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This key is for all use cases by commercial enterprises and developers wishing to utilise Guardian journalism in any manner. In addition to app development and publishing content on third party sites, use cases may also include but are not limited to: training models for generative artificial intelligence services, text and data mining solutions, sentiment analysis where content is not reproduced, and any and all products and services derived or sourced from Guardian content.
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