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 us that even things that seem to last forever must come to an end. North and South Korea brokered a deal to co-exist for the Olympic Games. The truce ends, at least for now, decades of incendiary rhetoric. Kazakhstan has embraced the Latin alphabet, undermining years of Russian cultural hegemony in that nation. The Nestle corporation has sold off most of its chocolate and candy business, ending its association with with the delicious confections that pleased the child in us all.
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