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"extra": "fan of the rock band The Grateful Dead",
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"ref": "2010, Mark Tufo, Sylwia Serwinska, Zombie Fallout, page 148",
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"A zombie."
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"ref": "1960, Dissertation Abstracts, volume 20, page 2811",
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"ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845",
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"ref": "1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.",
"text": "Washington suggested that she get some old friend of the family to come with her, and said the Senator would “deadhead” him home again as soon as he had grown tired, of the sights of the capital.",
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"ref": "1910, Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison, His Life and Inventions",
"text": "He said that if the operator had taken $800 and sent the message at the regular rate, which was twenty-five cents, it would have been all right, as the Jew would be punished for trying to bribe a military operator; but when the operator took the $800 and then sent the message deadhead, he couldn't stand it, and he would never relent.",
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"text": "1934, Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson), Brand Of The Werewolf, A Doc Savage Adventure\n“I'll deadhead the message for you, Mr. Savage. It won't cost a thing.”"
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"text": "If you deadhead your roses regularly, they will bloom all season."
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"sense": "to remove spent blossoms",
"word": "koppen"
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