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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"roman": "hoshō",
"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"roman": "banpei",
"sense": "A sentry or guard",
"word": "番兵"
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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"word": "praeses"
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"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "A sentry or guard",
"word": "haʼasídí"
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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"word": "часово́й"
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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"word": "стра̀жа̄р"
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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"lang": "Turkish",
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "A sentry or guard",
"word": "nöbetçi"
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"roman": "vartovyj",
"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"word": "вартовий"
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"sense": "A sentry or guard",
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"ref": "1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 33",
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"text": "The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally",
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"ref": "2016, Jake VanderPlas, Python Data Science Handbook, page 120",
"text": "[…] a sentinel value that indicates a missing entry.",
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"sense": "a unique phrase of characters",
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"sense": "a unique phrase of characters",
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"sense": "a unique phrase of characters",
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"A sentinel crab."
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"text": "sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.",
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"text": "He sentineled the north wall."
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"To watch over as a guard."
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"(transitive) To watch over as a guard."
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"sense": "To watch over something as a guard",
"word": "охранявам"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "To watch over something as a guard",
"word": "stå vagt"
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"sense": "To watch over something as a guard",
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