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• “It gives a run-down of the schematics and expectations people should have for the game as follows:”

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• “They meet to have anonymous, no-strings-attached sex in a mostly unfurnished, run-down apartment.”

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• “The desolation, she continued, evokes certain things for certain audiences—"the opposite of luxury, the opposite of color, the opposite of comfort"—and creates a charged dynamic with the settings in the story-telling, such as a kitchen in Thomas's run-down home, a small-town cheesecake shop, and a dance hall.”

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• “And much of it was trucked to Mr. Coyne's rock-crushing operation behind a tall gray fence in a run-down industrial section of Newark.”

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• “Dozens of run-down warehouses or empty lots were soon plastered with building permits.”

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• “I pull up to Barney's "triple-decker," a somewhat run-down example of the three-floored apartment buildings that make up much of Boston's older housing stock.”

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• “Vigoda was a hit as a run-down, mopey, and almost retired detective.”

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• “The former workhouse in the Fitzrovia neighborhood — most recently part of a hospital that closed in 2005 — is one of hundreds of run-down Georgian and Victorian buildings that Londoners pass without a second glance.”

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• “The old blue Oldsmobile in which they sat had been payment to Vin for a debt owed, and as run-down and ugly as it looked, it was the perfect getaway car since it was built for speed.”

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• “In Saturday's Post, pop music critic Chris Richards wrote about the "secret jazz" of Washington's noisy, run-down Metro escalators.”

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