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Examples
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Machinery gets out of order and requires a complex technology to keep it going -- but good old "hayburners" keep right on breeding, cropping grass, and pulling loads.
Tunnel In The Sky Heinlein, Robert A. 1955
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If they make computers like G4s that seem to want to run forever, then soon their sales will plummet and, whoaaa, hayburners, we gotta improve sales every month, not let 'em fall.
On Being Left Behind The Daily Growler 2006
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They were watching a bunch of long-faced hayburners chasing one another around a dusty track.
The Big Fix George Oliver Smith 1946
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I called the cops because I wasn’t about to sit there and babysit the damn great hayburners all night.
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