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"ref": "1919, The Mistral: A Year-book, page 75",
"text": "Miss Justin , Champion Cakeist of the Y.M.C.A.",
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"ref": "1968, Theodore Pratt, That was Palm Beach, page 36",
"text": "Then the cakeists really go to town. The judges decide on the winning couple which, as the band thunderously earns some more of its money, are presented with the cake and dance with it around the hall.",
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"ref": "1984, India Today, page 160",
"text": "For, on view vying with other cakes and confections at a cake exhibition in Bangalore was this mammoth edifice of the pagoda standing 8.5 ft tall, fashioned by softspoken “cakeist” C. Ramachandran, the scion of a leading bakers' house, the Nilgiris.",
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"ref": "2014, Romi Moondi, Year of the Chick - Volume 1",
"text": "And if it does then screw nutrition; I wanna be a cakeist.",
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"ref": "2020 January 10, Tom McTague, “The Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s Decision”, in The Atlantic",
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"ref": "2020 December 30, “Post-Brexit trade: UK having its cake and eating it, says Boris Johnson”, in BBC News",
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"ref": "2021 December 22, Rafael Behr, “The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "2021 December 22, Rafael Behr, “The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry”, in The Guardian",
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