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"text": "Coordinate term: puff piece"
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"ref": "2013, Eric Dezenhall, John Weber, Damage Control […], Easton Studio Press, page 126",
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"ref": "2014, Karen Young, Belle Pointe, Harlequin",
"text": "“This isn't a profile, my dear sister-in-law, it's a hit piece.” “A hit piece?” Buck unfolded his copy of the Spectator and began looking for Anne's byline. “It's on page three,” Pearce told him helpfully.",
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"ref": "2019, Bret Easton Ellis, White, Pan Macmillan",
"text": "She seemed so exacting and the magazine itself so impossibly glamorous to my college-kid sensibility, and did I really want to do a hit piece on an actor? […] And so the plan was set in motion: I would meet the actor Judd Nelson, find him appalling, and write about how awful hanging out with him had been.",
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"word": "häväistyskirjoitus"
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"sense": "journalistical attack",
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"tags": [
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"sense": "journalistical attack",
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"word": "Artikel zur Stimmungsmache"
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