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"text": "Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal."
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"text": "The Queen had three sittings for her portrait."
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"sense": "a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose",
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"word": "sentada"
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"text": "we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs"
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"ref": "2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70",
"text": "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.",
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"ref": "2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian",
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"neuter"
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"feminine"
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"sense": "a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose",
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"sense": "a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose",
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"ref": "2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70",
"text": "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.",
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"ref": "2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian",
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