“It would be a great writing challenge. It reminds me of a word puzzle. When I was an editor at the newspaper, I used to have to try to edit sentences down, slice out an extraneous word here or there to tighten up a line. Let’s say you needed to find two column inches to fit in a new ad that came in at the last minute—you’d have to cut down an article by a word here and a word there to find two inches without sacrificing meaning. It’s hard to do it so well that the reader doesn’t miss any nuance. But sometimes in cutting for space, I could find a better way to recast a sentence. Working within
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