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Jun 2, 2022
This week’s theme
Portmanteaux (blend words)

This week’s words
frenemy
glamp
insinuendo
coopetition
glamazon

coopetition
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coopetition

PRONUNCIATION:
(ko-op-uh-TISH-uhn)

MEANING:
noun: A collaboration between rivals.

ETYMOLOGY:
A blend of cooperative + competition. Earliest documented use: 1913.

USAGE:
“‘I mean the fight turned into some kind of --’
‘Coopetition?’ Bill2.0 suggests.
‘I was going to say love fest.’ Steve2.0 says.”
Shearling Coats; Silicon Valley Girls; 2019.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. -Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (2 Jun 1840-1928)

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