Dismay, that feeble-sounding word, has this ghastly meaning.

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It is precisely this mutated meaning of viral as word-of-mouth that Jenkins targets in his war.

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This island nation must relearn the meaning of the word incentive.

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To call this a business, however, is to distort the meaning of the word.

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"Legion" may have bowed in second place, but it earned a dismal C- from exit pollster Cinemascore, meaning there is unlikely to be much positive word-of-mouth for this movie.

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Isn't this a lovely mythos -- the Greek word for story -- a narrative with symbolic resonance and profound meaning?

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The literal meaning of apocalypse is an "unveiling" or "revelation, " and this definition of the word holds true whether we consider St.

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