See Google-fu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2008 May 5, Kevin Drum, “Political Animal: Corporate Welfare in the Oil Patch”, in Washington Monthly:",
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"ref": "2015, Gretchen McNeil, Get Dirty, HarperCollins, →ISBN:",
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