Plain

//plɛjn//

Synonyms for "plain" (692 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (139)

simple apparent austere chaste dry featureless flatland homely ordinary plateau prairie steppe unadorned unembellished unvarnished naked abrupt absolute absolutely affable

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agricultural region air space all embracing all out all pervading all-embracing all-encompassing all-out all-pervading apparently appreciable arable land arrant articulate artless ascetic attic audible axiom axiomatic back country bald bare barefaced baseborn basic basin beautiless below the salt billiard table black belt blank blemished blotted bluff blunt bohemian born born yesterday bottomland bowling green broad broad-based brusque cacophonic cacophonous campestral campestrian campo candid case casual champaign cheerful cheery childlike ciceronian circumstance citrus belt classic classical clean clean cut clean-cut clear clear as crystal clear as day clear space clear-cut clearance clearing cockney coherent colorless comfortable common commonplace complain comprehensive confiding congenital connected consistent conspicuous consummate contrastive cordial corn belt cotton belt countryside cozy crisp crystal clear crystal-clear crystalline cushy

Adjective(18 words)

simple unadorned acceptable austere banal bare bare-bones bland blatant bloody bog-standard boring chaste cold colourless consarn crude damn

Adjective(2 words)

Adverb(1 words)

Noun(1 words)

Verb(1 words)

Strong matches (207)

Adjective(17 words)

damned darned dreich drowsy elucidate explicit frank garden variety general honest inornate intraordinary jeezly jesusly lackluster languid lifeless

datum dead flat dead level deep dyed deep-dyed defaced defined definite degage delta demonstrative desert direct discernible discreet disfigured distant prospect distinct distinctive down

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downright drab dull dust bowl dyed-in-the-wool dysphemistic dysphemized earth earthborn easy easy as pie easygoing effortless egregious elegant elementary empty view esplanade essential even everyday evident exhaustive explicit express facile fact familiar farm belt farm country farmland fell finished fizz flat flats flattened floor flush folksy forthright frank frankhearted free free and easy free spoken free-speaking free-spoken free-tongued friendly fruit belt fundamental garden garden variety garden-variety genuine glade glaring glib graceful gracile gracious graphic grass roots grassland grazing region gross ground guileless hard haymish hearable heart-to-heart heath hi fi hi-fi high plain high-fidelity highlands homaloid homaloidal homelike homespun homey homish homogeneous honest horizontal horizontal axis horizontal fault horizontal line horizontal parallax horizontal plane horizontal projection household humble humble-looking humble-visaged humblest humdrum ignoble ill-favored in focus indisputable indivisible indubitable inelaborate inelegant informal ingenu ingenuous inglorious innocent innocuous insipid intelligible intensive intimate irreducible irregular irretrievably irrevocably knit lean least lebensraum ledge legible level level line level plane light limpid literal living space llano loose loud and clear low lowborn lowbred lowest lowlands lowliest lowly lucid luminous main manifest mare marred matter of fact matter-of-fact mead meadows and pastures meagre mean

Adjective(3 words)

evident homely manifest

Adverb(2 words)

evidently manifestly

Noun(6 words)

field field in reference to a battlefield flatland grassland knit knit stitch

Verb(2 words)

kick kvetch

Related words (346)

mean sea level mere mesa mickey mouse modest monolithic moor moorland moors mousy mundane muted naive natural neat nitty gritty no frills nonclerical nondescript normal

