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  • When the Bishop left the Count's bedroom, the Count was frozen in place by a torrent of emotions—by feelings of fury, incredulity, self-recrimination, and fear.   (source)
  • The rain, which was falling in torrents, added to the uproar.   (source)
    torrents = overwhelming amounts
  • I summed my side up with rare serenity in, 'The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.'   (source)
    torrent = overwhelming amount
  • Pathway's a bog, and the road's a torrent.   (source)
    torrent = flooded by rapidly moving water
  • In seconds it released a torrent.†   (source)
  • Ink spurted out of the diary in torrents, streaming over Harry's hands, flooding the floor.†   (source)
  • I was inside my head, the torrent of thoughts screaming that I had sealed my fate by not changing the Band-Aid for over a day, that it was too late, and now I could feel the heat and soreness in my fingertip, and you know it's real once you can physically feel it, because the senses can't lie.†   (source)
  • The torrent of one-dimensional strings continued for more than twenty Trisolaran hours before finally ending, though not because the strings had all fallen to the ground.†   (source)
  • A torrent of people had run out of the burning buildings the night before.†   (source)
  • He was a great river in flood, and I must have channels ready every moment to safely draw his torrent.†   (source)
  • Paul interrupted his mother's torrent of words and gestured for her to let Clara speak.†   (source)
  • My haptic suit did its best to simulate the sensation of torrents of falling water striking my body, but it felt more like someone pounding on my head, shoulders, and back with a bundle of sticks.†   (source)
  • When the going was good, when the rain was torrential, when the bags had as much water as I thought they could take, I filled the bailing cups, the two plastic buckets, the two multi-purpose plastic containers, the three beakers and the empty cans of water (which I now preciously kept).†   (source)
  • Silas sat up now, rubbing his stiff muscles, his emotions a torrent of incredulity, appreciation, and confusion.†   (source)
  • Shay was skimming just above the torrent, so low that she lifted a wake every time she banked.†   (source)
  • This provoked Tate, who unleashed a torrent of racial slurs and threats.†   (source)
  • The rain fell in torrents, like God had sucked up the ocean and spit it out over their heads in fury.†   (source)
  • Rain fell in torrents, and thunder rumbled across the sky like empty barrels rolling toward the horizon.†   (source)
  • I thought I had truly suffered from the spillover of Stargirl's shunning, but that was nothing now that the full torrent was turned on me.†   (source)
  • JURASSIC PARK Prologue: The Bite of the Raptor The tropical rain fell in drenching sheets, hammering the corrugated roof of the clinic building, roaring down the metal gutters, splashing on the ground in a torrent.†   (source)
  • We sat in the rain wiping it off our faces and listening to its sound on the tile roof and the gushing of torrents onto the ground.†   (source)
  • There is a sputter, then a torrent of bright music.†   (source)
  • The driver, who is way too young to have even a permit, whips the wheel back and forth to avoid the torrent of drones exploding all around us.†   (source)
  • The torrent overflowed the gutters, and a curtain of rainwater leaped off the roof.†   (source)
  • Then words came in a torrent, and she lost him.†   (source)
  • For days and nights together it poured down in violent torrents, and washed away the yam heaps.†   (source)
  • Our main communications dish, which relayed signals from the Hab to Hermes, acted like a parachute, getting torn from its foundation and carried with the torrent.†   (source)
  • He saw a slice of Yugoslavia where thatched-roofed dwellings on stilts gave way to rushing torrents of water from below.†   (source)
  • Over its massive western shoulder flowed the ghost torrent of Alyssa's Tears.†   (source)
  • She crested the hill, reveling in the rush of escape, of freedom, of power—and then the torrent began.†   (source)
  • He let loose a torrent that knocked them all backward.†   (source)
  • And I had let rip such an eyewatering torrent of filth that even Hobie —not understanding a word — had leaned back laughing with his hands over his ears.†   (source)
  • Patricia says she's sorry and I'm sorry too so she reads me part of another poem which I have to remember so I can say it back to her early in the morning or late at night when there are no nuns or nurses about, The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding Riding riding The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.†   (source)
  • The traffic was a torrent that swept us onto the bridge before we could pull over.†   (source)
