Word: ingly
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DEFINITION helth zohn-ing n: Limiting the number of fast-food restaurants in urban areas...
...companies and overhauling the country's debt-ridden pension system will figure high on government's second-term agenda. Greece's rapidly aging population and system of generous pension benefits are "the main risk factors to Greece's long-term fiscal sustainability," according to a recent report by the ING. As the European Union's fastest-aging nation, Greece could have one pensioner for every worker by 2040, threatening a blowout in a budget deficit that conservatives managed to slash from 7.9% the gross domestic product in 2004 to a forecast 2.4% this year...
...stressed-out, blood-and-guts mentor whose time, like Grub's, is almost up. Johns also has the film's funniest lines, in one scene telling his players in a half-time rant that two of their supposedly rugged team-mates had been off "giving each other a f___ing sponge bath." By bringing a bygone era to life, The Final Winter will touch a generation of sports fans for whom today's games just don't stack...
DEFINITION smext-ing v. The act of sending text messages during a cigarette break outdoors...
Critic and essayist William L. Safire, writing for The “New York Times” in the wake of the books’ first wave of popularity, praised the first three “Harry Potter” books for “captivat[ing] a world of kids.” As for their literary value, Safire was far less optimistic...