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noun

• an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council

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noun

• a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung

• a mental pain or distress

• a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act

verb

• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

• deliver a sting to

• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous

• cause a stinging pain

• cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging

24%3 a word used to refer to a thing or person of a number or kind, when the exact thing or kind is not known or stated
adverb

• to any degree or extent

adjective satellite

• one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential

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New York Times27 Aug 2006 Down 122
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