"sts." meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "alt_of": [
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          "word": "sometimes"
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          "ref": "1940, Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott & Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon. Seventh Edition. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie (LSJ), Oxford, Clarendon Press, New York",
          "roman": "σύ … The pl. is sts. used in addressing one person …",
          "text": "V. General List of Abbreviations … sts. = sometimes"
        },
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          "ref": "2001, Matthew S. DeMoss, “Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek”, in Abbreviations, Expressions & Sigla, InterVarsity Press, page 131 & 137",
          "text": "The following list provides some of the more common abbreviations [...] sts. sometimes",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, LeaAnn A. Osburn, Horace Fully Parsed, page 127",
          "text": "To call upon, invoke a person or thing as witness: testatus sts. pass., as collat. testo, is sts. found.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2004, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (First Indian Edition), Delhi, p.202",
          "text": "… the pl. is sts. used in token of greater respect …"
        },
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          "ref": "2014, B. H. McLean, Hellenistic and Biblical Greek, page 156",
          "text": "εἰ μή is sts. used with the sense of ἀλλά (cf. Gal 2:16).",
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        "Abbreviation of sometimes."
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "plural of st."
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  "word": "sts."
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "word": "sometimes"
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          "ref": "1940, Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott & Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon. Seventh Edition. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie (LSJ), Oxford, Clarendon Press, New York",
          "roman": "σύ … The pl. is sts. used in addressing one person …",
          "text": "V. General List of Abbreviations … sts. = sometimes"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Matthew S. DeMoss, “Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek”, in Abbreviations, Expressions & Sigla, InterVarsity Press, page 131 & 137",
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          "ref": "2003, LeaAnn A. Osburn, Horace Fully Parsed, page 127",
          "text": "To call upon, invoke a person or thing as witness: testatus sts. pass., as collat. testo, is sts. found.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (First Indian Edition), Delhi, p.202",
          "text": "… the pl. is sts. used in token of greater respect …"
        },
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          "ref": "2014, B. H. McLean, Hellenistic and Biblical Greek, page 156",
          "text": "εἰ μή is sts. used with the sense of ἀλλά (cf. Gal 2:16).",
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        "Abbreviation of sometimes."
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