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},
{
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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],
"word": "اڤ٢"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ms",
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "gv",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "nhee erbee"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"word": "काहीही"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"word": "काही पण"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "zdj",
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hvatvetna"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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],
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"neuter"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"tags": [
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],
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},
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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},
{
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"sense": "any thing of any kind",
"word": "vad som helst"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
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"word": "ఏమైనా"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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{
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},
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{
"ref": "1868, Legh Knight, chapter V, in Tonic Bitter, volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, page 80:",
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{
"ref": "2007, Ann Packer, Songs Without Words, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 236:",
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},
{
"ref": "2009, Richard Canning, Brif Lives: E..M. Forster, Hesperus Press, page 59:",
"text": "I came inclined to be pleased and quite free from racial prejudices, but in 10 months I’ve acquired an instinctive dislike to the Arab voice, the Arab figure, the Arab way of looking or walking or pump shitting or eating or laughing or anythinging.",
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},
{
"ref": "2014, Julia Kent, chapter 4, in Complete We, page 90:",
"text": "“Are you threatening me?” he asked, clearly amused. Any normal man would have backed down, but this guy was a piece of work.\n“We're not anythinging you,” Laura snapped.",
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"word": "not that there's anything wrong with that"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "qualunque cosa"
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"code": "it",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "mr",
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{
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