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"ref": "1891, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 24, in The Witch of Prague",
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"ref": "1910, Rabindranath Tagore, The King of the Dark Chamber, Scene 1",
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"ref": "2004 August 16, Jeremy Caplan, “What's Cool In the Pool”, in Time",
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"word": "nic dziwnego"
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"word": "неудиви́тельно"
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"word": "small wonder"
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