Peter Sokolowski
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1,458 appearances
93 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard yesterday
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Be magnanimous and forgiving if others make a boo-boo.
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When you see anima, animus, or a similar formation in a word, it's often an indicator of something alive, lively, or spirited.
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Something described as animated is full of life, for example, and the word animal refers to a living thing.
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The Latin word anima means breath or soul, and animus means spirit.
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In magnanimous, animus is joined by the Latin word magnus, meaning great.
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Basically meaning greatness of spirit.
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Magnanimity is the opposite of selfishness.
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A true magnanimous person can lose without complaining and win without gloating.
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And angry disputes can sometimes be resolved when one side makes a magnanimous gesture toward the other.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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Visit Merriam-Webster.com today for definitions, wordplay, and trending word lookups.
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It's the word of the day podcast for September seventh.
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Today's word is gist, spelled G-I-S-T.
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Gist is a noun.
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Gist, which almost always appears in the phrase the gist, refers to the general or basic meaning of something written or said.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the BBC.
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His daughter dismissed the film they were watching early on, Tim Allen explained, because she'd already got the gist of what was going to happen.
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The main point overarching theme essence, that's gist in a nutshell, the gist of gist, if you will.
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The gist of a conversation, argument, story, or what have you, is what we rely on when the actual words and details are only imperfectly recalled, inessential, or too voluminous to recount in their entirety.
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Gist was borrowed from the Anglo French legal phrase l'action gist.
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