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"text": "Visit whenever you want to.",
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"ref": "1987 December 21, Richard Nixon, Letters to Trump, Winning Team Publishing, published 2023, →OCLC, page 10",
"text": "I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on the Donahue Show.\nAs you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!",
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"sense": "at any time that",
"word": "無論何時"
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"text": "Tomorrow I'll get up whenever the sun rises.",
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"text": "Whenever he has a pair of aces, his eyelids twitch.",
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"ref": "2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 61",
"text": "Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations.",
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"word": "每當"
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