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"word": "muffin worry"
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"word": "stud muffin"
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"1": "zh",
"2": "瑪芬",
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"expansion": "→ Chinese: 瑪芬／玛芬 (mǎfēn)",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "→ Chinese: 瑪芬／玛芬 (mǎfēn)"
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"expansion": "→ Danish: muffin",
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"text": "→ Danish: muffin"
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"expansion": "→ Esperanto: mafino",
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"text": "→ Esperanto: mafino"
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"1": "fi",
"2": "muffini",
"3": "muffinssi",
"4": "muffinsi",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi"
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"1": "fr",
"2": "muffin",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ French: muffin",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "→ French: muffin"
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"1": "de",
"2": "Muffin",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ German: Muffin",
"name": "desc"
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],
"text": "→ German: Muffin"
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"1": "ja",
"2": "マフィン",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "mafin"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)"
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"1": "ko",
"2": "머핀",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)"
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"2": "muffins",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins"
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"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "muffin",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Polish: muffin",
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"text": "→ Polish: muffin"
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"1": "pt",
"2": "muffin",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Portuguese: muffin",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: muffin"
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"1": "ru",
"2": "ма́ффин",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)",
"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)"
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"1": "sv",
"2": "muffins",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Swedish: muffins",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "→ Swedish: muffins"
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"2": "מאָפֿין",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)",
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"text": "→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "flattish bun, English muffin",
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"masculine"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "flattish bun, English muffin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "proziak"
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"text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:muffin."
}
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"A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert)."
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[
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"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"word": "մաֆին"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"word": "mafino"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"word": "muffini"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"word": "kuppikakku"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"word": "vuokaleivos"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "muffin"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Muffin"
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"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "muffins"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
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"masculine"
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"word": "muffin"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"tags": [
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"word": "muffinka"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "panecillo"
},
{
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"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "muffin"
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"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "mofin",
"sense": "cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"langcode": "en",
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"ref": "2001, JNLP and Java Web Start, Sun Developer Network, Technical Articles and Tips, 30 May 2001",
"text": "The name/value pairs provided by the PersistenceService are similar to browser cookies. The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs \"muffins.\""
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"A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine."
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"mathematics",
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{
"text": "I love you, muffin!"
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"Term of endearment."
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"(slang) Term of endearment."
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"Life",
"All topics",
"Human",
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"Nature",
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"ref": "1986, “Stuffin' Martha's Muffin”, in Frenzy, performed by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper",
"text": "I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin!",
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"Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muff."
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[
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"(vulgar, sexual slang) Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muff."
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"word": "vagina"
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"langcode": "en",
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"Ball games",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball."
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"(baseball, slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball."
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"baseball",
"games",
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"A charming, attractive young man."
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"(slang) A charming, attractive young man."
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"A small plate, smaller than a twiffler."
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"(dated) A small plate, smaller than a twiffler."
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
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{
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{
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") A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted."
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"(UK dialect, Northern England, especially Manchester)) A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted."
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"UK",
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"ref": "[1865, W[illiam] Howard Russell, Canada: Its Defenses, Condition, and Resources, London: Bradbury and Evans, page 149",
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"ref": "2005, Marlin E. Misner, editor, History of the Reagan Home: The Boyhood Home in Dixon, Illinois, page 35",
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"ref": "2007, Jane Sigaloff, The Romancipation of Maggie Hunter, Red Dress Ink, page 159",
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"ref": "2017, Carrie Ewin, Chris Ewin, Cheryl Ewin, “Lesson 5: Creating Text Posts”, in Facebook for Seniors: Connect with Friends and Family in 12 Easy Lessons, San Francisco, Caif.: No Starch Press, section “Viewing Your Posts on Your Timeline”, page 97",
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"ref": "2001, Nancy Huston, Dolce Agonia, Toronto, Ont.: McArthur & Company, page 102",
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"ref": "2009 August, Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day for Sorry, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, page 48",
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"ref": "2009 December, James Axler [house name; Nick Pollotta], “Prologue”, in Time Castaways (Deathlands), Worldwide Library, page 16",
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"ref": "2013, E[lizabeth] F[rancine] Winters, chapter 15, in Sharks and Minnows (book one of The Jolie Chronicles), Kenspeckle Productions, LLC, page 173",
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"ref": "2014, Terry Dowling, “The Four Darks”, in Ellen Datlow, editor, Fearful Symmetries: An Anthology of Horror, ChiZine Publications, page 117",
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"ref": "2014, David Mason, Walk Across Australia: The First Solo Crossing, Rosenberg Publishing",
"text": "Beers rested on bellies that muffined over shorts.",
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"ref": "2016, Adam Biles, Feeding Time, Galley Beggar Press",
"text": "It may have been Nurse Agnes’ looping signature that touched him off, or the way flesh muffined from the pumps of the fat lady that boarded the bus at his stop every morning: a spark is a spark, and one was as good as any other.",
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"ref": "1920, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 418",
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"ref": "1924, Edmund Vance Cooke, “Fat”, in Companionable Poems, page 183",
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"ref": "1990, Caleb Pirtle, The Land Where We Belong, Leisure Time Publishing, page 91",
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"ref": "1981 July 6, Joel Pitt, “InfoWorld Software Review: Micro-Painter: Apple Coloring Program”, in InfoWorld, section “Usefulness”, page 16",
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"text": "Second, any material that is indicated as 3.2 DOS must either be muffined to 3.3 DOS, or booted after using the Basics Utility to reconfigure your DOS to 13-sector.[…]DOS 3.2 is used in this mode, but files may be muffined to DOS 3.3 if desired.",
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{
"word": "meadow muffin"
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"word": "muffin cap"
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{
"word": "muffin choker"
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{
"word": "muffin cup"
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{
"word": "muffin-face"
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{
"word": "muffinless"
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{
"word": "muffinlike"
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{
"word": "muffin pan"
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{
"word": "muffin tin"
},
{
"word": "muffin top"
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{
"word": "muffin-warm"
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{
"word": "muffin worry"
},
{
"word": "muffiny"
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{
"word": "stud muffin"
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"name": "desc"
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],
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"3": "muffinssi",
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"1": "fr",
"2": "muffin",
"bor": "1"
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"1": "de",
"2": "Muffin",
"bor": "1"
},
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"1": "ja",
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}
],
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{
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"2": "muffins",
"bor": "1"
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"2": "muffin",
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"2": "muffin",
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"ref": "2009 August, Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day for Sorry, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, page 48",
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"ref": "2009 December, James Axler [house name; Nick Pollotta], “Prologue”, in Time Castaways (Deathlands), Worldwide Library, page 16",
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"ref": "2013, E[lizabeth] F[rancine] Winters, chapter 15, in Sharks and Minnows (book one of The Jolie Chronicles), Kenspeckle Productions, LLC, page 173",
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"ref": "2014, Terry Dowling, “The Four Darks”, in Ellen Datlow, editor, Fearful Symmetries: An Anthology of Horror, ChiZine Publications, page 117",
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"ref": "2014, David Mason, Walk Across Australia: The First Solo Crossing, Rosenberg Publishing",
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"ref": "2016, Adam Biles, Feeding Time, Galley Beggar Press",
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"ref": "1981 July 6, Joel Pitt, “InfoWorld Software Review: Micro-Painter: Apple Coloring Program”, in InfoWorld, section “Usefulness”, page 16",
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/En-us-muffin.ogg/En-us-muffin.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/En-us-muffin.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "muffin"
}
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