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"ref": "2013, Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture, page 62",
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"ref": "2012, Chris Bunch, Star Risk, LTD.",
"text": "All of the clout is upstairs, yoinking around with meetings and that.",
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"ref": "2017, JoAnna Novak, I Must Have You: A Novel",
"text": "Por supuesto, Ethan Suva yoinked the silence.",
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"ref": "2013, Aaron Garrison, Synchronicity: One Man's Experience, page 123",
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"ref": "2016, Thom Carnell, Moonlight Serenades",
"text": "\"By all indications, the closet was just where the killah left her.\" He flipped through his notebook and then back, verifying his info. Good cop, Bubo thought. Thorough. \"Yup,\" he said, tapping the page. “By all indications, it looks like she got herself yoinked someplace else.”",
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"text": "“DanU? You shittin me?” His eyes got big. He yoinked My Pal Roofie.",
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"ref": "1969, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Saturday Review - Volume 52, page 49",
"text": "Yessir, we need you Yoinks. You're all we have, you are.",
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"ref": "1999 March 28, Robert Mulroy, “You are all a bunch of yoinks who insult Budda!”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet)",
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"ref": "1999 November 11, Don James, “WHITE LIGHT”, in alt.zen (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2012, Chris Bunch, Storm Force: Book Three of the Last Legion Series",
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"ref": "2016, Richard Sapir, Warren Murphy, The Wrong Stuff",
"text": "“What do you mean, don't kill me?” Major Healy said, sneering. “In case you didn't notice, I'm the one with the weapon.” “Oh, yeah,” Remo said. “Yoink.”",
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"text": "2021 (November 13) \"Olivia & Yunan\" (Amphibia s3e7b) Yunan grabbing a crossbow\nOoh, ominous. After you, milady. Yoink!"
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"text": "The first time he yoinked at my arm all three of us–me, doctor and bed –flew across the room.",
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"ref": "2013, Eric Flint, Ryk E. Spoor, Portal",
"text": "That was the stress that yoinked the whole support gantry down— like trying to stop a medium-sized car with one pull.”",
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"ref": "2017, Teddy Steinkellner, Two Roads from Here, page 109",
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"ref": "2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, page 111",
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"ref": "2008, Paul McDonald, Do I Love You?, page 155",
"text": "I broke-and-entered the clinic last night and yoinked em.'",
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"ref": "2016, Ben Davies, The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Welcome to Cringefest, page 12",
"text": "He had yoinked dozens off Gav over the years.",
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"ref": "2017, Nate Crowley, 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed), page 90",
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"ref": "2010, Brenna Ehrlich, Andrea Bartz, Stuff Hipsters Hate",
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"ref": "2012, Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette",
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