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"forms": [
{
"form": "colonises",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "colonising",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "colonised",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "colonised",
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]
}
],
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"expansion": "colonise (third-person singular simple present colonises, present participle colonising, simple past and past participle colonised)",
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"pos": "verb",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"source": "w"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022 August 1, Josh Butler, quoting Lidia Thorpe, “Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser while being sworn in to parliament”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "“I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"word": "colonize"
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}
],
"word": "colonise"
}
{
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"present",
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},
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]
},
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"form": "colonised",
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"ref": "2022 August 1, Josh Butler, quoting Lidia Thorpe, “Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser while being sworn in to parliament”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "“I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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