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  "id": "inquire",
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          "derivatives": [
            {
              "id": "inquirer",
              "text": "inquirer"
            }
          ],
          "entries": [
            {
              "etymologies": [
                "Middle English enquere (later inquere), from Old French enquerre, from a variant of Latin inquirere, based on quaerere \u2018seek\u2019. The spelling with in-, influenced by Latin, dates from the 15th century"
              ],
              "pronunciations": [
                {
                  "dialects": [
                    "American English"
                  ],
                  "phoneticNotation": "respell",
                  "phoneticSpelling": "in\u02c8kw\u012b(\u0259)r"
                },
                {
                  "audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/inquire__us_2.mp3",
                  "dialects": [
                    "American English"
                  ],
                  "phoneticNotation": "IPA",
                  "phoneticSpelling": "\u026an\u02c8kwa\u026a(\u0259)r"
                },
                {
                  "dialects": [
                    "American English"
                  ],
                  "phoneticNotation": "respell",
                  "phoneticSpelling": "iNG\u02c8kw\u012b(\u0259)r"
                },
                {
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                  "dialects": [
                    "American English"
                  ],
                  "phoneticNotation": "IPA",
                  "phoneticSpelling": "\u026a\u014b\u02c8kwa\u026a(\u0259)r"
                }
              ],
              "senses": [
                {
                  "definitions": [
                    "ask for information from someone"
                  ],
                  "examples": [
                    {
                      "notes": [
                        {
                          "text": "no object",
                          "type": "grammaticalNote"
                        }
                      ],
                      "text": "he inquired about cottages for sale"
                    },
                    {
                      "notes": [
                        {
                          "text": "with direct speech",
                          "type": "grammaticalNote"
                        }
                      ],
                      "text": "\u201cHow well do you know Berlin?\u201d he inquired of Hencke"
                    },
                    {
                      "notes": [
                        {
                          "text": "with clause",
                          "type": "grammaticalNote"
                        }
                      ],
                      "text": "I inquired where he lived"
                    }
                  ],
                  "id": "m_en_gbus0511450.006",
                  "notes": [
                    {
                      "text": "reporting verb",
                      "type": "grammaticalNote"
                    }
                  ],
                  "shortDefinitions": [
                    "ask for information"
                  ],
                  "subsenses": [
                    {
                      "definitions": [
                        "ask about the health and well-being of (someone)"
                      ],
                      "examples": [
                        {
                          "text": "Annie inquired after her parents"
                        }
                      ],
                      "id": "m_en_gbus0511450.012",
                      "notes": [
                        {
                          "text": "no object",
                          "type": "grammaticalNote"
                        },
                        {
                          "text": "\"inquire after\"",
                          "type": "wordFormNote"
                        }
                      ],
                      "shortDefinitions": [
                        "ask about health of"
                      ]
                    },
                    {
                      "definitions": [
                        "ask to see or speak to (someone)"
                      ],
                      "examples": [
                        {
                          "text": "that was Paul inquiring for you\u2014I told him he couldn't come in"
                        }
                      ],
                      "id": "m_en_gbus0511450.013",
                      "notes": [
                        {
                          "text": "no object",
                          "type": "grammaticalNote"
                        },
                        {
                          "text": "\"inquire for\"",
                          "type": "wordFormNote"
                        }
                      ],
                      "shortDefinitions": [
                        "ask to speak to"
                      ]
                    }
                  ],
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                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "ask"
                    },
                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "make inquiries"
                    },
                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "ask questions"
                    },
                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "pose a question"
                    },
                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "request information"
                    }
                  ],
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                },
                {
                  "definitions": [
                    "investigate; look into"
                  ],
                  "examples": [
                    {
                      "text": "the task of political sociology is to inquire into the causes of political events"
                    }
                  ],
                  "id": "m_en_gbus0511450.015",
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                    {
                      "text": "no object",
                      "type": "grammaticalNote"
                    },
                    {
                      "text": "\"inquire into\"",
                      "type": "wordFormNote"
                    }
                  ],
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                    "investigate"
                  ],
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                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "conduct an inquiry"
                    },
                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "make inquiries"
                    },
                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "probe"
                    },
                    {
                      "language": "en",
                      "text": "look"
                    }
                  ],
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                  "regions": [
                    {
                      "id": "british",
                      "text": "British"
                    }
                  ],
                  "text": "enquire"
                }
              ]
            }
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          "lexicalCategory": {
            "id": "verb",
            "text": "Verb"
          },
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        }
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}