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Joe and Harris were talking <em>about</em> their football match.
'Nobody' is basically contracted in itself, I don't believe you can decrease the word further.
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Creon asks Oedipus if he wants to hear the news in private, but Oedipus insists that all the citizens hear. Creon then tells what he has learned from the god Apollo, who spoke through the oracle: the murderer of Laius, who ruled Thebes before Oedipus, is in Thebes. He must be driven out in order for the plague to end.
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