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"ref": "2001: Byron Spice, Science Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PG News read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060127004638/http://www.postgazette.com/healthscience/20011001terascale1001p3.asp on 14 May 2006",
"text": "Pittsburgh supercomputer is complete, and scientists are champing at the bit to use it."
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"ref": "2006: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, webpage for Ideas with wings, a radio series supporting innovation read at http://abc.net.au/science/wings/ on 14 May 2006",
"text": "Everyone is champing at the bit to be labelled innovative."
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"ref": "2006: Al Rosenquist of Pastika’s Sport Shop, speaking to Terrell Boettcher of Sawyer County Record, Hayward, Wisconsin, Anglers champing at the bit read at http://www.haywardwi.com/record/index.php?story_id=218863 on 14 May 2006",
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"sense": "of horse: to bite the bit",
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