After Gutenberg, books became widely available, setting off a cascade of salutary movements and innovations, including but not limited to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the steam engine, journalism, modern literature, modern medicine, and modern democracy. Andrew Marantz, "The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism," The New Yorker, September 23, 2019
However salutary these tactics may be with regard to the evaporation of the national debt in the countries just mentioned, the fact is nevertheless incontestable that the gold mentality of the world remains unaffected. Henry Miller, "Money and How It Gets That Way," Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, 1962
The point is less to dwell on the picayune details of what was once known as the “browser wars” than to show how hard it is to escape the hold these companies’ ecosystems have on our lives. Jacob Silverman, "Breaking up Big Tech may be impossible. It's still worth trying." Washington Post, June 5, 2019
"My client is determined to have his day in court." "But why?" Swan said. "It's such a picayune amount of money." Matt Braun, Dodge City, 2006
Stossel's own fears include turophobia, a fear of cheese; asthenophobia, a fear of fainting; and claustrophobia. "Fear of Fainting, Flight And Cheese: One Man's 'Age of Anxiety'," NPR, January 6, 2014
What is your main character’s worst fear? Is it something universal, like the death of a loved one? Or a rare phobia, like turophobia (fear of cheese). Sarah Ockler, "10 Prompts to Get You Out of a NaNoWriRut," The NanoWriMo Blog, November 6, 2015
We told them that we were travelling, that we had been transported thither, and that they had nothing to fear from us. Emanuel Swedenborg, Earths in the Universe, 1758, translated 1860
He was a thorough-going old Tory ... who seldom himself went near the metropolis, unless called thither by some occasion of cattle-showing. Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, 1864
He displays an extraordinary range of what Germans call Sprachgefühl, an infectious love of language that inspires his readers and illuminates the nooks and crannies of the English language. George Thomas Kurian, "Safire's Political Dictionary," The Reference Librarian's Bible, 2018
The test of vocabulary is important, but subordinate to that of "Sprachgefühl." Mary Anna Sawtelle, quoted in Report of the Third Annual Meeting of the New England Modern Language Association, May 12, 1906
... that solemn interval of time when the gloom of midnight obumbrates the globe .... The Summer Miscellany; or, A Present for the Country, 1742
It requires no stretch of mind to conceive that a man placed in a corner of Germany may be every whit as pragmatical and self-important as another man placed in Newhaven, and withal as liable to confound and obumbrate every subject that may fall his way .... General Advertiser, September 3, 1798
I squeed in happiness when I stole a warrior's Whirlwind attack and used it against him. Carol Pinchefsky, "A 'World of Warcraft' Player Reviews 'Guild Wars 2'," Forbes, August 26, 2012
... we're also going to take a moment to squee about the possibility of Martian microbes. Michelle Starr, "Giant Lake of Liquid Water Found Hiding Under Mars' South Pole," Science Alert, July 25, 2018