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"etymology_text": "From bread + crumb. Computing sense: a reference to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.",
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"ref": "2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-05-31",
"text": "Before he died, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), the hermit-like, socially maladjusted tech genius who created The Oasis, hid an Easter egg somewhere in the circuitry, scattering bread crumbs that lead to its location. Find the egg, and the mogul’s fortune—along with total control of his digital fiefdom—is yours. It’s the ultimate capitalist scavenger hunt!",
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"A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread."
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"(chiefly in the plural) A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread."
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "麵包屑"
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"english": "min⁶ baau¹ sit³",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "面包屑"
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"english": "fallen from bread",
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"word": "miette de pain"
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "Brotkrümel"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "Brosame"
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"roman": "psícha",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"roman": "trímma",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"roman": "perúrey lehém",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "פירורי לחם \\ פֵּרוּר"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "kenyérmorzsa"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "prézli"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "zsemlemorzsa"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"tags": [
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"word": "brauðmylsna"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "panir"
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "grabhróg aráin"
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "bruscar aráin"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"english": "a single bread crumb",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"tags": [
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"word": "briciola"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"english": "pre-made dry bread crumbs sold in stores and used to crumb-coat food",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "pangrattato"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"english": "soft internal portion of bread",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"tags": [
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"word": "mollica"
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "pankuzu",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "パン屑"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"roman": "panko",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "パン粉"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ppanggaru",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "빵가루"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "serdak roti"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "bułka tarta"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"tags": [
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"word": "migalha"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "pão ralado"
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"english": "a single bread crumb, either dry or soft",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"tags": [
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"word": "firmitură"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"english": "pre-made dry bread crumbs sold in stores and used to crumb-coat food",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"tags": [
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"word": "pesmet"
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{
"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"roman": "xlébnaja króška",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"tags": [
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"word": "хле́бная кро́шка"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "muḍḍica"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"word": "krušna drobtina"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"tags": [
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "ekmek kırıntısı"
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{
"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "bột chiên xù"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "vụn bánh mì"
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"_dis1": "94 2 4 1",
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"ref": "2010, Mark Stephenson, Web-Empower Your Church",
"text": "Breadcrumbs usually look something like this: \"Home > About Us > Staff\" and are positioned near the top navigation. […] The words in the breadcrumbs are links to pages at higher levels of the website.",
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"ref": "2004, Jack Ganssle, The Firmware Handbook, page 276",
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"ref": "2012, Wallace B. McClure, Nathan Blevins, John J. Croft IV, Wrox Cross Platform Android and iOS Mobile Development Three-Pack",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"ref": "2011, Sten Sture Skaldeman, Lose Weight by Eating",
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"ref": "2016, Artur Lugmayr, Cinzia Dal Zotto, Media Convergence Handbook - Vol. 2: Firms and User Perspectives",
"text": "An alternate reality game—ARG—is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as its media platform and uses storytelling “bread-crumbed” across several media to deliver a story that is altered and impacted in real time by the participants' ideas and actions (Dena, 2008; Denward & Waern, 2008; Werner, 2008).",
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"text": "It was what had attracted me to her in the first place. \"You can say something,\" I said. \"I'm easy to talk to.\" She frowned. The last time we had a private talk, in her kitchen, she admitted to playing me for a fool, making me fall in love with her, and breadcrumbing my way to discovering a deadly necromantic artifact.",
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"sense": "to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food",
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