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"text": "It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neumestnost",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "неуместност"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "irrellevància"
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrelevantie"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"word": "epäolennaisuus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"word": "merkityksettömyys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "non-pertinence"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrelevancia"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Bedeutungslosigkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Irrelevanz"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrilevanza"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "irrelevans"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "irrelevans"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nieistotność"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "irrelevância"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "irelevanță"
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irelevantnost"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrelevancia"
},
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"word": "irrelevans"
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}
],
"word": "irrelevance"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neumestnost",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrellevància"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrelevantie"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"word": "epäolennaisuus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"word": "merkityksettömyys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "non-pertinence"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "insignifiance"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrelevancia"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Bedeutungslosigkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Unmaßgeblichkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Unbedeutendheit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Irrelevanz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrilevanza"
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{
"code": "nb",
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
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"masculine"
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"word": "irrelevans"
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "irrelevans"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nieistotność"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrelevância"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "irelevanță"
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{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irelevantnost"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lack of relationship with the topic at hand, lack of importance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "irrelevancia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
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