Saturday, June 8, 2024

Vocabulary lesson: face-plant

 
HeadlineNew York Times, 6/6/2024

Used metaphorically here
The developments amount to a face-plant by Humane, which had positioned itself as a top contender among a wave of A.I. hardware makers. The San Francisco company had raised $240 million from powerful Silicon Valley investors, including Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, and Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s chief executive, who valued the start-up at $1 billion based on its enormous ambition and promise. Humane spent five years building a device to disrupt the smartphone — only to flounder.


According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of ' face-plant' as a noun occurred in 1981.

  1. aerobicize
  2. body double 
  3. fist pump
  4. plastination
  5. turf to

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April 2024
Veggie.  (4/26)  
Dox/doxxing  (4/11)

March 2024
Edgelord.  (3/23)
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February 2024
Edutainment.  (2/16)
Cut, as an adjective.  (2/13).  .
Flunky.  (2/5)
Janky.  (2/2)
Kiddo.  (2/2)

January 2024
Bonkers.  (1/31)
Heebie-jeebies.  (1/31)
Nudification.  (1/31)
Right-size.  (1/14)

2022
Dumpster fire.  (10/20/2022)

2018
Swinge.  (12/18/2018)

2017

2013
Yaw.  (2/28/2013)

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