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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants",
"word": "supistuma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants",
"word": "striktuura"
}
],
"word": "stricture"
}
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