"ethnographic present" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "ethnographic presents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "ethnographic present (countable and uncountable, plural ethnographic presents)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anthropology",
          "orig": "en:Anthropology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Zoology",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "Biology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When he said they hunt buffalo, he was using the ethnographic present- there are no buffalo on the reservation.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The present tense formerly used in ethnographies, even for cultures that no longer existed by the time they were written."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "present tense",
          "present tense"
        ],
        [
          "ethnographies",
          "ethnography"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anthropology) The present tense formerly used in ethnographies, even for cultures that no longer existed by the time they were written."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anthropology",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ethnographic present"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ethnographic presents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Anthropology"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "When he said they hunt buffalo, he was using the ethnographic present- there are no buffalo on the reservation.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The present tense formerly used in ethnographies, even for cultures that no longer existed by the time they were written."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anthropology",
          "anthropology"
        ],
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          "present tense",
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        ],
        [
          "ethnographies",
          "ethnography"
        ]
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        "(anthropology) The present tense formerly used in ethnographies, even for cultures that no longer existed by the time they were written."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anthropology",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
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