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"ref": "2010, Brandy Taylor Fink, Disrupting Fraternity Culture, page 80:",
"text": "This girl comes up to me, this googly-eyed girl […] She has to be the ugliest *** that ever lived",
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"ref": "2012, Florian Werner, Cow: A Bovine Biography, page 93:",
"text": "Adding to that is the fact that the cow eye protrudes slightly from its socket, giving the cow a googly-eyed look.",
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"ref": "2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, page 208:",
"text": "Isaac was about to correct him on that score, but the googly-eyed man got there first.",
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"ref": "2015, Barbara E. Moss, The Two Brothers Detective Agency:",
"text": "Then he looked up to Pete's mirror. Aaargh! A googly-eyed monster looked back at him! \"That's me.\" He laughed. \"That magnifying glass sure does make my eye look big!\"",
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"ref": "2022, Tamara Berry, Buried in a Good Book:",
"text": "Quentin's eyes bulged. He'd always had a googly-eyed stare, more like a dehydrated carp than a man, but Tess had never realized how prominent it was before.",
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"ref": "2017, Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden, page 15:",
"text": "I notice his sleepwear: candy corn sprinkled over flannel pants, a googly-eyed jack-o'-lantern grinning gaily from his T-shirt.",
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"ref": "2021, Henrietta MacKenzie, The Secret Lives of Two Googly-Eyed Cats:",
"text": "Milly and Tilly are googly-eyed cats who belong to a cheeky little baby called Penny.",
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"ref": "2023, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, page 14:",
"text": "In the hill-climbing case, for example, Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn, and Paul Bloom presented six-month-old infants with scenes involving three googly-eyed geometric shapes.",
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"ref": "2013, Loree Lough, For Love of Eli, page 81:",
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"ref": "2018, L.A. Witt, Afraid to Fly:",
"text": "But you guys are still in that gross googly-eyed stage, and I don't want to be there for that.",
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"ref": "2022, Jonathan Shubs, Sun's Dance of the Channels, page 179:",
"text": "[…] And System 5 Biorhythm Opposites is opposite polarity googly-eyed partners.\" \"Googly-eyed? Why Googly-eyed?\" questioned Grandfather Terra. \"Because they make googly eyes at each other across the table. They cannot talk but they can look at each other and make googly eyes.\"",
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"ref": "2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine:",
"text": "Even though they’re shifting the tone from googly-eyed naïveté to skepticism and even horror, they agree with Silicon Valley that computers and the internetworking thereof has revolutionized the mode of production.",
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"ref": "2023, Heidi Chiavaroli, Where Faith Belongs:",
"text": "Which painting had Amie gone googly-eyed for all those months ago?",
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"ref": "2001, Larry L. King, The One-eyed Man, page 186:",
"text": "He had said little during the long ride back from our hush-hush rendezvous, just staring googly-eyed and abstracted down the slab, stroking his jawline now and again, nodding his head silently as if to ratify that yes, yes, that certainly was a goddamn road ahead, lots of road.",
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"ref": "2009, Jeffrey S. Jenkins, In Bolivia, page 142:",
"text": "There's a mellow vibe that I think stems from the lack of vehicle traffic, thanks to the shuttle that carries around the googly-eyed employees. I'm sure that after twelve hours in front of a computer there's some truth to the appellation of the Google faithful as googly-eyed.",
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"ref": "2022, Wendy Willow, Silver Butterfly Wings:",
"text": "I was met with the googly-eyed stare of someone who has just awakened from a deep sleep.",
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"ref": "2023, London Lovett, Better Off Shortbread:",
"text": "I met his judgmental stare with a counter stare that I liked to think conveyed defiance. (Admittedly, without a mirror it was hard to tell. It might just have been a crazy, googly-eyed stare.)",
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"ref": "2012, Florian Werner, Cow: A Bovine Biography, page 93:",
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"ref": "2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, page 208:",
"text": "Isaac was about to correct him on that score, but the googly-eyed man got there first.",
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},
{
"ref": "2015, Barbara E. Moss, The Two Brothers Detective Agency:",
"text": "Then he looked up to Pete's mirror. Aaargh! A googly-eyed monster looked back at him! \"That's me.\" He laughed. \"That magnifying glass sure does make my eye look big!\"",
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},
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"ref": "2022, Tamara Berry, Buried in a Good Book:",
"text": "Quentin's eyes bulged. He'd always had a googly-eyed stare, more like a dehydrated carp than a man, but Tess had never realized how prominent it was before.",
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"ref": "2017, Katy Upperman, Kissing Max Holden, page 15:",
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},
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"ref": "2021, Henrietta MacKenzie, The Secret Lives of Two Googly-Eyed Cats:",
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},
{
"ref": "2023, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, page 14:",
"text": "In the hill-climbing case, for example, Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn, and Paul Bloom presented six-month-old infants with scenes involving three googly-eyed geometric shapes.",
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"ref": "2013, Loree Lough, For Love of Eli, page 81:",
"text": "It was you two, lookin' all googly-eyed at each other that held us up.",
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},
{
"ref": "2018, L.A. Witt, Afraid to Fly:",
"text": "But you guys are still in that gross googly-eyed stage, and I don't want to be there for that.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Jonathan Shubs, Sun's Dance of the Channels, page 179:",
"text": "[…] And System 5 Biorhythm Opposites is opposite polarity googly-eyed partners.\" \"Googly-eyed? Why Googly-eyed?\" questioned Grandfather Terra. \"Because they make googly eyes at each other across the table. They cannot talk but they can look at each other and make googly eyes.\"",
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},
{
"ref": "2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine:",
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},
{
"ref": "2023, Heidi Chiavaroli, Where Faith Belongs:",
"text": "Which painting had Amie gone googly-eyed for all those months ago?",
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},
{
"ref": "2009, Jeffrey S. Jenkins, In Bolivia, page 142:",
"text": "There's a mellow vibe that I think stems from the lack of vehicle traffic, thanks to the shuttle that carries around the googly-eyed employees. I'm sure that after twelve hours in front of a computer there's some truth to the appellation of the Google faithful as googly-eyed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Wendy Willow, Silver Butterfly Wings:",
"text": "I was met with the googly-eyed stare of someone who has just awakened from a deep sleep.",
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},
{
"ref": "2023, London Lovett, Better Off Shortbread:",
"text": "I met his judgmental stare with a counter stare that I liked to think conveyed defiance. (Admittedly, without a mirror it was hard to tell. It might just have been a crazy, googly-eyed stare.)",
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