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  • Smiled, despite it all, despite the sinister sound of what he'd just announced.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • A few weeks back, Wes and three of his friends had gone to a tattoo parlor in Baltimore and all gotten the same design permanently inked on their bodies: a black devil's head with horns and sinister eyes.   (source)
  • "In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill," read the module's introduction, "lies the sinister TOMB OF HORRORS."   (source)
    sinister = evil or frightening
  • Lest I got cocky about my abilities to manipulate him, I received at that moment a quiet but sinister warning about what I was up against.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • They neither spoke nor called to each other, the more sinister for that.   (source)
  • Around that corner, she thought, is a church, with a bench in front of it, and she turned a corner to see a church—much smaller than the one in her head, a sinister blocky little Gothic building of grey stone, with a jutting spire.   (source)
  • He no longer radiated a sinister heat, just the ordinary warmth of a body that had spent time under a duvet.   (source)
  • Whatever his intentions, Luther clearly relished the speculation about his sinister power.   (source)
    sinister = frightening
  • Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard.   (source)
    sinister = evil or frightening
  • John Hammond's about as sinister as Walt Disney.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • Encircled by an electric fence with imposing metal gates, Emalia now had a sinister look.   (source)
  • The air swarms with it day and night, a great, sad, sinister Ukrainian static that seems to have been here long before humans figured out how to hear it.   (source)
  • Thin-Face dashed into the room, his face lit with a sinister smile of victory.   (source)
  • This was sinister and lonely, as well as unlikely.   (source)
  • An evil forest was, therefore, alive with sinister forces and powers of darkness.   (source)
  • All this takes less than a minute, with Lord Provos transforming the Spiral Garden into something much more sinister.   (source)
    sinister = dangerous and frightening
  • Yoren was stooped and sinister, his features hidden behind a beard as black as his clothing, but he seemed as tough as an old root and as hard as stone.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • I sighed, beating him to the punch, and his dark, sinister smile told me I was right.   (source)
  • The music grew louder and more sinister as he told the story of her cells: "These cells have transformed modern medicine."   (source)
  • All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was.   (source)
  • The way he said it, stirring sounded absolutely sinister—like it should be a first-degree felony, not something you did to cookie dough.   (source)
  • They expected Dr. Orwell to be a much more sinister figure—Count Olaf in disguise, for instance, or one of his terrifying associates.   (source)
  • "Indonesian," he said, with a sinister smile.   (source)
  • Sinister, or something?   (source)
  • They're sinister-looking black birds that cry when rain's coming.   (source)
  • Artemis put on his best sinister face.   (source)
    sinister = evil or frightening
  • It gave Jack a curious shrinking feeling, as if his life force had dwindled to a mere spark while the hotel and the grounds had suddenly doubled in size and become sinister, dwarfing them with sullen, inanimate power.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • Krupp is never going to believe that sinister cafeteria ladies from outer space have turned everybody into evil zombie nerds.   (source)
  • The clowns and elephants painted on the wall were meant to invite happiness, yet the longer I looked, the more sinister they became.   (source)
  • He fought against the Shade's sinister thoughts, weakly at first, then more strongly.   (source)
  • I couldn't take my eyes off that sinister restlessness.   (source)
  • Or do I want something darker, more sinister, like the ability to kill without touching?   (source)
  • After all, if he was something… sinister, he'd done nothing to hurt me so far.   (source)
  • It was around this time we first heard of the rise of this sinister group who called themselves al Qaeda in Iraq.   (source)
  • THE DATE WAS APRIL 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63-65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it.   (source)
  • It was sinister.   (source)
  • Even the most amateur propagandist could conjure sinister implications.   (source)
  • It looks less and less like a motorcycle rut in loose dirt and more like a drainage ditch for some sinister black effluent.   (source)
  • It wasn't until much later that I saw how sinister the nickname was.   (source)
  • It must be the striking architecture, the high steep roof, the tall chimneys, the columns, the little flourishes here and there that are either quaint or sinister--I can't make up my mind.   (source)
  • And hard as Meggie tried to see something sinister about him, she couldn't, not in the pale morning light.   (source)
  • From behind the doctor's curtain, sinister voices murmured, interrupted by howls from savaged children.   (source)
  • His first impression was that the usually quiet shop was crowded: four men facing Nick Fleming, the owner, three of them huge and hulking, one smaller and sinister-looking.   (source)
  • "We?" said Jace, with a sinister delicacy.   (source)
    sinister = frightening
