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"ref": "2007 05, Ted McClelland, Horseplayers: Life at the Track, Chicago Review Press",
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"ref": "2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"A ten year prison sentence."
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"ref": "2008, “House Music”, in Afterparty Babies, performed by Cadence Weapon",
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"Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin",
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}
],
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