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"text": "Barbara Cartland was renowned for her ability to churn out romantic novels.",
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"ref": "1972 May, B. J. Mason, “Black Cinema Expo ’72”, in Ebony, volume 27, number 7, page 160",
"text": "Stan Myles adds that the Griffiths are still among us, too—still grinding out their fears and fantasies in the guise of “relevant” flicks, most of which turn out to be variations on the same old theme […] writers still churn out quick-buck distortions of the truth; but issues are avoided like the plague; white filmsters—in a frenzy of self-abasement, perhaps—have succeeded only in being more subtle instead of less racist; and even some black filmsters—in a rush for questionable glory—have created one-dimensional portraits of their people.",
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"ref": "2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1-0 Bolton”, in BBC",
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"ref": "2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bǎlvam",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
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"word": "бълвам"
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"roman": "dàliàng shēngchǎn",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "大量生产"
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"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "大量炮制"
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"word": "suoltaa"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "syytää ulos"
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"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
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"word": "выпуска́ть потоком"
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"ref": "2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848",
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"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "бълвам"
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"roman": "dàliàng shēngchǎn",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "大量生产"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "大量炮制"
},
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "sekat jako Baťa cvičky"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "dělat jako na běžícím pásu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "suoltaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "syytää ulos"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "torcher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "produzieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "in Massen produzieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "ausstoßen"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "sfornare"
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"roman": "štampovatʹ",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "штамповать"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vypuskátʹ potokom",
"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "выпуска́ть потоком"
},
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily",
"word": "spotta ur sig"
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"word": "churn out"
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