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noun

• an occurrence of something

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

verb

• clarify by giving an example of

34%9 Epoch of the ancients
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34%10 Author of the astronomical treatise 'An Introduction to a History of the Principal Fixed Stars of the Ancients'
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