How To Use Toy In A Sentence

The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.
Louis XIV spent 200,000 gold francs for the construction of the royal kennels at Versailles where he kenneled hunting hounds, truffle terriers and toy poodles.
Part 6 of the Shadow of the Bat (27: 00) takes another thoroughly extensive featurette that concentrates on dissecting the "toyetic" nature of DVD Talk
The seas roiled , tossing the ships in the harbor about like toys in a rain barrel.
For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.

They had dogs of their own - a mastiff the size of a Humvee, and a tiny comma of a toy poodle.
The first two Toyota pickups we got into wouldn't start, even with eight men rocking them to get the engine to catch.
The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality.
The arcade is an indoor playground, a room full of games and toys, and people playing them.
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Rodney Dangerfield
Science finds that a surface tension on the water can draw the boats together, like toy boats in a bathtub.
For a long time, corporate executives felt that the Internet was only an academic toy for bored graduate students.
The expatriate's urban cityscape is assembled from large spools of colored thread, empty liquor bottles, and toy cars.
After that, I think we just kind of toyed with the game. USATODAY.com
Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman Bill Kwong says in an email that Toyota is also designing vehicles with 'front crush boxes, ' which are designed so they can be unbolted after a collision and replaced.
Forsooth, I knew not you had so much of ingenious art; algates, the toy is somewhat ghastly. The Last of the Barons — Volume 06
This is all captured in the toy sax sound that just honks the root note as if someone who can't really play the sax has been given one lesson and one take to give it their best shot.
Whether you ride a moped or a Honda, a scooter or a vintage Hog, the organisers of the annual North Coast Children's Motorcycle Toy Run want you to join the ranks raising money for charity this weekend.
The head of research at a big-time doll maker informs us that a Rubicon has been passed: ‘Dolls are becoming less like toys,’ he says, ‘and more like miniature robots, digital companions.’
Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her.
It was growing increasingly obvious as I defended myself against her attack that she was simply toying with me, drawing out my technique as a schoolmaster draws recitations from his students.
Despite the fact that a Dinky toy car can fetch many times more than its real life counterpart, it is still possible to find bargains.
He describes himself sitting in a room with five children, aged ten to twelve, showing them a Taiwanese water dipping bird toy -- the little chotchke that tips back and forth into a well of water as though it's drinking. Susan Stiffelman: Education, Seth Godin, Factory Workers and the Taiwanese Water Bird
Barbie, Toys “Я” Us machine guns—these are “charged objects,” contaminative; they represent the dog-eat-dog world, the obsessively competitive culture that synagogues and mosques and churches strive to keep out. The Barbie Chronicles
One was the shape of a lemon and the other a pineapple, an NYPD spokesman said, adding that similar items could be purchased in toyshops.
They will stock a huge range of toys at keen prices.
She clutched a fluffy toy dog as both were arrested. The Sun
They'll be back - looking for a way to regulate since an outright ban has been taken out of their toybox. Chicago Burb Shoots Down Gun Ban
Slap - up and ultra transparency toys, adult things, cupula material, sport equipment and seal rings etc.
Don't toy with the cat's tail.
Her long, slender fingers toyed nervously with the two rings she had on her right hand.
Gosh, it's over a year since I read The Moving Toyshop; here Gervase Fen is embroiled in a mystery of murder and espionage in a West Country cathedral town in about 1940. January Books 27) Holy Disorders, by Edmund Crispin
‘We are a completely vertical toy company, like none other,’ Booker says.
Crookes, a toy called the spinthariscope, on which radium particles impinge upon sulphide of zinc and make it luminous, induced him to associate the two sets of phenomena. The World Set Free
The saving grace of the past few days has been my preoccupation with a new geeky toy, a DVD recorder.
We used to have freedom and play in the fields with traditional toys such as hoops, a top and whip and marbles.
The amount of packaging in which many toys arrive is aggravating and ridiculous. » Such a Cute Little Carbon Emitter Strocel.com
The children the seventh heaven with their new toys.
Then he stops short and mulls it over, fingers toying absently with the spoon in his teacup.
And of course, a truckload of educational toys, books, puzzles, games and music.
Many of the subjects are necessarily members of wealthy or aristocratic families, and part of the purpose of the show is to explore the place of children in society their dress, and their toys.
The last of the turkey has been demolished, the new toys lie in a corner and the Christmas tree is shedding its needles at a rate of knots.
He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog.
Covering the webbed seat with inexpensive toweling renders this stool pool- or patio-worthy while the interior provides a spot to stow toys and picnic supplies.
