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"ref": "2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure",
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"ref": "2012, Paul D. Escott, Many Excellent People, page 232",
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"ref": "2012, Robin Furth, Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance",
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"ref": "2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure",
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"ref": "2013, Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: The Babysitting Recession",
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"ref": "2014, Steve Whitfield, Kansas Paper Money: An Illustrated History, 1854–1935, page 69",
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"ref": "2014, Joanne M. Flood, Wiley GAAP 2015, page 568",
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"ref": "2020, Arthur M. Borden, Joel A. Yunis, Going Private, page 3-6",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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