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"raw_glosses": [
"(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Malawi."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "MWI"
}
]
}
],
"word": "MW"
}
{
"called_from": "linkages/371",
"msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: (Merriam-Webster): M-W desc=Merriam-Webster rest=M-W cls=romanization cls2=romanization e1=False e2=True",
"path": [
"MW"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "MW",
"trace": ""
}
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