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Fair Value Of Financial Instruments - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 22, 2021	Aug. 25, 2021	Jul. 12, 2021
Fair Value Measurements [Line Items]
Warrants and rights outstanding	$ 58,227	$ 0			$ 6,514
Transfers between fair value measurement levels	$ 0	$ 0
Public Warrants [Member]
Fair Value Measurements [Line Items]
Exercise price of warrants or rights	$ 3.58		$ 0.2843	$ 2.96
Warrants and rights outstanding				$ 48,149
Private Placement Warrants [Member]
Fair Value Measurements [Line Items]
Warrants and rights outstanding	$ 58,227

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123467817&loc=d3e21475-112644

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Amount of transfers of financial instrument classified as a liability into (out of) level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

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Value of outstanding derivative securities that permit the holder the right to purchase securities (usually equity) from the issuer at a specified price.

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