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"text": "Zara joined the ballet at the age of 14.",
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"word": "발레"
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"word": "ບາເລ"
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"code": "ms",
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "form of dance",
"word": "บัลเลต์"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "form of dance",
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"code": "tk",
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"code": "ur",
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"code": "uz",
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"code": "vi",
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"ref": "2016, Jacob Russell Dring, Endless the Chase",
"text": "Unfortunately, he could only sustain so much abuse. Footfalls approached. Kanoa's lips smacked and his jaw hung open. His eyelids fluttered, their underlying gaze balleting without clarity. He felt beyond sick, and his world spun immensely. A garbled voice of incoherency seemed to be his only link to this realm of consciousness.",
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