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"text": "1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville\nDo ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?"
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"ref": "2021 June 23, Carl Zimmer, quoting Michael Worobey, “Scientist Finds Early Virus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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],
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shadow"
}
],
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "detective",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vyšetřovat"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "naspeuren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "schaduwen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "nachspüren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "untersuchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "beschatten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "schnüffeln"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "mettersi sulle tracce"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vysléživatʹ",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "высле́живать"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "spana"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "detective",
"word": "skugga"
}
],
"word": "sleuth"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/uːθ",
"Rhymes:English/uːθ/1 syllable",
"en:Occupations",
"en:People"
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},
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"name": "inh"
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"2": "slow"
},
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},
{
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},
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"name": "m"
}
],
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"form": "sleuths",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"word": "sloth"
}
],
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"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
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"Slowness; laziness, sloth."
],
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[
"Slowness",
"slowness"
],
[
"laziness",
"laziness"
],
[
"sloth",
"sloth"
]
],
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"(obsolete, uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "idleness"
},
{
"word": "inertia"
},
{
"word": "laziness"
},
{
"word": "lethargy"
},
{
"word": "sloth"
},
{
"word": "slothfulness"
}
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English collective nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1961, Noel Perrin, A Passport Secretly Green, page 89",
"text": "As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears, I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth, page 13",
"text": "If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Elinor DeWire, The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, page 200",
"text": "From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A group of bears."
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],
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{
"word": "sloth"
}
],
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"rare"
]
}
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"ipa": "/sluːθ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sluːθ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːθ"
},
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],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
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