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"word": "ორმოციანი წლები"
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"roman": "40-iani c̣lebi",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"word": "40-იანი წლები"
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"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
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"word": "vierziger Jahre"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
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],
"word": "Vierziger"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"word": "negyvenes évek"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "quarantenne"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
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"word": "anta"
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yonjū-nendai",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"word": "四十年代"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yonjū-nendai",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"word": "40年代"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sasimnyeondae",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"word": "40년대"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"tags": [
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"word": "lata czterdzieste"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "lata 40."
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sorokovýje",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"word": "сороковы́е"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"word": "años cuarenta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"word": "década de 1940"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fyrtiotalet"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fyrtiotal"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "deugeiniau"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "the decade of the 1840s, 1940s etc",
"tags": [
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"plural"
],
"word": "pedwardegau"
}
],
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}
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"text": "Two forties aircraft sat forgotten in the hangar until they were rediscovered by two trespassing teens."
},
{
"ref": "1991, Judith B. Kerman, “Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia”, in Judith B. Kerman, editor, Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 2nd edition, University of Wisconsin Press, page 16",
"text": "Like any big modern city, Scott's Los Angeles of 2019 is saturated with technologies; in fact, it is most striking for its layering of technologies, styles, lifestyles and ethnicities, which range from oriental peasant altars and cookfires through forties hats and building facades to off-world colonies and androids.",
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"word": "'forties"
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