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noun

an award to the dog, cat, or other animal judged best of all breeds in a competition.

the animal that wins such an award.

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IS and ARE are both forms of which verb?

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The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.
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As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.
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We resolved to do our best to merit the good opinion which we thus supposed them to entertain of us.
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He is perplexed and hindered by the lack of soldiers, but is doing his best with his small forces.
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None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
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If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
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