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"ref": "2000, Cycle World - Volume 39, pages 2000-59",
"text": "Staffer Mark Hoyer (riding a Suzuki Hayabusa for unfair, incoherent contrast) and I would land-shark our way through the mountain roads near Mount Palomar for a full day of riding.",
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"ref": "1952, The Chicago Jewish Forum - Volume 11, Issues 2-4, page 155",
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"ref": "1867, South Australia. Parliament, Debates in the Houses of Legislature, page 27",
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"(transitive) To sell (someone) land at an exorbitant price."
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},
{
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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1871 May 6, Gashunts, “Cotton Versus Buckskin”, in The United States Army and Navy Journal, volume 8, number 39, page 603",
"text": "Their cost is trifling in the East, and dear at interior stations in the West, where a soldier is \"land-sharked\" by traders at the rate of from $10 to $20 per month, and more if he be an opulent individual.",
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},
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