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"text": "Great emphasis should be placed on sensitizing the hands to the feel of the water, and the hands should remain sensitized throughout the workout.[…]Swimmers should sensitize the hands at the beginning of every workout by swimming the first 200 meters with their fists tightly clenched.",
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"text": "Ever since the burglary, we've been more sensitized to home security issues."
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"sense": "to make sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli",
"word": "правя чувствителен"
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"sense": "to make sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli",
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"sense": "to make sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli",
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"sense": "to make sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli",
"word": "érzékennyé tesz"
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"sense": "to make sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli",
"word": "sensibiliza"
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"sense": "to make increasingly aware of",
"word": "使意识到"
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"sense": "to make increasingly aware of",
"word": "senzibilizovat"
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"word": "érzékenyít"
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"word": "szenzitizál"
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"sense": "to make increasingly aware of",
"word": "sensibilizzare"
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