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"ref": "1920, Lilian C. McNamara Garis, The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest: Or, The Wig Wag Rescue, page 86",
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"ref": "1950, Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, page 86",
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"ref": "2005, Euftis Emery, Off the Chain, page 73",
"text": "Gaea then stood up over me and turned so that her butt was facing me. She then had the nerve to start twerking.",
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"ref": "2006, Lawrence Christopher, Ghettoway Weekend, page 96",
"text": "\"Shortie really knows how to twerk it don't she?\" Marcus boasted, while still recording.",
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"ref": "2006, “SexyBack”, in FutureSex/LoveSounds, performed by Justin Timberlake ft. Timbaland",
"text": "Let me see what ya twerkin with / Look at those hips",
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"ref": "2013, Nichole Smith, “High School Students Suspended for Twerking”, in ABC News",
"text": "Twerking, as it is known in the hip-hop community, is a hard-hitting, rump-shaking dance move that celebrities including Beyonce and Miley Cyrus have been known to bust out, but it has also gotten a group of San Diego high school students suspended.",
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