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heteroglossia

whose linguistic heteroglossia swirls into a maddening cacophony

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—p.101 Belated Reunion? (89) by Jiwei Xiao
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potemkin

Potemkin technocracies of this sort are a dead end for the environmentalist movement.

—p.70 To Freeze the Thames (63) by Troy Vettese
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declension

Embedded in Case and Deaton’s “narrative of deterioration,” then, is a narrative of racial declension. Poorer, non-college-educated black and Hispanics have suffered the same economic weakness without experiencing rising mortality and morbidity

—p.103 Morbid Capitalism (101) by Nikhil Pal Singh, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
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chary

Desire is, by nature, childlike and chary of government.

—p.59 On Liking Women (47) by Andrea Long Chu
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homily

Politicians knew what homilies they had to repeat to be taken seriously by party gatekeepers and thus rise to prominence.

—p.25 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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