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8:33am on Tuesday, 29th September, 2026:
Weird
When you go to the Merriam-Webster thesaurus site, it gives a running update of the top thesaurus lookups every 30 seconds. At times of low usage, the later ones in the top ten are usually arranged in alphabetical order, suggesting that only one person has looked them up in the past half-minute. As I write this, for example, the lower six are: accomplish, accuracy, altruism, amazing, balance and ban. This means that if they're not in alphabetical order, or they are but none begin with A, more than one person has looked the term up in the past thirty seconds.
Here's what I saw there a couple of days ago:
This was on a word-lookup page, so I only got the top seven of the top ten.
I don't know why more than one person was looking for a synonym of that fifth one on the list, nor do I want to know.
The lower six have now changed to: absorb, accountable, accuracy, achieve, afflict and amazing.
See how I used "lower" to avoid using "bottom" there.
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