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Receive
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TO RECEIVE. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
     2. A landlord, for example, could not be said to receive the key from his tenant, when the latter left it at his house without his knowledge, unless by his acts afterwards, he should be presumed to have given his consent.



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Carol Martinez was on the receiving end of several of Banning's seven first-half fouls -- three resulting in yellow cards -- but they weren't enough to slow down the Sylmar forward, who scored a season-high fourgoals and added an assist in a 6-0 victory at Garfield High.
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