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The FBI was secretly listening last year when a high-ranking advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom unleashed a stream of profanities as she vented about a public records request from an unnamed individual.

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While his version is peppered with plenty of profanity – which the BBC can't publish – part of the appeal is to make the book more accessible.

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Wall Street firms would soon be frowning upon profanity, forcing their male employees to treat women almost as equals, and firing traders for so much as glancing at a lap dancer.

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Unintentional profanity or intentional “unscripted” acts remain the unavoidable but predictably entertaining wild cards of the genre.

Asked why Clooney had intervened in the race, Hunter Biden responded with a succession of profanities about the actor.

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