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"text": "After all, they never come home for Christmas.",
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"text": "Of course he won't give you credit. After all, his first and last concern is his company's profit margin.",
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"text": "“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all.—I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.”",
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"text": "After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.",
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"text": "8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe\nI’d prefer to keep things straightforward and stick in the lovely, tasty yolks, too. After all, there’s no such thing as too rich when it comes to brownies."
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"sense": "anyway, in any case",
"word": "tutal"
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"word": "آخر"
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"word": "després de tot"
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