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"text": "Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.",
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"ref": "2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:",
"text": "The combination of the new station and road improvements is expected to unlock up to 14,000 new homes, with the council saying no more than 2,500 homes can be built at Beaulieu and north east Chelmsford without the station.",
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"ref": "2023 March 26, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:",
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"code": "sv",
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"roman": "kǎi",
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"word": "ไข"
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"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "sgo lcags phye",
"sense": "to undo or open a lock",
"word": "སྒོ་ལྕགས་ཕྱེ"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to undo or open a lock",
"word": "açmak"
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "to undo or open a lock",
"word": "mở khóa"
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"code": "fy",
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"sense": "to undo or open a lock",
"word": "ûntskoattelje"
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"word": "ontgrendelen"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "give access to something",
"word": "avata"
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"sense": "give access to something",
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"sense": "give access to something",
"word": "desbloquear"
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"note": "entsperren (screen, Device, PC, smartphone)",
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"english": "user",
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"code": "it",
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"name": "inh"
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"3": "onlūcan",
"t": "to unlock"
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{
"ref": "1998, Steven Herberts, The Correctional Officer Inside Prisons, page 38:",
"text": "Unlike modern, automated prisons, each cell here was locked and unlocked manually with a large skeleton key. The first duty was to get a proper head count of each inmate, insuring each was alive. Once done, an unlock was conducted.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Shaz Qadeer, Computer Aided Verification: 23rd International Conference:",
"text": "The instructions between a lock and an unlock form a critical section.",
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{
"ref": "2012 October 11, Craig Pearson, “Hands On: Medal Of Honour Warfighter”, in Rock Paper Shotgun:",
"text": "The other unlocks, like a grenade launcher or a sniper's steady ability, didn't fit into my playstyle.",
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"(video games) An initially hidden feature that is made available to reward the player for some achievement."
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"word": "unlockable"
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"ipa": "/ʌnˈlɑk/",
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"ipa": "/anˈlɔk/",
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}
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