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A basketball player who plays for the 76ers.
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(golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
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(tennis) adaptable to playing on all surfaces
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Alternative spelling of AstroTurf [A synthetic material used in sports grounds as a durable substitute for natural grass.]
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(UK, informal) The sport of badminton.
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(uncountable) A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
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(nonstandard) shuttlecock
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A light, long-handled racket, used to hit a shuttlecock in the game of badminton.
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A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
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(tennis) A machine that shoots tennis balls out of a pipe, allowing a player to practise hitting them.
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(UK, rhyming slang) A walk.
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A play area for children consisting of a pit filled with colourful plastic balls.
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(slang) One who plays basketball; a basketballer.
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A person attending a ball
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An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley or other grain, in which some players attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
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(basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
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(California) A type of rush native to southern California, Juncus textilis, which was traditionally used by the local Indians to make baskets.
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(informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
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A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
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A large light inflatable ball, ideally suited to beach games.
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(uncountable) An outdoor variant of volleyball played on sand.
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A spherical food made from mashed beets, used as a vegetarian substitute for meatballs.
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(chiefly in the plural) Either of a pair of marble-sized metal or plastic balls, usually hollow and containing a small weight that rolls around, used for vaginal or anal sexual stimulation.
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(sports, uncountable) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court
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A sport, similar to bocce, designed to be played by people with impaired motor skills.
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An originally Spanish team sport, similar to volleyball, played on an inflatable court with a trampoline on each side of the net.
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The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
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In court tennis, the rebound of a ball from a wall of the court; also, the side stroke or play by which the ball is driven against the wall; hence, (figuratively) an indirect action or stroke.
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(pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
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(games) A deliberately absurd sport without rules.
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(tennis) A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
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A variety of the sport of bowls, played on a long carpet
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(sports) A player who chips the ball.
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(US) A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag is filled with corn feed and thrown into a hole.
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An outdoor team game of Celtic origin played in Cornwall, England, with a small silver ball.
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(originally Internet slang) A country drawn in the Polandball artstyle, in which countries are personified as crudely drawn blobs.
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(sports) Skill on the court, as in squash or tennis.
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(slang) A member or supporter of Surrey County Cricket Club, after the brown caps worn by the same.
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(transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
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A traditional children's toy consisting of a hand-held wooden cup with a ball attached by a string. The player jerks the ball into the air and attempts to catch it in the cup.
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The ball thrown in this sport.
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(basketball) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
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(American football, Canadian football) The foul of grasping it during play.
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(basketball) A point guard or other player who provides leadership by running the offense.
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An indoor ball game played with a stick like hockey.
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(uncountable) Any of the sports that use the footbag.
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Alternative form of fourball (“golf format”) [(golf) A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score.]
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(golf) A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score.
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A racquet sport played on a short pelota court.
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(basketball) Of or pertaining to the entire basketball court.
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A tennis court with a grass surface.
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Alternative form of groundstroke [(tennis) A forehand or backhand shot that is executed after the ball has bounced once on the court.]
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(uncountable, games) A game or activity in which one or a group of players try to keep a footbag off the ground using only the feet.
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A clear hollow sphere in which a pet rodent can run around while out of its cage.
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Alternative spelling of handegg [(slang, uncountable, humorous) Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian and Australian football.]
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A tennis court having a hard surface, frequently concrete
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An attraction at fairs and carnivals which is operated by striking a puck attached to a tower with a mallet, with punters attempting to ring the bill suspended at the top.
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A small hard ball used in the sport of hockey (field hockey)
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(golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
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(basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
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(countable) A stick used in the game of hurling.
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An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
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Alternative form of jai alai [a Basque ball game in which the players propel the ball using a long basket attached to the wrist]
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(Canada) An informal lawn bowling or curling competition in which all players present are randomly drawn into teams.
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Metaphor for a contest too close to call.
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A pin used in kayles or skittles.
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(obsolete) The game of skittles.
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(basketball, uncommon) A player for the New York Knicks
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A toy ball made of rubber filaments radiating from a steel-bound core, available in a variety of color combinations.
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A polo player who uses a mallet.
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(historical) A ball containing musk as a perfuming sachet.
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(tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
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(archaic) An old game where players bowl a ball towards nine holes in the ground or a board, scoring points according to which hole the ball enters.
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A game adapted from tennis, with a smaller court and played with a depressurized tennis ball and solid paddles rather than strung racquets.
