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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance",
"word": "Això són figues d'un altre paner"
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"word": "aivan eri juttu"
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"sense": "unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance",
"word": "allt annað mál"
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"word": "allt önnur Ella"
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"roman": "sovsém drugóje délo",
"sense": "unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance",
"word": "совсе́м друго́е де́ло"
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"sense": "unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance",
"word": "eso es harina de otro costal"
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"sense": "unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance",
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"word": "Això són figues d'un altre paner"
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"word": "allt önnur Ella"
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"word": "совсе́м друго́е де́ло"
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"sense": "unrelated or incidentally related matter with different significance",
"word": "eso es harina de otro costal"
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