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unless
B1Frequent NGSL-2used to say that something can only happen or be true in a particular situation
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unless your specific emergency was that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section.
Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)
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Well, I mean, I'm trying to set a good example because the birthrate on Earth is so low that we're facing civilizational collapse unless the birth rate returns to a sustainable level.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you fail by default.
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