See Pearl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
[
"Pearl Harbor",
"Pearl Harbor#English"
],
[
"Oahu",
"Oahu#English"
],
[
"Hawaii",
"Hawaii#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
],
[
"Pacific",
"Pacific#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"ellipsis",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:Pearl (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "Pearl"
}
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"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''A unisex given name from Engli'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"Pearl"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Pearl",
"trace": ""
}
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