"thats" meaning in English

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          "text": "As such, they do not have the ontological weight of \"Being\" and \"Not-being,\" but serve simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe our world of thises and thats.",
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          "text": "2007, Paul Mavis, review of the 1983 film \"Hundra\", DVD Talk, March 25th\nset about to make a spoofy fantasy adventure thats focus would be on a gorgeous, blonde, man-hating super-warrior who was subservient to no one."
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          "text": "So I'm writing a paper and I'm saying, \"Darfur is a region of western Sudan thats government is…\" My question is about the \"that\"– should it be \"that's\" (even though that means \"that is\") or \"thats\" (with no apostrophe)?",
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          "text": "2015, James Harbeck, The future of English includes an apostrophe-less 'thats', The Week\nLet me tell you about a word thats time has come."
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          "text": "Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]",
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          "text": "No eye hath ſeene ſuch skarcrovves. Ile not march vvith them through Couentry vvith them, thats flat: […]",
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          "ref": "c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):",
          "text": "He is made like a tilting staffe; and lookes / For all the world like an ore-rosted pigge: / A great Tobacco taker too, thats flat.",
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          "ref": "1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “To His Readers, Hee Cares Not What They Be”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Euery man can ſay Bee to a Battledore, and write in prayſe of Vertue, and the ſeuen Liberall Sciences, threſh corne out of the full ſheaues, and fetch water out of the Thames; but out of drie ſtubble to make an after harueſt, and a plentifull croppe without ſowing, and wring iuice out of a flint, thats Pierce a Gods name, and the right tricke of a workman.",
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          "text": "When yond fame ſtarre thats weaſtward from the pole […]",
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          "text": "At your pleaſure thats rare; then rovvlie, povvlie, our vviues ſhall lye at your commaund: […]",
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          "text": "[The game of dice and ball] is near of kin, in the nature of the vvord to that game of Cock-all, vvhich boyes uſe amongſt us, vvhich Cock-all, is as much vvin and take all, as a Cock does vvho victorying, has not onely the praiſe of all, but vvins all thats laied on the match by the Abettors againſt him.",
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          "text": "2015, James Harbeck, The future of English includes an apostrophe-less 'thats', The Week\nLet me tell you about a word thats time has come."
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          "text": "Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]",
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          "text": "No eye hath ſeene ſuch skarcrovves. Ile not march vvith them through Couentry vvith them, thats flat: […]",
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          "text": "He is made like a tilting staffe; and lookes / For all the world like an ore-rosted pigge: / A great Tobacco taker too, thats flat.",
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          "text": "Euery man can ſay Bee to a Battledore, and write in prayſe of Vertue, and the ſeuen Liberall Sciences, threſh corne out of the full ſheaues, and fetch water out of the Thames; but out of drie ſtubble to make an after harueſt, and a plentifull croppe without ſowing, and wring iuice out of a flint, thats Pierce a Gods name, and the right tricke of a workman.",
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          "text": "[The game of dice and ball] is near of kin, in the nature of the vvord to that game of Cock-all, vvhich boyes uſe amongſt us, vvhich Cock-all, is as much vvin and take all, as a Cock does vvho victorying, has not onely the praiſe of all, but vvins all thats laied on the match by the Abettors againſt him.",
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