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Incels, short for involuntary celibate, are men who blame women because they are unable to find a sexual partner.
California’s vaccine laws, which were tightened in the wake of the 2014-15 measles outbreak at Disneyland, make it difficult for parents to send children to school without a series of standard childhood vaccines, including the shots known as DTaP, short for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis; and MMR, short for measles, mumps and rubella.
The meeting follows the government abolishing NHS England, the world's biggest quango - short for a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation - last week.
A member of the SDK gang, short for “Surenos Do Kill,” Merino, 37, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a man in South Los Angeles in 2009, according to an appellate decision that summarized evidence at his trial.
Chris - whose name has been changed - told the BBC he started to take part in chemsex, short for chemical sex, which helped mask the "the shame and guilt" he said he felt growing up gay.
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