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"ref": "2008 July 11, “Is Graham Linehan right to slate BBC3 comedy?”, in The Guardian TV and radio blog",
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"ref": "2008 September 26, Megan McArdle, “Yay nuclear!”, in The Atlantic",
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"ref": "2023 March 5, Jonathan Bouquet, “May I have a word about… being stuck in a permacrisis”, in The Observer, →ISSN",
"text": "Reader Vivien Bailey also has a bee in her bonnet: “The usage that I detest is the growing use of the word ‘birth’ as a verb. This seems to have come in waves starting five or six years ago, and we’re in the middle of a wave now.”",
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"word": "ganga með dellu"
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