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Examples
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His family wasn't much on getting licenses, or any of that "gov'ment" stuff.
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His family wasn't much on getting licenses, or any of that "gov'ment" stuff.
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Mr La Force was real grieved 'bout her ... thought she was true to him, never suspected she was operatin 'for the gov'ment ... till you an' she showed up in company with Messervy.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"They ain't in no mood to b'lieve you's a gov'ment man."
THE NUMBERS 2010
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We learned of your arrival at Baltimo 'as soon as Crixus did - like him, we have agents within the po-lice an' gov'ment, who noted the anonymous info'mation which reached the autho'ities two days ago that one Beauchamp Comber, an officer of the British Admiralty, had reappeared in this country.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Almost certainly this is imprecise, but, as they say in Tennessee where Senator Alexander and I grew up, "it's close enough for gov'ment work."
Wallace Turbeville: The Second Energy Revolution Wallace Turbeville 2010
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Too bad the dang gov'ment won't get out of the way, right?
Susan J. Demas: Joe the Plumber in Michigan: Pass the Tea, Drink the Kool-Aid 2009
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She's prechin 'ta da McStupid's dat haf ben giv'm da rite bye da Constitution ta vote fer someun' simlair to thar standin 'an' representin 'thar inerest in gov'ment.
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And there's Cowgirl Sarah riding tall in the saddle, amblin 'in from a small town in the remotest stretches of the West, to set the country straight at last after eight years of gov'ment bad guys.
Betty Fussell: Pistol-Packin' Sarah Shoots Up the Screen 2008
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No Brooke, we want to see the Hulk fight villains not the gov'ment.
Tim Blake Nelson Confirms More Incredible Hulk Sequels « FirstShowing.net 2008
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