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Johnny Cash is shown in a June 3, 1994, file photo. Cash, a towering figure in American music spanning country, rock and folk and known worldwide as “The Man in Black,” died Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, according to hospital officials in Nashville, Tenn. He was 71. 
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It’s only when you get down to the fourth and fifth definitions that you get to the meaning Holder intended:
I have advised readers in the past to take deep breaths about the skunking of words. “Enormity” now means hugeness. “Bemused” now means slightly amused. Get over it.
So it is with this self-awareness that I stamp my feet about the creeping loss of fulsome. We simply don’t need a new $20 synonym for “full,” whereas a crisp two-syllable word meaning unpleasantly excessive, why that we do need.
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