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"ref": "1936 Aug. 10, \"\"I Preach\",\" Time",
"text": "The American people want no rendezvous with a destiny plotted on blueprints in a Washington office. When they have a date with destiny they want to know what the lady looks like."
},
{
"ref": "2001, \"A Fish Out of Water\", season 3, episode 10 of Family Guy Hennessey: You need fifty grand, Griffin? I got a suggestion for you. Why don't you kill Daggermouth? Peter Griffin: Maybe I will, Hennessey. Shamus: You'd be buying yourself a ticket to a watery grave. Daggermouth is the meanest, most ruthless creature that's ever inhabited the sea. […]",
"text": "Peter Griffin: I am not gonna let my family live on the street. Not even if it means ending up like Shamus here. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a date with destiny."
},
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"ref": "2002 January 1, Ian Black, “The arrival of the euro: their money, our future?”, in Guardian Unlimited, UK",
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"An inevitable future event or anticipated occurrence, especially in the form of an encounter which is likely to be momentous."
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"(idiomatic) An inevitable future event or anticipated occurrence, especially in the form of an encounter which is likely to be momentous."
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "inevitable or anticipated event",
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"neuter"
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"word": "skæbnemøde"
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"sense": "inevitable or anticipated event",
"word": "kohtalonhetki"
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"sense": "inevitable or anticipated event",
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"masculine"
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"word": "rendez-vous avec le destin"
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"sense": "inevitable or anticipated event",
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"neuter"
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"word": "skjebnemøte"
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"ref": "1936 Aug. 10, \"\"I Preach\",\" Time",
"text": "The American people want no rendezvous with a destiny plotted on blueprints in a Washington office. When they have a date with destiny they want to know what the lady looks like."
},
{
"ref": "2001, \"A Fish Out of Water\", season 3, episode 10 of Family Guy Hennessey: You need fifty grand, Griffin? I got a suggestion for you. Why don't you kill Daggermouth? Peter Griffin: Maybe I will, Hennessey. Shamus: You'd be buying yourself a ticket to a watery grave. Daggermouth is the meanest, most ruthless creature that's ever inhabited the sea. […]",
"text": "Peter Griffin: I am not gonna let my family live on the street. Not even if it means ending up like Shamus here. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a date with destiny."
},
{
"ref": "2002 January 1, Ian Black, “The arrival of the euro: their money, our future?”, in Guardian Unlimited, UK",
"text": "So much has been said about Europe's long-awaited date with destiny that it was hard to sort out the predictable hyperbole from the reality.",
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"sense": "inevitable or anticipated event",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skæbnemøde"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "inevitable or anticipated event",
"word": "kohtalonhetki"
},
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"sense": "inevitable or anticipated event",
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"word": "rendez-vous avec le destin"
},
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"neuter"
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"word": "skjebnemøte"
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