See tl;dr in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2014 June 17, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “Here’s How to Teach the Liberal Arts to High Schoolers”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-14:",
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"text": "I'll tell you another thing that's ironic about the Vidal–Buckley [i.e., Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.] debates. Those debates can be TLDR'd into one of them calling the other \"queer\" as a pejorative and then the other calls the other a \"fascist.\"",
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"text": "Some highlights of the lowlights: \"A dismal mess,\" says the New York Times. Its \"shabby aesthetic and narrative shortcomings are outweighed by its more drastically questionable moral ones,\" says the Guardian. \"It's not a good movie,\" Entertainment Weekly TL;DRs.",
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