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"text": "Whoa, Nelly!",
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"ref": "2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 134:",
"text": "I can see Mickie getting hot, I'm about to grab his arm, hold him back, say, Whoa, whoa, Mick, not here, it ain't worth it what happened inside just now.",
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"ref": "2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 2, episode 6:",
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"ref": "2003, \"Weird Al\" Yankovic, eBay (song)",
"text": "I am the type who is liable to snipe you\nWith two seconds left to go, whoa."
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"ref": "2010, Bruce Springsteen, It's a Shame:",
"text": "And oh whoa girl, it's a shame.\nOh whoa girl, it's a doggone shame.",
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"ref": "1926, Josephine Demott Robinson, The Circus Lady, page 38:",
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