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calumny

people sought sophisticated explanations in terms of revolutionary psychology, by which the disgraced leaders, now with no hope, calumnied themselves solely to collaborate in the development of socialism

—p.194 Was I a Stalinist Too? (192) by Italo Calvino
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calque

When I began to write seriously, I was obsessed with the idea that my Italian should be calqued on dialect, because as I sensed the fake quality of the language used by the majority of writers

—p.182 Dialect (180) by Italo Calvino
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ambit

I have been living in Turin since 1945, always in the ambit of the Einaudi publishing house, for which I started to work by selling books on hire purchase

—p.8 Questionnaire, 1956 (7) by Italo Calvino
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thaumaturgy

Is it therapy, is it thaumaturgy?

—p.122 PAPERS: 1991-2003 (1) by Elena Ferrante
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tendentious

Berlusconi the statesman is possible only thanks to his tendentious monopoly of the medium that best realizes and imposes that suspension of disbelief.

—p.94 PAPERS: 1991-2003 (1) by Elena Ferrante
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