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"ref": "1988 November 18, Bryan Miller, “Love Amid the Rubble”, in Chicago Reader",
"text": "In the gangway, a younger but equally white trio, wearing clothes that have to be from Land's End or Eddie Bauer, cheerfully tuckpoints brick, while inside others are sawing, stripping wood, hammering, mixing cement.",
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"To employ the technique of tuck pointing upon."
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"(transitive) To employ the technique of tuck pointing upon."
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