They'll also get large and small cuddly meerkat toys. The Sun
Latex balloons, and toys or games that contain a latex balloon, must carry a warning that children younger than 8 can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons and that adult supervision is required Not just the newest toys hold risks for kids
Most toy factories are small or middle-sized, with limited staff and budgets for toy innovation.
It is fair to say the only Porsche I could have afforded would have been a dinky toy.
Remove knick-knacks, tabletop ornaments, stuffed toys, books, magazines and newspapers from your bedroom and minimize dust collectors in other rooms.
This is the kind of toy that children will soon tire of.
Compared to the size of the vessels in the enemy armada, these battleships were mere toys.
The rise in the Tonka bond was helped by a takeover bid from another toymaker, Hasbro.
Genetically modified toyo pananim makabuo ng 10 porsyento na mas mababa pagkain kaysa sa unmodified. Ideonexus.com »2008» Abril
Upon arriving at Scootypoof's place, I was really pleased to be greeted by Popeye the boxer dog and one of his favourite toys.
It may yet click its way to victory after victory, a monument to the Tinkertoy dreams of childhood.
When the notion of Santa Claus arrived in Britain, the same ladies would dress up as the bearded gent to visit poor homes with a toy for each child.
The crisis among toymakers is the first visible evidence of the country's rapid economic slowdown. Times, Sunday Times
All but toy microscopes are parfocal and parcentered. MAKE Magazine
He marched into my office for the first time and went straight for the closet full of toys.
This toy machine gun dismantles easily.
Louisa would move restlessly from one toy to another, apparently unable to concentrate on one activity.
For those more culturally inclined, there is a fairly good museum housed in a Japanese building from when Sakhalin Island was called Karafuto and Yuzhno was called Toyohara. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Invaded by photographs the toys are decontextualised from childhood, sinister, tragic recollections of a half-forgotten adventure.
It's a rare occurrence but, more than any other game in the series, God of War 3 has a sense of suffering in its toysome violence. IGN PS3
The effect of his language was till knaw, what skaith they had done, whow many they had won to ther oppinion sen their last meting, what succes the melting of the pictour had tane, and sic vain toyes. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
The boy pulled out his toy gun and yelled, ‘Pow, pow.’
The sheer amplitude of the novel invites comparisons with Tolstoy and George Eliot.
Who wants a rubber duck when you can play with a miniature ocean liner or toy paddle steamer? Times, Sunday Times
Marziya knows with money you get sweets toys, but here she is aware that what she gives the Umbrella lady will not get her anything in return..but a sweet smile .. and this is the lesson I teach Marziya , giving charity without compulsion, I teach Marziya along with photography the meaning of humility... Archive 2009-08-01
Put a slightly dangerous, do-it-yourself toy under the tree these days and you can decorate said tree with lawsuits.
For example, with this dream, I scrawled, "Bill Shunn waste time plastic toy platen. Dreaming of Bill Shunn and the Plastic Typewriter
Buck the trend and embrace pre-owned items, from clothing to furniture to toys. Erin Mahoney Harris: 10 Steps to Becoming a Greener Angeleno
When no remonstrance of hers availed to prevent the constant increase of expenses, Elizabeth saw that her assistance, instead of helping the family to get out of debt, was simply the means of providing toys for experimentation, and that she was being quietly but persistenly euchred out of all that her heart cherished. The Wind Before the Dawn
This is being fixed by adding a small piece of metal - called a "shim" - in a procedure that Toyota starts at dealerships in the UK on Wednesday. BBC - Ouch
This store keeps a large stock of toys.
The strong wind was hurling bits of wood aboutas though they were toys.
She has several executive toys on her desk.
You go follow the link to see what the creative toymaker is into these days.
The physical toys and the game graphics look crisp and clean in their comic book treatment. Times, Sunday Times
I'm sad about my toys getting burned in the fire.
Gretchen our Doberman was the best friend and pet a person could want and Bernie was sort of her chew toy, the dog to keep her entertained while we were away. Undefined
But Andrew had never thought the harmonica was a toy. Yolonda's Genius
Gather your toys up.
Yesh, an bringz mee de rattly mousy toy ob de wicked kitteh ob de basemint! Wat girl? I iz all alown in here, promis. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The toy is made of a balloon in a cloth sack that can be hit without busting.
small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys
Still, Hentai capsule toys are big business in Japan.
The morning after the awful tragedy flowers and cuddly toys were left outside the house by people who did not know the family personally.
He spoke casually and toyed with his pen.
Just this wonderful fantasy of grabbing on to toy balloons and floating into open space. Times, Sunday Times
Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children. 3.
Okay, it was less of a big dog than it was a toy chihuahua.
