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other companies in the same business; rival firms

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having one misfortune after another; insult to injury

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whole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph

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total amount of damage

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midsummer; height of summer

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festival (esp. music, film, etc.)

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prosperity; bustle; activity; crowd; turnout

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near; nearby; not far off

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the whole sky; the firmament; the heavens; the empyrean

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romantic

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to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

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as everyone knows; needless to say; obvious

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diverse; various; wide-ranging

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(essential) utilities; lifeline

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bookworm; bibliophile; bibliophage

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please look at it

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highlight; best part; stunning; incredible; to stun; to amaze

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pickpocket

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embezzlement; misappropriation; pocketing; covering up wrongdoings and feigning ignorance

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to drive (a car) around; to ride (a bicycle) around

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tire; tyre

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to be worn down; to wear away; to wear out; to dwindle; to be reduced

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possession; occupation; occupancy

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embezzlement; misappropriation; peculation; fraudulent appropriation

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don't get me wrong, but ...; I'm sorry

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high-school baseball player

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last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

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trial calculation; preliminary calculation; estimation

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10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication

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returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay); bride's first visit to her parents after getting married; coming back (of an item; after having been on loan, etc. abroad); (arch.) temporarily returning to one's home (of a servant)

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relief; embossed carving; bringing to the fore; throwing something into relief

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baseball-playing teenager; high-school baseball player

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preventive measure; precautionary measure

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opaque; obscure; opacity; obscurity; unclear; unpredictable

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last stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier

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to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak

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terminal station

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going to and fro; back and forth

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bookmaker

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scoreless (game or competition)

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to be breathtaking; to be stifling

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pitching duel; pitchers' battle

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(economic) depression; recession; slump

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no sleep or rest; working day and night

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nationwide; countrywide; national; throughout the country

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day on which the temperature rises above 35°C; extremely hot day

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reference; allusion

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social phenomenon

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high (atmospheric) pressure; high-pressure system; high-pressure zone; anticyclone

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to project; to overhang; to stick out; to put up (a notice); to post

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