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Get Me Rewrite: Going, going ... gone?

By Stephan Benzkofer and Brian Moore

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Dec 13, 2021
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The English language changes daily, creating delight, confusion and not a little bit of frustration.

A great example: Teddy Roosevelt’s political foes might very well have considered him a bully when he used his position as president to rail against monopolies. But when TR coined the term “bully pulpit,” he was using the contemporary meaning of bully, i.…

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