Problem: Wwo sentences:
The FCC said existing televisions , VCRs , DVD players and related equipment would remain fully functional under the new broadcast flag system .
It also required that existing televisions , VCRs , DVD players and related equipment will remain fully functional under the new broadcast flag system .
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Answer: yes

Here are two sentences:

" The United States welcomes a greater NATO role in Iraq 's stabilisation , " Powell said , according to the text of prepared remarks seen by Reuters .

" The United States welcomes a greater NATO role in Iraq 's stabilization , " Mr. Powell said in a speech to fellow NATO ministers .
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yes

Q: SARS , the deadly respiratory disease first detected in China last November , gave the agency its first real test of a new state-of-the-art emergency operations center .

And SARS , the deadly respiratory disease first detected in China last November , tested the agency 's new state-of-the-art emergency operations center .

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A: yes

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Do these sentences have the same meaning?
" What they have done is a thinly veiled attempt to do an end run around the Constitution , " she said .
The church 's lawyer , Shirley Phelps-Roper , was clear : " What they have done is a thinly veiled attempt to do an end run around the constitution , " she said .

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yes

input question: A man , 19-year-old Antowain Johnson , ''tried to go back in and get the rest of them but the smoke wouldn 't let him , ' ' she said .
She said another man , 19-year-old Antowain Johnson , " tried to go back in ... but the smoke wouldn 't let him . "

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output answer: yes

Problem: Wwo sentences:
More than 100 officers launched the raids in the final phase of a two-year operation investigating a cocaine import and money laundering ring .
More than 100 police officers were involved in the busts that were the culmination of a two-year operation investigating the cocaine importing and money laundering gang .
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yes