"graham-crackery" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1987 October 2, Doug Mason, “Bite a Moon Pie for taste of South”, in Detours (The Knoxville News-Sentinel), Knoxville, Tenn., page 8, column 1",
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          "ref": "2001 December 17, xSaBx, “Your Viking Name”, in uk.media.tv.sf.startrek (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-13",
          "text": "Cereal: Soggy Graham-Crackery Hoops",
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          "ref": "2003 January 31, jflexer, “OT but urgent!”, in alt.gossip.royalty (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-13",
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          "ref": "2008 July 29, Al Sicherman, “Tid bits”, in Fremont Tribune, 141st year, number 67, Fremont, Neb., page C1",
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          "ref": "2009, Helen Lester, Tacky Goes to Camp, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children",
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          "ref": "2009, Claire Ray, Snow in Love, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, page 51",
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          "ref": "2012, Gina Damico, Scorch, Boston, Mass.: Graphia, w:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 30",
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          "text": "Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies defy my willpower. Anything graham-crackery? Forget it.",
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          "text": "Tent-area “paths”—thin concrete squares laid without fixative on bare earth—turned graham-crackery with rain and sank in the surrounding mud.",
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          "ref": "1998 August 24, Cecrle, “Grace Under Pressure - the most depressing Rush album?”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-13",
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          "ref": "1999 October 2, huzzlewhat, “YOKO: A Review”, in rec.music.beatles (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-13",
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          "text": "Then tear into their key lime pie…mmm, custardy graham-crackery goodness.",
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          "ref": "2012 June 20, Chris Richards, “Bieber’s ‘Believe’ is bloated”, in Concord Monitor, Concord, N.H., page D6, column 1",
          "text": "The only thing different is the hair – that graham-crackery puff has been sculpted into a sticky pompadour.",
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          "ref": "2012 November 20, tlvp, “Re: What is multikabel.net?”, in news.software.readers (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-13",
          "text": "That third layer of pastry dough (between first and second layers of peaches) is pretty unique. Did it come out as fully-baked seeming as the upper and lower crusts? Or did it have a more Graham-cracker-y texture?",
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          "ref": "2014, Dave Engledow, “Day 258”, in Confessions of the World’s Best Father, London: Michael Joseph, w:Penguin Books",
          "text": "Even before becoming a father myself, I used to daydream about the pure joy of introducing my progeny to the gooey, chocolaty, graham-crackery decadence of a perfectly crafted s’more.",
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          "ref": "2023, George Lopez with Ryan Calejo, ChupaCarter and the Haunted Piñata, New York, N.Y.: Viking, page 23",
          "text": "“Oh, look! S’mores!” shouted Ernie, his eyes lighting up like a Christmas tree. “Anyone else feel a craving coming on?” / “Sure,” I said. “Why not?” Hey, what better way to melt the heebie-jeebies away than with some chocolatey, graham-cracker-y goodness?",
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          "ref": "2023 March 31, Joseph Lamour, “Turkey Hill brings back fan-favorite flavor just in time for baseball season”, in Today, archived from the original on 2023-03-31",
          "text": "According to the company, Graham Slam is already shipping to many of its retail partners including ShopRite, Weis, Giant, Acme, Price Chopper and select Walmart stores, so get ready for a season full of graham-cracker-y goodness.",
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          "text": "Remember how we went to a dozen more after that, even the supposed best places in the city, but they were always only second best? So there was nothing we could do but savor the graham-crackery-crust memory and move on.",
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          "text": "Tent-area “paths”—thin concrete squares laid without fixative on bare earth—turned graham-crackery with rain and sank in the surrounding mud.",
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          "ref": "2023, George Lopez with Ryan Calejo, ChupaCarter and the Haunted Piñata, New York, N.Y.: Viking, page 23",
          "text": "“Oh, look! S’mores!” shouted Ernie, his eyes lighting up like a Christmas tree. “Anyone else feel a craving coming on?” / “Sure,” I said. “Why not?” Hey, what better way to melt the heebie-jeebies away than with some chocolatey, graham-cracker-y goodness?",
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          "text": "According to the company, Graham Slam is already shipping to many of its retail partners including ShopRite, Weis, Giant, Acme, Price Chopper and select Walmart stores, so get ready for a season full of graham-cracker-y goodness.",
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