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The third and fourth divisions in Turkey, in which more than 900 of the suspected players ply their trade, have been suspended for the last two weeks.

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Rather, it imagines that plying the audience with mythical rivers of liberal tears is enough and confirms the assumption that there are no funny conservative comedians, which simply isn’t true.

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The four men and one woman plied their victims - aged between 16 and 30 - with drugs at various properties between 2021 and 2022.

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Day and night, the so-called whaleboats ply the mighty Congo River -- the second longest in Africa and the deepest in the world -- overloaded with both people and cargo.

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Both girls had "deeply troubled home lives" and were plied with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes and given places to stay by the men, the court was told.

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

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