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"ref": "2019 November 20, Graeme Pickering, “Plans breathing new life into Fife”, in Rail, page 49",
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"word": "明顯"
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"roman": "ming⁴ hin²",
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"word": "bazzecola"
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"word": "не бино́м Ньюто́на"
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"english": "clear (even) to a hedgehog",
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"roman": "ježú ponjátno",
"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"word": "ежу́ поня́тно"
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"word": "明顯"
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "ming⁴ hin²",
"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"word": "明显[嘅決定]"
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"word": "明顯"
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{
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"roman": "míngxiǎn",
"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"word": "明显[的決定]"
},
{
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "není žádná věda"
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"word": "itsestäänselvyys"
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"tags": [
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"tags": [
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"word": "einfache Sache"
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
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"word": "Selbstläufer"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bazzecola"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "not Newton binomial",
"roman": "ne binóm Nʹjutóna",
"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "не бино́м Ньюто́на"
},
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"code": "ru",
"english": "clear (even) to a hedgehog",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ježú ponjátno",
"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
"word": "ежу́ поня́тно"
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"sense": "an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution, task (idiomatic)",
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