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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"roman": "astynomikó krátos",
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"word": "पुलिस राज्य"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "rendőrállam"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "negara polisi"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "stato di polizia"
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"alt": "けいさつこっか",
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"roman": "keisatsu kokka",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "警察国家"
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"roman": "gyeongchal gukga",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "경찰 국가"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "policijas valsts"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "policinė valstybė"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "stat de polizia"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "policiska država",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "полициска држава"
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "negara polis"
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "politistat"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "politistat"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "państwo policyjne"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "estado policial"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "stat polițienesc"
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"roman": "policéjskoje gosudárstvo",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "полице́йское госуда́рство"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"word": "полицијска држава"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
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"word": "policajný štát"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
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"word": "policijska država"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "estadong pulis"
},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "polis devleti"
},
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"roman": "policíjna deržáva",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "поліці́йна держа́ва"
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"roman": "policéjsʹka deržáva",
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"word": "поліце́йська держа́ва"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"text": "[Mo:] But out there in the real world they're bombing abortion clinics... holding Nazi and KKK rallies... trying to quarantine people who might have AIDS. They're making secret weapons deals to illegally fund so-called \"freedom fighters\" and calling it \"the Lord's work\"!! We're living in a Protestant police state […]",
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"text": "A gun up in our faces and they never gave a reason / The writing's on the wall, the politics are fake / Its clear to me we're livin' in a police state […] The prisons are for profit, its society's mistake / How macabre, we been living in a police state",
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"roman": "dawla būlīsiyya",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "دَوْلَة بُولِيسِيَّة"
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"roman": "dawla šurṭiyya",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "دَوْلَة شُرْطِيَّة"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ostikanakan petutʻyun",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "ոստիկանական պետություն"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ostikanapetutʻyun",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "ոստիկանապետություն"
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"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
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"word": "estáu policial"
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"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "polizia estatu"
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "palicéjskaja dzjaržáva",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "паліцэ́йская дзяржа́ва"
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"roman": "policéjska dǎržáva",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
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"word": "полице́йска държа́ва"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "estat policia"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "警察國家"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "jǐngchá guójiā",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "警察国家"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "politseiriik"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "poliisivaltio"
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "État policier"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
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"word": "estado policial"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗoliciuri saxelmc̣ipo",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "პოლიციური სახელმწიფო"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "Polizeistaat"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "astynomikó krátos",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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"word": "αστυνομικό κράτος"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αστυνομοκρατία"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "pulis rājya",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "पुलिस राज्य"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "rendőrállam"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "lögregluríki"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "negara polisi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stato di polizia"
},
{
"alt": "けいさつこっか",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "keisatsu kokka",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "警察国家"
},
{
"alt": "警察國家",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gyeongchal gukga",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "경찰 국가"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "policijas valsts"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "policinė valstybė"
},
{
"code": "lmo",
"lang": "Lombard",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stat de polizia"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "policiska država",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "полициска држава"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "negara polis"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "politistat"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "politistat"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "państwo policyjne"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estado policial"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "stat polițienesc"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "policéjskoje gosudárstvo",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "полице́йское госуда́рство"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "полицијска држава"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "policijska država"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "policajný štát"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "policijska država"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estado policial"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "polisstat"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "estadong pulis"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "polis devleti"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "policíjna deržáva",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "поліці́йна держа́ва"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "policéjsʹka deržáva",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "поліце́йська держа́ва"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
"word": "nhà nước cảnh sát"
}
],
"word": "police state"
}
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