| brace | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) support by bracing | - |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: poise |
| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| bracket | (verb) classify or group | - |
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| (verb) place into brackets | Synonyms: bracket out |
| (verb) support with brackets | - |
| branch | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| brattice | (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
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| breach | (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| brick | (verb) To stop working (of an electronic device) | - |
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| broach | (verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: initiate |
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| broadcast | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, send, transmit |
| (verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand | - |
| brocade | (verb) weave a design into (textiles) | - |
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| brooch | (verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: clasp |
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| brunch | (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
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| buccaneer | (verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
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| buck | (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: hitch, jerk |
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| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: charge, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) resist | Synonyms: go against |
| (verb) to strive with determination | - |
| bucket | (verb) carry in a bucket | - |
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| (verb) put into a bucket | - |
| buckle | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
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| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
| buckram | (verb) stiffen with or as with buckram | - |
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| bunch | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
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| (verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
| bunco | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| butcher | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
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| cab | (verb) ride in a taxicab | Synonyms: taxi |
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| cabal | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: complot, conjure, conspire, machinate |
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| cabbage | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| cabin | (verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin | - |
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| cable | (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: telegraph, wire |
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| (verb) fasten with a cable | - |
| cache | (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
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| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
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| cackle | (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
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| (verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
| (verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
| caddie | (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
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| caddy | (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddie |
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| cadge | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, grub, mooch, sponge |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: schnorr, scrounge, shnorr |
| cage | (verb) confine in a cage | Synonyms: cage in |
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| cajole | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| cake | (verb) form a coat over | Synonyms: coat |
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| cakewalk | (verb) perform the cakewalk dance | - |
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| calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
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| (verb) convert into lime | - |
| (verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
| (verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
| calcimine | (verb) cover with calcimine | - |
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| calcine | (verb) heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces | - |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| calendar | (verb) enter into a calendar | - |
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| calender | (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
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| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| caliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
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| calk | (verb) injure with a calk | - |
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| (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: caulk |
| (verb) provide with calks | - |
| call | (verb) rouse somebody from sleep with a call | - |
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| (verb) challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of | - |
| (verb) consider or regard as being | - |
| (verb) utter in a loud voice or announce | - |
| (verb) ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality | - |
| (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call up, phone, ring, telephone |
| (verb) assign a specified (usually proper) name to | Synonyms: be known as, know as, name |
| (verb) utter a characteristic note or cry | - |
| (verb) send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message | - |
| (verb) order, request, or command to come | Synonyms: send for |
| (verb) indicate a decision in regard to | - |
| (verb) challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense | - |
| (verb) declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee | - |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
| (verb) lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal | - |
| (verb) present for redemption before maturation | - |
| (verb) read aloud to check for omissions or absentees | - |
| (verb) order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role | - |
| (verb) order or request or give a command for | - |
| (verb) give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance | Synonyms: call off |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: bid |
| (verb) demand payment of (a loan) | Synonyms: call in |
| (verb) pay a brief visit | Synonyms: call in, visit |
| (verb) call a meeting; invite or command to meet | - |
| (verb) make a stop in a harbour | - |
| (verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather | - |
| calligraph | (verb) write beautifully and ornamentally | - |
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| calliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
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| callous | (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
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| callus | (verb) form a callus or calluses | - |
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| (verb) cause a callus to form on | - |
| calm | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, steady |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation | Synonyms: calm down, chill out, cool it, cool off, settle down, simmer down |
| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| calve | (verb) give birth to (a calf) | Synonyms: have young |
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| (verb) release ice | Synonyms: break up |
| camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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| camouflage | (verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
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| camp | (verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | - |
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| (verb) establish or set up a camp | Synonyms: camp down |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent |
| campaign | (verb) go on a campaign; go off to war | Synonyms: take the field |
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| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, crusade, fight, press, push |
| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| can | (verb) preserve in a can or tin | Synonyms: put up, tin |
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| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| canal | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canalise, canalize |
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| canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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| canalize | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalise |
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| cancel | (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
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| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
| candle | (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
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| candy | (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat |
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| cane | (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste |
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| canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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| (verb) become infected with a canker | - |
| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
| cannon | (verb) fire a cannon | - |
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| (verb) make a cannon | - |
| cannonade | (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
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| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulize | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, canulate, intubate |
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| canoe | (verb) travel by canoe | - |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| canonize | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonise |
| canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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| canopy | (verb) cover with a canopy | - |
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| cant | (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant over, pitch, slant, tilt |
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| canter | (verb) ride at a canter | - |
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| (verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
| (verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |
| cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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| (verb) project as a cantilever | - |
| cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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| canton | (verb) divide into cantons, of a country | - |
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| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: billet, quarter |
| canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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| canvas | (verb) cover with canvas | - |
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| canvass | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
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| (verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
| cap | (verb) restrict the number or amount of | - |
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| (verb) lie at the top of | Synonyms: crest |
| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| caparison | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
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| caper | (verb) jump about playfully | - |
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| capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
| capitalize | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalise |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalise, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalise |
| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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| caponize | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponise |
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| capriole | (verb) perform a capriole, in ballet | - |
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| (verb) perform a capriole, of horses in dressage | - |
| capsize | (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: turn turtle, turtle |
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