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OftenBen · 2529 days ago · link · · parent · post: GOP Candidate for PA Governor: Releasing My Tax Returns Would Cause a Worker Uprising

An interesting tangent, the use of the word 'Sin' is on a big rise as far as the written word goes.

Or at least that's what Google says.

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user-inactivated · 2529 days ago · link ·

The graph only goes up to 2008, and the jump covers the period where public funding for science took off and more and more books were mentioning the other sin.

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