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"examples": [
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"text": "Computer-generated graphics have come a long way in the past few decades."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make significant progress."
],
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"(idiomatic) To make significant progress."
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "取得很大進步"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qǔdé hěn dà jìnbù",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "取得很大进步"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "kehittyä paljon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "faire du chemin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "parcourir du chemin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "gewaltige Fortschritte machen"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šagnútʹ dalekó vperjód",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "шагну́ть далеко́ вперёд"
}
]
}
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}
],
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"To make significant progress."
],
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"(idiomatic) To make significant progress."
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "取得很大進步"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qǔdé hěn dà jìnbù",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "取得很大进步"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "kehittyä paljon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "faire du chemin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "parcourir du chemin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"word": "gewaltige Fortschritte machen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šagnútʹ dalekó vperjód",
"sense": "to make significant progress",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "шагну́ть далеко́ вперёд"
}
],
"word": "come a long way"
}
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