| horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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| (noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
| (noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
| houseroom | (noun) space for accommodation in a house | - |
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| hypnotiser | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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| idoliser | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idolizer |
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| (noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idolizer |
| indorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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| (noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: endorser |
| insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
| (noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
| insertion | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: introduction, intromission |
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| (noun) a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted | Synonyms: interpolation |
| kieserite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines | - |
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| kisser | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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| (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: osculator |
| lamasery | (noun) a monastery for lamas | - |
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| laser | (noun) an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light | Synonyms: optical maser |
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| licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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| liquidiser | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: blender, liquidizer |
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| loser | (noun) a gambler who loses a bet | - |
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| (noun) a contestant who loses the contest | Synonyms: also-ran |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| maidservant | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maid |
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| manservant | (noun) a man servant | - |
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| maser | (noun) an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an amplifier that works on the same principle as a laser and emits coherent microwave radiation | - |
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| memoriser | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memorizer |
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| merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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| merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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| miser | (noun) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably) | - |
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| miserabilism | (noun) mid-20th century French art movement. | - |
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| miserableness | (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: misery, wretchedness |
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| miserliness | (noun) total lack of generosity with money | - |
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| misery | (noun) a feeling of intense unhappiness | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, wretchedness |
| monopoliser | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopolist, monopolizer |
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| mouser | (noun) a cat proficient at mousing | - |
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| muser | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, ponderer, ruminator |
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| nebuliser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| neoconservatism | (noun) an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) | - |
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| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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| normaliser | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normalizer |
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| nurser | (noun) a person who treats something carefully | - |
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| nursery | (noun) a child's room for a baby | Synonyms: baby's room |
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| nurseryman | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: gardener |
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| observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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| (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
| (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
| observation | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observance, watching |
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| (noun) the act of making and recording a measurement | - |
| (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observance |
| (noun) facts learned by observing | - |
| (noun) a remark expressing careful consideration | Synonyms: reflection, reflexion |
| observatory | (noun) a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena | - |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout, lookout station, observation tower |
| observer | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, perceiver, percipient |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: commentator |
| opposer | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, resister |
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| organiser | (noun) a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc. | Synonyms: organizer, PDA, personal digital assistant, personal organiser, personal organizer |
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| (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: arranger, organizer |
| (noun) someone who enlists workers to join a union | Synonyms: labor organizer, organizer |
| oxidiser | (noun) a substance that oxidizes another substance | Synonyms: oxidant, oxidizer, oxidizing agent |
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| papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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| parser | (noun) a computer program that divides code up into functional components | - |
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| passer | (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass | Synonyms: forward passer |
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| (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passerby |
| (noun) a student who passes an examination | - |
| (noun) a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group | - |
| passerby | (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passer |
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| passerine | (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
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| pasteuriser | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteurizer |
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| patisserie | (noun) a bakery specializing in French pastry | - |
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| philosophiser | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophizer |
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| pisser | (noun) a very disagreeable difficulty | - |
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| (noun) a person who urinates | Synonyms: urinator |
| plagiariser | (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, pirate, plagiarist, plagiarizer |
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| plasticiser | (noun) a substance added to plastics or other materials to make them more pliable | Synonyms: plasticizer |
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| pleaser | (noun) a pleasing entertainer | - |
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| poetiser | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier |
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| populariser | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularizer, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| poser | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: sticker, stumper, toughie |
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| (noun) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | Synonyms: poseur |
| preservation | (noun) the activity of protecting something from loss or danger | Synonyms: saving |
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| (noun) an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change | Synonyms: conservation |
| (noun) a process that saves organic substances from decay | - |
| (noun) the condition of being (well or ill) preserved | - |
| preservationist | (noun) someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas | - |
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| preservative | (noun) a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition | - |
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| preserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserves |
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| (noun) a reservation where animals are protected | - |
| (noun) a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone | - |
| preserver | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning | Synonyms: flotation device, life preserver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: refinisher, renovator, restorer |
| (noun) someone who keeps safe from harm or danger | - |
| (noun) a cook who preserves fruits or meat | - |
| preserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserve |
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| prickteaser | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, tease, vamp, vamper |
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| promiser | (noun) a person who makes a promise | Synonyms: promisor |
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| proposer | (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: mover |
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| (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: suggester |
| publiciser | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publicist, publicizer |
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| purchaser | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, vendee |
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| purser | (noun) an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
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| raiser | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower |
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| (noun) a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid | - |
| reassertion | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reaffirmation |
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| represser | (noun) an agent that represses | Synonyms: repressor |
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| reserpine | (noun) antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil) | Synonyms: Rau-Sed, Raudixin, Sandril, Serpasil |
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| reservation | (noun) the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion | - |
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| (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly | Synonyms: arriere pensee, mental reservation |
| (noun) something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.) | - |
| (noun) a statement that limits or restricts some claim | Synonyms: qualification |
| (noun) the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance | - |
| (noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose | Synonyms: reserve |
| reserve | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reticence, taciturnity |
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| (noun) formality and propriety of manner | Synonyms: modesty |
| (noun) armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency | Synonyms: military reserve |
| (noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose | Synonyms: reservation |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: second-stringer, substitute |
| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: backlog, stockpile |
| (noun) (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions | - |
| reserves | (noun) civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | Synonyms: militia |
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| reservist | (noun) a member of a military reserve | - |
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| reservoir | (noun) tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) | - |
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| (noun) lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water | Synonyms: artificial lake, man-made lake |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) a large or extra supply of something | - |
| reviser | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| riser | (noun) structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step | - |
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| (noun) a vertical pipe in a building | Synonyms: riser main, riser pipe, riser pipeline |
| (noun) a person who rises (especially from bed) | - |
| rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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| (noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |
| rouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: arouser, waker |
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| scrutiniser | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutinizer |
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| semidesert | (noun) a region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions | - |
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| sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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| seraglio | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: hareem, harem, serail |
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| serail | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: hareem, harem, seraglio |
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| serape | (noun) a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men | Synonyms: sarape |
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| seraph | (noun) an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child | - |
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| serenade | (noun) a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: divertimento |
| serendipity | (noun) good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries | - |
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| sereness | (noun) a withered dryness | - |
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| serenity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, repose, tranquility, tranquillity |
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| (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose |
| serf | (noun) (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | Synonyms: helot, villein |
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| serfdom | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfhood, vassalage |
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| serfhood | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, vassalage |
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| serge | (noun) a twilled woolen fabric | - |
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| sergeant | (noun) a lawman with the rank of sergeant | Synonyms: police sergeant |
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| (noun) any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal | - |
| (noun) an English barrister of the highest rank | Synonyms: sergeant-at-law, serjeant-at-law, serjeant |
| serger | (noun) a sewing machine that overcasts the raw edges of a fabric with a V-shaped stitch | - |
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