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"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
2
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
3
]
],
"english": "The amazing [thing] is that...",
"text": "Lo asombroso es que...",
"translation": "The amazing [thing] is that...",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
230,
232
]
],
"ref": "2024 October 20, EFE, “Nueva caravana migrante con miles de personas sale de la frontera sur de México hacia Estados Unidos”, in CNN en Español:",
"text": "Gilberto Herrero Mejía, otro migrante proveniente de Venezuela, denunció que en su país la situación es crítica y el dinero no alcanza para nada, pues en su caso, se dedicaba a manejar un autobús con un sueldo de 10 a 15 dólares, lo cual era insuficiente para poder sobrevivir.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"neuter definite article used only before nominalized adjectives: the, that which is"
],
"links": [
[
"neuter",
"neuter#English"
],
[
"nominalize",
"nominalize#English"
],
[
"adjective",
"adjective#English"
],
[
"the",
"the"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lo/"
},
{
"ipa": "[lo]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-o"
}
],
"word": "lo"
}
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