  • The Rao Bravo, as it is called here, is swollen with rain, a torrent of water coursing toward the Gulf of Mexico.†   (source)
  • She stirred and lifted her wing to admit a torrent of sunshine.†   (source)
  • The torrent had swamped the flat bed and the seeds rushed out like runaway boats.†   (source)
  • Most of the handwriting was smeared, by torrential rain, I supposed, and I could make out only a few words.†   (source)
  • It comes in a torrent and this time it doesn't let up.†   (source)
  • Gymnosperms two hundred meters tall bent and whipped before the coming torrent.†   (source)
  • Gina tapped Mae's screen and Mae's InnerCircle stream became a torrent of messages pouring down the monitor.†   (source)
  • Then a sudden torrent greets me as I pump along a narrow section of Route 119.†   (source)
  • Whispers of morning, whispers of night, children without faces tormenting with a word, descending like a torrent of leaves, like the blaze of dawn.†   (source)
  • In her worst moments, when she cannot help being swallowed up by a torrent of self-loathing, Parwana thinks that perhaps the cord knew best.†   (source)
  • At first Frances didn't seem to understand, but then she released a frightened-sounding torrent of words.†   (source)
  • Elinor screamed and directed a torrent of curses at Basta that Meggie had never even heard before, but she herself could not move.†   (source)
  • A CONFLUENCE OF PATHS Two roads diverged in the middle of my life, I heard a wise man say I took the road less traveled by And that's made the difference every night and every day —Larry Norman (with apologies to Robert Frost) March unleashed a torrent of rainfall after an abnormally dry winter.†   (source)
  • Words seemed to be pouring out of Alec in a torrent, while his parents looked on in confusion.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza felt that his old age was not a rushing torrent but a bottomless cistern where his memory drained away.†   (source)
  • I cringed, waiting for the torrent, but it didn't come.†   (source)
  • They crossed the small torrent of the creek below their tree and followed the path down the hillside.†   (source)
  • And now the rain came down in torrents.†   (source)
  • I remembered a worrisome course in the Victorian novel where woman after woman died, palely and nobly, in torrents of blood, after a difficult childbirth.†   (source)
  • At Bonao the torrential rains start again and the windshield wipers can't keep pace with the waves of water washing over us.†   (source)
  • It had stayed with Bobby, her memory of the river's source, and since her death…Well, he couldn't explain it, but whenever he looked at the Arkansas, it was for an instant transformed, and what he saw was not a muddy stream meandering across the Kansas plains, but what Nancy had described-a Colorado torrent, a chilly, crystal trout river speeding down a mountain valley.†   (source)
  • He stood up as the group in front of them sank the last ball, and started feeding the quarters to the table, until it released a colorful torrent of stripes and solids.†   (source)
  • The puzzled menagerie men and a handful of others stood outside, their ears pressed to the seams of the great canvas tent as a torrent of angry screaming began.†   (source)
  • …at your brain, jump inside want to scream troops of tapping feet fall into rhythm, marking time, right between your eyes get the urge to dance louder, louder, ultra gray-matter power, shock waves of energy mushroom inside your head you want to let go detonate, annihilate barriers, bring down the walls, unleashing floodwaters, freeing long-captive dreams to ride the current through arteries and capillaries, pulsing, rushing, raging torrents pounding against your heart sweeping you away.†   (source)
  • Her words come out in a torrent, as if she's been hoarding them all for this moment.†   (source)
  • Heavy clouds would then form as if by magic, and violent thunderstorms would drop torrents of rain.†   (source)
  • From what Blackberry had told them, they had been almost expecting to find Fiver foretelling doom in a poetic torrent.†   (source)
  • 0 torrents of rain, in Nyx's name I do call thee forth.†   (source)
  • Now, it was seven sharp, and our first arrivals were still sitting in their cars, optimistically waiting for a break in the torrential downpour.†   (source)
  • An exhausted Chamberlin came to the Randolph Street Bridge and discovered "a torrent of humanity pouring over the bridge.†   (source)
  • Lightning started hitting the ground, and it rained torrents.†   (source)
  • He wants to hurry to a lavatory, a zinc-lined room with a bar of untouched oval soap, a torrent of hot water and a swansdown towel that has never been used by anyone else.†   (source)
