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"word": "ཡས་མས"
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[
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},
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{
"word": "w przybliżeniu"
}
],
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"literary"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡sir.ka/"
},
{
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}
],
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}
{
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},
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},
{
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"2": "la",
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"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
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},
{
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"2": "la",
"3": "circa"
},
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"name": "bor+"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "adverb",
"head": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
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"name": "ro-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Romanian adverbs",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Latin",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"approximately, about, or so"
],
"links": [
[
"approximately",
"approximately"
],
[
"about",
"about"
],
[
"or so",
"or so"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cam"
}
]
}
],
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}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "la",
"3": "circā"
},
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"name": "uder"
}
],
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{
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"1": "es",
"2": "preposition"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "prep",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
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"Rhymes:Spanish/iɾka/2 syllables",
"Spanish 2-syllable words",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish prepositions",
"Spanish terms derived from Latin",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Spanish undefined derivations"
],
"glosses": [
"circa"
],
"links": [
[
"circa",
"circa#English"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈθiɾka/",
"tags": [
"Spain"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"Spain"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsiɾka/",
"tags": [
"Latin-America"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈsiɾ.ka]",
"tags": [
"Latin-America"
]
},
{
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}
],
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}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
"msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": […]gyeong vs. 頃",
"path": [
"circa"
],
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"subsection": "preposition",
"title": "circa",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "translations/611",
"msg": "suspicious translation with '[': {'lang': 'Korean', 'code': 'ko', 'sense': 'approximately, about, around', 'alt': '頃', 'word': '[…]경'}",
"path": [
"circa"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "preposition",
"title": "circa",
"trace": ""
}
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