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In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
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it is not known how much , if any , of this story is true , but historians do know that china was the first civilization to use silk.
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it is not known how much story is true , but historians do know that china was the first people to use silk.


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history the district was created in 1994 by merging the previous districts eisenberg , jena and stadtroda.
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the district was made in 1994 by merging old districts eisenberg , jena and stadtroda.


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in october 1983 , the grameen bank project was transformed into an independent bank by government legislation.
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in october 1983 , the grameen bank project was changed into an independent bank by the laws of the government.