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"ref": "1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life:",
"text": "\"No — don't you get it?\" said Rimmer.\n\"Get what?\" said Kryten, uncertainly.",
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{
"ref": "2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195:",
"text": "I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]",
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"In an uncertain manner."
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
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"roman": "avévaia",
"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "αβέβαια"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "bizonytalanul"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "dubbiosamente"
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "niepewnie"
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "неопределённо"
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
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"ref": "2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195:",
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"In an uncertain manner."
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "incertament"
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "epävarmasti"
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "aléatoirement"
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"word": "confusément"
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
"word": "αβέβαια"
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"sense": "in an uncertain manner",
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