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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <search>
      <p ns="0" title="Bylaws" snippet="...xclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes within the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the correspon&#10;" size="16885" wordcount="2531" timestamp="2019-06-19T16:25:27Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="2015-07-22 meeting notes" snippet="* &amp;quot;Don&#039;t be a Dick&amp;quot; &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;?&#10;" size="2495" wordcount="344" timestamp="2015-12-11T19:55:27Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Visual Communication" snippet="Will images help convey &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;? Use images if they can reduce word count or it helps get attention. Raid t&#10;" size="11022" wordcount="1932" timestamp="2017-10-17T22:19:58Z" />
    </search>
  </query>
</api>