  • As so often occurs in these situations, I had become blind to the obvious - that is, until my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth: that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • Actually, it was the same thing that Jordan had been wearing, but on Jordan it looked sinister and criminal.   (source)
  • It was either from God, as absurd as that sounded, a cruel joke, or something more sinister from Missy's killer.   (source)
  • This is not necessarily sinister, I have had them before, usually from when I've fallen and someone has helped me up.   (source)
  • Then, as if out of nowhere, sinister black aircraft appear in the sky and the people run screaming away.   (source)
    sinister = frightening
  • Whatever was going on here, it didn't seem nearly as sinister as I had originally thought.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • She says she thought her husband was trying to poison her and that there was something sinister about the television set in their home.   (source)
  • Their love affairs were slow and difficult and were often disturbed by sinister omens, and life seemed interminable.   (source)
  • Attack has the sole purpose of tricking the opponent into a misstep, setting him up for the attack sinister.   (source)
  • The movement from this to his enquiry into Quality took place because of a sinister aspect of grading that the withholding of grades exposed.   (source)
  • I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more.   (source)
  • His lips twisted into a sinister little smile as Sinita bent down and untied me with her mouth.   (source)
    sinister = evil or frightening
  • This was something a little more sinister.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • The newspapers renamed them the Bear Gang, which sounded more sinister, more appropriate to the fact that on two occasions they had recklessly fired warning shots and threatened curious passersby.   (source)
  • In later years he would tour the country with Mr. Moto, the Japanese tag-team wrestler, as his sinister assistant Suki—karate chops through the ropes from outside the ring, a chunky leg reaching from under his kimono to trip up Mr. Moto's foe.   (source)
  • But I sort of got the idea that it was like some huge closet-dark and scary and sinister.   (source)
  • For a fleeting moment, the glassy stupor in his eyes disappeared, something twisted and sinister eclipsing it.   (source)
  • I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn't some sinister force dragging me toward death.   (source)
  • Anyone visiting the sheriff's office, three under-furnished, overcrowded rooms on the third floor of the county courthouse, could detect an odd, almost sinister atmosphere.   (source)
  • As terrible and sinister as the smugglers of north-west Iran might be, they could pose no dangers more frightful than those threatened by my husband.   (source)
  • They were everywhere, which explained how she met them, but why she brought them home with her was a somewhat more sinister question.   (source)
  • Blackcliff's students are on leave, and the scrape of my sandals is the only sound to break the sinister quiet of the place.   (source)
  • It looked sinister, and he radioed to Johnson: "GENE, I'VE GOT A FREEZER HERE."   (source)
  • And there were more sinister, unidentified sounds from further away; sounds of movement.   (source)
  • She was not without a healthy young woman's relish for this sort of admiration; but Shade Buckheath's proposal came with so little grace, in such almost sinister form, that she scarcely recognized it.   (source)
  • The cadet laughed through the bullhorn, which made him seem as sinister as Poseidon was with Odysseus when he kept foiling his attempts to get home to Ithaca.   (source)
  • Unclear was whether this was because the place was a broken-down dump, or for some other, more sinister reason.   (source)
  • It seemed strange, almost sinister, to see the U.S. coast marked in Russian.   (source)
  • After visiting Meena Hasina and Ruchira Gupta in Bihar, Nick crossed from India into Nepal at a border village crowded with stalls selling clothing, snacks, and more sinister wares.   (source)
  • Every time they passed Seabiscuit's stall, the horse lunged at them, mouth wide open, ears flat back, eyes in a sinister pinch, and he meant business.   (source)
  • And now I'm trapped here in a dark cave with some sinister force who only seems like a lost urchin?   (source)
  • Dust from the rotor wash gave the scene a misty, sinister appearance through his night-vision goggles.   (source)
    sinister = frightening
  • Not a sinister growl, not a snarl, not the sound he made when men came to check the electric meter or—God forbid!   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • At night, the cooking fires of squatters living in it gave the structure a sinister jack-o-lantern glow.   (source)
  • 'Where is he?' said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard.   (source)
  • I released him, watching with a sinister fascination as he floundered, moving up the center aisle as if he plowed through snow.   (source)
  • She was spoiled to death by her older brothers, by Severo, who preferred her to all his other children, by Nivea, and by Nana, who alternated her sinister attacks disguised as a ghost with the most tender of attentions.   (source)
  • In the candlelight, Macon looked sinister.   (source)
  • Looks sinister.   (source)
  • The gloved hands, the cane he held, the sinister, sneering face, the curled lip, the fierce fangs.   (source)
    sinister = evil or frightening
