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According to one or more of the authorities of Wikipedia, “the purpose of an encyclopedia is to spread accurate and useful information. Weasel words are imprecise, often inaccurate, and usually uninformative.” Note that the phrases “often inaccurate” and “usually uninformative” in the previous sentence are weasel words that describe weasel words.

Since this blog, and most others (<— more weasel words), aren’t meant to be encyclopedias, I knowingly and purposefully use weasel words all the time. Like everything else in the world, weasel words are neither good nor bad, they just are.

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