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198 lines
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{
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"vamoose":{
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"antonyms":[
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"arrive",
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"come",
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"show up",
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"turn up"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to depart quickly":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"it's getting late, so we had better vamoose",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Khan\u2019s group packed fast and vamoosed on a small airplane, which rose straight into a thrashing thunderstorm. \u2014 David Quammen, The New Yorker , 4 May 2020",
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"Nearby, a woman was making her own bathroom right next to the entrance of a residential building, vamoosing only when the doorman, Clever Santos Chavez, chased her away. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2020",
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"In November, the owner of the building housing Trump\u2019s SoHo hotel in Manhattan paid the Trump Organization to vamoose . \u2014 Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer , 27 Jan. 2018",
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"The Senate left town for its August recess Thursday, a week after the House vamoosed , and let\u2019s hope the Members get an earful from constituents at home. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 4 Aug. 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Spanish vamos \"let us go,\" suppletive 1st person plural imperative (going back to Latin vadimus , 1st person plural present indicative of vadere \"to proceed, go\") of ir \"to go,\" going back to Latin \u012bre \u2014 more at wade entry 1 , issue entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"va-",
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"v\u0259-\u02c8m\u00fcs"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bail",
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"bail out",
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"begone",
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"book",
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"bug off",
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"bug out",
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"bugger off",
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"buzz (off)",
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"clear off",
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"clear out",
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"cut out",
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"depart",
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"dig out",
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"exit",
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"get",
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"get off",
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"go",
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"go off",
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"move",
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"pack (up ",
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"part",
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"peel off",
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"pike (out ",
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"pull out",
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"push off",
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"push on",
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"quit",
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"run along",
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"sally (forth)",
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"scarper",
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"shove (off)",
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"step (along)",
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"take off",
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"walk out"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210404",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"vamp":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a short introductory musical passage often repeated several times (as in vaudeville) before a solo or between verses":[],
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": a woman who uses her charm or wiles to seduce and exploit men":[],
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": improvise , extemporize":[],
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": invent , fabricate":[
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"vamp up an excuse"
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],
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": the part of a shoe upper or boot upper covering especially the forepart of the foot and sometimes also extending forward over the toe or backward to the back seam of the upper":[],
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": to act like a vamp":[
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"vamping for the camera"
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],
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": to piece (something old) with a new part : patch":[
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"vamp up old sermons"
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],
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": to play a musical vamp":[],
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": to practice seductive wiles on":[],
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": to provide (a shoe) with a new vamp":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
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"1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"1918, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"circa 1915, 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 vampe, vaumpe \"covering for the foot, upper of a shoe,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, probably truncated from *vamp\u00e9 , reduced form of avanpi\u00e9 , from avant- \"fore-\" + pi\u00e9 \"foot,\" going back to Latin ped-, p\u0113s \u2014 more at vanguard , foot entry 1":"Noun",
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"short for vampire":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8vamp"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103225",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"vamp (up)":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":[
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"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination political spin doctors who can vamp up a justification for just about anything"
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],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-180228",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"vamphorn":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a megaphone used in churches during the 18th and early 19th centuries":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"vamp entry 2 + horn ; from its use by the choir leader to amplify his voice as an accompaniment to the rest of the choir":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103617",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"vampire":{
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"antonyms":[
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"prey"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a woman who exploits and ruins her lover":[],
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": one who lives by preying on others":[],
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": the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep":[],
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": vampire bat":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"regarded debt collectors as vampires who made a living from the misery of others",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Publishers, Lucas pointed out, have nurtured audiences for items as strange as adult coloring books and young-adult vampire mysteries. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
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"Then again, maybe this was all just part of the Morbius star's process to get into character as a blood-sucking vampire . \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 14 June 2022",
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"This 1985 horror-comedy finds Carrey as a very horny (and sometimes possessed) high schooler in the midst of a wild vampire story. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
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"However, by leaning into the mockery associated with the character, by essentially throwing themselves on the sword, Sony can use Jared Leto\u2019s self-serious living vampire as a comic foil for a later \u2018Sony\u2019s Spider-Man Universe\u2019 movie. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
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"Gellar played the eponymous vampire slayer Buffy Summers in the teen sci-fi series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
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"Try the ghost, bat and pumpkin, vampire and bat or Halloween hayride sets. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
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"As mentioned, vampire Juliette is played by Sarah Catherine Hook and while her huntress lover Calliope is portrayed by Imani Lewis. \u2014 Seventeen , 17 May 2022",
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"Within vampire fangdom, er, fandom, there are those who are suckers for all of it and those who get cross about The Rules. \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1732, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from French, borrowed from German Vampir , borrowed from Serbian vampir":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(\u0259)r",
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"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(-\u0259)r",
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"\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012br"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bloodsucker",
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"buzzard",
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"harpy",
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"kite",
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"predator",
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"shark",
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"vulture",
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"wolf"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200427",
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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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} |