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"ref": "[1987 December 10, Kenneth H. Taylor, “[Voice of the People:] New verb”, in The San Bernardino County Sun, page 11, columns 3–4:",
"text": "In light of the current furor over trying to appoint a new Supreme Court justice, I would like to submit a new verb in the English language. Three forms would be \"to bork,\" \"borking,\" and \"borked.\" This would describe the act of partisan political character assassination.",
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"ref": "1988 November 30, William McCarthy, “Democrats ‘borked’”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 2017-10-19, page 20:",
"text": "George [H. W.] Bush will almost certainly have an opportunity to nominate one or more justices. It would be a pity for all of us if they are subjected to the treatment accorded Robert Bork. Honest disagreement is one thing; \"borking\" is something else.",
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"ref": "1989 February 9, CBS This Morning, spoken by Malcolm Wallop:",
"text": "I feel strongly that he [Senator John Tower] is being borked. … The charges that have been leveled at him have all proved groundless, baseless.",
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"ref": "1995, Lani Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, page xix:",
"text": "In other words, I am intentionally borking the headline writer, for no other reason than to make my point with greater force.",
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"ref": "2002 February 7, Orrin G[rant] Hatch, “Statement of the Honorable Orrin Hatch, United States Senator, Utah [The Nomination of Charles W. Pickering to be United States Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Circuit]”, in United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, archived from the original on 2008-09-21:",
"text": "After an eight-year hiatus, these groups are back on the scene, ready to implement an apparent vicious strategy of Borking any judicial nominee who happens to disagree with their view of how the world should be.",
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"ref": "2004, Joseph Michael Green, “Media Activity”, in Your Past and the Press!: Controversial Presidential Appointments: A Study Focusing on the Impact of Interest Groups and Media Activity on the Appointment Process, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 131:",
"text": "[Stephen L.] Carter believes that liberals seem to think that only conservatives \"bork\" and likewise conservatives seem to believe that only liberals \"bork,\" but the unhappy truth is that everybody \"borks\".",
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"ref": "2005, Mark [Victor] Tushnet, “A Supreme Court United?”, in A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 340:",
"text": "Forcing their adversaries to bork nominees may, they may think, lead voters in the middle to think less well of liberals, enhancing the distaste for Washington politics that has helped conservatives gain political power.",
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"ref": "2006 October 30, Jeffrey Lord, “Borking Rush”, in American Spectator, archived from the original on 2017-10-17:",
"text": "Above all it discusses the best tactics to defeat a borking. Having been in the [Ronald] Reagan White House when Robert Bork was borked, I knew something about the subject, which was a huge help when the same borking guns were turned on my friend Judge [D. Brooks] Smith years later.",
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"ref": "2014 January, Naomi Kramer, Yesterday’s Cat: Episode 1: Before the Storm, [Los Gatos, Calif.]: Smashwords, →ISBN:",
"text": "Angie sat back and stared at the screen. Well, that screwed her up good and proper. Go to the brass with information that might put her in the slam … or go it solo and risk borking up the situation even worse than it was already.",
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"ref": "2017, Martha Wells, chapter 1, in All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries), New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN:",
"text": "Even if I hadn't borked my own governor module, the emergency feed took priority, and it was chaotic, too, with the automated HubSystem wanting data and trying to send me data I didn't need yet and Mensah sending me telemetry from the hopper.",
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"ref": "2017 October 18, Chris Merriman, “Microsoft’s Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is Borking Razer Machines: Oh Microsoft … Not Again …”, in The Inquirer, archived from the original on 2017-10-19:",
"text": "Microsoft's Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is Borking Razer Machines [title] […] As we pondered the question earlier today \"we wonder if the Fall Creators Update of Windows 10 will bork anyone's machine\", we had a feeling it wouldn't take long to find out. Razer, the high-end gaming manufacturer which is about to enter the gaming phone market, is finding that its products are being hit by the curse of Windows update.",
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"text": "Sometimes Windows system files get messed up (the technical term is \"borked\"). In those cases, Microsoft has a program called Refresh that scans and fixes all the system files, without changing your settings, removing any installed programs, or blasting your data.",
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"ref": "2017 September 22, Chris Merriman, “Microsoft is Looking at Opening a London Flagship Store at Oxford Circus: It’s so Close to the Apple Store, You’ll be Able to Piggyback the WiFi”, in The Inquirer, archived from the original on 2017-09-22:",
"text": "The building is currently occupied by Benetton, but we could be about to see the beautiful range of multi-ethnic models in overpriced clothes replaced by models that get borked with every upgrade … oh, and are also overpriced.",
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"ref": "2016 January 8, Christina Criddle, quoting Si Foster, “Actor finds stomach-churning greasy black hair in his Burger King”, in Liverpool Echo:",
"text": "He tweeted: “Barf!! @BurgerKingUK thanks for [sic] Hygeine standards. How many hairs did I eat b4 realising?? Borked!!!”",
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