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"code": "it",
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"sense": "baseball: defensive player between second and third baseman",
"word": "interbase"
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"sense": "baseball: defensive player between second and third baseman",
"word": "ショート"
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"alt": "ゆうげきしゅ",
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"sense": "baseball: defensive player between second and third baseman",
"word": "遊撃手"
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"word": "유격수"
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"sense": "baseball: defensive player between second and third baseman",
"word": "쇼트"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "baseball: defensive player between second and third baseman",
"word": "chặn ngắn"
}
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"ref": "2012, Robert L. Tiemann, Mark Rucker, Joseph M. Overfield, Nineteenth Century Stars, page 20:",
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"ref": "2017, Brandon Isleib, Playing for a Winner, page 77:",
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"ref": "2017, Susan Forest, Lucas K. Law, Juliet Marillier, The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound:",
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"ref": "1978, Carol D. Jori, “Container Revolution in Bremerhaven”, in Sealift, page 18:",
"text": "They will be shortstopped in the port for lease by the government, then continue their journey by military train.",
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{
"ref": "2006, Oskar Nuyken, Neodymium Based Ziegler Catalysts - Fundamental Chemistry, page 64:",
"text": "In the polymerization of BD by Ti-, Co- and Ni-based catalyst systems the polymerization has to be shortstopped at a specific monomer conversion in order to avoid the formation of gel.",
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},
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"ref": "2008, Gary Linderer, Phantom Warriors, page 148:",
"text": "Although he successfully shortstopped the assault on his two teammates, the enemy soldiers now concentrated their fire directly on him.",
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