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This Week in Words: March 17- 23, 2018

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's news is all about matters of perspective. Is Vladimir Putin's victory in the Russian election a testament to his prowess as a candidate, or a symptom of the demise of democracy in that country? Closer to home, was F.B.I. second-in-command Andrew McCabe unjustly besieged by President Trump, or is that just a partisan excuse made up by someone who deserved to be fired?

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