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Familiar with gripping, tense, uplifting poems you articulated (4,2)

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used to

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(Other definitions for used to that I've seen before include "Accustomed or inured" , "Did at times in the past" , "Familiar with" , "Not unfamiliar with" , "Was in the habit" .)

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