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internal
adjective
happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
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ɪnˈtɜː.nəl
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adjective
happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
“internal organs”
adjective
located inward
“{'source': 'Leonard Bernstein', 'text': "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"}”
adjective
inside the country
“the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior”
adjective
occurring within an institution or community
“intragroup squabbling within the corporation”
adjective
innermost or essential
“the inner logic of Cubism”
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internal organs
internal mechanism of a toy
internal party maneuvering
{'source': 'Leonard Bernstein', 'text': "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"}
{'source': 'David Denby', 'text': 'she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it'}
{'source': 'A.R.Gurney,Jr.', 'text': 'an internal sense of rightousness'}
the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
the nation's internal politics
intragroup squabbling within the corporation
the inner logic of Cubism
the internal contradictions of the theory
the intimate structure of matter
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