And yet, the Beyhive really clung on to the comment.
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Oil clung on to Friday's gains trading around $50.69 per barrel.
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I definitely clung on to the people that I did see.
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Commerzbank has quit investment banking; Deutsche, though weakened, has clung on.
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Rumors swirled that Cherchesov's job was at risk but he clung on.
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They clung on for three days, as the cyclone howled around them.
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Elite families have clung on to their wealth and power through various political transitions.
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Euro/dollar clung on to $1.10 first thing Thursday, with German bund futures higher.
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In Peres, a noble idea of the Jewish State clung on against the dismal tide.
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How gleefully he clung on to that triumph, though, became a metaphor for his reign.
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The S&P 500 also traded lower while the Nasdaq clung on to small gains.
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Once the Lib Dems had a foothold, they clung on with ferocious campaigning on local issues.
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It clung on, according to its opponents and some analysts, only by large-scale vote-buying.
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But Carson clung on and has continued to say that he would stay in the race.
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Despite posting mounting losses and racking up debt reportedly worth $1003 billion, Jet Airways clung on.
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The rebels have clung on in Aleppo, despite the intensity of Russian and Syrian air raids.
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Through asset sales, defaults and forbearance from his creditors, Mr Trump clung on and avoided personal bankruptcy.
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She has since clung on to office, but as the captive, rather than leader of her Cabinet.
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Saturday's simultaneous legislative elections also saw the DPP lose seven seats, though it has clung on to a majority.
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Two medium-sized parties have quit the PMDB-led coalition, but their ministers have clung on to their cabinet posts.
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This month she clung on after winning a confidence vote in which 117 of her own MPs voted against her.
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Despite being beyond its design lifespan, Jason-2 clung on long enough to still be operational as Jason-3 launched.
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He stabbed it with some sticks and beaned it on the head with a rock, but the cat clung on.
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The very last board he clung on to, that of Tata Sons itself, is rid of him as of this week.
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Even in Germany, the rich country where making things has clung on tightest, only one in five workers is in manufacturing.
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The Republicans appeared to have clung on in a special election for a congressional seat in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio.
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Authorities said Lubin spit in one demonstrator&aposs face and clung on to another demonstrator as police tried to arrest her.
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He clung on at 3-5, saving two match points, then had a break point as Federer served for the match.
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Since he was one of the few Tories to have clung on to their seats, his views may carry some weight.
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The 93-year-old Mugabe had clung on for a week after an army takeover, with ZANU-PF urging him to go.
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The nanoparticles clung on for nearly two months, allowing the mice to see both NIR and visible light with minimal side effects.
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They had opened roughly 1 percent lower as some investors who had clung on to hopes of MSCI inclusion unwound their bets.
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Until then, he says, like many other relatives, they had clung on to the futile hope that perhaps there had been a mistake.
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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.4 percent overnight, but clung on for a 0.8 percent gain for the week.
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Xiaomi topped the wearables market twice during the year with its cheap fitness trackers, and Fitbit clung on stolidly though its ups and downs.
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Revolutions and a couple of world wars brought monarchies tumbling down across Europe; they clung on only in the southern, northern and western peripheries.
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The early round was once again all Cikatic as Hug clung on and ran away when he could, but again Cikatic slowed mid round.
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He clung on to his job despite suffering an early exit in the Confederations Cup by coming third in their group behind Portugal and Mexico.
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I'll never forget that moment as I clung on to my father because the look in Gilbert's eye—that I had betrayed him—haunted me.
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Montoya said that the last time he saw his daughter, "she clung on to me and screamed" when he dropped her off at her mother's.
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The result, she found, was that each molecule of the material clung on to six molecules of urea—a payload big enough to justify further testing.
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Of the soft-Brexit candidates, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, appears well placed, despite having only just clung on to her parliamentary seat in June's election.
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Whatever he said, and whatever he did, conservatives clung on to the tiger's tail, convinced Trump would deliver them a Supreme Court pick they could get behind.
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In Germany last weekend the centrists clung on to power, after members of the Social Democratic Party approved a new "grand coalition" with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.
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She's not as smart as her father was, and so far she's clung on to the throne through a mixture of sheer will and pure aggression alone.
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In the event the Socialists clung on to their position as the largest force on the left, winning 22.7% of the vote and 85 seats (down five).
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She clung on to get to a tiebreak but was well beaten in it and an early break in the second set put Halep 3-1 up.
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He had clung on for a week after an army takeover and expulsion from his ZANU-PF party, but quit after parliament began an impeachment process against him.
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Despite the claims he not only clung on to his job but also continued to sit on a committee that adjudicates over questions of behaviour in the Commons.
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For another week, Mugabe clung on to the presidency as Chiwenga and his forces tried to engineer a peaceful, and quasi-legal, exit for the long-serving leader.
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If anything, they were lucky — some small groups of burrowing bettongs clung on at a few islands that were relatively sheltered from the ravages visited on the mainland.