  • That morning Kelley packed up her belongings and joined the evacuating throngs heading west through torrential rain and howling wind on grid-locked highways.†   (source)
  • Torrential rain poured down relentlessly.†   (source)
  • For miles at a time this 'road'…is merely a ledge above a raging torrent.†   (source)
  • There were centipedes three fingers wide whose bite caused excruciating pain for a day, butterflies as big as little birds, thick and nearly impenetrable jungles, bottomless mangrove swamps, man-eating-crocodile-infested rivers, millions of insects, four types of rats larger than house cats, and heavy daily torrents of rain bringing enervating humidity.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger wondered what he would feel if that inky sky should split open and let in a torrent of light.†   (source)
  • I never even make it out the front door because the sky turns black before sunset and opens up in torrential rain.†   (source)
  • At the head of the glen a torrent flowed like a white lace over an endless ladder of short falls, and a mist of foam hung in the air about the mountains' feet.†   (source)
  • We are in the movie theater in a torrent of sound.†   (source)
  • Something was broken inside me when he said this; something ripped aside, so that a torrent of feeling became one with my muscles in every limb.†   (source)
  • I murmured without thinking, and I felt a tear roll down my cheek and then another and another until it became a downpour of grief, a torrent of sobs, a suffocation of nostalgia and sorrow that Transito Soto had no trouble understanding, for she had long experience with the heartaches of men.†   (source)
  • Sweat gushed from his neck in torrents and poured down over his chest and waist with the feeling of warm slime.†   (source)
  • Thunder rumbled, and the rain began to pour, in thick sheets and torrents.†   (source)
  • Relief and horror swirled through Vlad's veins together in a gale-force torrent.†   (source)
  • In a torrent of Tigrinya, with italinya thrown in, Rosina screamed at Genet and descended on us.†   (source)
  • He thought about Norberto and his lonely night at the hospital, and a torrent of memories came to him about his own mother.†   (source)
  • They faced each other in silence, Celine with drawn lips, Bethany trying to hold back a torrent of repressed feelings about what she summarily thought of as her abandonment.†   (source)
  • And although many of these unhappy people may still retain their loyalty …. the torrent of violence has been strong enough to compel their acquiescence till a sufficient force shall appear to support them.†   (source)
  • The door swung back with the wind as the woman opened it; she went outside into the torrential rain, pulling it shut behind her.†   (source)
  • She had used the torrent of media attention as an excuse to call a girlfriend.†   (source)
  • The cracking can free hidden water, letting in a torrent that floods the mine.†   (source)
  • Here and there among the torrent were slabs of exposed rock, washed clean of snow, and he tried to use them as stepping-stones.†   (source)
  • During his presentation, a torrential rainstorm fell and the black sounds of the duende shivered in the air with mystery and anguish and death.†   (source)
  • What she experiences is beyond her powers to describe, and even as torrents of joy surge through her and wash away all the countless griefs and miseries of her life heretofore, she is flooded, as well, with terror, for she is aware not only of the promise of a bright eternity but of expectations that she must strive to fulfill in all the days of life ahead of her in this world and in the worlds to come, expectations that frighten her because she is unsure that she can ever meet them.†   (source)
  • Without a word, she would turn and leave me before I was through, shutting off my torrent, so that my feelings, thus dammed, raged on in my chest.†   (source)
  • He braced himself for a torrent of angry words, but instead his father's voice sounded chillingly calm.†   (source)
  • Blood pours out of his head wound in great torrents, drenching her roses and his clothing and spilling onto the floor of the vehicle.†   (source)
  • She thought of a newcomer called Ellis Wyatt whom people were beginning to watch, because his activity was the first trickle of a torrent of goods about to burst from the dying stretches of Colorado.†   (source)
  • Though the free spirit of the new nation produced a torrent of slang and creative English (see the huge dictionaries needed to contain it), what usually found its way into print was strictly hemmed.†   (source)
  • Her words tumble over each other in a torrent of excitement: "You look beautiful!†   (source)
  • But frequently they come in torrents so violent that they do more harm than good.†   (source)
  • Soon rain fell in torrents.†   (source)
