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"ref": "2012, Jennifer Allee, A Wild Goose Chase Christmas",
"text": "That one small confession to a man she barely knew blew a hole through her emotional dam and everything she'd held back for the last week flooded out.",
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"ref": "2017, John Strawson, Law after Ground Zero",
"text": "'By taking down the towers, Sept 11 blew a hole through the errors of the past.",
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"ref": "2020, Thomas Mullen, Midnight Atlanta",
"text": "Unless the letters were fake, they blew a hole through Martha's story.",
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"ref": "2022 December 7, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time",
"text": "By rolling into the city that Vladimir Putin still claimed as his own, the leader of Ukraine would blow a hole through the stories of conquest and imperial glory that Russian propagandists had been using for months to justify the war.",
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"(idiomatic) To destroy the integrity or cohesion of."
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