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"ref": "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress",
"text": "The invitation for the next evening was accepted, and Cecilia, for once, felt no repugnance to joining the company.",
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"ref": "1841, Edgar Allan Poe, Never Bet the Devil Your Head",
"text": "For once I would have taken him up upon his insulting wager.",
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"ref": "1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend",
"text": "Sell her her waste, please, and give her good measure if you can make up your mind to do the liberal thing for once.",
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"ref": "1882 April 27, “The Funeral Of Mr. Darwin”, in The Times",
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"ref": "1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island",
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"text": "2009 November 9, Jillian Law, Liberal Candidate for Franklin, “Now Rudd's on the nose for once”, in The Age:",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pòtiānhuāng",
"sense": "for the first time",
"word": "破天荒"
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"word": "per una volta"
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"word": "una volta tanto"
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},
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"sense": "for the first time",
"word": "破天荒"
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"sense": "for the first time",
"word": "kerrankin"
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"sense": "for the first time",
"word": "ამჯერად"
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"sense": "in a rare exception to the rule",
"word": "破天荒"
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"sense": "in a rare exception to the rule",
"word": "fyri eina ferð skyld"
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"sense": "in a rare exception to the rule",
"word": "kerrankin"
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"word": "pour une fois"
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"sense": "in a rare exception to the rule",
"word": "wenigstens einmal"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in a rare exception to the rule",
"word": "wenigstens ein einziges Mal"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
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"word": "per una volta"
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"word": "в ко́и-то ве́ки"
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"sense": "in a rare exception to the rule",
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