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"word": "незахи́щеність"
}
],
"word": "insecurity"
}
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"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''A lack of security; uncertaint'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"insecurity"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "insecurity",
"trace": ""
}
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