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collapse - a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning related words >
- weasel word
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- an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- amphibology,
- complexity of meaning,
- double entendre,
- double reference,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- irony,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- paronomasia,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- punning,
- richness of meaning,
- tergiversation,
- uncertainty
- palindrome
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- a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- anastrophe,
- calembour,
- chiasmus,
- corruption,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hysteron proteron,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- missaying,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- wordplay
- acrostic
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- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acronym,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- avyayibhava,
- back formation,
- calembour,
- clipped word,
- compound,
- conjugate,
- construction,
- corruption,
- dvandva,
- dvigu,
- endocentric compound,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exocentric compound,
- formation,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- paronym,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism,
- tatpurusha,
- word form,
- wordplay
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- be merry with,
- calembour,
- corruption,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- jape,
- jest,
- jeu de mots,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- mock,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- poke fun at,
- pun,
- punning,
- quip,
- ridicule,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- sparkle,
- spoonerism,
- utter a mot,
- wisecrack,
- wordplay
- spoonerism
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- transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acronym,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anagram,
- avyayibhava,
- back formation,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- clipped word,
- compound,
- conjugate,
- construction,
- corruption,
- dvandva,
- dvigu,
- endocentric compound,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exocentric compound,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- formation,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- metagram,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- paronym,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- solecism,
- tatpurusha,
- word form,
- wordplay
- double entendre
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- an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- amphibology,
- belly laugh,
- blue story,
- complexity of meaning,
- counterword,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- equivocacy,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- ethnic joke,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- good one,
- good story,
- howler,
- irony,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- joke,
- laugh,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- panic,
- paronomasia,
- play,
- point,
- polysemant,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- portmanteau word,
- pun,
- punning,
- rib tickler,
- richness of meaning,
- riot,
- scream,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- sport,
- squinting construction,
- story,
- tergiversation,
- uncertainty,
- visual joke,
- weasel word,
- wheeze,
- wow,
- yarn
- pun
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- a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliterate,
- alliteration,
- ambiguity,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- assonance,
- assonate,
- be merry with,
- calembour,
- chime,
- clink,
- corruption,
- counterword,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- double entendre,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- jape,
- jest,
- jeu de mots,
- jingle,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- mock,
- near rhyme,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- poke fun at,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- punning,
- quip,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- slant rhyme,
- sparkle,
- spoonerism,
- squinting construction,
- utter a mot,
- weasel word,
- wisecrack,
- wordplay
- malapropism
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- the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- anagram,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- barbarism,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- conversion,
- corruption,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exclamation,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- gemination,
- grammatical error,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- infelicity,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jeu de mots,
- litotes,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- marrowsky,
- meiosis,
- metagram,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- onomatopoeia,
- oxymoron,
- palindrome,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- play on words,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pun,
- punning,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- ungrammaticism,
- wordplay,
- zeugma
- ambiguity
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- unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
- an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context related words >
- Janus,
- ambivalence,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- antinomy,
- asymmetry,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- cavil,
- conjugation,
- counterword,
- dichotomy,
- disproportion,
- disproportionateness,
- dodge,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double-talk,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- evasion,
- haggling,
- hair-splitting,
- halving,
- hedge,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- heterogeneity,
- impenetrability,
- imprecision,
- inapprehensibility,
- inarticulateness,
- incognizability,
- incoherence,
- incommensurability,
- incompatibility,
- incomprehensibility,
- inconclusiveness,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- indefiniteness,
- indistinctness,
- inscrutability,
- irony,
- irreconcilability,
- nonconformability,
- nonconformity,
- numinousness,
- obscurity,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- polarity,
- polysemant,
- polysemousness,
- portmanteau word,
- pun,
- quibbling,
- ramblingness,
- self-contradiction,
- shift,
- squinting construction,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- unconformability,
- unconformity,
- unconnectedness,
- unfathomableness,
- unintelligibility,
- unknowability,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsearchableness,
- vagueness,
- weasel word
- logogram
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- a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- allegory,
- alphabet,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- arrowhead,
- art,
- blueprint,
- calembour,
- character,
- charactering,
- characterization,
- charactery,
- chart,
- choreography,
- cipher,
- conventional representation,
- conventional symbol,
- corruption,
- cuneiform,
- dance notation,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- demotic character,
- depiction,
- depictment,
- determinative,
- diagram,
- drama,
- drawing,
- emblem,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exemplification,
- figuration,
- grammalogue,
- hieratic symbol,
- hieroglyph,
- hieroglyphic,
- hieroglyphics,
- hiragana,
- iconography,
- iconology,
- ideogram,
- ideograph,
- illustration,
- imagery,
- imaging,
- jeu de mots,
- kana,
- katakana,
- letter,
- limning,
- logograph,
- logogriph,
- logotype,
- love knot,
- malapropism,
- map,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- musical notation,
- notation,
- ogham,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- phonetic,
- phonetic symbol,
- pictogram,
- pictograph,
- picturization,
- plan,
- play on words,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- prefigurement,
- presentment,
- printing,
- projection,
- pun,
- punning,
- radical,
- realization,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- rune,
- schema,
- score,
- script,
- shorthand,
- spoonerism,
- syllabary,
- symbol,
- symbolic system,
- symbolism,
- symbolization,
- symbology,
- tablature,
- token,
- totem,
- totem pole,
- type,
- wedge,
- word letter,
- wordplay,
- writing
- analogy
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- drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"