  • She was remarkably skillful at loosening them with her tongue, and in the midst of a broad smile would cause the uppers to drop down over the lowers in such a way as to give her face a sinister expression.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • His tools were distant cousins of the ones depicted in the book, but clearly designed for the same sinister purpose.   (source)
  • A monster of the most sinister kind, out of the FBI's reach, breaking the bones of the Republic of Texas's most innocent children.   (source)
  • A strange wave of excitement boiled within me as I peered out at the sinister light.   (source)
  • There was something in the brain that said: Sinister-looking valley + half-dead trees + ominous doorway = skulls in a bowl, or possibly on a stick.   (source)
  • Inside, where the wallpaper hung like dead skin, a great mahogany staircase stretched up to a sinister, deserted second floor, a floor that we never used, one that remained covered in a fine gray powder of dust, like old graveyard dirt, the whole time we lived there.   (source)
    sinister = frightening
  • I can't imagine another day with The Mother and her sinister games.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • They earnestly claimed to be the terrified victims of vicious harassment by a secret cult of Satanists operating in the city's parks department, or to know of sinister tobacco-industry executives who were plotting to lace baby formula with nicotine, or to be living across the street from a nest of spider-like extraterrestrials trying to pass as a nice family of Korean immigrants.   (source)
  • His name was Ajax, a twenty-one-year-old pool haunt of sinister beauty.   (source)
  • Given the road's sinister reputation, Max thought they'd enjoyed tremendous luck.   (source)
  • Mr. Thompson will put an end to those sinister forces whose purpose is to keep us in terror and despair.   (source)
  • Simon regarded the publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 as a "resounding victory" for descriptive linguistics and "seminally sinister" for its permissiveness.   (source)
  • The results will be annoying and maybe disbelieved by those who saw sinister forces conspiring to bring about the three crashes in rapid-fire succession.   (source)
    sinister = evil or threatening
  • He gave me a look that linked us as spiritual allies, resolute desperadoes in headlong flight from the false and sinister veneer of Charleston.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • Incidentally, that's a beaut; it's very sinister, very ominous.   (source)
  • But this time his voice was gentle and sinister.   (source)
    sinister = evil or frightening
  • If a faction isn't a majority, the majority can defeat its sinister views.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • At first I was scared, because, like on television, I thought it might be something sinister or menacing, but it wasn't.   (source)
  • But after only a few minutes of walking, my mind began to flash images that were much more sinister, the same images I was seeing when I tried to go to sleep night after night.   (source)
  • When Luna adopts a flag, I would like it to be a cannon or, on field sable, crossed by bar sinister gules of our proudly ignoble lineage.   (source)
  • She stared down at the scar and nodded her head with this sinister, fascinated grin on her face.   (source)
  • The Russians had sent up another Sputnik, No. 23, and something sinister was going on in the Middle East.   (source)
  • "It looks pretty sinister," he said.   (source)
  • When he saw it first, it was a dull and almost sinister red, with a few faint markings near its crown that he could not dearly distinguish.   (source)
  • So began, for Oedipa, the languid, sinister blooming of The Tristero.   (source)
  • Nor was there any pathology here, anything to do with sinister psychic repression which might have driven me to seek medical care.   (source)
  • Now it was sinister, bringing a fear that was none the less real for my knowing it to be irrational, to the accompaniment of sensory distortions that must have caused me to reel as I ran.   (source)
  • While she was noting these things and wondering at a sinister change which had come over the very noise the wind, Drinian cried, "All hands on deck."   (source)
  • Hostility between them went back to childhood and had many roots, some of them possibly sinister, others quite natural.   (source)
  • He laughed, then looked sinister.   (source)
  • Glancing to his left, he was astonished to glimpse the plump silhouette of the Brandenburg Gate three hundred yards away, and the sinister grouping of military vehicles at the foot of it.   (source)
  • There was a sinister glow over the village.   (source)
  • Gradually other children, Loomis and Maloney, attracted by the magnetic MacLains, played there too, all drunk with the attractions of an untried place, and a place sinister for the day.   (source)
  • Not sinister, but rather as a kindly teacher with a promising pupil) Rich; seriously.   (source)
  • The bend sinister of ostracism was the source of his hunger.   (source)
  • At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.   (source)
  • There was something sinister about it.   (source)
  • And Kino thrust the pearl back into his clothing, and the music of the pearl had become sinister in his ears, and it was interwoven with the music of evil.   (source)
  • It's odd because there's really no mystery about him except how he came to be born of such a very sinister family.   (source)
  • The 'Varsouviana' is heard, its music rising with sinister rapidity as the bathroom door opens slightly.   (source)
  • I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.   (source)
    sinister = foreshadowing harm
  • The cottage did not seem so remote and sinister at the edge of the wood as it had done before.   (source)
