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"ref": "1919, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 192, page 93, column 4:",
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"ref": "1996, Kisan World, volume 23, page 55, column 1:",
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"ref": "2010, Nicholas Hagger, “Book One: September 11th: America under Attack”, “Invocations to Homer, Milton, Heath-Stubbs, Woodrow Wilson and Roosevelt”, in Armageddon: The Triumph of Universal Order: An Epic Poem on The War on Terror and of Holy-War Crusaders, O Books, →ISBN, page 45:",
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"ref": "1995, Tejdeep, Caught in a Stampede, Sterling Publishers, →ISBN, page 110:",
"text": "Not enough if you / garlanded me before twenty, / asbestosed me several times / around the conjugal fire.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Karl Meade, Odd Jobs: Misadventures of the Copy-Cat Cat Burglars, FriesenPress, →ISBN:",
"text": "Like the house, I’d had my shiny youth of new love, my stuccoed divorce, my asbestosed fallout of pipe pain and dry-rot, my ill-conceived disco years, and my disastrous mid-life reno.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To insulate or buffer."
],
"links": [
[
"insulate",
"insulate"
],
[
"buffer",
"buffer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) To insulate or buffer."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/æsˈbɛs.tɒs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/æsˈbɛs.təs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/æzˈbɛs.təs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/æzˈbɛs.təs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "asbestus"
}
],
"word": "asbestos"
}
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