No time to scour the headlines or watch the news? No problem! We’ve rounded up the top words heard, read, debated, and discussed this week. Some weeks are the calm before the storm, and some weeks are the storm itself. In terms of both events and the vocabulary used to describe them, this was a stormy week. The earth itself was volatile, with a 7.3 earthquake occurring the Iran-Iraq border. In a storm of words, President Trump franticallyassailed critics and was adamant in his insistence that the Republican Tax Plan include a repeal of the Obamacare insurance mandate. And, on a lighter note, Taylor Swift's latest release stormed the pop charts like a force of nature. Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.
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