| carnivore | (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal | - |
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| (noun) any animal that feeds on flesh | - |
| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carnivorousness | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: zoophagy |
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| carve | (verb) cut to pieces | Synonyms: cut up |
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| (verb) form by carving | - |
| (verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface | Synonyms: chip at |
| carved | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carven |
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| carvedilol | (noun) beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced | - |
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| carven | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carved |
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| carver | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker |
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| (noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: cutter |
| (noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: woodcarver |
| carving | (noun) creating figures or designs in three dimensions | Synonyms: sculpture |
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| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape | - |
| casava | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch | Synonyms: cassava |
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| cassava | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch | Synonyms: casava |
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| (noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: manioc |
| (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava starch, manioc, manioca |
| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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| cavalcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling on horseback | - |
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| cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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| (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: chevalier |
| cavalierly | (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: disdainfully |
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| cavalla | (noun) large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil | Synonyms: cero, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla |
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| cavalry | (noun) a highly mobile army unit | - |
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| (noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: horse, horse cavalry |
| cavalryman | (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: trooper |
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| (noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: trooper |
| cave | (noun) a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea | - |
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| (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: spelunk |
| (verb) hollow out as if making a cave or opening | Synonyms: undermine |
| caveat | (noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing | - |
| caveman | (noun) someone who lives in a cave | Synonyms: cave dweller, cave man, troglodyte |
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| cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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| (noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
| (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| cavetto | (noun) a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section | - |
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| caviar | (noun) salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: caviare |
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| caviare | (noun) salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: caviar |
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| cavil | (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: quibble, quiddity |
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| (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, chicane |
| caviler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviller, pettifogger, quibbler |
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| caviller | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, pettifogger, quibbler |
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| cavitied | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| cavity | (noun) (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body | Synonyms: bodily cavity, cavum |
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| (noun) a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) | Synonyms: pit |
| (noun) soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth | Synonyms: caries, dental caries, tooth decay |
| (noun) space that is surrounded by something | Synonyms: enclosed space |
| cavort | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| cavum | (noun) (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body | Synonyms: bodily cavity, cavity |
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| cavy | (noun) short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent | - |
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| centavo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| cerivastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels | Synonyms: Baycol |
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| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| cervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the uterine cervix | - |
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| cervid | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: deer |
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| cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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| cervix | (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: neck |
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| (noun) necklike opening to the uterus | Synonyms: cervix uteri, uterine cervix |
| champleve | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: cloisonne |
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| changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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| charivari | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree |
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| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chervil | (noun) fresh ferny parsley-like leaves used as a garnish with chicken and veal and omelets and green salads and spinach | - |
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| (noun) aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads | Synonyms: Anthriscus cereifolium, beaked parsley |
| chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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| chevre | (noun) made from goats' milk | Synonyms: goat cheese |
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| chevron | (noun) an inverted V-shaped charge | - |
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| (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: grade insignia, stripe, stripes |
| chevrotain | (noun) very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa | Synonyms: mouse deer |
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| chevvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chevy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chivalric | (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: knightly, mediaeval, medieval |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chivalrously | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: gallantly |
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| chivalry | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: gallantry, politesse |
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| (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: knightliness |
| chivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, shivaree |
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| chive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chives, cive, schnittlaugh |
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| chives | (noun) cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning | - |
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| (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, cive, schnittlaugh |
| chivvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chivy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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| circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| cive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, schnittlaugh |
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| civet | (noun) cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes | Synonyms: civet cat |
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| civic | (adjective) of or relating or belonging to a city | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civil |
| civics | (noun) the social science of civic affairs | - |
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| civies | (noun) civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform | Synonyms: civvies |
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| civil | (adjective) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | Synonyms: polite |
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| (adjective) (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civic |
| (adjective) of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state | - |
| (adjective) applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military | - |
| (adjective) of or in a condition of social order | - |
| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| (noun) a nonmilitary citizen | - |
| civilisation | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilization, 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: civilization |
| (noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilization, culture |
| (noun) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization | Synonyms: civilization |
| civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilised | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilized |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| civility | (noun) the act of showing regard for others | Synonyms: politeness |
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| (noun) formal or perfunctory politeness | - |
| 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 |
| civilize | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilise |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilized | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilised |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| civilly | (adverb) in a civil manner | - |
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| civvies | (noun) civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform | Synonyms: civies |
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| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
| claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| clavichord | (noun) an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound | - |
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| clavicle | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: collarbone |
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| clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
| clavus | (noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes | Synonyms: corn |
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