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"ref": "1992 July 24, Gwen Ifill, “The 1992 campaign: Clinton, in Houston Speech, Assails Bush on Crime Issue”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-04-08",
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"ref": "2005 November 18, Niall Quinn, “Football: Deadly Doug should stand by O'Leary in Villa's hour of need”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2018-04-08",
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"ref": "2010 September 9, Chengcheng Jiang, “Why Foreign Businesses in China Are Getting Mad”, in Time, retrieved 2018-04-08",
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"ref": "2012 October 19, “U.S. CEOs’ rosy spin whitewashes weak results”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 2018-04-08",
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"ref": "2024 April 16, David A. Graham, “Trump’s Alternate-Reality Criminal Trial”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "Even if Trump isn’t righteously jousting with the judge and being persecuted by the Soros machine, he can tell his base that he is. Even better, he can talk a good game without doing things that might risk judicial sanctions.",
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"(idiomatic) To speak emphatically and at length about one's ability, intentions, or achievements, without yet producing any clear evidence or actual results."
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