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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <parse title="API" displaytitle="API">
    <text xml:space="preserve">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/english/index.php?title=%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E5%85%A5%E9%96%80/TOEIC%E5%AF%BE%E7%AD%96:Sandbox&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1&quot; class=&quot;new&quot; title=&quot;英語入門/TOEIC対策:Sandbox (存在しないページ)&quot;&gt;英語入門/TOEIC対策:Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- 
NewPP limit report
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Real time usage: 0.012 seconds
Preprocessor visited node count: 2/1000000
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--&gt;
</text>
    <langlinks />
    <categories />
    <links>
      <pl ns="4" xml:space="preserve">英語入門/TOEIC対策:Sandbox</pl>
    </links>
    <templates>
      <tl ns="4" xml:space="preserve">英語入門/TOEIC対策:Sandbox</tl>
    </templates>
    <images />
    <externallinks />
    <sections />
    <iwlinks />
    <properties />
  </parse>
</api>