an early adopter of Clubhouse—
take (their own) space which she calls the ‘third space’ during the pandemic. The third space
black characters leisurely ~ (the artist Elizabeth Colomba) isn’t home or work, she says, but rather acts as the coffee shops, bars,
parks and other places where we connect with other people.” (“What Is
take up space Clubhouse? The Popular Audio-Based Social Media App, Explained” by
Tonya Mosley and Allison Hagan, WBUR, Feb. 10, 2021. Clubhouse is
seeing ourselves, it creates the momentum to ~ (blacks) based around voice communication.)
men are not ashamed to ~ in the world
♦“ Yeah, you’re in a world, right, I mean, you’re in something like a
white women have always been allowed to ~ in Black music fantasy or a dream, and we all have that interior space all the time, but to

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get to go into someone else’s interior space, how incredible is that?” extent & scope / measurement: distance / hand
(Miranda July.)
♦ Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Before we get to your new music, uh, I do want to spar (verb)
talk to you about this meme about listening to Girl in Red. What does it
feel like, sort of holding this space in LGBTQ and Gen Z culture? / Marie sparred over education and immigration
Ulven: Uh, I think it’s really dope because... (“Marie Ulven Talks TikTok
Fame, Sexuality And Her New Album,” NPR, Weekend Edition Sunday,
the candidates ~ (politics)
May 2, 2021.)
Republicans and Democrats sparred
♦ “I studied theater, but I was focused on being an actor, and I noted that
people seemed to have a very narrow view of what kind of space my
~ during the third day of impeachment hearings
body could occupy on stage—and I found that really frustrating. I decided
to write plays.” (The playwright Aleshea Harris.)
conflict: boxing / verb
♦ “This girl in jean shorts standing in her house with eleven men. Like the spare (a minute to spare, etc.)
female body in that space was what drew me to this for sure.” (Tina
Satter, theater director, about Is This a Room: Reality Winner Verbatim
Transcription.)
ten minutes to spare
he called the attack off with ~ (President Trump)
♦ “The assertions are strident, and the vocabulary is esoteric (‘harm,’
‘insurrection’) as if it were translated from a foreign language. In a timeliness & lack of timeliness: money / verb
sense, it is. The language is legalese, and it is designed to build a
foundation upon which a company can be held liable under civil-rights time: consumption / money / verb
law in an American court. This activist tactic has been widely
misunderstood... The word ‘safe’ is carefully chosen. It gestures at spark (verb)
certain specific kinds of negligence for which a university could pay
dearly in a court of law.” (“The Inequality of ‘Equity,’” by Christopher sparked attention
Caldwell, National Review, May 17, 2021.) the "frog vaccine" has ~ among foreign researchers
♦ “The public domain, the school is a safe haven, a crawl space under
the house; office space; floor space; a tight space in a cave; a space sparked a (land) boom
(compartment) inside a ship; personal space; not enough space in the the lure of cheap homesteads and easy money ~
car or in the trunk of the car; a parking space / place / spot; the
workplace; public sphere (Wikipedia entry) or realm; public place sparked a (wild) celebration
(Wikipedia entry); a gathering place (like a high-school cafeteria, bars,
coffee houses); a space of time; “He stole space in the penalty area”; “he his winning penalty kick ~ (soccer)
controlled the ring space / boxing); outer space; a car-free zone; give the
bear plenty of room / space; breathing space / room... (Convention, spark conflicts
ordinary uses of domain, haven, place, realm, room, space, sphere, spot, fences could ~ over access to water (nomads)
zone, etc.)
sparked a conversation
inclusion & exclusion: society
his death has ~ around the treatment of sumo wrestlers
space (space of time)
spark conversations
bittersweet space of time the shootings should ~ about mental health, violence...
she lived her dream if only for a ~ (Madalyn Davis)
sparked his imagination
amount: space reading science fiction ~
time: amount
spark (media) interest
spaghetti (snarl) parental kidnappings do not ~ (of kids)

