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"text": "He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office.",
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"ref": "2011, Jamie Noguchi, Yellow Peril: The View",
"text": "LANCE: Only through my training as a sex machine am I able to stave off genital turgidity.",
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},
{
"ref": "2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69",
"text": "So it was perhaps political backlash from the trebling of public transport times between Harlech to Porthmadog if buses took over that staved off immediate talks of closure and the release of a £241,000 subsidy (2020: £3.8m).",
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "radda",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "رَدَّ"
},
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "torjua"
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "pitää loitolla"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "conjurer"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "verhindern"
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
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},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "abwenden"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "prevenire"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "zapobiegać"
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"roman": "predotvraščatʹ",
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "رَدَّ"
},
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"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "صَدَّ"
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
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"word": "odvracet"
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "afweren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "torjua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "pitää loitolla"
},
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "éviter"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "conjurer"
},
{
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "verhindern"
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"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "abwehren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "abwenden"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "prevenire"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "zapobiegać"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predotvraščatʹ",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "предотвращать"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "evitar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "prevenir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "atajar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "obviar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "impedir"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "avvärja"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "prevent something from happening",
"word": "mota bort"
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"word": "stave off"
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