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4 Aug 2016, 7:56 am
Dictionary.com says a habit is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: Habits control as much as 40% of our daily activities. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 6:10 am
The feds just extradited another member of Barrio Azteca, a prison gang affiliated with La Linea in Juarez, who was one of 35 BA members charged last year, including 10 accused in the Mexican-side murder of a US Consulate employee, her husband, and the husband of a co-worker in 2010.On 'vanishingly rare' criminal trialsScott Greenfield at Simple Justice opined on the implications of "vanishingly rare" criminal trials, reacting to this New York Times story on Supreme Court… [read post]
26 Nov 2022, 12:16 pm
Likewise, English speakers aren't "wrong" when we pronounce "Qatar" in a way that's normal in English (according to dictionary.com, that's either kah-tahr or kuh–tahr). [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 8:08 pm
For example, Merriam-Webster defines superhero as "a fictional hero having extraordinary or superhuman powers," and Dictionary.com defines superhero as "a hero, esp. in children's comic books and television cartoons, possessing extraordinary, often magical powers. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 8:17 am
According to Dictionary.com (not cited by the court), the fire emoji “is used to signify that something is cool, awesome, exciting, or more colloquially, ‘on fire. [read post]
30 May 2008, 10:00 am
" It is an odd choice (sensationalism defined at dictionary.com as "subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste"). [read post]
7 May 2010, 9:08 am
I’d never heard of “barred” being used to mean “admitted to the bar”; I checked Black’s Law Dictionary and dictionary.com, and no such meaning is listed. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 1:16 pm
.'” Synonyms listed by that dictionary include the following: banish bounce chase drum (out) expel kick out rout throw out turn out boot (out) cast out dismiss eject extrude out run off Turning to Dictionary.com, the following definition of “oust” was offered: “to expel or remove from a place or position occupied or to eject or evict or dispossess. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 9:42 am
If you look at the dictionary.com definition of file sharing, that point is driven home. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 11:01 am
Dictionary.com. [read post]
22 May 2015, 4:08 am
From Free Dictionary.com. [read post]
2 Jul 2023, 11:28 am
[FWIW, Dictionary.com doesn’t attempt to define all emojis, but it’s one of the most authoritative sources for the emojis it does define.] [read post]
1 Dec 2022, 2:29 am
., Individual, Oxford English Dictionary (2022) (giving first definition of “individual” as “a single human being”); Individual, Dictionary.com (last visited July 11, 2022), https://www.dictionary.com/browse/individual (giving “a single human being, as distinguished from a group” as first definition for “individual”). [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 11:18 pm
Think about the Romans and "bread and circuses" (in Juvenal's original—"panis and circenses"), referring to what Juvenal viewed as the limited expectations of the Roman population, Today, per dictionary.com, the phrase signifies — extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance.One (cynical?) [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 5:01 am
The folks at Dictionary.com provide a similar definition but then add an important proviso: “A provision in the laws governing taxation that allows people to reduce their taxes. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 7:22 pm
A year that ends with dictionary.com selecting “privacy” as “word of the year;” with privacy making front-page headlines in The New York Times and The Washington Post—not to mention The Guardian—on a weekly, indeed almost daily, basis; with cross-Atlantic ties stretched to the limit over privacy issues, the UN passing a privacy resolution and armies of lobbyists spinning BCRs and Do-Not-Track in Washington bars and Brussels cafes—ladies and… [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 11:23 am
Dictionary.com defines livestock as, among other things, "useful animals," and cats - despite their mousing abilities, which they generally will deploy free of charge - appear to glory in not being "useful. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 4:22 am
We also point out that the number of likes or followers should be put into context, and that user comments appearing on an applicant’s social media sites may provide insight into consumers’ perceptions of the mark.Mere Descriptiveness: Applicant maintained that "couture" is not descriptive of its goods, since the term used as a noun is defined in Dictionary.com as "the occupation of a couturier; dressmaking and designing. [read post]
12 May 2012, 8:32 pm
Accordingly, Appellants dispute the Examiner's "rather broad definition" from "Dictionary.com" as completely unsupported. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 6:23 pm
Dictionary.com. [read post]
