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"ref": "2012, Adam Fraser, The Third Space, page 124",
"text": "You might think it's almost worthwhile calling them and restarting the argument just to get that final zinger in. Why do you think of something good to say when it's too late?",
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{
"ref": "2022 May 14, David Segal, “An Outsider Takes an Inside Look at the Oxford ‘Chums’ Who Run the U.K.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"text": "They'd have to come up with a zinger for their Christmas windows to compete with that competitor's laughing Santa Claus and Stefan had that zinger in his proposal submitted to the President of the company.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Cathy Pickens, Done Gone Wrong",
"text": "Think about all the scientists—and all the microscopes and lab equipment and testing—that may come up with zero instead of a zinger.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Paula Harrison, Rescue Princesses #5: The Snow Jewel",
"text": "Here, have a strawberry zinger and don't tell Mom and Dad that we had candy in the bedroom.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Linda Goodnight, The Rain Sparrow",
"text": "“Want some—” he saluted her with one of Julia's delicate white cups and a wry arch of eyebrow, sipped and made a face “—lemon zinger tea?” At times like this she wished she was as outgoing as Nikki or gorgeous like Bailey or even a little wild and easy with men like Valery. But she was none of those things. She was plain Carrie, the librarian, wishing she could say something snappy and clever. “If you don't like lemon zinger, pick a different kind.\"",
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