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Dave Wilton

04 Aug 2023 • 1 min read
europium
A 300g block of pure Europium

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A 17th-century court in an uproar, a woman in the dock, lightning comes through a window, a man lies prone on the floor

witch hunt

The phrase witch hunt is surprisingly recent. One might expect it to date to the seventeenth century, when real hunts for supposed witches were rampant across Europe. But its use in relation to witches only dates to the late nineteenth century and its political use only to the twentieth. And
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B&W photo of WWII German tanks and armored vehicles
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Stylized image of a 1940s newspaper newsroom with the words “Wordorigins.org: Words in the News”

antifa

[“Words in the News” is a weekly, premium feature or Wordorigins.org. I’m making this one available for free because of the word’s overwhelming salience in the current news cycle. If you’d like to see more of these, please upgrade to a paid subscription.] 16 October 2025
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