“Spaghetti Junction” sparked a (major) inquiry

the notorious ~ is a 4-level stack interchange (Atlanta) her death ~

spaghetti plots spark interest

these are the ~ (storm approaches coast / weather report) these clouds continue to ~ (Noctilucent Clouds)

bowl of spaghetti spark a new interest

it’s a ~, it’s difficult to untangle (competing interests) sometimes learning will ~
complexity / configuration / resemblance: food & drink sparked an outcry
his remarks ~ (racism)
span (lifespan, etc.)
sparked outrage
life spans have declined the killing ~ around the world
~ due to COVID the shooting was captured on video, and ~ across the city
♦ The distance between the thumb and little finger.
sparking outrage
measurement / time: distance the Israeli raid is ~ around the world
span (verb) sparked a recall
ignition problems ~ (automobile company)
spanned five decades
his career ~ sparked resentment

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 Chinese investment has ~ in Karachi (Sind) sparkling (superlative)
sparked an (intense) search sparkling form
her disappearance ~ that ended when…
the Watford keeper was in absolutely ~ against West Ham
sparked an uproar superlative: light & dark
his dismissal ~ on campus (popular coach Bobby Knight)
her transgender talk ~ (a Canadian feminist) spark plug
spark (widespread) violence team's spark plug
elections could ~ (Ivory Coast) he's the ~
sparked a war initiation: electricity
the border dispute ~ (Eritrea and Ethiopia)
sparring partner (role)
sparked a wildfire
a single protest ~ (1848) verbal sparring partner
she is his ~ and confident
sparks the wildfire
Virginia will be the match that ~ of change (politics) help & assistance: boxing / person

spark or reinforce Sparta (Sparta of the North, etc.)

these stores can ~ the "Hillbilly" stereotype
Sparta of the North
initiation: fire / verb Prussia is often called the ~ (a militaristic society)
spark (noun) military: epithet

spark Spartacus (the Black Spartacus, etc.)

the taunts were the ~, underlying resentment the fuel
Black Spartacus
spark for his comeback the ~ died in the Swiss mountains (Toussaint Louverture)
the rivalry was the ~ (a rapper) military: epithet
small spark Spartan (Spartans of Australasia, etc.)
the clash showed how a ~ could ignite another war
Spartans of Australasia
signs of a spark
by 1876 the ~ were extinct (Tasmanians / Mark Twain)
her campaign never caught fire or even showed ~
comparison & contrast / military: epithet
sparks erupted
those ~ into a bonfire of civic rage spartan (adjective)
sparks flew spartan
they had different ideas about money, and ~ (a couple) my room was very ~
~ during the debate
spartan and claustrophobic
keep the spark alive the Schwartz’s flat was ~
the dreams of what were ahead helped ~ for me (love)
size: allusion
put that spark in me comparison & contrast: affix
he ~ that made me want to be a scientist
spasm (noun)
created a (much-needed) spark
his visit ~ and drew the world's attention to the Bronx spasms of bloodshed
♦ “My question was surely just a spark but the response was an ~ continue (violent drug gangs)
earthquake.” (The Italian journalist Riccardo Ehrman about his role in the
fall of the Berlin Wall.) convulsed in a spasm
for 3 minutes the casino ~ of violence (biker riot)
initiation: fire
affliction: health & medicine / movement
spark (spark of hope, etc.) activity: health & medicine / movement
spark of hope spasmodic (adjective)
the ~ is getting smaller, but it hasn’t gone out
spasmodic (sectarian) slaughter
amount: fire / light & dark during the ~ of 2006-2007 (Iraq)