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notable nothing to it noticeable observable obvious of a piece offhand offhanded omnibus omnipresent open open country open space open-and-shut openhanded openhearted out-and-out outback outright outspoken overt painless palpable pampas parterre pasture patent peaceful pedestrian pellucid perceivable perceptible perfect perfectly perspicuous pervasive pictorial plain as day plain spoken plain-speaking plain-spoken plains plane platform playa plebeian plumb plump poetryless polished poor postulate prairies primal primary prominent pronounced prosaic prose prosing prosy province provinces public pure pure and simple quite radical readable refined regular relaxed restrained right rolled round routine rude rural district rustic rustic region salt flat salt marsh savanna sea level sea of grass seeable self-esteem self-evident self-explaining self-explanatory severe shabby-genteel sheer short short on looks simon pure simon-pure simple as abc simple-speaking simplehearted simpleminded sincere single single minded single-hearted single-minded small smooth smoothed out smoothened snug sober sociable soft solid coloured spare spartan spoiled squashed squashed flat staring stark steppes straight straight out straight-out straightforward sweeping table tableland tabloid tabular tailored tangible tasteful teachable terrace terrain territory terse the country the soil the sticks third-estate thorough thoroughgoing through and through through-and-through tiresome to be seen tobacco belt total translucent transparent transpicuous trim trodden trodden flat trustful trusting tundra ubiquitous uglified ugly ugly as hell ugly as sin unadulterated unaesthetic unaffected unalluring unambiguous unassuming unattractive unbeauteous unbeautiful unburdensome unceremonious unchecked uncluttered uncomely uncomplicated unconcealed unconditional unconfused unconstrained unconventional undecorated understandable undifferenced undifferentiated undiluted undisguised undissembled undissembling undistinguished unelaborate unenhanced unequivocal unfeigned ungarnished ungenteel unguarded unhandsome unidealistic uniform unimaginative unimpassioned unimportant universal univocal unlabored unlovely unluxurious unmingled unmistakable unmitigated unmixed unofficial unornamented unostentatious unpleasing unpoetic unpoetical unpretending unpretentious unpretty unqualified unrelievedly unremarkable unreserved unrestrained unrestricted unromantic unseasoned unsightly unsophisticated unstudied unsuspicious unwary upland uplands utter vanilla vapid veld veldt veritable vernacular visible vivid vulgar water level weald well-defined well-marked well-pronounced well-resolved wheat belt wholesale wide open spaces wide-open spaces wilderness wold woodland woods and fields workaday workday yokeldom

Adjective(40 words)

modest monochrome no-frills normal notable obvious ordinary ostensible overt plain as porridge plain to see prima facie quiet ready salted run-of-the-mill severe sincere snoozy soporific spartan

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standard standard issue stinking stripped down uncool undecked unembellished unexceptional unextravagant ungarnished unholiday unornamented unpolished unseasoned untrimmed unvarnished usual wan weaksauce white bread

Adverb(3 words)

obviously patently plainly

Adjective(11 words)

palpable patent sheer spare unembellished unmingled unmistakable unmixed unornamented unpatterned unvarnished

Noun(1 words)

plain stitch

Verb(2 words)

quetch sound off

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

13 relation types

More general

13 entries

dry land earth express give tongue to ground knitting stitch land solid ground terra firma terrain utter verbalise verbalize

Antonyms

19 entries

bells and whistles cliff complicated decorated decorative elaborate exotic extravagant fancy fancy decorated gorge mountain ornate patterned showy

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Synonyms

19 entries

apparent apparently complain flatland high plain homely knit no frills normal ordinary plateau prairie simple steppe unadorned unembellished

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Related terms

7 entries

complain esplanade explain plaint plaintive planar plane

at location

7 entries

africa air countryside georgia landscape mid west middle america

derived

213 entries

Angas Plains Australia Plains Avon Plains Back Plains Barunah Plains Bell Plain Bohle Plains Boonooroo Plains Boors Plain Boss of the Plains Brodies Plains Browns Plains Bruie Plains Brumby Plains Burt Plain Cecil Plains

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distinct from

9 entries

complicated decorated decorative extraordinary extravagant fancy fantastic ornate pretty

etymologically related_to

1 entries

plein

has context

2 entries

computing regional

is a

8 entries

flat terrain land land topographical feature large area of land natural thing open feild with grass political party tangible thing

related to

86 entries

adornment aircraft and simple austere average average looking bagel barren basic battlefield bewail blandness blunt boring candid character

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similar

39 entries

austere bare chaste direct dry featureless homely inelaborate literal

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used for

15 entries

animals to graze freely being geological feature farming farmland grasses to grow grazing animals grazing cattle grow lots of wheat growing crops invade poland open skies remove thin layers settling new homestead smooth wood visibility to horizon

Translations

296 translations across 103 languages.

