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"ref": "2012, Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life, Harmony",
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"ref": "2015, Carol Ann Bartz, chapter 36, in The Believer: An Inspirational Story of Zachary David Bartz (The Boy Who Never Gave Up)",
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"ref": "2016, Austin Duffy, This Living and Immortal Thing, Granta Books",
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"text": "I tiptoed over to Trent's nightstand and took his phone into the bathroom. I sat on the edge of the bathtub as I entered his code. When I saw that he'd changed his screensaver from our wedding picture to a picture of Diamond, my blood began to boil. I couldn't believe that he'd done that.",
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"ref": "2016, Candy J Starr, The Trouble With Rock Stars: Jackson's Story",
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "skrynséjver",
"sense": "computer program",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скринсе́йвер"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "computer program",
"word": "trình bảo vệ màn hình"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"screensaver"
],
"word": "screensaver"
}
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