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"sense": "not direct or to the point",
"word": "āwhiowhio"
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"sense": "not direct or to the point",
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"ref": "1947 May and June, “Richmond-Ludgate Hill Train, London & South Western Railway, at Addison Road Station About 75 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page unnumbered (frontispiece)",
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"ref": "1962 February, “Talking of Trains: British-owned ferry wagons”, in Modern Railways, page 83",
"text": "The advantages of the train ferry in combining through running (without double handling) with speed and relatively large loads are shown in the decision of the Swedish State Railways to build 100 large covered and 50 open wagons for working to Britain by the ferry services, although the route from Sweden to any destination in the U.K. via Zeebrugge/Harwich is comparatively circuitous; the first of the Swedish covered wagons has already run through to London.",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "of a long and winding route",
"word": "迂迴"
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
"word": "kọ́lọkọ̀lọ"
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"Requests for review of Indonesian translations"
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"sense": "not direct or to the point",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "not direct or to the point",
"word": "āwhiowhio"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "not direct or to the point",
"word": "okrężny"
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"sense": "not direct or to the point",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
"word": "迂迴"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
"word": "迂回"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a long and winding route",
"word": "kiertelevä"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"word": "kaarteleva"
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"word": "tortueux"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
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"code": "de",
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"word": "verwunden"
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
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"code": "yo",
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"sense": "of a long and winding route",
"word": "kọ́lọkọ̀lọ"
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"word": "circuitous"
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