See Californicate on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1978, Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner, “Rocky Mountain Country”, in The Atlantic:",
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"ref": "1986, Robert W. Maichle, on behalf of the Motorcycle Racing Association of Nevada, Nevada Wilderness Act of 1985, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 832:",
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"ref": "2012 [2001], Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 65:",
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