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"text": "Within a week of King's acknowledging the Bachman pen name, several sources —publishers, book dealers, readers, and fans—had mentioned a number of possible other pseudonyms; obviously, if King admitted to two pen names, John Swithen and Richard Bachmann, there might be others.",
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"roman": "literaturen psevdonim",
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"lang": "Hebrew",
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"word": "nome di penna"
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"roman": "pennēmu",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "ペンネーム"
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "筆名"
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"roman": "pilmyeong",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "필명"
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "tūlikānāmaṁ",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "തൂലികാനാമം"
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "ingoa tito"
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "pseudonim m literacki"
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "psevdoním",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"word": "псевдони́м"
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"roman": "literatúrnyj psevdoním",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"word": "литерату́рный псевдони́м"
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"word": "pseudonym"
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "sagisag-panulat"
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"roman": "naam-bpàak-gaa",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "นามปากกา"
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "bút danh"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "tên chữ"
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"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
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"word": "ლიტერატურული ფსევდონიმი"
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"roman": "tūlikānāmaṁ",
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"word": "തൂലികാനാമം"
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"word": "ingoa tito"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "bút danh"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "writer's pseudonym",
"word": "tên chữ"
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