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In the United States. If used by an American, the term generally sounds affected, designed to imply that the speaker/writer is a world traveler or an expatriate.
"It feels so weird being stateside again", sighed the student returning from her junior year abroad.
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Historically the nickname for The New York Times; now often used with a disparaging tone.
The Wall Street Journal is edited for those who run the world; the WaPo is edited for those who think they run the world; the Old Gray Lady is edited for those who think they should run the world.
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Cigarette break, "Winston" used as a catch-all for any cigarette brand.
After studying in the library for two hours, we decided to take a Winston break.
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Conservatives' nickname for Cindy Sheehan, an anti-war activist whose son was killed in Iraq, and whose pronouncements are frequently histrionic and absurd.
Mama Moonbat declared to the rallying protesters that the Zionist cabal pulls all of Bushitler's strings.
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Nickname for the Washington Post; frequently used in political chatrooms
The Wall Street Journal is edited for those who run the world; the WaPo is edited for those who think they run the world; the Old Gray Lady is edited for those who think they should run the world.
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An altered or misleadingly cropped/labeled photograph, or one in which the people/elements have been staged or arranged to give a false effect. See fauxtography.
The image of the dead man being pulled out of the rubble turned out to be a fauxto; a photograph dated ten minutes later showed him walking about.
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Staged, doctored, or misleadingly cropped or labeled photographs intended as war propaganda, particularly to further the interests of terrorist groups such as Hizbollah and Hamas. Term popularized by Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs.
Various bloggers have uncovered several cases of fauxtography in Reuters' photo coverage of the Israel-Hizbollah conflict.
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