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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈpɹaɪslɪs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /-ləs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-priceless.wav Forms: more priceless [comparative], most priceless [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪsləs Etymology: From price + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking, without’). Etymology templates: {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{suffix|en|price|less|pos2=suffix meaning ‘lacking, without’}} price + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking, without’) Head templates: {{en-adj}} priceless (comparative more priceless, superlative most priceless)
  1. So precious as not to be obtainable or sold at any price. Synonyms: invaluable Translations (so precious as not to be sold at any price): бясцэ́нны (bjascénny) (Belarusian), безце́нен (bezcénen) (Bulgarian), no tenir preu (Catalan), 無價 (Chinese Mandarin), 无价 (wújià) (Chinese Mandarin), nedocenitelný (Czech), van onschatbare waarde (Dutch), mittaamattoman arvokas (Finnish), inestimable (French), შეუფასებელი (šeupasebeli) (Georgian), ფასდაუდებელი (pasdaudebeli) (Georgian), უძვირფასესი (uʒvirpasesi) (Georgian), preislos (German), unbezahlbar (German), ανεκτίμητος (anektímitos) (Greek), felbecsülhetetlen (Hungarian), impagabile (Italian), incalcolabile (Italian), inestimabile (Italian), preziosissimo (Italian), senza prezzo (Italian), プライスレス (puraisuresu) (Japanese), баасыз (baasız) (Kyrgyz), impretiābilis (Latin), бе́сценет (béscenet) (Macedonian), ard-leagharagh (Manx), kāmehameha (Maori), uvurderlig (Norwegian Bokmål), uvurderleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), bezcenny [masculine] (Polish), inestimável (Portuguese), бесце́нный (bescénnyj) (Russian), неоцени́мый (neocenímyj) (Russian), neoceniteľný (Slovak), inestimable (Spanish), obetalbar (Swedish), oskattbar (Swedish), ovärderlig (Swedish), వెలలేని (velalēni) (Telugu), paha biçilemez (Turkish), безці́нний (bezcínnyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. (figuratively)
    Held in high regard; treasured.
    Tags: figuratively
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  3. (figuratively)
    (informal) Absurd, ridiculous.
    Tags: figuratively, informal Synonyms: rich
    Sense id: en-priceless-en-adj-gSf7CQeA
  4. (figuratively)
    (informal) Very amusing, hilarious.
    Tags: figuratively, informal
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  5. (figuratively)
    (informal, often ironic) Excellent, fantastic, wonderful.
    Tags: figuratively, informal, ironic, often
    Sense id: en-priceless-en-adj-ms1rFkIr
  6. (literally, uncommon) Without a price assigned; unpriced. Tags: literally, uncommon
    Sense id: en-priceless-en-adj-A9GuaLDG
  7. (obsolete) Of no value; valueless, worthless. Tags: obsolete
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pricelessly, pricelessness Related terms: costless, incomparable
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          "text": "Shall giue Theodoret to vnderſtand, / His ignorance of the prizeleſſe Ievvell, vvhich / He did poſſeſſe in you, mother in you, […]",
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          "text": "Mario told me of a hotel in which he had been, where a chambermaid stole a priceless diamond ring from an American lady. […] The chambermaid had a lover in the bakery, and he had baked the ring into a roll, where it lay unsuspected until the search was over.",
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          "ref": "Paul Krugman (2020 May 28) “On the economics of not dying: What good is increasing G.D.P. if it kills you?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-20",
          "text": "This trend reached its logical end in an op-ed by Paul Krugman, who flatly debunked the truism that human life was \"priceless\". The statistical cost of life was calculated all the time in transportation and environmental policy, he said: it was roughly $10 million.",
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          "word": "inestimable"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "šeupasebeli",
          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "შეუფასებელი"
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          "roman": "pasdaudebeli",
          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "ფასდაუდებელი"
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          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "უძვირფასესი"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
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          "word": "unbezahlbar"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "anektímitos",
          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "ανεκτίμητος"
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          "word": "felbecsülhetetlen"
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          "word": "impagabile"
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          "word": "inestimabile"
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          "word": "бе́сценет"
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          "word": "uvurderlig"
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          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "inestimável"
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          "roman": "bescénnyj",
          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "бесце́нный"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "neocenímyj",
          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "неоцени́мый"
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          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
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          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "inestimable"
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          "_dis1": "81 3 2 3 2 7 2",
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          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "obetalbar"
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          "word": "oskattbar"
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          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "ovärderlig"
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          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "velalēni",
          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "వెలలేని"
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          "_dis1": "81 3 2 3 2 7 2",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
          "word": "paha biçilemez"
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          "ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “Mr. Dick Fulfils My Aunt’s Prediction”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 470:",
          "text": "I do not hope that any love and duty I may render in return, will ever make me worthy of your priceless confidence; […]",
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          "ref": "1950 June 18, Philip Larkin, “To J. B. Sutton – 18 June 1950”, in Anthony Thwaite, editor, Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, published 1993, →ISBN, page 165:",
          "text": "If we part I shall be tormented by remorse at not having married. If we marry I shall spend my life mentally kicking myself for having so carelessly given up priceless liberty.",
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          "text": "Where the concrete approach of the realistic nationalists eventually led them is illustrated by the priceless story of how Charles Maurras had “the honor and pleasure,” after the defeat of France, of falling in during his flight to the south with a female astrologer who interpreted to him the political meaning of recent events and advised him to collaborate with the Nazis.",
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          "text": "“Duty, har, har,” Simon laughed, as if some laughing machine had been wound up inside him. “Laura would love that. Jesus, that’s priceless; he’s good on propaganda. Duty! God, Laura will love that when she comes.”",
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946, Kenneth Fearing, “Earl Janoth II”, in The Big Clock, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 65:",
          "text": "“You son of a bitch,” she exploded. “You talk. You, of all people. You. That’s priceless.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, Hannah Arendt, “The Dreyfus Affair”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif., New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973, →ISBN, part 1 (Antisemitism), page 110:",
