How To Use Nap In A Sentence

In the absence of actual selfie evidence, let me provide a few snapshots. Times, Sunday Times
As you can see in the photo they're kind of smirking a bit 'cause I snapped their picture with my phonecam. Archive 2008-04-01
This white-naped mangabey monkey was born at The Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy, and is part of an international breeding program to keep the species alive.
Lost in nostalgic souvenirs I ambled past les belles, snapping a few more photos along the way. Kindness of strangers
Service providers haven't completely snapped their wallets shut, but the emphasis for the near-term will be on controlled spending as they look for ways to grow revenues.

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Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role. Times, Sunday Times
To avoid having sodium react with oxygen or water vapor in the air, it is usually stored under kerosene, naphtha, or some other organic liquid with which it does not react.
Before anyone says that this was going to happen anyway, remember that political pros were saying two years ago that Napolitano was a one term fluke, early this year Republicans were salivating about a possible 2/3 majority House and Senate, and it took some foresight to see that a decent candidate could be recruited to take out J. Archive 2006-12-01
She pulled out her camera and took several snapshots of it as she approached.
All three impulsively committed a felonious act that lead to their incarceration, i.e., attempted murder and kidnapping, attempted murder, and murder.
I was tired between synapses and in the connective tissue of organs.
3 _Petro snaps_. 4to 1679 'and Petro snaps'.p. 320, l. i _remember a fart these_. 1724 'remember these'.p. 320, l. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II
It is snapping and whirring, emitting a high-pitched tome like the mewling of a cat. Death's Noisy Herald
Once the victim's mind had "snapped" into cult mode, the unsnapping requires a massive assault on the victim's mind to untangle the coded messages injected into it by the sinister forces of the cult leader. Warren Adler: Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Brave Movie
Indianapolis beat out nearly 100 other cities as the site for a huge United Airlines maintenance center.
Russian knapweed is a problem in ranges and pastures in the western United States, where it grows up to 4 feet tall and takes over otherwise productive land.
Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
But this is not to suggest that Hebb's influence was just his postulates related to synaptic change.
From Australia and New Zealand to Malaysia and India — in text and film and music and image — this booklet is a snapshot of the Asian commons. ACIA: Furthering the Commons in Asia
After several days of climbing, high on a huge, exposed face of Annapurna, a mountain almost double the height of Mont Blanc, a storm erupted and the two men decided to descend.
These regulations are inapplicable to visitors from outside the European Community.
In other matches University made it two wins in a row with a 4-2 win over Whippersnappers, although University slipped back to their bad habits and defaulted the bottom two boards.
They may feel that mechanized trail use is inappropriate and are angered by the inefficient two-cycle engine noise and exhaust.
A reporter was dispatched to Naples to cover the riot.
She just catnapped for 20 minutes to an hour at a time * all day and all night* for a total of 8 or so hours in a 24-hour cycle. Snap | Her Bad Mother
Snap elections called towards the end of last year deterred investment and the recovery ground to a halt. Times, Sunday Times
The overriding principle is not to offend the sensitive by immoderate cachinnation at an inappropriate joke. Times, Sunday Times
Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
He was a grotesquely inappropriate choice of speaker.
The Seppos found a cure for fiesty natives, opposed to cultural imperialism and resident in heavily afforested regions - they called it Napalm. Cheeseburger Gothic » Just got back from Avatar.
Maru smiled slightly, unsnapping the flap of her bag and starting to dig through all of the random objects.
A hard-nosed unmoveable man, who sacrifices his lovely daughter to ward off future kidnap threats on his beloved son.
He is entirely unapologetic about the violence in his movies.
As they are picked off one by one, the pace remains snappy and the viewing experience is over before you know it. The Sun
Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
This year alone provides a typical snapshot. Times, Sunday Times
The land forces are organised into British, Austrian and French divisions, all of which contain recreations of the original infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments that fought during the Napoleonic wars.
Either way, he omitted to mention that he had snapped from the back of the set the post that connects to the cable box.
Many of the Bushisms strike me as unfair and inapt, which is why I comment onthem. The Volokh Conspiracy » Yesterday’s Bushism of the Day:
He was accused of submitting claims for ‘inappropriate’ items, including metal fruit baskets, plastic holders for bathroom utensils, and even jars of piccalilli.
