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"ref": "2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC",
"text": "Stars in Their Eyes ran for 16 years from 1990, and had the \"wow\" factor moment of transforming a pub singer into their idol, as the contestant said the famous words: \"Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be…\" and then stepped out from a puff of dry ice as their musical doppelganger.",
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{
"categories": [
"Portuguese countable nouns",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese nouns",
"pt:Fantasy"
],
"glosses": [
"doppelganger (ghostly double of a living person)"
],
"links": [
[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
],
[
"doppelganger",
"doppelganger#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fantasy) doppelganger (ghostly double of a living person)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"fantasy"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Doppelgänger"
}
],
"word": "doppelganger"
}
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