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activity / affliction / starting, going, continuing & ending: his silence ~ (politician loses electoral vote)
health & medicine / movement
let the bones speak
spawn (verb) my job is to ~ (a forensic anthropologist)
♦ “Volcanoes like to speak in low-frequency sounds that humans can’t
spawned controversy perceive called infrasound. So we developed sensors that we can deploy
the agency has ~ (Darpa) to listen to the volcanos talk to us.” (Dr. Jeffrey B. Johnson, Boise State
volcanologist and National Geographic Explorer, about the Masaya
spawned a generation Volcano in Nicaragua.)
tanning beds ~ of tanning addicts evidence: speech / verb
spawned a series of memes fictive communication: speech / verb
Kim Kardashian’s look ~ on social media (Met Gala 2021) speak (the people have spoken, etc.)
spawned a (TV) miniseries spoke
the book ~ people in Massachusetts ~ (elections)
spawned an (Oscar-winning) movie spoken
her book ~ (To Kill a Mockingbird) the people of this nation have ~ (election)
spawned (a great wave of ) philanthropy judgment: speech
Carnegie, Rockefeller and Mellon ~
speak (speak to something)
spawned QAnon
the site ~, the conspiracy theory (an internet website) speak to anyone
the film will ~ who ever wanted to board a train and escape
spawned terrorism
the Taliban's militancy has ~ inside Pakistan speak to the imagination
lighthouses ~
spawned three tornadoes
severe weather ~ speak to this moment
the film doesn’t ~ in history
spawn (real-world) violence
hate speech and incitement can ~ speaks to the women
Emirates Woman is a magazine that ~ of today
spawned (monster) waves
the hurricane ~ that toppled beach houses speak to anyone, anywhere, at any time
the questions ~ (philosophy)
creation & transformation: animal / birth / fish / verb
fictive communication: speech / verb
spawned
speak (carry a message)
spawned by the war
the terrorism ~ in Chechnya speaks truth to power
he ~
creation & transformation: animal / birth / fish
speaks to people
speak (evidence) she ~ (Lizzo)
speak for itself message: speech / verb
we hope the evidence will ~
the crime scene appeared to ~ (murder-suicide) speak (NASA-speak, etc.)
speaks for itself FAA-speak
the subpoena ~ nicknamed, in typical ~, “Flow Control” (panes aloft)
our work ~ (World Health Organization)
the video ~ (of an arrest by police) NASA-speak
entry, descent and land, or EDL in ~
speak for themselves
the test results ~ PR-speak
he expected his deeds to ~ (Roald Amundsen) it sounds like ~ (reason for downsizing cereal)

spoke for themselves “chatspeak”

his results ~ (the surgeon Harvey Cushing) what Geoff Nunberg calls ~ (texting)

speak louder prosecutor-speak

actions ~ than words usually “inspection” is ~ for a shakedown (Russia)

spoke for itself contempo-speak

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 the gentle interrogative is ~ (written in 2008) tip of the spear of the armored column
the ~ (7th Cavalry Regiment)
corporate-speak
Kendall’s buzzword-laden ~ (TV series Succession) tip of the spear of fighting
these two agencies are supposed to be the ~ this pandemic
feminist-speak
the new ~ (“her large dose of Woman Truth” / 1972) tip of Iran’s spear
he was the ~ in the Middle East (Qasem Soleimani)
leetspeak
the title of PEN15, the Hulu series, is an example of ~ driving force: military / weapon
♦ see also boilerplate (noun), buzzword (noun), ese (legalese, etc.),
funny language, language (of sports, cars, etc.), lip service (pay lip
spearhead (verb)
service, etc.), supersizing (linguistic supersizing), talk (mediator talk, etc.)
spearhead the Orange Revolution
speech: affix Ms. Tymoshenko helped ~ (Yulia)
language: speech
spearhead a campaign
speak for (represent) he called on radiologists to ~ to reduce dosages
speak for the team spearheading the drive
the owner tweeted that Morey didn’t ~ (NBA) she is ~ to get him elected
representation: speech / verb spearheading the initiative
speak out (verb) Brazil, France, Mexico and Norway are ~
spearhead the project
speak out against (perceived) injustices he helped ~ (downtown revitalization)
she feels compelled to ~
looking to spearhead
spoke out with a (contrary) opinion we are ~ a major shift…
we ~
driving force: weapon / verb
speak out and be heard
it is time for the Aboriginal community to ~ (Koori Mail) spearhead (noun)
♦ “People wrote about women speaking out with prayerful reverence, as
if speech itself could bring women freedom.” (Jia Tolentino.) spearhead of a (new) economy
♦ For proverbs about the dangers of speech, see tongue (danger).
energy is the ~

