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Humblebrag – a statement that purports to be modest while delivering a boast. Hypallage – a literary device that reverses the syntactic relation of two words (as in "her beauty's face"). Hyperbaton – a figure of speech in which words that naturally belong together are separated from each other for emphasis or effect.
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Secundum quid (also called secundum quid et simpliciter, meaning "[what is true] in a certain respect and [what is true] absolutely") is a type of informal fallacy that occurs when the arguer fails to recognize the difference between rules of thumb (soft generalizations, heuristics that hold true as a general rule but leave room for exceptions) and categorical propositions, rules that hold ...
Project 2025 is a sweeping, 900-page plan drummed up by a conservative think tank targeting the executive branch and laying out right-wing priorities for everything from America's education system ...
The guy asked to make another statement after getting a tongue lashing from the judge. And he did it again - telling her to go f**k herself. And got another 6 months.
Justice James C. McReynolds's dissent emphasized a body of case law, with sweeping statements about state control of education before suggesting the possibility that despite the majority opinion, Missouri could still deny Gaines admission. The decision did not quite strike down separate but equal facilities, upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896 ...
The new 12-team College Football Playoff is about to begin, and the journey to crown the national champion starts now.
Journalese is the artificial or hyperbolic, and sometimes over-abbreviated, language regarded as characteristic of the news style used in popular media. Joe Grimm, formerly of the Detroit Free Press, likened journalese to a "stage voice": "We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic.