See to wit on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section VII:",
"text": "Thus, I had so long suffered in this quest,\nHeard failure prophesied so oft, been writ\nSo many times among \"The Band\"─to wit,\nThe knights who to the Dark Tower's search addressed\nTheir steps - that just to fail as they, seemed best,\nAnd all the doubt was now—should I be fit?",
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"text": "July 2000, Todd Greanier, Discover the secrets of the Java Serialization API\nThough the animation code above demonstrates how a thread could be included as part of an object while still making that object be serializable, there is a major problem with it if we recall how Java creates objects. To wit, when we create an object with the new keyword, the object’s constructor is called only when a new instance of a class is created."
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"That is to say; namely; specifically."
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"code": "af",
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"word": "dit wil sê"
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"word": "und zwar"
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"word": "als da wären"
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"word": "id est"
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"word": "mianowicie"
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"word": "czyli"
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"word": "isto é"
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"word": "ou seja"
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"word": "а и́менно"
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"word": "eadhan"
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