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TIL after Robert Bork was rejected by Congress as a Supreme Court judge after a highly controversial set of confirmation hearings, "Bork" was added to the dictionary as a verb whose meaning is "To prevent a person from being appointed to public office by means of systemic vilification or defamation"

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