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"text": "Left to my own devices, I'll spend hours staring into space, just thinking.",
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"text": "Let's leave her to her own devices and see what she comes up with.",
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"ref": "1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 32",
"text": "‘Forgive me,’ he said to the girl, ‘while I telephone to the Dubernes. I must arrange my rendezvous for dinner tonight. Are you sure you won't mind being left to your own devices this evening?’",
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"ref": "1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 75",
"text": "But surely one of the most often-heard complaints this past year or so, not only from passengers and traders, but from many of these selfsame railwaymen, is that the latter are left too much to their own devices to sort out their problems as best they can; [...].",
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "aan zijn lot overlaten"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "jättää oman onnensa nojaan"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "livrer à soi-même"
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "seinem Schicksal überlassen"
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
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"roman": "predostavljátʹ sámomu sebé",
"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "предоставля́ть са́мому себе́"
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "kendi haline bırakmak"
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "aan zijn lot overlaten"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "jättää oman onnensa nojaan"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "livrer à soi-même"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "laisser pour compte"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "seinem Schicksal überlassen"
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
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"word": "pozostawiać samemu sobie"
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
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"word": "pozostawić samemu sobie"
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "предоставля́ть са́мому себе́"
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"sense": "to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance",
"word": "kendi haline bırakmak"
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