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Joshua Cohen
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empyrean
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(adjective) empyreal / (noun) the highest heaven or heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology usually consisting of fire or light / (noun) the true and ultimate heavenly paradise / (noun) firmament heavens / (noun) an ideal place or state
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dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable
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dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable
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coeval
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(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration
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a descriptor that the Nazis, to say nothing of coeval Poles, would have disputed
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a descriptor that the Nazis, to say nothing of coeval Poles, would have disputed
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parlous
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(adjective) full of danger or uncertainty; precarious
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To date, Sanders’s most public, but also most parlous, statements on his own Semitism occurred in the first two of his two-person debates with Hillary
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To date, Sanders’s most public, but also most parlous, statements on his own Semitism occurred in the first two of his two-person debates with Hillary
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metonymy
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(noun) a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as “crown” in “lands belonging to the crown”)
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What would redeem this self-hating morass of identity synecdoche and self-eradicating metonymy was America, a country ripe for personal or racial or religious reinvention
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What would redeem this self-hating morass of identity synecdoche and self-eradicating metonymy was America, a country ripe for personal or racial or religious reinvention
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