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"text": "Nix the last order – the customer walked out.",
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"ref": "1935 July 17, “Sticks Nix Hick Pix”, in Variety, volume 119, number 5, page 1",
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"text": "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure\nHe said his roommate had reacted favorably & said he \"wanted to share the bed\" with him! So I figured that nixed me out of the picture at least for now."
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"ref": "1999, Owen W. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential, San Francisco: No Starch Press, page 242",
"text": "The move came less than six months after Jobs had nixed the spin-off of Newton Inc. as an independent company and brought it back inside Apple (see “The Fallen Apple,” page 143).",
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"ref": "2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”",
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"word": "vernietigen"
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"word": "نابود کردن"
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"ref": "1916 January 12, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 472, column 2",
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"text": "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure\nHe said his roommate had reacted favorably & said he \"wanted to share the bed\" with him! So I figured that nixed me out of the picture at least for now."
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"ref": "1999, Owen W. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential, San Francisco: No Starch Press, page 242",
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"ref": "2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”",
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