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This Week in Words: December 9 - 15, 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.

This week showed that just about anything is possible. A college football player who was a walk-on, without a scholarship, won the Heisman Trophy by a lopsided margin. Doug Jones tallied a win in the Alabama Senate race, which was at one time called a quixotic dream, and there is now hope for the bevy of people who hate needles and for those suffering from Huntington's disease.

Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.
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