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"text": "We embarked on a publicity blitz, putting posters and flyers all around town.",
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"ref": "2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "2021 March 25, Koichi Nakano, “The Olympics Are On! But Why?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"ref": "2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times",
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"note": "чагылгандай согуш күтүүсүз кол салуу",
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "blitz m (plural blitz)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"blitz"
],
"links": [
[
"blitz",
"blitz#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "blitz"
}
{
"called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
"msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
"path": [
"blitz"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "blitz",
"trace": ""
}
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