Muscular Prose

Ed Newman
3 min readDec 8, 2018

Do you ever feel this way about certain words?

Illustration by the author.

Every once in a while certain words seem to become trendy. You don’t notice them at all and then suddenly they begin to appear everywhere. About 25 years ago it seemed like the phrase hunker down was being used a lot, from travel and camping stories to politics. In 2009–2010 the word of the day seemed to be muscular.

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Ed Newman

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