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"sense": "a moon of Pluto",
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"sense": "a moon of Pluto",
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"roman": "ḵārūn",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "خَارُون"
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "Kʻaron",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "Քարոն"
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "kaloni",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "ᎧᎶᏂ"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Kǎróng",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "卡戎"
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"word": "ქარონი"
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"word": "Χάρων"
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"code": "kl",
"lang": "Greenlandic",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "Charoni"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "כארון"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"code": "iu",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "ᖄᕈᓐ"
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "Carón"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "カローン"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Karon",
"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "카론"
},
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"code": "lij",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"code": "lt",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
"word": "Charonas"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"code": "fa",
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"sense": "the ferryman of Hades",
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"Edmond Hamilton",
"NASA"
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