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"ref": "1990, Allender Crabb, Lawrence J. Crabb, Larry Crabb, Dan B. Allender, Encouragement: The Key to Caring, page 30",
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"ref": "2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic, page 64",
"text": "You shall not, I repeat, not, touch them with your finely sharpened number-two pencils or any other marking instrument until you are explicitly told to do so.",
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"ref": "2006, Barry H. Weinberg, The Resolution of Election Disputes: Legal Principles That Control Election, page 128",
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"ref": "2006, Barbara Slater Stern, curriculum and teaching dialogue: V. 8, page 33",
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"A pencil which produces a specific shade of dark gray. One can usually identify a number 2 pencil by looking for the number \"2\" conspicuously emblazoned on the pencil. Often required for test-taking and the completion of official forms."
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"ref": "1997, Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, page 1",
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"ref": "2002, Irv Furman, Amazing Irv's Handbook of Everyday Magic, page 78",
"text": "Stand back as we attempt to capture and charm the most poisonous lead on your desk — the diamondback Number 2 pencil!",
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"ref": "2004, Kate White, 'Til Death Do Us Part, page 28",
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