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It’s not “human cockfighting,” as John McCain termed it in 1996 while pushing for a ban on the sport—preliminary research suggests that both football and boxing cause more brain damage than MMA.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
Asked about Burnham's ambitions, Lord Hermer refused to engage in what he termed speculation.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Prosecutors had asked for a stiff sentence for what they termed a “massive fraud” that involved hundreds of thousands of victims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
One commentator termed this stock melt-up the “bliss trade.”
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
By a method termed glotto-chronology, based on calculations of how rapidly words tend to change over historical time, comparative linguistics can even yield estimated dates for domestications or crop arrivals.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
