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"ref": "1918, Virginia Medical Monthly (1918- ). - Volume 45, page 10:",
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"ref": "1918 January, William Held, “The Epilepsy Problem”, in Iowa Homeopathic Journal, volume 11, number 8, page 13:",
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"ref": "1989, Nigerian Defence Academy Journal - Volume 1, Issue 1, page 100:",
"text": "The democracy distilled and diluted by these repressive organs has to be perversed democracy.",
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"ref": "2001, V. I. Kazansky, Cancer and Its Prophylactics: Modern Theory of Malignant Tumours, page 44:",
"text": "As regards the type of metabolism peculiar to it, this protein is similar to the primitive live substance, the difference between them being that the cancerous protein has the faculty of forming tumorous cells that retain in the cellular stage the perversed type of metabolism characterized by the predominance of growth over development (differentiation), resulting in an intense growth of the cancer cells.",
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"ref": "2013, Dominic Minguzzi, The Holy Spirit Unveiled: The Deep Secrets of God, page 25:",
"text": "We have to understand that images are reversed in a mirror and that certain things on earth have the same meaning in heaven. They are just reversed because this world is perversed.",
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"ref": "2022, Jihoon Kim, Documentary's Expanded Fields:",
"text": "Seen in this light, the DV footage helps viewers to recontextualize the fantasy of familial happiness that hs been at play in the production and cirulation of home movies, and thereby to notice what remains unfilmed and unrepresentable in them, namely, any clue to Issei's pathological unconsciousness that might be linked to his perversed desire and fantasy.",
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"ref": "1905, William Held, Crime, Habit Or Disease?, page 82:",
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"ref": "1912, The Pennsylvania-German Society: Proceedings and Addresses at York, PA., October 14, 1910, page 21:",
"text": "The Works of the Lord are praise-worthy with the innocent: but they which travell on perversed ways, shall be ashamed.",
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"ref": "1991, The Bulletin - Volumes 5751-5757, page 114:",
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"ref": "2010, Robert Sydney Reyes, Job & the Gospel of Suffering, page 133:",
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"ref": "1885, George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, page 242:",
"text": "Felix, being in a perversed mood, contended that universal suffrage would be equally agreeable to the devil; that he would change his politics a little, have a larger traffic, and see himself more fully represented in Parliament.",
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"ref": "2021, Ravi Ranjan & M.K.Singh, The Revolt of 1857, page 185:",
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"ref": "1918 January, William Held, “The Epilepsy Problem”, in Iowa Homeopathic Journal, volume 11, number 8, page 13:",
"text": "The patient becomes listless, sluggish, irritable, perversed in desires, unreasonable and passes through varied stages of mental decay to ultimate insanity.",
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},
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"ref": "1989, Nigerian Defence Academy Journal - Volume 1, Issue 1, page 100:",
"text": "The democracy distilled and diluted by these repressive organs has to be perversed democracy.",
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},
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"ref": "2001, V. I. Kazansky, Cancer and Its Prophylactics: Modern Theory of Malignant Tumours, page 44:",
"text": "As regards the type of metabolism peculiar to it, this protein is similar to the primitive live substance, the difference between them being that the cancerous protein has the faculty of forming tumorous cells that retain in the cellular stage the perversed type of metabolism characterized by the predominance of growth over development (differentiation), resulting in an intense growth of the cancer cells.",
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"ref": "2013, Dominic Minguzzi, The Holy Spirit Unveiled: The Deep Secrets of God, page 25:",
"text": "We have to understand that images are reversed in a mirror and that certain things on earth have the same meaning in heaven. They are just reversed because this world is perversed.",
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},
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"ref": "2022, Jihoon Kim, Documentary's Expanded Fields:",
"text": "Seen in this light, the DV footage helps viewers to recontextualize the fantasy of familial happiness that hs been at play in the production and cirulation of home movies, and thereby to notice what remains unfilmed and unrepresentable in them, namely, any clue to Issei's pathological unconsciousness that might be linked to his perversed desire and fantasy.",
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},
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"ref": "1912, The Pennsylvania-German Society: Proceedings and Addresses at York, PA., October 14, 1910, page 21:",
"text": "The Works of the Lord are praise-worthy with the innocent: but they which travell on perversed ways, shall be ashamed.",
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},
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"ref": "1991, The Bulletin - Volumes 5751-5757, page 114:",
"text": "Management is perversed. In a big department store, I asked the manager why the labelled FIRE EXIT doors were locked. He said there is no fire in this time; the printed signs are demanded by stupid fire regulations only.",
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"ref": "2010, Robert Sydney Reyes, Job & the Gospel of Suffering, page 133:",
"text": "Did he have any obligation, legal or otherwise, to enter into such a disruptive, confused and perversed situation, all manipulated by evil intent, only because Satan said so?",
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