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"Bring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely."
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"(idiomatic) Bring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to bring about a situation",
"word": "pakottaa toimimaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to bring about a situation",
"word": "forcer la main"
},
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to bring about a situation",
"word": "iznuditi"
}
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to bring about a situation",
"word": "pakottaa toimimaan"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to bring about a situation",
"word": "forcer la main"
},
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"sense": "to bring about a situation",
"word": "iznuditi"
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],
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