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"word": "tuari mahi kawhe"
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"sense": "person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers",
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"ref": "2009, Jody Gehrman, Triple Shot Bettys in Love, Dial Books, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2011, Andrew Wear, “The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the Espresso Aesthetic”, in Scott F. Parker, Michael W. Austin, editors, Coffee – Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 163:",
"text": "If pure chance guided me to glory in the heady world of competitive barista-ing, the rewards came to be measured in frustration.",
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"ref": "2013, K.W. Taylor, “Doomed”, in Sarah Hans, editor, Sidekicks!, Alliteration Ink, →ISBN, page 170:",
"text": "But it was crappy of me to steal instead of bartending or barista-ing or temping or something.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2015, Jo Knowles, Read Between the Lines, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 57:",
"text": "Barista Boy grins and goes back to barista-ing.",
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{
"ref": "2015, Kate Rorick, Rachel Kiley, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 95:",
"text": "I nodded to Mary, where she was working the frothing machine like she’d been barista-ing for much longer than a month.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2015, Richard Polt, The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century, The Countryman Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "When she’s not barista-ing, she’s writing scripts for murder mystery dinner events.",
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"ref": "2016, Cara McKenna, chapter 19, in Downtown Devil, InterMix, published 2017, →ISBN:",
"text": "“How was barista-ing?” “Same as always. A few more burns, a few more tips.”",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2017, Ken Davenport, How to Succeed in the Arts…Or in Anything, Davenport Theatrical Enterprises, Inc., →ISBN, page 44:",
"text": "Somewhere right now, behind the counter at a McDonald’s or delivering pizza for Domino’s or barista-ing at Starbucks, there may be a guy with a gaggle of fantastic ideas for screenplays, Broadway shows, computer software, or, yeah, even healthcare!",
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{
"ref": "2018, Kirsten Weiss, chapter 15, in Witch: A Doyle Witch Cozy Mystery, →ISBN:",
"text": "Because I can’t fight crime every day, I spent Tuesday and Wednesday doing what I get paid for: barista-ing.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Arthur Smyth, Duet Quartet, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 34:",
"text": "Actually I hear nothing but orders, shouts of / disembodied names / disembodied people / Barista-ing, hard on the legs",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Jan Gallagher, Double Latte Death, Xlibris, →ISBN:",
"text": "It’s easy—I turn out to be a sort of savant at barista-ing. […] Between customers I instruct her in the fine art of barista-ing.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2020, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Starling Days, The Overlook Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "Along the halls, stories were muttered of graduates turned down from barista-ing, pool attending, dishwashing.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Little, Brown and Company, published 2023, →ISBN:",
"text": "But after X times of harassing him, he’d caved and admitted he only got 11 pages in before bowing out. This right after I’d finished trying to walk across country. Failing to. Back home barista-ing. Renting a room out of my high school home.",
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"ref": "2023, Kira Davis, “Critical Race Theory (Here Goes Nothin’)”, in Drawing Lines: Why Conservatives Must Begin to Battle Fiercely in the Arena of Ideas, Fidelis Publishing, →ISBN:",
"text": "My first child was three by that time and I’d given up acting (okay, fine … barista-ing) to become a housewife and mother.",
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"ref": "2023, Ian McDonald, chapter 11, in Hopeland, Tor Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "Raisa is long gone baristaing to the early workers of Spitalfields by the time Amon Brightbourne wakes from white sleep.",
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