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That feeling of rootlessness and discontent, of society coming unstuck — the academic term is anomie — definitely isn’t unique to this country, but it gets massively amplified by our national narcissism and our physical isolation.

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A Botox injection resolved their problems by giving them the ability to burp, or, to use an academic term, eructate.

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For them, the new academic term restarts a threat to the status quo.

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This has been fluid as the organizations have come and gone, the elites change, and the academic terms come in and out of fashion.

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The school rules, like virtually all “postvention” guidelines for addressing suicide deaths, are particularly concerned with suicide contagion, an academic term for the way suicide reproduces in social groups.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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