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I'm guessing this is intentional. To a human, although this could be somebody being asked to justify their financial margins that's not a very likely answer. The human can easily see that, while it's possible they're the same meaning, given the lack of any other context the answer is that they're not.

The enemy could have landed several of our aircraft on one of their runways. Agassi may have beaten Becker over the head with his tennis racket. I suspect part of the test is that there can be other meanings that do technically work.




> The enemy could have landed several of our aircraft on one of their runways.

This is something that actually does happen. Less than 10 or 20 years ago, China did it to an US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft.




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