Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.

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    19 hours ago

    Dear news orgs: you have reached your 2025 quoto for the following words: “ravaged,” “blasted,” “slammed”

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      16 hours ago

      How about “smashed”, “hit with” and “under fire”?

      I remember a recent commenter elsewhere refer to this as “playground speech”. I guess if you have the mental capacity of a gradeschooler then you can’t help but click on playground speech links. Clicks that inevitably seem to lead to a tiny narrow block of content down the middle of your wide screen, surrounded by miles of whitespace, lots of pictures, not much to read.