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"ref": "1964 May, R. & M., “What chance for an outstanding prototype?”, in Modern Railways, page 319:",
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"ref": "2019 January 11, Tina Jordan, quoting J. K. Rowling, “Some Dos and Don’ts From Famous Writers”, in New York Times:",
"text": "The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.",
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"ref": "2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 2, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980:",
"text": "Yet LBJ was very much a product of the Cold War, believing its shibboleths about communist conquest being irreversible and requiring worldwide containment even when a country, such as Vietnam, that might be falling to the communists did not threaten US national interests.",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Parole"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Schlagwort"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Slogan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "teagasc seanchaite"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šibbolét",
"sense": "a common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шибболе́т"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "klišé",
"sense": "a common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "клише́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "doctrina anticuada"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"John Wycliffe"
],
"word": "shibboleth"
}
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