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"text": "Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"roman": "karýsny",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"code": "be",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"roman": "blagotvóren",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "благотво́рен"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "polézen",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "поле́зен"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "beneficiós"
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"roman": "yǒuyì de",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "有益的"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǒulì de",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "有利的"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"word": "prospěšný"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "gavnlig"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "gunstig"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "hyödyllinen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "suotuisa"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "bienfaisante"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "beneficioso"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "benéfico"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "nützlich"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "vorteilhaft"
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"roman": "ōphélimos",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"code": "he",
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "有益な"
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"code": "fa",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "korzystny"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
"word": "benéfico"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "blagotvórnyj",
"sense": "helpful or good to something or someone",
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"code": "sl",
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