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"text": "You can park your car in that empty space."
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"text": "You can put the key in that empty space."
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"word": "tyhjä paikka"
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"text": "The empty space at the sides of the page is called the \"margin\"."
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"text": "He spends all his time staring into empty space."
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"text": "Atoms are mostly empty space."
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"ref": "1986, Janet Quin-Harkin, My Secret Love, page 216",
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"ref": "1998, Renny Christopher, Linda Strom, Lisa Orr, Working Class Studies: 1 & 2, page 175",
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"ref": "2004, Eleanor Vincent, Swimming with Maya: A Mother's Story, page 211",
"text": "Now, there is only empty space where the future should be.",
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"sense": "unoccupied space",
"word": "tyhjä paikka"
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