  • It wasn't enough for Alessandro to measure the proportions of a room with his eyes; he had to touch every wall and agitate from boundary to boundary as if he were a torrent settling into a pool, and in their tiny wooden-walled bedroom he bounced back and forth like a cannonball.†   (source)
  • All it took was the sight of each other for Jeannie and Amanda to dissolve in torrents of tears, and they stood on the sidewalk hugging while Mrs. Angell clucked sympathetically and clasped her purse to her bosom.†   (source)
  • And then she launches into a torrent of French against which Luke, I can tell, feels defenseless.†   (source)
  • The father believes his son is about to go under for the third time, jumps into the torrent.†   (source)
  • The rain was coming down in torrents, more like a summer thunderstorm than a slow and steady autumn soaker.†   (source)
  • What exploded from the man was a torrent of Quebecois too fast for even the Quebec native to understand.†   (source)
  • They overturned the great waist-high earthenware jugs; duck eggs, pickled fruits, vegetables burst out and mixed in acrid torrents.†   (source)
  • In the night the heaviest of the spring rains fell in torrents as the young vicar struggled with the one fact of his life about which no man has doubt and yet is never ready to meet.†   (source)
  • His eyes were as lifeless as billiard balls, sweat drained from his face in torrents.†   (source)
  • That evening they came to a bend in the lagoon, and rounding this, saw ahead of them the valley-end: a sheer precipice of granite, and at its base a dark tunnel out of which an underground river flowed in a smooth pouring torrent.†   (source)
  • An hour ago (he looks at his watch, prosaic) roughly (lyrical) after having poured forth even since (he hesitates, prosaic) say ten o'clock in the morning (lyrical) tirelessly torrents of red and white light it begins to lose its effulgence, to grow pale (gesture of the two hands lapsing by stages) pale, ever a little paler, a little paler until (dramatic pause, ample gesture of the two hands flung wide apart) pppfff! finished! it comes to rest.†   (source)
  • And on and on I went in a happy torrent of arcane baseball speculation.†   (source)
  • Torrential rains flooded the streets and driving winds swept through trees bent like old men.†   (source)
  • Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished.†   (source)
  • The house around him seemed to pitch and yaw very slowly, and the rain was still falling like floods coming down off the backs of mountains, settling in thick torrents of mud where a man might find God only knew what--huge eggs of unnatural production, hatching quickly in all this angry heat, strange creatures crawling out of them, howling on the hills.†   (source)
  • …slaying and eating the raw red flesh of her kill, crying out her great-throated cat-challenge, licking her fur with her broad, pink tongue, feeling the rain fall down upon her back, dripping from off the high, hanging fronds, coming in torrents down from the clouds, which coalesced, miraculously, in the center of the sky; moving with fire in her loins, having mated the night before with an avalanche of death-colored fur, whose claws had raked her shoulders, the smell of the blood…†   (source)
  • And all this expressed itself in a torrent of words, superfluous, utterly false, murky, profoundly alien to life itself.†   (source)
  • She collapsed by the verandah, head down in a torrent of tears.†   (source)
  • The Journal of Commerce was to remark in later months that "Webster did more than any other man in the whole country, and at a greater hazard of personal popularity, to stem and roll back the torrent of sectionalism which in 1850 threatened to overthrow the pillars of the Constitution and the Union."†   (source)
  • I'd a heap rather see it come this way than in torrents!†   (source)
  • (Reads) "The Church of England, that finest flower of our Island genius for compromise; that system, peculiar to these shores, the despair of foreign observers, which deflects the torrents of religious passion down the canals of moderation.†   (source)
  • He tried to hold his place in the torrent and recover his possessions, but the guard prodded him again and he was forced to move on barehanded.†   (source)
  • The energy came in torrents now.†   (source)
  • Could it really withstand high winds, torrential rain?†   (source)
  • Wind-driven torrents of rain obscured the Sea and rattled the leaded panes.†   (source)
  • And he lumbered out of the pub looking wretched, and disappeared into the torrential rain.†   (source)
  • Nights tilted sideways, run aground upon sandbars, in darkness and torrential rain.†   (source)
  • It gushed out in amazing volume, absolute torrents pouring from my mouth and nose.†   (source)
