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"ref": "1868 January 4 – June 6, [William] Wilkie Collins, “(please specify the page) [Fourth Narrative. Extracted from the Journal of Ezra Jennings.]”, in The Moonstone. A Romance. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1868, →OCLC, page 185:",
"text": "Speaking as a servant, I am deeply indebted to you. Speaking as a man, I consider you to be a person whose head is full of maggots, and I take up my testimony against your experiment as a delusion and a snare.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, “Preface”, in The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:",
"text": "With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Emily Kingsley (lyricist), Kevin Clash (voice actor), “A Cookie is a Sometime Food”, Sesame Street, season 36, Sesame Workshop",
"text": "Hoots the Owl: Yes a, fruit, is a , any, time, food!"
},
{
"ref": "2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)",
"text": "Anna, do you have a pen? — Yes. I have a pen in my bag. I have a (stressed) …\nAudio (US): (file)"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 9, Moya Lothian-Mclean, “A nose ring, a bicycle, a Radiohead album: I'm becoming a total cliche – and I quite like it”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-11:",
"text": "In retrospect, I realise, I had been unconsciously devoting a large amount of energy to negative choice, a concept I'm borrowing and adapting from sociologist Eva Illouz's 2019 treatise, The End of Love (by way of a viral Paris Review essay).",
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{
"ref": "2024 May 21, Sarah Larson, “When the C.I.A. Turned Writers Into Operatives”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-21:",
"text": "The C.I.A. infiltrated not just magazines, radio, and movies but youth organizations and movements like Abstract Expressionism; all were meant to inspire a reverence for democracy and freedom, a project that, in Walker's telling, often tips into absurdity.",
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"An unspecified example of (something); the indefinite article."
],
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{
"text": "I've seen it happen a hundred times.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1945, Peter Cheyney, Sinister Errand, London: Collins, published 1952, page 8:",
"text": "Everybody drinks a lot in wartime, but it seemed to me that I must have drunk enough to float a couple of battleships.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Sara Hylton, Separate Lives, London: Piatkus, →ISBN, page 93:",
"text": "You've seen it a dozen times already.",
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},
{
"ref": "2024 February 27, “The economics of skiing in America”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-08:",
"text": "By the time he gets onto a chair, the pristine powder snow below the lift has already been chopped up by a hundred tracks, and the line to get back up stretches the length of a football field.",
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}
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"One; used before score, dozen, hundred, thousand, million, etc."
],
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"dozen",
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[
"hundred",
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],
[
"thousand",
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],
[
"million",
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]
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},
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"categories": [
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{
"text": "He's a bit thick, isn't he?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "They asked me a few questions.",
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},
{
"ref": "1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “My Lord and Lady”, in Little Women: […], part second, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 315:",
"text": "But I was going to say, that while I was dawdling about abroad, I saw a good many talented young fellows making all sorts of sacrifices, and enduring real hardships, that they might realize their dreams. Splendid fellows, some of them, working like heroes, poor and friendless, but so full of courage, patience and ambition, that I was ashamed of myself, and longed to give them a right good lift.",
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{
"ref": "1989, Robert T. Michael, Heidi I[rmgard] Hartmann, Brigid O'Farrell, editors, Pay Equity: Empirical Inquiries, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, →ISBN, page 3, column 2:",
"text": "The main influence here is job tenure—the men had been at their specific jobs a good while longer than the women.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 February 13, René M. van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra, Michael Kliphuis, “If the Atlantic Ocean Loses Circulation, What Happens Next?”, in Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-13:",
"text": "Twenty years after the movie's release, we know a lot more about the Atlantic Ocean's circulation. Instruments deployed in the ocean starting in 2004 show that the Atlantic Ocean circulation has observably slowed over the past two decades, possibly to its weakest state in almost a millennium.",
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{
"text": "There are a few hundred orders that need to be fulfilled by tomorrow.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1934, Alan Villiers, Whalers of the Midnight Sun: […], New York, N.Y., London: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 154:",
"text": "The blues were eating leisurely, swimming about and opening their great mouths, spouting and filling their enormous stomachs with intense satisfaction. They had no idea of danger. There must have been about fifteen of them, peacefully feeding. One of them, its belly gorged probably with a few trillion plankton, seemed to be lying asleep on the surface.",
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{
"ref": "2020 July 31, Brian Friedberg, “The Dark Virality of a Hollywood Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-15:",
"text": "The impact of hidden virality can't be stopped by retroactively banning a few thousand Twitter accounts; it is an iterative, memetic phenomenon that outpaces terms of service.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2023, Don Winslow, City of Dreams, London: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 332:",
"text": "That was on the first day's walk. It took him until day three, after a good ten miles, to ask her out.",
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}
],
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{
"text": "The door was opened a little.",
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{
"ref": "1978, Deane H. Shapiro, Jr., Precision Nirvana, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 104:",
"text": "If, for example, you ask a child what he likes to do, he may say he doesn't know. However, if you watch him during free time, and note that he plays basketball a lot, you may infer that this is a high-probability behavior, and he finds it reinforcing.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2009, James H. S. McGregor, Paris From the Ground Up, Cambridge, M.A., London: Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 163:",
"text": "The bridge was shifted a bit to the east and rebuilt, this time with the shops of money-changers along both sides.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 January 13, Dana G. Smith, “Even a Little Alcohol Can Harm Your Health, Research Shows”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-10:",
"text": "You don't need to go cold turkey to help your health. Even reducing a little bit can be beneficial, especially if you currently drink over the recommended limits.",
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}
],
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"categories": [
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{
"text": "We are of a mind on matters of morals.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "They're two of a kind.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"The same; one and the same. Used in phrases such as of a kind, birds of a feather, etc."
