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"sense": "in every direction",
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"sense": "in every direction",
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"ref": "2003, David Weber, Empire from the Ashes, Baen Books, page 577",
"text": "He’d known better at the time, damn it, but he’d let himself worry more over the possibility of losing an hour or two than her safety. He pounded his fists together and stared up at the sky with bitter eyes, but the alien stars mocked him, and his jaw clenched as he powered his com implant and sent out a full-powered omnidirectional pulse, heedless of the quarantine system’s sensors.",
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"text": "He’d known better at the time, damn it, but he’d let himself worry more over the possibility of losing an hour or two than her safety. He pounded his fists together and stared up at the sky with bitter eyes, but the alien stars mocked him, and his jaw clenched as he powered his com implant and sent out a full-powered omnidirectional pulse, heedless of the quarantine system’s sensors.",
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"sense": "in every direction",
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"sense": "in every direction",
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"sense": "in every direction",
"word": "παντοκατευθυντικός"
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"sense": "in every direction",
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"sense": "in every direction",
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"sense": "in every direction",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "in every direction",
"word": "đẳng hướng"
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