Methodical Sentence Examples

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  • There was something about the methodical way he set the table that was cute.

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  • Their movements were slow and methodical, controlled, deliberate.

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  • The deliberate dance was methodical.

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  • He was so calm and methodical during the whole business it made it that much worse.

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  • Hunting, extermination, as methodical and merciless as he knew himself capable of.

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  • There was something about the methodical way he set the table that was cute – yet utterly masculine.

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  • It were greatly to be wished that the official publication of treaties could be rendered more speedy and more methodical than it now is.

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  • His intellect was far-seeing and acute, quick and yet cautious, meditative, methodical and free from prejudice.

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  • Immured in his castle at Pavia, accumulating wealth by systematic taxation and methodical economy, he organized the mercenary troops who eagerly took service under so good a paymaster; and, by directing their operations from his cabinet, he threatened the whole of Italy with conquest.

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  • Musa, though angered by the disobedience of Tariq, hastened to the rescue and embarked in April 712 with 18,000 men, among them many noble Arabs, and began, advised by Julian, a methodical campaign, with the purpose of establishing and securing a line of communication between the sea and Toledo.

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  • His restless energy was that of a Charles XII., to whom in this respect he has justly been compared, while, unlike the king of Sweden, he was as careful and vigilant as the most methodical strategist.

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  • His diaries show a minutely methodical conduct of business, generous indulgence in hunting, comparatively little reading and a wide acquaintance with the leading men of the colonies, but no marked indications of what is usually considered to be "greatness."

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  • The arrangement of the book is, considering its circumstances and the date of its composition, sufficiently methodical.

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  • Accordingly his treatment of external rights and duties, though decidedly inferior in methodical clearness and precision, does not differ in principle from that of Paley or Bentham, except that he lays greater stress on the immediate conduciveness of actions to the happiness of individuals, and more often refers in a merely supplementary or restrictive way to their tendencies in respect of general happiness.

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  • While in a general way the reign of law and order in the movements of the heavenly bodies was recognized, and indeed must have exercised an influence at an early period in leading to the rise of a methodical divination that was certainly of a much higher order than the examination of an animal's liver, yet the importance that was laid upon the endless variations in the form of the phenomena and the equally numerous apparent deviations from what were regarded as normal conditions, prevented for a long time the rise of any serious study of astronomy beyond what was needed for the purely practical purposes that the priests as "inspectors" of the heavens (as they were also the "inspectors" of the sacrificial livers) had in mind.

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  • Instead, she watched a man many, many times her strength gently clean the blood from her arm in unhurried, methodical strokes.

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  • A competent, methodical assassin, she didn't make the mistake of trying to collect from someone not on the list.

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  • George Sand was methodical and had a ready pen, but she lacked the more essential qualities of a Parisian journalist,.

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  • Although these and other phenomena cannot yet be safely placed in a historical frame, the methodical labours of past scholars have shed much light upon the obscurities of the exilic and post-exilic ages, and one must await the more comprehensive study of the two or three centuries which are of the first importance for biblical history and theology.

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  • If, as seems probable, the continued methodical investigation, which is demanded by the advance of modern knowledge, becomes more drastic in its results, it will recognize ever more clearly that there were certain unique influences in the history of Palestine which cannot be explained by purely historical research.

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  • Most of the birds he describes are characterized with accuracy sufficient to enable them to be identified, and his observations upon them have still some interest; but he was innocent of any methodical system, and was not exempt from most of the professional fallacies of his time.'

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  • These laws, he added, exist in regard to all parts that offer characters fit for the methodical arrangement of birds, but it is in regard to the anterior palatal bone that they unquestionably offer the most evidence.

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  • Clauberg was one of the earliest teachers of the new doctrines in Germany and an exact and methodical commentator on his master's writings..

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  • Though Abulfeda as a late epitomator did not afford a startingpoint for methodical study of the sources, Reiske's edition with his version and notes certainly laid the foundation for research in Arabic history.

