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vitiate

the symbolic force of Clinton’s campaign was vitiated by its political timidity

—p.74 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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vitiate

the symbolic force of Clinton’s campaign was vitiated by its political timidity

—p.74 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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parlous

From time to time, uncoordinated sightings of real conditions emerged in candidate Trump’s unscripted monologues, in allusions to the parlous state of American infrastructure or the diminished life chances of rural whites

—p.64 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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extirpate

the forces of resistance in this world: pushed into marginal strips and under the ground, denied access to the world of the living, invisible, rolled over by tanks and helicopters? And yet impossible to fully extirpate.

—p.46 The Walls of the Tank: On Palestinian Resistance (21) by Andreas Malm
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lacuna

Palestine is a notoriously over-researched place, but there is one gaping lacuna in the literature that concerns the very backbone of the Palestinian side, in whose absence ‘the conflict’ would have ended long ago: the resistance

—p.40 The Walls of the Tank: On Palestinian Resistance (21) by Andreas Malm
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