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Word: overboil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There Emerson hits precisely upon an essential imbecility of our own time. Rabid partisanship, an overboil of conviction, damages sight, impairs understanding, and may even ruin the joy of life. You see the world with one eye, peering straight ahead through one stupid, dogmatic lens, and walk through the day, as if it were a tunnel, in a state of smug, inflamed, combative rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Partisanship Is Just a Form of Blindness | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

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