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"word": "서문"
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"word": "అవతారిక"
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"sense": "short statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute",
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"ref": "1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775: Including the Journal of Captain Simeon Chaper, pages 312–313",
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"ref": "1982, Frank Davey, Pomestaysyun, page 20",
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"ref": "2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, page 473",
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"sense": "short statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute",
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"sense": "short statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute",
"word": "前言"
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"sense": "short statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute",
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"sense": "short statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute",
"word": "პრეამბულა"
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"ref": "1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775: Including the Journal of Captain Simeon Chaper, pages 312–313",
"text": "But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province.",
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"ref": "1982, Frank Davey, Pomestaysyun, page 20",
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"ref": "2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, page 473",
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