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"text": "1991 December, Renée Gearhart Levy, “PC’ed Out,” Syracuse University Magazine, quoted in Steven Mailloux, Reception Histories, Cornell University Press (1998), →ISBN, page 169."
},
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"ref": "a. 2005, John Donoghue, Shakespeare My Butt, Second edition, Troubador Publishing Ltd, published 2005, →ISBN, page 193:",
"text": "However, the process of ‘PC’ing’ cheese on toast was too much for me.",
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"ref": "2005, Matthew Coker, Explanations 2005, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 272:",
"text": "Becoming up in arms against the ACLU and others who are PCing Christmas really will amount to nothing in the end.",
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"ref": "2008, Giz, Ménage à 3:",
"text": "Zii: Weren’t they purple, though?\nGary: That was the cartoon. Hanna-Barbera PCed it up for Amer…",
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"(sometimes with up) To make politically correct."
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