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"text": "Sometimes the ideas spring to life fully formed."
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"ref": "2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 4 - 3 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC",
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"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "jaio"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pojavjavam se",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "появявам се"
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"roman": "xeprovállo",
"sense": "start to exist",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "generarsi"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"alt": "はねあがる",
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"roman": "hane-agaru",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"roman": "voznikátʹ",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "возника́ть"
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"roman": "bratʹ načálo",
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"word": "брать нача́ло"
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"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "ortaya çıkıvermek"
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"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "start to exist",
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"roman": "pojavjavam se",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "появявам се"
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"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "springe"
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "syntyä"
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"sense": "start to exist",
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"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "entspringen"
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"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "ξεπροβάλλω"
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "xefytróno",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "ξεφυτρώνω"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "nascere"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "generarsi"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "formarsi"
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"alt": "はねあがる",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hane-agaru",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "跳ね上がる"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "haneru",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "跳ねる"
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"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "entsprangen"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se pojavuva",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "се појавува"
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"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "tfaċċa"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "nascer"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "voznikátʹ",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "возника́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bratʹ načálo",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "брать нача́ло"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "nacer"
},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "ortaya çıkıvermek"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "start to exist",
"word": "belirivermek"
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"word": "spring to life"
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