See lest in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Lest any astrologer reading this result get cocky, Dr Cajochen does not believe that what he has found is directly influenced by the Moon through, say, some tidal effect. What he thinks he has discovered is an additional hand on the body’s clock-face.",
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"text": "[M]y ward, or rather my adopted son Leo Vincey and myself have recently passed through a real African adventure, of a nature so much more marvellous than the one which you describe, that to tell the truth I am almost ashamed to submit it to you lest you should disbelieve my tale.",
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"text": "Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.",
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"word": "opdat ... niet"
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"sense": "that … not",
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"word": "jottei"
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"word": "nē"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "kei"
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"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "þȳ lǣs"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "żeby nie"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "чтобы не"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ínáče",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "и́на́че"
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"code": "sh",
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"word": "da ne"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "kako ne ..."
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"code": "es",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "bunun üzerine değil"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "daha önce"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "abý ... ne",
"sense": "that … not",
"word": "аби́ ... не"
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"sense": "that … not",
"word": "щоб ... не"
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"code": "uk",
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"sense": "that … not",
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"sense": "that (without the negative particle)"
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"sense": "that (without the negative particle)",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "that (without the negative particle)",
"word": "care"
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