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"word": "titanic"
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"word": "titanium"
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"word": "titan primary"
},
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"word": "titan primary school"
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"ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191",
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"ref": "2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian",
"text": "In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.",
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"ref": "2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.",
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"word": "div"
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"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
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{
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},
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"ref": "2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.",
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},
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},
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"word": "div"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "titán",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
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},
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"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
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"word": "tità"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jùrén",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"word": "巨人"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"word": "titano"
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"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "titan"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Titan"
},
{
"alt": "きょじん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyojin",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"word": "巨人"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "taitan",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"word": "タイタン"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
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"word": "titã"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
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"word": "тита́н"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "ispolín",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
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"word": "исполи́н"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "titán"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness",
"tags": [
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"word": "titan"
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