- an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- ambiguity,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- change,
- changeling,
- closeness,
- coextension,
- collineation,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- concurrence,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equidistance,
- equivalent,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- identity,
- imitation,
- likeness,
- likening,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- matching,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- nondivergence,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- relation,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- tergiversation,
- third string,
- token,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing
- Parthian shot,
- ad lib,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- back answer,
- barb,
- be merry with,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- caustic remark,
- cavil,
- chestnut,
- comeback,
- conceit,
- crack,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- cut,
- cutting remark,
- dig,
- dodge,
- double entendre,
- drollery,
- dump,
- epigram,
- equivoque,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- fleer,
- fleer at,
- flight of wit,
- flout,
- foolery,
- fun,
- gag,
- gibe,
- gibe at,
- gibing retort,
- happy thought,
- jab,
- jape,
- jeer,
- jest,
- jesuitism,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- leg-pull,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- mock,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- parting shot,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- poke fun at,
- pun,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- quibble,
- quiddity,
- quillet,
- quips and cranks,
- quirk,
- quodlibet,
- repartee,
- retort,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- rude reproach,
- sally,
- scintillate,
- scintillation,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scurrility,
- short answer,
- shuffle,
- slam,
- slap,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- sparkle,
- stroke of wit,
- swipe,
- taunt,
- turn of thought,
- twit,
- utter a mot,
- verbal thrust,
- wheeze,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- yak
- equivocation
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- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- intentionally vague or ambiguous related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- apparent soundness,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- counterword,
- defense mechanism,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double,
- double entendre,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivoque,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasive reasoning,
- evasiveness,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- fencing,
- fluctuation,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- insincerity,
- irony,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- jink,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- misapplication,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mystification,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oscillation,
- oversubtlety,
- oxymoron,
- paltering,
- paradox,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- pun,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- self-contradiction,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squinting construction,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the runaround,
- trichoschistism,
- vacillation,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wavering,
- weasel word,
- weasel words,
- wobbling,
- zigzag
- epigram
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- a witty saying related words >
- Atticism,
- English sonnet,
- Horatian ode,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- abridgment,
- adage,
- alba,
- ana,
- anacreontic,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- bucolic,
- byword,
- canso,
- catchword,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- collected sayings,
- conceit,
- crack,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- dirge,
- distich,
- dithyramb,
- double entendre,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- equivoque,
- expression,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- gibe,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- haiku,
- happy thought,
- idyll,
- jeu de mots,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- maxim,
- monody,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- narrative poem,
- nasty crack,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- oracle,
- palinode,
- paronomasia,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- persiflage,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- play of wit,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- poem,
- precept,
- prescript,
- prothalamium,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- pun,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- rhyme,
- riposte,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- sally,
- satire,
- saw,
- saying,
- scintillation,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sestina,
- sloka,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- stock saying,
- stroke of wit,
- sutra,
- tanka,
- teaching,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- text,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- turn of phrase,
- turn of thought,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- corruption
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- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) related words >
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- abjection,
- abomination,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- adulteration,
- alienation,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- antiphrasis,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- bane,
- barbarism,
- bastardizing,
- befouling,
- befoulment,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- blight,
- brainwashing,
- breakup,
- bribery,
- bribery and corruption,
- bribing,
- cacoepy,
- cacology,
- calembour,
- carrion,
- college of Laputa,
- colloquialism,
- contamination,
- corrosion,
- corruptedness,
- corruptness,
- counterindoctrination,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- crying evil,
- cutting,
- damage,
- dandruff,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- defilement,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- demoralization,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- deviousness,
- dilapidation,
- dilution,
- dishonesty,
- dishonor,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- dissoluteness,
- dissolution,
- doctoring,
- envenoming,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- evasiveness,
- evil,
- excrement,
- false coloring,
- feloniousness,
- festering,
- filth,
- fortifying,
- foul matter,
- fouling,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- furfur,
- gammacism,
- gangrene,
- graft,
- grievance,
- harm,
- havoc,
- hurt,
- ill,
- improbity,
- impropriety,
- indirection,
- indoctrination,
- infection,
- infelicity,
- injury,
- jeu de mots,
- lacing,
- lambdacism,
- localism,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- mess,
- metagram,
- mildew,
- mischief,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misinterpretation,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mispronunciation,
- misrepresentation,
- missaying,
- misspeaking,
- misteaching,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- mold,
- moral pollution,
- moral turpitude,
- muck,
- mucus,
- mystification,
- mytacism,
- obfuscation,
- obscenity,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- ordure,
- outrage,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- palindrome,
- paralambdacism,
- pararhotacism,
- paronomasia,
- perversion,
- play on words,
- poison,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- profligacy,
- prostitution,
- pun,
- punning,
- pus,
- putrid matter,
- reindoctrination,
- reprobacy,
- resolution,
- rhotacism,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- rust,
- scurf,
- scuz,
- shadiness,
- shiftiness,
- slang,
- slanting,
- slime,
- slipperiness,
- smut,
- snot,
- solecism,
- sophistry,
- sordes,
- spiking,
- spoilage,
- spoonerism,
- straining,
- subornation,
- subversion,
- suppuration,
- taboo word,
- the worst,
- torturing,
- toxin,
- trickiness,
- turpitude,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- ungrammaticism,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- venom,
- vexation,
- vitiation,
- vulgarism,
- watering,
- woe,
- wordplay,
- wrong
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