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"బాలాజీ",
"బాలాజీ#Telugu"
],
[
"பாலாஜி",
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],
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"बाल",
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],
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"Vishnu",
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],
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"Andhra Pradesh",
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],
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"-जी",
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]
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"name": "bor"
},
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"expansion": "compound of Sanskrit बाल (bāla, “young boy, the form of Vishnu at the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh.”) + Hindi -जी (-jī, “honorific”)",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Telugu బాలాజీ (bālājī) and Tamil பாலாஜி (pālāji), a compound of Sanskrit बाल (bāla, “young boy, the form of Vishnu at the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh.”) + Hindi -जी (-jī, “honorific”). The surname is particularly found in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.",
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"ref": "2024 December 14, Alys Davies, “OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment”, in BBC:",
"text": "In recent months Mr Balaji had publicly spoken out against artificial intelligence company OpenAI's practices, which has been fighting a number of lawsuits relating to its data-gathering practices.",
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"பாலாஜி",
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],
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"बाल",
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],
[
"Vishnu",
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"-जी",
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"name": "bor"
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