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writ as in:  writ from the court

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  • She had a writ of habeas corpus, but the right was temporarily suspended in the troubled country.
    writ = an order issued by a court
  • Some contracts are writ in ink, and some in blood.   (source)
    writ = written
  • Stevenson, I'm calling to let you know that the Court has just entered an order in Case No. 89-5395; the motion for a stay of execution and petition for writ of certiorari have been denied.   (source)
    writ = an order issued by a court or judicial officer
  • I'll clap a writ on you!   (source)
  • "I must admit, Lewis, that it is highly unlikely that the judge will issue a writ for the blacks," Baldwin said.   (source)
  • When a writ of error is brought from an inferior to a superior court of law in New York, does the latter have jurisdiction of the fact as well as the law?   (source)
    writ = an order issued by a court
  • The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears blot out a Word of it.†   (source)
  • His part ownership of Emma's had drawn all of his creditors out of the woodwork, and they had pounced on the little bar with writs and lawsuits in the manner of depositors staging a run on a failing bank.†   (source)
  • Across the top of the flyer writ in big black letters were the words LIMITED ENGAGEMENT, then in little letters it said, —Direct from an S.R.O. engagement in New York City.†   (source)
  • Here, on the stained, uncarbolized pavement, the writ of Sister Drummond did not apply.†   (source)
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  • He told of the hemorrhages in the night, of Dr Clark bleeding him and prescribing "exercise and good air," and of the ultimate religious and personal despair which had led Keats to demand his own epitaph be carved in stone as: "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."†   (source)
  • The mayor shook his head and made no motion to look at our writ of patronage.†   (source)
  • From the Day Booke of Nicholas Flamel, Alchemyst Writ this day, Thursday, 31st May, in San Francisco, my adopted city THURSDAY, 31st May CHAPTER ONE†   (source)
  • One firm, Merchant & Co., which had supplied the iron for his kiln and vault, had gone so far as to secure a writ of replevin to take the iron back.†   (source)
  • His mind and body together made up a large-writ scripture of pain.†   (source)
  • In the report he submitted to the Kansas Supreme Court, Judge Thiele found that the petitioners had received a constitutionally fair trial; the court thereupon denied the writ to abolish the verdict, and set a new date of execution-October 25, 1962.†   (source)
  • It was writ all over him.†   (source)
  • As I faded into time's dateless night, I would say to the doctor, "The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on ..." and my soul would escape gracefully.†   (source)
  • Yes, shorting the bagel man is white-collar crime, writ however small.†   (source)
  • I wasn't interested in learning how to draft a motion or a writ of habeas corpus or other common jailhouse documents.†   (source)
  • Even though he had used his knowledge of the law to suspend Cuba's writ of habeas corpus, and even though the January 12 massacre was reported in the New York Times, Castro's Harvard speech was interrupted time after time by enthusiastic cheering and applause.†   (source)
  • He blamed his mother for insisting he take the case lest it be thought he was incapable of drawing a writ.†   (source)
  • They were written ....are writ-ten ....in the Books of Histories, but these Books are"—he paused here—"no longer available.†   (source)
  • For a lack of a specific writ, let's call it accessory to multiple homicide.†   (source)
  • We in the house of Denethor know much ancient lore by long tradition, and there are moreover in our treasuries many things preserved: books and tablets writ on withered parchments, yea, and on stone, and on leaves of silver and of gold, in divers characters.†   (source)
  • For all you know, one of those might be a writ ordering your execution.†   (source)
  • But Blondie was in disguise, really, all got up as a teacher, 'cause his baggage ticket had bigger things writ on it ....H.I. HI!†   (source)
  • I'm glad it's all writ down in the Book of Shaker.†   (source)
  • He had none of the misconceptions about wolves which, taken en masse, comprise the body of accepted writ in our society.†   (source)
  • These lines were writ By Morgan, free, Who shall, the day he dies, See this prophecy.†   (source)
  • Tell me more about your husband—'One writ with me in sour misfortune's book,' as Shakespeare says.†   (source)
  • To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support — to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective — to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.†   (source)
  • This rubbishy "Neuro-hypnotism," however beribboned with new terminologies, is only Mesmerism, or Animal Magnetism, re-writ; and that sickly nonsense was discredited long ago, as being merely a solemn-sounding blind, behind which men of questionable antecedents and salacious natures might obtain power over young women of the same, asking them impertinent and offensive questions and ordering them to perform immodest acts, without the latter appearing to consent to it.†   (source)
  • If they were citizens of France or England, I would issue writs of habeas corpus, Mr. Staples.†   (source)
  • Returning to the bar, drawing writs, arguing causes, taking clerks.†   (source)
  • If all the writs of mechanic's lien that have been levied on this structure were pasted on these three walls, the block would look like a mammoth circus billboard.†   (source)
