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The prosecution said the girls were abused, degraded and then "discarded" by the paedophiles, who worked either at the market or as taxi drivers.

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The technique is far from polished as the egg randomly chooses which chromosomes to discard.

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Francis spent a few weeks sorting through the archive and discarding lasts and shoe boxes that were too covered in mold or deteriorated to be worth keeping.

The neighbour was described as having disappeared, with one police source saying he "seemed to have vanished" and discarded his phone.

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“It’s probably one of the No. 1 things we see for animals that come to us needing care, is some sort of fishing interaction, whether that be discarded lines or hooks,” Stevens said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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