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"ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60",
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"sense": "to show or illustrate by example",
"word": "илюстрирам с пример"
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"sense": "to show or illustrate by example",
"word": "exemplificar"
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"word": "举例说明"
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"sense": "to show or illustrate by example",
"word": "eksemplificere"
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"sense": "to show or illustrate by example",
"word": "lýsa við dømum"
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{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to show or illustrate by example",
"word": "geva dømi um"
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"word": "veranschaulichen"
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"word": "esemplificare"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to show or illustrate by example",
"word": "whakatauira"
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"sense": "to show or illustrate by example",
"word": "egzemplifikować"
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"word": "exemplificar"
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"word": "exemplifiera"
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"sense": "to serve as an example of",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to serve as an example of",
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