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"ref": "2013 April 25, Joe Sylvester, “Gamers have a ‘crush’ on ‘candy’”, in The Times Leader, page 1C",
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"ref": "2013 June 21, John Boone, “6 Reasons Candy Crush Saga Is the Most Infuriating Game...Ever”, in E! News; quoted in Bob Johnson, “This Crush harmless; or at least that’s hope”, in Daily Journal, 2013 June 25, page B8",
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"text": "Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous). Moreover, you could argue that if it wasn’t for smartphones, it would be Sudoku or crosswords or scrimshaw.",
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"ref": "2018, Douglas Lain, The Bash Bash Revolution, Night Shade Books",
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"ref": "2019 June 25, “Rose A. Truscio: May 5, 1923 - June 21, 2019”, in The News & Observer, volume 155, number 176, page 7A",
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"ref": "2020, L. O. Boult, Stag Hunt",
"text": "‘I’m quite partial to Candy Crush, I play it on my wife’s sometimes.’ […] Your bad marriage does not mean that my marriage will be bad you Candy Crusher, he thought to himself.",
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