    sinister = evil, harmful, or frightening
  • But there was a difference, for beneath Rhett's seeming lightness there was something malicious, almost sinister in its suave brutality.   (source)
  • For some reason the notice gave him a reluctance to go, making the rough tunnel look sinister.   (source)
  • Simple motives took on sinister colors.   (source)
  • In the background of the picture, under a purplish tumbled sky flecked with sinister white like driven foam, flanking Willie, one on each side, were two figures, Sadie Burke and a tallish, stooped, slow-spoken man with a sad, tanned face and what they call the eyes of a dreamer.   (source)
  • And here she was, she reflected, feeling life rather sinister again, making Minta marry Paul Rayley; because whatever she might feel about her own transaction, she had had experiences which need not happen to every one (she did not name them to herself); she was driven on, too quickly she knew, almost as if it were an escape for her too, to say that people must marry; people must have children.   (source)
  • That sounds like an innocent occupation, but Cohn had read and reread "The Purple Land" "The Purple Land" is a very sinister book if read too late in life.   (source)
  • This seemed downright sinister.   (source)
  • …almost staccato, the plate unaware of what the complete picture would show, scarce-seen yet ineradicable: —a trap, a riding horse standing before a closed and curiously monastic doorway in a neighborhood a little decadent, even a little sinister, and Bon mentioning the owner's name casually—this, corruption subtly anew by putting into Henry's mind the notion of one man of the world speaking to another, that Henry knew that Bon believed that Henry would know even from a disjointed…   (source)
  • The sun was returning to his kingdom with power but without beauty—that was the sinister feature.   (source)
  • Barnard managed to exclaim, with desperate facetiousness; but the guides soon showed that their less sinister intention was merely to link the party together in ordinary mountaineering fashion.   (source)
  • And he darted away towards the dense and sinister darkness of the crowd.   (source)
  • From Yunnan in China, from the clattering bright bazaars, crept something invisible in the sun and vigilant by dark, creeping, sinister, ceaseless; creeping across the Himalayas, down through walled market-places, across a desert, along hot yellow rivers, into an American missionary compound—creeping, silent, sure; and here and there on its way a man was black and stilled with plague.   (source)
  • Suddenly she became still more sinister.   (source)
  • A long scar ran across one cheek and drew the corner of his mouth up in a sinister curl.   (source)
  • She said the words "my husband" as if no sinister associations were connected with them, and in a tone that seemed almost to sigh over the lost delights of her married life.   (source)
  • Yet he was far from sinister.   (source)
  • A few rays of light, a wan, sinister light, that seemed to have been stolen from an expiring luminary, fell through some opening or other upon an old tower that raised its pasteboard battlements on the stage; everything, in this deceptive light, adopted a fantastic shape.   (source)
  • But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.   (source)
  • The will to it and the sinister dexterity were alike wanting.   (source)
  • She was afraid of the man who was not there with her, whom she could feel behind this make-belief lover; somebody sinister, that filled her with horror.   (source)
  • If you played hide'n'go-seek, it wasn't hide'n'-go-seek, it was something else, something sinister.   (source)
  • The thirst for individual freedom had brought forth the bellicose cult of nationalism, which humanitarian liberalism called sinister, although it, too, taught the doctrine of individualism, but from a slightly different angle.   (source)
  • Was he the agent of others or had he some sinister design of his own?   (source)
  • But there was something more in him, barely hidden, a something personal and sinister, a deep of himself, an engulfing abyss.   (source)
  • This was a sinister reflection which she cherished.   (source)
  • All of these were sinister incidents; but they were trifles compared to what Jurgis saw with his own eyes before long.   (source)
  • The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torchlight on the face was sinister.   (source)
  • The loneliness and emptiness of those short streets (consisting, almost entirely, of low-roofed houses, self-contained but not detached, their monotony interrupted here and there by the dark intrusion of some sinister little shop, at once an historical document and a sordid survival from the days when the district was still one of ill repute), the snow which had lain on the garden-beds or clung to the branches of the trees, the careless disarray of the season, the assertion, in this…   (source)
  • She broke off suddenly as the sinister meaning of the assurance dawned upon her and she saw the awful confirmation of her fears in the other's averted face.   (source)
  • 'As I stared at this sinister apparition crawling towards me, I felt a tickling on my cheek as though a fly had lighted there.   (source)
  • There was a sinister struggle.   (source)
  • Like one of those sinister jokes that Providence plays upon one.   (source)
  • Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east, the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point, a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street.   (source)
  • There was a moment of sinister silence, then a multitudinous stirring of the leaves.   (source)
