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This Week in Words: August 13-18, 2017

No time to scour the headlines or watch the news? No problem! We’ve rounded up the top words heard, read, debated, and discussed this week. Sometimes we need to find comfort wherever we can, so in this installment we're aiming for a mix of the heavy and the light. Beliefs were espoused and condemned. Statues across the US were excised, and a plaza in Spain was cordoned off. The late great Prince was officially given his own purple hue, and a century-old fruitcake was found to be only slight rancid. We take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.
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