],
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"categories": [
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{
"text": "A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Any; every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope."
],
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{
"text": "It was so dark that we couldn't see a thing.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Stephen Lawhead, The Mystic Rose Book (Celtic Crusades; III), London, […]: BCA, page 180:",
"text": "No, it is impossible. My conscience would give me not a moment's peace if I let you go. I would never forgive myself.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Sherry D. Ficklin, Queen of Someday: A Stolen Empire Novel, [Colony, T.X.]: Clean Teen Publishing, →ISBN, page 116:",
"text": "When had my own feelings become so muddled and complicated? Before I take a single step, he catches my arm, turning me to him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Daphna Rabinovitch, “Fudge Truffle Tart”, in The Baker in Me, Vancouver, B.C.: Whitecap Books, →ISBN, page 204:",
"text": "My friend Cindy's husband, Michael Zahavi, a true chocoholic if there ever was one, adores this tart. In fact, when I visited their cottage up in Muskoka, Ontario one summer and brought this along as a treat, he got up in the middle of the night to nosh away at it, leaving us sleepyheads with nary a crumb the next day.",
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"Any; used with a negative to indicate not a single one."
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{
"text": "The lottery jackpot is worth a staggering three hundred million dollars.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The holidays are a mere one week away.",
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}
],
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"Used before an adjective that modifies a noun (singular or plural) delimited by a numeral."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
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{
"text": "We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.",
"type": "example"
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],
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"One; someone named; used before a person's name, suggesting that the speaker knows little about the person other than the name."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
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{
"ref": "1963, Robert Hancock, Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman To Be Hanged, London: Orion, published 1993, →ISBN, page 35:",
"text": "At Waterloo she asked George for £5 and said that she would go home by tube, and a relieved George watched her descend the Underground steps.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, David J. Bailey, The Storm, London: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., →ISBN, page 147:",
"text": "\"There, I think that's done it,\" declared a triumphant John, \"we just need to try it with the bar now, where is it?\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018, “Rwandan court drops all charges against opposition figure”, in Associated Press:",
"text": "\"I will continue my campaign to fight for the rights of all Rwandans,\" a surprised but happy Rwigara told reporters after celebrating.",
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}
],
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},
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"categories": [
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],
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{
"text": "The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The man is a regular Romeo.",
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},
{
"ref": "1987, Frederic V. Grunfeld, Rodin: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 88:",
"text": "[Jules] Pécher actually sculpted a sort of Statue of Liberty for the centerpiece of the monument, but for the rest he thought it advisable to call in Van Rasbourgh, and Rodin thus became a ghost sculptor to a ghost sculptor.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Ed Macy, Hellfire, London: Harper Press, →ISBN, page 134:",
"text": "Billy fancied himself as a bit of a Han Solo, but he shook his head. 'Stop being a wuss.' He grinned. 'Your go.'",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Laura Erickson, The Love Lives of Birds: Courting and Mating Rituals, North Adams, M.A.: Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:",
"text": "For the first 5 or 6 days after the eggs hatch, the mother spends most of her time keeping the chicks warm while the father provides most of their meals. All that work may be what prompts the female to leave the family. They share feeding duties more equally during the next week or 10 days, until the young leave the nest. Producing a second batch is easier if she skips the last grueling week or two of provisioning fledglings. She can recharge her batteries by moseying off and, while on vacation, looking for a new Casanova.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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],
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{
"ipa": "/ə/"
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{
"homophone": "her (non-rhotic, unstressed form)"
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],
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"source": "Thesaurus:a",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:a",
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"code": "om",
"lang": "Afan Oromo",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "ase",
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{
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"masculine"
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"code": "ar",
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{
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"code": "bn",
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"code": "my",
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"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"word": "အေ"
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{
"code": "ca",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "da",
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"code": "eo",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "gl",
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{
"code": "el",
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "haw",
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{
"code": "he",
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{
"code": "hi",
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{
"code": "hu",
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},
{
"code": "is",
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},
{
"code": "io",
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"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"word": "a"
},
{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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},
{
"code": "ga",
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"word": "ailm"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
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"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"word": "អេ"
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{
"code": "ko",
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"word": "에이"
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{
"code": "la",
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},
{
"code": "lv",
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],
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{
"code": "mk",
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{
"code": "ms",
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{
"code": "mr",
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{
"code": "mhr",
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{
"code": "oc",
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"feminine"
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},
{
"code": "or",
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"roman": "e",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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{
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "â",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ey",
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"word": "اِی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"word": "a"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "á"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ej",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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"neuter"
],
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "a",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "sl",
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"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
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},
{
"code": "es",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "a"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"word": "a"
},
{
"code": "th",
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"roman": "ee",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"word": "เอ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"word": "a"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "name of the letter A, a",
"word": "a"
},
{
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "a",
"sense": "name of the Cyrillic letter А, а",
"word": "а"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "a",
"sense": "name of the Cyrillic letter А, а",
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},
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"code": "rsl",
"lang": "Russian Sign Language",
"sense": "name of the Cyrillic letter А, а",
"word": "𝣷𝪜"
}
],
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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.