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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "platform for presenting one's viewpoints",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tribuna improvisada"
},
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"sense": "platform for presenting one's viewpoints",
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"word": "podio"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "platform for presenting one's viewpoints",
"word": "estrado"
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"sense": "platform for presenting one's viewpoints",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bocs sebon"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "pet topic",
"word": "個人觀點"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"sense": "pet topic",
"word": "个人观点"
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"sense": "pet topic",
"word": "mieliaihe"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pet topic",
"word": "lempiaihe"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "konjók",
"sense": "pet topic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "конёк"
}
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"2": "soap",
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"etymology_text": "From soap + box. The figurative use of the word derives from the fact that soap products in the US used to be commonly transported to stores in large wooden boxes. It used to be common for individuals to give impromptu rally speeches to their neighbors by finding something to stand on like a soapbox.",
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"ref": "2011, Phil Wolfson, Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "He soapboxed for whales and pressed us to write petitions and demonstrate with him—he as the leader, we as followers.",
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"ref": "2015, Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 80:",
"text": "[…] and various members soapboxed in Hyde Park on Sunday.",
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"To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox."
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},
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