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"sense": "to dirty",
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"sense": "to dirty",
"word": "плямити"
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"code": "uk",
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"ref": "2003, B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, “Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes”, in Classical and Quantum Gravity, volume 20, number 10",
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