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"ref": "1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXII",
"text": "Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]",
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69",
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"sense": "dark, damp and humid",
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"ref": "2018, January 5, Rick Wilson, “Bannon Banished for Telling Truths About Trump as MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other”, in The Daily Beast",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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