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error-repeater

An individual who repeats an error.
My Mother made me realize that there are people who continually repeat an action they were informed, know, and should remember is an error. They might repeat an error because they forgot it was wrong to do it, or due to some other mental incapacity. I realized she was an “error-repeater”, but that that term is new, so I decided to submitted it to this excellent website that is increasing the body of knowledge and improving everything.
by but for March 21, 2022
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uglyist

A human being who is biased against those he or she considers ugly.
"Three people I saw in the city I just relocated to, look ugly", is an uglyist statement.
by but for September 24, 2018
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WritingAllCapsNoSpaces

A way to save time/space/energy writing and reading information that is being used more often as the pace of life accelerates.
Minutes ago, the educator sent himself an email titled "PreferredSolution=StudentsWorkingInGroupsGiving&ReceivingFeedback." The technique is called WritingAllCapsNoSpaces, is © Carlos Manuel Fabara Arias 2017, and is especially useful to name files.
by but for October 26, 2017
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fight or run away

The correct way to express the term"fight or flight," because human beings do not literally fly.
The fact that flight rhymes with fight may be why the term "fight or flight" is used. As clever and useful as it is, it is not factual. Thus,"fight or run away" might be a better way to express that unique state.
by but for February 5, 2018
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sex war

The nonviolent, respectful, tolerant different opinions about the various different sexual preferences,
The sex war is the nonviolent and covert war between individuals who have different sexual preferences, and it is slowly intensifying.
by but for October 20, 2022
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nicotine addict

After a neighbor heard me tell my Mother that he, a cigarette smoker, was addicted to nicotine, thus a "nicotine addict", got him to realize what he was really doing—drugging himself.
by but for May 12, 2018
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impossibilitate

To make an action or thing impossible.
Usernames, passwords, and personal identification numbers (PIN) impossibilitate anyone who does not know them from entering a website or completing a financial transaction at an automatic teller machint (ATM).
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at the New Year's Celebration held each year in Times Square, being surrounded by massive numbers of people made it one-hundred percent impossible for anyone from advancing.
The addictive chemicals in cigarettes make it close to impossible for smokers to stop smoking.
Drivers Licenses make it almost impossible for someone to drive without having obtained a driver's license.
Locks make it mostly impossible for anyone to enter without opening the lock with its key.
Male as well as female condoms make it as impossible as possible for a sperm to not enter the vagina.
Prisons make it close to impossible for any prisoner to escape.
Reserve parachutes make it virtually impossible for someone to continue free falling and die on impact because their main parachute did not open and they did not have a reserve parachute, or as unlikely as it seems to be, if the reserve parachute also failed to open. But there is usually no way to prevent unexpected things from happening.
The sex drive is so powerful, it impossibilitates a species' self-extinction.
Structural or electronic blocks impossibilitate certain things from taking place. But some of those what could be called—structural or electronic impossibilitators" do not always succeed.
by but for April 3, 2022
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