See throwaway on Wiktionary
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"word": "throwaway panel"
}
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"categories": [
"English ellipses",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Comics"
],
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"ref": "2022 March 31, Benjamin L. Clark, quotee, “Interview on PEANUTS with the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center”, in UT Magazine:",
"text": "Cartoonists include panels that can be eliminated without losing any of the story or humor, but Schulz would often draw creative title panels and throwaways as a nod to those newspapers that kept his strip as he envisioned.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Ellipsis of throwaway panel"
],
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"comics",
"comics"
],
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"throwaway panel#English"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(comics) Ellipsis of throwaway panel"
],
"tags": [
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"literature",
"media",
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"word": "throwaway"
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