See custodian on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1947, David Saavedra, Go South Young Man, page 80:",
"text": "The middle class is the. demitone of human society, custodian of the balance, and no fair social order could exist without the cooperation of this class.",
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"ref": "2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times:",
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"word": "qəyyum"
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"word": "опеку́н"
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"_dis1": "83 8 0 2 6",
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"word": "conciërge"
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