resistance, opposition & defeat: speech / verb spearhead of globalization

the W.T.O. is the ~
speak up (verb)
spearhead of the (democratic) movement
speak up Solidarity was the ~ in Eastern Europe
they were too scared to ~ (a corporation)
a manager warned her not to ~ spearhead for (Islam's) advance
the Sufis were the ~ into South Asia
spoke up
driving force: weapon
he ~ and said, "This man is not qualified"
she was glad that she ~ special (as noun)
speaks up and amplifies special happens
the Koori Mail ~ Black voices (Australian newspaper) when you take a chance, that’s when ~
courage to speak up characterization: part of speech
the importance of having the ~ (military)
♦ “Each and every one of us has to step up, speak up, stand up, do species (type)
something.” (Arnitta Holliman, director of the Milwaukee Office of
Violence and Prevention.) different species
these heavyweights these days are a ~ (size and weight)
resistance, opposition & defeat: speech / verb
♦ “These heavyweights these days are a different species.” (Comment by
spear (tip of the spear) a boxer about the new bridgerweight / Bridger-weight division.)
♦ “As a species, apps are hard to trust.”
sharp end of the spear
the EOD team is the ~ to suppress roadside bombings taxonomy & classification: animal

"tip of the spear" species (vanishing species)

they will be the ~ if America invades Iraq vanishing species
he’s a ~ (moderate Republican)

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primacy, currency, decline & obsolescence: animal experienced employees can help ~ quickly
speckled (configuration) keep its algorithm up to speed
he has struggled to ~ (YouTube)
speckled with ships
the harbor of San Francisco was ~ functioning / speed: mechanism / movement
condition & status: mechanism / movement
speckled with copses and farmhouses
rolling fields ~ speed (full speed ahead)
speckled trout full speed ahead
the ~ (brook trout) it will be ~ but not in a rushed way (vaccine rollout)
♦ Animals might be banded, dappled, marbled, mottled, ringed, speckled, the hype train chugged ~
spotted, stippled, striped, and even spectacled!
speed: boat
configuration: mark
speed (supersonic speed, etc.)
specter (noun)
Speed of Light
specter of Sept. 11 Life at the ~ (a book by Craig Venter)
he is haunted by the ~
lightning speed
specter of defeat Omicron is spreading at ~
incumbents face the ~ (elections)
supersonic speed
specter of war jetpack technology has been evolving at ~
the ~ is rising
speed: movement / plane
ugly specter spell (spell disaster, etc.)
the deal raises the ~ of conflict of interest
specter (of the past) lingers spells disaster
the ~ this ~ for urban peace (unemployment, guns, etc.)

specter (of eating disorder) haunts spell disaster

the ~ many dancers unattended daily challenges could ~ (Velux 5 race)

confront the specter spells doom

once again, Americans ~ of impeachment (politics) contact with outsiders often ~ for isolated tribes

confronts the specter spell trouble

he ~ of mortality (aging) four of these symptoms could ~ (panic disorder)

facing the specter spells trouble

he is ~ of death I think the whole thing ~ for the president (investigation)

raises the specter spell (job-search) woes

rising crime ~ of the bad old days (Newark) bad credit can ~
rising corn prices ~ of higher prices for beef and pork… ♦ The writing is on the wall...

haunted by the specter fate, fortune & chance: writing & spelling / verb
he is ~ of Hurricane Katrina future / time: religion / writing & spelling / verb

affliction: creature spell (under a spell)

speed (up to speed) under her spell
she brought employees, investors and journalists ~ (fraud)
up to speed on the details
I'm sorry, I'm not ~ under the (nonconformist) spell of Thoreau
he fell ~ (Andrew Martinez)
up to speed on that
I'm not ~ falls under its spell
everyone ~ (a panda)
time to get up to speed
new hires need ~ fell under its spell
I quickly ~ (a book)
bring him up to speed
his advisors will ~ on the details (president) fell under Kelly’s spell
she ~ (sex abuse)
get new workers up to speed

