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"ref": "2009 April 22, Maureen Dowd, “To Tweet or Not to Tweet”, in New York Times",
"text": "With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 December 8, “Farsi editorial team: Mixed feelings on 60th anniversary”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2022-12-09, Press",
"text": "The calls came from Iranian intelligence as soon as the protests began. Agents threatened the family and friends of a DW editor, telling them to cut off contact with him and to unfollow him on Instagram. The journalist was said to be a \"muharebbe\" (Engl. warrior against God) – which is punishable by death in Iran.",
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"To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)."
],
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[
"subscribe",
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"(transitive, intransitive, social media) To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)."
],
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"word": "unsubscribe"
}
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "取關"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qǔguān",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "取关"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "ontvolgen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "lopettaa seuraaminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "se désabonner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "arrêter de suivre"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "entfolgen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "kikövet"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przestać obserwować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "desseguir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "dejar de seguir"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "takipten çıkmak"
}
]
}
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"text": "With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2022 December 8, “Farsi editorial team: Mixed feelings on 60th anniversary”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2022-12-09, Press",
"text": "The calls came from Iranian intelligence as soon as the protests began. Agents threatened the family and friends of a DW editor, telling them to cut off contact with him and to unfollow him on Instagram. The journalist was said to be a \"muharebbe\" (Engl. warrior against God) – which is punishable by death in Iran.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)."
],
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"subscribe"
],
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],
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"(transitive, intransitive, social media) To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)."
],
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]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "取關"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qǔguān",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "取关"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "ontvolgen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "lopettaa seuraaminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "se désabonner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "arrêter de suivre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "entfolgen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "kikövet"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przestać obserwować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "desseguir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "dejar de seguir"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)",
"word": "takipten çıkmak"
}
],
"word": "unfollow"
}
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