lactation
/ɫækˈteɪʃən/
nounfeeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
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1. We have lactation specialists that meet with the moms.
2. And it also promotes lactation for women who are breastfeeding.
3. Call in a lactation consultant.
4. Our lactation consultant just came and worked with us for a long time.
5. Meet professor and lactation expert Courtney Jung.
lactic
/ˈɫæktɪk/
adjectiveof or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey)
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1. And the byproduct of that is lactic acid.
2. The brine, that salty solution, produces lactic acid and other antibacterial substances.
3. Lactic acid bacteria are present on all plants.
4. And producing lactic acid.
5. Along with calories, it also burns lactic acids.
momentary
/ˈmoʊmənˌtɛɹi/
adjectivelasting for a markedly brief time
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1. The momentary shift of my eyes had broken the clear current.
2. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary.
3. But of course, this relief is only momentary.
4. This momentary feeling of relief can seriously compromise your regular posture.
5. This is momentary enlightenment.
momentous
/moʊˈmɛntəs/
adjectiveof very great significance
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1. That's momentous.
2. In 1968, a single momentous event provided a catalyst for his eventual defection-- the Prague Spring.
3. The arrest of Slobodan Milošević was really momentous.
4. , we had a momentous evening.
5. - This year has felt so momentous in so many different ways.
momentum
/moʊˈmɛntəm/
nounthe force or energy that drives forward progress towards a desired goal or outcome
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1. Photons have momentum.
2. The episodes build momentum.
3. Every decision has momentum.
4. But decisions have momentum.
5. Decisions have momentum.
omnipotent
/ɑmˈnɪpətənt/
adjectivehaving unlimited power
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1. We're not omnipotent.
2. - I am an AI, I'm omnipotent.
3. Therefore neither of them is infinite in powers or omnipotent.
4. He's omnipotent and he's immanent.
5. Parliament was omnipotent.
omnipresent
/ˌɑmnɪˈpɹɛzənt/
adjectivebeing present everywhere at once
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1. His all-seeing eye was omnipresent.
2. Free Angela stickers and Angela afros were omnipresent.
3. He's omnipresent.
4. The Internet of Things, or IoT, will be omnipresent.
5. It's omnipresent.
omniscient
/ɑmˈnɪʃənt/
adjectiveinfinitely wise
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1. Behold our outrageously omniscient, offensively outgoing orange candy bracket, aka the sweetest 16. -
2. Omniscient gods could live by standards alone.
3. The omniscient narrator is very much characteristic of nineteenth-century novels.
4. Omniscient narration is completely neutral.
5. So the three brothers each gets one section, and then the omniscient narration in section four.
omnivorous
/ɑmˈnɪvɝəs/
adjectivefeeding on both plants and animals
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1. And omnivorous raccoons thrive on an endless buffet of everything from corn chips to cockroaches, helping them live ten times more densely in cities than in woodland habitats .
2. Dogs are omnivorous.
3. Most bears are omnivorous.
4. Adaptationally, physiologically, metabolically, we are omnivorous.
5. There are omnivorous fish.
unitarian
/ˌjunəˈtɛɹiən/
nounadherent of Unitarianism
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1. He was a Unitarian.
2. I'm a lapsed Unitarian.
3. We've got the Unitarian.
4. You'll have a Unitarian camp meeting, a revival.
5. William Howard Taft was a Unitarian.
univocal
/jˈuːnɪvˌɑːkəl/
adjectiveadmitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion
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1. If matter was definite and univocal properties does not constitute the elementary substance of the world.
unilateral
/ˌjunəˈɫætɝəɫ/
adjectiveinvolving only one part or side
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1. The striking thing about the Abrahamic covenant is its unilateral character.
2. Such unilateral efforts could jeopardize the climate of a neighboring country.
3. This is the powerful sun's unilateral inspiration of the stars.
4. Love is a unilateral experience.
5. Because attraction is unilateral.
antiquary
/ˈæntɪkwˌɛɹi/
nounan expert or collector of antiquities
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1. Stories like this one from The Scottish antiquary, or, Northern notes and queries in 1891 speak to his terror of freshwater and the Nuckelavee’s grotesque appearance.
to antiquate
/ˈæntəˌkweɪt/
verbgive an antique appearance to
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1. Do you think this is antiquated?
2. Some consider these overseas bases antiquated in the era of international military alliances like NATO, extensive aviation infrastructure that can get US forces anywhere on earth in a matter of hours, and the deterrent threat of nuclear weapons.
3. These now antiquated parachutes also had somewhat limited control, so falling fast also helped ensure the soldier wouldn’t land too far away from the target zone.
4. The image of becoming a doctor and being rich is mostly antiquated.
5. For comparison, Samsung includes a 25 watt charger with the Galaxy S10, and Apply includes a painfully antiquated 5 watt charger with the new iPhone 11.
antique
/ænˈtik/
adjective(of an object or artwork) made or produced in an earlier period and considered to be of historical significance or value due to its age, rarity, or craftsmanship
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2. That car’s an antique.
3. Number nine, antiques with legs.
4. I like antiques.
5. You like antiques?
to dissemble
/dɪˈsɛmbəɫ/
verbto conceal one's true emotions, beliefs, intentions, etc. and display a false one
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1. Once all of those macromolecules have been dissembled into their monomers, the small intestine’s epithelial cells can finally absorb and transport them through your capillaries and into the bloodstream, where they can travel to pretty much to any cell in your body, and be used to build collagen, or store fat, or replace dying cells.
2. We've dissembled the forklift.
3. We precluded all other options, including novel reinterpretations of the facts, dissembling, resigning, and so forth.
4. The gentleman, he says, speaks his mind without fear or favor, somewhat like the New York Times, because to dissemble would be beneath him.
5. Part of the entertainment of having crab legs is the part where you dissemble it.
to disseminate
/dɪˈsɛməˌneɪt/
verbto make it so that something, such as ideas, knowledge, news, or information, becomes accessible to a wide range of people
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1. They disseminated that information.
2. And over 80 million doses of a new vaccine was disseminated safely.
3. He disseminated frivolous cheer with his zany wacknanigans.
4. And these private institutions are basically disseminating the product.
5. Our patient has disseminated intravascular coagulation.
dissemination
/dɪˌsɛməˈneɪʃən/
nounthe action of spreading information or news
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1. Now the majority of those, currently, are dissemination controls, or limits on the dissemination.
2. From this perspective, conceptions of information dissemination during the war changed shape.
3. Certainly the dissemination of information-- LAURENCE SILBERMAN: No, no, no-- just the capture.
4. Forget the dissemination for a moment.
5. The dissemination of anti-Clinton material in the guise of pro-Clinton images is, in itself, newsworthy.
