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This Week in Words: April 14 - 20, 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 was a week of historic firsts. It was revealed that Mike Pompeo, the nominee to be the next Secretary of State, met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The meeting has promising ramifications for the proposed historic summit between the United States and North Korea, which is expected to convene this summer. The virtuosos at M.I.T. have developed an adroit apparatus which correlates neuromuscular movement with sound. For the first time, human thoughts can be heard by others without actually being spoken aloud.

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