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Auditing 

Auditing is a form of public scrutiny where individuals openly film locations, typically places of work, using their legal right to film in public spaces. Auditors aim to test the adherence of security personnel, law enforcement officers, and company employees to the law and regulations governing the right to film in public. By documenting and sharing their experiences, auditors can draw attention to potential abuses of power, promote transparency, and hold authorities accountable for their actions.
"Yo, what's up guys, it's AB (Auditing Britain). We are outside Lewisham Police Station and going to audit them."

"Are you auditing sir?"
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auditing america

A Youtuber with approximately 100K subscribers who films various, seemingly random locations on the grounds of the 1st Amendment. Despite claiming a thorough understanding of United States law, he frequently states misinformation, deletes comments contradicting him, and blocks users who expose him. Furthermore, he lacks any press credentials or any other qualification to back his claim of being a member of the press.

energy auditing 

using rule of thumb methods, as opposed to detailed engineering, to estimate unmeasurable savings
"Hey Gus, what's energy Auditing?"

"We had energy auditers come round yesterday. They're gunna save us millions."

"But your electricity bill is only 200 bucks a year"
energy auditing by Mat Moore August 30, 2008

AI Auditing 

The act of habitually scrutinizing online posts for evidence of AI-generated content, often in a disparaging manner that undermines genuine engagement and distracts from the substance of conversations. Practiced by individuals who prioritize the detection of AI usage over contributing to or fostering meaningful discourse, AI auditing is criticized for its presumptive nature and the unwarranted skepticism it casts on participants' authenticity.
"Despite the insightful discussion on climate change, the thread quickly devolved into AI auditing, with several members accusing others of not crafting their responses personally."
AI Auditing by Vrykolakas February 21, 2024

Narrative Auditing

A communication dynamic in which one person repeatedly scrutinizes, reframes, or challenges another person's account of their own experiences in ways that diminish that person's agency over their own story. Narrative auditing can become harmful when it prioritizes external interpretation over a person's lived experience and is used to pressure them into adopting someone else's version of events.

Unlike healthy questioning—which seeks understanding through curiosity and mutual respect—harmful narrative auditing attempts to redefine another person's identity, memories, motives, emotions, or reality without their consent or meaningful participation.

Characteristics:

Repeatedly insisting someone else's interpretation is more valid than the person's own account.
Dismissing or minimizing lived experience without genuine inquiry.
Framing disagreement as evidence that the other person cannot accurately understand themselves.
Using authority, status, or social pressure to shape another person's self-narrative.
Replacing dialogue with correction or coercive reinterpretation.

Healthy Alternative: Narrative Witnessing
Listening with curiosity, asking clarifying questions, acknowledging uncertainty, and recognizing that people are generally the primary interpreters of their own lived experiences while remaining open to respectful dialogue and new information.
Narrative Auditing is a tactic often used by patriarchal power structures, including patriarchal agents, to attemt to have others self-abandon their own truth. It is an abuse tactic used to wield power over the valitidity and truth of the experience of abuse through coercion.

additing 

When altering an existing web page with new content, some people say they are adding content, other editing it. So 'additing' appeared by accident on a timesheet entry.
I was additing the home page.
additing by Colin Watson April 5, 2004
aditing refers to the moment when ayam leaves his everything including his very own friend to be with a girl named aditi (styled : adt)
yaar ayam ka firse aditing hogya game k bich
aditing by rapcute July 14, 2023
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
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Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
Word of the Day on September 24, 2026
A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.
Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026
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murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
Word of the Day on September 22, 2026
In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.

Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."
Whale by FQ_GFY February 3, 2020
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