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noun as in excerpt from document

noun as in authorization; enactment

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Suaalii chased down another kick-off as Australia got the second half under way and England were drawn into a game of open spaces, long passages and frequent turnovers.

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In 2012, the government of Rajasthan state sought the arrest of four Indian authors - Hari Kunzru, Ruchir Joshi, Amitava Kumar and Jeet Thayil - after they downloaded a few passages from the Satanic Verses and read them out at a literary festival in the city.

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After writing passages of his memoir, there were days where he had to be on his own “and go for a really long walk. It was a profound experience, and mostly a rewarding one.”

Granted, “Out of Time’s” earworm “Shiny Happy People” is gratingly banal, but the album also features spoken-word passages, brooding bass lines and ghostly steel-guitar drone.

Last October, she admitted she "should have done better" after it emerged some passages in her book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, had been lifted from other sources without acknowledgment.

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

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