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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <search>
      <p ns="0" title="French" snippet="The first two meanings are the most widespread. For English speakers, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; two and three can be remembered easily if you associate it with &amp;quot;sure&amp;quot; and &#10;" size="853" wordcount="136" timestamp="2021-01-11T18:34:43Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Language and humor" snippet="...ampaign=promoted_post False friends between English words having different &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; in other languages&#10;" size="763" wordcount="103" timestamp="2016-10-30T13:38:15Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Family" snippet="* German and Japanese: a word &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; brothers and sisters &#10;" size="2251" wordcount="307" timestamp="2023-03-06T16:02:24Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Barley" snippet="...rtuguese (&#039;&#039;cevada&#039;&#039;), Galician (&#039;&#039;cebada&#039;&#039;) are all related to Latin word &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; food&#10;" size="1280" wordcount="182" timestamp="2023-03-06T16:29:41Z" />
    </search>
  </query>
</api>