There are several duplicites, any reason for that?

[MarekChr]

For example:
line 934 and 1049:

"I'm not ghosting you; I'm giving you a firm no."

line 947 and 1053:

"Alas, I must decline."

[agokhale]

cat reasons.json | sort -u | wc

  28     360    2168

there are only 26 distinct reasons.json

[krisavi]

cat reasons.json | sort -u | wc

  28     360    2168

there are only 26 distinct reasons.json

It seems you have older version of the file.

cat reasons.json | sort -u | wc -l
     977

There are 975 distinct reasons.

There are about 80 duplicated lines. Probably due to copy-paste from the same source multiple times etc.

[Jayanth-Srinivasan]

Removed all the 80 duplicates.