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Nice segway — or nice segue?

Which is correct? Telecom carriers are increasingly making a ______ into cloud services. a. segway b. segue

Forego or forgo?

Which is correct? "We don't know whether platform or service is the direction enterprises are going to go —...

mantle or mantel?

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