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(adjective) true genuine

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Trump, the echt white-male-resentment and "free-speech" candidate

—p.3 In the Maze (1) by Dayna Tortorici
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Trump, the echt white-male-resentment and "free-speech" candidate

—p.3 In the Maze (1) by Dayna Tortorici
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(noun) a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.

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Death, of course, is the ultimate containment; other, less final containments are conversely strategies toward genocide. Perfect chiasmus.

—p.13 When a Person Goes Missing (11) by Dawn Lundy Martin
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Death, of course, is the ultimate containment; other, less final containments are conversely strategies toward genocide. Perfect chiasmus.

—p.13 When a Person Goes Missing (11) by Dawn Lundy Martin
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(adjective) having the same or coincident boundaries / (adjective) coextensive in scope or duration

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As opposed to those of its global adversary, they contended, the interests of America were coterminous with the world’s interests.

—p.21 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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As opposed to those of its global adversary, they contended, the interests of America were coterminous with the world’s interests.

—p.21 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment

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Both parties had committed to the basic elements of what became “the American model.” At home, it involved a modest welfare state combined with meliorism on issues of race. Abroad, the goal was the reconstruction of foreign societies on American terms through the spread of market capitalism and the legal-political institutions of liberal democracy.

—p.22 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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Both parties had committed to the basic elements of what became “the American model.” At home, it involved a modest welfare state combined with meliorism on issues of race. Abroad, the goal was the reconstruction of foreign societies on American terms through the spread of market capitalism and the legal-political institutions of liberal democracy.

—p.22 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory

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In the 1990s, encomiums to the Constitution were taken for granted.

—p.25 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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In the 1990s, encomiums to the Constitution were taken for granted.

—p.25 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme / (noun) an inspirational catchphrase or platitude. homiletic: the art of preaching or writing sermons

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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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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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(adjective) dear treasured / (adjective) ; discreetly cautious; as / (adjective) hesitant and vigilant about dangers and risks / (adjective) slow to grant, accept, or expend

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

—p.59 On Liking Women (47) by Andrea Long Chu
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Desire is, by nature, childlike and chary of government.

—p.59 On Liking Women (47) by Andrea Long Chu
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(noun) a falling off or away; deterioration / (noun) descent slope

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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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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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