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"text": "Many football, basketball, and hockey players, boxers, wrestlers, cage fighters, hunters, bikers, NASCAR drivers, matadors, and rodeo cowboys are adrenaline junkies."
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"ref": "1991 October 20, “300 parachutists leap into gorge”, in Toledo Blade, retrieved 2013-11-16, page A3",
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"ref": "2009 July 30, “Schumacher's F1 Comeback: An Adrenaline Junkie Returns to the Racetrack”, in Spiegel Online International, retrieved 2013-11-16",
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"sense": "one who is addicted with the sensation of risky, exciting situations",
"word": "愛冒險的人"
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"roman": "ài màoxiǎn de rén",
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"word": "爱冒险的人"
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"word": "accro à l’adrénaline"
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"sense": "one who is addicted with the sensation of risky, exciting situations",
"word": "adrenalinfüggő"
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"word": "viciado em adrenalina"
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"sense": "one who is addicted with the sensation of risky, exciting situations",
"word": "愛冒險的人"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ài màoxiǎn de rén",
"sense": "one who is addicted with the sensation of risky, exciting situations",
"word": "爱冒险的人"
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"sense": "one who is addicted with the sensation of risky, exciting situations",
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"word": "accro à l’adrénaline"
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"sense": "one who is addicted with the sensation of risky, exciting situations",
"word": "adrenalinfüggő"
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"sense": "one who is addicted with the sensation of risky, exciting situations",
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"word": "viciado em adrenalina"
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