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"text": "When I was 13 years old and very ill in a hospital, my father gave me a book about a man who went around the world, a Czech . . . . I did not read that book, I ate, I ate it up. I decided then, I too will go around the world, whether by bicycle or boat or on my belly like a snake.",
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"text": "Without thinking much about “Dead To Me,” I ate it all up quickly during this quarantine time. I love it so much. It’s short, zippy, interesting and twisty without ever being complicated. Is there anything else in this vein that you can recommend?",
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"text": "Onstage at the fund-raiser beside Mr. Obama and Jimmy Kimmel, Mr. Biden laughed along, cracked a joke or two, and slammed the Supreme Court. The audience ate it up.",
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"text": "There are a number of subsidiary plots and characters that don't ring entirely true, and the ending is straight out of “The Perils of Pauline,” but I ate it all up anyway, because in the last analysis the opera has a kind of honest, disarming sentimentality.",
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"text": "When I was 13 years old and very ill in a hospital, my father gave me a book about a man who went around the world, a Czech . . . . I did not read that book, I ate, I ate it up. I decided then, I too will go around the world, whether by bicycle or boat or on my belly like a snake.",
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"text": "Without thinking much about “Dead To Me,” I ate it all up quickly during this quarantine time. I love it so much. It’s short, zippy, interesting and twisty without ever being complicated. Is there anything else in this vein that you can recommend?",
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"text": "Onstage at the fund-raiser beside Mr. Obama and Jimmy Kimmel, Mr. Biden laughed along, cracked a joke or two, and slammed the Supreme Court. The audience ate it up.",
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"text": "One fan shared a snippet from the music video wherein Jungkook and Han So-hee are drowning in water. Despite the catastrophic situation, the lovers are squabbling with each other. The fan commented: “The laundromat cause they ate that up”.",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "chīguāng",
"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "吃光"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "syödä loppuun"
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"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "dévorer"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "aufessen"
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{
"code": "grc",
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"lang_code": "grc",
"roman": "katesthíō",
"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "κατεσθίω"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
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"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "megeszik"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"roman": "tairageru",
"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "平らげる"
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"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "exedō"
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"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "авызлаш"
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"sense": "consume completely",
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"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "consume completely",
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"word": "dojeść"
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"sense": "consume completely",
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"roman": "sʺjestʹ",
"sense": "consume completely",
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"perfective"
],
"word": "съесть"
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"sense": "consume completely",
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"sense": "consume completely",
"word": "comerse"
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"sense": "accept or believe entirely",
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"sense": "accept or believe entirely",
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"code": "pt",
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