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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
An obvious, unambiguous divide between the policies of two parties.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, especially, idiomatic, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Introduced by the Conservative Party in the 1990s.
