See onside on Wiktionary
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"msg": "possible sense number in translation item: Spanish: [4] a favor",
"path": [
"onside"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "onside",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "translations/611",
"msg": "suspicious translation with '[': {'lang': 'Spanish', 'code': 'es', 'sense': '(football) not in an offside position', 'word': '[4] a favor'}",
"path": [
"onside"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "onside",
"trace": ""
}
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