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    coruscate
    /ˈkɒrəskeɪt/

    verb

    • 1. (of light) flash or sparkle: literary "the light was coruscating through the walls"

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  2. www.britannica.com › topic › defamationDefamation | Definition, Slander vs. Libel, & Facts | Britannica

    3 days ago · Defamation, in law, the act of communicating to a third party false statements about a person that result in damage to that person’s reputation. The concept encompasses libel, or defamation through published words or pictures, and slander, or spoken defamation.

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  3. www.britannica.com › science › memory-psychologyMemory | Definition, Retrieval, & Forgetting | Britannica

    3 days ago · memory, the encoding, storage, and retrieval in the human mind of past experiences. That experiences influence subsequent behavior is evidence of an obvious but nevertheless remarkable activity called remembering. Memory is both a result of and an influence on perception, attention, and learning. The basic pattern of remembering consists of ...

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  4. www.dictionary.com › e › word-of-the-dayWord of the Day - e pluribus unum | Dictionary.com

    2 days ago · Directly from German: doppel, double + Gänger, “walker” (from Gang, “motion, way” + -er 1; cf. gang 1 ). The actress was surprised when her fans mistook a lookalike for her doppelgänger. Historical records revealed that a doppelgänger of the king was used as a decoy during times of war.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › LogicLogic - Wikipedia

    2 days ago · Arguments that fall short of the standards of correct reasoning often embody fallacies. Systems of logic are theoretical frameworks for assessing the correctness of arguments. Logic has been studied since antiquity. Early approaches include Aristotelian logic, Stoic logic, Nyaya, and Mohism.

  6. guides.nyu.edu › english-and-american-literatureEnglish and American Literature - New York University

    5 days ago · Dictionary of Old English, Old English corpus. Contains all surviving Old English material (over 3000 texts), excluding some variant texts. Each text includes a reference to its genre, period and language; a unique text number; a Cameron number; a short and expanded title used to identify the text in the Dictionary of Old English.

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  7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishCollins Thesaurus | Synonyms, Antonyms and Definitions

    2 days ago · Online English Thesaurus from Collins: More than 500,000 synonyms and antonyms - With definitions, meanings, phrases, and examples.

  8. www.britannica.com › science › abortion-pregnancyAbortion | Definition, Procedure, Laws, & Facts | Britannica

    2 days ago · When, in place of suction, a thin metal tool called a curette is used to scrape (rather than vacuum out) the contents of the uterus, the procedure is called dilatation and curettage. When combined with dilatation, both evacuation and curettage can be used up to about the 16th week of pregnancy.