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- unleashed a slew of expletives upon losing the tennis match
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This Expletives Article is SFW
You don't need to delete these expletives, but maybe you should…
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“Expletive.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expletive. Accessed 23 January 2020.
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The first known use of expletive was in the 15th century
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