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Chris -- 2025-05-10
As jan Freeman observes in today’s excellent Boston Globe column, ‘nonplussed’ has recently gotten a new use as a synonym for ‘unfazed,’ which is nearly opposite its standard meaning. Some writers, trying for that new meaning, write ‘nonpulsed.’ I suppose that you can be shocked by a pulse of current, so to be nonpulsed is to be unshocked.
It was so cool to hear my daughter, who is normally so nonpulsed by life, screaming her freaking head off all day!!!!!? wrote Jon Stewart …
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The other two news topics were fairly inactive and completely nonpulsed by the lack of activity.
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... that’s why kids that swim remain nonpulsed by their parents obnoxious screaming.
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I’m just clicking along my merry way, nonpulsed by all this drama and holding my breath.
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Already in motion, and nonpulsed by the particular ambiance of the docks, Chara grins as she spins away toward the Crashing tavern,...
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Although she tried to act nonpulsed by the female body underneath the covers, JC saw Sophia’s face turn red.
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Wow, lovely find. Solid gold eggcorn.
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