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  • The Russians strengthened their works around the captured forts in such a way as effectually to prevent farther advance, and the Japanese 3rd Army had now to resign itself to a methodical siege.

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  • One of the earliest attempts at a methodical arrangement of plants was made in Florence by Andreas Caesalpinus (1519-1603), who is called by Linnaeus Primus verus systematicus.

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  • His industry in collecting forms and examples is both great and methodical.

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  • By the methodical employment of these means we shall arrive at a text different from any existing one.

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  • Clear and comprehensive in the grasp of the general outlines of his subject, he was methodical and vivid in the representation of details.

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  • But he gives us much invaluable information for which we should search the more methodical chroniclers in vain.

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  • He rose and, with methodical patience, swirled the trench around him, placed the sword on the inside with an array of other weaponry, and then stalked to the door.

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  • Or - be very methodical about who you want to write for.

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  • That tone is not methodical or even logical, it does not arrange things in neat orders like a catalog or text.

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  • Each new enemy you encountered was a methodical treat and never failed to elicit a satisfied smirk.

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  • The best protection, ironically, is not so much technological as methodical.

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  • This type of methodical examination is described in detail on the fish health work-up pages.

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  • Enthusiastic pupils sat at his feet (see the Panegyric of Gregory Thaumaturgus), and the methodical instruction which he imparted in all branches of knowledge was famous all over the East.

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  • In his medical work he belonged to the "methodical" school (see Asclepiades), as a philosopher, he is the greatest of the later Greek Sceptics.

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  • They contain, under the title Doctrine of Democritus, a fairly methodical treatise in ten books comprising the Argyropoeia and Chrysopoeia of the pseudo-Democritus, with many receipts for colouring metals, making artificial precious stones, effecting the diplosis or doubling of metals, &c. They give illustrations of the apparatus employed, and their close relationship to the Greek is attested by the frequent occurrence of Greek words and the fact that the 1 An alchemistical work bearing the name of Ostanes speaks of a divine water which cures all maladies - an early appearance of the universal panacea or elixir of life.

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  • Modern medicine, like modern ?xperiscience, is as boldly speculative as it has been in mental any age, and yet it is as observant as in any naturalistic period; its success lies in the addition to these qualities of the method of verification; the fault of previous times being not the activity of the speculative faculty, without which no science can be fertile, but the lack of methodical reference of all and sundry propositions, and parts of propositions, to the test of experiment.

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  • Upon the convergence of the manifold lines of investigation rest all reconstructions, all methodical studies of biblical religion, law and prophecy, and all endeavours to place the various developments in an adequate historical framework.

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  • Similar results having been obtained with horses and asses, there is no escape from the conclusion that the telegony tradition is not confirmed by such methodical investigations as were suggested some years ago by Professor Weismann (see Cossar Ewart, The Penycuik Experiments, 1899) Telegony in Dogs.

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  • It goes without saying that one must be conscientious and methodical.

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  • Using a time management matrix is a highly methodical and organized approach to getting your schedule under control.

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  • The time management system explained by Stephen Covey is highly methodical and organized.

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  • Jazz may be about having fun, but it's also about being methodical.

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  • The ant, methodical and dutiful, planned and worked to have enough food for the winter.

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  • Whether you like fast and furious action or you prefer puzzle video games that are more methodical and cerebral in nature, you will surely find several free online casual games that suit your preferences.

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  • Whether you like fast-paced arcade action involving letter tiles or more methodical titles that put your vocabulary to the test, there is a free online word game for you.

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  • You can be the fastest person to clear rows and columns, but you never win against a player slow and methodical.

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  • Compulsive personalities are conscientious, reliable, dependable, orderly, and methodical, but with an inflexibility that often makes them incapable of adapting to changing circumstances.

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  • Some describe the new school hip hop dancing as more "aggressive" and methodical in its movements, while also including such signature moves like krumping.

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  • Remember that feng shui is logical and methodical, so you should seek an example that is in keeping with your overall architectural design and décor.

