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"sense": "(informal, with “the”) the intelligent person or people in a group: the director, planner, administrator, etc.",
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}
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"Rhymes:English/eɪnz/1 syllable",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with North Levantine Arabic translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
],
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},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪnz"
}
],
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}
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