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"text": "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.",
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"word": "អី"
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"word": "아무것도"
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"ref": "1916, Edward S. Moffat, Go Forth and Find, pages 81–82",
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{
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"word": "ᎦᎱᏍᏗ"
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{
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"roman": "shénme",
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{
"code": "cs",
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{
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"code": "nl",
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{
"code": "nl",
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{
"code": "eo",
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "gl",
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"word": "calquera cousa"
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{
"code": "ka",
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"word": "ნებისმიერი რამ"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "irgendwas"
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"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "ainshun",
"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌷𐌿𐌽"
},
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "bármi"
},
{
"code": "io",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "irgo"
},
{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "aon rud"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "qualunque cosa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "qualsiasi cosa"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "niente"
},
{
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "何でも"
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{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "ʼəy",
"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "អី"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "amugeot-do",
"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "아무것도"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
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"word": "ھیچ"
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{
"code": "la",
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"word": "quidquam"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bilo što",
"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "било што"
},
{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "što bilo",
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"word": "што било"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"word": "што и да било"
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"code": "ms",
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],
"word": "اڤ٢"
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{
"code": "ms",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
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],
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"code": "gv",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "nhee erbee"
},
{
"code": "mr",
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"word": "काहीही"
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{
"code": "mr",
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"word": "काही पण"
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},
{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "nimic"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "всё, что уго́дно"
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"word": "что уго́дно"
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"code": "gd",
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"word": "rud sam bith"
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "es",
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"word": "cualquier cosa"
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"code": "sw",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "te",
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"word": "ఏమైనా"
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"code": "tpi",
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"word": "何でも"
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