Question:
S1: A power cut in New York in 1977 left 9 million people without electricity for up to 25 hours .
S2: The outage resurrected memories of other massive power blackouts , including one in 1977 that left about 9 million people without electricity for 25 hours .
Are S1 and S2 the same?
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no

QUES: Officials say Peeler and Jones were never legally married but had a common-law marriage .

According to the GBI , Ms. Peeler and Mr. Jones were never legally married but had a common-law marriage .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: yes

[Q]: Britain has said it will oppose articles calling for closer coordination of tax and economic policy , to uphold the national right of veto .

Britain has said it wants to haggle over articles of the draft calling for closer coordination of tax and economic policy .

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[A]: no

Problem: Wwo sentences:
A DOD team is working to determine how hackers gained access to the system and what needs to be done to fix the breach .
A DoD team is on site to determine how this happened and what needs to be done to fix the breach , the release stated .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
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Answer: yes

Here are two sentences:

The search feature works with around 120,000 titles from 190 publishers , which translates into some 33 million pages of searchable text .

The feature , which has the approval of book publishers , puts some 33 million pages of searchable text at the disposal of Amazon.com shoppers .
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yes

Q:
Do these sentences have the same meaning?
" I figure we 've destroyed about one-half of Al Qaeda , the top operators of Al Qaeda , and that 's good , " Mr. Bush said .
" We 've destroyed about one half of al Qaeda , the top operators of al Qaeda , and that 's good .

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yes