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Regex flavors are tasty.

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Do native speakers still use "ought to"?
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Is the "global" in "global pandemic" redundant?
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Idiom for saying something doesn't cost a lot for someone rich?
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What would you call, for the lack of a better way to put it, "benign nationalism"?
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