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A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
May 9: 9 May: Victory Day: Russia, Israel, and many other nations: Marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in World War II on 8 May 1945. May 24: May Two-Four: Victoria Day (French: Fête de la Reine) Canada: Celebrates the birthday of Queen Victoria and the current reigning Canadian Monarch. Observed on the last Monday ...
By reaching the milestone, he also became the first player to hit 30 and then 40 home runs in a single season, breaking his own record of 29 from the 1919 season. [4] Ruth subsequently became the first player to reach the 50 home run club on four occasions, repeating the achievement in 1921, 1927, and 1928.
The 2022 season marked the first season of multiple broadcasting deals in Major League Baseball in the United States, most of which run through the 2028 season: Fox remains the league's main broadcaster, carrying a package of regular season games on the main Fox broadcast network and FS1, and Spanish-language broadcasts on Fox Deportes.
The 2022 season was the Detroit Lions' 93rd in the National Football League (NFL), the 21st playing their home games at Ford Field and their second under the head coach/general manager tandem of Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes.
The women's season typically begins and ends two or three weeks earlier than the men's. The KHL regular season begins in early September and ends in late February. The playoffs run from March to mid-April. The Australian Ice Hockey League's season runs from April to mid-August, with playoffs extending up to late August. Motor racing
From 1 ⁄ 12 to 8 ⁄ 12 they were expressed as multiples of twelfths (uncia "twelfth"; the source of the English words inch and ounce) and from 9 ⁄ 12 to 11 ⁄ 12 they were expressed as multiple twelfths less than the next whole unit—i.e. a whole unit less 3 ⁄ 12, 2 ⁄ 12 or 1 ⁄ 12 respectively.
Since the 2006 season, the NFL has used a "flexible scheduling" system for the last seven weeks of the regular season when there is a Sunday night game. In 2014, that was expanded to include weeks 5 – 17 and since 2022 to include Monday nights on weeks 12–17 and in 2023 and 2024 to include weeks 13-17 for Thursday nights [ 4 ] . [ 5 ]