Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary 12th Edition Pdf -

He slammed his laptop shut. The silence of his apartment roared. For forty-two years, he had been a guardian of consensus, a builder of the bridge between sound and sense. And now, out in the wild, there was a fake 12th Edition, a corrupted PDF, poisoning the well.

The first entry was wrong. Abandon , he had edited personally. The transitive verb, sense 1a: "to give up to the control or influence of another." The PDF read: Abandon: to leave behind because you have found something shinier. merriam webster collegiate dictionary 12th edition pdf

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