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"ref": "2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19",
"text": "The Commander's aim was off sending it messily over the back of the sensor officer's bulbous head instead.",
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"In a messy manner; sloppily, shoddily."
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"code": "pl",
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"word": "bałaganiarsko"
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