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fulsome

Her voice deepened; it became fulsome, indulgent, almost smug

—p.152 by Mary Gaitskill
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fey

She spoke of fey youths she had known, of their clothes and hair, the petulant swing of their slim hips.

—p.145 by Mary Gaitskill
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stolid

During the day, life stood stolid, gray and oblivious. But at night, heaven came in the cracks.

—p.103 by Mary Gaitskill
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pallid

Riding still, out of the roaring night into a pallid day of sidewalks and beggars with the past rising through their eyes.

—p.70 by Mary Gaitskill
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risible

worker misclassification—the risible fiction that “gig economy” workers, whose every movement is scripted in fine detail by their employers, are actually “independent contractors”

—p.248 CHAPTER 19 Uniting Against Chokepoint Capitalism (245) by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin
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