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  • 1popularity — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, great, huge, immense, massive, overwhelming, tremendous, widespread ▪ unprecedented …

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  • 2Need for Speed: High Stakes — Developer(s) EA Canada Publisher(s) Elec …

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  • 3stake — stake1 W3 [steık] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1 at stake 2¦(company/business)¦ 3 have a stake in something 4¦(money risked)¦ 5 high stakes 6¦(pointed stick)¦ 7 the stake 8 in the popularity/fashion etc stakes 9 (be prepared to) go to the stake for/over something …

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  • 4stake — I UK [steɪk] / US noun Word forms stake : singular stake plural stakes ** 1) a) [countable] business the part of a business that you own because you have invested money in it stake in: They took a 40% stake in the company last year. a… …

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  • 5stake — stake1 [ steık ] noun ** 1. ) count a wooden or metal post with a pointed end that is used for supporting or marking something a ) the stake a thick wooden pole that someone was tied to and burned in the past as a punishment: be burned at the… …

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  • 6stake — 1 noun 1 SHARP POST (C) a pointed piece of wood, metal etc that is pushed into the ground to hold a rope, mark a particular place etc 2 the stake a post to which a person was tied in former times to be killed by being burnt: burn sb at the stake …

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  • 7stake — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 (also stakes) amount that could be won/lost ADJECTIVE ▪ big, high ▪ low, small ▪ personal ▪ H …

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  • 8stake — I 1. noun a stake in the ground Syn: post, pole, stick, spike, upright, support, prop, strut, pale, paling, picket, pile, piling, cane 2. verb 1) the plants have to be staked Syn …

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  • 10Frederick Ma — Si hang (馬時亨) (born 1952 in Hong Kong with family roots in Chaozhou, Guangdong). As a former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, he was a popular figure with the public and with… …

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