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Somehow, even as the energy drained from their legs and the tension gripped their minds, this team that glimpses the future and echoes the past, had clung on.
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"I'm really, really happy because my ultimate goal was to get a medal at the Olympics," she said as she clung on to the silver medal around her neck.
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Sandgren had a two-set lead over Berrettini before the Italian surged, but clung on for a 7-6(7), 6-20183, 4-6, 2-28, 22018-219 victory.
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And so, for better or for worse, painting clung on, the abstract kind and the figurative kind, and the kind that wove its subtle way between the two impulses.
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For the condition to have clung on into adulthood, it was either so severe that treatment failed, the right treatment wasn't in reach, or the issue wasn't addressed at all.
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The Soviet Union's stagnation did not become a big political issue until about five decades after the Communist Party seized power, and the old government clung on for another 20 years.
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Offensive combat operations were terminated after troops put a stop to the last stand of rebel gunmen who clung on inside several buildings in the heart of Marawi, and refused to surrender.
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But the 29-year-old only just clung on to win by two shots on 18 under par after Shadoff hit a 64, including five successive birdies, to finish on 16 under.
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Some hedge funds seem to have anticipated a bout of short covering, which is probably why many clung on to long positions and did not liquidate them despite the drop in prices.
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Taking a well-trodden route north out of sub-Saharan Africa, Wamba clung on to his treasured ball until he had to jettison it on the sea crossing from Turkey to Greece.
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But football's World Cup has clung on as the last "appointment to view" — an occasion for people to turn on the TV. Now it too is finally being disrupted, though not destroyed.
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At Vicarage Road, Spurs clung on for a 13-1 draw with their near neighbors after Davinson Sanchez was sent off for elbowing Brazilian Richarlison at the start of the second half.
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Aru powered away from Froome and other top riders with a burst of acceleration on the sharp ascent to the Planche des Belles Filles ski station and clung on to the finish.
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We're talking back when all of his grey hairs were confined to that confusing patch on the back of his head and the top button on his shirt clung on for dear life.
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The Wawona tree was killed by the process and later fell during a storm in the 1960s, but the Pioneer Cabin Tree clung on, showing signs of life well into the 21st century.
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Olympique Lyon clung on to eliminate AS Roma 5-4 on aggregate despite a 2-1 defeat, while former European trophy winners Ajax Amsterdam and Anderlecht also went through along with Racing Genk.
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Even the pounds, miles, gallons and so on, clung on to by a few benighted Anglophones, are, malgré eux, defined in terms of the SI. Measuring anything means comparing it with an agreed standard.
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Perhaps society has clung on, somewhere, while all around you humanity is shattered, carved up into pockets of increasingly feral folk who might not be too pleased to find you rummaging through their supplies.
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Hong Kong stocks largely clung on to gains Thursday after seeing a 0.68103% surge a day earlier, on the back of news that the city's controversial extradition bill that's sparked protests will be withdrawn.
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Yet, while the West has suffered from the financial crisis and the fallout after a failed attempt to implant democracy in the Middle East, China's Communist Party has clung on to its monopoly of power.
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Huawei clung on to the second spot in global smartphone shipments during the third quarter and recorded the highest annual growth out of the top-2343 players at 29%, according to market analytics firm Canalys.
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Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats and the SPD clung on as the largest parties in Saxony and Brandenburg respectively but bled support to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which came second in both states.
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The 93-year-old Mugabe had clung on for a week after an army takeover, and finally resigned on Tuesday, moments after parliament began an impeachment process, prompting dancing in the streets of the capital, Harare.
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Yet its president, Nicolás Maduro, has clung on by flouting the constitution, repressing the opposition and using the country's dwindling income from oil, almost its only export, to pay off the armed forces that support him.
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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party made big gains in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony in elections Sunday, while Chancellor Angela Merkel's party and its coalition partner just clung on to diminishing pluralities.
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Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and the SPD clung on as the largest parties in Saxony and Brandenburg respectively, but bled support to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which came second in both states.
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While Silva clung on to his hopes of fighting again without mentioning the possibility of retirement, Sonnen announced his return to the sport following his seemingly-permanent hiatus from MMA on September 15, 2016, signing for Bellator.
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Playing with her right thigh heavily strapped, the Frenchwoman lost the first set, but clung on as the clock at the National Tennis Stadium ticked past midnight to prevail 6-7(5) 7-5 7-6(6).
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Tate managed to get Holm back on the mat late in the fifth and final round, but despite an acrobatic attempt to escape by the champion, Tate clung on to render her unconscious and claim the title.
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LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - European shares clung on to gains in early deals on Thursday helped by firmer banking shares and as corporate deals activity, after French aero firms Safran and Zodiac finally striking a deal, continued apace.
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Ahmed Patel, Congress President Sonia Gandhi's political secretary, clung on in Tuesday's vote to the seat he has held for 24 years, despite a push by Modi's team to chisel away the support of lawmakers from his party.
