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"ref": "1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Hartman (R. Lee Ermey)",
"text": "Now get up! Get on your feet! You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!",
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"ref": "2007, Anne Frasier, Garden of Darkness, Onyx, page 19",
"text": "An unemployed, starving artist couldn't turn her back on that kind of money. Not to mention that this could be a chance to unfuck my life.",
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"ref": "2017 January 24, Beth Skwarecki, “Unf*ck Your Habitat Got Me to Finally Start Cleaning My House”, in Lifehacker",
"text": "Before long, this habit leads to…well, to the exact situation in my kitchen that took me three 20/10s to unfuck last week.",
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"ref": "2023 June 26, Zoe Williams, “Perv-O-Shine and sleep vaping: 23 things I learned about the world – and myself – at Glastonbury 2023”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "All sound ideas, no question, except Unfuck the World was so popular that once people had seen that sticker, they didn’t want the other three. They just wanted to grab the world and unfuck it.",
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"ref": "1982, Marge Piercy, Braided Lives, page 269",
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"ref": "1996, Michael Peterson, A time of War, page 222",
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"ref": "2011, Kate Willoughby, Just Winging It, page 63",
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"ref": "2011, Erica Orloff, chapter 6, in Freudian Slip",
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