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Name the 100 most common words ending in -ize (see note below), according to the COCA Corpus of Contemporary English. # of occurrences in corpus and first letter shown.

NOTE: -IZE must be used as a suffix in the word with the meaning ‘to cause or to become’ – so words such as ‘SIZE’ and ‘SEIZE’ are not included.

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