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{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "tsaytgayst",
"sense": "the spirit of the age",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "צײַטגײַסט"
}
],
"word": "zeitgeist"
}
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