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keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills

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state of affairs; situation; conditions; circumstances

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ability; faculty

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to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on

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surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency

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even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing

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gap; opening; break; interval; unguarded moment; carelessness

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eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son

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small; little; tiny

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subsidiary (company)

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demotion; relegation; reduction in rank; degradation; downward move

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seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...

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the Two Ise Shrines

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abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning

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sharing; share (on social media); market share

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to take (by force); to take away; to snatch; to absorb (one's attention); to fascinate; to captivate

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excuse; explanation

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but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding

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new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date

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reclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. of a new market); breaking new ground

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business; trade; operations; sales

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fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she

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comprehension; consent; understanding; OK; roger

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safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction

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dream for the future; hopes for the future

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(someone else's) parents; both parents

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small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)

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to die; to pass away

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lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking

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both (people); the two of them

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tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable

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close; intimate; on good terms

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scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops

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sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course

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to come true (of a dream, wish, etc.); to be realized; to be fulfilled; to be granted; to be answered (of a prayer); to be requited (of love)

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to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)

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desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application

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above; over; top; summit; surface; on (top of); the above (in a piece of writing)

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even now; still; as yet

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baseball

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to go to see; to visit

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Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan; Koshien Stadium (baseball park in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture); National High School Baseball Tournament (held annually in August at Koshien Stadium); Summer Koshien; National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (held annually in March at Koshien Stadium)

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to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for

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origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient

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high-school baseball player

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older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella

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university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

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counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun

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place of employment

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portrait photo; mug shot; face shot; photograph of a person's face

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