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"ref": "2014, Edward G. Lengel, A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, John Wiley & Sons, page 350",
"text": "The 75s of V Corps fired a standard rolling barrage, while the larger 155 mm and 8-inch pieces fired standing barrages 500 meters beyond the barrage line. For the rolling barrage, one battery in each battalion fired low, bursting shrapnel instead of the standard high explosive.",
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"ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion",
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"ref": "2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist",
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"sense": "\"next hit wins\" fight-off",
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"word": "barrage"
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"word": "барра́ж"
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"sense": "type of firework",
"word": "pata"
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"ref": "2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 259",
"text": "Maybe now her daughter would stop barraging her with questions about her past.",
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"To direct a barrage at."
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