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"etymology_text": "Probably from the fact that when a pundit is speaking on television, the camera often zooms in on his or her head.",
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"ref": "1989, Mark [Stephen] Monmonier, “Maps in the Electronic Media”, in Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, page 203",
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"ref": "1999, Laurence G. Boldt, “The Leisure to Grow”, in The Tao of Abundance, New York, N.Y.: Penguin/Arkana",
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"ref": "2015, Thomas T. Holyoke, “Theodore J. Lowi, The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States”, in Steven J. Balla, Martin Lodge, Edward C. Page, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 221",
"text": "But Theodore Lowi is not a talking head leveling vitriol against the political system to make money. He is a thinker making a powerful, well-reasoned argument that resonates even with his critics, though sometimes the prose style is a little dense.",
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"word": "uutiskommentaattori"
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"word": "puhuva pää"
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"word": "Redenschwinger"
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"word": "gadające głowy"
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"ref": "2015, Thomas T. Holyoke, “Theodore J. Lowi, The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States”, in Steven J. Balla, Martin Lodge, Edward C. Page, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 221",
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],
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"word": "uutiskommentaattori"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "puhuva pää"
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{
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Redenschwinger"
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"word": "Fernsehkommentator"
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"word": "gadające głowy"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "govorjàščaja golová",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "говоря̀щая голова́"
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"word": "talking head"
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