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Google’s Ngram Viewer, a tool that uses a database of millions of books and journals to chart the frequency with which words appear, indicates that use of “efficiency” and “productivity” has plummeted since 1982, whereas that of “resilience” and “sustainability” has spiked.

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So I have this distinction between what we're making people do and the subject that's sort of mainstream and the subject that, in a sense, people might follow with their own interest and perhaps even be spiked into doing that.

Announcer: Threats, in the wake of Bin Laden's death, have spiked.

Bike volumes have spiked.

Males have a spiked, barbed penis that they literally stab into the female, and they don't stab it anywhere near her vagina.

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