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[Charles C Rice]

I've generally connected this word with an online, right-wing outlook, so I checked english-corpora.org. 126 entries on NOW (news of the web); 19 on CoCA with maybe a slight lean toward the right—redstate.com x7 plus rightwingnews and pjmedia, but mediaite x4 and althouse x3; just the one Jonathan cites from EEBO.

Clai


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