"for a change" meaning in English

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          "text": "1931, Robert E. Howard, The TNT Punch (alternate titles: The Waterfront Law, and The Waterfront Wallop),\n\"... But I ain't all softness and mush--feel this here for a change!\"\nAnd I closed the Kid's eye with a smashing left hander."
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
          "word": "vaihteeksi"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
          "word": "pour changer"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
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          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
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          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
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          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
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          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
          "word": "para variar"
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          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
          "word": "для разнообра́зия"
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          "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
          "word": "para variar"
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      "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
      "word": "pour changer"
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      "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
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      "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
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      "sense": "as a departure from the usual",
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