Existential. Everyone's using it now along with the word "threat," i.e. Existential Threat, a threat to the existence of something or other. Let's make sure not to confuse it with Existentialism, which grapples with the issue of individual human responsibility,...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
At the End of The Day. This is uttered around 50,000 (could be 500,000) times a day on business television programs (Bloomberg, CNBC, etc.) and various live conferences around the country.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Like. Used fourth or fifth word by our younger population. Doesn’t just make you want to gag but, after about two minutes of it, to make you run screaming from the room. My heart especially goes out to the mothers and...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Iconic. Similar to Curated. This has been giving us the dry heaves for years, but they keep sticking their fingers down our throats.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Curated. I knew this thing had escaped its cozy confines of museum administration when a few years ago I read an item in the LA Times describing a new strip retail center whose tenant mix had been “curated” by so-and-so. ...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Game Changer. Not only has it quickly become a tired cliché, it occasionally becomes a downright atrocity such as this one I saw recently: "Gene therapy may be a game changer." Really. Yes, I guess the transformation of human life...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Sounds BOLD and BRAVE and FULL OF MEANING, but isn't. And the powerless deserve the truth too.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex