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Maintains Power Over Substitutes

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noun

• fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

27%15 Behaving in a way that maintains power over another by treating them like a child
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22%12 Directive for missionaries or substitutes?
noun

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

adjective satellite

• serving or used in place of another

• necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities

• pertaining to unconventional choices

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