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{
"form": "penny packets",
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}
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"glosses": [
"A small number of things or people; a small group."
],
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"superlative"
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{
"ref": "1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 331",
"text": "Scattered across the four corners of Algeria, it was employed […] like the penny-packet handling of the French armour which had brought such disaster in 1940.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Paltry, insignificant."
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