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},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "Cyrillic",
"word": "М"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Visual rendering of Morse code for М. (Cyrillic)"
],
"links": [
[
"М",
"М#Translingual"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"letter",
"morse-code",
"visual-rendering"
]
}
],
"word": "--"
}
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