Problem: The town of Cortlandville , close to the western border of the county , is surrounded by the city of Cortland .
The city of Cortlandville , near the western border of the county , is surrounded by the town of Cortland .
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Irvine Park in Orange , Orange County is a park that became California 's first regional park in 1897 .
Irvine Park in Orange , California , is a park that became the first regional park in Orange County in 1897 .

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1. On 9 June 2017 , Barkchi Vitaliy Levchenko appointed her manager after Mubin Ergashev joined the Krylia Sovetov coaching staff .
2. On 9 June 2017 , Barkchi appointed Mubin Ergashev as their manager after Vitaliy Levchenko joined the coaching staff of Krylia Sovetov .
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no

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The states that participated in this study were Aguascalientes , Jalisco , Chihuahua , Durango , Guerrero , Chiapas , Oaxaca , Sinaloa , Veracruz and Yucatan .
The countries that participated in this study were Aguascalientes , Chiapas , Chihuahua , Durango , Guerrero , Jalisco , Oaxaca , Sinaloa , Veracruz and Yucatan .
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Same meaning?
The affine scaling direction can be used to choose a heuristic to adaptively define the centering parameter as
The affine scaling direction can be used to create a heuristic to adaptively define the centering parameter as

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Answer: yes

Same meaning?
John Franklin Armstrong was born on November 14 , 1819 in Lincoln County , Tennessee , son of William Armstrong and Mary W. I. Monroe .
William William Armstrong was born on 14 November 1819 in Lincoln County ( Tennessee ) as son of John Franklin Armstrong and Mary W. I. Monroe .

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no