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used to describe the movement of data, it allows the speaker to gloss over the fact that there is an active agent performing the data transfer. For example, the sentence "Alice had her identity stolen" allows the speaker to gloss over the fact that someone or something did the actual stealing of Alice's identity. If we say that "Carol was able to find Bob's bankruptcy records because they had been placed online", we are implicitly ignoring the fact that someone or some organization did the actual collection of the bankruptcy records from a court

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