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Lumen Technologies, Inc., et al. – ‘8-K’ for 9/11/20 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Friday, 9/11/20, at 4:16pm ET   ·   For:  9/11/20   ·   Accession #:  1193125-20-244126   ·   File #s:  1-07784, 1-35134

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 9/11/20  Centurylink, Inc.                 8-K:7,9     9/11/20   13:272K                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA
          Level 3 Parent, LLC

Current Report   —   Form 8-K
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     41K 
 2: EX-99.1     Miscellaneous Exhibit                               HTML     10K 
 9: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     57K 
11: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     13K 
 8: XML         XBRL Instance -- d945480d8k_htm                      XML     23K 
10: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      6K 
 4: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- ctl-20200911_cal                XML      7K 
 5: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- ctl-20200911_def                 XML     43K 
 6: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- ctl-20200911_lab                      XML     57K 
 7: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- ctl-20200911_pre               XML     43K 
 3: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- ctl-20200911                          XSD     18K 
12: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               15±    22K 
13: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-20-244126-xbrl      Zip     15K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — ctl-20200911_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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