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"text": "Among the workforce and scholars, the abbreviation for the school's designation, CSKYWLA (pronounced seeskeeWAHlah), has been minted as a protologism to that this meaning has specified – to be sanctioned by grant, nonviolence, and communal change."
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},
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"text": "Attendees will be encouraged to try their hand at protologism (creating new words) and become the Shake-spears of Oceanside!"
},
{
"ref": "2014 October 7, Janet Kemp, The Star-Spangled Banner, 170 Success Secrets, Emereo Publishing, unpaged",
"text": "Among the workforce and scholars, the abbreviation for the school's designation, CSKYWLA (pronounced seeskeeWAHlah), has been minted as a protologism to that this meaning has specified – to be sanctioned by grant, nonviolence, and communal change."
},
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"ref": "2015, Peter O. Müller, Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Walter de Gruyter",
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