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adjective

• employed in accomplishing something

adjective satellite

• (of persons) taken advantage of

• previously used or owned by another

23%8Threadbare
adjective satellite

• marked by poverty befitting a beggar

• (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

23%6Threadbare expression
noun

• a trite or obvious remark

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