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99%7Exact Match!
noun

• something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency

32%8 To periodically break or suspend momentarily
verb

• cease an action temporarily

29%8 "Break, Break, Break" poet
noun

• Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)

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