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microcolonel
on Aug 20, 2016
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Deutsche Bank Whistle-Blower Spurns $8M SEC Reward
Tangential: why use a rare (and dying![0]) word for
turns down
? I had to look up whether he was unhappy about it, disapproving of it, or turned it down.
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spurn&year_sta...
swang
on Aug 20, 2016
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spurn is not a rare word. even according to your link its use has held since pretty much the 1980s.
gaius
on Aug 20, 2016
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I saw someone use the phrase "spurned into action" the other day, which may be an autocorrect fail but if not it was a clever usage of the word.
scentoni
on Aug 20, 2016
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For clarification:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spurn#Verb
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spur#Verb
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[0]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spurn&year_sta...