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descoping
 v.— «The 130 half-finished clinics will simply be removed from the contract—”de-scoping” is a new word one picks up quickly when looking at the hundreds of aborted projects in Iraq.» —“Iraq’s Reconstruction a Boondoogle by Design” by Joshua Holland AlterNet July 17, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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