The Importance of Lived Experience

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The Economist has put together a list of words that irritate our editors at the Economist. On the list, we've got facilitate, wannabes and iconic. But Lane, what word irritates you? If I can give a two word phrase, which is the phrase lived experience. And one word is almost always better than two.

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