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  2. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    This means the information/object was never created, yet still exists. Predestination paradox: Someone travels back in time to discover the cause of a famous fire. While in the building where the fire started, they accidentally knock over a kerosene lantern and cause a fire, the same fire that would inspire them, years later, to travel back in ...

  3. List of business terms - Wikipedia

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    Take actions which increase the amount of work that can be done in the future. Circle back Discuss later [1] Circle the wagons: Defensive strategy to provide time to plan or produce a better solution Cover all directions of the compass Ensure the product specification covers everything Create the storyboard Outline what the solution will look like

  4. Hapax legomenon - Wikipedia

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    The word quizzaciously was cited by Vsauce host Michael Stevens in 2015 as an example of a hapax legomenon, with Google only returning one search result for the word at the time despite being included in the Oxford English Dictionary. [46] The term briefly became an internet meme and now returns thousands of Google search results.

  5. Grok - Wikipedia

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    Grok (/ ˈ ɡ r ɒ k /) is a neologism coined by the American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment", [1] Heinlein's ...

  6. Eponym - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Manual of Style, in its section "Words derived from proper names", [19] gives some examples of both lowercase and capitalized stylings, including a few terms styled both ways, and says, "Authors and editors must decide for themselves, but whatever choice is made should be followed consistently throughout a work."

  7. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    The publication (for example, the newspaper, journal, magazine: "That source covers the arts.") and publications like them ("A newspaper is not a reliable source for medical facts"). The publisher of the work (for example, Random House or Cambridge University Press: "That source publishes reference works.") and publishers like them ("An ...

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  9. Information - Wikipedia

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    For example, in written text each symbol or letter conveys information relevant to the word it is part of, each word conveys information relevant to the phrase it is part of, each phrase conveys information relevant to the sentence it is part of, and so on until at the final step information is interpreted and becomes knowledge in a given domain.