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Materials that shouldn't exist under normal conditions but somehow do—room-temperature superconductors, stable metallic hydrogen, transparent aluminum, and other substances that would revolutionize everything if they could actually be made. The phrase is scientific shorthand for "things we've theoretically predicted but cannot practically produce," or more cynically, "grant proposals that will be funded for another decade." Exotic materials at ambient temperature and pressure would enable lossless power transmission, hovering vehicles, unbreakable everything, and a permanent place in the Nobel Prize committee's heart. Their absence from your daily life is a reminder that nature doesn't give up its secrets easily, and that "theoretically possible" is not the same as "actually feasible."
Example: "The researcher announced a breakthrough in room-temperature superconductors—exotic materials at ambient temperature and pressure that would transform the world. The stock of every energy company fluctuated wildly. Then the results couldn't be replicated. Then the researcher retired. Then someone else tried and failed. The exotic materials remained exotic—beautiful in theory, absent in practice."
by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026
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mrs. Pressly

Mrs. Pressly. N.

Missuhs-press-lee

One of the worst elementary teachers you could have, cannot understand young children.

A very bad teacher.
Dan, “yo, mrs. Pressly just insulted me in front of my entire class.”

Randy,” well, sucks to be you.”
by Big_barrybot January 15, 2019
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preesee-ate

v. to sincerely admire something
n. a person who has achieved a dignified level in some enterprise.
Urgay be hella da preesee-ate at Mo's cussa rite-y-us narcin' ow da foo theevan Twanon yesseray.
by galcoolest May 13, 2005
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pessicrat

Describes a Democrat that always thinks the Democratic Party will screw up every major election.
"Man, everyone thinks the Republican Party has really screwed up but I'm such a pessicrat, we'll probably lose this election"
by Sarah & Dave October 28, 2008
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