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"ref": "March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "1989 April 15, Jon Autiello et al., “Police Cruisers Smash Queers”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
"text": "The number arrested is not over 600 — at $805 a whack, New Jersey has made half-a-million dollars arresting gay men.",
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"text": "C'mon. Take a whack at it.",
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"text": "40 bucks a whack.",
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"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, New York: Appleton, page 108",
"text": "“[…] O'Cannon's a taxpayer. He pays his whack towards the upkeep of the State School up in town—”",
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"ref": "1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922",
"text": "For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.",
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"ref": "2014, Anthony Pritchard, Grand Prix Ferrari, page 203",
"text": "There were problems over the installation of the engine and the handling. The team had paid top whack for the two Coopers, but the company gave them no help at all.",
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"word": "ударя́ть"
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"ref": "2008 April 29, Rockstar, Grand Theft Auto 4, Take-Two Interactive, level/area: Flatline",
"text": "Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with...",
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"ref": "2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"ref": "1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922",
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"ref": "2014, Anthony Pritchard, Grand Prix Ferrari, page 203",
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