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"ref": "2000, Elizabeth Berg, Range of Motion:",
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"ref": "2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:",
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"ref": "2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Sudbury Hill”, in RAIL, number 972, page 57:",
"text": "Installing lift shafts in station buildings which were not originally designed to accommodate them can be a fraught exercise, but a necessary one if the legitimate aspiration of the travelling public for step-free access is to be achieved. At Sudbury Hill, on London Underground's Piccadilly Line extension out to the north-western suburbs, Transport for London has achieved this with aplomb.",
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"ref": "2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:",
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{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "self-confidence",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "self-confidence",
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},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "self-confidence",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "self-confidence",
"word": "magabiztosság"
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{
"code": "tr",
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},
{
"form": "unui aplomb",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "aplombului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "aplombule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "aplomb n (uncountable)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "n",
"gpd": "aplombelor",
"gpi": "aplombe",
"gsd": "aplombului",
"gsi": "aplomb",
"n": "sg",
"npd": "aplombele",
"npi": "aplombe",
"nsd": "aplombul",
"nsi": "aplomb",
"vp": "aplombelor",
"vs": "aplombule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"aplomb"
],
"links": [
[
"aplomb",
"aplomb#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "aplomb"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "fr",
"3": "aplomb"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from French aplomb",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from French aplomb.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-noun-unc-irreg-c",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "aplomb",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"form": "aplomben",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"form": "aplombs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"form": "aplombens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "aplomb c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "aplomb c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "aplomb",
"2": "aplomben",
"3": "-",
"4": "-",
"5": "aplombs",
"6": "aplombens",
"7": "-",
"8": "-",
"base": "aplomb",
"definitions": "",
"gender": "Common",
"uncountable": "yes"
},
"name": "sv-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish terms borrowed from French",
"Swedish terms derived from French",
"Swedish terms with rare senses",
"Swedish unadapted borrowings from French"
],
"glosses": [
"aplomb"
],
"links": [
[
"aplomb",
"aplomb#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) aplomb"
],
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "aplomb"
}
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"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Romanian]; cleaned text: n gender",
"path": [
"aplomb"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "aplomb",
"trace": ""
}
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