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stagflation
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(stagnation + inflation) when inflation is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high
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The sun of Reaganomics--which saw in the unfettered market the answer to the political, economic, and cultural stagflation of the 1970s--no longer warms the lower orders of the right.
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The sun of Reaganomics--which saw in the unfettered market the answer to the political, economic, and cultural stagflation of the 1970s--no longer warms the lower orders of the right.
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7 years ago
exigent
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(adjective) requiring immediate aid or action / (adjective) requiring or calling for much; demanding
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If it's a little money, the dream must not be fervently felt. If it's a lot of money, the dream is exigent.
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If it's a little money, the dream must not be fervently felt. If it's a lot of money, the dream is exigent.
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7 years ago
fissiparous
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(adjective) tending to break up into parts; divisive
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the fissiparous nature of American institutions has helped stop Trump
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the fissiparous nature of American institutions has helped stop Trump
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declension
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(noun) a falling off or away; deterioration / (noun) descent slope
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the land is constantly remade, changing its name like a noun going through successive declensions
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the land is constantly remade, changing its name like a noun going through successive declensions
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mandarin
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(noun) historically, a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire OR a pedantic or elitist bureaucrat OR senior person of influence in academia or literary circles / (adj) deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist
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having culminated in the production of generations of left mandarins without the sophistication (or cultural capital) that the epithet mandarin once connoted
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having culminated in the production of generations of left mandarins without the sophistication (or cultural capital) that the epithet mandarin once connoted
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7 years ago