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abjure

It is middle-class European Americans who currently abjure the use of spankings and who favor instead the use of time-outs.

—p.294 by Judith Rich Harris
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adumbrate

the traditional Marxist attack (derived from Taint and Blinks) adumbrates a theory of types, as distinct from contingent phenomena

—p.198 The Writings of Lee Russell: New Left Review (1964–7) (151) by Peter Wollen
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jejune

The counterpart of Kubrick’s jejune liberalism is a jejune nihilism.

—p.164 The Writings of Lee Russell: New Left Review (1964–7) (151) by Peter Wollen
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phatic

There is no doubt that the cross can serve as a phatic signal and as a degenerate index, triggering off an effusive and devout meditation, but this should be radically distinguished from the conceptual content articulated by the symbolic sign.

—p.130 The Semiology of the Cinema (97) by Peter Wollen
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