It follows our story yesterday about pets who still play with their old toys. The Sun
The girl loses control of her boy's toys and by the time l'hunque emerges from his boudoir, la fille has been eaten by the sofa. The Hard Sell: Stella Artois
In these early days, the gramophone was considered to be little more than a toy, and the ‘great artists’ of the time did not want to condescend to its perceived level to make recordings.
Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
Derby toyed with City's feeble efforts in the second half and were content not to take chances. The Sun
But they look up and admire the architecture, the faded paint on the bricks promoting toys, candy and soda, the tin ceilings visible through the huge windows, and every last one of them is just tickled by it all. BAR Approves Downtown Demolition at cvillenews.com
Those who stared longest were more willing to share a toy in tests. The Sun
It could be that you want your child to tidy the toys away each day, or change out of his school uniform when he gets home - it's up to you.
Tools, parts, toys, instruments, tchotchkes - the weight of some new thing in my hand, often small, metallic and well machined, compels me to add it to my life.
Fascinated by toys and their miniature mechanisms, Ravel wrote his Mother Goose suite for two musical children as a four-hand duet.
Toyota first imported the T - 100 and as the market found it lacking heft and zip it was replaced in 1999 by the U.S. bodied, import-engined Tundra.
Jason's new toy train is his pride and joy.
Javier Oliva-Madrid carried about $18,000 in rumpled small bills into a Tysons Corner car dealership to help pay for a Toyota 4Runner. Probe reveals inner workings of ring shipping drugs from Mexico to D.C. area
To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.
And the moment with the discarded toys coming to life hits with stark terror and reminds us, if only for a moment, of the swarming mummies in Spielberg's great Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Before his facile perils and ready laugh, life was no longer an affair of serious effort and restraint, but a toy, to be played with and turned topsy-turvy, carelessly to be lived and pleasured in, and carelessly to be flung aside. Chapter 2
She dumped the toys proudly on the kitchen table before taking her seat and another slurpy mouthful of cereal. Law of Attraction
unsentimentally, she threw out her dead son's toys
Forrest silently toyed with the toothpick lodged between his lips.
Aucun bon citoyen ne peut retenir ses larmes sur le sort malheureux auquel la chose publique est abandonnée. Moniteur/Morning Chronicle
This is why MGM was the echt Hollywood studio of the first half of the century, its scripts adapted from nineteenth-century novels by Tolstoy and Dickens, its gowns by Adrian, and its sets by Cedric Gibbons.
Tolstoy tried to mix domesticity and family life, but he would come downstairs after writing and see his family playing and his eyes would well up.
He felt himself running in slow motion, slower and slower, like a clockwork toy running down. CHARMED LIFE
The cars and houses, while occasionally showing signs of human habitation, look unreal, like toy models set against a colored background.
They looked at floral tributes and about 40 cuddly toys and teddy bears left by locals. The Sun
Also, I believe Toyota is six sigma, which is less than 3.4 errors/1 million chances or 00. 00034%, so they would tear their arms out if they were at 00.04%. — Politicians Aren’t the Only Ones Who Use Fuzzy Math; Journalists Like It Too - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Laura was toying with her food and looking increasingly bored.
Not only could she carry on any kind of conversation, ranging from various topics, but her wittiness and toying sarcasm often brought laughter from the circle of people that were gathered.
The room was full of Legos and random toys scattering the ground.
I’ve toyed with the idea of broaching the subject of ID for some time now, and while I have skirted the issue in class, I’ve never developed a lecture for it, largely because I fully agree that it is non-science. Archive 2006-02-01
It's best to use the OLPC etoys image of etoys squeak, which is now superior to the version on the squeakland site: install instructions here This tutorial matches the OLPC image version of etoys, it would be hard to follow all the detail of it if using the Squeakland version. Making pong in etoys
Bath toys - a few cups or beakers for demonstrating how to pour will liven up bathtime.
Recently I attended a meeting jointly held by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a voluntary standards certification organization, and the Toy Industry Association (TIA), a trade group that represents toy makers. Toy industry moves toward safety certification program
Demand outstrips supply and in 1934 he goes to the toymakers Parker Brothers who turn him down on the grounds that it contains 52 ‘fundamental errors’.
The Audi saloon was parked at the side of the road when it was hit by the Toyota.
Our home is at the southwestern tip of the valley, nestled among the lace-lichen laden oaks, bay laurel, mountain mahogany, ceanothus and toyon which typify this classically central coast California oak woodland.
My favourite childhood object was my toy gun. Times, Sunday Times
Scientists tested 131 products, including toys, video cables, phone cords, place mats and other household items.
