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    When I finally mastered about two or three saxophone riffs, such as those like "Sad Girl" which the East L.A. band Thee Midniters made popular, I started jamming with a couple of local garage bands.†  (source)
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    — Riff Reynie waited at the window, his heart hammering.†  (source)
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    "Will you get in?" begins Mr. Taylor, launching another discursive riff.†  (source)
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    No, no, Trivole said, and then knocked on the door, a quick and happy musical riff.†  (source)
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    The rock group Smashing Pumpkins was contributing mantralike riffs from a portable CD player.†  (source)
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    Then the music started—loud piano keys with an electric guitar riffing right behind it and an abrupt thump of drums.†  (source)
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    Jae and her cousin riffed back and forth as we played cards.†  (source)
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    He raised his pipes to his mouth and played a quick riff The manticore yelled, "Stop him!"†  (source)
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    One of these rapid, high-note riffs that black boys make up as they go while sweeping, shoveling, or just walking along.†  (source)
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    The most disastrous readings are those that are wildly inventive and largely independent of the story's factual content, those that go riffing off on a word out of context or a supposed image that is in truth not at all the image presented in the text.†  (source)
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    I'd asked her recently after one of Gervais's visits, which I had spent alternately struggling with the power rule and sitting by, open-mouthed, as they riffed on the minute details of a recent sci-fi blockbuster, down to the extra scenes after the credits.†  (source)
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    Their leader is Riff: glowing, driving, intelligent, slightly wacky.†  (source)
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    Before, it had been an occasional crackle of gunfire, the steady rhythms of .50-caliber machine guns with the .60's answering in short riffs.†  (source)
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