  • With these arguments, Jenkins and Bingham succeeded in carrying the case three times to the United States Supreme Court-the Big Boy, as many litigating prisoners refer to it-but on each occasion the Court, which never comments on its decisions in such instances, denied the appeals by refusing to grant the writs of certiorari that would have entitled the appellants to a full hearing before the Court.†   (source)
  • By Adams's account, every one of the immense crowded audience went away, as he did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance.†   (source)
  • Because of this I will not grant writs of habeas corpus for either the men or the children of the Amistad.†   (source)
  • James Otis, in his famous speech on writs of assistance in 1761, had called for the immediate liberation of the slaves.†   (source)
  • A lifetime later, Adams would vividly describe Otis as he had been in his surpassing moment, in the winter of 1761, in argument against writs of assistance, search warrants that permitted customs offi-cers to enter and search any premises whenever they wished.†   (source)
  • Before the bench in the second-floor Council Chamber of the Province House in Boston, Otis had declared such writs—which were perfectly valid in English law and commonly issued in England—null and void because they violated the natural rights of Englishmen.†   (source)
  • In Braintree, as elsewhere in New England, much of town businesswas taken up with the commonplace problem of keeping one man's livestock out of another man's fields, and by long-standing custom most legal matters were handled by town clerks and officials who, though without legal training, were thoroughly schooled in procedure, knowing to the last detail all that was required for writs and warrants, matters about which, for all his reading, Adams knew little.†   (source)
  • He thought he'd best get his will writ down while he had the chance.†   (source)
  • Writ about their car in fancy letters it said, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE AMERICA TODAY!†   (source)
  • Death had come to Dome on raven wings, writ small and sealed with a blob of hard red wax.†   (source)
  • There's an axe out there with Piggy writ on it, fat boy.†   (source)
  • How do you know it's all writ down, Papa?†   (source)
  • Mr. King, they're shipping me out on a writ, to Chicago.†   (source)
  • My life was writ in red, in blood and wine.†   (source)
  • Our writ ran everywhere the sound of the waves was heard.†   (source)
  • Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.†   (source)
  • I will rule, however, that this court will entertain petitions for a writ of habeas corpus.†   (source)
  • I said I will rule on motions for a writ, but I am not ready to do so now.†   (source)
  • Baldwin finished by imploring the court to grant the writ of habeas corpus.†   (source)
  • But when the time comes to judge, to understand a betrayal which will spread like fame across the Web, which will end worlds, l ask you not to think of me-my name was not even writ on water as your lost poet's soul said-but to think of Old Earth dying for no reason, to think of the dolphins, their gray flesh drying and rotting in the sun, to see-as I have seen-the motile isles with no place to wander, their feeding grounds destroyed, the Equatorial Shallows scabbed with drilling platforms, the islands themselves burdened with shouting, trammeling tourists smelling of UV lotion and cannabis.†   (source)
  • Might I see your writ?†   (source)
  • Someone had took a pen or something and had writ on all five of them, but it was writ in a code so I couldn't understand what they meant.†   (source)
  • That name had alias writ all over it!†   (source)
  • Running acrost the top of it was a sign that was writ on a long skinny flag, it said, BOYS AND GIRLS-FOLLOW THE GENTLE LIGHT TO THE MISS B. GOTTEN MOON PARK.†   (source)
  • Underneath the picture someone had writ with a black fountain pen, "One Night Only in Flint, Michigan, at the Luxurious Fifty Grand on Saturday June 16, 1932.†   (source)
  • She showed me how to find Chicago on the line that was running across the page and Flint on the line that was running down the page and then to look at the number that was writ where the two of them joined up.†   (source)
  • Erased and writ-ten over.†   (source)
  • He was leaning forward, and an alien emotion was stamped on his face, writ too large for lies or denial.†   (source)
  • Why, I believe I'm you writ small.†   (source)
  • He looked to be adjuring him to read something writ there but there was nothing to see save the dents and dings occasioned by the ten thousand meals eaten off it.†   (source)
  • It contained the three of us, an Eminemlette, a cheerful six-foot-four giantess called Tiny, and a new Spanish mami named Inez who was also in Chicago on a writ.†   (source)
  • On the blades were writ the words Rodrik and Maron, and many a time they twisted cruelly in the night.†   (source)
  • Therefore we ask that if a writ is granted for the children it be accompanied by bail of one hundred dollars per child.†   (source)
  • "Even if we do not get the writ, I am confident we can cast enough doubt upon their case to unsettle their sureness of its outcome," Baldwin said.†   (source)
  • As counsel for Field, the plaintiff, Adams felt confident in his understanding of the principles of law involved, but worried that the writ he prepared was "unclerklike" and thus he would fail.†   (source)
  • Soon after beginning his practice, he had won a writ of habeas corpus and eventual freedom for a runaway slave.†   (source)
  • "Let me never undertake to draw a writ without sufficient time to examine and digest in my mind all the doubts, queries, objections that may arise," he wrote.†   (source)