To help gain entry into new outlets, toymakers are developing more exclusive products and packaging.
The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the caste, penny plain twopence coloured, the stink and glory of the performance and the final conflagration. Archive 2010-04-01
However, he said the NHTSA gave him the "runaround" and Toyota allowed him only to speak to entry-level employees. Latest News - UPI.com
The plot of the five-issue miniseries is loosely based on the Fall Out Boy song "Tiffany Blews" and will focus on "a mysterious toymaker, a cyborg gal named Tiffany and a kid in a bear suit that looks lifted from the cover of Fall Out Boy's Folie á Deux," their latest album released last year. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz to write Fall Out Toyworks for Image | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
After supper she wound up the gramophone to play the `Kreutzer" Sonata, and he told her about the story by Tolstoy, read on the troopship. THE OPEN DOOR
Using inflatable toys and a PFD for flotation, participants swim down a stretch of the river.
She had no appetite, and merely toyed with the bread and cheese.
Toyota, which has hired an independent consulting firm to examine the issue, said as late as Tuesday that exhaustive testing has found no problems with that system.
The pickup driver complied with the police order, but quickly fled from the truck, pulled out a handgun and commandeered a passing 2003 Toyota Corolla with two occupants.
His latest toy is a mobile phone.
Why use a friendly, cuddly bear, which is usually a toy and associated with young children, and exploit that?
But unlike their counterparts at Nissan and Toyota, none enjoys the full benefits of trade union membership.
The boy floated his toy boat on the pond
The metals in question range from the truly rare, such as rhenium, to more abundant but hard-to-process elements such as rare-earth metals, a collective name for 17 minerals used in products like iPhones, the Toyota Prius, vacuum cleaners and energy-efficient light bulbs. Testing Their Metals
put the toys away
However, car manufacturer Toyota has weighed in saying those other terms infringe on their right to use "Integrated Electric Drive" for their Prius hybrid electric car. Jim Lichtman: Liars, Cheats May Suffer 'Ethics Disorder'
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Within moments, taking advantage of the thermals over the wanner water off the coast, Falyna and the pteridon were high enough that Dramuria looked like a toy village below. Alector's Choice
Burned in recent years by huge unsold inventories of movie merchandise and fearful of the slowing economy, everyone from toymakers and retailers to moviemakers has cut back.
Andrew raised his eyebrows, but his eyes didn't stray from his own face as he continued to toy with his hair.
Have you seen how TOYota loves pimping their bakkies with "chromed" side mirrors, bumpers and some fancy (yet boring) chrome detail on their pathetic radiators? Undefined
He fetches his favorite toy, an ancient stinky ball of kapok and synthetic fur, cured and flavored by two years spent outdoors in all seasons.
Ali, who was two at the time, loved the story about the little girl who lived in a teeny, weeny house and played with itty, bitty toys.
Get a head start on spring-cleaning and donate clothes, toys, furniture, household items, and old computers to nonprofits accepting them.
Main Products: metal dog cage, pet enclosure, metal rabbit cage, wooden rabbit hutch, chicken coop, pet bed, pet carrier, pet stroller, pet cloths and pet toys.
To be even more blunt: If the entire haruspical tradition is from the Near East and related closely with Babylonian or Hittite religion which share the same practices, then why aren't Etruscologists doing the sensible thing and putting away their childish toys namely Capella's fictitious poetry and picking up a book on Babylonian or Hittite divination practices in order to understand Etruscan religion more competently? Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4
The flame of truism burns bright in Shane's love for Dostoyevsky's kind of Crime & Punishment.
Feel things may be getting excessive when a multipack of batteries doesn't even come close to filling your toys.
They were unable to play with one toy or complete one task, and they engaged in unusually impulsive behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And speaking of toys of a sexual nature, we also asked what kind of accoutrements we might find in the drawer of your bedside table. Portland Mercury
Helen looked on Miriam as a pretty ornament or toy, and Miriam gazed dubiously at what she called the piety of the other. Moor Fires
His latest toy is the electric drill he bought last week.
These may include wood for building, sandboxes, watering cans, shovels, and pots for playing outdoors; dolls made of natural fibers and toys of wood and cloth for indoors.
i love Apple, Toyota, Jon Stewart makes me lol as he smarms his way through my progressive beliefs, he's like a living blog! omfg have u seen ball maher? that guy is like, brilliant. Dealbreaker
Toys made of rubber in the shape of snakes, lizards, chameleons, scorpions and crabs are selling like hot cakes.
It is a Tolstoyan study in human fallibility in the context of global history, the like of which nobody on this side of the pond has come close to emulating.