          "text": "Where the concrete approach of the realistic nationalists eventually led them is illustrated by the priceless story of how Charles Maurras had “the honor and pleasure,” after the defeat of France, of falling in during his flight to the south with a female astrologer who interpreted to him the political meaning of recent events and advised him to collaborate with the Nazis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Edna O’Brien, chapter 17, in The Lonely Girl, New York, N.Y.: Plume, Penguin Group, published December 2002, →ISBN, page 155:",
          "text": "“Duty, har, har,” Simon laughed, as if some laughing machine had been wound up inside him. “Laura would love that. Jesus, that’s priceless; he’s good on propaganda. Duty! God, Laura will love that when she comes.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Absurd, ridiculous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Absurd",
          "absurd#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "ridiculous",
          "ridiculous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively)",
        "(informal) Absurd, ridiculous."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "rich"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1936, Lloyd C[assell] Douglas, chapter I, in White Banners, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, page 18:",
          "text": "Paul laughed heartily and said she was priceless, but Hannah remained so contritely straight-faced that his laughter sounded to himself as if it had just a trace of incipient madness in it, and he suddenly sobered, blinking rapidly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Esi Edugyan, “Berlin 1939”, in Half Blood Blues, London: Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 142:",
          "text": "Hell, those jacks was laughing and laughing like to wet themselves. Even Ernst had a smile on his face, shaking his head like he ain’t believed what he just seen. ‘Aw, Sid,’ Chip gasped. ‘Holy hell, Sid, you priceless.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very amusing, hilarious."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "amusing",
          "amusing#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "hilarious",
          "hilarious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively)",
        "(informal) Very amusing, hilarious."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1926 October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 3, in The Sun Also Rises, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1954, →OCLC, book I, page 22:",
          "text": "“And have you had a lovely evening?” / “Oh, priceless,” I said.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 August 30, Kurt Cobain (lyrics and music), “Heart-Shaped Box”, in In Utero, performed by Nirvana:",
          "text": "Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint / Forever in debt to your priceless advice",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Excellent, fantastic, wonderful."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ironic",
          "irony"
        ],
        [
          "Excellent",
          "excellent#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "fantastic",
          "fantastic#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "wonderful",
          "wonderful#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively)",
        "(informal, often ironic) Excellent, fantastic, wonderful."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "informal",
        "ironic",
        "often"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Nick Timothy, chapter 5, in Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism, Cambridge: Polity Press, →ISBN, page 120:",
          "text": "DeepMind, the British company discussed in chapter 2, was sold to Google for £400 million in 2014 without even a golden share for government. It is now priceless, almost certainly not for sale at any price.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without a price assigned; unpriced."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assign",
          "assign"
        ],
        [
          "unpriced",
          "unpriced"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally, uncommon) Without a price assigned; unpriced."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, “Upon Silvia. A Mistresse.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 20:",
          "text": "VVhen ſome ſhall ſay, Faire once my Silvia vvas; / Thou vvilt complaine, Falſe novv's thy Looking-glaſſe: / VVhich renders that quite tarniſht vvᶜʰ vvas green, / And Priceleſs novv, vvhat Peerleſs once had been: / Upon thy Forme more vvrinkles yet vvill fall, / And comming dovvne, ſhall make no noise at all.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905 September, Mrs. John Van Vorst [i.e. Bessie Van Vorst], Marie Van Vorst, “Mrs. Evremond”, in Ainslee’s: The Magazine that Entertains, volume XVI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Ainslee Magazine Co., →OCLC, page 78, column 2:",
          "text": "[H]e thought of his late friendship with anger and held it cheap, a priceless imitation for which perhaps he had given a pure jewel in stupid exchange.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of no value; valueless, worthless."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "valueless",
          "valueless"
        ],
        [
          "worthless",
          "worthless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Of no value; valueless, worthless."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹaɪslɪs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ləs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪsləs"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "bjascénny",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "бясцэ́нны"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezcénen",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "безце́нен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "no tenir preu"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "無價"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wújià",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "无价"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "nedocenitelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "van onschatbare waarde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "mittaamattoman arvokas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "inestimable"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "šeupasebeli",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "შეუფასებელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "pasdaudebeli",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "ფასდაუდებელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "uʒvirpasesi",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "უძვირფასესი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "preislos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "unbezahlbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "anektímitos",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "ανεκτίμητος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "felbecsülhetetlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "impagabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "incalcolabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "inestimabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "preziosissimo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "senza prezzo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "puraisuresu",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "プライスレス"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "baasız",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "баасыз"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "impretiābilis"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "béscenet",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "бе́сценет"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "ard-leagharagh"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "kāmehameha"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "uvurderlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "uvurderleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bezcenny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "inestimável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bescénnyj",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "бесце́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neocenímyj",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "неоцени́мый"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "neoceniteľný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "inestimable"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "obetalbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "oskattbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "ovärderlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "velalēni",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "వెలలేని"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "paha biçilemez"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezcínnyj",
      "sense": "so precious as not to be sold at any price",
      "word": "безці́нний"
    }
  ],
  "word": "priceless"
}

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