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"text": "Like me, the son was inspired to go outback, and when things went wrong for him the desert seemed like the perfect place to perish and decay, to get blown around on the wind.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia."
],
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}
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia",
"word": "takamaille"
}
],
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"outback"
],
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}
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"English adverbs",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
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{
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