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"ref": "2014 February 7, Zachary Woolfe, “For a Sage Tenor, It’s All in the Timing”, in New York Times",
"text": "But it may be just as much of one for the opera house administrators who have come to depend on him as a box-office draw, and for the international audiences that in remarkably short order — less than a decade, really — have embraced him as the most important, versatile tenor of his generation.",
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"ref": "2023 May 31, “Open Access: On-train table manners”, in RAIL, number 984, page 63",
"text": "She was scandalised by my suggestion that she should have bought the other three seats, in order to use the table as an office space. Her solution was that I should go and sit elsewhere. Her appeal to the ticket inspector/guard was rebuffed in short order.",
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"In a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "quickly",
"word": "lyhyen kaavan mukaan"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "quickly",
"word": "gyorsan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "quickly",
"word": "hamar"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "quickly",
"word": "sebtében"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "quickly",
"word": "velocemente"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "quickly",
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"word": "in short order"
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"word": "lyhyen kaavan mukaan"
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"sense": "quickly",
"word": "velocemente"
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"sense": "quickly",
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"word": "in short order"
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