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"text": "the bloom of youth",
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"text": "We can have some more / Nature is a whore / Bruises on the fruit / Tender age in bloom",
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"ref": "2010, Donna Pliner Rodnitzky, Low-Carb Smoothies",
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"ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 28",
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"text": "the rose-red cobalt bloom",
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"ref": "2018 February 21, “Bullet Bloom: An FPS Tragedy”, in CritPoints",
"text": "Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it down.",
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"code": "fi",
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"feminine"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "ca",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fr",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "de",
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"masculine"
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "mineralogy: a popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals",
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"code": "fi",
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