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"text": "Postal workers are set to walk out tomorrow if contract negotiations fail.",
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"ref": "2013, Linda Mobley, Sold Out: My Journey to a More Intimate Relationship with God",
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},
{
"ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 130",
"text": "[A]long the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples \"walking out\" together under the scattered gas-lamps as ever there had been.",
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