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    Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries. It is the oldest dictionary...
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    Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year are words of the year lists published annually by the American dictionary-publishing company Merriam-Webster, Inc....
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    Tony Hawk (redirect from Lhotse Merriam)
    music producer who releases music as Gupi. Hawk was married to Lhotse Merriam from 2006 to 2011. Their wedding was held in Fiji and Rancid played for...
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  • Tom (1996). Flappers 2 rappers: American youth slang. Springfield, Mass: Merriam-Webster. ISBN 978-0-87779-612-1. McCutcheon, Marc (1995). The writer's...
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    helped introduce it to the general public. "When Is 'Cuffing Season?'". Merriam-Webster. 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2023-04-17. Brabaw, Kasandra (2018-09-26)...
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    Charles Edward Merriam Jr. (1874–1953) was an American professor of political science at the University of Chicago, founder of the behavioral approach...
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  • the title of the 1944 film Gaslight, became popular in the mid-2010s. Merriam-Webster cites deception of one's memory, perception of reality, or mental...
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    without any external power source. "Dictionary and Thesaurus | Merriam-Webster". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2016-05-22. Graf, Rudolf F. (1973). Modern...
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    on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2019. Merriam-Webster. "LGBTQIA". Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on 7 January...
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    Augmented reality (redirect from Spark AR)
    Wiley and Sons, 2001, ISBN 0-471-40637-6, 384 p. "Augmented Reality". merriam-webster.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved...
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    many or all taxons in a particular biological family, class, or clade. Merriam-Webster writes that most terms of venery fell out of use in the 16th century...
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    Commentaries. Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 9781316757314. Look up et tu, Brute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Et tu, Brute? on Merriam-Webster...
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    Dual Ignition is a system for spark-ignition engines, whereby critical ignition components, such as spark plugs and magnetos, are duplicated. Dual ignition...
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    Northwestern University Press. "Gloat". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. "Gloat | Definition of Gloat by Merriam-Webster". Archived from the original...
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  • 2018. "Definition of Retro". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 4 December 2019. "Definition of Antique". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 4 December...
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    Merriam-Webster defines war as "a state of opened and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations". Lexico defined war as "A state of armed...
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    membership required.) "motor". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. "engine". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. "motor". Dictionary...
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  • simply indicates the resistance to detonating under pressure without a spark. Whether or not a higher octane fuel improves or impairs an engine's performance...
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    that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark.: 67–71  This was an early study of bioelectricity, following experiments...
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  • of the "th" digraph, was hard to pronounce in different languages. The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories, 1991, has a long article that is consistent...
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  • exception of cases derived from intra-group usage such as hip hop culture. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary describes the term as "perhaps the most offensive...
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  • to explain emotions or phenomena. Digital blackface has been defined by Merriam-Webster as "the use by white people of digital depictions of Black or brown...
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  • gender-neutral pronoun in 1934. Why have so few people heard of it?". www.merriam-webster.com. Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on 2021-10-20. Retrieved...
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    The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2014-05-01. "sinter". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2022-10-11. Kingery, W. David; Bowen...
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    screen. Crookes named his device from Ancient Greek: σπινθήρ (spinthḗr) "spark". Crookes debuted the spinthariscope at a meeting of the Royal Society,...
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  • Dirty Tips. Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Retrieved 8 December 2019. "Lede". Merriam-Webster Online. Chicago, IL, US: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2012. Retrieved...
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    several different modulation methods during its history. The primitive spark-gap transmitters used until 1920 transmitted damped waves, which had very...
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    ammunition. Baldric Gazyr Sam Browne belt Shoulder belt (military) "bandolier". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 15 July 2015. Marek y Villarino de Brugge, Don André...
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    York: Routledge. p. 36 – via Google Books. "protean". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2023-03-27. "Wordsworth". Archived 2006-06-23...
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