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"etymology_text": "Probably an allusion to the territory assigned to a travelling salesman.",
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"ref": "1965 November 29, Jack O'Brian, “The Voice of Broadway”, in Palm Beach Daily News, retrieved 2012-10-28, page 4",
"text": "Johnny Carson's three-year tenure as top man of \"Tonight\" leaves him less edgy than any of that grind's predecessors and he has a fine relaxed philosophy about the side irritants of the nation's favorite chatterthon: \"Loss of privacy comes with the territory.\"",
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"ref": "1974 July 30, Jim Fiebig, “Problem Solving”, in Observer-Reporter, Pennsylvania, USA, retrieved 2012-10-28, page A4",
"text": "When one decides to raise sheep, he accepts the fact that coyotes come with the territory.",
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"ref": "1993 June 25, Richard Sacks, “Opinion: At The New Yorker, They Take Their Fact Checking Seriously”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-28",
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"ref": "2009 March 19, Joe Klein, “Don't Panic — At Least Not Yet”, in Time",
"text": "Impatience . . . is chronic in the mass media. Indeed, it comes with the territory.",
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"(idiomatic) To be a common, and often inconvenient, accompaniment of an occupation, situation, or occurrence."
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