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lor·em ip·sum

 (lôr′əm ĭp′səm)
n.
Text consisting of jumbled fragments of Latin words, used as a placeholder in designing the layout of a document.

[From the first two words traditionally used in such text (taken from the phrase (Neque porro quisquam est qui do)lorem ipsum (quia dolor sit amet), "Nor is there anyone who loves pain for pain's sake," in Cicero's philosophical work De finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the Ends of Good and Evil")).]
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