BBC's poor cousin is now hanging on to Bill Gates's coat-tails.

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Laser fusion is the poor cousin of magnetic-confinement fusion.

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With the deregulation of its financial market in the mid-1990s and subsequent stock market boom, Iceland had transformed itself from the poor cousin in Europe to one of the region's wealthiest countries.

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She artfully negotiated her scraper spoony thing around the ice cream and shaved off way more than two thirds, leaving me with the undernourished, poor cousin of what was once a giant gelato cone.

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