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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
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"word": "tréitheach"
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
"word": "incoraggiante"
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"ref": "1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights, page 299",
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"word": "խոստումնալից"
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"word": "шматабяца́ючы"
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
"word": "有為"
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"word": "有为"
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
"word": "होनहार"
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
"word": "ígéretes"
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"word": "biztató"
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"word": "reményteli"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "sokat ígérő"
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"word": "tréitheach"
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
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"word": "약속하는"
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"word": "magnae speī"
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
"word": "lovende"
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
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"roman": "mnogoobeščájuščij",
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"word": "многообеща́ющий"
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"sense": "showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion",
"word": "gealltanach"
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"word": "багатообіця́ючий"
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɒmɪsɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
}
],
"word": "promising"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English verb forms"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "promisings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "promising (plural promisings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"prom‧is‧ing"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights, page 299",
"text": "So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution \"I promise\".",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of making a promise."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɒmɪsɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
}
],
"word": "promising"
}
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