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  "title": "What does \"can\" mean?",
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  "summary": "\"To be able to\" is slang from English mog/mogging: to overshadow someone with their appearance, to look noticeably better than the person next to them. Came from the online culture of Lukmaxing, goes back to AMOG (\"alpha male company\"). It usually sounds funny, but it can be offensive.",
  "body_markdown": "** To be able to ** means to outshine someone in appearance: to look so much better that the person next to you loses against your background. Example: \"he could have done it\", \"I could have been in the photo\".\n\n**Where:** from English slang *mog / mogging*. The word comes from the vocabulary of looksmaxxing, an online culture where people discuss how to improve their appearance. It is usually abbreviated as *AMOG* (alpha male of the group).\n\n**How to use:**\n\n- ** can someone** — look better than a particular person, especially when you are near in a photo or video;\n- **I could have been ** — I lost in appearance against someone else's background;\n- ** moging** is the very phenomenon when one person looks noticeably more advantageous against the background of another.\n\nOften the word sounds funny or ironic, for example, in the comments to joint photos of celebrities. But it has a toxic connotation: it reduces people to comparing their appearance, so it can be offensive to seriously talk about someone like that.",
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