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"ref": "1988, Laurie James, Why Margaret Fuller Ossoli is Forgotten, page 31",
"text": "You can weep tears because of an up-to-date vision which misunderstands, mispromotes and bends the truth so as to preserve the eternal powerlessness of Margaret Fuller.",
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"ref": "1996, Linda Tate, A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South, page 181",
"text": "As black women's works are rejected or mispromoted, \" [t] he public ... is allowed to think that black women are generally incapable of literary creation\" (Stetson 89) .",
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"ref": "2013, Daniel Potter, Jennifer Hanin, What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant",
"text": "When companies misuse or mispromote TCM herbs, results can be disastrous.",
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"ref": "2014, Simon Philo, British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence, page 135",
"text": "Yellow Submarine was a commercial flop in Britain, mainly because it was mispromoted as a children's film.",
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"ref": "2020, Courtenay Stallings, Sheryl Lee, Laura's Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks",
"text": "Boxing Helena was so misunderstood and so mispromoted. Boxing Helena was never about “This is women's fault.”",
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"ref": "2022, Richard Blum, Andrew Herxheimer, Catherine Stenzl, Pharmaceuticals and Health Policy",
"text": "Our own study began in 1974, after we had published a report on how prescription drugs in the United States are discovered, produced, promoted, priced, prescribed by physicians and used by patients — and how these potent products are too frequently mispromoted, mis-prescribed and misused.",
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"ref": "1957, Foundry Management & Technology - Volume 85, Issues 1-6, page 174",
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"ref": "1997, BD Smart, GH Smart, Topgrading the organization",
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"ref": "2009, Ivanka Menken, Organizational behavior and leadership management essentials, page 162",
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"text": "As black women's works are rejected or mispromoted, \" [t] he public ... is allowed to think that black women are generally incapable of literary creation\" (Stetson 89) .",
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"ref": "2013, Daniel Potter, Jennifer Hanin, What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant",
"text": "When companies misuse or mispromote TCM herbs, results can be disastrous.",
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},
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"text": "Yellow Submarine was a commercial flop in Britain, mainly because it was mispromoted as a children's film.",
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},
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"ref": "2020, Courtenay Stallings, Sheryl Lee, Laura's Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks",
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},
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, BD Smart, GH Smart, Topgrading the organization",
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},
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