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"text": "1999, Diesel Boy, Sofa King Cool (album title)."
},
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"ref": "2006 November, Sophea, “Pen Pals”, in Robert Kirkman, Invincible, number 37, Image Comics, Inc.",
"text": "Kirkman, Ottley, and Crabtree (aka K.O.C.), / Another great character development issue that was Sofa King great and effin’ good.",
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"ref": "2010, Avram Mednick, Pattaya Hash",
"text": "“I'm Sofa King lucky!” he thought, as he drifted off.",
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"ref": "2010, Jenny Hollowell, Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe, page 85",
"text": "So fucking beautiful, Jules kept saying and the dictator's grandson repeated after her, trying out the words. Sofa king beautiful, he chanted. Sofa king beautiful.",
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"ref": "2011, Arlaina Tibensky, And Then Things Fall Apart",
"text": "“That is sofa king ridiculous, Mom.” “And don't 'sofa king' me, Keek. In the mood for this, I am not.”",
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"ref": "2012 February 29, “Sofa King ad banned in UK over F-bomb similarity”, in New York Post",
"text": "The Sofa King said the phrase \"Where the Prices are Sofa King Low!\" had been the firm's slogan since it began trading nine years ago",
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"ref": "2012 March 1, Language Log",
"text": "To me, this all seems sofa king stupid.",
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"ref": "2012, New Jersey Newsroom.com, February 10, 2012)",
"text": "N.Y. Knicks' Jeremy Lin: Dunks are Sofa King unexpected"
},
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"text": "2015, Spek Won, Sofa King Amazing (album title)."
},
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"ref": "2019, Andrea Bartz, chapter 6, in The Lost Night, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 91",
"text": "I like him so much it’s embarrassing. I am sitting in my cubicle beaming like an idiot even though I’m super hungover and my hair smells like smoke and I clearly didn’t shower before booking it into work. He is sofa king hot.",
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"text": "N.Y. Knicks' Jeremy Lin: Dunks are Sofa King unexpected"
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},
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