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"etymology_text": "An allusion to the breakfast cereal Wheaties, long advertised as the \"Breakfast of Champions\", and its long-standing association with sports celebrities.",
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"ref": "1971 October 19, Haney Reilly, “Another game, another loss but Hawkeyes looked better”, in Telegraph-Herald, Iowa, USA, retrieved 2011-07-01, page 17",
"text": "But he just couldn't get the ball through the goal posts (poor Harry . . . he didn't eat his Wheaties, or else his shoe was on backwards).",
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"ref": "1994 September 11, “Garbage Collector Lifts Away Worries”, in Miami Herald, page 1B",
"text": "Jo-Ann Wonsik answered a Herald want ad for a career requiring day after day of heavy lifting. . . . \"And you've got to eat your Wheaties on this job,\" she said.",
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"ref": "2008 December 10, Felicity Barringer, “Science Students Get a Real-Life Lesson, in Science Fiction”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-01",
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