Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Japanese form of wrestling in which a competitor loses if forced from the ring or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground.
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- noun sumo a
stylised Japanese form ofwrestling in which awrestler loses if he isforced from the ring, or if any part of his body except thesoles of hisfeet touch theground .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Q&A after the movie was more entertaining than the film itself, as the filmmakers, the owner of the Drafthouse, and a Fantastic Fest programmer all came out dressed only in sumo diapers and began running around the theater, chanting.
Fantastic Fest Day Two - Antichrist, Men Who Stare at Goats + more » Scene-Stealers 2009
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In the book (which has sold over four million copies), economist Steven D. Levitt (aided by journalist Stephen J. Dubner) applies economic principles to distinctly non-economic topics like baby names, cheating in sumo wrestling, and the relationship between legalizing abortion and falling crime rates.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Interview: Seth Gordon, Exec. Producer of Freakonomics Jonathan Kim 2010
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If you thought the cheating in sumo was bad enough, now they are talking about murder charges.
More Trouble for Sumo Wrestling - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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If you thought the cheating in sumo was bad enough, now they are talking about murder charges.
More Trouble for Sumo Wrestling - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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My reason for this conclusion is that there is something absent from tennis that is present in sumo wrestling: a highly non-linear incentive scheme.
Will Tennis Players Make Sumo Wrestlers Look Like Schoolgirls? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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My reason for this conclusion is that there is something absent from tennis that is present in sumo wrestling: a highly non-linear incentive scheme.
Will Tennis Players Make Sumo Wrestlers Look Like Schoolgirls? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Inside its pages, the authors cover cheating in sumo wrestling, suggest that Roe vs. Wade has dramatically decreased the crime rate (ironically discrediting Gladwell's own position on the matter), and has some interesting statistics on the effects (or lack thereofs) on popular high and low income names on a child's eventual achievements.
Archive 2006-01-01 Lou Anders 2006
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So Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) exposes cheating in sumo wrestling; Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) looks at the 1990s 'drop in the crime rate; Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) discovers whether you can bribe ninth-graders to get good grades - and Morgan Spurlock (Super-Size Me) examines whether your name is your destiny (particularly if you're an African-American with a distinctly African-American name).
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Freakonomics Marshall Fine 2010
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So Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) exposes cheating in sumo wrestling; Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) looks at the 1990s 'drop in the crime rate; Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) discovers whether you can bribe ninth-graders to get good grades - and Morgan Spurlock (Super-Size Me) examines whether your name is your destiny (particularly if you're an African-American with a distinctly African-American name).
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Freakonomics Marshall Fine 2010
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The International Olympic Committee has refused to go along with the idea of sumo in the
AMPONTAN 2010
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