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works

noun as in everything

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"Given the way stamp duty works, this would be unevenly distributed across the country," Mr Cook added.

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I have no idea how it works and no idea how others use it for investing.

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Divorce, obviously, puts a spanner in the works — and two divorces means two spanners — but you’ve managed to come out of those marriages financially intact.

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He works wonders for other people’s words too.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature was on Thursday awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, considered by many as Hungary's most important living author, whose works explore themes of postmodern dystopia and melancholy.

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