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"ref": "1979, Johanna Menzel Meskill, A Chinese Pioneer Family, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 191",
"text": "Other jobs which the governor entrusted to Ch'ao-tung dealt with the economic exploitation of the newly won mountain areas. In the Miao-li region, Ch'ao-tung headed an office for developing the petroleum resources discovered there.³⁸ Without much success during his tenure, the venture was later turned over to private entrepreneurs.",
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"ref": "1949, Joseph Campbell, “The Hero and the God”, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces",
"text": "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: […]",
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"sense": "to undertake a risky journey",
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"sense": "to undertake a risky journey",
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"text": "to venture funds",
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"text": "to venture a guess",
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"text": "Nothing ventured, nothing gained.",
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"ref": "1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses",
"text": "Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.",
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"ref": "1939 November, “What the Railways are Doing: Penda's Way—A Station built in a Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 364",
"text": "[...] Mrs. Bray [...] expressed amazement at the speed with which the station was completed, and ventured the opinion that private contractors could still learn something from the railway companies.",
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"word": "გარისკვა"
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"word": "рискова́ть"
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"word": "감행하다"
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"roman": "otvaživatʹsja",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "отваживаться"
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"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "धृष्णोति"
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"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "కడగు"
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"ref": "2000 January 28, Oliver Burkeman, quoting Heston Blumenthal, “Things that make you go yum”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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"ref": "1711, Joseph Addison, “No. 21, Saturday, March 24, 1710-11”, in The Spectator",
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"ref": "2000 January 28, Oliver Burkeman, quoting Heston Blumenthal, “Things that make you go yum”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to undertake a risky journey",
"word": "aventurar"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to undertake a risky journey",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to undertake a risky journey",
"word": "merészkedik"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to undertake a risky journey",
"word": "nekivág"
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"sense": "to undertake a risky journey",
"word": "avventurarsi"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"code": "ka",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to risk",
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"code": "no",
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{
"code": "pt",
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to risk",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "osmeljavam se",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "megkockáztat"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "merészel"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "osare"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gamhaenghada",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "감행하다"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "audeo"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "våge seg"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otvaživatʹsja",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "отваживаться"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "dhṛṣṇoti",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "धृष्णोति"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "kaḍagu",
"sense": "to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success",
"word": "కడగు"
}
],
"word": "venture"
}
{
"categories": [
"Italian 3-syllable words",
"Italian adjective forms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian noun forms",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Rhymes:Italian/ure",
"Rhymes:Italian/ure/3 syllables"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "venture",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ven‧tù‧re"
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "venturo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of venturo"
],
"links": [
[
"venturo",
"venturo#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/venˈtu.re/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ure"
}
],
"word": "venture"
}
{
"categories": [
"Italian 3-syllable words",
"Italian adjective forms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian noun forms",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Rhymes:Italian/ure",
"Rhymes:Italian/ure/3 syllables"
],
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"2": "noun form",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "venture f",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ven‧tù‧re"
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "ventura"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of ventura"
],
"links": [
[
"ventura",
"ventura#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/venˈtu.re/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ure"
}
],
"word": "venture"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "ventūre",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "ventūre"
},
"expansion": "ventūre",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participle forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "ventūrus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative masculine singular of ventūrus"
],
"links": [
[
"ventūrus",
"venturus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "venture"
}
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