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This Week in Words: December 2 - 8, 2017

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.

This week showed us just how slow and fragile change can be. The Mueller investigation was bolstered this week when Michael Flynn agreed to cooperate, but the pace is agonizingly slow for both supporters and critics alike. Congress made discernible progress on a tax plan, but the potential impasse of a government shutdown threatened to supersede all the goodwill that tax reform could create.

Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.
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