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parlous

Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, taking out the island’s power grid, water system, and communications. It also exposed the parlous state of affairs in the United States’ largest remaining colony

—p.399 by Daniel Immerwahr
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extirpate

The “hikes” did great damage, but they couldn’t themselves extirpate the rebellion.

—p.97 by Daniel Immerwahr
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anodyne

less innocuous than Rooney’s politically anodyne writing is her inflated reception

—p.177 Normal Novels (171) by Becca Rothfield
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limn

I like Rooney when she gloats and strives, when she is limned with the angry light of ambition

—p.174 Normal Novels (171) by Becca Rothfield
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ossivorous

phenomenology, in its urge to articulate the flux and the unruly hum of “real” experience, is invariably ossivorous

—p.171 Normal Novels (171) by Becca Rothfield
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