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Jun 2, 2022
This week’s themePortmanteaux (blend words) This week’s words frenemy glamp insinuendo coopetition glamazon 
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with Anu Gargcoopetition
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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