Albanian

3 entries

arë noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
rrafsh noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
rrah noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Ancient Greek

4 entries

λιτός adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
ψιλός adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
πεδίον noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
πεδιάς noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Arabic

4 entries

بسيط adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
بَسِيط adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
سادة adj (of just one colour)
سهل noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Armenian

3 entries

պարզ adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
դաշտավայր noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
հարթավայր noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Asturian

3 entries

llana noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
llanada noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
llanera noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Aymara

1 entries

pampa noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

sadə adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
saya adj (of just one colour)
düzən noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
düzənlik noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Bashkir

1 entries

тигеҙлек noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Basque

3 entries

apal adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
lau adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
xume adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Belarusian

1 entries

раўні́на noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Bengali

1 entries

সমভূমি noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Bulgarian

4 entries

едноцветен adj (of just one colour)
обикновен adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
прост adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
равнина́ noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Burmese

1 entries

မြေပြန့် noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Catalan

4 entries

natural adj (unseasoned)
net adj (computing: containing no non-printing characters)
senzill adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
simple adj (unseasoned)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

دەشت noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Chechen

1 entries

аре noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries

平原 noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
平野 noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

原味 adj (unseasoned)
平常 adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
平的 adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
簡單 /简单 adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Chuvash

1 entries

тӳремлӗх noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Czech

4 entries

obyčejný adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
prostý adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
planina noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
pláň noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Danish

2 entries

ensfarvet adj (of just one colour)
slette noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Dutch

3 entries

eenvoudig adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
kaal adj (computing: containing no non-printing characters)
vlakte noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Eastern Bontoc

2 entries

chator noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
tanap noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Esperanto

2 entries

ebenaĵo noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
ebeno noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Estonian

1 entries

tasandik noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Finnish

4 entries

maustamaton adj (unseasoned)
selvä adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
tavallinen adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
tavallinen adj (unseasoned)

French

4 entries

nature adj (unseasoned)
simple adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
simple texte adj (computing: containing no non-printing characters)
uni adj (of just one colour)

Galician

4 entries

chaira noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
chanzada noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
chaúra noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
zua noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Georgian

2 entries

ბარი noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
ვაკე noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

German

3 entries

Natur adj (unseasoned)
schlicht adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
Ebene noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Greek

2 entries

πεδίο noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
πεδιάδα noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Hebrew

2 entries

מִישׁוֹר noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
עֲרָבָה noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Hindi

1 entries

मैदान noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Hungarian

4 entries

egyszerű adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
alföld noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
róna noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
síkság noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Icelandic

3 entries

hreinn adj (unseasoned)
flatlendi noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
slétta noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Ilocano

1 entries

patag noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Indonesian

1 entries

dataran noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Ingrian

3 entries

lakkia noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
neemi noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
tasanko noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Iranian Persian

3 entries

جُلْگِه noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
دَشْت noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
هامون noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Irish

4 entries

pléineáilte adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
pléineáilte adj (unseasoned)
simplí adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
machaire noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Italian

4 entries

al naturale adj (unseasoned)
in bianco adj (unseasoned)
semplice adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
pianura noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Japanese

4 entries

平 adj (computing: containing no non-printing characters)
平易な adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
普段の adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
普通の adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Kabuverdianu

3 entries

kran adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
kran adj (unseasoned)
txada noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Kazakh

3 entries

жазаң noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
жазық noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
тегістік noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Khmer

3 entries

វាល noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
វាលទំនាប noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
វាលរាប noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Korean

3 entries

소박한 adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
평야 noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
평지 noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

түздүк noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
түзөң noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Ladino

2 entries

plano adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
sémplise (Monastir) adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Lao

