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"ref": "1998, Golf Journal, volumes 51-52, page 120",
"text": "As the leader in spikeless golf shoes, we have what you want.",
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},
{
"ref": "2006, Colin Tudge, The Secret Life of Trees",
"text": "Yet on islands in the Indian Ocean that lack insouciant ramblers and rapacious herbivores the palms are spikeless – just as birds on islands that traditionally had no humans or cats tend to be tame[…]",
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"text": "Yet on islands in the Indian Ocean that lack insouciant ramblers and rapacious herbivores the palms are spikeless – just as birds on islands that traditionally had no humans or cats tend to be tame[…]",
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