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"text": "“You live in a different world to me, Mr. Overton—a sweeter and healthier one. My ramifications stretch out into many sections of society, but never, I am happy to say, into amateur sport, which is the best and soundest thing in England.[…]",
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"ref": "1856, Neil Arnott, Isaac Hayes, Elements of Physics, pages 414–5:",
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"ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XLVIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1904 August, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:",
"text": "“You live in a different world to me, Mr. Overton—a sweeter and healthier one. My ramifications stretch out into many sections of society, but never, I am happy to say, into amateur sport, which is the best and soundest thing in England.[…]",
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"ref": "1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The God of Tarzan”, in Jungle Tales of Tarzan, pages 92–93:",
"text": "Quite unexpectedly an idea popped into Tarzan's head. In following out the many ramifications of the dictionary definition of God he had come upon the word create—“to cause to come into existence; to form out of nothing.”",
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"text": "The treachery of some of the Jacobite agents (Rashleigh among the rest), and the arrest of others, had made George the First's Government acquainted with the extensive ramifications of a conspiracy long prepared, and which at last exploded prematurely […]",
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"ref": "1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out:",
"text": "What, then, is my Scheme? It is a very simple one, although in its ramifications and extensions it embraces the whole world.",
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"ref": "1910 October, Jack London, chapter VII, in Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "He stirred up a bigger muss than he had anticipated, and even he was astounded at the wide ramifications of the struggle and at the unexpected and incongruous interests that were drawn into it.",
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"ref": "2009 July 15, Chris Power, “A brief survey of the short story part 19: Ray Bradbury”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 67:",
"text": "The advent of COVID passports, so soon after increased check-in bureaucracy post-Brexit, brought major logistical ramifications to St Pancras International, of a kind unseen at any other major station in Britain.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razklonjavane",
"sense": "branching process",
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"feminine"
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"word": "ramification"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "branching process",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verästelung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "branching process",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Verzweigung"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "branching process",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Ramifikation"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "branching process",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
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"sense": "branching process",
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"sense": "branching process",
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"tags": [
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"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "yal 'dab sgrig rim",
"sense": "branching process",
"word": "ཡལ་འདབ་སྒྲིག་རིམ"
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"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "yal 'dab rgyas stangs",
"sense": "branching process",
"word": "ཡལ་འདབ་རྒྱས་སྟངས"
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"sense": "branching process",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"word": "seurannaisvaikutus"
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"feminine"
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"word": "ramification"
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"code": "de",
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"feminine"
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"word": "Verwicklung"
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Folge"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"tags": [
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"word": "Konsequenz"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "synépeia",
"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
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{
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"word": "επίπτωση"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"word": "következmény"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"word": "folyomány"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"word": "kihatás"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"word": "komplikáció"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ramificazione"
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"code": "no",
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"word": "følge"
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"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Ve'astunk"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
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"word": "skutek uboczny"
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"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
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"feminine"
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"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "yan lag 'phel rgyas",
"sense": "consequence or development complicating a problem",
"word": "ཡན་ལག་འཕེལ་རྒྱས"
}
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}
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