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Gaga collected four awards on the night including artist of the year, fending off competition from Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar who were all absent from this year's slightly muted event.

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Left to fend for themselves, emperor penguin chicks must eventually take a leap into the icy ocean for their first attempt at feeding.

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Soldiers rehearsed fending off enemy troops on the mass transit system, expressways and city suburbs.

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"That just never came. Most people just had to fend for themselves and try and find their own way off the platform," he says.

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Cameron said that while he was trying to fend off his attacker, he saw his colleagues also face a barrage of attacks from the other assailants.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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