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easyfication

Though almost everyone mistakenly believes that learning to write is as difficult as learning to play a musical instrument, inspired by Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management principles, Richard Casey and Charles Cox began its easyfication in a social media group and where volunteers teach students the "one best way" to learn to give a writing a title, write an introductory clause, add a comma, add a semicolon, and perform the other 555 writing techniques he has systematized. Go Richard!
by but for March 19, 2020
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Each sentence is a melody

The fact that “each sentence is a melody” because we say each syllable of each word in a different tone, which translates to a different musical note. We also say each syllable in a different volume.
The fact that each sentence is a melody because each word you said because each syllable of each word is said in a different tone, a different musical note.
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fellatio-prevented pregnancy

A possible pregnancy which a teenaged girl prevent by performing fellatio on the male who—if she did not sweet talk him into ejeculating in her mouth— would have ejeculated in her vagina.
The City Council approved the fellatio-prevented pregnancy method by signing a bill which directs the city's public high schools to give teenage girls mouth-on lessons on how to perform fellatio on mannequins appears to have persuaded sufficient teenage girls to sweet talk their boyfriend into ejaculating in their mouth instead of their vagina, because in the last 6-months the number of unwanted teenage pregnancies and also of abortions has sharply declined.
by but for October 1, 2017
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unsimplifiable

Cannot be simplified (any further).
This new machine is unsimplifiable. It needs every one of its parts. That phrase is unsimplifiable, it is as simple as anyone can make it. That sentence is unsimplifiable, it needs every word in it. That paragraph is unsimplifiable, it needs every one of the sentences it has. He has made his life as simple as possible, it is now unsimplifiable.
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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.
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attempt it and succeed

The new, corrected, optimistic, and success inducing version of the idiom "trial and error."
Some of the few individuals who stop to analyze language and think about what humans are really doing, really not doing, and perhaps should be doing, realized that the idiom trial and error induces failure, and they have corrected it to "attempt it and succeed."
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concised

The act of making an expression concise.
The writer had the text-to-speech narrator narrate the political science-fiction comedy he is writing, read it while listening to its narration, and concised his work of fiction beyond his expectations.
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