About this Word According to Helen Jenkens, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health, “The concept of ‘patient zero’ is highly stigmatizing and often wrong anyway. No…
“Essential” – Workers, Services and Businesses, Part 2
About this Word – in dictionaries. (Please share your love of language, with the social share buttons below; or with the feedback form at the bottom of the article.) Dictionaries traditionally provide…
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“Essential” – Workers, Services and Businesses, Part 1
About this Word … (Please share your love of language, with the social share buttons below, or with the feedback form at the bottom of the article.) The regular mention of “essential…
WOTD: buoy
transitive verb to improve the morale of; raise the spirits of (often followed by “up”).Hearing even a little good news during difficult times can buoy one up a great deal.She’d been depressed,…