  • Though he was not sure what new evidence the abolitionists would marshal, he assured Forsyth that a writ of habeas corpus would never be granted in his court.†   (source)
  • A writ of habeas corpus would only be an invitation for them to flee prosecution for their crimes of mutiny, murder, and thievery, prosecution for which should rightly take place back in Havana.†   (source)
  • The defense had divined what they could from the notes but had given more time and weight iristead to Pickney's Treaty, the Antelope case, and their proposal of the writ.†   (source)
  • The government is concerned that if the children or any of the other negroes are provided with a writ of habeas corpus, they will very quickly disappear, perhaps even against their will.†   (source)
  • To that end, I petition the court for a writ of habeas corpus for the blacks taken from the Amistad when it was boarded by the crew and officers of the 'Washington.†   (source)
  • "Your Honor," Holabird said, standing, "The United States urges that a writ is not granted for the children on the grounds that they are witnesses to the events on board the Amistad."†   (source)
  • Holabird closed by saying that issuing a writ of habeas corpus was ill-advised because it would pave a road for escape, a road that would most certainly lead these slaves away from proper justice under the laws of their homeland, Cuba.†   (source)
  • Granting a writ of habeas corpus would be denying rightful justice, as well as opening the door for mass escape, a course the slaves certainly would pursue in light of their previous actions of murder and mutiny.†   (source)
  • For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in that I cannot know thy change: In many's looks the false heart's history Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange: But Heaven in thy creation did decree That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell: Whate'er thy thoughts or thy heart's workings be Thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell.†   (source)
  • You know people send mother writs, don't you, uncle?†   (source)
  • On her return from her journey, with rents in arrears, or with some other violation of the contract as an entering wedge, Eliza would surge triumphantly into battle, making a forced entrance with police, plain-clothes men, warrants, summonses, writs, injunctions, and all the other artillery of legal warfare, possessing herself forcibly, and with vindictive pleasure, of her property.†   (source)
  • In the new law courts—for Fort Mayne was over—the lawyers were as busy as bees, issuing writs for attainder, chancery, chevisance, disseisin, distraint, distress, embracery, exigent, fieri facias, maintenance, replevin, right of way, oyer and terminer, scot and lot, Quorum bonorum, Sic et non, Pro et contra, Jus primae noctis, and Questio quid juris?†   (source)
  • He went to a drawer to secure some extra writs.†   (source)
  • "I wonder the writs haven't followed me down here," Rawdon continued, still desponding.†   (source)
  • Next he added: "The first thing to do will be to get Burton back here" (Burton being Burton Burleigh, his legal assistant, who had gone away for a week-end vacation) "and put him in charge so as to furnish you whatever you need in the way of writs and so on, Fred, while I go right over to see this poor woman.†   (source)
  • He complained vehemently about being imprisoned in defiance of his civil rights, asked by virtue of which law he was hereby detained, invoked writs of habeas corpus, threatened to press charges against anyone holding him in illegal custody, ranted, gesticulated, shouted, and finally conveyed by an expressive gesture that we were dying of hunger.†   (source)
  • When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.†   (source)
  • The idea of those Devonshire girls, among the dry law-stationers and the attorneys' offices; and of the tea and toast, and children's songs, in that grim atmosphere of pounce and parchment, red-tape, dusty wafers, ink-jars, brief and draft paper, law reports, writs, declarations, and bills of costs; seemed almost as pleasantly fanciful as if I had dreamed that the Sultan's famous family had been admitted on the roll of attorneys, and had brought the talking bird, the singing tree, and the golden water into Gray's Inn Hall.†   (source)
  • 'The writs will find me here.'†   (source)
  • Letters of reproach and invective showered in from the creditors; and Mr Rugg, who sat upon the high stool every day and read them all, informed his client within a week that he feared there were writs out.†   (source)
  • So then the king sent letters and writs throughout all England, both in the length and the breadth, for to assummon all his knights.†   (source)
  • When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.†   (source)
  • When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.†   (source)
  • Then came word to Sir Mordred that King Arthur had araised the siege for Sir Launcelot, and he was coming homeward with a great host, to be avenged upon Sir Mordred; wherefore Sir Mordred made write writs to all the barony of this land, and much people drew to him.†   (source)
  • Ain' Miss Pitty writ you an' writ you ter come home?†   (source)
  • I found it so strange and incredible to be looking on at all this, to be seeing the sacred writ, with its heroes and its wonders, the source in our childhood of the first dawning suspicion of another world than this, presented for money before a grateful public that sat quietly eating the provisions brought with it from home.†   (source)
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writ as in:  writ large

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  • The city’s passion for coffee was writ large in the number of cafes on every street corner.