The 'light' canapés include a crab salad, rose veal tartare and partridge escabeche. Times, Sunday Times
Under her they merely turn from pointillistic snapshots into abstract expressionism.
Bones were snapped, skin was torn, and arrows were poking through chests and backs - black arrows.
She was also snapped exposing her toned midriff while taking a telephone call. The Sun
It also saved her family the daily washing machine wear and tear, increased water use and the chore of washing and drying nappies regularly.
Savers with a bundle of cash locked into a bond should have snapped them up. Times, Sunday Times
For creative individuals, the siesta proffers a gift basket of ideas with which to consume an hour or so, the least spirited of which, to put it delicately, is the nap. Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.
Die young, and I shall accept your death- but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all. Napoleon Bonaparte
I used to change your nappies! Times, Sunday Times
The choices of main courses were unappealing and didn't taste any better than they sounded.
Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides.
Linda said changing three sets of nappies, putting a trio of youngsters through school and dealing with triple helpings of teenage tantrums had not always been easy.
Common knapweed is like a pretty thistle without prickles. Times, Sunday Times
Thomas Cowell of York County in 1680, and Patrick Napier twice phlebotomized 'Allen Jarves, deceased, in the cure of a cancer of his mouth.' Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
My favourite character was Pedro, Napoleon's Hispanic friend, whose quiet manner and woebegone expression were constant throughout the film.
The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
On Sundaye mornynges itt is a fayre sighte to see her going to and fro churche in a _chapeau de Paris de la dernyère agonie_, bearyng a _parasolett a la ripp snap mettez-la encore debout_ style; and whych shee sayes is like a _homme blasé_, because it is Used Upp. Sundaie afternoon yee may find her in ye The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The short flowered dress and the high-heeled sandals she was wearing when she arrived in the park that day were identical to the clothing worn by the kidnapper. I’ll Walk Alone
Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
French warplanes based in Italy report to NATO's command headquarters in Naples while aircraft flying sorties off the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle report directly to French military commanders in Paris. Political Gridlock at NATO
She looked composed as she was snapped on the red carpet with her fellow judges - despite admitting she was nervous. The Sun
I was so tired when I got home from work last night that I had a quick nap.
Here's a prize for what must be the most inappropriate gong ever awarded.
Hops are also considered a mild anaphrodisiac and thus calms sexual excitement as well. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
The pair were snapped getting close at the afterparty, above. The Sun
You may, of course, disregard the whole thing without fear of violent reprisals: anapestic little bouffe Toast:
Serious allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, occur rarely, but timely intervention is crucial.
The discipline of the guards is not very good. Sentry duty wearies them, for they must also serve as torturers, interrogators and perform the duties of kidnappers.
The process of forging permanent neural pathways, whereby changes occur at the synapse between neurons that enhance and strengthen the connection, is called long-term potentiation. After the Diagnosis
Abbey was snapped in a pair of skin-tight jeans just ten days after her daughter was born. The Sun
Using traced photos, Breslin's snapshot style gets at the scenario's serio-comic complications.
The type of damage being done to the cars ranges from wing mirrors being snapped off to glue being put in locks and tyres being slashed, with victims facing bills of hundreds of pounds.
Trim the asparagus and snap in half. Times, Sunday Times
The first of the threads snaps as my claw slices through it, severing it.
Turtles were considered to be living anapsids although there was a significant temporal gap between the last anapsid reptile fossil and the first turtle fossil. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
Inappropriate use of the available data could result in prescription of incorrect dosages.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. Napoleon Bonaparte
This is procured by mixing massicot, or Naples yellow, with a small quantity of realgar, and a very little Spanish white. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
The second point is that in situations where it is needed there is no unappropriated land available.
As I come out with a stack of napkins and some plates, their conversation quiets and dies down, and we all eat.
At the moment, it is thought either to be a Neolithic axe rough-out or the work of a modern flint knapper.
She complained of her boss's inappropriate behavior towards her.
The threat to foreign contractors has escalated in the past month following a series of kidnappings and murders.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill
I plan to have a short catnap (ten minutes tops) on the sofa before jogging down the road to class.
AND THE RULES, THEY ARE A CHAAAAAANGIN': You'll love this bit emphasis towel-snappingly added: It's still "Senator Franken" to you.
Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable. RVABlogs
The jazzy percussion's reminiscent of Liquid Liquid: snaps, shakers, cowbell, and maracas.
