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"A single telephone line which is shared by two or more households."
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"ref": "2019 September 18, Michael Standaert, “China's young climate heroes fight apathy – and the party line”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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"ref": "2020 March 19, David Frum, “No Empathy, Only Anger”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "On the evening of June 21, 1941, American Communists went to bed subject to one party line. At the sun set, Britain was fighting an imperialist war against Germany, about which the United States must remain neutral. American Communists awoke on June 22, 1941, to discover the party line abruptly changed. Hitler had invaded the Soviet Union. Now the war was a struggle between democracy and fascism, one the United States must immediately join.",
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"(politics) The official policy of a political party or other organization."
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