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7 Obsolete Allusions That We Still Use
7 Obsolete Allusions That We Still Use
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“Soap opera.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soap%20opera. Accessed 20 January 2020.
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The first known use of soap opera was in 1938
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