Lord George professed that he had observed the same thing; but then, as he whispered into Mr. Nappie's ear, Mr. Greystock was particularly known as a bashful man. The Eustace Diamonds
There was little to choose between the sides in the early stages of the second-half, but Humphreys bagged a snap drop-goal to edge the visitors back in front.
Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. Steve Maraboli
The complaints also seek to remove references to Lipitor in advertising materials and to eliminate computer links that misdirect patients to an illegal, unapproved product.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill
With this technology, theorists can distinguish the values of the two descriptions above, since they are structures with different components (cf. Carnap's [1947] notion of intensional isomorphism). Names
It looks at some appalling racial attacks, including a skinhead raid last June on a Gypsy camp near Naples.
She landed on the hood, feetfirst, with a metallic thunk and a distinctly less metallic snap. Crossed
Often featuring a snap front and drawstring waist, this jacket maybe lined or unlined.
I used to make an ersatz napalm with petrol and expanded polystyrene foam.
Each of these sugary sweet snaps was masking trouble behind the scenes. The Sun
His furious lunge at the snapper has sullied his clean-cut image. The Sun
But naked, she was thin and somehow unappetizing, and for reasons I can't articulate, looking at her breasts six inches from the bread, I lost my appetite.
Napoleon, the greatest of all generals, dismissed and disgraced Admiral Bruix when he questioned an order to sail his fleet.
The most common reasons given by airlines for delayed flights were engine malfunction and inappropriate on-board service facilities.
It tastes good; a twist arrives on a napkin.
One day I am going to snap because of some animal suddenly rubbing my privates with its face.
Astrocytes, previously thought to be unimportant in neuronal transmission, have recently been implicated in long-term modulation of neuronal synapses. Health News from Medical News Today
Even the most amateur of photographers can snap perfect shots in this idyllic place.
As revolution spread to Palermo, Milan and Naples it seemed as if the people of Italy could break the domination of the myriad of foreign rulers and domestic autocrats.
Common complications were snap of temporomandibular joint hemimandibular , restriction of mouth opening and facial nerve injury.
With winter coming on, Napoleon finds his invasion stalled and he is forced to retreat from Russia.
Archibald is moved by the inappropriateness of the gift; he is known as the most abstemious man around.
Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_ Practical Grammar and Composition
Harry McGlade becomes a dognapper in order to stop a dognapper, or something like that. Archive 2010-03-04
The post-war change in approach can be symbolised in the snapshot, subject of another section of the exhibition.
There are a number of cool-season vegetables to plant, along with flowers such as dianthus, petunias, snapdragons and violas.
Richards confronts us unapologetically with all the seamier aspects of his life, to the point where the reader -- I refer here to myself -- finds himself asking: Why am I reading this? Peter Clothier: Keef
Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.
The apparatus under consideration was employed in the St. Quentin gas works during the winter of 1881-1882, without giving rise to any obstruction; and, besides, it was found that by its use there might be avoided all choking up of the pipes at the works and the city mains through naphthaline. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
The urge for a midday nap is built into your body's biological clock.
It is a rollicking, unapologetic read. Times, Sunday Times
It focuses on short-term dislocations and uncontrollable cyclical changes, producing constant disappointment and encouraging inappropriate transactional responses. American Chronicle
Yet in delight he flew a loop to landing, with a snap roll just before touchdown.
John Hales, clerk of the hanaper, a learned and able man, and, like all who espoused this party, a zealous protestant, had written, and secretly circulated, a book in defence of the claims of the lady Catherine, and he had also procured opinions of foreign lawyers in favor of the validity of her marriage. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
The unapologetic wrapped fit creates a sporty look that is both casual and athletic.
Nor does he discuss another dialectic, between the Scherzo's anapestic and amphibrach crotchet groups, sublated after the Trio in that startling alla breve succession of equal minims; nor the hunting topos of the Trio.
This years typical shopping basket of goods provides a snapshot of changing consumer trends.
He was thirty years in Admiralty, all through the period of the Napoleonic War, and he devised the new doctrine, really based on the old rule of 1745, known as "Continuous Voyage". The Freedom of the Seas
THE REDKNAPP FILEBorn 2 March 1947 in Poplar, east London, the only child of Henry Redknapp, a docker, and his wife, Violet. Harry Redknapp: the people's manager | Observer profile
His legs were so thin however that Catherad was sure that they would snap under the enormous strain.
