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"ref": "2011 Allen Gregory, \"1 Night in Gottlieb\" (season 1, episode 2)",
"text": "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement. Piggybacking on that last part, the ugly business of the critique."
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"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 81",
"text": "[...] having crossed the river, the District again became entwined with the London & South Western Railway. In fact, the District would go from East Putney to Wimbledon by piggybacking on to a branch line of that railway, and sometimes overground trains still use the branch as a relief route between Wimbledon and Clapham Common.",
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"ref": "2023 March 22, Nick Brodrick, “Back to the future on the East Lancs?”, in RAIL, number 979, page 44",
"text": "But while carrying passengers for recreation is one thing, ferrying bona fide commuters in and out of the UK's third largest city is quite another. Yet that is exactly what Rossendale Borough Council (RBC) wants to do, by piggybacking onto the preserved railway's operations.",
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"ref": "2000, Craig Allen, Eisenhower and the Mass Media: Peace, Prosperity, and Prime-time TV",
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"ref": "1989, Alice J. Smith, Dosage and Solutions Calculations: The Dimensional Analysis Way, page 258",
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"ref": "2009, Diane S. Aschenbrenner, Samantha J. Venable, Drug Therapy in Nursing, page 34",
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"text": "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement. Piggybacking on that last part, the ugly business of the critique."
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"ref": "2023 March 22, Nick Brodrick, “Back to the future on the East Lancs?”, in RAIL, number 979, page 44",
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"word": "揹"
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"roman": "bèi",
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"word": "背"
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"word": "kantaa reppuselässä"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "huckepack tragen"
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"code": "id",
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "to carry someone on the back or shoulders",
"word": "menggendong"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "portare a cavalcioni"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to carry someone on the back or shoulders",
"word": "portare in spalla"
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"word": "おんぶ"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "to carry someone on the back or shoulders",
"word": "負ぶう"
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"sense": "to carry someone on the back or shoulders",
"word": "어부바"
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "pīkau"
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"word": "levar às costas"
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"sense": "to carry someone on the back or shoulders",
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"sense": "to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event",
"word": "found"
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"sense": "to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event",
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"code": "de",
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"ref": "2000, Craig Allen, Eisenhower and the Mass Media: Peace, Prosperity, and Prime-time TV",
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"ref": "1989, Alice J. Smith, Dosage and Solutions Calculations: The Dimensional Analysis Way, page 258",
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"ref": "2009, Diane S. Aschenbrenner, Samantha J. Venable, Drug Therapy in Nursing, page 34",
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