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pandora
1[ pan-dawr-uh, -dohr-uh ]
Pandora
2[ pan-dawr-uh, -dohr-uh ]
noun
- Classical Mythology. the first woman, created by Hephaestus, endowed by the gods with all the graces and treacherously presented to Epimetheus along with a box (originally a jar) in which Prometheus had confined all the evils that could trouble humanity. As the gods had anticipated, Pandora gave in to her curiosity and opened the box, allowing the evils to escape, thereby frustrating the efforts of Prometheus. In some versions, the box contained blessings, all of which escaped but hope.
Pandora
1/ pænˈdɔː; ˈpændɔː; æˈɔːə /
noun
- Greek myth the first woman, made out of earth as the gods' revenge on man for obtaining fire from Prometheus. Given a box ( Pandora's box ) that she was forbidden to open, she disobeyed out of curiosity and released from it all the ills that beset man, leaving only hope within
pandora
2/ æˈɔːə /
noun
- a handsome red sea bream, Pagellus erythrinus, of European coastal waters, caught for food in the Mediterranean
- a marine bivalve mollusc of the genus Pandora that lives on the surface of sandy shores and has thin equal valves
- music another word for bandore
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pandora1
Origin of pandora2
Example Sentences
Schumer viewed a government shutdown as a Pandora's box, unleashing chaos with no guarantee that the federal government would ever be set right again.
With three words, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer challenged President Donald Trump to open a potential Pandora’s Box of scientific news: “Now do UFOs,” the leading Democrat posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, referring to unidentified flying objects.
"This Court could not order the removal of votes in four counties, while leaving votes from similarly situated voters in all other counties untouched," she said, arguing that it "should not open that Pandora's box."
And it seems theoretically possible to do it, but experts are now warning it could be opening Pandora’s box.
“Nearly two decades ago, when I led the earliest initiative to integrate Pandora and Sonos, I got my first glimpse of the magic that Sonos could bring to millions of lives every day.”
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