    writ large = made obvious
  • Her niceness is writ large, it is her defining quality and she needs it acknowledged, often, daily almost, which can be tiring.   (source)
  • I know, I know, it's nothing more than Archimedes' Mirror writ large.   (source)
  • Niceness writ large.   (source)
  • Presenteeism writ large.   (source)
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writ as in:  holy writ

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  • She has great knowledge of holy writ.
    holy writ = sacred texts
  • Together, his two books were called the Hive-Queen and the Hegemon, and they were holy writ.   (source)
    holy writ = the sacred word
  • Holy writ is holy, Excellency.   (source)
    holy writ = the Bible
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writ as in:  writ in her own hand

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  • The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on:   (source)
  • Mr. Barnett said he had all them things Mr. Tatum ordered writ down and when Mr. Tatum asked to see that list of his, Mr. Barnett says, 'You callin' me a liar, boy?'   (source)
  • So, as Marina began stitching the Count's pants—the laying of locomotive tracks writ small, if you will—he described the Assembly and all his various impressions.   (source)
  • Lemme just get my check writ out.   (source)
  • I writ it down—look.   (source)
    writ = wrote
  • When one turns seventeen and begins to experience that first period of real independence, one's senses are so alert, one's sentiments so finely attuned that every conversation, every look, every laugh may be writ indelibly upon one's memory.   (source)
    writ = written
  • ...and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ.   (source)
  • I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ,   (source)
  • —O, give me thy hand, One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!   (source)
  • Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.   (source)
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  • Why, she hath not writ to me?   (source)
  • Writ in my cousin's hand,   (source)
  •   Then gave I her, so tutored by my art,
      A sleeping potion; which so took effect
      As I intended, for it wrought on her
      The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo
      That he should hither come as this dire night,
      To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
      Being the time the potion's force should cease.   (source)
    writ = wrote
  • So many guests invite as here are writ.   (source)
    writ = written
  •   This night you shall behold him at our feast;
      Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
      And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;   (source)
  • God's writ did not extend there.   (source)
    writ = sacred writing
  • Palpable though writ small, the story in Athens is the story everywhere, always: the human condition.   (source)
    writ = written
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  • The law, based upon the Bible, and the Bible, writ by Almighty God, forbid the practice of witchcraft, and describe death as the penalty thereof.†   (source)
  • You will forgive an old friend for not expressing any great surprise, as the matter was writ large enough between the lines of your letters, and could easily be divined, without any great perspicacity on the reader's part.†   (source)
  • Striding across the Brown campus, clicking the concrete with high heels that show off her celebrated legs, Bernadine expounds about events and issues writ large— just like when she was in collegedescribing a conference on violence against women she just attended that showed her "how we can't prosecute violent men with Mark Fuhrmans as our allies ...how the opponents of racism and the opponents of violence against women are natural allies in the struggle.†   (source)
  • Sometimes bad luck is writ large and plain.†   (source)
  • It is all a game to them still, a tourney writ large, and all they see is the chance for glory and honor and spoils.†   (source)
  • No name was provided at the bottom of the elaborate frame, only a single-word inscription writ large in Latin, "VIR," meaning "man of character."†   (source)
  • To legions of Americans these are not stupid superstitions or fetishes at all, but rules close to holy writ.†   (source)
  • If It's Optic White, It's the Right White,' " he quoted with an upraised finger, like a preacher quoting holy writ.†   (source)
  • Since a Suggestion from the Master is a Command not unlike Holy Writ, I shall digress and comply at the same Time.†   (source)
  • The pilot, an amiable flight lieutenant wearing a handlebar mustache, watched the load going aboard with honest bewilderment writ large across his brow.†   (source)
