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"text": "The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.",
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"Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "zabeležitelen",
"sense": "worthy of note",
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"sense": "worthy of note",
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"roman": "aɣsanišnavi",
"sense": "worthy of note",
"word": "აღსანიშნავი"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "q̇uradsaɣebi",
"sense": "worthy of note",
"word": "ყურადსაღები"
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"word": "rilevante"
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"word": "برجسته"
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"sense": "worthy of note",
"word": "замечательный"
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"roman": "dostojnyj vnimanija",
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"word": "framträdande"
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"word": "obscure"
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{
"word": "trivial"
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{
"ref": "1936, H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth",
"text": "Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1834, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the discovery of the American continent",
"text": "He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2",
"text": "Professionally published dictionaries do not seem to have extended coverage beyond the most frequent and salient items.",
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"Prominent; conspicuous."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "izpǎkvašt",
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"word": "изпъкващ"
},
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"roman": "očeviden",
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"sense": "prominent",
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"word": "huomattava"
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"roman": "gamočenili",
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"word": "بارز"
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"text": "a lion salient",
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"(heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture."
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"word": "جهنده"
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"Moving by leaps or springs; jumping."
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"(obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping."
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"Shooting or springing out; projecting."
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"(obsolete) Shooting or springing out; projecting."
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"word": "vestingswerk"
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"word": "vooruitstekend deel"
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"_dis1": "86 2 2 2 2 4 2",
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"word": "kiila"
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{
"_dis1": "86 2 2 2 2 4 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"word": "rintamakiila"
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{
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{
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