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"text": "The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region."
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"ref": "2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love",
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"text": "This situation calls for a high degree of courage."
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"text": "This called for an immediate response. A factory-wide meeting was called, and the head of the Workers' Rebellion Organization announced that a \"counter-revolutionary clique\" was on the loose.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love",
"text": "I wasn't usually a big drinker but extenuating circumstances this week called for it.",
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"sense": "to ask for (something) in loud voice",
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"word": "vaatia"
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"code": "fi",
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