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"sense": "antonym(s) of \"exit\"",
"word": "way in"
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"text": "The way out is along this corridor."
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{
"text": "Lock the door on your way out."
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{
"text": "This is a real mess. I need a way out."
},
{
"ref": "1999, Robert L. Solso, Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century, page 199",
"text": "The plight of the elderly plagued with mental decline, such as Alzheimer's dementia, is particularly poignant because at the point where the decline in mental capacity may make life no longer worth living to them, they are incapable of choosing suicide as a way out.",
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}
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"A solution to a problem; an escape."
],
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],
[
"escape",
"escape"
]
],
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"(figurative) A solution to a problem; an escape."
],
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{
"_dis1": "4 12 83",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "solution",
"word": "çarə"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 12 83",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "solution",
"word": "çıxış yolu"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 12 83",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izhod",
"sense": "solution",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "изход"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výxod",
"sense": "solution",
"word": "вы́ход"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 12 83",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "solution",
"word": "utväg"
}
]
}
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},
{
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},
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"text": "Lock the door on your way out."
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"(figurative) A solution to a problem; an escape."
],
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},
{
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},
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"sense": "solution",
"word": "çarə"
},
{
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"sense": "solution",
"word": "çıxış yolu"
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"sense": "solution",
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},
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