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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But although many pirates see it all as a jolly jape , people in the software business are getting worried.
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But even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point; and Blast had none.
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No explanation for the fall was ever given, though Sir Thomas believed he may have been involved in some stupid jape .
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The brand might be no mark of honour at all - but a culminating cruel humiliating jape .
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The not unfamiliar childish jape of depositing a stink bomb in her locker caused her great anguish.
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What a jape it would be, declared Raphaelo, to gain access to the heat sink.
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What larks and japes persuaded this audience to collapse in convulsions is a mystery as dark as the Druids' Runes.