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NikkiHolly omg, can't wait to see shiri appelby's new show!
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And that's where this game of shiri-tori comes to an end.
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Let's play shiri-tori [Japanese word game/cap verses].
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At Imperial General Headquarters, the gossip was that Kurita would only attack when directly ordered—that he “needed his butt kicked” shiri o tataubekida.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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At Imperial General Headquarters, the gossip was that Kurita would only attack when directly ordered—that he “needed his butt kicked” shiri o tataubekida.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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Thus, 'The Dhobi looks smart in other people's clothes'; and '_Rajache shiri, Paritache tiri_,' or 'The king's headscarf is the washerman's loin-cloth.'
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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** This kind of rope called shime-nawa, an abbreviation of shiri-kume-nawa may be seen festooning the portals of any Shinto shrine.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Awer avella yeck divvus yoi sos kinlo, te pendes yoi nei kamdas kair butsi 'dovo divvus si sos brishnu te yoi nestis shiri a sappa dre o kamlo dud.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Google Japan searches for Apple's new voice recognition software had the search engine asking users if they actually were looking for "shiri," and it isn't difficult to imagine what the image search returned on those queries.
unknown title 2011
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To Japan, the name Siri sounds almost identical to a Japanese character, pronounced shiri.
unknown title 2011
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