  • The motor launch pitched violently in the darkness and the torrential rains.†   (source)
  • But when Mr. Brown announced his decision a torrential downpour spread over the whole banana region.†   (source)
  • A torrential downpour did not keep 200,000 Bostonians from lining the parade route to applaud.†   (source)
  • Water was torrenting down the track up to the creek house.†   (source)
  • She pulled herself to her feet, soaking wet, covered with mud from her own torrential downpour.†   (source)
  • Still, she also assumed in the face of torrential bleeding that the child was long dead.†   (source)
  • Soon, hollow concussions echoed through the cirque, sending down torrents of loosened ice and snow.†   (source)
  • After midnight a torrential cloudburst came up.†   (source)
  • If that wasn't weird enough, he appeared to be sweating at an unbelievable rate—oily water poured off him in torrents and pooled in the river.†   (source)
  • The big gun detonates a third time, and glass shatters somewhere close by, and torrents of soot rattle down the chimney, and the walls of the hotel toll like a struck bell.†   (source)
  • Four fully grown, enormous, vicious-looking dragons were rearing onto their hind legs inside an enclosure fenced with thick planks of wood, roaring and snorting torrents of fire were shooting into the dark sky from their open, fanged mouths, fifty feet above the ground on their outstretched necks.†   (source)
  • He brings drought sometimes, followed by torrential rains, and if these things aren't always what I had in mind, they aren't my punishment either.†   (source)
  • We take no more than five steps before the wind comes howling, pushing us back, torrential rain stinging our faces.†   (source)
  • He was pale as smoke, and Harry could see right through him to the dark sky and torrential rain outside.†   (source)
  • The family watched footage of enormous waves, uprooted trees, whole towns washed grey with torrential rain.†   (source)
  • There had been a torrential downpour at the time, which seemed impossible now, considering the bright sun he'd seen shining behind the crazy man earlier.†   (source)
  • I looked around hopefully for my mother in the crowd, fully expecting to see her; for a short time I tried to swim upstream against the cop-driven current (standing on my toes, craning to see) until I realized it was hopeless to push back up and try to look for her in that torrential rain, that mob.†   (source)
  • Torrents of text conversations, tides of cell conversations, of television programs, of e-mail, vast networks of fiber and wire interlaced above and beneath the city, passing through buildings, arcing between transmitters in Metro tunnels, between antennas atop buildings, from lampposts with cellular transmitters in them, commercials for Carrefour and Evian and prebaked toaster pastries flashing into space and back to earth again, I'm going to be late and Maybe we should get…†   (source)
  • Perhaps the aging prospector understood the futility of trying to contain a torrential boy within the confines of a small town.†   (source)
  • It had been a few weeks since the last torrential storm, and anything that had regrown since the flares was parched.†   (source)
  • Where Prusias had struck the ground, Max saw gurgling torrents of crimson blood stream from the soil as though Rowan itself were a writhing, wounded thing.†   (source)
  • This face brought back the darkness and torrential winds in the night sky, explosions coming one after another, sounds of a staccato gunfire echoing through the myriad tunnels of a jungle.†   (source)
  • Its reinforced frame was bending, warping inward and allowing great torrents of heat and smoke to pour in.†   (source)
  • The storm that had battered the central Leeward Islands two nights before was only a prelude to the torrential rain and winds that swept up from the Grenadines, with another storm behind it.†   (source)
  • She stepped out of a torrential spring downpour, handing a speechless Summerset her transparent cloak strung with tiny lights, and turned three circles.†   (source)
  • Above them, swollen thunderheads gathered along the horizon, portending a torrential storm, and circling hawks uttered lonesome cries as they hunted their prey.†   (source)
  • The rain turns torrential.†   (source)
  • The creatures were running now, their ropy tentacles slapping at the ground while torrents of smoke billowed from their crowning backs.†   (source)
  • And if you should peck through that shell, what great and torrential light might shine through your hole at the end of space?†   (source)
  • McBain allowed the guests out of the cellar, and when dawn broke the storm had died away, replaced by the most torrential rain Salander had ever seen.†   (source)
  • He could not breathe— freezing rain and torrents of frothy seawater choked him whenever he gasped for air.†   (source)