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An early form of racquetball
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A traditional Italian game played with a large leather ball.
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A traditional East Asian game that requires players to throw sticks from a set distance into a large, sometimes ornate, canister.
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A ball made of plant pith, used in early experiments with electricity.
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An American racquet sport derived from tennis, played in an enclosed area, with players permitted to bounce the ball off the outer walls.
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An acrylic-based hardcourt tennis surface.
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A location on a basketball court near the basket.
adj
(golf) Easy to pot the ball on.
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(sports, slang) To put the object (golf ball or basketball) in the cup or basket; to make the goal.
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(sports, uncountable) A co-ed contact ball sport created as a ground-based adaptation of Quidditch, featuring the same positions, balls, and goals as the fictional sport, but with the players clutching broomsticks and a human "snitch runner" carrying the snitch (an autonomous magical device in the Harry Potter novels).
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A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.
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A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.
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(countable, sports) An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
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A game in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object.
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To dart about in a manner reminiscent of a ball hit by a racquet.
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A player of racquetball.
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A ball held by an elastic string so that it returns to the hand from which it is thrown, used as a plaything.
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(computing) A trackball.
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(US, slang) A basketball player.
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(croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
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(US) One who plays in a sandlot.
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(sports, countable) The stick used to strike the ball in this game, similar to a hockey stick.
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Obsolete spelling of shuttlecock (“the game or the object”) [(countable) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. [from early 16th c.]]
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(uncountable, dated) The game of badminton.
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(tennis) A net used for playing singles, shorter than a doubles net
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(tennis) A stick used to support a doubles net so that it meets the requirements of a singles net
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(pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
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A form of volleyball played by disabled people, who sit on the court while playing.
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A sport somewhat similar to volleyball but played sitting down (and thus suitable for people with disabilities or amputations that diminish their capacity to stand).
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An early arcade redemption game in which balls are rolled up an inclined lane, aimed at holes of various point values.
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(pinball) A bonus obtained by hitting a target with a ball when either launched directly from the plunger or as the first shot done with flippers once the ball has entered play.
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(mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
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(sports) A variety of basketball in which trampolines are positioned in front of each net.
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(informal, US, sports) A 2013 controversy around an NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers, in which a player deliberately spilled a cup of soda to delay the game.
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(sports) A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.
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Alternative form of sootball [A ball of soot or ash.]
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Alternative form of sootball [A ball of soot or ash.]
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(sports, archaic) An early racquet sport that evolved into tennis.
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Alternative form of spinmeister [(US politics, slang) A media liaison or spokesperson, charged with presenting the spin for their political side.]
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(sports) In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
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A sport in which competitors stack cups as quickly as possible.
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(tennis) A forehand shot with the arm at full extension, typically made as a desperation shot to slice the ball back into the court.
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(juggling) A type of hollow juggling ball with a hard, shiny outer shell, designed to be more visible than beanbags.
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A projectile consisting of two half balls united by a bar; a bar shot.
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Synonym of sphairistike (“racquet sport”)
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A ball used in the game of stool-ball.
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(sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
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(tennis, squash, racquetball) The matrix of strings within the oval frame of a racket
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By restriction, Synonym of rod hockey
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(obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
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A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis.
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(tennis) A firm, rectangular surface, marked with lines and having a net across the middle, where the game of tennis is played.
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A person who plays tennis, especially professionally.
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(tennis) A type of bat used to strike the ball in tennis; it has an oval frame with a taut interlaced network of strings
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Alternative spelling of tennis racket [(tennis) A type of bat used to strike the ball in tennis; it has an oval frame with a taut interlaced network of strings]
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Alternative spelling of tennis racket [(tennis) A type of bat used to strike the ball in tennis; it has an oval frame with a taut interlaced network of strings]
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(non-native speakers' English) A female tennis player.
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(croquet) A ball left at a hittable but difficult distance or position, to lure the opponent into a mistake.
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(countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
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(tennis) A shot that is hit between the legs; a tweener.
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(tennis) A shot played between the legs; a tweener.
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(translation hub) A player of water polo
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(basketball, slang) A basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound, or block attempt.
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Alternative spelling of witch ball [A hollow sphere of plain or stained glass hung in windows in 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches' spells or ill fortune.]
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(tennis) A shot hit off the frame of the racket
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(sports) A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill
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