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"text": "His counterpart Tom Wiles also speaks directly for the honored persons in giveaways; in Shannon's outgoing princess giveaway, he addresses a woman named Rose as Shannon gives her a dance shawl: \"Shannon says/ now you can kick up your heels\" (Wiles 1999)",
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"ref": "1955, Ammunition - Volume 13, page 30",
"text": "Frankly, I think extension of this policy to the nation through the Eisenhower administration policy of 'partnership' with private power monopoly would be the most colossal giveaway in history — 20 or 30 times as big as Teapot Dome or Tideland Oil.",
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"ref": "2006, Jonathan Petropoulos, John K. Roth, Gray Zones, page 140",
"text": "Their skin was the real giveaway: again and again it turned out to be fattier and softer than average and therefore warmer.",
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"ref": "2009, Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew, The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, page 452",
"text": "The real giveaway is its showing time's arrows pointing the wrong way: the universe contracting, or entropy spontaneously decreasing (as in the separation, with no energy input, of brine into fresh water and solid salt).",
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"ref": "2017, Brock Bloodworth, H. Claire Taylor, Shift Work",
"text": "It was as obvious a giveaway as the deep slash marks across the human part of the torso, shredding the werewolf's clothes and staining the cloth with a deep burgundy of blood.",
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"text": "Therapeutic zeal is express in a number of ways, some of them quite obvious, others subtle. A therapeutic manner that is too self-assured and controlling is a dead giveaway. Other obvious signs of therapeutic zeal include getting annoyed or openly frustrated with patients who do not change in the way the therapist desires; \"blaming\" the patient by vidictively attributing lack of results to more severe pathology than was intially assumed; or overusing such terms as passive aggressive and poorly motivated.",
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"text": "In my research, I learned that the male had a little differently shaped head but that the real giveaway was that the male would periodically exhibit a bright orange to reddish colored \"dewlap\" extended under its throat while bobbing it's head as an exhibition of his maleness.",
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"text": "Then there's ole' reliable: the giveaway. Everyone loves a giveaway (with the notable exceptions of key chains and nail clippers which have been rendered nearly meaningless by repetition).",
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},
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"text": "Perhaps the most frequently used giveaway is \"free rent,\" an abatement of rent for a specific period of tenancy.",
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},
{
"ref": "2005, Paulette Wolf, Jodi Wolf, Donielle Levine, Event Planning Made Easy",
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},
{
"ref": "2001, Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Giving Away: The Performance of Speech and Sign in Powwow Ritual Exchange, page 104",
"text": "His counterpart Tom Wiles also speaks directly for the honored persons in giveaways; in Shannon's outgoing princess giveaway, he addresses a woman named Rose as Shannon gives her a dance shawl: \"Shannon says/ now you can kick up your heels\" (Wiles 1999)",
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{
"ref": "2012, Chad Hamill, Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau, page 124",
"text": "Following the feast the tables were cleared, making room for the giveaway.",
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},
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"ref": "2015, Sarah Mayberry, Kelly Hunter, Megan Crane, The Great Wedding Giveaway",
"text": "This has been such a rewarding exercise for so many of us involved in the giveaway.",
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"text": "Frankly, I think extension of this policy to the nation through the Eisenhower administration policy of 'partnership' with private power monopoly would be the most colossal giveaway in history — 20 or 30 times as big as Teapot Dome or Tideland Oil.",
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},
{
"ref": "1965, Florist & Nursery Exchange - Volume 143, page 29",
"text": "Late May is the target date for giveaway of the new NPP FloraCopter game by retail Aorists to increase their “in-store traffic\" and sales.",
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{
"ref": "1990, Good Packaging - Volume 51, page 4",
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},
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"text": "Their skin was the real giveaway: again and again it turned out to be fattier and softer than average and therefore warmer.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew, The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, page 452",
"text": "The real giveaway is its showing time's arrows pointing the wrong way: the universe contracting, or entropy spontaneously decreasing (as in the separation, with no energy input, of brine into fresh water and solid salt).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Brock Bloodworth, H. Claire Taylor, Shift Work",
"text": "It was as obvious a giveaway as the deep slash marks across the human part of the torso, shredding the werewolf's clothes and staining the cloth with a deep burgundy of blood.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, John W. Barnhill, Approach to the Psychiatric Patient, page 451",
"text": "Therapeutic zeal is express in a number of ways, some of them quite obvious, others subtle. A therapeutic manner that is too self-assured and controlling is a dead giveaway. Other obvious signs of therapeutic zeal include getting annoyed or openly frustrated with patients who do not change in the way the therapist desires; \"blaming\" the patient by vidictively attributing lack of results to more severe pathology than was intially assumed; or overusing such terms as passive aggressive and poorly motivated.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Alfonso K. Fillon, Green Anoles - How to Raise Green Anoles as a Real Life Hobby",
"text": "In my research, I learned that the male had a little differently shaped head but that the real giveaway was that the male would periodically exhibit a bright orange to reddish colored \"dewlap\" extended under its throat while bobbing it's head as an exhibition of his maleness.",
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