static
/ˈstætɪk/
adjectiveshowing little if any change
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1. The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
2. Static is bigger.
3. - Can static kill your components?
4. The actual website itself is fairly static.
5. These numbers are static.
statics
/ˈstætɪks/
nounthe branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium
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statistician
/ˌstætəˈstɪʃən/
nounsomeone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)
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1. Social scientists are really active in the field, and statisticians.
2. Corporate research and development also employs many statisticians.
3. Most statisticians need at least a master’s degree in statistics, math, or a related field, although some entry-level jobs are available for those with a bachelor’s degree.
4. Corporate research and development also employs many statisticians.
5. Most statisticians need at least a master’s degree in statistics, math, or a related field, although some entry-level jobs are available for those with a bachelor’s degree.
stationary
/ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛɹi/
adjectivenot capable of being moved
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1. Transition matrix and and stationary distribution are the two most important ideas other than the basic definition.
2. Our van caught stationary fire right outside of Bigfoot forest?
3. Before, the camera was completely stationary.
4. Moving beats stationary.
5. So the room is stationary.
ambulance
/ˈæmbjəɫəns/
nouna vehicle specially equipped to take sick or injured people to a hospital
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1. And ambulances.
2. - Ambulance bay needs hands.
3. Call an ambulance.
4. Call an ambulance -
5. Sending ambulance to County Road 40.
to ambulate
/ˈæmbjəˌɫeɪt/
verbwalk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking
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1. He's ambulating himself, walking around the UNIT without LIMITATION or DISABILITY.
2. The only thing that this statute prevents, it seems to me, is the ambulating protester.
3. and what it does with respect to the ambulating protester, as a practical matter, is to prevent all speech within the 120 foot radius.
4. Increased activity tolerance will be evidenced by enhanced capacity and energy to ambulate 25 feet without feeling breathless.
5. His oxygen saturation remains at 91% while resting but decreases to 87% when standing up or ambulating a few steps.
ambulatory
/ˈæmbjəɫəˌtɔɹi/
adjectiverelating to or adapted for walking
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1. Ambulatory wheelchair users exist, ambulatory cane users exist.
2. Some of them were not very ambulatory.
3. The gold standard test is ambulatory 24-hour blood pressure monitoring.
4. Home blood pressure readings correlate much better with the ambulatory monitor than readings from your doctor's office.
5. If there is a significant discrepancy between your readings at home and your doctor's readings an ambulatory blood pressure monitor is worthwhile.
to decorate
/ˈdɛkɝˌeɪt/
verbto add beautiful things to something in order to make it look more attractive
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1. Additionally, Medieval Nubian peasants decorated the insides of their houses with protective biblical inscriptions.
2. A carving of a buffalo head decorates the central part of each house.
3. Decorate your gingerbread men with fun-colored holiday icing.
4. - Decorating our tree.
5. My mom did decorate the room.
decorous
/ˈdɛkɝəs/
adjectiveshowing a polite, dignified, and appropriate manner of behaving
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1. A search for style, which he understands as a form of what is convenient, what is decorous, what is appropriate.
2. It's a very mannered, decorous language.
3. I imagined this book as a drab-coloured, decorous little philosophical treatise, with no chapters, but the page occasionally broken by section-headings at the side.
4. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves.
5. Against Horace's decorous and elegant Latin, there is placed Owen's Anglo-Saxon alliterative, inflected, strongly stressed language with its rough and actual vernacular diction.
decorum
/dɪˈkɔɹəm/
nounpropriety in manners and conduct
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1. So the decorum in Congress is the problem more so than the messaging from the presidents.
2. Part of your job is to maintain decorum in the courtroom.
3. Part of your job is to maintain decorum in the courtroom.
4. It has a careful decorum, a kind of high sheen, especially this early poetry.
5. You will need A sense of decorum and common courtesy.
gynecocracy
/ɡˌaɪnɪkˈɑːkɹəsi/
nouna political system governed by a woman
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gynecology
/ˌɡaɪnəˈkɑɫədʒi/
nounthe branch of medicine that is concerned with diseases that are specific to women, especially those that affect their reproductive organs
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1. You'll also have benign gynecology rotations and gynecologic oncology rotations.
2. Ob-Gyn stands for Obstetrics and Gynecology.
3. ## Ob/Gyn Ob-Gyn stands for Obstetrics and Gynecology.
4. Gynecology is scary.
5. My own field of obstetrics and gynecology is rife with them.
technicality
/ˌtɛknɪˈkæɫɪti/
nouna specific detail in a set of rules or terms belonging to a particular field
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1. It was all about technicalities.
2. Don't give me technicalities!
3. Don't give me technicalities!
4. What are the technicalities?
5. Technicalities, when, where in the US you're planning on going to?
technology
/tɛkˈnɑɫədʒi/
nounscientific knowledge put into practice in a particular area, especially in industry
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1. The technology is especially useful in supermarkets.
2. It is the zenith of technology.
3. Technology wants.
4. Technology accelerates things exponentially.
5. Technologies have material consequences.
presumption
/pɹiˈzəmpʃən/, /pɹɪˈzəmpʃən/
nouna belief that something is true without any proof
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1. The Drone Campaign eliminates presumption of innocence.
2. For us, our presumptions make real sense.
3. Well, actually, every liberal democracy has a presumption of innocence.
4. Presumption is defined a lot of different ways.
5. So the presumption is for entitlement to your children.
presumptuous
/pɹɪˈzəmptʃəwəs/
adjectivefailing to respect boundaries, doing something despite having no right in doing so
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1. - Don't be so presumptuous.
2. - Now don't be presumptuous.
3. Most people don't even know what presumptuous means and it's not really even an insult.
4. Or is it merely presumptuous?
5. What could possibly be more presumptuous than the association of the beginning of one's own career, one's own literary career, with the birth of the Christian messiah?
pretentious
/pɹiˈtɛnʃəs/
adjectiveattempting to appear intelligent, important, or something that one is not, so as to impress others
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1. He's pretentious.
2. Art is pretentious.
3. So yeah, art is pretentious.
4. It sounds pretentious.
5. Those formal initials are pretentious in a way.
pretext
/ˈpɹiˌtɛkst/
nounsomething serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
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1. In January, 1866, Bismarck found a pretext in Austria’s administration of Holstein.
2. But that was much more a pretext.
3. Of course it was pretext.
4. And the government will always have some plausible pretext for using statutory instruments-- public health, terrorism, Brexit.
5. It's a flimsy pretext for racial profiling, dumb-dumb.