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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <search>
      <p ns="0" title="Safari Contest" snippet="...émon, though only one Pokémon from each trainer can be ranked at a time, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; every Pokémon you submit will replace the one you submitted before it. At &#10;" size="1888" wordcount="294" timestamp="2021-01-10T05:03:11Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="SS Anne" snippet="*Trainers can only have one record added to the leaderboard per day, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; if you win 10 battles your first go around, then come back and only win 8, &#10;" size="4548" wordcount="685" timestamp="2019-03-02T01:24:50Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="TPPC Glossary" snippet="! &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Meaning&lt;/span&gt;&#10;" size="3957" wordcount="638" timestamp="2024-02-05T12:49:43Z" />
    </search>
  </query>
</api>