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"ref": "1960, Earl H. Blaik, You Have to Pay the Price, page 152",
"text": "We outstatisticked the Crusaders but could not capitalize on scoring chances.",
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"ref": "1961 May, E.B.M., “Chicago Boat Show Draws 361,721; Reveals Outboard Companies in New Roles”, in MotorBoating, volume 107, number 5, page 181",
"text": "Numerically, fiberglass boats outstatisticked wood and aluminum, but the wood institute which had a large exhibit extolling the virtues of wood as buiding material, eagerly pinted to the fact that when one got over 16 feet in length, wood was predominant.",
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"ref": "1988, Bill Gutman, The Pictorial History of Basketball, page 175",
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"ref": "1989, British Book News, page 627",
"text": "The aim is not to 'outstatistic' previous books on gladioli, nor to create or enter into any controversy about the taxonomy and nomenclature of the 200 or so gladioli species, but rather to pass on the authors' enthusiasm for 'the friendship flower'.",
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"ref": "1989, British Book News, page 627",
"text": "The aim is not to 'outstatistic' previous books on gladioli, nor to create or enter into any controversy about the taxonomy and nomenclature of the 200 or so gladioli species, but rather to pass on the authors' enthusiasm for 'the friendship flower'.",
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