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[Mark Mandel]

Thank you, Ben. That sounds more likely.

Mark


On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 9:06 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked the podcast version of the show:
>
>
> https://art19.com/shows/deadline-white-house/episodes/32c01331-cce4-4bac-9048-660929f906aa
>
> At around 11:30 in the audio, Michael Schmidt of the New York Times says:
>
> "Those things are hard to piece together, because I think there's some
> thought that Stone may have been over-twerking publicly what he really
> knew."
>
> Schmidt likely meant "over-tweaking" (i.e., "overadjusting"), which would
> make some sense given the context. Here's someone who came to the same
> conclusion:
>
> https://twitter.com/VincentWright/status/1053016493024251904
> "Did Michael Schmidt just say 'over-twirking' instead of 'over-tweaking'?"
>
>

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