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"ref": "2006, Dov Peretz Elkins, Rosh Hashanah Readings, page 179",
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"ref": "2015, Brian Flager, Narrowing the East River",
"text": "But word of the bomber had swiftly grape-vined Lower Midtown down to the NYU campus.",
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"ref": "2022, Maurice Walsh, The Spanish Lady",
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"text": "You grape-vine the opponent's right leg, twining it around from the back.",
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"ref": "2008, Alastair Mars, Unbroken: The Story of a Submarine, page 80",
"text": "The news of Bernard's presence had already been grape-vined round Gib., however, and in no time at all a couple of Army Intelligence oflicers came to whisk him away for interrogation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter, page 97",
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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2015, Brian Flager, Narrowing the East River",
"text": "But word of the bomber had swiftly grape-vined Lower Midtown down to the NYU campus.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2022, Maurice Walsh, The Spanish Lady",
"text": "He tried hard, lifting Larry for a cross-buttock, but Larry grape-vined him smartly, and came to the ground safely.",
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