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  "title": "Introducing Zuban Daraz — a dictionary of gendered language in South Asia",
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  "summary": "Zoya Azfar is a 17-year-old student from Learning Alliance International with an interest in linguistics. She created a website called Zuban Daraz, which is the first-of-its-kind, open-source dictionary aimed at collecting gendered words and phrases in South Asian languages. Users can also share their individual experiences with these words on the website. Zuban Daraz team […]",
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