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Partly as a result, policymakers often felt caught between two stools: either they clung on to old growth strategies (such as low-end manufacturing) for too long, or they embraced sophisticated models (such as the "knowledge economy") too soon.
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The signs of inflation come as bellwether companies have recently cautioned that higher costs could erode margins, warnings that investors clung on to, rather than reports that showed first-quarter corporate profit growth was the strongest in seven years.
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Yet the few thousand operators in Rio de Janeiro who have clung on to their jobs well into the 21st century are hoping the forces of automation won't entirely obliterate their trade, at least for a few more years.
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Embraces, tears, kissing the hallowed ground and the drawn, deadbeat staring into the distant nowhere of the endlessly exhausted, the permanently haunted, by possible attack from behind and the dream up ahead that must, somehow, be clung on to.
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But these are also well-made, long-lasting shoes that are sure to be worth the effort, and this is probably the real reason why Birkenstock and other brands requiring upfront investment have clung on between the trend waves.
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But UMNO clung on to its rural Malay Muslim heartlands and the votes of rank-and-file civil servants - most of whom are ethnic Malays due to a decades-old positive discrimination policy that gives them priority for government jobs.
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In France's presidential race, centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen clung on as frontrunners, but a far-left veteran has surged into the top four, pushing some pollsters to calculate the most extreme run-off scenarios.
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Its facilities have clung on through three weeks of galloping case growth by delaying surgeries, stopping HIV treatments, converting regular hospital space into covid-19 units, and depending on exhausted doctors and nurses — some of whom are becoming sick themselves.
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Though Democrats are mostly uncompetitive in congressional elections in the South, a few have clung on to state-level office there on the strength of their reputations for getting stuff done and voters' greater pragmatism as politics moves closer to home.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's conservatives appeared to be at war with themselves less than 50 days from the presidential election as Francois Fillon clung on to his struggling, scandal-tainted campaign and senior party members fought to oust him as their candidate.
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Hot Chip singer Alexis Taylor—whose recent turn towards sparse piano-and-vocal solo work has been a charming surprise—was one of those Prince fans who clung on to the bootlegs and dug down into the artist's work a long way back.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - In his darkest moments last year when he doubted if he would ever get back to full fitness following his knee injury, Roger Federer clung on to one thought — he still had the game to maybe sneak another grand slam title.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dutchman Mike Teunissen clung on to the yellow jersey for another day as his Jumbo-Visma team powered to victory in the Tour de France's second stage on Sunday — a 27.6-km team time trial around the streets of Brussels.
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The 93-year-old had clung on for a week after an army takeover and expulsion from his own ruling ZANU-PF party, but resigned shortly after parliament began an impeachment process seen as the only legal way to force him out.
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Speaker Jacob Mudenda said the ruling party ZANU-PF had informed him it has nominated Mnangagwa to fill the vacancy of the office of president, replacing the 93-year-old Mugabe who had clung on for a week after an army takeover.
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Voters fed up with the two main parties have plenty of other options, whether Lib Dem or Green (which also offers outright opposition to Brexit), or a battered, bruised and increasingly far-right UK Independence Party, which clung on to some seats despite having fallen apart institutionally.
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Despite having been held under house arrest, sacked by his party and given an ultimatum to resign by Monday or face impeachment, Mugabe had clung on – even veering off-script in a televised speech under the generals' supervision in which he had been expected to quit.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Centrist Emmanuel Macron clung on to his status as favorite to win France's presidential election in a four-way race that is too close to call, as the camp of far-right challenger Marine Le Pen ramped up its eurosceptic rhetoric in a row with Brussels.
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After all, Trump's attempted quid pro quo centered around his obsession with launching an investigation into whether Joe Biden, his ostensible rival in the 2020 election, illegally leaned on the Ukrainian government to protect his son's board seat — a storyline Trump adamantly clung on to during his impeachment trial.
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As a founder-member of Lutte pour le Changement (Struggle for Change), Lucha for short, he had campaigned since 2012 for democracy in Congo, for proper elections and alternation in government, instead of the relentlessly continuing rule of President Joseph Kabila, who had clung on for 17 years.
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On top of this, flows of people moving from one job to another, which fell sharply during the recession as workers clung on to whatever position they could find, have picked up and are now back at pre-recession levels, says Samuel Tombs of Pantheon Macroeconomics, a consultancy.
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The Russian managed to hold serve for the first time in the match at 4-2 and clung on grimly in the face of some hard hitting by her 19-year-old opponent before converting her fourth break point of the next game to get back on serve at 83-3.
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And after botching the baton exchange between Mr Gatlin and Mr Miller, the United States fell a long way behind a well-rehearsed British team, which clung on to win by one hundredth of a second—despite the fact that only one of them had ever broken the ten-second barrier.
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Sharapova managed to hold serve for the first time in the match at 4-2 and clung on grimly in the face of some hard hitting by Sabalenka, a 19-year-old Belarusian ranked 102nd, before converting her fourth break point of the next game to get back on serve at 83-3.
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