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"ref": "2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0-4 Man City”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.",
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"ref": "2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:",
"text": "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.",
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"code": "cmn",
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"word": "薩迦"
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"word": "萨迦"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "Old Norse Icelandic prose",
"word": "saaga"
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"word": "saga"
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "long epic story",
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"word": "مَلحَمَة"
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"sense": "long epic story",
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"sense": "long epic story",
"word": "tarina"
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"word": "taru"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "monda"
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"word": "rege"
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"word": "hikayat"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "long epic story",
"word": "legendă nordică"
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"word": "са́га"
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"sense": "long epic story",
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