If it's not in the dictionary, it must not be a word

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/06/experts_agree_s.html

Keith Cowling writes a blog called "Nasa Watch", where he criticizes the
government space agency.  Here, he's complaining about the use of
"synergizing", which he can't find in dictionaries.

To the extent that his point is that NASA folks may speak in a way that
is obfuscatory, fine, but his example is pretty bad (and wrong, to
boot).  "Synergize" is listed as a verb in his dictionaries, and the OED
as well.

Apparently he doesn't know that the various tenses sometimes are, but
often are not, broken out separately from the root verb in dictionaries.

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