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"ref": "2011, Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2014 November 6, Barryfromtexas, “Week 9 Thingy - Not Enough Heh to Go Around (Now with grammarfication)”, in SBNation:",
"text": "Ryan Mallett is the pompatus of offense.",
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"text": "“And my mom is the pompatus of love,” Will said.",
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"ref": "2010, Loren Berengere, Satirical Denouncements of the Wicked Americans and We Anti-Matriarchalists, page 98:",
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"text": "All the pompatus of war. It would come.",
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"ref": "2015 June 26, Eric Zorn, “What same-sex marriage backers 'lost'”, in Chicago Tribune:",
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"text": "All the pompatus of war. It would come.",
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