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"ref": "1991, Thomas J. Beirne, Henry Dauderis, Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Decision Making, page 371",
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"text": "To his analysis may be added the same pattern in the concluding plot unit of chapter 6: when Germann mispulls the queen of spades instead of the ace, he leans forward stunned and leans back, leans forward again to see the queen of spaces wink at him, and falls back from the table.",
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"text": "On January 11, however, Ochoa again committed a mispull. A Smitty's store had ordered eight cases of size 138 red delicious apples and six size 138 golden delicious apples. Ochoa, however, sent them 14 size 138 golden delicious.",
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},
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},
{
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"text": "This 0.2 % covers miscellaneous breakage, some minor pilferage, mispulled product, and so on.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Mark L. Richie, Quality Management for Educational Technology Services, page 160",
"text": "Where are the losses factored in from rework correcting mispulled items because the pull list was hard to read?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Michael Schoenborn, “Rabbit Bridge”, in Ray Lee, Linda Lee, editors, Northern Lights: The Best of Canadian Master Point Magazine, page 109",
"text": "The tip would read as follows: never defend on the basis that your expert opponent has mispulled his card.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2010, Lauren G. Leighton, Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature, page 141",
"text": "To his analysis may be added the same pattern in the concluding plot unit of chapter 6: when Germann mispulls the queen of spades instead of the ace, he leans forward stunned and leans back, leans forward again to see the queen of spaces wink at him, and falls back from the table.",
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},
{
"ref": "1982, Timber Processing Industry - Volume 7, page 12",
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},
{
"ref": "1990, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1016",
"text": "On January 11, however, Ochoa again committed a mispull. A Smitty's store had ordered eight cases of size 138 red delicious apples and six size 138 golden delicious apples. Ochoa, however, sent them 14 size 138 golden delicious.",
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},
{
"ref": "1998 March-April, Marcus J.K. Bankes, John E. Crossman, Roger J.H. Emery, “A standard method of shoulder strength measurement for the Constant score with a spring balance”, in Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, volume 7, number 2",
"text": "A mispull was automatically awarded zero.",
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},
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"text": "On the third night he is supremely confident, and cruelly disabused by his mispull of the third card.",
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},
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