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"ref": "2004, “I Predict a Riot”, in Employment, performed by Kaiser Chiefs:",
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"ref": "2005, Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards:",
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"ref": "2005 November 20, Rowan Pelling, “Women do make the worst drunks. Maybe it's the sick'n'sequin mix...”, in The Independent on Sunday:",
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"ref": "2009, Sally Neighbour, The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman′s Extraordinary Journey Into Jihad, page 176:",
"text": "Sungkar told Rabiah he thought of her as he rode to freedom on his motor scooter through the green wrought-iron gates, disguised in a pair of blue jeans and a lairy short-sleeved batik shirt: ‘Rabiah reckoned the safari suit was bad—if only she could see me now’.",
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"text": "Watching the people get lairy / It's not very pretty I tell thee",
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"text": "I started to get a bit lairy, agitated on drink.",
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