An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ENTRANT
entrant
(noun) a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise; “a well publicized entrant is the pocket computer”
entrant
(noun) one who enters a competition
entrant
(noun) someone who enters; “new entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures”
newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant
(noun) any new participant in some activity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
entrant (plural entrants)
A participant who enters something, such as a contest.
A newcomer.
Source: Wiktionary
En"trant, n. Etym: [See Entrance, n.]
1. One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." Bp. Terrot.
2. An applicant for admission. Stormonth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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