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"text": "An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet.",
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"ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion",
"text": "But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.",
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"ref": "7 July 2022, Boris Johnson, resignation speech",
"text": "And my friends in politics, no-one is remotely indispensable and our brilliant and Darwinian system will produce another leader, equally committed to taking this country forward through tough times.",
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