  • The rain was torrential, pitting the sand, snapping into the floodlights that lit up the grotesque statuary of Repulse Bay —reproductions of enormous Chinese gods, angry myths of the Orient in furious poses, some rising as high as 30 feet.†   (source)
  • Max found himself thrown backward, lying on the ground, shielding his eyes from the torrents of green and gold fire that roared from— David's fireplace.†   (source)
  • He wanted to pour out to her in torrents of self-pity all his unbearable loneliness and despair and warn her never to leave the boric acid or the aspirin in reach of the children or to cross a street against the traffic light.†   (source)
  • It was moving day and night, the first trickles growing into streams, then rivers, then torrents-moving on palsied trucks with coughing, tubercular motors-on wagons pulled by the rusty skeletons of starving horses-on carts pulled by oxen-on the nerves and last energy of men who had lived through two years of disaster for the triumphant reward of this autumn's giant harvest, men who had patched their trucks and carts with wire, blankets, ropes and sleepless nights, to make them hold…†   (source)
  • Mike Strank earned respect by emphasizing the well-being of his young charges, at least to the extent possible in the face of torrential gunfire.†   (source)
  • Tears were streaming in single torrents from her flashing, hate-filled eyes as she struggled against him fiercely in an irrational frenzy of maddened might, snarling and cursing savagely and screaming 'Bruto!†   (source)
  • Torrents of energy suddenly rippled through Max, screaming through every blood vessel as though David had flipped a circuit breaker.†   (source)
  • That year, 1968, we had torrential rains; the Blue Nile and Awash had spilled their banks, causing flooding.†   (source)
  • He was so weary that things came, thoughts arose, and images appeared, in torrents, in whirlwinds that tore the air of memory as if it were the rattling foliage on the hillside.†   (source)
  • During the day the soldiers walked through the torrents in the streets with their pant legs rolled up, playing with boats with the children.†   (source)
  • In the bewilderment of passion she watched the ants devastating the garden, sating their prehistoric hunger with the beam of the house, and she watched the torrents of living lava take over the porch again, but she bothered to fight them only when she found them in her bedroom.†   (source)
  • The splash was cataclysmic, loud as a whip-crack, echoing round the encircling rock; the spray was torrential, like the collapsing of a miniature waterspout; and the concussion, in the confined, rock-bound pool, was overwhelming, like the explosion of a depth-charge.†   (source)
  • The lines of fire became flowing torrents, file upon file of Orcs bearing flames, and wild Southron men with red banners, shouting with harsh tongues, surging up, overtaking the retreat.†   (source)
  • They went downriver in a torrential rain, the young wife and the Bishop cowering under a poly-ethelene sheet.†   (source)
  • It came all at once and in a furious torrent, like God was mad and wanted to flood us out.†   (source)
  • A torrent of mud churned over the flames.†   (source)
  • But as the reality of the moment sank in, she found the words spilling out in a torrent.†   (source)
  • Right now, however, her fear had turned her mind into a tumbling torrent of panic and confusion.†   (source)
  • Grant plunged into the water after her, was again immersed in the churning torrent.†   (source)
  • She leaped into the red sauce torrent, rolling in it, lapping it up.†   (source)
  • Papa simply let the torrent rush out of Mack, waiting for the wave to pass.†   (source)
  • The reverberation circled the colonnade, followed by a sudden torrent of warm air.†   (source)
  • Eragon tried to control the torrent of memories, but the force of them was overwhelming.†   (source)
  • On the last word, he aimed his staff and shot forth a torrent of green water.†   (source)
  • Murtagh tossed a branch into the torrent and watched it race away, bobbing on the rough water.†   (source)
  • For an instant, their eyes met, and a torrent of emotions flowed-gratitude, desperation, and regret.†   (source)
  • A one-armed bunk master sets forth rules in a belligerent torrent.†   (source)
  • The thoughts that tore through Langdon's mind came as a torrent ….†   (source)
  • The masses streamed toward the basilica in a euphoric torrent of humanity.†   (source)
  • Torrent spied their sails from Littlesister, and before him the Flints from Widow's Watch.†   (source)
  • Ran let loose a torrent of Norse curses that literally steamed in the air.†   (source)
  • As the torrent passed through his fingers it turned dark green.†   (source)
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