| cowry | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowrie |
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| cows | (noun) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | Synonyms: Bos taurus, cattle, kine, oxen |
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| cowshed | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse |
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| cowskin | (noun) leather made from the hide of a cow | Synonyms: cowhide |
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| cowslip | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: paigle, Primula veris |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, kingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| cowtown | (noun) a small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America | Synonyms: cow town |
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| coxswain | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: cox |
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| crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| craw | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: crop |
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| crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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| crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| crew | (noun) an organized group of workmen | Synonyms: gang, work party |
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| (noun) the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.) | - |
| (noun) the team of men or women manning a racing shell | - |
| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crowd, gang |
| crewelwork | (noun) embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn | - |
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| crewet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: cruet |
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| crewman | (noun) a member of a work crew | - |
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| (noun) a member of a flight crew | Synonyms: crew member |
| (noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: sailor |
| crossbow | (noun) a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) | - |
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| crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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| crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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| crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| crossword | (noun) a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | Synonyms: crossword puzzle |
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| crow | (noun) black birds having a raucous call | - |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| (noun) the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it) | - |
| crowbait | (noun) an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows | Synonyms: crow-bait |
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| crowbar | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | Synonyms: pry, pry bar, wrecking bar |
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| crowberry | (noun) a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit | - |
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| crowd | (noun) a large number of things or people considered together | - |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, gang |
| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| crowding | (noun) a situation in which people or things are crowded together | - |
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| crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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| crowfoot | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup |
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| crowing | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| crown | (noun) the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty | Synonyms: diadem |
| (noun) a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory | - |
| (noun) the center of a cambered road | Synonyms: crest |
| (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown |
| (noun) the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel | - |
| (noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: pate, poll |
| (noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: pennant |
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, peak, summit, tip, top |
| (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: treetop |
| (noun) an English coin worth 5 shillings | - |
| crownbeard | (noun) any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads | Synonyms: crown-beard, crown beard |
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| crownwork | (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, jacket, jacket crown |
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| (noun) a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. | - |
| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cudweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, filago |
| (noun) perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage |
| cupflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: nierembergia |
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| (noun) Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat | Synonyms: chalice vine, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower |
| curassow | (noun) large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food | - |
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| curfew | (noun) a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions | - |
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| (noun) an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
| (noun) the time that the curfew signal is sounded | - |
| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| currawong | (noun) bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call | Synonyms: bell magpie |
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| cushaw | (noun) globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind | - |
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| (noun) plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds | Synonyms: Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta |
| cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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| (noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
| cutwork | (noun) embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away | - |
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| cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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| cwm | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, corrie |
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| cwt | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: hundredweight, long hundredweight |
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| (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, hundredweight, quintal, short hundredweight |
| cyberwar | (noun) an assault on electronic communication networks | Synonyms: cyber-terrorism |
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| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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| daw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, jackdaw |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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| dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dawn | (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: morning |
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| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| (noun) an opening time period | - |
| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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| (noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
| deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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| dew | (noun) water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air | - |
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| dewberry | (noun) blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes | - |
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| (noun) any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America | Synonyms: dewberry bush, running blackberry |
| dewdrop | (noun) a drop of dew | - |
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| dewiness | (noun) The state or property of being covered by dew, or bearing droplets of water. | - |
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| dewlap | (noun) a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck | - |
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| dhawa | (noun) an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum | Synonyms: dhava |
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| dhow | (noun) a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs | - |
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| dimwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: doofus, half-wit, nitwit |
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| dinnerware | (noun) the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal | - |
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| disavowal | (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disclaimer |
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| disembowelment | (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: evisceration |
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| dishtowel | (noun) a towel for drying dishes | Synonyms: dish towel, tea towel |
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| dishware | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: crockery |
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| dishwasher | (noun) a machine for washing dishes | Synonyms: dish washer, dishwashing machine |
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| (noun) someone who washes dishes | - |
| dishwashing | (noun) the act of washing dishes | Synonyms: washup |
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| dishwater | (noun) water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed | - |
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| disowning | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disownment |
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| disownment | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disowning |
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| diwan | (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: divan |
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| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: divan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: divan |
| dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| dogwatch | (noun) either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm | - |
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| dogwood | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: cornel, dogwood tree |
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| (noun) hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood | - |
| donkeywork | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: drudgery, grind, plodding |
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| doorway | (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, room access, threshold |
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| dowager | (noun) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband | - |
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| dowdiness | (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: drabness, homeliness |
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| dowdy | (noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: pandowdy |
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| dowel | (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel pin, joggle |
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| doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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| dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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| (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
| dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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