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"text": "Malcolm X"
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"(lacrosse) The spot behind the goal."
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"ref": "2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent",
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"ref": "2018 June 8, “Love Druggie”performed by Mendoza",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/En-us-X.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "X"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: anthroponymy, politics",
"path": [
"X"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "X",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: anthroponymy, politics",
"path": [
"X"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "X",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.