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"ref": "2008 January 10, Mark Halperin, “The Republican Candisates: John McCain”, in Time, retrieved 2021-02-08",
"text": "Confident and near-cocky for the second straight debate […] [McCain] easily deflected Romney and Giuliani attempts to take him down a notch.",
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"ref": "2019 November 13, Adam Whites, “Banal, unfunny and not as dangerous as he thinks: It's time we stopped glorifying Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes”, in Independent, retrieved 2021-02-08",
"text": "Yet it is Gervais who has always been considered […] a quasi-\"man of the people\" who dares to take the elites down a notch.",
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"ref": "2013 March 26, The Motley Fool, “Will Dollar General Make Investors 'Fistfuls of Dollars'?”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2021-02-08",
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"To cause a person's or group's self-esteem or importance to be decreased."
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"(transitive, idiomatic, of a person or organization) To cause a person's or group's self-esteem or importance to be decreased."
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"ref": "2008 October 14, Michelle Higgins, “Europe Returning to Land of In-Reach”, in New York Times, retrieved 2021-02-08",
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"ref": "2015 May 21, Jason Samenow, “Record-challenging heat likely in D.C. in May’s final week”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2021-02-08",
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"ref": "2017 June 25, Eva Wiseman, “Public, New York: the five-star hotel for half the price”, in Guardian, retrieved 2021-02-08",
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"(transitive, idiomatic, of a thing) To cause the quantity, degree, or intensity of something to be decreased."
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"sense": "To cause self-esteem to decrease",
"word": "bajarle los humos"
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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2015 May 21, Jason Samenow, “Record-challenging heat likely in D.C. in May’s final week”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2021-02-08",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 June 25, Eva Wiseman, “Public, New York: the five-star hotel for half the price”, in Guardian, retrieved 2021-02-08",
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"type": "quotation"
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"sense": "To cause self-esteem to decrease",
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