Hat Trick

Third Time Lucky Word of the Day: hat trick
This compound denoting a sequence of three like successes in a sport was originally applied to the retiring of three batsmen with three consecutive balls by a bowler in cricket. These days, it can denote a felicitous threesome of just about any kind, and it is in [...]

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pullulation

It would be hard to find a more elegant variation for spread, but that’s one of the things that pullulation means: the rapid or uncontrolled spreading of something. Probably owing to its length and its many synonyms in English, it doesn’t get much exercise these days — which means you can shock and amaze your [...]

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