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"ref": "1983, Newsweek, volume 101, page 178:",
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"text": "'Into simoleons, please,' I said. This was the currency used for general trade across the Dream Archipelago. It was the accepted currency within the publishing industry. All my book contracts were drawn up using simoleon amounts and rates, and the literary agent invariably sent me payment in that currency. I was used to it, knew instinctively what it was worth. The simoleon was the old standard currency. It had been in use for centuries when most of the main clearing banks were established on theisland of Muriseay",
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"ref": "1909, The International Bookbinder - Volume 10, page 240:",
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"ref": "1912, Delta Chi Quarterly, volume 10, page 286:",
"text": "We gladly did so with the result that we got a menu worth a dollar and a half or two dollars for a single simolean. Can you beat that?",
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"ref": "1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:",
"text": "His Veteran's insurance came to ten thousand simoleons, rather more than he could bring on the hoof.",
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"ref": "1983, Newsweek, volume 101, page 178:",
"text": "Abetted by market-wise agents and paperback publishers with an eye for the speedy simolean, these double-gaited gonzos are perpetrating a plague of best-selling takeoffs of innocent newspapers, defenseless magazines, helpless self-help books - even the Good Book itself.",
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"ref": "2020, Christopher Priest, The Evidence, Gollancz, page 38:",
"text": "'Into simoleons, please,' I said. This was the currency used for general trade across the Dream Archipelago. It was the accepted currency within the publishing industry. All my book contracts were drawn up using simoleon amounts and rates, and the literary agent invariably sent me payment in that currency. I was used to it, knew instinctively what it was worth. The simoleon was the old standard currency. It had been in use for centuries when most of the main clearing banks were established on theisland of Muriseay",
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"text": "The game franchise demands that its participants to simulate the \"rat race,\" earning Simoleons, remodeling their homes, and buying properties.",
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