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  • With threading, you'll get a very straight brow line and because of the methodical, precise process, it's less likely that you'll end up accidentally losing half of an eyebrow.

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  • The key is to treat it as a free-for-fall; don't be methodical or exact in your styling.

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  • The type of person who will do well as a land surveyor is someone who is very precise and methodical.

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  • Specifically speaking, it's the painstakingly methodical process that they apply to their leather that makes these bags so sought after, and a lot of that has to do with softening the leather, so that it's just so.

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  • Positions that require attention to detail and methodical thinking attract this sign.

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  • They are usually studious, methodical and logical.

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  • Highly detailed oriented, Virgos are excellent at analyzing problems in a way that is logical and methodical.

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  • Book Late - While some people are very methodical and can plan well ahead for a trip, others are more spontaneous.

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  • When you learn how to drive a stick shift, you'll discover that even though the process can feel fast-paced while you're driving, it's very methodical and there's a strict procedure you can follow to do it properly.

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  • However, I definitely approach projects with less of a methodical, design process and more from an artistic, gut level than if I were trained as a web designer.

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  • Her reign (1730-40) was a regime of methodical German despotism on the lines laid down by her uncle, Peter the Great, and as she was naturally indolent and much addicted to frivolous amusements, the administration was directed by her favourite Biren (q.v.) and other men of German origin.

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  • Under the judicious regulations of his new tutor a methodical course of reading was marked out, and most ardently prosecuted; the pupil's progress was proportionably rapid.

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  • However, Nitzsch had not as yet seen his way to proposing any methodical arrangement of the various groups of birds, and it was not until some eighteen months later that a scheme of classification in the main anatomical was attempted.

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  • As it is, so much of them as we have are of considerable importance; for, in this unfortunately unfinished memoir, he describes in some detail the several differences which the sternum in a great many different groups of his Tropidosternii presents, and to some extent makes a methodical disposition of them accordingly.

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  • In mathematics, he was the first to draw up a methodical treatment of mechanics with the aid of geometry; he first distinguished harmonic progression from arithmetical and geometrical progressions.

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  • Nevertheless Hugo, by the composition of his Summa sententiarum, endeavoured to give a methodical or rational presentation of the content of faith, and was thus the first of the so-called Summists.

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  • He refers to de Maistre's memorable book, Du Pape, as the most profound, accurate and methodical account of the old spiritual organization, and starts from that as the model to be adapted to the changed intellectual and social conditions of the modern time.

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  • The first of these is a methodical treatise, setting forth Machiavelli's views on military matters, digesting his theories respecting the superiority of national troops, the inefficiency of fortresses, the necessity of relying upon infantry in war, and the comparative insignificance of artillery.

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  • His idea of applying the natural history method of classification to psychical phenomena gave scientific character to his work, the value of which was enhanced by his methodical exposition and his command of illustration.

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  • The advance of Bilderling, however, necessarily methodical and slow in any case, had taken more time than was anticipated.

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  • Leipoldt (Leipzig, 1907), may also be warmly recommended; it is clear and methodical, and does not make the common mistake of assigning too much to secondary causes; the author does not forget that he is dealing with a sacred book, and that he has to show why it was held sacred.

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  • He repeated his challenge in 1560, and Dr Henry Cole took it up. The chief result was Jewel's Apologia ecclesiae Anglicanae, published in 1562, which in Bishop Creighton's words is "the first methodical statement of the position of the Church of England against the Church of Rome, and forms the groundwork of all subsequent controversy."

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  • Condensed in the highest degree, the diary is yet easy to read when the style is once mastered, and it is a great help to the understanding of his cold, methodical, unimpassioned character.

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  • Giovanni Villani, the first chronicler who used Italian for the compilation of a methodical history, tells us how he was impelled to write by musing on the ruins of Rome and thinking of the vanished greatness of the Latin race.

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  • In the fields of classical learning the students of the Low Countries broke new ground chiefly by methodical collection, classification and comprehensive criticism of previously accumulated stores.

