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},
{
"ref": "2015, Terry Davis, Vision Quest, page 9",
"text": "I throw my best moves from here. I walk out on him — \"crawl\" out, actually, charging on my hands and knees, like a giant little kid escaping from his playpen; then I explode into a sitout and reverse for two points.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Nolan Zavoral, A Season on the Mat",
"text": "Her husband, Dick Jr., was a longtime assistant coach at Norwalk, and Janella proudly claimed that she knew a sitout when she saw one.",
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"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 52",
"text": "Walkouts, sitouts, strikes and court suits are all the vogue among the disgruntled football, basketball and baseball players.",
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},
{
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"text": "Angry parades, sitouts and other perennial forms of protest preceded capitulation.",
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