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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation antonym
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Examples
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Naturally, the GOP sided with Wall Street from the get-go, with House Republican Leader Boehner likening the largest economic collapse in U.S. history to the relevancy of an "ant."
David Bourgeois: Why the Republican Party Should Be Abolished 2010
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To be sure, Mr. Boehner leavened this comment with another, which Democrats are rightly ridiculing, to the effect that pending financial reform legislation amounts to a nuclear attack on an "ant."
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The video is an extension of an ongoing feud between the GOP leader and the Obama team over comments Boehner made comparing the financial crisis to an "ant."
John Boehner's Feud With Obama Continues As GOP Leader Goes On Attack (VIDEO) 2010
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Democrats won the news cycle yesterday when they slammed John Boehner for calling the economic crisis an "ant."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Social Security Suicide Pact (or, the Folks Back Home on the Old Ant Farm) 2010
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Democrats won the news cycle yesterday when they slammed John Boehner for calling the economic crisis an "ant."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Social Security Suicide Pact (or, the Folks Back Home on the Old Ant Farm) 2010
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Naturally, the GOP sided with Wall Street from the get-go, with House Republican Leader Boehner likening the largest economic collapse in U.S. history to relevancy of an "ant."
David Bourgeois: Why the Republican Party Should Be Abolished 2010
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These hairy Saubas display a single frontal eye -- not found in any of the other Saubas, and, as far as I know, in no other kind of ant.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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In this way we had the means of seeing the principles upon which these ants proceed in securing themselves, at every step of their progress, by galleries or covered ways, which, though extremely feeble, are sufficiently strong to keep off the attacks of every other kind of ant.
The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862
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Democrats won the news cycle yesterday when they slammed John Boehner for calling the economic crisis an "ant."
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Democrats won the news cycle yesterday when they slammed John Boehner for calling the economic crisis an "ant."
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