"WOWer" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From WOW + -er.",
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          "ref": "2006 July, Ian Jackson, “Inbox”, in Edge, number 164, page 127:",
          "text": "The inability to affect the game world in any significant way is of course, unavoidable, if [Darkmaster] Gandling could be truly destroyed, then it would have already been done so by one of the professional WOW'''ers that spend more time in Azeroth than in the real world.",
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          "ref": "2006 August 3, Gazette staff and wire reports, “Gizmos”, in The Gazette, volume 124, number 206, page 1D:",
          "text": "Dating Web site created to help WOWers connect […] Enter World of Datecraft, a Web site meant to facilitate real-life meetings between players of the world’s most popular online fantasy, also called WOWers.",
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          "ref": "2008, Julie Cameron, Tony Flowers, Margaret Hart, Mark Peace, Neil Renton, Duncan Watts, Michael Wright, AQA Sociology A2, Nelson Thornes, →ISBN, page 143:",
          "text": "Dr Maressa Orzack, a clinical psychologist who studies games addiction, argues that up to 40 per cent of the 6 million US WOWers are addicted to the game, but she presents little evidence to support this claim. The Chinese government is bringing in legislation to prevent the 20 million Chinese ‘WOWers’ from playing the game for too long because of the ‘social and economic damage’ caused by such addiction.",
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          "ref": "2008 December 9, Max Snelling, “Addicts Anonymous”, in Mouth of the River, page 19:",
          "text": "Even one of the esteemed teachers of Oyster River High School has become a WOWer. Trevor Garman, a second year English teacher at ORHS plays WOW about 1-2 hours a day. \"My favorite part is going through the instances with my buddies,\" Garman says. He also claims to have been a WOWer for four years, and even says he has fallen into minor moments of 'addiction' with the game in his long tenor as a WOWer.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 February, “Meet the team”, in PC Zone, number 203, page 6:",
          "text": "Our MMO expert Ed [Zitron] has angered loyal WOW'''ers as he didn’t think Wrath of the Lich King was ‘all that’, as they say in the States.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Eric Smith, The Geek’s Guide to Dating, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 0041:",
          "text": "It goes without saying that starting to date is a lot like leading a raid in Upper Blackrock Spire in World of Warcraft. Okay, if you’re not a WOWer, I suppose it goes with saying.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 June 1, Brogan Morris, “Warcraft”, in Paste, archived from the original on 2020-08-13:",
          "text": "[Duncan] Jones probably really is the WOWer he claims to be, but the material [Warcraft] just doesn’t seem like a good fit for him as a filmmaker.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 3, Laurie Chen, “Chinese gamers threaten keyboard maker Cherry with boycott after storm over giveaway aimed at ‘men only’”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:",
          "text": "“I was a WOWer [World of Warcraft player] and use a Cherry keyboard, but if Cherry China will not say sorry to us, I will find another keyboard for my new MacBook Pro,” a Chinese Twitter user named Ziying wrote.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative letter-case form of WoWer."
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          "WoWer#English"
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          "ref": "2006 July, Ian Jackson, “Inbox”, in Edge, number 164, page 127:",
          "text": "The inability to affect the game world in any significant way is of course, unavoidable, if [Darkmaster] Gandling could be truly destroyed, then it would have already been done so by one of the professional WOW'''ers that spend more time in Azeroth than in the real world.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 August 3, Gazette staff and wire reports, “Gizmos”, in The Gazette, volume 124, number 206, page 1D:",
          "text": "Dating Web site created to help WOWers connect […] Enter World of Datecraft, a Web site meant to facilitate real-life meetings between players of the world’s most popular online fantasy, also called WOWers.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008, Julie Cameron, Tony Flowers, Margaret Hart, Mark Peace, Neil Renton, Duncan Watts, Michael Wright, AQA Sociology A2, Nelson Thornes, →ISBN, page 143:",
          "text": "Dr Maressa Orzack, a clinical psychologist who studies games addiction, argues that up to 40 per cent of the 6 million US WOWers are addicted to the game, but she presents little evidence to support this claim. The Chinese government is bringing in legislation to prevent the 20 million Chinese ‘WOWers’ from playing the game for too long because of the ‘social and economic damage’ caused by such addiction.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008 December 9, Max Snelling, “Addicts Anonymous”, in Mouth of the River, page 19:",
          "text": "Even one of the esteemed teachers of Oyster River High School has become a WOWer. Trevor Garman, a second year English teacher at ORHS plays WOW about 1-2 hours a day. \"My favorite part is going through the instances with my buddies,\" Garman says. He also claims to have been a WOWer for four years, and even says he has fallen into minor moments of 'addiction' with the game in his long tenor as a WOWer.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 February, “Meet the team”, in PC Zone, number 203, page 6:",
          "text": "Our MMO expert Ed [Zitron] has angered loyal WOW'''ers as he didn’t think Wrath of the Lich King was ‘all that’, as they say in the States.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Eric Smith, The Geek’s Guide to Dating, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 0041:",
          "text": "It goes without saying that starting to date is a lot like leading a raid in Upper Blackrock Spire in World of Warcraft. Okay, if you’re not a WOWer, I suppose it goes with saying.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 June 1, Brogan Morris, “Warcraft”, in Paste, archived from the original on 2020-08-13:",
          "text": "[Duncan] Jones probably really is the WOWer he claims to be, but the material [Warcraft] just doesn’t seem like a good fit for him as a filmmaker.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2019 June 3, Laurie Chen, “Chinese gamers threaten keyboard maker Cherry with boycott after storm over giveaway aimed at ‘men only’”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:",
          "text": "“I was a WOWer [World of Warcraft player] and use a Cherry keyboard, but if Cherry China will not say sorry to us, I will find another keyboard for my new MacBook Pro,” a Chinese Twitter user named Ziying wrote.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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