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To assign to something of one category, a quality or action which can only properly be assigned to things of another, mutually exclusive category. For example, accidentally treating a guide to the legal profession as a unique source of meaningful information about the global legal elite, and not simply a solid, level platform for positioning a monitor on.

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• guide to the legal profession