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noun • favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs) | ||||||||
22% | 7 | Seabird said to draw blood from its own breast with its pouched beak to feed its young, thus a symbol of self-sacrifice and motherly love to the nation co-opted for Elizabeth I | ||||||
noun • large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | ||||||||
20% | 11 | Characterizing a distribution with a larger number of observations around its mean and a relatively smaller number of observations in its tails | ||||||
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NEPOTISM which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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7 | Seabird said to draw blood from its own breast with its pouched beak to feed its young, thus a symbol of self-sacrifice and motherly love to the nation co-opted for Elizabeth I
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