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"Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work."
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"Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means."
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"ref": "1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii",
"text": "A few observations about the interpretation of vows or pledges may not be out of place here. Interpretation of pledges has been a fruitful source of strife all the world over. No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purposes."
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"roman": "fitna",
"sense": "violent conflict",
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"word": "liskar"
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"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "衝突"
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"word": "vijandige rivaliteit"
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"roman": "diamáchi",
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"tags": [
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"roman": "hĩsak tophāna,jhaghḍo",
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"alt": "あらそい",
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"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "争い"
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"roman": "borotʹba",
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"A trouble of any kind."
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"(colloquial) A trouble of any kind."
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"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "viszály"
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"sense": "violent conflict",
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "tujaeng",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "투쟁"
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"sense": "violent conflict",
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{
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"sense": "violent conflict",
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "tatauranga"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "violent conflict",
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"sense": "violent conflict",
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{
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{
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{
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"sense": "violent conflict",
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{
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"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "violent conflict",
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{
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"lang": "Occitan",
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{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
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{
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"word": "conflito"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"tags": [
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "violent conflict",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "раздо́р"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rásprja",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ра́спря"
},
{
"code": "gd",
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"sense": "violent conflict",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ceallach"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "violent conflict",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "disensión"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "altercado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "stridighet"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "tvist"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "fejd"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "kiv"
},
{
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
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"word": "konflikt"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "çatışma"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "ihtilaf"
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"roman": "čvary",
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{
"code": "uk",
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"feminine"
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"word": "боротьба"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "violent conflict",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "strijf"
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{
"code": "fy",
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"sense": "violent conflict",
"word": "striid"
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