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  • The thrifty and methodical habits of the French peasantry, and also the system of small holdings which prevails in France, have, there is little doubt, done much to raise the French wine industry to the pre-eminent position which it holds.

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  • Towards the middle of the 6th century a Carthaginian deacon, Fulgentius Ferrandus, drew up a Breviatio canonum, 2 a methodical arrangement of the African collection, in the order of the subjects.

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  • Returning to Paris, he was received with a popular ovation; but he was out of sympathy with the extremists in power, his old-fashioned methodical method of conducting war exposed him to the criticism of the ardent Jacobins, and a defeat would mean the end of his career.

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  • You will be highly methodical in nature with great attention to detail.

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  • I'd say we are not actually blind, just fighting against massive psychological warfare, too subtle, too methodical to perceive.

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  • I love watching Moo play the cookie part - she is so methodical!

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  • Work at the depot was extremely methodical just like in a modern Royal Mail sorting office.

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  • They tend to be methodical, and they pay attention to small details.

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  • Monkey's playful nature can aggravate the Snake's methodical nature.

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  • He has a precise way of doing things and when it comes to love, he's just as methodical as he is in the other areas of his life.

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  • They've spent too much time thinking about what they might do and have become bogged down in the methodical process of contemplating and analyzing the whole picture.

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  • A minute knowledge of printed books and a methodical examination of departmental and communal archives furnished him with material for a long course of successful lectures, which gave rise to some important works on municipal history and led to a great revival of interest in the origins and significance of the urban communities in France.

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  • This manual united all the advantages of scientific depth, methodical arrangement and popular style.

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  • What the moderns had achieved consisted in an advance in accuracy and methodical completeness.

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  • Rymer's Foedera was published, under the orders of the government, in twenty volumes, from 1704 to 1732; but for methodical collections of the earlier British treaties we are indebted to private enterprise, which produced three volumes in 1710-1713, republished with a fourth volume in 1732.

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  • The whole system of methodical exercises was started by Ling in Sweden, but it has been developed to a large extent for the purpose of increasing muscular strength by the professional athlete Sandow.

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  • He was strangely unlike the commanders of his time in many respects, though as a matter of course he was, when he saw fit to follow the accepted rules, equal to any in careful and methodical strategy.

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  • The widespread belief, he admitted, "may be justifiable and founded on fact," but he was careful to add that "only the confirmation of the tradition by methodical investigation, in this case by experiment, could raise telegony to the rank of a fact."

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  • Dasent's Burnt Njal is a model of methodical investigation into an intricate and somewhat important subject.

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  • His examination of archives during his travels had awakened in him a taste for historical research, and under his rule St Blasien became a notable centre of the methodical study of history; it was here that Marquard Herrgott wrote his Monuments domus Austriacae, of which the first two volumes were edited, for the second edition, by Gerbert, who also published a Codex epistolaris Rudolphi I., Romani regis (1772) and De Rudolpho Suevico comite de Rhinfelden, duce et rege, deque ejus familia (1785).

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  • Sir Sackville Carden, the British commander-in-chief in those waters, proposed that a fleet should try to destroy the Ottoman forts in the Straits and to clear away the mine-fields sown in the channel, by adopting a process of methodical advance.

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  • Some crystallizers are made entirely cylindrical, and are connected to the condenser of the vacuum pan; in order to maintain a partial vacuum in them, some are fitted with cold-water pipes to cool them and with steam pipes to heat them, and some are left open to the atmosphere at the top. But the efficiency of all depends on the process of almost imperceptible yet continuous evaporation and the methodical addition of syrup, and not on the idiosyncrasies of the experts who manage them; and there is no doubt that in large commercial processes of manufacture the simpler the apparatus used for obtaining a desired result, and the more easily it is understood, the better it will be for the manufacturer.

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  • A collection in which the texts are simply reproduced in their chronological order is obviously inconvenient; towards 550, Johannes Scholasticus, patriarch of Constantinople, drew up a methodical classification of them under fifty heads.

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