to prognosticate
/ˌpɹɑɡˈnɑstəˌkeɪt/
verbmake a prediction about; tell in advance
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1. so I'm going to try and prognosticate what, say Taco Bell, Carl's Jr, McDonald's next big mega viral menu item is going to be using my intimate knowledge of the fast food ecosystem.
2. I view myself more as a historian than prognosticating about the future.
to detonate
/ˈdɛtəˌneɪt/
verbcause to burst with a violent release of energy
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1. In September 2017, the country successfully detonated the largest nuclear bomb it had ever tested.
2. Three weeks after, a bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, and a second on Nagasaki three days later.
3. The fourth atomic bomb have been successfully detonated.
4. On April 14th, terrorists detonated bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
5. The U.S. government did detonate a significant amount of nuclear bombs in the New Mexico atmosphere.
to captivate
/ˈkæptɪˌveɪt/
verbto attract someone by being irresistibly appealing
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1. Reticular theory captivated the field with its elegant simplicity.
2. And that effort captivated the nation.
3. And that effort captivated the nation.
4. And that effort captivated the nation.
5. Two animals, two iconic reptiles really captivated me very early on.
to decimate
/ˈdɛsəˌmeɪt/
verbkill in large numbers
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1. The covid pandemic has decimated government coffers.
2. But humans - once again! - pretty much decimated the available prey.
3. - Decimate these toys.
4. But 30 years of civil war decimated the abundant wildlife.
5. A combination of hunting, drought and overgrazing has decimated the population.
to satiate
/sˈeɪʃɪˌeɪt/
verbto fully satisfy a desire or need, such as food or pleasure, often beyond capacity
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1. We're bemoaning the fact that there's so many ballots that they can't be counted in time to satiate everyone's thirst for immediate answers.
2. That will leave you feeling full and satiated for longer.
3. But this level of dehydration is usually satiated by a glass or two of water.
4. A low calorie high protein snack will satiate your hunger.
5. My pogo corn dog craving was not satiated.
to conciliate
/kənsˈɪlɪˌeɪt/
verbto do something that stops someone's anger or dissatisfaction, usually by being friendly or giving them what they want
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1. We want to assuage and conciliate them.
2. The approbation implied by your suffrage is a great consolation to me for the past, and my future solicitude will be to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all.
3. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
to osculate
/ˈɑːskjʊlˌeɪt/
verbhave at least three points in common with
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to fulminate
/ˈfʊɫməˌneɪt/
verbcriticize severely
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1. By 1867, he had mastered the use of small copper capsules of mercury fulminate, which was ignited by a fuse to detonate nitroglycerin.
2. [shouting, explosion, glass shattering] - In this scene, he's using mercury fulminate or fulminate of mercury and you might ask, "What is that?"
3. - Mercury fulminate basically is made by taking mercury, mixing in nitric acid, and the other ingredient is moonshine.
4. What we see in this TV clip is fairly accurate because mercury fulminate is very, very sensitive to shock, sparks, and heat and things like that.
5. And God intervenes and through lightening and fulminates and then kills him.
to dilate
/ˌdaɪˈɫeɪt/
verbbecome wider
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1. These people in these clinical trials, their bronchi are dilating.
2. - Your pupils are dilating.
3. Your pupils would dilate.
4. - Your eyes are dilated.
5. Your pupils dilate.
to matriculate
/məˈtɹɪkjəɫeɪt/
verbenroll as a student
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1. He matriculated there in the fall of 1851, at age 14.
2. As you all were matriculating as young women.
3. More students are matriculating to medical school than ever before.
4. It matriculates into my Monday.
5. And then matriculating as a medical student in the fall of 1983.
to initiate
/ˌɪˈnɪʃiˌeɪt/
verbbring into being
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1. Science emergency defense program initiated.
2. Science emergency defense program initiated.
3. -Science emergency defense program initiated.
4. Initiating beta program.
5. Seneca was initiating an important move.
to truncate
/ˈtɹəŋˌkeɪt/
verbmake shorter as if by cutting off
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1. Some cephalopods truncated their shell.
2. So we truncated a lot of time.
3. '87 was truncated by a player strike after week two.
4. I've truncated his picture.
5. I've truncated that a bit too.
to dissipate
/ˈdɪsəˌpeɪt/
verbspend frivolously and unwisely
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1. My anger dissipated.
2. The fizzle, dissipate that, the problem.
3. Now, forgiveness dissipates an imbalance of energy.
4. They dissipate energy.
5. The vinegar smell will dissipate quickly.
to promulgate
/pɹoʊˈməɫɡeɪt/
verbstate or announce
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1. That March, a new constitution was promulgated.
2. But to date, the rules have not yet been promulgated.
3. He promulgates decrees as czar about daily life.
4. The Department of State promulgated its own public charge rules to align its rules with DHS's.
5. It's promulgated by this Court.
to depopulate
/diˈpɑpjəˌɫeɪt/
verbreduce in population
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1. The Egyptian scholar Al-Mazriqi noted all of Asia was depopulated, as far as the Korean Peninsula.
2. So, it's your basic rural France in the process of being slowly depopulated.
3. He eventually wins in his last big fight, and with a snap of his fingers the universe is depopulated.
4. Sometimes beekeepers won't cull the entire hive but will instead depopulate a certain number of bees or kill the queen.
5. The Ariège as a department depopulates rapidly in the second half of the nineteenth century.
to amputate
/ˈæmpjəˌteɪt/
verbthe removal of a limb or a part of it via surgical operatons due to being diseaed or badly damaged
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1. He also, however, amputated his assistant's hand.
2. They have to amputate their feet.
3. In 1953, her leg had to be amputated because of gangrene.
4. My fingers amputated.
5. Maybe you could amputate a limb.
to federate
/ˈfɛdɝˌeɪt/
verbenter into a league for a common purpose
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1. They have to be federated, as Theda has argued in much of her work.
2. In that sense, NDC is already taking a federated approach as agencies review their information for declassification taking their cue from NDC staff on records that need their review.
3. This is a federated system, and those agencies still have their own processes for classification and declassification, but it's really that notion of coordinating what the process looks like across different agencies.
4. In other words, the whole group will be federated with the Romans.
5. They also employed a federated system of governance, which assisted with the multiethnic and multicultural nature of their empire, all united under the Median King.
to accumulate
/əkˈjumjəˌɫeɪt/
verbto collect an increasing amount of something over time
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1. And the steel sails just effortlessly accumulated greater speed.
2. Our channel accumulated 1.9MM views this year.
3. Energy accumulates.
4. PCBs accumulate.
5. Curtains accumulate a ton of germs.
to obviate
/ˈɑbviˌeɪt/
verbdo away with
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1. So that and all the progress that was accomplished during his administration is not obviated by the fact that Donald Trump emerged after.
2. One in which the problems that are associated with the exercise of free will may be obviated.
3. One of the problems of the empire was obviated, however.
4. And we will only reach a communist society where people can be genuinely free once the need for a division of labor has been obviated by the existence of a super abundance of wealth.
5. And since that time, it obviated the request for more people to join the Supreme Court and FDR's attempt to pack the courts has been portrayed as a power grab ever since.