Peter Sokolowski
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67 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
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Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It can also be used to describe someone or something, such as an idea, that is foolish or irrational.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from The Sun of Elizabethtown, New York.
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Everyone is encouraged to bring chairs, snacks, and coolers, and remember the flashlights for the walk back to the parking lot.
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Leashed dogs are welcome, too.
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These evenings are all about enjoying good music on a balmy summer night.
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Aromatic ointments and fragrances are the balm.
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They are also literally balms, B-A-L-M-S, healing substances and soothing scents with the power to ease both mind and body.
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The original balm, what Latin speakers referred to as balsamum, was the oleoresin of a species of balsam tree.
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In Anglo-French, balsamum became balm and boom, spellings which entered Middle English and later became balm, B-A-L-M.
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Balm eventually begat the adjective balmy, used to describe things with a balm's comforting, calming qualities, as when Shakespeare's Othello speaks of balmy slumbers.
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Today, balmy is typically used to describe the weather, balmy breezes, balmy temperatures, balmy spring afternoons.
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Conditions that are neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.
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Goldilocks conditions, even.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the word of the day podcast for August eighteenth.
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Today's word is oxymoron, spelled O XY M O R O N.
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Oxymoron is a noun.
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And oxymoron is a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings, such as cruel kindness or open secret.
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In broader usage, oxymoron can also refer to something, such as a concept, that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements.
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