Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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no matter how smart and excellent, remember that you, too, will fuck up.
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This pattern is consistent with a practice of seeking out definitions that fit a justice’s conception of what a word should mean rather than using dictionaries to determine that meaning.