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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Medicine"
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{
"ref": "2022 January 3, Joelle Goldstein, “Jimmy Fallon Reveals He Tested Positive for COVID: 'I Was Vaccinated and Boostered'”, in People",
"text": "\"Hey guys, on the first day of our holiday break I tested positive for Covid. I was vaccinated and boostered which made me lucky enough to only have mild symptoms,\" he wrote beside a photo that showed him sitting alone inside a testing room wearing a mask.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 January 11, Jessica Jacob, “Health Workers, ‘Risking Their Own Lives to Save Ours’”, in The New York Times",
"text": "What I would prefer over hazard pay would be for every one of our patients to get vaccinated and boostered, as we request constantly. That would be what would make me happy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To give a booster shot to; to boost."
],
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"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"booster shot",
"booster shot"
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[
"boost",
"boost"
]
],
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"(transitive, medicine) To give a booster shot to; to boost."
],
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"transitive"
],
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"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/En-au-booster.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
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{
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"plural"
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],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
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"booster#English"
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],
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