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When English borrows from another alphabet
"In point" only lives in this phrase.
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The awkward case of 'his or her'
symbiote 'an organism living in symbiosis'
charlatan 'faker or fraud'
lowlife 'a person of low moral character'
kakistocracy 'government by the worst people'
slimeball 'a morally repulsive or odious person'
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