We focus on linguistic signals of discourse coherence, such as connectives (because, although) and referential expressions (anaphors, cataphors).
I think a genuine concern is raised by people concerning the graphic image of that young girl who had been napalmed.
According to Ghanapur station circle inspector Muralidhar, a Maoist party member Gajerla Ravi alias Ganesh sent Rs 5 lakh to Mr Kondal Rao, who had been associated with the Naxals for a long time. Journalist Arrested
There have been reports of recent attempted kidnappings, muggings and stabbings.
Of course I don't know her," Roger snapped.
The firebrand championing the indigenous Komi people was none other than Yury Spiridonov, an ethnically Russian oil miner and party worker, born in Omsk and educated in Sverdlovsk, who had once gotten into trouble for snapping at someone who tried to address him in Komi: “Speak in a way that can be understood.” The Return
When I lectured at a skeptics meeting in Dublin in mid-October, this photo of my rapt audience was snapped.
That is a shame, because the cold snap brought a magical winter scene of frosty nights under starry skies. Times, Sunday Times
If the article is inappropriate for an ecumenic discussion, the tag will be changed to open. Latest Articles
However, some people can have an immediate and more widespread allergic reaction, such as an anaphylactic shock and this can be fatal.
Supposing the physician can find no tissue damage or that there is an inappropriate relation between objective fact and subjective complaint.
The infantryman carried a substantial ammunition pouch, bayonet, water-bottle, and ‘snapsack’ for a day's rations suspended from broad cross-belts, usually made of buff leather and pipeclayed to inconvenient whiteness.
Bronze idol of Ganapathi, with finely proportioned torsos and exquisitely designed limbs is a cynosure of all eyes.
Startled, she looked around for the blue dragon and saw it flying around and snapping at the insects around it.
Wear with a loose blouse for serious 1970s snap. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the 74 opinions are also lengthy and convoluted, larded with unnecessary detail and footnotes, and containing inappropriate swipes at the work of the other justices.
The grinning, slithering jackanapes is reportedly going to concentrate his sales pitch on the U.S., suspecting that we Brits would sooner chew our tongues than buy his book when it is published on Sept. 13. Boycott Blair's Book!
Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
‘Of course I know who he is,’ I responded snappishly also.
Here are some snaps to get the summer nail inspo going strong.
Unlike fetishism, say, or scopophilia, the unappeasable, primitive drives that figure in Antoni's work don't readily lend themselves to sophisticated, daring imagery, the stuff of art.
We all tucked in to our dishes of fish, and although the salmon tandoori was probably a touch overcooked, the red snapper was glorious.
When you're ready to assemble the canapés, unroll the ballottines and cut each into 2cm-thick slices. Times, Sunday Times
It has long been thought that the grouping of telomeres is important for chromosome pairing and subsequent synapsis.
The lesions in the lung and lymph nodes were often grossly inapparent and seen only on histopathologic analysis, meaning that their detection with conventional imaging techniques would be unlikely.
Here Black brings the black warlord into play, unpins the g-pawn, and keeps the rook active - you can't expect more from one Fritz-unapproved move!
But, it warned, such behaviour 'would exacerbate the effects of a subsequent snapback'. Times, Sunday Times
In the wake of the Napoleonic wars Italy was divided into a patchwork of kingdoms and duchies.
You remember the day that baby was kidnapped from the rest area on the interstate?
Dentex and rainbow-colored wrasse snuffle the white sand below, stirring up a meal, while tiger-striped gobies lay among the rocks, waiting to snap the smaller fish up in turn. The Alluring Remoteness of Karpathos
During the Napoleonic wars Reunion, like Mauritius, served the French corsairs as a rallying place from which attacks on Indian merchantmen could be directed.
Seeing these happy snaps reminds you things can be good again. The Sun
Put simply, National Geographic picked up on a story of a couple who, having set the autotimer on their camera to take a holiday snap of themselves, found their picture ruined by a curious squirrel 'portrait-crashing'. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
The stab at rock stardom, the attempt at talk-show hosting, the game show his brother Mark unapologetically called "dopey," all those dabbles are in the past. John McEnroe's Next Frontier: Home
Aggressive behaviors included pecking the male, bill snapping, reverse mounting, and frontal attack, which resulted in aerial grappling.
