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"text": "“We’ll find a home among the Fremen,” Paul said, “where your Missionaria Protectiva has bought us a bolt hole.”\nThey’ve prepared a way for us in the desert, Jessica told herself. But how can he know of the Missionaria Protectiva?",
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"ref": "2023 September 24, Carole Cadwalladr, “‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech”, in The Observer, →ISSN",
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"word": "tanière"
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"word": "havre de paix"
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