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“lessing” pronunciation in American English

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“lessing” in real sentences

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  1. doris lessing who we're lucky to have with us here tonight

    The Royal Society

  2. something Elif Shafak said to me about and she was kind of quoting Doris Lessing was

    Penguin Books UK

  3. books include a literature of their own british women novelist from bronte to lessing and a

    British Library

  4. end I quote Lawrence Lessing historian of copyright but himself a copyright lawyer but an ordinary

    Domitor Conference

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