Similarly, again, in some sense of ˜interpretation™, the interpretation of the expression ˜some human™ in the following sentence depends on the interpretation of ˜It is possible that™, but again this is not an example of anaphora: Anaphora
There is a lock of Napoleon's hair in the display cabinet.
At nerve terminals, stimulus-evoked calcium entry triggers transmitter release through rapid, regulated exocytosis of readily releasable synaptic vesicles.
Indeed, this is one retelling of the classic children's story that feels inert, unappetizing, and downright revolting.
Southwest of the Dornoch Firth, the Sgurr Beag Thrust divides the Moine rocks into two major nappes.
What there is, is a difficult political issue now that we have discovered the VPOTUS and his associates broke this law—not for a kidnapped child, but to justify the imminent invasion of Iraq with confabulated links between Saddam and 9/11. The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture:
Snappers strike viciously when lifted from water or teased and can inflict a serious bite.
Hanuman snapped his finger and began spinning red beads around the wires of the abacus. THE BROKEN GOD
And there's the small matter that Jules appears to dig sex with Paul (though it's filmed as unappealingly as the Nic-Jules duos). Erica Abeel: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, BUT IS THE REST OF AMERICA?
A close family friend gave the couple personalized napkins with their names embossed in gold.
Afterward, I drank whisky with my friends, nibbled at the unappetizing rations, and smoked and smoked.
Her shiny, long, brown hair was parted on the side, and swept back into a mass of curly locks at the nape of her neck.
The couple were snapped this week after a romantic dinner in London. The Sun
a cold steel, Laredo bowie, a flint knapping kit with a large novaculite biface and a trained peregrine falcon If you were dropped out of a helicopter in the center of Alaska and could only bring three items besides clothing what would the
Katy, still dressed in her attorney clothes, a gray tweed suit with a pale-blue silk blouse, tucked her napkin under her chin and dug in to the pirogi. Hot And Bothered
And then we all had a nice long afternoon nap.
Baroness Thatcher survived by taking 20-minute catnaps - a 'zizz', she called it - in the day and catching up on sleep at weekends at Chequers. Home | Mail Online
As soon as someone spots a gaijin playing, they'll join in and kick your butt into the middle of next Tuesday with a secret character wearing a nappy.
There was the Embarcadero with its numbered piers stretching out into the ocean, just like on my Lonely Planet map, and in the middle, the crosshatched pattern of streets snapped to a perfect grid. Nique sa mère
These compounds are more reactive than paraffins or naphthenes and readily combine with other elements such as hydrogen, chlorine, and bromine. Hydrocarbon chemistry
Some decisions in tax court determined that the only retained earnings that could be subject to tax would be "those held for no reason" or the "unappropriated" retained earnings. Undefined
Welcome to Wine Country Yacht Charters, Napa County's most unpretentious place to relax and drink wine.
The parents made an emotional plea to their child's kidnappers.
Poor old Sofia has been down to her local carpet warehouse and snapped up a few offcuts of a revolting cerise floor covering.
The dagger slid smoothly down the front of his tunic, each button snapped off easily until only one separated his bare chest from the cold dagger.
The astrocytes will stain with glial fibrillary acid protein, the oligodendroglia - like cells with S100 but not with glial fibrillary acid protein, and the neurons with synaptophysin and/or neurofilament.
Spainhower explains that the pressure of biting on even a hair-thin tippet of mono can crack a preexisting fracture line in the tooth, but more often it is pulling at leader clamped between teeth or the snapping of tooth against tooth after the mono is cut that causes the damage. Chew On This
According to the MSM reports here and here the French crew, of a ship with the very Italian sounding name MSC Napoli, deliberately run aground close to Sidmouth, 165 miles southwest of London. Archive 2007-01-01
In the tea ceremony, the couple punctiliously distributed canned soft drinks toted in plastic shopping bags and snapped photos of each other.
Me and Mr. Schwigshhnaps, the currier, sate behind in the rumbill; master aloan in the inside, as grand as a Turk, and rapt up in his fine fir-cloak. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
Bonaparte could only fulfil what he called his destiny, by continual agitation; and this was well understood by himself and by his enemies. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
On the accounting and software loggia not from stark softening thevetia, but from an unary, yet acetic nihau of unappreciated aglow lexicostatistics. Rational Review

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