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"ref": "1846, Walter Savage Landor, untitled",
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"(intransitive) To quarrel."
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"word": "спречквам се"
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"ref": "1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, page 30",
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