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• material (for a story, article, etc.); information; news item n
• joke; jest; (comedy) routine; made-up story n
• proof; evidence n
• (magician's) trick; secret n
• ingredients n
• (Internet) meme n sl

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• kind; variety n n-suf
• (biological) species n n-suf
• (logical) species n n-suf abbr
• seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kind; variety; quality; tone n
• material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); subject; theme; (news) copy n
• ingredient; leaven (bread); main ingredient of a sushi n food
• cause; source n
• trick; secret; magician's trick; inside story n
• paternal blood; lineage n
• breed (of a stock); sperm; semen n
• 10-point card (in hanafuda); tane; animal card n uk
• cause; seed; origin n n-suf
• variety; kind n
• counter for varieties n ctr