Endless Depression Over Crude Plagiarism

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Updated: September 30, 2025

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noun • hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it • the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
	28%	4		Depression, long lost depression
noun • an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine • a well or other hole in which water has collected • a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
	28%	7		Crude metal with crude definition of copper to decrease?
noun • crude iron tapped from a blast furnace

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