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"ref": "2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3",
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"(idiomatic, colloquial) Used to introduce the main point or issue."
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "問題是..."
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"word": "问题是..."
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"word": "是這樣的..."
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"word": "het punt is ..."
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"word": "het zit zo"
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"word": "kysymys on siitä, että"
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"word": "c’est que ..."
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"word": "az a helyzet, hogy…"
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"word": "az az igazság, hogy…"
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"word": "az igazság az, hogy…"
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"word": "az van, hogy…"
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"word": "greien her"
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"word": "chodzi o to, że..."
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"word": "sęk w tym, że..."
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"word": "é que"
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"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "де́ло в то́м, что"
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"word": "問題是..."
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wèntí shì...",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "问题是..."
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "是這樣的..."
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shì zhèyàng de...",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "是这样的..."
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "het punt is ..."
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "het zit zo"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "kysymys on siitä, että"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "asia on niin, että"
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"sense": "introduce main point",
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"word": "juttu on niin, että"
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"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "le truc"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "c’est que ..."
},
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "az a helyzet, hogy…"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "az az igazság, hogy…"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "az igazság az, hogy…"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "a helyzet az, hogy…"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "az van, hogy…"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "greien her"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "chodzi o to, że..."
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "rzecz w tym, że..."
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "sęk w tym, że..."
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "é que"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "délo v tóm, što",
"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "де́ло в то́м, что"
},
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"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "es que"
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"sense": "introduce main point",
"word": "el caso es que"
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"word": "the thing is"
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