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44 Overused Words & Phrases To Be Aware Of (Infographic)
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44 Overused Words & Phrases To Be Aware Of (Infographic)44 Overused Words & Phrases To Be Aware Of (Infographic)

ake our list of overused words and phrases as a reminder to use them less often, or stop using them altogether; Because sometimes, the words we say don’t mean much. This infographic highlights 44 such terms, so nondescript and ubiquitous that many barely even notice their meaningless existence.
 
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Millennium People
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Millennium PeopleMillennium People

Millennium People by J. G. Ballard

A mysterious figure sparks a rebellion among London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. A bomb at Heathrow appears to psychologist David Markham to be just one more random act of meaningless violence, until he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Following up police suspicions,

 
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Aspects of meaning construction
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Aspects of meaning constructionMeaning construction pervades every aspect of our lives. A crucial aspect of our interaction in the world is being able to identify and categorize things. In his pioneering work on remembering, the British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett (1932) confronted subjects with what would seem to be meaningless figures and asked them to remember and reproduce them.
 
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