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"ref": "1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter V, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 178",
"text": "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.",
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"ref": "1887, Benvenuto Cellini, chapter CXXI, in John Addington Symonds, transl., Autobiography, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, published 1910, page 240",
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"ref": "1908, G. K. Chesterton, chapter IX, in The Man Who Was Thursday, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, published 1910, page 154",
"text": "Then he strolled back again, kicking his heels carelessly, and a companionable silence fell between the three men.",
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"ref": "1914, James Stephens, The Demi-Gods, New York: Macmillan, published 1921, Book II, pp. 126-7",
"text": "They are a companionable food; they make a pleasant, crunching noise when they are bitten, and so, when one is eating carrots, one can listen to the sound of one's eating and make a story from it.",
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"ref": "1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 100",
"text": "Bottles of rye, purgative waters and eaux for every conceivable toilette made a companionable click in his worn carpet bag.",
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"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 35–36",
"text": "The up and down lines ran next to each other in vault-like tunnels, whereas the Tube trains would occupy their own tunnels. That's why the cut-and-cover lines are more human than the Tubes. They are more companionable. You can see people going the other way - your perspective is broadened.",
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"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
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"word": "toverillinen"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "barátságos"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "társaságkedvelő"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "barátkozó"
},
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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "cuideachtúil"
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"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "شایستهٔ رفاقت"
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"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "درخورِ معاشرت"
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"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
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},
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},
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"ref": "1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 100",
"text": "Bottles of rye, purgative waters and eaux for every conceivable toilette made a companionable click in his worn carpet bag.",
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},
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"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "приятелски"
},
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obštitelen",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "общителен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "toverillinen"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "barátságos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "társaságkedvelő"
},
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "barátkozó"
},
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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "cuideachtúil"
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"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "شایستهٔ رفاقت"
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"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "درخورِ معاشرت"
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"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "اجتماعی"
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"sense": "being worthy of companionship",
"word": "towarzyski"
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