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  2. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Lame: In reference to difficulty walking or moving. The term has since been adopted into urban slang to generally refer to something or someone as "meaningless" or "without worth", e.g. "He told us a lame excuse for why he had not done the work." [6] [21] [22] Losing one's mind [25] Losing / Lost one's marbles [citation needed]

  3. Lamer - Wikipedia

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    Lamer is a jargon or slang name originally applied in cracker and phreaker culture to someone who did not really understand what they were doing. Today it is also loosely applied by IRC, BBS, demosceners, and online gaming users to anyone perceived to be contemptible.

  4. Kamala Harris adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms offers lame excuse ...

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    The Harris aide argued that the Democratic nominee is already effectively articulating her policy positions to voters via her scripted campaign rallies.

  5. The dog ate my homework - Wikipedia

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    The excuse for the brevity of the document did not become the punchline for another 18 years. The first use of the phrase recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1929, in an essay in the British newspaper The Guardian: "It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework." This suggests it had ...

  6. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    Current distribution of Dravidian languages.. This is a list of English words that are borrowed directly or ultimately from Dravidian languages.Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia.

  7. Deion Sanders? Kellen Moore? Buckle up for wild ride on Jerry ...

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    Here’s to the search for the next coach of the Dallas Cowboys.. Good luck, prospects. Mike McCarthy gave it a shot, but in five years couldn’t take the franchise any further in the quest for ...

  8. Lame - Wikipedia

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    LAME, audio encoding computer software; Lame (armor), a single plate of a suit of armour; Lame (kitchen tool), a blade for scoring bread loaves; Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME or L-AME), professional title and qualification

  9. Whataboutism - Wikipedia

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    Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about ...?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.