  • What they gave me above all was just the sinister figure of the living man—the dead one would keep awhile!   (source)
  • A robin peered down at the preparations from the nearest tree, and, not liking the sinister look of the scene, flew away, though hungry.   (source)
  • And men ask this to-day all the more eagerly because of sinister signs in recent educational movements.   (source)
  • He knits his thick gray brows and his eyes gleam with a sinister fire.   (source)
  • Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe.   (source)
  • The countenance of the Rabbi, theretofore open and friendly, became lowering and sinister, and he cleared his throat with a growl instead of a cough.   (source)
  • Very sinister reports of the position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors.   (source)
  • They had a sinister expression, under an old cocked-hat like a three-cornered spittoon, and over a great muffler for the chin and throat, which descended nearly to the wearer's knees.   (source)
  • It was a sinister apparition.   (source)
  • I will not deny that when I called to mind the sinister countenance of the person whom I met upon the staircase, on the day of my arrival at the house, I had no desire to oppose what I regarded as at best but a harmless, and by no means an unnatural, precaution.   (source)
  • All that the prudent Planchet had said to him the preceding evening about the sinister character of the old man recurred to the mind of d'Artagnan, who looked at him with more attention than he had done before.   (source)
  • And as for the vague something — was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression?   (source)
  • He cast a sinister look at the little flame which I had enticed to play between the ribs, swept the cat from its elevation, and bestowing himself in the vacancy, commenced the operation of stuffing a three-inch pipe with tobacco.   (source)
  • …it will,—if, there, serfdom, and all unjust and oppressive social inequalities, are done away; and if they, as France and England have done, acknowledge our position,—then, in the great congress of nations, we will make our appeal, and present the cause of our enslaved and suffering race; and it cannot be that free, enlightened America will not then desire to wipe from her escutcheon that bar sinister which disgraces her among nations, and is as truly a curse to her as to the enslaved.   (source)
  • Is there nothing dark or sinister anywhere?   (source)
  • It is not that you are selfish, brutal, and angry at the failure of a speculation—no, no—it is that your partner has led you into it by the basest treachery and with the most sinister motives.   (source)
  • Arthur winced under this speech, for keen old Mrs. Irwine's opinion about him had the disagreeable effect of a sinister omen.   (source)
  • Something whispers to me not to depend too much on the prospect that is opened before us, but I will not listen to such a sinister voice.   (source)
  • But we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion, a word of narrow and often sinister meaning, and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.   (source)
  • All these conjectures passed from Hutter to Hurry, the former appearing disposed to regard the omen as a little sinister, while the latter treated it with his usual reckless disdain.   (source)
  • …dark eyes, told in every glance a history of difficulties subdued, and dangers dared, and seemed to challenge opposition to his wishes, for the pleasure of sweeping it from his road by a determined exertion of courage and of will; a deep scar on his brow gave additional sternness to his countenance, and a sinister expression to one of his eyes, which had been slightly injured on the same occasion, and of which the vision, though perfect, was in a slight and partial degree distorted.   (source)
  • The people in democratic states does not mistrust the members of the legal profession, because it is well known that they are interested in serving the popular cause; and it listens to them without irritation, because it does not attribute to them any sinister designs.   (source)
  • So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable.   (source)
  • The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives.   (source)
  • …difficulties in holding hereditary states, and those long accustomed to the family of their prince, than new ones; for it is sufficient only not to transgress the customs of his ancestors, and to deal prudently with circumstances as they arise, for a prince of average powers to maintain himself in his state, unless he be deprived of it by some extraordinary and excessive force; and if he should be so deprived of it, whenever anything sinister happens to the usurper, he will regain it.   (source)
  • How likely, if we allow this lunatic attack by that sinister fool Ares?   (source)
  • Roger knew the Sinisters.†   (source)
  • People who had hardly noticed his resemblance to Henry Fonda before now never ceased discussing it, and there were even those who hinted sinisterly that Major Major had been elevated to squadron commander because he resembled Henry Fonda.†   (source)
  • The storm clouds look sinister.
    sinister = threatening
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  • He passes it over her face, down her throat; then he adds the left hand, the sinister hand, using both together, tenderly, as if picking a lock of the utmost fragility, a lock made of silk.   (source)
    sinister = left
  • To this day, radical thought was considered left wing, irrational thought was left brain, and anything evil, sinister.   (source)
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