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"ref": "1954, Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, published 1984, page 201",
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"text": "2000 November 30, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 3034,\nMr. Speaker, Sir, in the East African Standard newspaper we saw a picture of a man being carried away after being clobbered. We also saw women being clobbered by well-built policemen using big clubs. They were clobbering women who had already fallen on the ground."
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"ref": "2002, Donald K. Burleson, Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook, page 395",
"text": "Most of the job of the UNIX Oracle DBA is keeping the database running, and it does not come as a surprise when they see how easy it is to clobber a server.\nThe following script cripples the UNIX server by an implosion of incoming jobs. This is known as a denial of service (DOS) attack[…].",
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"ref": "1965 November, Charles W. Adams, “Responsive time-shared computing in business its significance and implications”, in AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I): Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I, New York, N.Y.: Association for Computing Machinery, archived from the original on 2022-05-11, page 486",
"text": "It is therefore clear that the system itself must be truly \"clobber proof\"; that is, no user may be capable of changing anyone else's program or tying up the system in any way that would disrupt normal service to other users.",
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"ref": "1966, George A. Miller, “Thinking machines: myths and actualities”, in Daniel Bell, Irving Kristol, editors, The Public Interest, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: National Affairs, Inc., archived from the original on 2022-05-11, page 104",
"text": "In the slang of computer programmers, the second re-entry address is likely to \"clobber\" the machine's memory of the original re-entry address.",
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"ref": "1999, Michael J. Wooldridge, Anand Rao, Foundations of Rational Agency, page 74",
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"ref": "2004, John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Unix for Dummies, page 314",
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"ref": "2007, Billy Hoffman, Bryan Sullivan, Ajax Security, unnumbered page",
"text": "These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the debug() function for SexyWidgets clobbers the developer′s debug() function. The last function declared with the same name in the same scope will silently clobber the earlier function definition.",
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"ref": "2022, Luciano Ramalho, chapter 11, in Fluent Python, 2nd edition, O'Reilly",
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