I didn't express myself clearly: I said flag for $record->duplicate, but in fact it should hold the number of times the sentence is duplicate, so it's more a count than a flag.
In that case your object approach isn't modeling the problem correctly - storing the number of duplicates in the Entry object doesn't make sense. Your original approach is better, but I'd do it this way: 
my %count;
for (@items) { $count{$_}++ }
my @dups = grep { $count{$_} > 1 } @items;

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or 
my (%count, @dups);
for (@items) { $count{$_}++ == 1 && push(@dups, $_) }

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In each case $count{$sentence} contains the number of occurrences of $sentence. Will this work for you?

In reply to Re^5: objects and duplicates by pc88mxer
in thread objects and duplicates by lkperl

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