Most Pixar films, even the emotionally-devastating Toy Story 3, went out with G ratings, but Bolt went out with a PG for basically having a (fantastic) curtain-raiser opening action sequence that was quickly revealed to be fake and for a climactic moment of fiery peril for the lead characters. Scott Mendelson: What Does a Cartoon Have to Do to Get a 'G' These Days?
Donovan delivered more than he received from Fitin; he sent the Russian reports on oil terminals in Romania, the location of German spare parts depots, Abwehr spying on the Soviets in Turkey, gossip Dulles picked up on Hitler and Göring, along with a sampling of OSS toys, such as the suitcase radio, pistol silencers, pocket incendiaries, and a portable microfilm set with miniature camera for agents photographing documents in the field. Wild Bill Donovan
And like many children's toys today, playthings for pets are becoming more technological and educational.
Montoya thinks Romero might be the one, a real torero.
Why would the tires toyo, yokohama, dunlop lemans or nitto be more superior to kumho tires? Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
They churn out 3 000 identical toy trains every day.
So next time you think there's an artificially constructed landform on another planet or a child's toy with a hidden message, remember, your brain is very good at finding patterns ... even when they aren't there. For your listening pleasure and amusement...
We're toying with the idea of going to Peru next year.
Schumacher pulled ahead of Montoya as the two drivers approached the first corner of the race.
Fluffy Tag Cloud angry annoying bad cat basement cat bed box car cat cheezburger classics computer costume couch cute dog do not want fud ginger has helping hungry kitteh kitten lolbirds lolcats loldogs lolkittehs love mean movies murder nap nom nom nom oh noes outside playing plotting sad scared sleeping toy treasure video want work Li’l Pink Jellybean Toes… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
We're not playthings, we're not your little toys you can use to play God!
The baby kept grabbing away at the toy.
He sat back in the open coach, "hunched" together in an ungainly heap, looking neither to the right nor the left, evincing no consciousness of the existence of the shouting throngs that lined the pavements ten deep, other than by raising, with the lifeless precision of a mechanical toy, the cocked hat he wore as part of the uniform of a British colonel. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
Merler found that A. ostoyae killed mostly subdominant balsam and spruce at this site.
Today is the the day we present our interview with Paul Blake, a developer from ToyVault -- the maniacal purveyors of the blasphemously adorable Plush Cthulhu line. The LNN interviews Paul Blake from ToyVault : The Lovecraft News Network
Next stop was Florence, and our base was the Anglo American, a plush hotel boasting Tolstoy among its former guests.
Lilac wallpaper and oilcloth on pantry shelves say he was married, and scattered toys suggest children.
This means that vitamins and chewing toys must be eliminated and that flavored medications such as certain ecto/endoparasite preventatives should be replaced by other, equally effective non-flavored preparations. The Seattle Times
Now passing from these courtly trifles, let vs talke of our scholastical toyes, that is of the Grammaticall versifying of the Greeks and Latines and see whether it might be reduced into our English arte or no. The Arte of English Poesie
‘When the film came out I felt undressed, and not just because I was sexually violated,’ she says, toying with her fruit salad.
They also warn against soft bedding, blankets, pillows and soft toys. The Sun
During the years that Page kept his letter book toys were sold by toy dealers, confectioners, importers, and general merchants.
I used to have some moonraker toys as well they were cool. Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums
For the rest of his long, innovative and hugely prolific career, he drew inspiration from the comics, novelties, magazines, toys and cheap novelettes collected over the years with magpie insatiability.
Those setbacks have eroded Toyota's position against global rivals including Hyundai Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, and pose longer-term worries for one of Japan's most important industrial giants. Toyota Slams on the Brakes
There was this whole thing with treats that get put in dog toys. The Sun
Togolese Colonel Yark Damehane has accused the 'Movement citoyen pour l'alternance' or Citizens's Movement for Change to which the youths belong of inciting citizens to violence as it vows to use "any means" in order disrupt the polls nationwide. AllAfrica News: Latest
Everything bar the kitchen sink has to go… from cuddly toys to the cars standing on their driveway.
He also loves being outside in his pushchair and hugging his brown dog toy. The Sun
In the children's section of department stores and in banks there are often toys to be found.
Jumping on the fuel-cell bandwagon with Honda, General Motors, and Toyota, Mercedes-Benz has announced it will begin leasing around 100 of its latest F-Cell fuel-cell vehicles in California starting this December. Mercedes-Benz to lease fuel-cell vehicles in California starting in December
The boy beamed as if he had just won a stuffed toy in one of those side shows at the county fair.
But unlike their counterparts at Nissan and Toyota, none enjoys the full benefits of trade union membership.

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