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"text": "[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.",
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"text": "More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "закъснял"
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"roman": "guò qī de",
"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "过期的"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "achterstallig"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"note": "of a payment",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "scaduto"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "in ritardo"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "atrasado"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "på tiden"
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"word": "senkommen"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "lampas sa taning"
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"text": "[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.",
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"text": "More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "закъснял"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "过期的"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "迟到的"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "achterstallig"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "myöhässä oleva"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "en retard"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "überfällig"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "ausstehend"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "esedékes"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "lejárt"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "scaduto"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "in ritardo"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "akutō"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "tōmuri"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "просроченный"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "på tiden"
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"word": "senkommen"
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"word": "försenad"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
"word": "över tiden"
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"sense": "Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need",
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