{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "If one had to go to war, this was the best place for it: above a flakless English Channel with well-lit targets provided by the other side.", "ref": "1998, Dave McIntosh, Terror in the Starboard Seat, Toronto, Canada; New York, N.Y., USA : Stoddart, →ISBN, page 81:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[65, 73]]}, {"text": "We pull out of the turn and level off in an almost flakless blue sky.", "ref": "1999, Sam Halpert, A Real Good War, New York: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 92:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[51, 59]]}, {"text": "[…] had been destroyed by the ten conscripted members of a British Lancaster, which dropped a stack of bombs out of a bright and flakless sky, leveling one end of the factory and killing twenty-two Danish workers.", "ref": "2005, Kevin Haworth, The Discontinuity of Small Things, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Quality Words In Print, →ISBN, page 192:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[129, 137]]}], "links": [["flak", "flak"], ["anti-aircraft", "anti-aircraft"], ["fire", "fire"]], "categories": ["English adjectives", "English entries referencing missing etymons", "English entries with etymology texts", "English entries with etymology trees", "English entries with etymon", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewh₁-", "English terms suffixed with -less", "English terms with quotations", "English uncomparable adjectives", "Pages using etymon with no ID", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Pages with etymology trees", "Pages with etymon"], "glosses": ["Free from flak; 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