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Fareed Zakaria
Episode 264
Vocabulary
upend (verb)
- Definition:
- to turn something upside down or change it completely
- Example from the episode:
- “So if you look at the base of change, particularly along the kind of key drivers that have tended to produce this kind of sense of society being upended, they tend to be technology in the first instance.”
- Example sentence:
- “The new rule upended our plan.”
node (noun)
- Definition:
- a point where lines or connections meet, often in a network
- Example from the episode:
- “Today in a networked many-to-many broadcast system, there is no node to take over.”
- Example sentence:
- “The computer is a node in the network.”
contested (adjective)
- Definition:
- disputed or fought over because people disagree
- Example from the episode:
- “There's no hierarchy of information, and in that situation, you are going to see a much greater degree of contested facts, contested narratives, and things like that.”
- Example sentence:
- “The rule is still contested by experts.”
post-truth (idiom)
- Definition:
- a situation where facts matter less than emotions or beliefs when people form opinions
- Example from the episode:
- “It's very disconcerting because it does mean, as you're suggesting, a kind of post-fact or post-truth environment.”
- Example sentence:
- “In a post-truth time, stories spread fast.”