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The Oxford English Dictionary (hereon "OED", for simplicity’s sake) offers several alternative definitions for the term pride . Almost none of them are positive. For present purposes, let’s skip the more obscure leonine variant--and in fact, a "pride of lions " may actually have its etymological roots in the symbolic representation of this animal during the Middle Ages for the biblical sin--and instead turn our attention to the rather slippery semantic aspects, since there’s a lot encapsulated by this peculiarly bipolar word.
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Israeli settlers on the West Bank have discovered a new way of getting their message across: Violent shoot 'em ups based on the Six Day War and Biblical history. Israeli settlers in the West Bank have stumbled on a new way to get their message across: computer games
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