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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Dentistry"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2015, Stuart J. Froum, Dental Implant Complications, page 518",
"text": "If this was not possible, then alternatives including provisionalizing with a complete denture or a tooth-supported fixed provisional and a staged treatment protocol should have been considered.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An interim denture."
],
"links": [
[
"dentistry",
"dentistry"
],
[
"interim",
"interim"
],
[
"denture",
"denture"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dentistry) An interim denture."
],
"topics": [
"dentistry",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹəˈvɪʒənəl/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-provisional.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-provisional.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-provisional.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-provisional.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-provisional.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "provisional postage stamp",
"word": "provisorie"
}
],
"word": "provisional"
}
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