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We’re getting closer to a birth control pill for men | Learn the English idiom ‘shoulder the burden’
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Hello, you’ve reached the Bogota Anti-Machismo Calm Line | Learn the English expression ‘root cause’
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China proposes controversial Hong Kong security law | Learn the English expression ‘stacked against’
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