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inveigh

Someone from law enforcement would inveigh against exporting encryption products with keys longer than 40 bits

—p.36 [1] Transactions (17) by Ellen Ullman
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pace

The version that's in the book, I think, is a heck of a lot better, pace the terrible capitalization

—p.117 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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sedulous

they cut out a lot of the sedulous stuff

on Harper's

—p.117 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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abjure

I urge your watchers, your seminar attendees, to abjure this habit

—p.115 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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nominalization

Buried verbs, which I was taught are called nominalizations, are turning a verb into a noun for kind of BS-y reasons.

—p.93 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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