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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.

the following year , a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals -lrb- all but one of which was a nordic cross -rrb- and polled the people to determine the most popular.
Output:
a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals and polled the people to determine the most popular.