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202 lines
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{
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"laid-back":{
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"antonyms":[
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"high-strung",
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"uptight"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": having a relaxed style or character":[
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"laid-back music"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1969, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccl\u0101d-",
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"\u02c8l\u0101d-\u02c8bak"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"affable",
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"breezy",
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"devil-may-care",
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"easygoing",
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"happy-go-lucky",
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"low-pressure",
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"mellow"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103515",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"lair":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a refuge or place for hiding":[
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"a villain's lair"
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],
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": a resting or sleeping place : bed":[],
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": the resting or living place of a wild animal : den":[
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"tracked the bear back to its lair"
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],
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": to cause to sink in mire":[],
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": wallow":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"tracking the bear back to its lair",
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"She runs the project from her private lair in the suburbs.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"The building in question is the lair Logan has posted up in while the family attends the wedding of his three younger children\u2019s English mother, Lady Caroline (Harriet Walter). \u2014 Lesley O'toole, Variety , 20 June 2022",
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"For Harley this means assembling her own crew, finding a new lair and pulling off enough big heists to get noticed. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
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"Mocked and tormented for his disability, then scolded by his father figure for straying from the great cathedral, Quasimodo climbs up into his lair like a wounded animal seeking safety. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 21 May 2022",
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"In the clip, Lipa, 26, and Megan take inspiration from Hansel and Gretel and other fantasy themes, welcoming a duo of unsuspecting men into their lair \u2014 ultimately luring them to their deaths. \u2014 Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com , 11 Mar. 2022",
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"Then there\u2019s Modern Underground, its semi-secret basement lair . \u2014 Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com , 6 May 2022",
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"Evil man leaves boy to drown, but dog saves boy and leads police to the villain\u2019s lair where a sinister plot is uncovered. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 30 Mar. 2022",
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"The successor to both the Russian and Soviet empires has long been typecast as the lair of epic fantasy villains. \u2014 Eliot Borenstein, CNN , 28 Mar. 2022",
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"Outside his clapboard, drafty lair \u2014 the scant trappings of which include just a table and bucket of water \u2014 appears to be a frigid Arctic landscape. \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com , 25 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"circa 1560, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Old English leger ; akin to Old High German legar bed, Old English licgan to lie \u2014 more at lie":"Noun",
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"Scots lair mire":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ler"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"concealment",
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"covert",
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"den",
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"hermitage",
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"hideaway",
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"hideout",
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"hidey-hole",
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"hidy-hole",
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"nest"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040519",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"laity":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy":[
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"The laity has played an important role in the history of the church."
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],
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": the mass of the people as distinguished from those of a particular profession or those specially skilled":[
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"writers who can interpret this wholeness both to their colleagues and the laity",
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"\u2014 P. B. Sears"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8l\u0101-\u0259-t\u0113"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"a member of the laity",
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"The laity has played an important role in the history of the church.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Just this week, the head of the Vatican\u2019s laity office, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, wrote to Carron\u2019s successor complaining that Carron and his followers were still exercising influence against the Vatican\u2019s reforms. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, ajc , 15 June 2022",
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"More broadly, the laity can powerfully impact the vision, mission, and core values of their respective communities. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel , 9 May 2022",
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"The intense little group must articulate the church\u2019s goals, interview ministerial candidates and present the best applicant to the laity . \u2014 Washington Post , 3 May 2022",
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"Courageous clergy and laity organized resistance to this oppression. \u2014 George Weigel, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"This suffering is elicited by the intercession of qualified (or ordained) critics and psychotherapists, who join in this communion of pain and distress, and share it with the laity via books and monographs. \u2014 Will Self, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021",
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"That has emboldened bishops and laity to test the limits of Rome\u2019s authority. \u2014 Francis X. Rocca, WSJ , 29 Sep. 2021",
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"At one end, clergy and laity alike edged forward carrying the great block of stone with reverent heaving so intense, and with such reverent slow motion, that it was believed that angels moved it. \u2014 Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
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"The church is planning a Spiritual Relief Mission to Haiti in February with Still Small Voice, the mission group that Durante is forming with the church laity . \u2014 Kari Barnett, sun-sentinel.com , 9 Sep. 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"lay entry 5":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182508"
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},
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"Laius":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a king of Thebes slain by his son Oedipus in fulfillment of an oracle":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8l\u012b-\u0259s",
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"\u02c8l\u0101-\u0259s"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin, from Greek La\u00efos":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1573, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193146"
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},
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"laid line":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of the closely spaced parallel lines in laid paper made by laid wires":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-235359"
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},
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"laissez-faire":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights":[
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"argued that the problem with oil prices was too much laissez-faire"
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],
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": a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action":[
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"the university has a policy of laissez-faire regarding nonacademic student activities"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccl\u0101-",
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"-\u02ccz\u0101-",
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"\u02ccle-\u02ccs\u0101-\u02c8fer"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French laissez faire , imperative of laisser faire to let (people) do (as they choose)":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1814, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024652"
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}
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} |