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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Don’t know if this has come up before or if it’s closer to a malapropism. ghits =47.
MJinVA
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Nice find, and welcome to the forum, MJ in VA. It makes the best sense to me if you think of the fission as being nuclear, and therefore as a kind of energy. There are a respectable number of hits for this one, too, including fissions not only of fear but also excitement, nerves, happiness, panic, heat, pride, annoyance, electricity, alarm and relief.
Here’s a singleton variant.
That sent a friction of fear across Wall Street
Commodities Act
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Pretty clearly orthographically, rather than auditorily, based.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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