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"ref": "1894, James Hamilton Wylie, History of England under Henry the Fourth, volume 2, pages 22–23",
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"ref": "1980, George Thomas Simon, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra",
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"ref": "1981, Martin Harry Greenberg, Fantastic lives",
"text": "\"Yoi, yoi, it's always the other guys,\" the Ganymedean snorted in disgust. \"But SF is the phonetic equivalent of 'as if in Milt Gross dialect, a very thoughty parallel.\"",
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"ref": "2001, Richard Slotkin, Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln",
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"ref": "2007, Ma Kimberly Quinn Smith, Kimberly Quinn Smith Ma, A Full Moon Rising...and the Tao of Menopause",
"text": "I have been thoughty of my grandmother all week, every day actually. Thoughty is a word straight from Gramma's dictionary and is defined by an inner cognitive awareness of someone. It is more than thoughtfulness. It is a more intense character trait as it involves the spirit on a much deeper level. When I am thoughty of someone, they are not only on my mind, but in my heart, and connected to and felt by my spirit. This is what it means to be thoughty.",
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"ref": "2009, Lonnie Cruse, Fifty-seven heaven",
"text": "Killing me now, for whatever reason, was going to take a lot of guts and a lot of thought, and I planned to be much gutsier and thoughtier.",
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"ref": "2011, Celia Rivenbark, You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl",
"text": "Ditto my nightly hit of Marketplace, a thoughty economy-based show on NPR. It never hit home until Salem's wise and loving and occasionally-during-sweeps-months demon-possessed psychiatrist and her studly husband got the ax.",
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"ref": "2011, Russell T. Hurlburt, Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth",
"text": "Prior to sampling, Mike characterized himself as a “thoughty” person, and it might have been tempting to launch an investigation of the characteristics of his thinking.",
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"ref": "2013, Cait Oliver, Laying the Ghost: A Return to Culloden",
"text": "“Such a thoughty man! And easy on the eyes, as well! Well done, my man! You're such a doat!” She raised her cup of mead in salute.",
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"ref": "2007, Ma Kimberly Quinn Smith, Kimberly Quinn Smith Ma, A Full Moon Rising...and the Tao of Menopause",
"text": "I have been thoughty of my grandmother all week, every day actually. Thoughty is a word straight from Gramma's dictionary and is defined by an inner cognitive awareness of someone. It is more than thoughtfulness. It is a more intense character trait as it involves the spirit on a much deeper level. When I am thoughty of someone, they are not only on my mind, but in my heart, and connected to and felt by my spirit. This is what it means to be thoughty.",
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},
{
"ref": "2011, Celia Rivenbark, You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl",
"text": "Ditto my nightly hit of Marketplace, a thoughty economy-based show on NPR. It never hit home until Salem's wise and loving and occasionally-during-sweeps-months demon-possessed psychiatrist and her studly husband got the ax.",
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"ref": "2013, Cait Oliver, Laying the Ghost: A Return to Culloden",
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