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Which color do you want – red, green, yellow, or blue?
He’s probably at lunch or in a meeting.
“When will you get the results?” “Either tomorrow or the day after.”
You don’t care whether he lives or dies, do you?
The jury must decide whether the prisoner is guilty or not.
The candidate obviously hasn’t chosen a running mate or he would have made the announcement.
It must be something serious, or else they wouldn’t have radioed for help.
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a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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