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English word
background
A2Frequent NGSL-2the details of a person’s family, education, experience, etc.
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So, uh, my background—uh, in brief—I'll talk a little bit about Zip 2.
Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture
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This is what enables people from such diverse backgrounds to come together just through the medium of K-pop.
So I was very interested in my own culture and my background.
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