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  • No: though his name was writ large on placards, though they praised him for the great work God worked through him, and though they came, day and night, before him to the altar, there was no word in the Book for him.†   (source)
  • In the mixture there was beauty—a good proportion—and pimple-insolence, and parricide faces, gum-chew innocence, labor fodder and secretarial forces, Danish stability, Dago inspiration, catarrh-hampered mathematical genius; there were waxed-eared shovelers' children, sex-promising businessmen's daughters—an immense sampling of a tremendous host, the multitudes of holy writ, begotten by West-moving, factor-shoved parents.†   (source)
  • A generation of orientalists has recently thrown open to us the sacred writings of the East, as well as the pre-Hebrew sources of our own Holy Writ.†   (source)
  • Is it because they somewhat savor of Holy Writ in its phrase "mysteries of iniquity"?†   (source)
  • He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said "Yes," without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, if that lexicon which is based on Holy Writ were any longer popular, one might with less difficulty define and denominate certain phenomenal men.†   (source)
  • Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.†   (source)
  • *p The legislators of Connecticut *q begin with the penal laws, and, strange to say, they borrow their provisions from the text of Holy Writ.†   (source)
  • Loud men called his subdued tone an undertone, and sometimes implied that it was inconsistent with openness; though there seems to be no reason why a loud man should not be given to concealment of anything except his own voice, unless it can be shown that Holy Writ has placed the seat of candor in the lungs.†   (source)
  • "And what else should be the lot of thy accursed race?" answered the Prior; "for what saith holy writ, 'verbum Domini projecerunt, et sapientia est nulla in eis'—they have cast forth the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them; 'propterea dabo mulieres eorum exteris'—I will give their women to strangers, that is to the Templar, as in the present matter; 'et thesauros eorum haeredibus alienis', and their treasures to others—as in the present case to these honest gentlemen."†   (source)
  • "That proves," returned the abbe, "that you are like those of Holy Writ, who having ears hear not, and having eyes see not."†   (source)
  • Nor have I so read or interpreted Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as a part of the retribution.†   (source)
  • The poor mulatto woman, whose simple faith had been well-nigh crushed and overwhelmed, by the avalanche of cruelty and wrong which had fallen upon her, felt her soul raised up by the hymns and passages of Holy Writ, which this lowly missionary breathed into her ear in intervals, as they were going to and returning from work; and even the half-crazed and wandering mind of Cassy was soothed and calmed by his simple and unobtrusive influences.†   (source)
  • And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information — amongst the rest, that— "Trifles light as air, "Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, "As proofs of Holy Writ."†   (source)
  • —O that, Stephen expostulated, has been proved conclusively by several of the bestknown passages in Holy Writ, apart from circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • The Holy Writ take I to my witness,
    That luxury is in wine and drunkenness.†   (source)
  • Christ spake Himself full broad in Holy Writ,
    And well ye wot no villainy is it.†   (source)
  • Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.†   (source)
  • He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes.†   (source)
  • Now they believe it; and withal whet me To be reveng'd on Rivers, Vaughn, Grey: But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil.†   (source)
  • But St. Jerome reckons Five Books of Moses, Eight of Prophets, and Nine of other Holy writ, which he calls of Hagiographa.†   (source)
  • I have this day been at your church at mess,* *mass
    And said sermon after my simple wit,
    Not all after the text of Holy Writ;
    For it is hard to you, as I suppose,
    And therefore will I teach you aye the glose.†   (source)
  • shall we speak all day of holy writ?†   (source)
  • *except
    In Holy Writ ye may yourselves read;
    'Against* an old man, hoar upon his head, *to meet
    Ye should arise:' therefore I you rede,* *advise
    Ne do unto an old man no harm now,
    No more than ye would a man did you
    In age, if that ye may so long abide.†   (source)
  • Our Lord Jesus, as Holy Writ deviseth,* *narrates
    Gave us example of fasting and prayeres:
    Therefore we mendicants, we sely* freres, *simple, lowly
    Be wedded to povert' and continence,
    To charity, humbless, and abstinence,
    To persecution for righteousness,
    To weeping, misericorde,* and to cleanness.†   (source)
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