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"ref": "2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5:",
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"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 May 8, Philip Sherburne, “Dubstep Selling Candy, Helping to Stop Human Trafficking”, in Spin:",
"text": "In a repeat of the \"electronica\" boom of the 1990s, when the music of artists like Moby, Dirty Vegas, and the Crystal Method became inescapable on prime-time TV, dubstep is steadily wubbing its way into the commercial landscape.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 January 15, Erik van Rheenen, “Overshadowed: A$AP Rocky's featured artists outshine him on own his own album”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, page 13:",
"text": "[…] but enlisting Skrillex to wub all over “Wild For The Night” is a head-scratching move.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To produce this sound."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wʌb/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wub.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/02/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wub.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wub.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/02/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wub.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wub.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/wʊb/",
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"Northern-England"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌb"
}
],
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}
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