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"ref": "1970, Agricultural development and small farmers: a study of Andhra Pradesh",
"text": "Free availability in adequate quantities in markets very, closely situated, has easened the situation.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1992, Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, volume 2",
"text": "As several electrodes are used, a great effort has been done to reduce the weight of the tail to easen the field work.",
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"ref": "1996, Carl Steenstrup, A History of Law in Japan Until 1868, page 160",
"text": "Since this book also aims at scholars of law and history who have no Japanese, I have, in the footnotes, in order to easen the reader's library search, entered authors' names as the authors wrote them, and capitalized Japanese surnames; […]",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1997, M. V. Krishna Murthy, India on to New Horizons, page 180",
"text": "In the West, early conjugal relations and dating have greatly helped to easen the situation.",
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"ref": "2000, New Technology Japan, volume 28, page 25",
"text": "This grip assembly easens the work of revolving the handle and is designed as a collapsible type to eliminate protrusions and to facilitate the pile extractor conveyance as well as to prevent the handle part from being bent in the event of some […]",
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},
{
"ref": "2007, Sa'eda Kilani, Against Corruption, page 44",
"text": "Conversely, the 2001 Association Law made great strides for the Yemeni civil society as it easened administrative procedures and offered incentives and tax exemptions to NGOs.",
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"(transitive, rare, possibly nonstandard) To make at ease; make easy or easier; (by extension) to soothe; comfort; relieve"
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},
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"ref": "1992, Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, volume 2",
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},
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},
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"text": "In the West, early conjugal relations and dating have greatly helped to easen the situation.",
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},
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"text": "This grip assembly easens the work of revolving the handle and is designed as a collapsible type to eliminate protrusions and to facilitate the pile extractor conveyance as well as to prevent the handle part from being bent in the event of some […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
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