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fell under Frederick’s spell spellbound by (Old English) poetry
other formers students who ~ (Bennington College) he was ~ (Auden)
feeling, emotion & effect: magic stunned and spellbound
attraction & repulsion: magic he confessed all he had done to a ~ courtroom
spell (cast a spell) held us spellbound
she ~ (an actor's performance)
cast a spell on a ball
he seemed to ~ (Juninho / soccer) kept the crew spellbound
the aurora ~ for hours (the Far North)
cast a spell over the (rapt) audience
he ~ (a pianist) attachment / feeling, emotion & effect: magic
feeling, emotion & effect: magic / verb spelled out
spell (in a dry spell) spelled out in the handbook
the policy is ~ distributed to every....
in a dry spell
I was ~, lacking imagination and incentive (an artist) policy is spelled out
the ~ in the handbook distributed to every...
six-month dry spell
having been in a ~... (dating) analysis, interpretation & explanation: writing & spelling /
letters & characters
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
/ weather & climate spell out (verb)
spell (into a dry spell) spells out
nothing in the law ~ what to do with a student like her...
fell into a (long) dry spell
he ~ (athlete) spells out what
nothing in the law ~ to do with a student like her
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
/ weather & climate spell out fees
contracts that don't ~ or... (assisted living)
spell (throughout a dry spell)
spell it out
throughout that dry spell do I have to ~ in every ugly detail
~ he showed composure (golfer)
spells (all) this out
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain the contract ~....
/ weather & climate
analysis, interpretation & explanation: writing & spelling /
spell (dry spell / other) letters & characters / verb
dry spell ended spend (time)
and then the long ~ (investments and buying)
spent the night on cots
ended his dry spell about 20 people ~ (tornado survivors)
the goal ~ (sports)
spent a day in combat
growth & development: farming & agriculture / plant / rain
the academic professional who has never ~
/ weather & climate
spent weeks in the hospital
spellbinding (adjective) she ~ recuperating
spellbinding story spent 19 days in jail
the play was the concluding chapter in a ~ (series) she ~
spellbinding mug shot spent the night in the (dining hall) lodge
we look at his ~ and wonder why he did it (murder) they ~ (climbers)
attachment / feeling, emotion & effect: magic spent years in exile
spellbound (adjective) they ~ in Iran (Hakims / Iraq)
spent 29 years in the Navy
spellbound
Ms. Evans ~
I watched her, ~
she listened ~ to his account spent years in school

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 I ~ studying a foreign language he ~ on the framework (space-station spacewalk)
spent less time at high altitude spent several years working
I'd ~ (Everest) he ~ at a restaurant
spent a few hours with Hani Shukrallah spent most of my time rock climbing
I~ At 20 I ~ (Reinhold Messner)
spent eight months (in jail) awaiting spent the day sightseeing
he ~ until… he ~ on the Las Vegas Strip
spent three years building spent her (two) pregnancies nauseated and vomiting
I just ~ this (an inn destroyed in flood) she ~
spent (most of) his (adult) life climbing spend the night
he has ~ ~, not a fortune (Scenic View Motel, Bryson City, NC)
spent about two hours digging spend (Monday) night
the group ~ the cave by hand (climbers) I'll ~ someplace outside of Washington (trip)
spent about 15 minutes examining time: consumption / money / verb
the trauma team ~ the boy
spend (spend energy, etc.)
spend several weeks feeling
I ~ incredibly guilty about the situation spent a lot of energy
they ~ in the search
spent the afternoon hiking
cost & benefit: money / verb
we ~
spent the afternoon and early evening paddling
spew (speech)
we ~ (sea-kayaking) spewed venom
spent endless hours practicing she ~ (neurotic woman)
she ~ basketball (SuAnne Big Crow) hate-spewing
spent three hours removing ~ crazies rarely care about the facts
surgeons ~ the arrow (hunting accident) speech: bodily reaction / verb
spent a week searching throwing, putting & planting: bodily reaction / verb
police ~ the area sphere (blogosphere, etc.)
spent their 77-hour ordeal standing blogosphere
the miners ~, wet (trapped) see blogosphere
spent three months studying mediasphere
he ~ English in Santa Monica the Chinese ~ has become more pro-Russian
spend the last four years studying area / environment: affix
he has ~ oceanography
sphere (in the sphere)
spent the evening talking
they ~ in the economic sphere
~, things don’t look good (pandemic)
spent his career training
he ~ young men and women for war in the informational sphere
we must clamp down on criminal activity ~ (ransomware)
spent a lot of time trying
♦ see also space, which seems increasingly more popular.
I ~ to fix it
area / environment: earth & world
spend days waiting
they can ~ in line (Chinese truck drivers / coal) sphinx (noun)
spent the morning watching sphinx of Washington
I ~ TV the silent ~ finally spoke at length (Robert Mueller)
spent his life working Washington sphinx
having ~ in hospitals… for two years he was a ~, silent and mysterious (Mueller)
spent six hours working ♦ “Hurbinek was a nobody, a child of death, a child of Auschwitz...
Henek...sat beside the little sphinx... / Hurbinek died in the first days of

