And “parabolic” seems to be on the rise too.
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"Unprecedented" used at an unprecedented rate (a few years back, at least).
I bet a tiny percentage of the population can truly feel how those functions operate and how that behaviour can be used as a description of other entities
Agreed. I think this one still has some life moving forward.
I think that is what I may be sensing. The tiny percentage who properly understand using it often because it’s justified but a much broader percentage grabbing on to it to describe something they feel is important to them but not true to the word. A semantic bleaching of sorts.