1 entries

ທີ່ຮາບ noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Latin

3 entries

non condītus adj (unseasoned)
plānitiēs noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
plānum noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Latvian

1 entries

līdzenums noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Lithuanian

1 entries

lyguma noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Lower Sorbian

3 entries

płonina noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
płoń noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
rownina noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Lubuagan Kalinga

1 entries

talap noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Macedonian

1 entries

рамнина noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Malagasy

1 entries

sàha adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Malay

1 entries

dataran noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Manchu

1 entries

ᠪᡳᡤᠠᠨ adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Mongolian

1 entries

тал газар noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Māori

4 entries

kōkau adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
māmore adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
taramore adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
tōkau adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Navajo

1 entries

halgai noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Neapolitan

1 entries

chiana noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Northern Kurdish

3 entries

sade adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
xwerû adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
deşt noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries

ensfarga adj (of just one colour)
ensfarget adj (of just one colour)
slette noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries

einsfarga adj (of just one colour)
slett noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
slette noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Nyunga

1 entries

banitj noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Occitan

1 entries

plana noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

بسیط adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
بیاغی adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
تربیهسز adj (unseasoned)
ساده adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Pashto

3 entries

جلګه noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
شاګۍ noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
هواره noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

schlicht adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Polish

4 entries

jednolity adj (of just one colour)
nieprzyprawiony adj (unseasoned)
prosty adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
prosty adj (computing: containing no non-printing characters)

Portuguese

4 entries

insípido adj (unseasoned)
natural adj (unseasoned)
simples adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
simples adj (computing: containing no non-printing characters)

Quechua

1 entries

pampa noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Romanian

2 entries

câmpie noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
șes noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Russian

4 entries

обы́чный adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
обыкнове́нный adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
обычный adj (computing: containing no non-printing characters)
одноцветный adj (of just one colour)

Sanskrit

1 entries

अज्र noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

sìmplidh adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

jȅdnostāvan adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
òbičan adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
о̀бичан adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
је̏дноста̄ван adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Slovak

4 entries

bez príchute adj (unseasoned)
obyčajný adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
planina noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
rovina noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Slovene

3 entries

navaden adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
preprost adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
rovina noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Southern Kalinga

1 entries

tanap noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Spanish

4 entries

a palo seco adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
con solamente caracteres normales adj (computing: containing no non-printing characters)
desabrido adj (unseasoned)
enterizo adj (of just one colour)

Swahili

1 entries

tambarare noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Swedish

3 entries

enfärgad adj (of just one colour)
vanlig adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
slätt noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Tagalog

4 entries

linso adj (of just one colour)
liso adj (of just one colour)
pangkaraniwan adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
payak adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)

Tajik

2 entries

дашт noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
ҳомун noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Tashelhit

1 entries

ⴰⵣⴰⵖⴰⵔ noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Tatar

1 entries

тигезлек noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Telugu

1 entries

బయలు noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Tetum

1 entries

rai tetuk noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Thai

3 entries

งั้น ๆ adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
ธรรมดา adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
ที่ราบ noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Tibetan

1 entries

ཐང noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Turkish

4 entries

sade adj (ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation)
sade adj (unseasoned)
düzlük noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
ova noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Turkmen

1 entries

düzlük noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Tày

1 entries

búng tô̱ng nà noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Ukrainian

1 entries

рівни́на noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Urdu

2 entries

دَشْت noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
مَیدان noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Uyghur

1 entries

تۈزلەڭلىك noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Uzbek

1 entries

tekislik noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Vietnamese

2 entries

bình nguyên noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
đồng bằng noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Walloon

2 entries

plin noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
plinne noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Welsh

3 entries

gwastad noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
gwastadedd noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
gwastatir noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Zazaki

1 entries

merg (diq) noun (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

Sample sentences

47 total sentences available.

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Your opinion is off the mark. That's plain to anyone.

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It's quite plain that you haven't been paying attention.

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It is plain that you have done this before.

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It is plain that you are to blame.

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