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The Bush administration gave us the word "robust" (obviously test marketed before being employed in public).
RUMSFIEld: "we have a ROBUST foreign policy"
pathetic
The Bush administration may have abused the word, but they only borrowed it. It's a fine word on its own.
ROBUST has become a sorely misabused word in the workplace. Corporations use it as a buzz word when describing how they want to improve this and that to offer "a more robust user experience". I hate it. Cheese is robust. A business process is not.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:38 AM
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Ron Pulliam
(Member)
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The Bush administration gave us the word "robust" (obviously test marketed before being employed in public).
RUMSFIEld: "we have a ROBUST foreign policy"
pathetic
The Bush administration may have abused the word, but they only borrowed it. It's a fine word on its own.
ROBUST has become a sorely misabused word in the workplace. Corporations use it as a buzz word when describing how they want to improve this and that to offer "a more robust user experience". I hate it. Cheese is robust. A business process is not.
I've most often seen "robust" used in describing wines. I've never seen it associated with cheese outside of this thread, but I can imagine it's being applicable to certain cheeses.
Merriam-Webster Main Entry: ro·bust
Pronunciation: \ro-'b?st, 'ro-(?)b?stFunction: adjective
Etymology: Latin robustus oaken, strong, from robor-, robur oak, strength
Date: 1533
1 a : having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health b : having or showing vigor, strength, or firmness c : strongly formed or constructed : sturdy d : capable of performing without failure under a wide range of conditions
2 : rough, rude
3 : requiring strength or vigor
4 : full-bodied ; also : hearty
5 : of, relating to, resembling, or being a relatively large, heavyset australopithecine (especially Australopithecus robustus and A. boisei) characterized especially by heavy molars and small incisors adapted to a vegetarian diet — compare gracile 3
synonyms see healthy
— ro·bust·ly adverb
— ro·bust·ness \-'b?s(t)-n?s, -(?)b?s(t)-\ noun
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I absolutely hate phrase "My Baby Daddy".
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"Passing; Passed; Pass Away"
Has the world become so afraid to deal with death that we must "soften" the blow by using this "Passed away" nonsense? Is anyone else old enough to remember when people actually died?
"The soldier passed away after stepping on a land mine."
Seconded.
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