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"text": "I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.",
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"text": "There are frequent trains to the beach available.",
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"text": "I am a frequent visitor to that city.",
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"ref": "1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, page 489",
"text": "During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]",
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"sense": "done or occurring often",
"word": "tíður"
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"sense": "done or occurring often",
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"sense": "done or occurring often",
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"sense": "done or occurring often",
"word": "iðuligr"
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"sense": "done or occurring often",
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"(obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged."
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"sense": "to visit often",
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"sense": "to visit often",
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"code": "gl",
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{
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"sense": "to visit often",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to visit often",
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "to visit often",
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{
"code": "is",
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{
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{
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{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to visit often",
"word": "uczęszczać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to visit often",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "bywać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to visit often",
"word": "frequentar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "částo poseščátʹ",
"sense": "to visit often",
"word": "ча́сто посеща́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaxaživatʹ",
"sense": "to visit often",
"word": "захаживать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "častítʹ",
"sense": "to visit often",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "части́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to visit often",
"word": "frecuentar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to visit often",
"tags": [
"Spain"
],
"word": "prodigarse"
}
],
"word": "frequent"
}
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