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"ref": "2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in Guardian Unlimited",
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"ref": "1859, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second",
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"(figurative) Alongside; parallel to."
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"word": "op de hoogte"
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"word": "met zijn tijd mee"
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"sense": "informed",
"word": "tietoinen"
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"_dis1": "3 0 89 2 1 4 1",
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"word": "ajan tasalla"
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"_dis1": "3 0 89 2 1 4 1",
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"_dis1": "3 0 89 2 1 4 1",
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"text": "She believes it is important to keep abreast of new scientific developments."
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"word": "na výši"
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"text": "The west wind blew a tempest, and, according to the common expression, brought in the water [of the Solway] three foot abreast."
}
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"Breast high (of an advancing wave)."
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"(Scotland) Breast high (of an advancing wave)."
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"word": "並排"
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"sense": "side by side",
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"sense": "side by side",
"word": "zij aan zij"
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"_dis1": "40 2 1 1 0 52 3",
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"word": "vierivieressä"
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"_dis1": "40 2 1 1 0 52 3",
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"sense": "side by side",
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"_dis1": "40 2 1 1 0 52 3",
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"sense": "side by side",
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"_dis1": "40 2 1 1 0 52 3",
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"word": "affiancato"
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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{
"_dis1": "40 2 1 1 0 52 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "side by side",
"word": "rame uz rame"
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{
"_dis1": "40 2 1 1 0 52 3",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "side by side",
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"sense": "nautical: side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam",
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"code": "de",
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"word": "auf gleicher Höhe"
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"sense": "nautical: side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam",
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"ref": "1842, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, From the birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII., 3rd edition, volume 1, page 412",
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"(obsolete) At the same time; simultaneously."
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"text": "This ship sank abreast the island."
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