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"text": "I take responsibility for my poor choice; it was my fault.",
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"glosses": [
"To blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault."
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "ottaa vastuu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "kantaa vastuu"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "assumer la responsabilité"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "felelősséget vállal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "vállalja a felelősséget"
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"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
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"word": "brać odpowiedzialność"
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"text": "The new captain will take responsibility for the ship at the beginning of January.",
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"glosses": [
"To accept or take on an obligation or liability."
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"obligation",
"obligation"
],
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"liability",
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"To accept or take on an obligation or liability."
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "ottaa vastuu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "kantaa vastuu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "assumer la responsabilité"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "felelősséget vállal"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"word": "vállalja a felelősséget"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "brać odpowiedzialność"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wziąć odpowiedzialność"
}
],
"word": "take responsibility"
}
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