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March 1945, free but not redeemed. Nothing remains of him: he bears spending spigot
witness through these words of mine.” (If This Is A Man by Primo Levi.)
the ~ must close (government spending)
character & personality: creature / statue
man at the spigot
spice up (verb) Yamani was the ~ (Saudi oil / 1973)

spice up your sex life open the (military-spending) spigot

10 ways to ~ the Cold War helped to ~
amelioration & renewal: food & drink / verb shut off the spigot
they are trying to ~ of Russian boar (invasive species)
spicy (adjective) ♦ “We should put money into the economy. The question is how much. If
your bathtub isn’t full, you should turn your faucet on. But that doesn’t
spicy mean you should turn it on as hard as you can and as long as you can.”
Khan vs. Brook, it’s going to be ~ (boxing) (Lawrence Summers, speaking about economic stimulus during the
COVID pandemic. Not for nothing is economics referred to as “the dismal
spicy comedy science.”)
why do you choose that brand of ~ (Sommore) supplying: infrastructure / water
spicy stuff constraint & lack of constraint: water
she didn’t know a lot about sex, the “~” (pastor’s daughter) spike (increase)
consumption: food & drink / taste
spiked last week
spider (Eljif “the Spider” Elmas, etc.) gun and ammunition sales ~

known as the Spider increase & decrease: shape / verb

he is ~ for his long legs (Eljif Elmas, North Macedonia) spike (spike in business, etc.)
epithet: spider
spike in business
resemblance: epithet / spider
dollar stores are seeing a ~
spider (Spider Rock, etc.)
spike in demand
Spider we can expect a ~ (housing market)
they climbed “the ~,” the snow-filled cracks (the Eiger)
the “~” towers above Upper Pine Lake (Colorado peak)
spike in its traffic
the new ~ began early Sunday in the US (a hashtag)
Spider Cave increase & decrease: number / shape
~ contains a pictograph of “Spiderman” (Michigan)
spill (and spill out, etc.)
Spider Rock
~ is associated with Spider Woman (Canyon de Chelly) spilled out
♦ Spider Rock is a spire in the Canyon de Chelly on the Navajo Nation in US special forces troops ~ of C-130s...
Arizona, near the town of Chinle. It is associated with the Spider Woman.
In one legend, she eats misbehaving children and leaves their bones spilled out into their back yard
scattered about. If you visit, be sure and tell your children not to
misbehave or litter, and why...
trash ~ (hoarders)

proper name: animal / insect / spider spilled into the streets

geography: animal / insect / proper name / spider outrage ~ (protests)

spider (spider hole) spilled (out) into the streets

people ~ (earthquake)
spider holes
the ~ in which snipers may still be hiding (Vietnam) spill across the border
problems from Somalia ~ (into Kenya)
military: insect / place
spilled over the border into Chad
spigot (open / close, etc.) the Darfur conflict has ~
cash spigots spill over into other countries
his Iowa performance won’t open any ~ (election) he believes this trend will ~, including...
loan spigot spill over onto MSRs
lenders opened the ~ (home loans and foreclosures) take action to ensure refugees do not ~ (military)
gushing (federal) spigot spilled over the border
many voters don't want to shut off the ~ (deficit) its forces opened fire when the fighting ~ (Thailand)

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spilled into Virginia we have seen the steel in ~
none of the protests ~ (from D.C. / IMF / World Bank)
steel in (America’s) spine
amount & effect: water / verb we have seen the ~
leaking / movement: water / verb
grow a spine
spill out (speech, emotions, etc.) ~ and fight for our rights (the Welsh government)

spilled out have (enough) spine

she pauses briefly before the words ~ some Republicans ~ to stand up to the president (politics)

spills out show (a bit of) spine

her indignation ~, but soon she calms down and... politicians must ~ (to unsympathetic audiences)
♦ “I heard myself say to him, ‘Could you tell me something about your
mother?...’ And he said, ‘It’s funny that you should ask me that... I
stiffened his spine
remember...’ Out of him spilled and tumbled the essence of what is now he showed signs of going wobbly, but Pelosi ~ (politics)
in the first chapter of the Autobiography of Malcolm X.” (Alex Haley,
speaking to Terry Gross about Malcolm X.) courage & lack of courage: back
strength & weakne