Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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belie

discussing the skills required to do unskilled jobs belies an undeniable reality: much of this work has been deliberately de-skilled in the traditional industrial sense

—p.19 We Keep You Alive (14) by Lizzie O'Shea
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excoriating

The Times, in turn, chose this print headline to sum up Trump’s address after the Dayton and El Paso shootings: “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.” It was properly excoriated

—p.9 The Gray Zone Lady (6) by Ross Barkan
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bulwark

Donald Trump has presented a unique challenge for a newspaper trying to remain a liberal, pluralistic bulwark of truth against revanchism without simultaneously veering too far into left territory

—p.8 The Gray Zone Lady (6) by Ross Barkan
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oneiric

In J. G. Ballard’s eerily oneiric Crash, a cabal of car crash fetishists ejaculate into the orifices of gaping lesions

—p.178 The Real Lolita (171) by Becca Rothfield
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portentous

The notes scrawled in the margins in my loopy high school hand proclaim such portentous platitudes as “orgasm = death,”

—p.172 The Real Lolita (171) by Becca Rothfield
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