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},
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"_dis1": "71 29",
"word": "spaced-out"
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"ref": "2022 October 5, Lauren Harby, “What We Know About Celine Dion's Health Battle”, in The List",
"text": "Dion's first Las Vegas residency […] went on from 2003 to 2007, with a total of 714 shows […] [Her] second residency was more spaced out, with 427 shows. This allowed Dion to tour internationally during the pockets of time when she wasn't performing in Vegas.",
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"To position (objects, people etc.) at regular intervals with a calculated space between them."
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"(transitive) To position (objects, people etc.) at regular intervals with a calculated space between them."
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"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to position at regular intervals with a calculated space between them",
"word": "sijoittaa tasaisin välein"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to position at regular intervals with a calculated space between them",
"word": "agaigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to position at regular intervals with a calculated space between them",
"word": "dar um espaço"
}
]
},
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{
"ref": "1999, Mike Judge, Office Space (motion picture), spoken by Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston)",
"text": "Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.",
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"To become distracted or disoriented; to lose attention or focus."
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To become distracted or disoriented; to lose attention or focus."
],
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"word": "daydream"
},
{
"word": "tune out"
},
{
"word": "zone out"
}
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "haaveilla"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "antaa huomion herpaantua"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "distrarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "distrair-se"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "desorientar-se"
}
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}
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"word": "space out"
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"text": "Dion's first Las Vegas residency […] went on from 2003 to 2007, with a total of 714 shows […] [Her] second residency was more spaced out, with 427 shows. This allowed Dion to tour internationally during the pockets of time when she wasn't performing in Vegas.",
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"(transitive) To position (objects, people etc.) at regular intervals with a calculated space between them."
],
"tags": [
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"examples": [
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"ref": "1999, Mike Judge, Office Space (motion picture), spoken by Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston)",
"text": "Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"disoriented"
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To become distracted or disoriented; to lose attention or focus."
],
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"word": "daydream"
},
{
"word": "tune out"
},
{
"word": "zone out"
}
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"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to position at regular intervals with a calculated space between them",
"word": "sijoittaa tasaisin välein"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to position at regular intervals with a calculated space between them",
"word": "agaigh"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to position at regular intervals with a calculated space between them",
"word": "dar um espaço"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "haaveilla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "antaa huomion herpaantua"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "distrarsi"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "distrair-se"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to lose attention",
"word": "desorientar-se"
}
],
"word": "space out"
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