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"ref": "1996 Fall, “From Sykes-Picot through Bandung to Oslo: Whither the Arab world?”, in Arab Studies Quarterly, volume 18, number 4, page 1",
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"sense": "idioms: to exaggerate",
"word": "mit der Wahrheit großzügig umgehen"
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"word": "преувели́чивать"
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"sense": "idioms: to exaggerate",
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"sense": "idioms: to exaggerate",
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"sense": "idioms: to exaggerate",
"word": "bẻ cong sự thật"
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