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"ref": "1992 February 22, soc.culture.asean (Usenet)",
"text": "Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!",
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"ref": "2003 October 17, “Questions thick and fast in Parliament”, in TODAY, page 2",
"text": "We have also been through training and we all kena tekan (were bullied), but even if we were ill-treated, we didn’t know that we were being ill-treated",
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"ref": "2009 July 8, “Victim offered sex: Attackers”, in TODAY, page 10",
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"ref": "2013 July 17, “Paige Chua wears the pants”, in TODAY, page 60",
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