| blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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| blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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| blitz | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitzkrieg |
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| (noun) (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line | Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz |
| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| blizzard | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: rash |
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| (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: snowstorm |
| bombazine | (noun) a twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted | - |
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| bonanza | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| (noun) an especially rich vein of precious ore | - |
| booze | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink |
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| boozer | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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| boozing | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| borzoi | (noun) tall fast-moving dog breed | Synonyms: Russian wolfhound |
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| bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
| bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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| bozo | (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: cat, guy, hombre, sod |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
| brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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| brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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| brazil | (noun) three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell | Synonyms: brazil nut |
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| brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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| (noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |
| breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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| breeze | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: air, gentle wind, zephyr |
| breeziness | (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: jauntiness |
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| (noun) a mildly windy state of the air | Synonyms: windiness |
| bronze | (noun) a sculpture made of bronze | - |
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| (noun) an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin | - |
| bronzer | (noun) A cosmetic powder that comes in various shades of brown, meant to create an impression of tanned skin. | Synonyms: bronzing powder |
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| brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| bryozoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
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| bulldozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: dozer |
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| buzz | (noun) a confusion of activity and gossip | - |
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| (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, bombination |
| buzzard | (noun) a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States | Synonyms: Cathartes aura, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture |
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| (noun) the common European short-winged hawk | Synonyms: Buteo buteo |
| buzzer | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, doorbell |
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| (noun) a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound | - |
| buzzword | (noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: cant |
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| byzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, solidus |
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| cadenza | (noun) a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music | - |
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| calabazilla | (noun) perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit | Synonyms: buffalo gourd, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin |
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| calorizator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorisator |
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| canalization | (noun) the production of a canal or a conversion to canals | Synonyms: canalisation |
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| (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, channelisation, channelization |
| cannulization | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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| canonization | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonisation |
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| canulization | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, intubation |
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| capercailzie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercaillie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capitalization | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalisation |
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| (noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| (noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| (noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| capiz | (noun) marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell | Synonyms: Placuna placenta, window oyster, windowpane oyster |
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| capsizing | (noun) (nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water | - |
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| carbonization | (noun) the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) | Synonyms: carbonisation |
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| carrizo | (noun) tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts | Synonyms: common reed, ditch reed, Phragmites communis |
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| cartelization | (noun) the process of cartelizing, usually occuring in oligopolistic industry. | - |
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| categorization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, classification, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, classification |
| catheterization | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterisation |
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| cauterization | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cautery |
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| cazique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cacique |
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| cefoperazone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections | Synonyms: Cefobid |
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| ceftazidime | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade names Fortaz and Tazicef) used to treat moderate infections | Synonyms: Fortaz, Tazicef |
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| centralization | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralisation |
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| (noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralisation |
| ceratozamia | (noun) a small cycad of the genus Ceratozamia having a short scaly woody trunk and fernlike foliage and woody cones; Mexico | - |
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| chabazite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum | Synonyms: chabasite |
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| chalaza | (noun) one of two spiral bands of tissue connecting the egg yolk to the enclosing membrane at either end of the shell | - |
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| (noun) basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle; where integument and nucellus are joined | - |
| chalazion | (noun) a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked | Synonyms: Meibomian cyst |
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| channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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| characterization | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: enactment, personation, portrayal |
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| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
| (noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterisation |
| chimpanzee | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimp, Pan troglodytes |
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| chintz | (noun) a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric | - |
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| chlordiazepoxide | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade names Librium and Libritabs) used in the treatment of alcoholism | Synonyms: Libritabs, Librium |
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| chlorobenzene | (noun) a colorless volatile flammable liquid with an almond odor that is made from chlorine and benzene; used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and DDT and other organic compounds | - |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| chlorothiazide | (noun) a diuretic drug (trade name Diuril) used in the treatment of edema and hypertension | Synonyms: Diuril |
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| chlorpromazine | (noun) a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer | Synonyms: Thorazine |
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| chorizo | (noun) a spicy Spanish pork sausage | - |
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| chutzpa | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpah, hutzpah |
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| chutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, hutzpah |
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| chutzpanik | (noun) (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa | - |
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| circularization | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularisation |
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| citizen | (noun) a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | - |
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| citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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| citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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| (noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
| civilization | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilisation, refinement |
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| (noun) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | Synonyms: civilisation |
| (noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilisation, culture |
| (noun) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization | Synonyms: civilisation |
| clericalization | (noun) The process of increasing the power or influence of a religious hierarchy. | - |
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| clozapine | (noun) an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; known to have few side effects | Synonyms: Clozaril |
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| cocozelle | (noun) squash resembling zucchini | - |
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| (noun) squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow | Synonyms: Italian vegetable marrow |
| coenzyme | (noun) a small molecule (not a protein but sometimes a vitamin) essential for the activity of some enzymes | - |
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| cognizance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) range or scope of what is perceived | - |
| collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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| colonization | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, settlement |
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| colonizer | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: coloniser |
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| colza | (noun) Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop | Synonyms: Brassica napus, rape |
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| commercialization | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialisation |
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| communization | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communisation |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communisation |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, nationalisation, nationalization |
| compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
| computerization | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: cybernation |
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| conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
| conventionalization | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalisation |
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| corozo | (noun) any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts | Synonyms: corozo palm |
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| coryza | (noun) an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge) | Synonyms: rhinitis |
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| cozenage | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: scam |
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| coziness | (noun) a state of warm snug comfort | Synonyms: cosiness, snugness |
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| cozy | (noun) a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm | Synonyms: cosy, tea cosy, tea cozy |
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| craze | (noun) a fine crack in a glaze or other surface | - |
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| (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: cult, fad, furor, furore, rage |
| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
| craziness | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: folly, foolishness, madness |
| (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: daftness, flakiness |
| crazy | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
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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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| credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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| criminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalisation |
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