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"ref": "1950, Cleveland Amory, Home town:",
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"ref": "1983, Linda Crawford, Vanishing acts:",
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"ref": "1983, David S. Reiss, M*A*S*H: the exclusive, inside story of TV's most popular show:",
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"ref": "2004, Bonnie G. Smith, Beth Hutchison, Gendering Disability, page 61:",
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"ref": "2013, Kevin O’Keefe, A Thousand Deadlines:",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "depisi",
"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Bindestrich"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "he",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"masculine"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"code": "ia",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
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"masculine"
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "haifun",
"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
"word": "ハイフン"
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{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "defis",
"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
"word": "дефис"
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{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "sa’ha’ saññaa",
"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
"word": "សហសញ្ញា"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "buchimpyo",
"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
"word": "붙임표"
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "haipeun",
"sense": "symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split",
"word": "하이픈"
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