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{
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"tags": [
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"singular",
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},
{
"form": "making headway",
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"participle",
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},
{
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"name": "en-verb"
}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "I worked on them all day, but barely made headway at all."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To progress; to move forward."
],
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"(idiomatic) To progress; to move forward."
],
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "progress",
"word": "prōficiō"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "progress",
"word": "abrir caminho"
}
]
}
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}
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"To progress; to move forward."
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"sense": "progress",
"word": "prōficiō"
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"sense": "progress",
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"word": "make headway"
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