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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fully understand",
"word": "pilotar"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to fully understand",
"word": "anlamak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to fully understand",
"word": "kavramak"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Stranger in a Strange Land",
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test",
"Venus and the Seven Sexes",
"William Tenn"
],
"word": "grok"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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