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1. so tired of "spike" and "uptick" aren't there any other words?

Mon Aug 17, 2020, 09:17 PM

Aug 2020

the limited euphemistic vocabulary of these writers is unreal. Uptick. Spike. rinse. repeat. ad nauseum.

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so tired of "spike" and "uptick" aren't there any other words? Blues Heron Aug 2020 #1