See Chinesium on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2017 May 8, Clocky, “12V UV Germicidal Light Bulb”, in aus.electronics (Usenet):",
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"ref": "2020 May 18, andrewwayc...@gmail.com, “315M DPSS laser issues, fringe movement”, in alt.lasers (Usenet):",
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"ref": "2022 November 24, Mostowski Collapse, “\"Without loss of generality\" may not be formalizable”, in sci.math (Usenet):",
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"ref": "2023 January 10, Phil Hobbs, “Logic analyzers”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet):",
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