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"ref": "2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic",
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"ref": "2017 April 10, Jonathan Freedland, “The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "1865, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Gayworthys: a Story of Threads and Thrums",
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},
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{
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"past"
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],
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],
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"(transitive, Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture."
],
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},
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"t": "notebook"
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"name": "bor"
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],
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{
"form": "hefts",
"tags": [
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}
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