anorak | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: parka, windbreaker, windcheater |
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arak | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arrack |
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beak | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: bill, neb, nib, pecker |
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(noun) beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles) | - |
(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
(noun) a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures | - |
(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: peck, pick |
beefsteak | (noun) a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
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bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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(verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
bispak | (noun) A sexually promiscuous Indonesian woman | - |
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bleak | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: cutting, raw |
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(adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, dim |
(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark |
break | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: breakage, breaking |
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(noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: disruption, gap, interruption |
(noun) a sudden dash | - |
(noun) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool | - |
(noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
(noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: recess, respite, time out |
(noun) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare | Synonyms: open frame |
(noun) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving | Synonyms: break of serve |
(noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: interruption |
(noun) an unexpected piece of good luck | Synonyms: good luck, happy chance |
(noun) the occurrence of breaking | - |
(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
(noun) an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) | - |
(noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
(noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: fracture |
(noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
(verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: fracture |
(verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body | - |
(verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly | - |
(verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
(verb) happen | Synonyms: develop, recrudesce |
(verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break off, discontinue, stop |
(verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: interrupt |
(verb) come into being | - |
(verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
(verb) render inoperable or ineffective | - |
(verb) crack; of the male voice in puberty | - |
(verb) fall sharply | - |
(verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: damp, dampen, soften, weaken |
(verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments | - |
(verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful | Synonyms: break in |
(verb) be broken in | - |
(verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another | - |
(verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: check, crack |
(verb) find the solution or key to | - |
(verb) find a flaw in | - |
(verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
(verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: intermit, pause |
(verb) be released or become known; of news | Synonyms: get around, get out |
(verb) undergo breaking | - |
(verb) interrupt the flow of current in | - |
(verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: better |
(verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
(verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: bust |
(verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing | - |
(verb) break a piece from a whole | Synonyms: break off, snap off |
(verb) pierce or penetrate | - |
(verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items | Synonyms: break up |
(verb) exchange for smaller units of money | - |
(verb) become punctured or penetrated | - |
(verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls | - |
(verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: burst, erupt |
(verb) do a break dance | Synonyms: break-dance, break dance |
(verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves | - |
(verb) move away or escape suddenly | Synonyms: break away, break out |
(verb) scatter or part | - |
(verb) emerge from the surface of a body of water | - |
(verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing | - |
(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
(verb) change directions suddenly | - |
(verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, smash |
(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
(verb) interrupt a continued activity | Synonyms: break away |
(verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
(verb) cause the failure or ruin of | - |
(verb) invalidate by judicial action | - |
(verb) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act | Synonyms: break in |
(verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break up, part, separate, split, split up |
(verb) happen or take place | - |
(verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: go against, violate |
(verb) give up | - |
(verb) cause to give up a habit | - |
(verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity | - |
(verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency | - |
(verb) come to an end | - |
chopsteak | (noun) a patty of ground cooked beef | Synonyms: beef patty, chop steak, chopped steak, hamburger steak |
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cloak | (noun) a loose outer garment | - |
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(noun) anything that covers or conceals | - |
(verb) cover with or as if with a cloak | - |
(verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: clothe, drape, robe |
(verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: dissemble, mask |
creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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(verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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croak | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croaking |
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(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
(verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter |
(verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: cronk |
czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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dak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dhak, palas |
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daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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dhak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dak, palas |
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doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
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firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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flak | (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, pom-pom |
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(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, fire, flack |
(noun) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer | Synonyms: flack, flack catcher, flak catcher |
freak | (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity |
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(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, junkie, junky, nut |
(verb) lose one's nerve | Synonyms: freak out, gross out |
gaolbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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groak | (verb) look or stare at longingly | - |
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grosbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grossbeak |
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grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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halfbeak | (noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw | - |
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heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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(noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
jak | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jackfruit |
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kayak | (noun) a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | - |
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(verb) travel in a small canoe | - |
leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
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(noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
(noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
(noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
(noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
(verb) have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out | - |
(verb) enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure | - |
(verb) tell anonymously | - |
(verb) be leaked | Synonyms: leak out |
misspeak | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: mispronounce |
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newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
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newspeak | (noun) deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public | - |
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oak | (noun) a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves | Synonyms: oak tree |
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(noun) the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring | - |
outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
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peak | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor |
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(noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, summit, tip, top |
(noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, vertex |
(noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: extremum |
(noun) a V shape | Synonyms: point, tip |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, prime |
(verb) to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity | Synonyms: top out |
prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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(verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
skreak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreigh, squawk |
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(verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, squeak, whine |
sneak | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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(noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
(noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: prowler, stalker |
(noun) a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible | - |
(verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe |
(verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
(verb) put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner | - |
soak | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soaking |
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(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soakage, soaking |
(verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: imbue |
(verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse |
(verb) heat a metal prior to working it | - |
(verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, souse |
(verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate |
(verb) beat severely | - |
(verb) submerge in a liquid | - |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge |
(verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, pawn |
speak | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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(verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: talk |
(verb) use language | Synonyms: talk |
(verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: address |
(verb) make a characteristic or natural sound | - |
squeak | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeaker |
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(noun) a short high-pitched noise | - |
(verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, whine |
steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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(noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
(noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
(noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
(verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
(verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
(verb) run naked in a public place | - |
teak | (noun) tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Tectona grandis |
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(noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teakwood |
tokamak | (noun) a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle | - |
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tombak | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tambac, tombac |
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trojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using two units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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tweak | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: pinch |
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(verb) adjust finely | Synonyms: fine-tune |
(verb) to be under the influence of methamphetamine | - |
(verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pluck, pull off |
(verb) pinch or squeeze sharply | - |
uncloak | (verb) remove a cloak from | - |
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(verb) reveal the true nature of | Synonyms: unmask |
weak | (adjective) wanting in physical strength | - |
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(adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, watery |
(adjective) tending downward in price | - |
(adjective) likely to fail under stress or pressure | - |
(adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly |
(adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect |
(adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: faint |
(adjective) not having authority, political strength, or governing power | - |
(adjective) (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
(adjective) deficient in intelligence or mental power | - |
(adjective) deficient or lacking in some skill | - |
(adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, unaccented |
windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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wreak | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, work |
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yak | (noun) large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated | Synonyms: Bos grunniens |
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(noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yack, yakety-yak |
(verb) talk profusely | Synonyms: gab |
yashmak | (noun) the face veil worn by Muslim women | Synonyms: yashmac |
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zamboorak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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zamburak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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