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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally, the cult of personal cleanliness is an ersatz religion.
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His hunger was however strong enough to get him through that, along with the slice of ersatz brown bread.
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His wife scurried around serving ersatz coffee and comforting a baby born four days previously.
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Later, ersatz coffee and bread were brought in.
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This is one of the many New York culinary delights that appear only in ersatz forms outside the city.