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  2. Polyphony (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Truths apparently extrinsic to the author, belonging to a character for example, are "represented" truths: they are represented from within the author's ideological framework, invoked for their expediency relative to the author's overall purpose and plan. [9] Ideas are either affirmed or repudiated. An affirmed idea, one that conforms to the ...

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    To write that someone insisted, speculated, or surmised can suggest the degree of the person's carefulness, resoluteness, or access to evidence, even when such things are unverifiable. To say that someone asserted or claimed something can call their statement's credibility into question, by emphasizing any potential contradiction or implying ...

  4. Non-repudiation - Wikipedia

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    For example, a secure area may use a key card access system where non-repudiation would be violated if key cards were shared or if lost and stolen cards were not immediately reported. Similarly, the owner of a computer account must not allow others to use it, such as by giving away their password, and a policy should be implemented to enforce this.

  5. Category:Pejorative terms for women - Wikipedia

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  6. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]

  7. Category:Repudiated queens - Wikipedia

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  8. Reappropriation - Wikipedia

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    Although those terms are most often used in the context of language, this concept has also been used in relation to other cultural concepts, for example in the discussion of reappropriation of stereotypes, [9] reappropriation of popular culture (e.g., the reappropriation of science fiction literature into elite, high literature [10]), or ...

  9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation e.g. stands for the Latin exempli gratiā "for example", and should be used when the example(s) given are just one or a few of many. The abbreviation i.e. stands for the Latin id est "that is", and is used to give the only example(s) or to otherwise qualify the statement just made.