awk - Remove line if field is duplicate

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Published on 2010-04-08T23:14:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 23:23 UTC
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Looking for an awk (or sed) one-liner to remove lines from the output if the first field matches.

An example for removing duplicate lines I've seen is:

awk 'a !~ $0; {a=$0}'

Tried using it for a basis with no luck (I thought changing the $0's to $1's would do the trick, but didn't seem to work).

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