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"ref": "2022 November 30, Nigel Harris, “A bid to break the other side?”, in RAIL, number 971, page 3:",
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"text": "TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: \"This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, not running down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account.\"",
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"ref": "1943 May and June, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1939)—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 143:",
"text": "The Jylland only missed running down a schooner by a few yards in the fog; it was a near thing—near enough, in fact, to allow of some shouted remarks between those on the bridge of the motorship and the man at the wheel of the schooner to be clearly heard.",
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"ref": "2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 14:35 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17:",
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "atropellar"
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "heurter"
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "atropelar"
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "überfahren"
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "דרס"
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"word": "elgázol"
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "investire"
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{
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "mettere sotto"
},
{
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "atropelar"
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"roman": "sbivatʹ",
"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them",
"word": "chạy xuống"
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"sense": "to criticise",
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"sense": "to read quickly a list or other short text",
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"word": "enunciar"
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"roman": "zagnatʹ",
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