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"ref": "1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Introites, Collectes, Epiſtles and Goſpelles, to be uſed at the celebꝛacion of the loꝛdes Supper, & holy Communion, thꝛough the yere, with pꝛoper Pſalmes and Leſſons, for diuers feaſtes and dayes”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio xcvii, recto:",
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"text": "This is the richest, the most powerful country which ever occupied this globe. The might of past empires is little compared to ours. But I do not want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur or extended dominion. I want to be the president who educated young children to the wonders of their world.",
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"ref": "1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Introites, Collectes, Epiſtles and Goſpelles, to be uſed at the celebꝛacion of the loꝛdes Supper, & holy Communion, thꝛough the yere, with pꝛoper Pſalmes and Leſſons, for diuers feaſtes and dayes”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio xcvii, recto:",
"text": "[…]ſtrengthed with all myght, thꝛough his gloꝛious power, unto all pacience and long ſufferyng with ioifulneſſe[…]",
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"text": "This is the richest, the most powerful country which ever occupied this globe. The might of past empires is little compared to ours. But I do not want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur or extended dominion. I want to be the president who educated young children to the wonders of their world.",
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"text": "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.",
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"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
"text": "Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.",
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"ref": "2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-05:",
"text": "With 14 minutes gone Héctor Moreno might have scored, glancing a header too close to Neuer from a free-kick.",
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"ref": "1608, Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices:",
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"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.",
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"ref": "2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:",
"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]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next;[…].",
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"ref": "2016, Candy Sloan, Wrong Bed Reunion:",
"text": "I might play football, but I do know how to read.",
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"roman": "karoġ ē",
"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "կարող է"
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"word": "saattaa"
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{
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "peut-être"
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{
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "talán"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "esetleg"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "potere"
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{
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "ka mo shirenai",
"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "かも知れない"
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{
"code": "km",
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"roman": "prɑɑhael",
"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "ប្រហែល"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
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{
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "talvez"
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"lang": "Romanian",
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "puede que"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "kanske"
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"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "skulle kunna"
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"roman": "móže búty",
"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "мо́же бу́ти"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "indicator of conditional or possible actions",
"word": "có lẽ"
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