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"text": "Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?",
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"ref": "2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London",
"text": "BT shelled out almost £1bn for the Champions League over the same period, while the FA has just brought in around £820m over six seasons for the international rights to the FA Cup alone.",
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"ref": "2022 May 27, Clifford Krauss, “Gas Prices Hit New Highs as Summer Driving Season Starts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"ref": "2023 June 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: One year on: rail strikes still at a stalemate”, in RAIL, number 985, pages 10–11",
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"To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money."
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"(informal, transitive, intransitive) To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money."
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"To use a program's \"shell escape\" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell."
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